From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #132 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 Monday, May 6 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 132 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. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Today in History: May 4 [les@jmdl.com] Today's Articles: May 4 [les@jmdl.com] Re: none [Susan Guzzi ] Re: none [Susan Guzzi ] Cinematic Joni, Perfect Joni ["c Karma" ] Re: All I Want, original lyrics [Sylphidiam@aol.com] Night Ride Home [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: All I Want, original lyrics [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Covers # 29, REAL GOOD FOR FREE [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: the Prince collaboration? ["Jim L'Hommedieu \(Lama\)" ] Re: Recommended CD's for Susan [colin ] Re: Cinematic Joni, Perfect Joni ["Kakki" ] Today in History: May 5 [les@jmdl.com] Re: Night Ride Home [Susan Guzzi ] Re: Night Ride Home [Susan Guzzi ] Re: Night Ride Home ["Bree Mcdonough" ] Natalie on Joni ["William" ] Uncle John's Mom & Dad ["Kate Bennett" ] Diltz in Chicago [Susan Guzzi ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 03:04:25 -0400 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: May 4 On May 4 in history: 1983: Joni performs in Frankfurt, Germany ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 03:04:25 -0400 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Articles: May 4 On May 4 the following item was published: 1999: "Self-promotion taints Joni Mitchell video" - Orange County Register (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/990504ocr.cfm - -------- Can you type? http://www.jmdl.com/typing/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 01:29:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: none Hello and Welcome to Another Susan, Glad you joined us and started this thread. I too recommend my favorite, "Blue" as your next purchase. Although I love For the Roses & Ladies of the Canyon, and well all of them especially from Hejira on back to the beginning, Song to A Seagull. After Hejira, should you choose to go that way, I suggest Night Ride Home. I think Court & Spark was kind of a crescendo in a series of albums. Hejira may have been another. But you'll always remember your first with a special affection. I would bet several years from now, C&S will still be your fave. I almost wish I could go back to the begining and start all over again, what a great trip it's been. BUt really, I'm not obsessed! See ya around these parts often and soon, I hope. Peace, Susan (too) Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 01:29:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: none Hello and Welcome to Another Susan, Glad you joined us and started this thread. I too recommend my favorite, "Blue" as your next purchase. Although I love For the Roses & Ladies of the Canyon, and well all of them especially from Hejira on back to the beginning, Song to A Seagull. After Hejira, should you choose to go that way, I suggest Night Ride Home. I think Court & Spark was kind of a crescendo in a series of albums. Hejira may have been another. But you'll always remember your first with a special affection. I would bet several years from now, C&S will still be your fave. I almost wish I could go back to the begining and start all over again, what a great trip it's been. BUt really, I'm not obsessed! See ya around these parts often and soon, I hope. Peace, Susan (too) Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:22:01 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: Cinematic Joni, Perfect Joni Rarely am I struck by moments when while listening to Joni's music, the sheer cinematic power in the synchronization of the scene I'm viewing live and the music is overwhelming. I've had two great ones before, one was while looking out the window of a transcontinental flight over the western and southwestern US, with "Paprika Plains." The second was the orchestral version of "A Case of You" while riding a train down the eastern bank of the Hudson River. The third was tonight, at around 2am, a beautiful calm still night in Los Angeles, driving slowly down a forlorn Santa Monica Boulevard in downtown Hollywood with "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsay." I will carry these chills forever. Another context also occurred to me in relation to the discussion of "Joni's ragged sound" on some tracks, or as some have put it, her refusal to sacrifice the emotion in performance to the pursuit of sonic perfection. I don't believe I have ever heard a studio masterpiece as brilliantly conceived and perfectly realized as "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsay." Sound balance and rhythmic flows have never been so deftly placed before or since by anyone, in my humble opinion. It is, simply, aural manna. CC PS . Another good moment was cruising Sunset Boulevard with Kakki to "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter." "If you've got a place to go, you