From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #31 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, February 2 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 031 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- spectrum 76 [] Re: music question [WirlyPearl@aol.com] Joni Remixes ["Dylan Rush" ] Re: to all those who wonder why [Emiliano ] RE: Joni Remixes ["Victor Johnson" ] Re: Joni Remixes ["amelio747" ] 1974 VIDEO OR VCD ["Kevin Arshad" ] RE: FROM MAGIC [HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com] Re: 1974 VIDEO OR VCD [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Joni Remixes [Randy Remote ] BYT chart pos/R. Stone [Randy Remote ] Re: Joni Remixes ["Dylan Rush" ] Today in History: February 2 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] Today's Library Links: February 2 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:15:55 -0500 From: Subject: spectrum 76 Bruce, You need some research links. A guy in New York State named Simon has been building a list of Joni's appearances for a loooong time. A JMDLer in good standing, he supplied this list (and lots of other stuff) to the producers of the PBS special on Joni (now available for purchase on VHS & DVD) and in return he is in the production credits. (COOL!) I'm not sure if he actually set out to be an Archivist but he sure is one now. Anyway, Simon's list of appearances is on the official web site: www.jonimitchell.com If you click on "Appearances" in the left hand column, then scroll and click on "GO TO JONI APPEARANCE CHRONOLOGY", it takes you to: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html There you'll find the most exhaustively collected, and meticulously updated list available. If you go to 1976, and scroll to "The Spectrum Theatre", you'll find 2-16-76. That's the way we US residents say "16 February". Anyway, that date is a clickable link taking you to a review at: http://www.jonimitchell.com/PhonographRecord476.html It answers you question about personnel. It says (in part): "With saxophonist David Luell having replaced Tom Scott, the L.A. Express opened, blowing the fashionable brand of noodling pop-jazz expected of them, energetic if not impassioned, engaging if not original. Okay for preliminaries. As anticipation grew to fever pitch, Joni entered the spotlight. With the Express supporting..." I agree that it was a GREAT show. - ---- On the other hand, I have to disagree with you about DJRD. It is Joni's 'white album'. Joni's 'TUSK'. Joni's 'OHIO'. I can't imagine cutting out "Overture" or "Paprika Plains" to make a single-LP release for example. I *DO* think DJRD "plays" better as 4 sides on vinyl because PP is a single entity that way. You can turn up the volume for that side and the closing bits where "the band plugs in again" get suitably very loud indeed. I think DJRD is in a string of 8 or 9 consecutive albums that I think are essential Joni. My opinion is that she was able to line up many more great solo albums than any of the solo Beatles. Not only did she write it all but she also self-produced almost all of it. Enough. All the best, Jim Bruce said, >Not having ever seen Joni live, and really only knowing the official live recordings -- MOA & S&L -- it's a fascinating bridge between the two. My question is: who is the band? Is it the LA Express as on MOA? Sounds like it, but there's no info on the disc.> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 04:44:15 EST From: WirlyPearl@aol.com Subject: Re: music question In a message dated 2/1/2004 3:01:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, les@jmdl.com writes: ron np - pear weisberg - marcie What a thrill it is to see my name (minus the L) on someone's "now playing". Thank you for that Ron. Brings back good memories for me too. I really enjoyed performing at Jonifest. Pearl in Florida ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:00:40 +1100 From: "Dylan Rush" Subject: Joni Remixes I think it's high time some DJ reworked Joni for the dance floor - I know, if pulled off badly it would sound like blasphemy (remember the Big Yellow Taxi 12" a few years back?), but can't you imagine The Jungle Line reworked into a dark rave anthem, a funkyfied version of Smokin' (Empty, Try Another), or even a danced-up Overture from DJRD? I've just been thinking about this after Yoko Ono has had her work remixed to great success recently, perhaps this would get similiar recognition for Joni - if she approves them, that is, but if she approved of the BYT mixes she'll probably agree to this. What do y'all think? _________________________________________________________________ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:10:56 +0100 From: Emiliano Subject: Re: to all those who wonder why Hi, hoops! Close to the bone, so nutricious; to the skin like sun rays; to the heart, so warm*; to the mind: it's actually dreaming! First: she isn't badly recognized: of course she's no monster (no offense meant) and her times of pretty "the next big thing" girl has passed, like to so many of us ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:11:05 -0800 From: "Victor Johnson" Subject: RE: Joni Remixes perhaps this would get similar recognition for Joni - if she > approves them, that is, but if she approved of the BYT mixes she'll probably > agree to this. What do y'all think? I once went to work several years ago and heard a techno version of King Crimson "I Talk to the Wind", the most unlikely song I ever would have expected to hear in a dance format. Mix away! Victor, imagining a complete techno version of Travelogue... NP: Nick Drake "The Harvest Breed" Victor Johnson New cd "Parsonage Lane" available now Produced by Chris Rosser at Hollow Reed Studios, Asheville http://www.waytobluemusic.