From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #345 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, November 6 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 345 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- REFUGE OF THE ROADS video ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: JMDL cd-tree #1 [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Joni on Today Show [MINGSDANCE@aol.com] Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues LJC [Susan McNamara ] Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues LJC [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] re:video ["J.David Sapp" ] Thank You Bob For Your Covers Project ["Scott and Jody" Subject: REFUGE OF THE ROADS video Tonight I'm printing labels for Simon and burning some videos for Michael O'Malley. The video right now is REFUGE OF THE ROADS. In the chronology, I think it was the first video after the amazing keeper SHADOWS AND LIGHT. This one starts out with a bit of a shock. As was the latest style, there's an enormous tangled mass of electric guitar which drops to nothing and Joni goes: "He came / She smiled." What did Charles Mingus say? This broad has balls? Anyway, at the end she goes, "Wild thing/I thought you loved me." Maybe I had recognized this before and in my post-40 brain it seems new. She's quoting the Troggs, (and later by Jimi Hendrix of Seattle, Washington). "Wild thing I think you move me but I wanna know for sure. C'mon an'... hold me tight. ... You move me." Only Joni could put a visceral and vulgar track like that on the same collection as the ethereal and mytical "Sweet Bird". Everyone here knows it but it helps to reaffirm for me: The broad is one nervy broad. All the best, Lama ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:39:23 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: JMDL cd-tree #1 Hi Amo, Lemme know if nobody steps up in the UK to get these to you. Hopefully they will as I've made dozens of these for UK folk, but I will be glad to help you out if no one else can or will. Bob "TheWizardOfIs" ess.co.uk> Sent by: owner-joni@jmdl.com cc: 11/04/03 01:14 PM Please respond to Subject: JMDL cd-tree #1 "TheWizardOfIs" ..... Hi folks, Any kind-hearted Joni-ites out there willing to trade me a copies of the discs in this tree? I need Joni toons to keep me warm through the cold, dark, Scottish nights. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr....... (An ice-cream van has just stopped outside and it's playing Christmas carols. Help!) Thank-you. AMO - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:55:07 EST From: MINGSDANCE@aol.com Subject: Joni on Today Show They just had Emma Thompson on for the new movie "Love Actually" and it had the scene with Joni singing "River" in the background and Leahm says" who's that"? She says" Joni Mitchell, that woman who taught yor lovley wife how to love and feel" Maybe not exactly that way but close. Peace Mingus ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:13:15 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues LJC Hi Bob: I don't know a lot about the Moody Blues but I know that Joni was not the only one using alternate tunings at the time. In the late 60s a lot of blues bands were getting open G open D tunings from the old blues masters. Although I would love to think that Jimmy Page was influenced by Joni alone, clearly he was more influenced by the blues greats who used these tunings a lot. Don't ask me to name names, I'm not an expert on blues history. Also, I know that there was a progressive movement in England that centered around the celtic sounds of Nick Drake and Fairport Convention (richard thompson) that also used alternate tunings. I'm barking out the back of my subconscious so if anyone wants to correct any of my musings, please feel free. Right now I can't stop listening to Nirvana, go figure. take care, sue At 8:52 AM -0500 11/4/03, Bobsart48@aol.com wrote: >I recently watched a Moody Blues DVD (the one at Albert Hall), and noticed >that on at least a couple of the songs, Justin Hayward is playing in open G. I >will look again to see if he plays mostly in open G (or other alts). > >Some of the chords seem to be "not quite straight on" - like Joni's on Marcie >:-) > >I wonder if there is any connection between them and Joni. It would not shock >me (Justin is more like Joni than to Keith Richards - another who played in >open G - it seems to me). Anyone know if their paths ever crossed ? > >Bobsart - -- Susan McNamara Assistant to the Dean of Students Cornell University 401 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Voice: (607) 255-1115 FAX: (607) 255-8082 E-Mail:sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:31:57 -0500 From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: joni on the train this morning I was reading "Metro," a free commuter newspaper, on the train this morning when I came across the following in an interview with Emma Thompson: Metro: You have such a great dramatic scene in the film listening to a Joni Mitchell song. How do you prepare for a scene like that? Emma Thompson: Oh, you just look at your various emotional scars and decide which one I pick at for the scene. It's not very difficult. If you get to my age and haven't had your heart broken, there's something wrong. - --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:42:49 -0000 From: "TheWizardOfIs" Subject: To UK Joni-persons Am I alone in being miffed that TOTP2 (Steve Wright - shame on you!) won't be marking Joni's birthday in any way this week? AMO ------------------------------ Date: 05 Nov 2003 