just got to go there." -- JM _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:03:32 EDT From: Sylphidiam@aol.com Subject: Re: All I Want, original lyrics Well Bob, it did indeed work and made for a very happy surprise for me this morning. Thank you so very very much. I'm sincerely thrilled to have this. All I Want has always been one of my favorite songs and I'm touched to have this historical version. I guess it's time to introduce myself properly. Hi. I'm Cairn and I'm a musi-holic. I can't get enough. I want it all the time. When I'm not around it live (or in Memorex), it seem to always be in my head. My dad (who was murdered a couple of years ago) was a musician and my mom was a belly dancer. I kind of ran from wanting to play music as fast as my little legs could carry me, seeing a lot of the shadows and hardships of that life. Strangely enough when my dad died something in me screamed to start playing piano, which I did. My style is minimalistic and though I have a little a trio, I don't see myself as a musician...a performance artist perhaps, definitely a poet/storyteller...still trying to figure all that packaging/boxing of self out... I'm turning 30 this summer, and while my musical taste is quite varied and far reaching, (everything from the Grateful Dead (and family) to Black Sabbath, Kid Rock, Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Carole King, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Captain Beefheart, Prince...really could go on and on, but don't want to be tedious, just want to give a hint of myself), Joni has certainly carved herself a place right there in the heart of it. My first Joni album was Blue (when I was 17...and pregnant. Little Green owned me that year. My son turned 12 this year and I included it on his Birthday CD), then Court and Spark, Turbulent Indigo and Hejira. My Joni collection is rounded out with Night Ride Home, Dog Eat Dog, Mingus and Both Sides Now and a few single songs I've managed to aquire through the trading of mixed CD's and tapes over the years. I must say after reading posts on this list for a while now, I'm on a bit of a mission to aquire Song to a Seagull, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Run for the Roses (how many albums does she actually have anyway?) About this place; it seems quite special. I'm not a very list joining person. A lot of the archives for a lot of lists I've read seem so full of crazy petiteness (none of which seem to exist here) that again, I want to run as fast as I can in the other cyber direction. I really enjoy it here. I'm thrilled to be gifted with such a fine and knowledgeable, kind group of people to help me develop a more intimate knowledge of Joni. The web site is absolutely beautiful, though I know I've been through but a fraction of it and Les, I just love Today's Articles and Today in History. I've really been enjoying that feature of this place. It is so very very special. Thank you. That must be it for now. Thank you for being her, thank you for having me...and Bob double extra thank you's with sprinkles on top for this amazing original All I want. Until next time... >>Cairn<< ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:12:37 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Night Ride Home <> I hadn't heard NRH in awhile, and spun it from start to finish yesterday. Really an excellent record. Come In From The Cold should have been edited, I'm always ready for it to be over before it is. I don't care for Nothing Can Be Done much, but that's just me I suppose. Two Grey Rooms is of course one of her masterpieces because like her best work, we can easily insert ourselves into the story. And has she ever written a "meaner" lyric than: "You'd eat your young alive, For A Jaguar in the drive" (From "The Windfall(Everything For Nothing)) I don't mean that as a negative statement - it's a brilliant lyric because of its impact. Cherokee Louise almost always moves me to tears with its story of childhood betrayal, and the fact that the friend knows where to find her (under the bridge) but now she's there because she's hiding in fear & shame as opposed to the fun mischievious adventure of youth. So bittersweet... Much more to say about NRH, but I'm done for now. Bob NP: Min, "Big Yellow Taxi" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:19:03 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: All I Want, original lyrics <> Cairn, you're very welcome! I'm glad that it worked. Thanks to YOU for opening up and sharing with us...yes, I can see how "Little Green" would have owned you during that time and provided some needed sustenance I'm sure. You'll also be blown away and moved by "For The Roses", I'm sure. Bob NP: Shadows & Light, "Chinese Cafe" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:30:26 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Covers # 29, REAL GOOD FOR FREE As usual, I'm going to give away a complimentary copy of the hot-off-the-presses "Covers, Volume #29" CD to whoever comes the closest to the Joni song I've selected for this month. Please include both the song title and record as some of her songs appear on more than on. For example: Judgement Of The Moon & Stars - For The Roses (please just send your guess to me, and not the list) And speaking of FTR, I'll once again "sweeten the pot" this month and include a copy of "For The Roses - Live" that captures a bevy of live recording of the FTR songs, presented in album order. The lineup: 1. Banquet - Norman, OK 6/29/83 2. Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire - Philadelphia, PA 2/16/76 3. Barangrill - West Hollywood, CA, 11/17/72 4. Lesson In Survival - New York, NY 2/23/72 5. Let The Wind Carry Me - Philadelphia, PA 3/2/72 6. For The Roses - Los Angeles, CA 3/3/74 7. See You Sometime - Paris, France 6/15/72 8. Electricity - Seattle, WA 2/16/72 9. You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - Detroit, MI 7/4/83 10. Blonde In The Bleachers - Hawaii '72 11. Woman Of Heart And Mind - Ambler, PA 8/22/74 12. Judgment Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune) - - Camden, NJ 6/2/00 Bonus tracks: 13. Banquet - New York, NY 2/23/72 14. Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire - Los Angeles, CA 3/3/74 15. For The Roses - Chicago, IL 5/30/00 16. You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - Philadelphia, PA 3/2/72 17. Judgment Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune) - West Hollywood, CA 11/17/72 Good luck, & happy guessing!! Bob NP: Harper's Bizarre, "Both Sides Now" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:57:25 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu \(Lama\)" Subject: Re: the Prince collaboration? Yeah, it may not be Prince's "fault". She also rejected material from Charles Mingus for heaven's sake! She rebuffed the Chieftains when they repeatedly asked to remake "Magdeline Lauderies" with her vocal. (Eventually she accepted.) She chose not to contribute to Karen O'Brien's biography. It's her method of operation. Her pattern. Joni is permenantly unavailable. Lamadoo James in Urbana IL asked: <> Bob from South Carolina answered: > It never materialized...Joni says that Prince approached her with some songs, but they were too 'out there' for her, Prince being the combiner of the profound & the profane that he is. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 11:06:00 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu \(Lama\)" Subject: Recommended CD's for Susan Susan, From "Court and Spark", you could go to another album of fun songs, most of which are upbeat and would have sounded great on the radio: "Wild Things Run Fast" It wasn't adjacent to C&S in time but they're certianly twins of spirit. Lama ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 08:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Lori in MD Subject: Re: Recommended CD's for Susan Paul P wrote: > And what's all this bunk about 'Dog Eat Dog'? Oh Paul ... within the JMDL there are definite DEDheads, and there definite "non-DEDheads," but not many between. I agree with everything you wrote about DED, though! DEDheads, raise your hand! : ) Lori DEDhead in MD NP: "Wherever You May Be" from Bonnie's very excellent new album ~ Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 16:49:09 +0100 From: colin Subject: Re: Recommended CD's for Susan > DEDheads, raise your hand! : ) Hand up. I enjoy DED very much and it ranks as one of my favourite Joni albums. > > > Lori > DEDhead in MD > > NP: "Wherever You May Be" from Bonnie's very excellent new album > > ~ > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness - -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80. colin@tantra-apso.com http://www.tantra-apso.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:56:59 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Cinematic Joni, Perfect Joni Hi CC - you are in L.A.? Sorry I missed you. > The third was tonight, at around 2am, a beautiful calm still > night in Los Angeles, driving slowly down a forlorn Santa Monica Boulevard > in downtown Hollywood with "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsay." I will carry > these chills forever. I will, too. > PS . Another good moment was cruising Sunset Boulevard with Kakki to "Don > Juan's Reckless Daughter." Yes, it was outstanding - we were singing at the top of our lungs with the windows open and then remember we could have sworn we saw Larry Klein pull up along side us at a stop light. I remember ducking down in the seat and trying to roll up my window at that point LOL Please let me know next time you are in town - it would be fun to get together again. