From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #18 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, January 20 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 018 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Loving Joni but not her music... SJC [Chris Marshall ] FULL scholarship opportunity for Jonifest 2004!! [AsharaProducLLC@aol.com] Re: Full Moon [Bobsart48@aol.com] Re: What I do for a living vljc [Doug ] Re: loving joni but not her music [HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com] segues one song into another ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Some are friendly,some are cutting... ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Loving Joni but not her music... SJC On 19 Jan 2004, at 23:20, Lucy Hone wrote: > Some people listen because they are musicians and when I am with > musicians > (Chris and Martin for example) they bring a whole different slant on > things > and I can see why they love her MUSICALITY.... I am no musician.. [feels ears burning] I need to correct Lucy's statement a little... Lucy mentioned Hejira - the first Joni album I ever heard. Paradoxically, it really grabbed me because of the lyrics although the music came a very close second. But the lyrics, their story-like quality, their disdain for conventional song structures - that's what got me addicted. Nowadays, I'm not sure what it is, but ultimately it's still her words that grab hold of me and don't let go. Despite, allegedly, being a musician :) And come to think of it, since being in a band I have been thinking far harder about songs, their structure and their makeup. The one artist I haven't really done that to is Joni. On the trading front: I have to say that the quality of something has to be top notch for me to be able to listen to it: for some reason, I just can't listen to stuff where the mix is out of whack, or there's loads of audience noise, or it's a 4th generation tape copy badly transferred onto CD, or whatever. With bands that's usually not helped by the fact that the first thing to suffer with a bootleg recording is the bass. Being a bass player, if I can't hear it, I get irritated. I do have some live stuff: the early live/unreleased recordings that got passed around via file sharing and on CD. Interesting, but I have a hard time listening to it due to sound quality issues. Sort of a once only thing for me. I have one or two other live concerts of hers too that give me the same problem. And that's not a problem to me and in no way makes me feel like I'm missing out on the vast majority Joni's material since I have it in studio form or from one of the official live releases. What it does mean is that I don't have an active interest in the trading side of things since I'm pretty much guaranteed to be disappointed. There - a very calm post at the end of a truly horrible day. - --Chris Marshall chrisATstryngs.com (AIM: Chr15Marshall) "If you're ever lost, I'll beat the world to finding you" Stryngs, "Bobblehats and Beer" Band website, with downloads, at http://www.stryngs.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:19:43 -0500 From: "Marian Russell" Subject: addition to JMDL guitar database Check out the latest addition to the JMDL guitar database: Nathan La Franeer Transcribed by: Markus Mauch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:52:13 EST From: AsharaProducLLC@aol.com Subject: FULL scholarship opportunity for Jonifest 2004!! If anyone is interested in a full scholarship for Jonifest 2004, we need a sound person for the full 4 nights in exchange for full room and board (shared room and shared bath) Thursday through Monday. Experience with a sound board, setting up mics, etc and working sound levels a must. Pease e-mail right away if you are interested in this opportunity. Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:01:32 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Full Moon What might you mean by "be at Full moon " ? Kevin, This time you have really opened up the proverbial can of worms. Again, I am on the JMDL 'digest' version, so you may have gotten other replies already, that I am not yet privy to. But to give you a sense of what this list is about, for each of the last 6 or 7 years, significant numbers of people have gathered in late summer somewhere in the Northeast US for "Northeast Jonifests" - 4 day weekends of performances, parties, workshops, etc. to celebrate Joni, her music and related material (e.g., listers' original songs, and some songs by other artists that have touched us). This year and last, the Jonifests were held in upstate NY, near Woodstock, at a place called the Full Moon resort. The performances were all videotaped, and are available for viewing on DVD or VH1, if you are interested (CD too). Among our numbers, we have quite a few professional musicians (some have commercial releases of their own) as well as amateurs of varying talent levels (most quite a bit higher than you might imagine - or perhaps not, given that Joni is the raison d'jtre of the affair). This year, there were about 70 of us Full Moon (from a variety of places all over the US and the world - including perhaps a dozen from the UK), and most performed or were part of a performance of some sort (though there are many who just come to root for, listen to and party with one another, and everyone there is an integral part of the 'show', really). This was my first - some have been to half a dozen or more such gatherings. Mini Jonifests are also held in the form of gatherings from time to time at other locales, as well. A large one in New Orleans, for example, a while back. Some get togethers in California, and Florida, and Chicago and Detroit. If you want to learn more, just log on the JMDL.com site, and click on Jonifests. Basically, JMDL'ers get together with some frequency - almost at any excuse. Here's a link: http://www.jmdl.com/jonifest/index.cfm See what we mean about liking Joni as well as liking each other ? It's quite a list, really. (Amazingly talented and nice, people, too, IMO !) Bob Sartorius PS - there will be another fest at Full Moon this summer, if you are so inclined :-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:48:28 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: What I do for a living vljc Well this sounds like a good idea so here goes. For the past 25 years my boyhood hobby has been my means of earning a living I started playing around with electronics 1n 1967 when I was ten years old, designed and built an electric organ for a grade 7 music class, spent many hundreds of hours designing and building a synthesizer a la MiniMoog/Arp Odessy in the mid 70s No, Joni's song Electricity wasn't my inspiration, I was well into it by the time FTR was released. Which prepared me for work in recording studios in the Ottawa area starting in 1979. I maintained and repaired multitrack tape recorders, mixing consoles, wiring etc, also worked on film editing equipment for movie and animation production Meanwhile repairing guitar amps, PA amps, stage lighting systems for local musicians and music stores. My studio maintenance business has slackened off considerably with the massive change in recording technology - in other words: I don't fix computers. Though most of my friends are professional musicians I somehow didn't catch the bug. Sometimes I plink plink something on the piano but don't put in the time necessary. Bought a handyman special type house 50 miles from the city where I enjoy lots of peace and quiet, the house is mostly fixed up now. Doug ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:27:26 EST From: HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com Subject: Re: loving joni but not her music it's sheer blasphamy!!! j/k joni is so much more than her music and there is a lot of her to be loved and adored. rock on! peace noel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:37:04 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: segues one song into another Harry's House/Centerpiece/Harry's House. Overture/Cotton Ave, I mentioned yesterday. As MG might say, "Don't forget Amelia/Pat's Solo, cripes!" Jim L'Hommedieu and you know there... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:38:19 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Some are friendly,some are cutting... From: "anon anon" asked, >Why would anyone be cutting at a party?> That's a very light way to ask a very heavy question. Sociologically speaking it's called "the Other". It's a bit like demonizing someone who's different. The sad part is that almost all cultures have it. Think of Belfast. Baghdad. The West Bank. Think of Detroit. And New Deli. And the Outback. It's pandemic. Are we are hard-wired for bigotry? Neil Young asked us to "Throw your weapons down. Throw your hatred down. Throw your hatred down. Throw your hatred down. Throw your hatred down. Throw your hatred down." All the best, Jim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:01:46 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: January 20 On January 20 the following articles were published: 1974: "Court and Spark" - Melody Maker (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=182 2000: "At guitar-maker's shop, the sweet sound of success" - AP Worldstream (Mention) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=884 2002: "Joni gives me a warm glow in this chilly land" - Daily Mail (Opinion) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=974 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #18 ******************************** ------- 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)