From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #197 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 Tuesday, July 9 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 197 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: July 8 [ljirvin@adelphia.net] Today's Library Links: July 8 [ljirvin@adelphia.net] Step Right Up, Everyone's a winner, we've got bargains galore... [SCJoniG] Joni coming to Covent Garden? ["Paul Castle" ] Re: Passion Play [Abbymusique@aol.com] Re: Subject: "Clouds" as a Coaster: A Cry for Inspiration [Lori in MD ] Meeting in Paris. [johnirving ] Joni coming to Covent Garden? (Not!!!) ["Paul Castle" My guess is: > > Dreamland, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. Well, Marianne...for only the second time since I started this craziness, you have hit the guess right on the nose! Dreamland was indeed my song-of-the-month, so you're the winner of "Covers, Volume 31" along with another freebie. Awesome! Just let me know your address, and I'll do the rest. Thanks to everyone who guessed...there were pretty good vibes this time around as LOTS of folks picked songs off of DJRD. If you didn't win, but would like a copy of #31 (or any of the others) just let me know and I'll make sure you get 'covered' up. And stay tuned; plenty more where this one came from. ;~) Bob NP: Santana, "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:13:34 +0100 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Joni coming to Covent Garden? This might turn out to be just a false alarm but...... I had to share now...as I need your good wishes that all my dreams don't go up in smoke. As some may remember, until about 8 year ago I used to work as publications manager at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden and still play in their staff after-work-fun-and-good-therapy rock band (8 of us), appropriately named 'The Relics'. A while back we were asked if we would play at the 'In and Around Covent Garden' 10 Year Anniversary Party in October. The current Director of the Museum - - Samtheman - has just passed on an e-mail from the organizers of this special charity event. It says (and please keep your fingers crossed!)..... >>>>>>> > The event will take place on Friday 18th October at > The New Connaught Rooms. An informal reception > will take place with entertainment in The Balmoral > Room and Dinner will be served in The Grand Hall > at 19.45. A lounge suit dress code applies. > The entertainment will certainly be a Showcase of the > diverse talents which the area has to offer spanning the > decades to suit all tastes. It will vary from Magicians and > Street Entertainers to Faye Stringer's Clarinet Quartet, > Joni Mitchell and her Big Band, The Relics and > Tara Harman's 80's Band. > >>>>>>>> Gulp!!!!! PaulC PS I've just found Booking details at: http://www.coventgarden.uk.com/news.html but no confirmation of Joni yet - hold the front page til later. npimh -say a little prayer for me ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:10:18 EDT From: Abbymusique@aol.com Subject: Re: Passion Play I agree with your interpretation, Rick. I myself have been to Oberammergau several times and found out about the Passion Play. That is why Joni's song here is one of my favorites by her, weaving the biblical story with the Passion Play itself. When she says, "Enter the multitudes...", that is like a stage direction, and the bright colors are in my mind costumes worn by the actors, like you said. As a Christian, I have really enjoyed her attempts at delving into the Bible, like for "Love (ICor. 13) and "Sire of Sorrows" because she doesn't follow the standard in writing a "Christian" song. She delves into human emotions and makes it real, something that alot of Christian songwriters are afraid to do for some reason. Abby www.authorsden.com/abbymparks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Lori in MD Subject: Re: Subject: "Clouds" as a Coaster: A Cry for Inspiration Marianne wrote, about Clouds: > I love it in so many ways. You mean you love it from both sides, now??? ; ) Lori ~ New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month Free & unlimited access ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:33:14 EDT From: WARREN901@aol.com Subject: Re:Costello misquote hey mike ! i was a bit confused by your post, costello misquote was your subject but you didn't identify said misquote. i am taking for granted that you are referring to the error in the lyrics of ' shades of scarlet conquering.' instead of " cast iron in furs," the lyric is " cast iron and frail." is this the misquote you are referring to ? later... warren keith ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:19:42 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Joni and Lord Buckley I've been reading a wonderful book entitled "Dig Infinity! the Life and Art of Lord Buckley", by Oliver Trager, published a couple of months ago. Lord Buckley (1906-1960) was a humorist, standup comic, and philosopher who used the jazz or jive venacular in his pieces, many of them hip re-readings of classic literature. His most famous piece is "The Naz", and he coined the phrase "Willie The Shake". This Joni reference appears on page 266: As evidence of the Ivar albums' resonance in the liturgy of the following generation of American minstelsy, Joni Mitchell references Buckley's tag of the Bard in her song "Talk To Me" from her 1977 album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter when she sings, "I stole that from Willie the Shake, you know/Neither a borrower or a lender be/Romeo, Romeo talk to me." (me again) The "Willie the Shake" phrase was also used by Ken Kesey in his novel "Sometimes A Great Notion", but Joni's exposure to Lord Buckley may very well have come from her relationship with James Taylor, who has stuck a few LB lines in his own songs, and says in the book: I was fifteen or sixteen when I first heard Lord Buckley's records. I was in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and someone down at the university suggested I listen to him. I had a friend down there and we got into Lord Buckley and began quoting him... ...His pieces [take on] very important, meaningful stuff like Shake- speare and Christ, claiming it for a generation and expressing it in those terms.... Lord Buckley has influenced The Beatles-"make it Jude!" is from a LB routine- Dylan, who performed "Black Cross" early in his carreer (Jimmy Buffet has also recorded it), Robin Williams, The Firesign Theatre, Roseanne, and virtually every comedian. His buddies included Lenny Bruce, Jonathon Winters, and most of the 40's and 50's jazz musicians including Miles Davis. You can usually find his records on ebay. His only CD currently in print is "His Royal Hipness" (which does not contain "Willie The Shake"), available from Amazon, also they have short realaudio samples from this CD. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003MT9/qid=1026157874/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2021890-5118560 The book also comes with a CD featuring interviews and routines, including an unreleased rendition of "Willie The Shake" from an interview. "You know why they called him Willie The Shake? Because he.... ....SHOOK ever'body...they gave that cat five cents worth of paper and a nickel's worth of ink, he sat down and wrote up such a breeze, when he got through PPFFTT! ever'body got off! He was too tight a cat...." Sounds like someone else I can think of.... RR ps...isn't "neither a borrower nor a lender be" a Ben Franklin quote? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:31:45 -0500 From: johnirving Subject: Meeting in Paris. Just a bit more info if anyone wants to hook up with Richard and me in Paris for a Joni get together... We (John Calimee/ Rich Rice) are staying at the Hotel Paris France, 72 rue de Turbigo, tel 011-33-1-42-78-00-04. Arriving on Saturday July 20th and leaving on the 24th. If you want to send me an email, use one of the following email addresses. They are more accessable for me when I'm away: CalsArtWorld@hotmail.com CalIrving@Yahoo.com Hope to meet more Joni Fans there. Somehow, I think it would be perfect to run into Ranger Rick there. Whaddaya say Rick? j. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 01:42:57 +0100 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Joni coming to Covent Garden? (Not!!!) > OK Paul, I'm crossing fingers, toes and eyes for you! Thanks Bob, but you can un-cross everything now - turns out to be the biggest sodding typo in the world - the organizers came to our rehearsal tonight in the Museum - "oh, did I write 'Joni Mitchell'? I meant 'Joni Stone and her Big Band'." PaulC (inconsolable) ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #197 ********************************* ------- 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?