From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #12 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, January 15 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 012 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni's guitar playing through the years! ["amelio747" Subject: Re: Joni's guitar playing through the years! > You may not call yourself a musician Stephen, but you described Joni's > guitar career very aptly in a very short amount of place. Of course I think > that because I happen to agree with your take on it - well except for that > loving DED thing - still working on that. ; ) > > Jenny Oh Jenny just give it time...like about 3 years!!! Oh I love this album now. the first thing you need to understand is that you can't treat it like any of her previous albums. I may post a review on how I saw the light LOL some time :) * * * * * * Stephen T "I get the urge for going But I never seem to go" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:10:20 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Joni's guitar playing through the years! I have not tried to count out joni's rhythm but at times it sure can be challenging to play exactly like she does- so I don't!...perhaps she skips bars & some such stuff, dylan said something like joni has her own time but she is allowed to tell you what time it is... Kate www.katebennett.com "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" The All Music Guide ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:49:16 -0800 From: David Marine Subject: Joni's guitar playing and the name of her first album Hey List: I know that Joni has said that her post polio syndrome made it difficult for her to shape her left hand into some of the standard configurations, and this was one factor that influenced her as she created her open tunings ( http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=115 ): > "Writing also led Mitchell to her own guitar sound, based on unusual > tunings and conditioned by a physical infirmity. "The moment I began > to write I took the black blues tunings which were floating around," > she said. "Tom [Rush] played in open C. Eric Anderson showed me an > open G. which I think is Keith Richards' tuning, he mainly writes in > that. Then there was D modal. Buffy had a couple of original tunings. > But I began to experiment because my left hand is somewhat clumsy > because of polio. I had to simplify the shapes of the left hand, but I > craved chordal movement that I couldn't get out of standard tuning > without an extremely articulate left hand. So, to compensate for it, I > found the tunings were a godsend. Not only that, but they made the > guitar an unstable thing, but also an instrument of exploration, so > that you could put the thing in a new tuning, you had to rediscover > the neck, you'd need to search out the chordal movement, and you'd > find five or six chords, and then there was the art of chaining them > together in a creative manner. It was very exciting to discover my > music. It still is, to this day." Isn't it possible or probable that the PPS has influenced her picking and strumming styles also? Also, at the end of the article cited above, Joni talks about her first album: > "Joni Mitchell was released in March 1968, and the first thing to say > about it is to confirm that the title was Joni Mitchell. The album's > cover, a painting by Mitchell surrounding a tiny photograph of her, > features a grouping of birds that spell out the words "Song To A > Seagull," the title of one of the songs. Not only has this led many > people to call the album Song To A Seagull, but several reputable rock > 'n' roll history books (one example being The Rolling Stone Rock & > Roll Encyclopedia, edited by Jon Pareles and Patricia Romanowski > [Rolling Stone Press/ Summit Books, 1983]) list two different albums, > one called Joni Mitchell, the other Song To A Seagull. > > Mitchell, when informed of this, expressed surprise. "People can't see > them," she said of the birds, "and the 'L' [of Seagull] is cut off, > 'cause even the graphic department, they didn't see it either. It's > called Joni Mitchell." Well, this is news to me. I always thought it had been decided that the title was STAS. Now I am, again, confused. David On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 11:48 AM, "Marian Russell" ]" wrote: > > > I prefer the early, intricate guitar playing. I think it took a lot > more care and talent and ingenuity to play like that than what > developed later on. But then, she moved into playing with other > musicians - into playing with a band - and that kind of solo guitar > playing - the intricate, pretty stuff - would have been drowned by the > drums and other instruments and was therefore no longer appropriate. > So what happened made sense, and worked. And of course, I love all > those songs, especially the songs from C&S, HOSL, Hejira, & DJRD, but > also from WTRF, NRH & TI - I just think the guitar playing on the > early albums is more to be admired. > > Marian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:02:20 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: January 15 1989: Joni presented an award at the NAACP Awards Show. - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:02:20 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: January 15 On January 15 the following articles were published: 1976: "A Summer Garden of Verses" - Rolling Stone (Review - Album, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=259 1976: "Knockin' on Hurricane's Door" - Rolling Stone (Review - Concert, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=299 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #12 ******************************** ------- 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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