14:54:51 +0100 From: Jamie Zubairi Subject: Re: To UK Joni-persons But of course we will!!! I'm going home to see if they are marked on this weekend's Satellite channels - ie. BBC4 and VH1 TheWizardOfIs wrote: Am I alone in being miffed that TOTP2 (Steve Wright - shame on you!) won't be marking Joni's birthday in any way this week? AMO ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:55:51 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: alternate tunings - Moody Blues LJC Bob, here are some similarities between Joni & The Moody Blues: - -The Moody Blues began in Birmingham, England. Joni played there on April 14, 1983 with her "Refuge" Band. - -The Moody Blues were partnered up with Graeme Edge - Joni was partnered with Graham Nash. - -The Moody Blues had Nights in White Satin - Joni had Night In The City - -Percy Faith has covered both (Knights in White Satin, Big Yellow Taxi) as has Mantovani. - -Joni can certainly be Moody...and she had a record she called "Blue" (perhaps you've heard of it!) :~) Bob NP: Blue Mountain, "Ira Magee" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:46:09 -0600 From: "J.David Sapp" Subject: re:video >then Joni has her live performance of "Little Green" (in color) which as I said is a nice performance and a couple of times looks as though she's going to cry.< Watching WOHAM I believe there are 2 small pieces of this - both during discussions of "Little Green's" birth and THE marriage. And yes she is laughin' and cryin' you know its..... peace, david ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 22:44:26 -0500 From: "Scott and Jody" Subject: Thank You Bob For Your Covers Project My husband, Scott is in Japan, trying to find Joni covers while he is in Japan for work. He Writes: I will try to make it to another record shop but I don't know if I can. They are extremely difficult to navigate. The Japanese artists are not organized on the shelves alphabetically. They are organized by Japanese characters, which I can't read. I read Wally's post and just started crying. Thank You So Much Bob Muller!!! This is just another example of why I Love this jmdl community. My Best To You All, jody ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 01:48:05 EST From: Bobdog25nj@aol.com Subject: Joni's 60th on the radio, Friday, Nov. 7th, WFUV, NYC Hi All: My Name is Bob Paterson... and I mostly lurk here. But I need to de-lurk to tell you about this coming Friday, Nov. 7th... of course you all know it is Miss Mitchell's 60th birthday ( very hard to believe, isn't it? ). Anyway, thought I would draw your attention to the very fine radio station WFUV out of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York City. WFUV will be celebrating Joni's birthday all day long... meaning they will be playing lots of Joni... and talking lots of Joni. They do webstream... so those of you from out-of-range can listen too. ( www.wfuv.org ). Those near NYC, wfuv is 90.7 on your FM dial. I cannot guarantee... but I gave some info about the late great Wally Breese to the afternoon dj , Dennis Elsis, and Dennis told me that he would try and say something about Wally ( the founder of jonimitchell.com ) and Joni and how Wally helped put Kilauren ( Joni's daughter ) back in touch with Joni and all that stuff that I presume most of you already know about. I knew Wally... from e-mail and phone calls... but I really have fallen a bit out of touch with all of you here... so I hope this is all OK... I mean Wally was my friend too... at least a little... and he deserves a mention on the radio now and then... don't ya think? Anyway... hope this is all OK.. a bit presumptuous of me perhaps... but only a bit. Dennis Elsis is on the air between 2pm and 6pm, NYC time. WFUV is in the middle of fundraising... so all things Joni will happen inbetween begging for money... but that's the way things are in the world of public radio. Some of you might feel like sending them some money... who knows. I do not know what time the mention of Wally Breese might happen... sometime between 2pm and 6pm... sorry they cannot be more specific. I will try and catch whatever might happen on tape... and then... well... and then I don't know. Maybe there's a way to make it available so you all could hear it. At 8pm, the lovely and talented Rita Houston does a show called "The Whole Wide World"... and there's a chance Rita might play some Joni or mention Joni or something. Rita loves Joni almost as much as I do... and... just as a piece of trivia... I happen to know that Rita Houston once upon a time gave Miss Joni Mitchell a copy of one of the Cesoria Evora CDs. I'm guessing Joni loved it since everybody else does... OK... I hope this posts. Been a while, not sure I'm doing it right. HAPPY JONI'S 60TH BIRTHDAY EVERYBODY!!!!! See ya... bob paterson ( bobdog25nj@aol.com) and hello to the other Wally, and John...and everybody who keeps this list and jonimitchell.com running... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:01:25 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: November 6 1965: Joni performs at The Chess Mate in Detroit. - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:01:25 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: November 6 On November 6 the following article was published: 1998: "Mitchell influences folk, rock" - Penn State Digital Collegian (Biography) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=637 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #345 ********************************* ------- 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? 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