From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #126 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 Friday, April 11 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 126 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Brilliant Blue Tapestry [Gertus@aol.com] Jonifest 2003 Logo Contest Reminder [AsharaProducLLC@aol.com] Re: Joni Walk Off [Bobsart48@aol.com] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #124 [Bobsart48@aol.com] Re: JT and JM ["J.David Sapp" ] The hissing [Little Bird ] T'log Bog ["J.David Sapp" ] Re: T'log Bog [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: T'log Bog ["J.David Sapp" ] Fwd: The hissing [KJHSF@aol.com] Re: "No color, no constrast..." [Murphycopy@aol.com] Re: a smile, Joni everywhere, new verse for an old Joni song [Murphycopy@] Re: "No color, no constrast..." [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: T'log Bog [KJHSF@aol.com] Re: a smile, Joni everywhere, new verse for an old Joni song [Murphycopy@] Re: [NortheastJonifest] applications accepted now ["Donna Binkley" ] Re: The hissing ["Blair Fraipont" ] Re: PazFest Available on CD Baby [Randy Remote ] Re: PazFest Available on CD Baby [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: music our parents played [Susan Guzzi ] Re: "No color, no constrast..." [Randy Remote ] Re: a smile, Joni everywhere, new verse for an old Joni song [anne@sandst] AWOHAM, Blue Tapestry, Carey, Norah... ["Stephen Toogood" ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #123 [PassScribe@aol.com] Joni on Video! 100% JC ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Down to you and tidbits ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] RE: Joni on Video! 100% JC ["Jerry Notaro" ] The hissing ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Annie Lennox! - with itty bitty Joni content ["Heather" ] Would he eat his words? [BRYAN8847@aol.com] Today's Library Links: April 11 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:12:12 EDT From: Gertus@aol.com Subject: Brilliant Blue Tapestry I'm so glad I managed to get to the Blue Tapestry gig last night because it was a great night's entertainment. Support act was David Hughes who I had never seen before but is an excellent singer songwriter guitarist and humourist and set the evening up well for the appearance of the main act. What strikes you about this band, as well as the huge talent of all 5 members, is their collective love for the music of Joni Mitchell and Carole King and they frequently referred to the thrill they got from performing such great songs. For this tour they have added 12 new songs to the repetoire. One of the highligts, for me, was Chris Whiles opening the second half with a beautiful rendition of Fiddle and the Drum. Tracks from Blue, C&S, Hejira, WTRF and LOTC were covered with both Martin Allcock and Pete Zorn contributing great bass on the Coyote and Black Crow in turn. Both Chris and Julie Matthews have great voices for this project. So - if you get the chance to see this band play - GO! Jacky NP David Hughes "Recognised" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:58:37 EDT From: AsharaProducLLC@aol.com Subject: Jonifest 2003 Logo Contest Reminder Just a reminder that April 28th, the deadline for entries for the Jonifest Logo Contest is nearing. Can't wait to see the entries! In case you forgot...... All you creative people out there........get your pens, paper, pencils, watercolors, pastels, scissors, oils, acryllics, crayons, magic markers and other creative implements, and send your entries for the most WONDERFUL logo for Jonifest 2003 to: les@jmdl.com CONTEST RULES: 1) Please no copyrighted pictures/drawings. 2) Please keep the Logo simple for ease of reproduction. 3) It should include the words Jonifest 2003 somewhere in the Logo. Feel free to make up a slogan as well, if the spirit moves you. 4) Prize: My undying gratitude and the ENORMOUS prestige of having your logo used for top secret Jonifest things. As in last year, there will be a wonderful prize as well, to be given to the winner. (To be determined.) 5) All entries must be received by April 28, 2003. Everyone out in JMDL land will have a chance to vote for their favorite logo. Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:50:23 EDT From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Walk Off Bob Muller confirmed > > Isn't this the infamous Boston concert during which she > > walked > > off stage? > > That's the one...our Boston Jim was there, maybe some others. She still did > 18 songs, a tad shorter than the 20-25 she did at most of the other venues. > > Can anyone shed light on why she walked off ? Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:54:57 EDT From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #124 Anne composed: > Decades fly so fast it makes us dizzy > Our children now have children of their own > Dragonflies and cartwheels fill our memories > Still we sing the songs that make us feel like home > > lots of love > Anne Well, it made me cry. I intend to add it to my version when I sing it from now on. Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:17:55 -0500 From: "J.David Sapp" Subject: Re: JT and JM Bobs Art said: Still, I wonder about the line "crown and anchor me, or let me sail away ?" Well maybe she's just kind of thinking to herself - these are my choices as I see it as opposed to asking Graham to choose. Or perhaps that was the phase she went through before deciding to make the decision for herself. peace, david ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:08:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Little Bird Subject: The hissing I remember being puzzled by the title "The Silence of the Lambs" when I saw the film. Why were they silent? In the film Jodie Foster's character explains that they were silenced in the slaughter house, which she witnessed - a traumatic experience from her childhood. Well, what about the Hissing of Summer Lawns. What is hissing? Is it lawnmowers? Is it sprinkler systems? Is it the lurking snakes of desire and discontent, slithering through the manicured lawns of Pretense, Iowa? Thoughts please. - -Andrew Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:32:42 -0500 From: "J.David Sapp" Subject: T'log Bog Bob M said: I tend to get really bogged down listening to T'log all the way through> Well the T'log Bog is like a wilderland, stepping stones or sinking sand. This is NOT a criticism but there have been a lot of comments about the length of T'log, it feels like work, etc. And as usual Joan has a remark: Land of snap decisions Land of short attention spans Nothing is savored Long enough to really understand In every culture in decline The watchful ones among the slaves Know all that is genuine will be Scorned and conned and cast away Just some food for thought. peace, david ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:42:59 -0400 From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: T'log Bog But you see, I absolutely ABHOR this logic that says if I don't like something, than something's wrong with me. This would especially ring false with an artist that I adore as I do Joni. > Land of short attention spans laughable when you consider that less than a month ago I sat for over TWELVE hours without a meal enthralled by her music. Bob NP: "Free Man In Paris" Red Rocks, 7/30/83 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:12:45 -0500 From: "J.David Sapp" Subject: Re: T'log Bog > But you see, I absolutely ABHOR this logic that says if I don't like something, than something's wrong with me. This would especially ring false with an artist that I adore as I do Joni.> Bob please accept my apologies I did not intend to offend you or anyone and I don't think something's wrong with you. The lines I quoted are universal truths that I apply to myself more than anyone else. I really just thought it was something for all of us to consider in our daily lives. I wish for you only peace and blessings - you are one of the kindest and most generous people I know. Forgive me. peace, david ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:06:47 EDT From: KJHSF@aol.com Subject: Fwd: The hissing Return-path: From: KJHSF@aol.com Full-name: KJHSF Message-ID: <1c5.750dcd0.2bc6fded@aol.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:03:41 EDT Subject: Re: The hissing To: littlebird3333@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6014 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.97c X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain In a message dated 4/10/2003 12:09:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, littlebird3333@yahoo.com writes: > Well, what about the Hissing of Summer Lawns. What is > hissing? In any part of arid Southern California the natural terrain for much of the year is brown and dry. Yet the wealthy suburban communities (La Jolla comes to mind at the moment) are perpetually verdant. At night, sprinkler systems turn on en masse, and the hissing is obvious. I've always taken the hissing to be sprinklers, but as with most things Joni, the words do work on numerous levels. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:07:39 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: "No color, no constrast..." Muller scribbled: << But I thought he was blind? What color & contrast would he have noticed? >> DOH!!! Actually, um, well . . . he's a musician, yeah, that's it! He's a musician so "color" and "contrast" have meaning to him that have notihing to do with seeing. --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:10:43 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: a smile, Joni everywhere, new verse for an old Joni song Muller writes: << Briarose >> Good heavens, Muller! You scared me. I thought Mr. Gross had started carrying on with another JMDLer from Jersey! --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:24:19 -0400 From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: "No color, no constrast..." In a message dated 4/10/2003 12:07:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, Murphycopy writes: > He's a musician so > "color" and "contrast" have meaning to him that have > nothing to do with > seeing. Or maybe he's like Stevie Wonder, and he can see when he REALLY wants to. :~) I always laughed at Robert Klein's stand-up bit about Jose Feliciano, who commented about his souled-up version of The Star Spangled Banner (ala his cover of "Light My Fire"): "He must have figured that people wouldn't kick the sh*t out of him because he was blind." Jose of course was also a back-up player for Joni on C&S. Bob NP: "A Case Of You" 7/30/83 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:26:52 EDT From: KJHSF@aol.com Subject: Re: T'log Bog In a message dated 4/10/2003 12:44:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SCJoniGuy@aol.com writes: > But you see, I absolutely ABHOR this logic that says if I don't like > something, than something's wrong with me. This would especially ring false > with an artist that I adore as I do Joni. > > Though I disagree with much of her philosophy, Ayn Rand had it right when she said "art is a response to values." This allows for there to be plenty of discussion and sharing of thought on the arts, and also for the truth that there will be many different opinions. Of course, Rand would require that each person be prepared to defend their opinion, and I'm not so sure one can offer facts when responding to music, which affects us on a more visceral level. But, with her definition of art, no one can be wrong. That said, Travelogue bores me, too. I would gladly listen to hours of re-worked Joni had it been presented differently. Her concept was to present these songs in this format, though, and it just didn't engage me. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:33:23 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: a smile, Joni everywhere, new verse for an old Joni song Anne writes: << Both first lines mention decades, both second lines mention children, and both third lines mention dragonflies... Must be something to the whole collective subconscious thing... >> Yeah, right, Anne. Like we're all stupid. Does the word plagiarism mean anythinbg to you? --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:12:26 -0500 From: "Donna Binkley" Subject: Re: [NortheastJonifest] applications accepted now Hiya Wally! You can put me on your list! My birthday is August 8. But you won't have to e-mail it this year, you can tell me in person at Jonifest which starts that day!! Woo hoo! And thanks, for being the best birthday fairy ever. love donna >>> wallykai@fibertel.com.ar 4/10/2003 1:58:13 AM >>> my apologies to joni-onlies for this intrusion but i want this short message to reach all of you jmdlers. since the last time the JMDL BIRTHDAY FAIRY visited the list, its birthday database has become dated and VERY incomplete. if you wish to be on the birthday greeting list, please reply privately to me (i have ways to contact the BDF...). just write your name and birthday (only month and day). if you want to say hello and add something nice, you may do so too, of course. the birthday fairy WILL NOT use its excellent gift of clairvoyance to guess your birthdays, so give the poor thing a break and write. end of message. love to you all, wally - ------------------------ Yahoo! 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Think about the notes she sings during these lines: "Looking through a double glass Looking at too much pride and too much shame There's a black fly buzzing There's a heat wave burning in her master's voice The hissing of summer lawns " To me, that string of notes were written with a "jazz feel". She messes with Time on that one. I'm not a historian and I don't even know the vocabulary but it's not a melody or a phrasing you'd expect from Pete Seeger. Annie Ross, on the other hand, would nod right along. To me, this is clear proof that Jazz is among her many palettes. She uses this palette with bold brush strokes as usual; she does not "dabble" from this palette. Lama ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:58:17 -0500 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: The hissing My take on the hissing was that it was another reference to the establishment and suburbia and the well smelled baskets. mack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:44:13 -0400 From: "Blair Fraipont" Subject: Re: The hissing It could be the snide hissing of gossipy men and women living in the suburbs.... The way people talk about each other in such controlled living spaces is usually not without a touch of cruelty.. BLair > >I remember being puzzled by the title "The Silence of >the Lambs" when I saw the film. Why were they silent? >In the film Jodie Foster's character explains that >they were silenced in the slaughter house, which she >witnessed - a traumatic experience from her childhood. > >Well, what about the Hissing of Summer Lawns. What is >hissing? Is it lawnmowers? Is it sprinkler systems? Is >it the lurking snakes of desire and discontent, >slithering through the manicured lawns of Pretense, >Iowa? > >Thoughts please. > >-Andrew >Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more >http://tax.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:58:18 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: PazFest Available on CD Baby As someone who owns this 2 CD set, I say there is alot to like here. Just Sue Cowsill doing "Chelsea Morning" is worth the admission price. Plus proceeds go for a truly good cause- giving medical help to the disadvantaged in Honduras. A double good feeling. I've also been listening to our own Kate Bennett's CD, "Over the Moon", chock full of original tunes, great singing and playing, and some real gems, "Wolfsong", "The Harvest", more. 4 thumbs up! