From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #167 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 Wednesday, June 16 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 167 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: [NortheastJonifest] Very sad news about Mary Grace [MINGSDANCE@aol.co] Re: Joni live on video/dvd [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: OFFER: Perpetual Joni Covers Train: Volumes 21-30 of JM Covers [Emi] Jonifest 2004 [AsharaProducLLC@aol.com] David and Judy [Jerry Notaro ] Mary Grace [Kate ] pittsburgh! [Jennifer Faulkner ] Re: Jonifest 2004 [Lori Fye ] Re: Jonifest 2004 - P.S. [Lori Fye ] fresh air today [vince ] Re: Mary Grace tribute page [Lori Fye ] Pete Townshend likes Joni ["Guy Brown" ] Joni Covers 41-50 [PassScribe@aol.com] Beginning of Survival JONI RELEASE JULY 27 ["Music Is Special" Subject: Re: OFFER: Perpetual Joni Covers Train: Volumes 21-30 of JM Covers Hi, folks! Came yesterday, gone today (I've hired a chinese cuadrilla for help me with this :-) The discs are already in its way to our mutual friend Doug in Ontario Let me repeat: Many thanks to Eric who spent so much money and effort for setting up this "train", so all of us could jump in. Many thanks to Wunderbar Bob, for being so generous and good working man: Cheers up! You're the King! and last but not least... Many thanks to Laura from Illinois for being so efficient and generous and kind... Love y'all! Have a Wonderful time! Emiliano NP: James Last: "This Flight Tonight" he he he ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:19:28 EDT From: AsharaProducLLC@aol.com Subject: Jonifest 2004 In a message dated 6/15/2004 7:30:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, jmoore@esva.net writes: What's our deadline Ashara? "Technically" the deadline for all money and forms to be in is today, June 15th. Of course, if we are able to accomodate people after this date, we will. I feel at this point, I should notify Full Moon so they can sell off the rooms that are not taken. With the numbers the way they are, I feel it is only fair to allow them to sell rooms if we are not able to fill the center the way we have in the past. If I do this, it means of course, that we no longer will have the place exclusively, and it will most likely affect our ability to come back to Full Moon on an exclusive basis, if at all. If anyone is seriously thinking of going to Jonifest this year and has not sent in money or registered yet, I urge you to send me an e-mail RIGHT AWAY so I can see where we stand before I make the phone call. Thanks. Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:45:39 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: David and Judy For those of you in the New York area, David and his wife Judy are appearing: - --------------- KRESTON & LAHM AT DANNY'S IN JUNE - --------------- Judy Kreston & David Lahm bring their new show "As Time Goes By" to DANNY'S SKYLIGHT ROOM (342 West 46th Street, NYC - 1-212-265-8133 - http://www.dannysgrandseapalace.com/ ) for two more Saturdays in June, the 19th and 26th at 9:15 pm. The show celebrates their 24 musical years together. Joining them are Tim Ferguson on bass and Bobby Shankin on drums. Director is Richard Hendrickson. There is a $20 music charge, $10 minimum. - --------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:56:18 -0500 From: Kate Subject: Mary Grace I too am very sorry to hear about Mary Grace's passing. My mom, age 63, has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer; it seems the most terrible thing in the world to me, right now, like living in a nightmare. So I don't know if there is any comfort to be had, for MG's family and friends who have seen her through her illness and now seen her out of this world. But I hope there is, somehow, some day. Kate du Nord Bitchin' 'Bout Gran http://xoetc.antville.org Who does she think she is, Anaos Nin? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:11:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Faulkner Subject: pittsburgh! Hey everybody! I'm in Pittsburgh! Does anyone live here? Jen Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:07:31 -0700 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: Jonifest 2004 May I chime in here? Ashara wrote: > I feel at this point, I should notify Full Moon so they can sell off the rooms > that are not taken. With the numbers the way they are, I feel it is only fair > to allow them to sell rooms if we are not able to fill the center the way we > have in the past. If I do this, it means of course, that we no longer will > have the place exclusively, and it will most likely affect our ability to come > back to Full Moon on an exclusive basis, if at all. Folks, we went through this same thing last year (again and again the same situation), and it created a lot of stress for Ashara in particular, as she literally puts her name on the dotted line to guarantee certain things so that we can have this fest at the Full Moon. It's SUCH a lovely place to relax and do pretty much whatever you want, you really would not regret spending a long weekend there. If you have any reservations at all about going to JoniFest this year, nix them and GO! Life is short and ... you just never know ... this could be the year La Joan decides to surprise us all and show up herself. What