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 03:07:58 -0400 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: May 5 On May 5 in history: 1979: Today, Joni, Jane Fonda, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, John Hall, Dan Fogelberg, John Sebastian and others appear in Washington DC at a "No-Nukes" rally. A few days later, the LA Times published a review of the event, saying "At an impromptu press conference following the afternoon program of music and speeches on the Capitol steps, four of the musiciansJackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash and John Hallfielded questions about their involvement in the antinuclear movement. Deftly, but politely, they turned each question into an opportunity to respond with facts, figures and observations about the nuclear issue. Self-aggrandizement was not on the agenda." More info: http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/790508lat.cfm http://www.jonimitchell.com/NoNukes79.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:23:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: Night Ride Home Hi Bree & Bob, Yes thanks Bob for saving me as well, from the politics of the day! I had some additional comments to add from my previous post on the Night Ride Home discussion. - --- Bree Mcdonough wrote: > Thanks Bob....for reminding me why I am here. > Night Ride Home is the first Joni I bought after being away from her for > awhile,quite a long while....but really never that far away from my heart. > Title track: The simplicity, there in lies it's beauty. I can be so > blue......and put this track on,open the moonroof....and just > escape....forget for a little while anyway. I love those crickets sounds at > the end. (everything is alright in the world.....the crickets affirm this > :-) ) This title cut makes the whole album. It evokes such a feeling in me and a flood of memories. I could smell the night air and see the stars when I listen to this one. It's a great car song for a long car trip. > Passion play: A truly brilliant song!! In my top five of all time Joni > songs. Musically,lyrically.......her voice!! I had a get-together at my > house last summer,just family. I made copies of the lyrics and then I > played it. It was SO interesting and fun to get the various opinions and > views from everybody. I remember one interpretation was quite different;my > niece's, then fianci, thinks it was about a wedding or partly about a > wedding. When he told me this...my reaction was...HUH? Splain yourself > boy!! I guess at the time he and my niece were planning their > wedding.....so the multitudes...misery.....brought his upcoming wedding to > mind. Just a great song and another one that makes this album so special. It does seem to be about some gathering over two lovers. An engagement party, wedding, shower, or someone who is marrying out of her class, moving on up, and the meeting of the families. Anyone else have any insight or opinion? I'd love to hear some thoughts on what this is about. > Ray's Dad's Cadillac: This song has really grown on me. I think it's quite > clever. It is fun.....but you really can't dance to it nor sing along very > well to it either.(at least I can't) Didn't this song come about after > seeing a junkyard while her plane was preparing for a landing? I used to really not like this song at all, but it has grown a bit on me as well. > Two Grey Rooms: Oh what can I say!! What a gem!! What an absolute treat!! > With this song you get everything...all of Joni....much of life. OMG.. > she even plays the piano !! The only fault I would have is that is too > short. Short... but ever so sweet. I agree as most Joniphiles do this is one of her greatest not only of the last 20 years but in all of her body of work. Enjoying this analysis of NRH> Peace, Susan Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 22:46:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: Night Ride Home Hi Bob, Seems a few on list are listening to this album today. - --- SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > I hadn't heard NRH in awhile, and spun it from start to finish yesterday. > Really an excellent record. Come In From The Cold should have been edited, > I'm always ready for it to be over before it is. I don't care for Nothing Can > Be Done much, but that's just me I suppose. After reading your post this morning, I did the same thing Bob. I put on the album and pulled out the sleeve for the words. I totally agree about "Come in From the Cold." It seems so obvious, I wonder how or why she felt the need to go on and on. Nothing Can Be Done, is just okay with me. Bob wrote; Two Grey Rooms is of course one > of her masterpieces because like her best work, we can easily insert ourselves into the story. Yes, even if we change that story, we find a way to fit ourselves in and embellish from there. For some reason this song also reminds me of a short story, which as per usual I can't remember the exact title, "To Room 19?" I can't remember the author either, but I bet someone here will know. Dare I say Katherine Porter? As I listen to it it just popped into my head, couldn't help it. > And has she ever written a "meaner" lyric than: > > "You'd eat your young alive, > For A Jaguar in the drive" > (From "The Windfall(Everything For Nothing)) > > I don't mean that as a negative statement - it's a brilliant lyric because of > its impact. It is a great line Bob, I totally understand. It's lines like this