From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #206 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Thursday, July 5 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 206 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. Information on the 4th "Annual" New England JoniFest: http://www.jmdl.com/jfne2001.cfm ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Today in Joni History: July 4 [les@jmdl.com] Re: bringing in the sheaves [M.Russell@iaea.org] RE: looking for songbooks [M.Russell@iaea.org] Re: looking for songbooks ["Kakki" ] RE: looking for songbooks [M.Russell@iaea.org] Re: looking for songbooks ["Kakki" ] saskatoon or bust, yeah! [Kate ] westcoast sojourn ["shane mattison" ] Re: westcoast sojourn ["Kakki" ] Joni's BC property ["janine sherman" ] double takes... [Ricw1217@aol.com] Re: Joni's BC property [Bruyere ] Re: Happy Anniversary. [Michael Paz ] Re: Joni bandmates [Michael Paz ] Re: Covers 19 **FREEBIE ALERT** [Michael Paz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 03:09:10 -0400 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today in Joni History: July 4 On July 4 in Joni Mitchell History: 1983: Joni performs at the Pineknob in Detroit - ------------------------ Search the "Today" database: http://www.jmdl.com/today ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:42:17 +0200 From: M.Russell@iaea.org Subject: Re: bringing in the sheaves STAS: The Dawntreader Song To A Seagull CLOUDS: Tin Angel I Don't Know Where I Stand LOTC: Rainy Night House For Free BLUE: All I Want This Flight Tonight FTR: Lesson In Survival Judgement Of The Moon And Stars C&S: Court And Spark Car On A Hill MOA Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Blue HOSL: The Jungle Line Shadows And Light HEJIRA: Black Crow Hejira DJRD: Otis & Marlena Paprika Plains MINGUS: The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey S&L: God Must Be A Boogie Man Furry Sings The Blues WTRF: Be Cool Moon At The Window DED: Impossible Dreamer Lucky Girl CMIARS: My Secret Place The Reoccurring Dream NRH: Night Ride Home Cherokee Louise TI: Last Chance Lost Turbulent Indigo TTT: Harlem in Havana Love Puts On A New Face BSN: You've Changed Answer Me My Love Marian Vienna ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:53:46 +0200 From: M.Russell@iaea.org Subject: RE: looking for songbooks Kakki wrote: > I wish you'd let me know sooner, I would have gotten some copies for you. > Blue comes up on Ebay regularly as does NRH. Also NRH is usually in stock > at some of the better music stores around L.A. I have both and can get you > copies if you need them. I'd really like to get real copies of these books as opposed to photocopies. I think it would be nice to have all of Joni's published songbooks. Over the last year I've managed to get copies of Hejira, CMIARS, C&S, TI, HOSL, Mingus, Anthology, and WTRF via ebay, and I only need Blue and NRH to complete my collection. It would be really great if you (or anyone) could find me a new or used copy of NRH somewhere. I can send a US$ check to cover the costs of the book and postage. And if anybody spots a copy of Blue somewhere - the same thing goes - I'll send some $ to cover costs/postage. > I wish you could come to Ashara's on Labor Day! > We will miss you, Marian! That is so sweet, Kakki! I so wish I could attend! I will be thinking of you all, and I will try to call. Love, Marian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 01:06:01 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: looking for songbooks Marian, I will check around a few good places in LA for you and let you know. At least the NRH was in stick last I knew. I still think the Fest group should try Ray's Dad's Cadillac - there are some really beautiful "group" sing possibilities in that one. We'll have to find a way to "broadcast" a song from you when you call in over Labor Day! ;-) All the best, Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:06:14 +0200 From: M.Russell@iaea.org Subject: RE: looking for songbooks On 04 July 2001 10:06, Kakki [SMTP:KakkiB@worldnet.att.net] wrote: > I will check around a few good places in LA for you and let you know. At > least the NRH was in stick last I knew. Many thanks!!! > I still think the Fest group should try Ray's Dad's Cadillac - there are > some really beautiful "group" sing possibilities in that one. Indeed! I love that song. I played it for my choir once and got them to do the background harmonies in between the verses. It was gorgeous! > We'll have to find a way to "broadcast" a song from you when you call in > over Labor Day! ;-) That would be really fun! What a great idea! Love, Marian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 01:26:06 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: looking for songbooks > I will check around a few good places in LA for you and let you know. At > least the NRH was in stick last I knew. Argh, I meant in "stock" - see what happens when the boyfriend takes me out for a chocolate martini ;-) I always liked Ray's Dad's Cadillac - there's a whole lot more to that song than it appears. You brought a new dimension to it when you played it here for us. It truly is built for group harmonics and I think it could be appreciated more if heard by a chorus of voices. We're just going to have to come to you and have a Eurofest in our future, Marian! Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 07:38:00 -0500 From: Kate Subject: saskatoon or bust, yeah! greetings ye olde toontowners, and happy one year later to you all, too. hard to believe it's been a year already. we must be getting old, the way the time is flying by. emil has just graduated into grade 7 and is off with his brother, everett, and their dad to salmon arm, b.c., to stay with my parents for a week or so. it is too quiet around here but i am not complaining, oh no, not me. i have to toddle off to work in st. albert anyway -- i work for the st. albert gazette these days, full-time to boot -- it's killing me, the routine of it, but i am a born proofreader and hey, it pays the bills. i've started doing a bit of writing too (ad features, crime reports -- nothing too exciting, but it'll do). joni is still in play around here on a daily basis, of course. when emil wants to do something nice for me, he puts her cds on. he is heavy into neil young at this point -- all he wanted for his 13th birthday a couple weeks ago was a neil young music video. got it, too. i am enjoying reading the recounts of the jonisaskatoon time; it was the first time i'd ever been among people who were as moved by her music as i am, and that was a treat in itself. one of my jobs is formatting for SEE magazine on Wednesdays. http://www.greatwest.ca/see They interview performers who are coming to town, among other things. Of course, our Joan hasn't been here in a while, but one of the editors told me, when questioned, that last time Joni was here, she sent one of his friends on a mission to buy her some black hash. Bye all! Kate of the North http://www.connect.ab.ca/~katej ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:57:10 -0600 From: "shane mattison" Subject: westcoast sojourn dear friends, at the end of may, i set on on a sojourn...from calgary, at the foothills of the loveliest stretch of rockies i've experienced...but the ocean called... first night: fort macleod, joni's birthplace...in the morning, i went over to the old wwII airbase, walked around, a few photos (to be developed and then i will share)...as a baby, joni would have played directly underneath countless flights of future RCAF fighter and bomber pilots who risked their lives later in europe...her father was stationed here, as was my ex-father in law, only in moose jaw, sask...just two of the many makeshift wartime airbases dotted across the canadian prairie, where americans itching for action had snuck across the border, even with their planes...and the women who had waited out the duration of the war with their men over in europe, some for years...some never coming back...some with dear johnnie letters...so "amelia" is in the blood of joni, as intimate as can be...and thoughts of the creativity of countless war babies who spawned the sixties rock explosion and its revolution of culture, an expansiveness of consciousness suited to prairie vistas and metaphors of flying...and joni dreamed she 'saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky'...and though she cast her lot with the peacemakers, she remembered the lives of those who suffered 'the beat of black wings'...and i shared a few flying feelings myself just having worked in airport security for the canadian corps of commissionaires, among them many veterans... a brotherhood and sisterhood of unstated solidarity you might say... i thought of joni when i arrived in sacramento and played at a downtown art gallery of poets and how such an audience gathered is such a rare thing when you could hear a pin drop between the lines of your songs...and how i wish for just such a group of listeners more often for all of you musicians out there and for joni herself... and my thanx to one of them, kate bennett, and her kind invitation to enjoy her gig with her husband and crosby loggins, who at 20, can look forward to years of fruitfulness as a singer-songwriter...kate revealing a subtle romanticism that takes courage nowadays to proclaim...and her husband with a moving john prine-like song that dug deep in the heart... i also thought of joni when i stumbled by a nitespot in tiny cambria where a roy haddersley (hope i remembered his name correctly) played with quintet...he had played with dizzy and was an old colleague of edmonton's now deceased but legendary big miller...roy had me join a few locals in playing one of my songs, but like joni i went to my