if Joni showed up at JoniFest and you weren't there? What a bummer that would be! You would surely have tears streaming down your poddy face. ; ) Get thyself to http://www.jonifest.com right now and sign up!! See you there ... Lori P.S. - Also visit http://lrfye.lunarpages.com/jonifestfood.html and http://www.hatstand.org/gallery/album25 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:09:18 -0700 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: Jonifest 2004 - P.S. Be sure to send Ashara an email (AsharaProducLLC@aol.com) to let her know you'll be there! Lori ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:11:55 -0400 From: vince Subject: fresh air today http://freshair.npr.org Today's guest David Sedaris spoke much of Joni, has a chapter title in his new book Hejira, and that was so important they played a bit of Joni singing Hejira. I prefer to think of it as a radio tribute to MG on her current Hejira taking her to a place where she can live without pain and suffering and limitations. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:23:24 -0700 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: Mary Grace tribute page Mary P. wrote: > Please send all materials to mgtribute@lrfye.lunarpages.com. Please be sure to send any photos you have too! Lori ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:13:37 -0700 From: "Guy Brown" Subject: Pete Townshend likes Joni I was reading Pete's diary at http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=88&zone=diary and found this para: I am listening to Joni Mitchell's' CD called TRAVELOGUE. It is a revisit to her career with full orchestra. It is, quite simply, a quantum masterpiece. Joni is at the peak of her powers. Even her paintings seem to me to be especially revelatory gathered as they are in the sleeve. Someone told me last night, after The Who's show at Madison Square Garden, that she plans no more recording. If she never made another record, this one will stand as a testament not only to her work, but to the greatness of American Orchestral music. I hear Oliver Nelson, Aaron Copland, Edgar Meyer and even Thomas Newman in this work. But her arranger, under the guidance of her ex- husband Larry Klein - who could do nothing more to express his ongoing love and respect - is Vince Mendoza. This guy knows how to score, and someone certainly knows how to fix the right musicians. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:14:34 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Joni Covers 41-50 Hi all, I'm just finishing copying the Joni Covers 41-50 and will soon be ready to ship them to the next person who'd like them. Please send me your name & address offsite and your promise to reoffer them (as per Bob & eric's conditions) and I'll get them out to you by the end of this week. Kenny B Eric's original post: In order to enable latecomers to the list or new traders have a chance of listening to Bob Muller's incredible compilation of covers of Joni's songs - some 1500 in all - this begins the launch of the Perpetual Joni Covers Trains. For those not familiar with trading trains, here is how they work. When the disks come to you, you make copies of as much of the contents as you want, and then you post back to this list offering to pass the disks along to the next person. You do not keep the originals -- you keep the copies you made for yourself. On most trains, the convention is that you make the copies and send the masters along within two days. For these trains, you must agree to turn them around within one week. Sometimes the offer goes unclaimed. Bob and I expect that to happen from time to time. So, by participating, you agree to just hang on to the disks and then make another offer a month or so later (or to respond if somebody posts a grovel looking for them). In theory, if everybody takes good care of the disks, wrapping them well, not letting them get scratched, etc. and passes them along, these covers will run on the tracks for years. Bob copied 50+ disks for me to launch this and I have copied them so there is a LOT of time sunk into offering these up. Nobody is going to monitor the progress of these trains so if you participate and then lose the disks or fail to re-offer them, you will have kept others from enjoying them. When you post an offer, please include these "rules". One final note, I know a few folks like to compress these into MP3s. If you want to, go ahead but please do not send MP3s to the next person - MP3s permanently delete some of the "data" and sound quality degrades so please pass the masters along. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:56:26 -0500 From: "Music Is Special" Subject: Beginning of Survival JONI RELEASE JULY 27 Current issue of ICE says on page 11: The first theme-oriented collection by Joni Mitchell coalesces on July 27 as Beginning of Survival, a raft of socially conscious material that reaches stores via Geffen. Project coordinator Mike Ragogna tells ICE "Joni feels this is her most important collection. The 16 songs are sequenced thematically; she lays out warning signs about what's happening in politics, religion, ecology. She's saying "its time to take a look" trying to raise the consciousness of people to deal with issues like these. And she's suggesting a place to start." Mitchell adorns the digipak with about 10 newly created, original paintings ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:08:13 EDT From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: Beginning of Survival JONI RELEASE JULY 27 This is from the newswire: THE BEGINNING OF SURVIVAL features tracks from DOG EAT DOG (1985), CHALK MARK IN A RAINSTORM (1988), NIGHT RIDE HOME (1991), TURBULENT INDIGO (1994) and TAMING THE TIGER (1998). Among the guest artists heard are Willie Nelson, Don Henley, James Taylor, Michael McDonald, Thomas Dolby, Wayne Shorter, Manu Katche, and actors Rod Steiger and Iron Eyes Cody. Each selection has been 96k/24-bit mastered from the original master tapes.Mitchell, who co-produced the collection, also contributes her original artwork and a revealing and instructive essay. In addition, the package includes complete lyrics and a copy of the famous 1852 Letter to the President from Chief Seattle, a philosophical cornerstone of the environmental movement. On THE BEGINNING OF SURVIVAL, Mitchell, who has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy and was listed among VH1's millennium-ending "100 Greatest Women Of Rock 'N' Roll," rails against the evils in modern society and offers hope for the future. She tackles consumerism in "The Reoccurring Dream" and exploitation in "The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)" and "Sex Kills." Scorched are the corrupting power of money in "Dog Eat Dog," "No Apologies" and "Passion Play (The Story Of Jesus And Zachius ... The Little Tax Collector)," of advertising and image-making in "Fiction," of televangelists in "Tax Free" (with Steiger delivering the money-grubbing sermon) and of the values of Western culture in "The Three Great Stimulants." A news-specific track is "The Magdalene Laundries," the true story of the horrid conditions suffered by young unwed pregnant Irishwomen who were sent there in decades past.Mitchell's passion leaps from "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," her adaptation of a poem by W.B. Yeats; the eerie "The Beat Of Black Wings," and the tale of hunger in "Ethiopia." Her championing of Native American culture rises from "Lakota," in which Iron Eyes Cody is heard, and its corollary environmental beliefs in her adaptation of the Sons Of The Pioneers' classic "Cool Water" (with Willie Nelson).THE BEGINNING OF SURVIVAL, an optimistic title in itself, concludes on a hopeful note with a song whose title might very well be applied a la Don Quixote attacking the windmills to the influential and inspiring Mitchell -- "Impossible Dreamer." Source: Geffen/UMe - -Julius In a message dated 6/15/2004 9:59:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, musicisspecial@hotmail.com writes: > Current issue of ICE says on page 11: > > The first theme-oriented collection by Joni Mitchell coalesces on July 27 as > Beginning of Survival, a raft of socially conscious material that reaches > stores via Geffen. Project coordinator Mike Ragogna tells ICE "Joni feels > this is her most important collection. The 16 songs are sequenced > thematically; she lays out warning signs about what's happening in politics, > religion, ecology. She's saying "its time to take a look" trying to raise > the consciousness of people to deal with issues like these. And she's > suggesting a place to start." Mitchell adorns the digipak with about 10 > newly created, original paintings ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:32:26 EDT From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: One man's understanding of Joan Not mine, mind you. I couldn't find Joni's new CD on Amazon yet. But the essay that came up when I searched for her, at the link below, made me go "hmm," somewhat. Thought I'd pass it on. Are you out there, Michael Logan? If so, where's Part 2, please? - -Julius So you'd like to... Understand the Music of Joni Mitchell (Part 1) A guide by Michael Logan, Avid Listener http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/VWYD2O38PD24/qid=1 087363230/sr=18 1/ref=sr_18_1/002-6817292-2764802 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:41:52 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: RE: Beginning of Survival JONI RELEASE JULY 27 > THE BEGINNING OF SURVIVAL features tracks from DOG EAT DOG > (1985), CHALK MARK IN A RAINSTORM (1988), NIGHT RIDE HOME > (1991), TURBULENT INDIGO (1994) and TAMING THE TIGER (1998). Does this release frighten anyone besides me? I hate to think that Joni has resorted to the "let's repackage my old material in a zillion ways" phase of her career. Will this end up like The Who's old material has? "Let's see, which of these 17 greatest hits packages shall I buy?..." I think it's sad that she's once again in a "political mood" but the only new idea she can cast upon it is a few liner notes. Les... grumpy, I guess. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:12:06 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: June 16 On June 16 the following articles were published: 1979: "Joni...er...um" - Melody Maker (Review - Album, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=187 1998: "Holland Festival Tribute to Joni Mitchell" - JMDL (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=125 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #167 ********************************* ------- 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)