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:29:52 -0000 From: "amelio747" Subject: Re: Joni Remixes > Victor, imagining a complete techno version of Travelogue... LOL...that had me rolling on the floor!! ;) Stephen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 11:56:29 -0600 From: "Kevin Arshad" Subject: 1974 VIDEO OR VCD If anyone could point me towards something from "74 in the visual realm, = that would be cool. Kevin A [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of LED.jpg] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:14:07 EST From: HOOPSJOHN1@aol.com Subject: RE: FROM MAGIC COOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:38:10 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: 1974 VIDEO OR VCD **If anyone could point me towards something from "74 in the visual realm, = that would be cool.** Well Kevin, all that I'm aware of are the snippets found in WOHAM DVD and the '74 songs from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" which is part of the "Joni On the BCC". The live songs with the LA Express are: Cactus Tree BYT A Case Of You Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire Trouble Child Help Me Car On A Hill Both Sides Now Raised On Robbery Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:02:56 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Joni Remixes Dylan Rush wrote: > I think it's high time some DJ reworked Joni for the dance floor - I know, > if pulled off badly it would sound like blasphemy (remember the Big Yellow > Taxi 12" a few years back?), but can't you imagine The Jungle Line reworked > into a dark rave anthem, a funkyfied version of Smokin' (Empty, Try > Another), or even a danced-up Overture from DJRD? I've just been thinking > about this after Yoko Ono has had her work remixed to great success > recently, perhaps this would get similiar recognition for Joni - if she > approves them, that is, but if she approved of the BYT mixes she'll probably > agree to this. What do y'all think? She not only approved of the BYT mixes, she produced them, and presumably had a hand in creating them. I think your idea is great; I can definitely hear Jungle Line as a dance mix, or Talk To Me, or France They Kiss On Main St (amour, hm m- m-m-mama) BOOM ta BONG.ta ... Generally in order to use samples of existing recordings in a new recording, you have to get a licence from the artist &/or label, which can cost thousands of dollars. But maybe if Joni liked it, she would give it her blessing. Anyway, if anyone does this, I'd like to hear the results. RR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:25:47 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: BYT chart pos/R. Stone 1 Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows (feat.Vanessa Carlton) has been on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 38 weeks, and is currently #6, having dropped from #5 last week. This chart is compiled from electronic tracking (BDS) of 90 selected AC radio stations. 2 Joni mention in Rolling Stone Feb 5 issue, in an article about digital music sites. "Below, however, lay iTunes' coolest feature: celebrity playlists. Who would have known that Herbie Hancock enjoyed both Joni Mitchell's version of "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" and Missy Elliott's "Slide"?" ...maybe somebody here?....I guess this means that at least some of Joni's songs are available as online downloads. The legit, buck- apiece kind, I mean. RR ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:22:35 +1100 From: "Dylan Rush" Subject: Re: Joni Remixes I just remembered... a few months back in a Starbucks, I heard them playing a distorted, sped-up remix of Coyote! Don't know who did it or where it came from, and never heard it again... _________________________________________________________________ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 02:18:53 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: February 2 2002: The Vancouver Sun reported that "Singer-songwriter Graham Nash celebrated his 60th birthday with friends and relatives amid a sea of pink. More than 150 guests attended Saturday's off-beat party at the Madonna Inn, including Stephen Stills and David Crosby, who wore a pink bunny costume." Coyote Rick writes: "[A few nights later] I was at the Madonna Inn for dinner. I asked questions, but the staff were all told they couldn't speak about the party. But, it was WILD, I was told... After some prodding, one of my pals told me he did see Joni and she looked to have a great time, very chatty. That's all he would say, except that she spent the night (but wouldn't divulge which theme room she chose)." More info: http://www.madonnainn.com/ - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 02:18:53 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: February 2 On February 2 the following article was published: 1968: "Folk singer's biggest wish" - Saskatoon StarPhoenix (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=430 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #31 ******************************** ------- 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)