hotel without a prize...but felt hey, that's okay... my prize was in santa monica when kakki called on my cell saying she was waiting for me in the parking lot....because we had such similar tastes it was uncanny...and i'm sorry, with but one night in LA, i didn't meet the rest of the jmdl'rs there...but kakki roused herself out of work exhaustion...and with herculean grace made it an evening i will never forget...a crawl to the anaconda attack that just had to be relieved, done with proper airforce discharge many years ago but memorialized in the annals of joni's star... thankyou kate and kakki, and thankyou catherine t, which though we failed to meet, primarily due to cell problems, seattle traffic and by then, rushing ahead of my creeping bills to the lower canadian dollar... among other places, i visited the sunshine coast, which refreshingly was new to me...at gibsons, a lovely couple who lived within a stone's throw from joni's place gave me directions...funny enough i stopped just nextdoor on the highway, taking a photo of a lovely cove shining through the trees...just then a kind of rubbie stumbled down the highway muttering to himself under his pungeant breath, asking why i was taking photos ...when i said i had been doing so of the entire continental coast for over 5000 miles he exclaimed 'right on....keep on clicking...' and continued with his stagger down the highway...as i pulled out of this spot i saw a heavily secured gate on the left and realised it was the same area the friendly couple had pointed out joni's piece of the shore...and this ethered buddha walking down the highway...i kind of expected howls of laughter pretty soon... ...it was near sunset...as close to the other side of joni's place i stopped at the nearest b&b, and looking out at the strait of georgia saw the most beautiful sunset i'd ever seen...two islands split apart to the north-west and the sun going down between them kissing the water...a calm glistening sea of miirored silver...and then i'd realised that with characteristic taste joni had picked such a view for her own...but my few minutes of it was also like a zen moment, overlooking the b&b decked swimming pool with two barking dogs at my feet, an open door to the house....and no one at home...my eyes stared at paradise... now back at home with a cd to get recording and gigs to play because i've got a mountain of bills piled up...a song about the ocean trying to get out of me...and a few old home blues..."what do i do now?" "can i get a recording contract somewhere?" "a few old friends are acting strange" ...and i found a homeless black cat i've given sheltar..."should i call her kakkicat or klingon? blue or miles?" (suggestions welcome) ...and i read kakki and kate's posts and les's lunch with SIQUOMB and wish i were still sitting by the dock of the bay... shane www.angelfire.com/art/cactussong ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:55:17 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: westcoast sojourn What an incredible sojourn and a beautiful post, Shane! You visited so many fantastic places and had some womderful encounters - I imagine you are overflowing with songs at this point. Thanks so much for your thoughts on the Joni/Fort McLeod/Amelia connection and the tie-in of how the children born in wartime later emerged as the peacemaker generation. I've always respected Joni for honoring those who served, while still being a profound advocate for peace and getting ourselves back to the garden. It was great to spend some time with you in LA and I look forward to seeing your photos! Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:11:36 -0400 From: "janine sherman" Subject: Joni's BC property Although I am 18 digests behind in my reading, I had to post ! We just returned from a wonderful two week Pacific NW vacation. I actually got my husband to drive north from Vancouver B.C.to Horseshoe Bay and we got on one of those big ferry boats with their bellies full of cars and tooted our way over to the Sunshine Coast. We had just been on an Inside Passage cruise in Alaska and the scenery there, near the Strait of Georgia, rivaled it squarely. This is the place where Joni's property is that she is so lovely perched on in the For the Roses' cover. Anyway, we proceeded north through Sechelt and on to Half Moon Bay and Middlepoint, running up and down that coastal highway trying to figure out which place had to be hers. We saw Lord Jim's Inn where she stayed while she was building the stone recluse (mentioned in the PWWM video- the knitting incident) I hopped out and went in and felt really dumb, but tried to act nonchalant and asked if anyone there knew her and which direction her place would be? They were VERY loyal to her privacy and tried to throw me off base and say they heard it was in Penders and other coastal areas. They did tell me that yes that is where she stayed