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:24:47 -0400 From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: PazFest Available on CD Baby In a message dated 4/10/2003 2:58:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, guitarzan@direcpc.com writes: > As someone who owns this 2 CD set, I say there is alot to > like > here. I'll go a step further and say that there's nothing I DON'T like in this set. My fave track is the Paz-led frontal assault with Brian Stolz chiming in with a number of stinging solos...each one builds on the other...wow. Like Randy says, it's for a good cause, but over and above that, it's DAMN good product. Bob NP: Joni on WNEW-FM, January '86 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:18:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: music our parents played Hey just catching up and adding my parents musical tastes to the mix. Mostly it was my mother who played the music and I was totally indoctrinated with Johnny Mathis - in fact forget Ethel, I used to imitate him and probably learned to sing that way. Some faves there It's not For Me To Say, 12th of Never, and Misty. Imagine her devastation when he came out of the Closet! HAH HAH! Also Patsy Cline, I still remember playing "Crazy" - the 45 over and over again and looking at it spin as I hung over the Motorola console stereo. But the main female singer was Vikki Carr, "COLD! no I wont believe your heart is cold , maybe slow to warm ... blah blah blah ... and watch what happens." Also did - "With Pen in hand, The House That Jack Built." Others around the house; Dean Martin, Frankie Yankovich (accordian), OH and plenty of Connie Francis. She also dug Dinah and Brook Benton and Sarah Vaughn but they weren't as prominent till I brought them home. And of course at Christmas ... The Ray Coniff singers wooohoooo! By the way my mother HATES Joni, and hates that I love her. I remember the day she bought me Blue, she had some idea that this was going to be another Carole King, who she liked. She immediately turned on me when she heard Joni's voice, making a reeeeaally pretty face - that she's well known for making ... and we've not gotten along since! Hey I'm not complaining, I have had many wonderful years with my REAL mother - the mother of my spirit - Joni! LOL! Peace, Susan Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:51:36 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: "No color, no constrast..." Andrew- Great observations, I hadn't really thought about it that way, but I think you are on it. To expand, the direction she was headed in at the time, and exists in now, is not exactly suburbia, but the rarified mansions of the wealthy. The photos show her in a pool, and it's been said that HOSL was written or inspired by visiting the home of Jose Feliciano, himself having tasted the kind of commercial success Joni was just getting into (who knew they had both peaked Top Ten-wise by then?). These Beverly Hills/ Bel Aire homes are often in gated communities (the 'barb wire fence'), all have the 'blue pools in the squinting sun'. The opening lines describe wealth; "he gave her a diamond for her throat, he put her on a ranch house on the hill". These neighborhoods are mostly white, all rich, yards groomed, everything under control. These things it shares with middle-class suburbia. The woman Joni describes lives in a golden cage. She has some impulse to flee the deadening surroundings, but 'stays with a love of some kind,' opting for comfort over challenge, a theme Joni has written about before in songs like "For Free," "For The Roses," etc. I think partly she is warning herself about the hazards of a comfortable, insulated life, a condition she has fled from more than once. Little Bird wrote: > Well, what about the Hissing of Summer Lawns. What is > hissing? I think sprinklers. Los Angeles is a desert city. Without the Colorado River aquaducts, it wouldn't be there. To say they are hissing gives it a somewhat sinister vibe, yah? RR Little Bird wrote: > No color, no contrast... > > I wonder if it refers, in part, to the all white > suburbs of middle America at the time. It follows the > verse with the line about the barbed wire fence to > keep out the unknown. > > Granted, it's while discussing the fuzzy "tube" but > there again, it could be a reference to racism - all > white TV, which is cultural "darkness" to the mind; > the darkness of willful ignorance if you will. > > In any case, I thought it was interesting to think > about the "no color, no contrast" line as a metaphor > for all white suburbia, not a single person with a > different skin tone, not one other culture for > constrast. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:01:53 -0700 (PDT) From: anne@sandstrom.com Subject: Re: a smile, Joni everywhere, new verse for an old Joni song > Yeah, right, Anne. Like we're all stupid. Does the word > plagiarism mean anythinbg to you? (sweet voice) No, not really... Sad to say, I know the rules for melody copyright. You can have up to 7 consecutive notes the same and still be a distinct song from what you're ahem "inspired by." Not sure about lyrics... guess there are no royalty pennies headed into my piggy bank :-) lots of love Anne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:45:05 +0100 From: "Stephen Toogood" Subject: AWOHAM, Blue Tapestry, Carey, Norah... Hi folks, Been real busy and my connection was kind of blinking on and off so I've just been catching up with the list. There have been so many posts! A big HI to all the new listers btw. A good friend of mine (you know who you are) brought down AWOHAM on the weekend. I was mesmerized. Can't believe THOSL wasn't mentioned but her performance of 'Blue' was amazing. I never realised Joni performed 'Woodstock' the day after she wrote it. Sounded good on the upright too. She never stops amazing me. I went to 'Blue Tapestry' last night in Tunbridge Wells. I would have arranged to meet up with who ever of you went but my modem wouldn't have it! I saw them about a year ago where I live and was stunned, but last night was even better! They are a really tight band and add all their own touches to the songs. I think my fave was 'This Flight Tonight', it really rocked! Nothing from THOSL this time but they did 'Chinese Cafe' which was unexpected. Someone asked the other day what chart position the single 'Carey' got to. Well 'The Great Rock Discography' lists it reaching # 93 in the USA and not charting at all in the UK! Very disappointing considering it must be one of her most catchiest songs. Leave Norah alone! No she didn't deserve all those Grammies but it's an excellent debut which is consistently good all the way through. I love it. I'd rather her album be at # 1 than Shania or Celine. Let's face it, not much good credible music does that well in the charts these days. 'Stryngs' album is captivatingly brilliant. If you like clever, original, emotional music and lyrics (obviously you do) then you will like this. I wish them every success. I didn't know it has been 5 years since Lauras passing. I had been playing Laura all evening. Her music is forever in my soul. Obviously people will disagree about things, but there are ways of doing things. Shame about some of the bad feelings but great to see so many posts. Let's all be 'Good Friends'. Steve T NP: Madeline Milla ~ 'Sympathy' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:53:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "walterphil" Subject: stevie wonder if anyone is still interested the stevie wonder story goes like this from the early sixties till around 1972 he had at least a dozen big hits in the motown tradition then he release an album in 1972 called "music of my mind" and while not entiely successful pointed the direction stevie was going then BAM "talking book"-'72-A+++ great album all the way thru every track a gem highlights: sunshine of my life blame it on the sun tuesday heartbreak (wow) superstition & maybe your baby (especially) "innervisions"-'73-A absolutely flawless. this is music that makes you believe in faith. highlights include: living in the city golden lady and don't you worry bout a thing "fulfilingness' first finale"-'74-A- superb highlights are: you haven't done nothin & boogie on reggae woman "songs in the key of life"-'76-A+++ such wit and variety-enough for 2 albums. (which it was) sir duke isn't she lovely love's in need of love today have a talk with God and many more i would compare these 4 lps to jonis' blue-roses-court-and hissing periods. and they are just as good. give em a listen, you'll see. if you want i'll continue. he's made so many great albums (but these 4 are where you start) xxx walt The most personalized portal on the Web! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:16:21 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #123 Hey, Les I had a problem with my server (preferences went off so my e-mail that I opened and thought I was saving to read "later" was lost). Any chance of re-sending me the Loni Digest #124 & 125? If possible, thanks! Kenny B ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:21:37 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Joni on Video! 100% JC "Joni Mitchell: A Woman Of Heart and Mind" is available on NTSC VHS or DVD from WNET in New York. From the USA and Canada, you can call 1-800-336-1917. "Painting With Words and Music" is available on DVD and NTSC-VHS (in the USA at least). Try www.amazon.com I don't know if it is free of region coding. Perhaps best of all, "Shadows and Light" is available on DVD from a reputable guy in Hong Kong, via eBay auctions. This one is advertised as being free of region coding. It plays fine here in the US and includes stuff left off the 60 minute version sold on VHS here twenty years ago. All the best, Lama ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:33:56 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Down to you and tidbits Some newbie/lurker said, >>I remember thinking that it made her more human and down to earth by that faux pax. Instead of some larger than life object of worship.>> Welcome to the JMDL. What kind of name is "Pez"? About your post, yep. I noted this from the Cowboy Junkies' Margo Timmins. At the end of the night, every night, she introduces each member of the band. She always finishes with Michael, because he does the writing so he gets a big hand. Then she slides her own name in just before they kick off the last song: "I'm Margo Timmins and we're the Cowboy Junkies. Thanks for coming out!" The last time I saw them in Chicago, Margo, who has a terrible memory, finished with: "I'm the Cowboy Junkies. We're........... uh..........." By then it was too late. The whole place was in stitches and her brothers rescued her by kicking off the last song. I felt like, "Close enough, Margo. We love you." We all did. I love that girl. Lama ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:36:32 -0400 From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: RE: Joni on Video! 