that can somehow make the whole song stronger as well. Bob Wrote: > Cherokee Louise almost always moves me to tears with its story of childhood > betrayal, and the fact that the friend knows where to find her (under the > bridge) but now she's there because she's hiding in fear & shame as opposed > to the fun mischievious adventure of youth. So bittersweet... > Yes - I really get the visuals here and that tugs at my heart strings even more so. I really love "The Only Joy In Town." I think it's got shades of old Joni melodically speaking and it's a well produced song, mostly cause it's not over produced, seems to me. I'm sure this Joni treasure will be featured prominently on my stereo the next week or two. Peace, Susan Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 22:48:58 -0700 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Re: Night Ride Home ><that way, I suggest Night Ride Home.>> >I hadn't heard NRH in awhile, and spun it from start to finish yesterday. >Really an excellent record. Come In From The Cold should have been edited, >I'm always ready for it to be over before it is. I don't care for Nothing >Can >Be Done much, but that's just me I suppose. Two Grey Rooms is of course one >of her masterpieces because like her best work, we can easily insert >ourselves into the story. >Cherokee Louise almost always moves me to tears with its story of childhood >betrayal, and the fact that the friend knows where to find her (under the >bridge) but now she's there because she's hiding in fear & shame as opposed >to the fun mischievious adventure of youth. So bittersweet... Thanks Bob....for reminding me why I am here. (I love politics and I guess I am what you would call a political junkie...not quite as bad as I use to be though. But I'm realizing discussing politics is better face to face...in front of a warm,crackling, fireplace....a little wine perhaps....) Night Ride Home is the first Joni I bought after being away from her for awhile,quite a long while....but really never that far away from my heart. It was about this time.. that I fell in love for the first time in my life.....and well...NRH does evoke so much from me. Title track: The simplicity, there in lies it's beauty. I can be so blue......and put this track on,open the moonroof....and just escape....forget for a little while anyway. I love those crickets sounds at the end. (everything is alright in the world.....the crickets affirm this :-) ) Passion play: A truly brilliant song!! In my top five of all time Joni songs. Musically,lyrically.......her voice!! I had a get-together at my house last summer,just family. I made copies of the lyrics and then I played it. It was SO interesting and fun to get the various opinions and views from everybody. I remember one interpretation was quite different;my niece's, then fianci, thinks it was about a wedding or partly about a wedding. When he told me this...my reaction was...HUH? Splain yourself boy!! I guess at the time he and my niece were planning their wedding.....so the multitudes...misery.....brought his upcoming wedding to mind. Cherokee Louise:Bittersweet is right, Bob! Joni talked about her friend and I can't remember now what her childhood friends real name is. But she said she has lost contact with her for many years now. This kind of surprised me considering Joni's stardom. It would be very easy...I would think.. for *Louise* to get in contact with her. Yeah...the innocence of childhood....secret hiding places....grabbing whatever your mother had in the fridge. Children have such wonderful imaginations,it really doesn't take a lot of fancy toys or gizmos. The innocence is so fleeting though. The carefreeness and sweetness doesn't last very long....... She runs home to her foster dad He opens up a zipper And he yanks her to her knees Oh please be here----------PLEASE My friend Poor Cherokee Louise The Windfall: .....you think I should buy you a car? Why? Because Elvis did?!! Oh....come on!! I love her shitty little laugh at the beginning of this. This song just cracks me up....the way she sings it... with such a smirk. I love the way the music fits the lyrics so perfectly.....almost like a march.....a mantra at times. It's kinda like,you fuck, here's the list....THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.....YOU WANT TO KNOW... HERE IT IS... Slouching Towards Bethlehem: I love her lone guitar at the beginning...and the build up to a full crescendo. And of course, there is much,much food for thought. It is a very hopeful song to me....that one day.. all the madness will stop.....(is this woman a musical genius or what!!) Come In From the Cold: Nice sentiment. But the song goes on a little too long. I think it would have hit the mark,IF... she could have found a way to shorten it a bit. It leaves me,yeah...you guessed it...a little cold. Ray's Dad's Cadillac: This song has really grown on me. I think it's quite clever. It is fun.....but you really can't dance to it nor sing along very well to it either.