when she was building the place in the 70's. So we went back to looking near that place and stopped in another Inn and a few folks sitting at the bar in the Jolly Roger were far less loyal and were able to tell us precisely where it was , but that there was a gate and maybe I should phone first! Phone first??? I didn't think to look to see if her number was in the white pages! So we drove back up to the apex of the highway right before Middlepoint and the new construction and below the 60KM sign and tried to find it, but it is so heavily wooded and I really did not want to invade her or her caretaker's privacy, so we just settled for where we thought it would be and tried to take some pictures of the waterfront that it looks like on the FTR album. What we realized was that just a week earlier our mega cruise ship left Vancouver and traveled through the Strait of Georgia right past her place . The stone cottage is supposed to be at sea level and could probably be seen from the water. That made me sad to think that she bought it for its wilderness beauty and there ain't much of that left now. At least she has a big enough spread that it keeps snoopers like me at bay. I just wanted to know in my heart that I was physically close to where she wrote a number of her earlier songs, esp. from FTR. It is an awesome area with some of the Mts.. still snow capped in July. When I get some of the pictures developed I will scan a few to the Yahoo group. Sorry to ramble so, but it was a high point. God bless my hubby who drove all over the place to help me with my dream and the two teenagers in the backseat wondering if I had lost it all together. As we drove back through Sechelt and waited for the return ferry, I wondered how many times she had driven there and waited on that same ground? In those same lines? Used the same restroom, okay now I am getting a little weird. I can not wait to see her in Toronto in October. My best to all, Janine ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 22:59:24 EDT From: Ricw1217@aol.com Subject: double takes... thanks to all of you who so kindly assisted on my taping project for my friend jay! (except you paul ivess! mr. critic. i would be interested to read what you would have selected! so come on, you old crank. deliver.) it was very interesting to see some of your selections, and i went with many of them. i will post the list of the finished tape. some of the selections always end up being governed by the amount of tape left on one side or another... but thanks to you all and keep an eye out for which ones made the final cuts. have a wonderful summer! and if i can sneak past ashara's bouncers, i may see a few of you at the joni fest. i will, of course, be wearing my disguise...if i can just find my groucho glasses by then...safe travels! peace, ric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:23:51 -0400 From: Bruyere Subject: Re: Joni's BC property what a wonderful trip janine .... one that i hope to make some day. thank you for sharing. ftr is one of my favorites too. heather At 05:11 PM 7/4/01 -0400, janine sherman wrote: > Although I am 18 digests behind in my reading, I had to post ! We > just >returned from a wonderful two week Pacific NW vacation. I actually got my >husband to drive north from Vancouver B.C.to Horseshoe Bay and we got on one >of those big ferry boats with their bellies full of cars and tooted our way >over to the Sunshine Coast. We had just been on an Inside Passage cruise in >Alaska and the scenery there, near the Strait of Georgia, rivaled it squarely. >This is the place where Joni's property is that she is so lovely perched on in >the For the Roses' cover. > Anyway, we proceeded north through Sechelt and on to Half Moon Bay and >Middlepoint, running up and down that coastal highway trying to figure out >which place had to be hers. We saw Lord Jim's Inn where she stayed while she >was building the stone recluse (mentioned in the PWWM video- the knitting >incident) I hopped out and went in and felt really dumb, but tried to act >nonchalant and asked if anyone there knew her and which direction her place >would be? They were VERY loyal to her privacy and tried to throw me off base >and say they heard it was in Penders and other coastal areas. They did tell me >that yes that is where she stayed when she was building the place in the 70's. >So we went back to looking near that place and stopped in another Inn and a >few folks sitting at the bar in the Jolly Roger were far less loyal and were >able to tell us precisely where it was , but that there was a gate and maybe I >should phone first! Phone first??? I didn't think to look to see if her number >was in the white pages! >So we drove back up to the apex of the highway right before Middlepoint and >the new construction and below the 60KM sign and tried to find it, but it is >so heavily wooded and I really did not want