100% JC I second Jim's S&L recommendation on dvd. It is true 5.1 dvd, not inferior VCD like many that come from Asia. A must for every Joni fan. Jerry - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@jmdl.com [mailto:owner-joni@jmdl.com]On Behalf Of Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:22 PM To: _JMDL Subject: Joni on Video! 100% JC "Joni Mitchell: A Woman Of Heart and Mind" is available on NTSC VHS or DVD from WNET in New York. From the USA and Canada, you can call 1-800-336-1917. "Painting With Words and Music" is available on DVD and NTSC-VHS (in the USA at least). Try www.amazon.com I don't know if it is free of region coding. Perhaps best of all, "Shadows and Light" is available on DVD from a reputable guy in Hong Kong, via eBay auctions. This one is advertised as being free of region coding. It plays fine here in the US and includes stuff left off the 60 minute version sold on VHS here twenty years ago. All the best, Lama ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:00:11 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: The hissing Before the water shortage in LA, many, many people from middle class and up had lawn sprinklers. (Dunno if it still goes on. I haven't been there since 1969. Hint!) I guess the natural vegatation in some areas is basically scrubbrush cause it's so very dry. Some people had whole front yards of clover instead of grass cause it's more resistant to dry conditions. Immigrants from back east wanted grass, as G*d intended, so they put in sprinklers. So, yeah, when the timer kicks in, the lawn springs to life. A dozen sprinkler heads pop up out of their silos, dousing the grass and sssssssssetting the sssssssssssssssssssssssssscene with the hissssssssssing of (well you know). ***** More? A few years ago, there was a tribute concert to Joni in NYC somewhere nicknamed "Joni's Jazz". If I recall correctly, Chaka Khan spilled the inside inspiration behind the song. One of our JMDLers was watching Joni as Chaka revealed to all of New York which Los Angelino owned the immortalized "Lawns" and inspired the lyric. Joni was waving her arms, hoping to urge Chaka to keep the secret. It's available on cassette from me. Lama Andrew asked, >>> Well, what about the Hissing of Summer Lawns. What is hissing? Is it lawnmowers? Is it sprinkler systems? Is it the lurking snakes of desire and discontent, slithering through the manicured lawns of Pretense, Iowa?>> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:41:44 -0400 From: "Heather" Subject: Annie Lennox! - with itty bitty Joni content Well, I have to side with Ms Guzzi on Annie Lennox's current tour ... Annie was spectacular! I definitely put it up there with my 5 best concerts. If you have a chance to see her on tour this year then please do. You won't be disappointed. On the inside of the $25.00 program, Annie has a page where she lists "Music makers who really got to me big time" and the first name listed is Joni Mitchell. There are a host of other names and at the bottom she states "the list is endless ... gracias a dios, without whom life would have been so different". Isn't that the truth? Okay, Joni Only's can delete now (if you haven't done so already). Annie is a commensurate performer who never lets her audience down for one second. As Susan reported earlier, Annie is in true command of the stage and so professional and relaxed. When she performed "No More I Love You's" you could almost hear a pin drop due to the silence of the crowd. A very moving performance! The Wilbur theater in Boston is a smallish venue which did give one the feeling of having a personal encounter with Annie (more on that later). I was surprised to learn that this is her first solo tour. She belted out many of her tunes which were emotion packed ... Would I Lie To You, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves, Who's That Girl, Sweet Dreams, Why, Legend in My Living Room, etc. She finished the evening with to encores. I did notice that the keyboard player's name was Alan Wakeman ... wonder if he's Rick Wakeman's son (??) I went to this concert with my sister and her companion Lori. We were kind of hanging around afterward this stupendous performance and I said "let's just hang around and see if Annie comes out. Maybe, just maybe, we'll get an autograph." They agreed ... kind of reluctantly because it was freezing outside. We were kind of dreaming up what we might say to her per chance encounter ... "Annie, we're just sistahs doin' it for ourseleves! Really, we're sistahs!" After standing in the cold by the stage door for what seemed like forever, my sister says she'll pull the car around so we won't have to wait in the cold. Lori goes with her. There I am alone when these two women come around the corner of the building flinging their arms in the air screaming at me "hurry! she's over there! ahhhhh!" So I haul ass around the corner of the building just in time to get Annie's autograph. "Good luck with the rest of your tour" was all I could