(at least I can't) Didn't this song come about after seeing a junkyard while her plane was preparing for a landing? Two Grey Rooms: Oh what can I say!! What a gem!! What an absolute treat!! With this song you get everything...all of Joni....much of life. OMG.. she even plays the piano !! The only fault I would have is that is too short. Short... but ever so sweet. BUT....life is so very short. (Thirty years have passed already) IF...I were to ever meet HER....and could find it in me to get the words out.....and stand because my legs I know would be like rubber..I would thank her of course for all her music.....but I would make a special point of thanking her for TGR. I believe I read that this song came about after she read an article or a short story about two ex-lovers....two gay men. Well,I've taken up enough space. And yeah....I guess you could say I like NRH,TOO. :-) Bree _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 20:31:52 +0100 From: "William" Subject: Natalie on Joni On BBC Choice 20:00 Sunday 5th May 2002 "Dermot Recovered", Natalie Imbruglia did a Crowded House cover then afterwards the interviewer asked if she would like to cover anyone else. "Joni Mitchell, but it would be too difficult because she is so amazing." Good onya mayte! WtS ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:03:36 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Uncle John's Mom & Dad >>>"If there is a problem, find a solution and NEVER a scapegoat - If you look for a scapegoat, you'll only end up with another problem." --"Coffee everone? Apple pie? I baked it myself. It's still warm."<<< What a wonderful & wise parents you had! Pass me some of that apple pie, please. ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:30:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Diltz in Chicago Yesterday afternoon, I finally got myself out and over to the Henry Diltz Exhibit. As I exited the elevator and turned, I was greeted by a poster announcing the exhibit over the famous photo of Joni sitting and playing her dulcimer. I was thrilled by this welcome. I entered the reception area with all the goodies for sale and with the gentlemen who appeared to be running the show. Unortunately Mr. Diltz was not available at the time I visited. I turned into the gallery and was greeted by what appeared to be the featured artist Paul McCartney with Linda. The photo dominating this section was the one of Paul and Linda from the cover of Life Magazine. To my right was Janis. It featured 2 photos in color and one in black and white of her in a velvet sort of tye dye suit, so to speak. I really loved the joy in Janis in these, especially one with Janis's arms spread out and her smiling. Then came the Doors, who I should mention I am a HUGE fan. All the pictures you've ever seen of the Doors, must have been taken by Diltz. Nothing much new here, just some outtakes of some very well known pictures. This being the case with most of the exhibit. James Taylor, Neil Young to the left and further on to the right my favorte photo in the entire exhibit. Mama Cass stretched out across a couch, dressed in sort of Ali Baba garb with shoes that curled up at the toes and fruit gathered all around her. This would be mine by now if I had a JOB! Finally further along came Joni. The first was of Graham Nash and Joni in B/W. Graham sort of holding Joni's face and Joni eyes drawn down, wearing a knitted tam. There was a B/W portrait of Joni, I forget the year - maybe 70ish. And a color portrait,1973, I believe. In the middle of the two portraits was my favorite of Joni. It was from 1970 and has Joni leaning out the window of "Our House." And there was the shot Joni with her dulcimer as well. The best priced photo and tempting was a shot of Bonnie Raiit, Maria Muldar and Linda Ronstadt in B/W. It appeared to be sort of a back stage discussion, possibly. As in all of these photos, they were soooo young! In the back was a section with Jackson Browne and the Eagles. Oh and of course right near Joni was the section full of CSN and some Young. And plenty of the Monkees! All of these works were so captivating. The innocent eyes and youth in all their faces. Knowing now how far they've come and /or what they've become artistically, historically - you can tell they had no idea back then what they would come to represent to us and the world. And that is what Henry has captured for all of us. I spoke briefly with one of the guys sort of running things. I mentioned of course the 60% discount for all JMDL members, he pretended not to speak english at that point! But seriously, I mention the JMDL and that many of you had visited the show in NYC. He got that "AHA" look on his face. He said that at the New York show they had sold more Joni than they ever had at one show, so far. And they had wondered why that was. SO don't miss this show when it comes to your neck of the woods! I am so glad I got out to see it. Peace, Susan Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #132 ********************************* ------- 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?