to invade her or her caretaker's >privacy, so we just settled for where we thought it would be and tried to take >some pictures of the waterfront that it looks like on the FTR album. What we >realized was that just a week earlier our mega cruise ship left Vancouver and >traveled through the Strait of Georgia right past her place . The stone >cottage is supposed to be at sea level and could probably be seen from the >water. That made me sad to think that she bought it for its wilderness beauty >and there ain't much of that left now. At least she has a big enough spread >that it keeps snoopers like me at bay. I just wanted to know in my heart that >I was physically close to where she wrote a number of her earlier songs, esp. >from FTR. It is an awesome area with some of the Mts.. still snow capped in >July. When I get some of the pictures developed I will scan a few to the Yahoo >group. Sorry to ramble so, but it was a high point. God bless my hubby who >drove all over the place to help me with my dream and the two teenagers in the >backseat wondering if I had lost it all together. As we drove back through >Sechelt and waited for the return ferry, I wondered how many times she had >driven there and waited on that same ground? In those same lines? Used the >same restroom, okay now I am getting a little weird. I can not wait to see >her in Toronto in October. My best to all, Janine ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:33:57 -0700 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Happy Anniversary. Wish I could have been there with you guys! Esp. sonce i have a Parker and TWO VG-8's now. Ok I am greedy. John THANKS for YOUR friendship and I am so happy we had this medium at our disposal as a source to connect. Thanks also to Rick who got me copy of the book from the show. Love to all Paz NP-King Apathy III-Byrds on 7/2/01 8:27 PM, johnirving at johnirving@tbcnet.com wrote: figured out, -but I'm a damned authority on those points. > > God bless you all. Long live Joni and the JMDL. YOU rock!!!!!! > > John Calimee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:38:07 -0700 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Joni bandmates HOW coool! I would love to hear some tapes of that tour. I have one Mike tape live with one of his solo albums on the b side, he is SO great! Paz on 7/2/01 10:02 PM, Kakki at KakkiB@worldnet.att.net wrote: > Paz wrote: > >> I love the one of Landau and is that Abe with his back >to the camera? > > Yes, that's Abe's back. We were packed in like sardines and the guys were > so jumping that it wasn't easy to get a clear shot, but I like that one of > Michael, too. Vinnie is barely visible between them on the drums. I > briefly spoke to Michael after the show and he seems so humble and nice. > Those guys have a 2-CD album out "Live at the Baked Potato" that has gotten > some rave reviews. (Maybe after I pay off the upcoming Buff. Springfield > box set, I'll order it ;-) Check this out from Landau's website: > > "When he wasn't playing sessions, he found time to perform in side-projects > such as the afore-mentioned KARIZMA, which he joined in the late seventies, > and a group called Dog Cheese that featured members of Joni Mitchell's > '83-'84 touring band: Vinnie Colaiuta (dr), Larry Klein (bass) and Steve > Tavaglione (sax). They played a lot of shows in the L.A. area at places like > The Baked Potato (still a highly recommended jazz and fusion place when > you're in L.A.)." > > "Dog Cheese??" Eeeeuuuu! ;-) > > I'm still high off the music the other night and do feel very blessed that > these guys still show up to jam in the neighborhood sometimes. > >> P.S. Great NEWS! I got Jack a job on the BET crew as my assistant. We > start >> recording the record a week from tomorrow. > > Excellent!! Pace yourselves, now, and report back when you resurface ;-) > > Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:41:15 -0700 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Covers 19 **FREEBIE ALERT** Arrived yeaterday THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! Have it cued for the ride to work tomorrow! Love Paz on 7/3/01 6:50 AM, SCJoniGuy@aol.com at SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > OK, Gang, here's your chance to win a totally free copy of Covers, Volume 19! > > Same rules as before, give me a Joni song + album it appears on...example: > > Ethiopia - Dog Eat Dog > > Whoever is the closest wins, and I'll ship it to your doorstep, whether it's > Kalamazoo or Kazahkstan! Please remember to send your guesses to me & NOT to > the list. > > I'll cut off the contest Friday at midnight, and announce the winner on > Saturday. So...I am on a lonely road and I am thinking, thinking...thinking of > a song what can it be? ;~) > > Bob > > NPIMH: ? ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #206 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?