blurt out in winded breath. She replies, "thank you dear" and signs my program. My Annie Lennox evening was complete. Thanks for letting me share. It's fulfilling, in a sense, seeing performers you admire. Heather ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:12:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Little Bird Subject: Re: Annie Lennox! - with itty bitty Joni content Go to this concert if at all possible, people. She is supreme - and funnier than you'd imagine... At one point she mocked the Canadian accent at the Toronto show I was at, recounting how she got stuck in a "lift" for 45 minutes the last time she was in Toronto - "What do you call a lift in Canada? An escalator? No, no, no - an elevator! [Cue Canadian accent] So, yeah, I was in the elevaterrrr..." It will be on the DVD, which was being filmed the night I was there. And the singing - oh my the singing! Her new compositions are incredible - sad but uplifting at the same time, which is typical Lennoxa. Go to the concert. Buy the album ("Bare") when it comes out in June. Trust me on this. - -Andrew PS: Most shows are sold out, unfortunately. Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:08:18 EDT From: MINGSDANCE@aol.com Subject: Re. Refuge Well, Bob I saw the "Wild Things Run Fast" Tour in Houston. A good friend of mine who bartended at a place called La Carafe in downtown Houston bought me and other friends tickets to celebrate my Birthday. Well, at the time every one had to take their pills and powders to go to any event, my favorite was window pain. I remember being 4th row left center isle. When we walked in she was already playing I believe "Free Man in Paris,' She did not look amused at our entrance. To compound matters two of my friends gay girl friends nabbed on to us in the lobby and knew we were right up front so they asked us to take their camera to take photos, no passes needed back then, so I shot one 36 roll fast, I went right up to Joni and took a shot and she then smiled as if to say I was almost forgiven for the rude entrance. I remember her wearing this middle eastern gauze Black and white dress below the knees with tights that were white and cut off at the ankles, for a moment I thought she was heading the way of Cat Stevens. I think she had her hair bleached out the lightest I had ever seen it. Larry had on a black sleeves T-shirt. She started on the guitar for a long period then moved to sit and play the dulcimer for two or three songs then the piano and back to guitar after the intermission. There were no known mistakes except for me being such a mess. The thing I remember most was when she closed the show with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" the first I ever heard her do Marvin Gaye, and it truly was divine, I peaked went to the lobby bought the poster print of the Tour of her smoking the brown cigg. and the white sleeveless T=shirt with her picture in pink and red, the band is wearing it on the Refuge video. The picture still hangs in my kitchen, Jimmy has a picture of him and me under it on Christmas of 98. I hope this helps. By the way I never saw those girls again so I never got to see the photos, Peace, Mingus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:49:54 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: Re: missing digests At 4/10/2003 07:16 PM, PassScribe@aol.com wrote: >I had a problem with my server (preferences went off so my e-mail that I >opened and thought I was saving to read "later" was lost). Any chance of >re-sending me the Loni Digest #124 & 125? Kenny et al - I've contacted the list master of the Loni Anderson discussion list and he said he'll get back to you soon on those digests. Here's a link for you in the meantime: http://conterra.com/bookter/loni/loni.htm . I believe this is the first mention of Loni in the history of the JMDL. Just funnin' with ya Kenny! All digests can be found here http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni and are archived immediately upon release. In case you forget the link, just look in the header of every single mesage you get from the JMDL... the link will be there for you. Thanks, Les ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:04:17 EDT From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Would he eat his words? Looking through the list of articles on jmdl.com, I found this, published in a major paper in late 1976. I wonder what the critic would say about Hejira now. "Hejira" lacks the consistency and, most importantly, the discovery of her best work. Can you believe it? Hejira, the most magnificent portrait of discovery ever in popular music. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:24:14 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: April 11 On April 11 the following items were published: 1998: "Little Green a Little Blue" - Toronto Globe and Mail (Reunion Story) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=109 2000: "If I Can Make It There..." - KINK102FM.com (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=501 2000: "Joni and the Wail" - Entertainment Weekly Online (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=701 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #126 ********************************* ------- 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)