From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #384 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, December 9 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 384 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: OF ALL TIME... [Eric Taylor ] LIVE CACTUS [] Re: [none] (Winter Lady Remix) JC [Eric Taylor ] Today in History: December 9 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] Today's Library Links: December 9 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] RE: of all time [Eric Taylor ] Re: false alarms [Eric Taylor ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:22:49 -0500 From: Eric Taylor Subject: Re: OF ALL TIME... Lori Fye wrote: << This is SO difficult! . . . > Least favourite? Taming The Tiger (the song. I think. It's that damn "kitty, kitty" thing) >> I'm sure that's why Joni's new in law(?) convinced her to include it as an instrumental at the end. It works much better as an instrumental! BTW, has Joni's stolen kitty painting ever been recovered? Wonder if it's the same guys who stole two Van Gogh's yesterday??? ET NP: Otis & Marlena (T) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 1:23:40 -0500 From: Subject: LIVE CACTUS Ah yes, he CACTUS TREE of MOA. I'd have to say it's my favourite of all Joni's live performances. From: "joe farrell" Subject: of all time My favourite Joni song/ perfomance 'Cactus Tree' on Miles of Aisles. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:05:12 -0500 From: Eric Taylor Subject: Re: [none] (Winter Lady Remix) JC walterphil wrote: << i remember reading a while back joni saying she'd never release a greatest hits or a box set, because she felt people would stop buying her catalog. she's said she'd seen it happen to others. but she released those hits and misses. well, hits was ok, but misses was a big pile o crap.... disc one: early years 1. winter lady (from radio) (so pretty and sad) >> What a WONDERFUL song to begin Joni's box set with!!! I made a CD single of Winter Lady last year just to give to the people I love. Please put me on your mailing list for the Joni box set! I've been urging a 4 CD box of rare recordings for 10 years, writing to Joni personally about this twice (once with a list of suggestions). I was so happy that many were included on Misses (esp Wolf) and was even happier to see so many others included on T (esp Otis). Does anyone else sense that Joni doesn't want a tribute album until she can no longer make music or is dead??? She will ALWAYS be my favorite guitarist. Her painting is wowing me more every day. I just wish she'd take up the piano again! ET NP: Sire (T) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 02:08:11 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: December 9 1966: Joni performs at the Folk Cellar III in Port Huron, Michigan. This was one of her first appearances alone without Chuck Mitchell. Click the link for a copy of the ad that ran in the 'Port Huron Times-Herald' that week. More info: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1502641&a=11682876&p=41512516&Sequence=0&res=high - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 02:08:11 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: December 9 On December 9 the following items were published: 1975: "Smug Joni, Upbeat Neil sing of Californias People" - Detroit News (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=992 1975: "Dylan Returns to Garden With Rolling Thunder Revue" - New York Times (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=831 1995: "Billboard honors Joni Mitchell with its highest accolade" - Billboard (Biography, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=56 1995: "Joni Mitchell - A Portrait of the Artist" - Billboard (Biography, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=49 - -------- Can you type? http://www.jmdl.com/typing/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:29:05 -0500 From: Eric Taylor Subject: RE: of all time Chris Marshall wrote: << Least: Twisted. Seems to be so, I dunno, "not Joni". Does that make any sort of sense? >> I almost forgot about this Bette Midler hand me down! Can I change my choice from The Circle Game to Twisted? ;~D ET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:58:11 -0500 From: Eric Taylor Subject: Re: false alarms Bruce Kimerer wrote: << OK. After many years and hundreds of listens, what are the 'false alarms' in Amelia? In the Icarus verse I understand the false alarm to be a love affair that didn't work out. But what about in the other verses? They all end in 'it was just a false alarm.' What does IT refer to? There isn't an obvious subject for the pronoun. This has been driving me a little crazy for almost 30 years now. >> You give me much more with your question than I can possibly give with my answer. In the 20 years that this has been among my very favorite songs (all versions) I've always interpreted "it was just a false alarm" to mean that Amelia was just decades ahead of her time. I just noticed that "Icarus *ascending* on beautiful foolish arms" defies the myth of Icarus actually *descending* with wings burnt by the sun. Perhaps Joni sees Icarus here as the Phoenix embodied by Amelia. BTW, has anyone seen the Star Trek Voyager episode where Captain Janeway thaws Amelia from five centuries of sleep on some distant planet? Talk about GREAT myths..... ET ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #384 ********************************* ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)