From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #178 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 Friday, June 25 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 178 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Very cool music search thingy [Chris Marshall ] mary grace [colin ] k.d. does Joni ["kerry" ] RE:only an Artist ["robin mortlock" ] The things you find in your music collection [Mike Friedman ] Re: [NortheastJonifest] JoniFest Attendees list ["Donna Binkley" ] Border's Book Store has a Joni Freebie ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: In France and the new compilation [Randy Remote Subject: Very cool music search thingy With *some* Joni content. Go to http://www.musicplasma.com/ and type in Joni Mitchell. Then just play. Very very cool... - --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: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:49:56 +0100 From: colin Subject: mary grace i loved Mg and she me. i will miss her. i don't know what to say. i can hardly feel right now. i do know she is okay tho and is still MG somehwere. we used to tlak about that-about life not ending with physical death. my deep regret is that we neevr actually met. she was the sister i didn't have. for 7 eyars tho we spoke on the phone and emailed eachother. Mary Grace is a very apt name. - -- bw colin http://www.btinternet.com/~tantraapso/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:31:32 -0500 From: "kerry" Subject: k.d. does Joni I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I just discovered that k.d. lang will have 2 Joni covers on her next album- A Case of You and Jericho. I just saw her in concert on Tuesday and it was superb. She didn't do the Joni songs, but she did beautiful versions of songs by Neil Young, Jane Siberry and Leonard Cohen. Her new record is called Hymns of the 49th Parallel and if you haven't guessed, is a tribute to Canadian artists! It will be released July 27. Kerry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:57:13 +0000 From: "robin mortlock" Subject: RE:only an Artist Anita wrote: As well as years of therapy, what helped me to get over her was meeting >her for the first time in Paris in the early 80s. Well lucky ol' you. I posted a series of dreams recently that i have had in the last 8 or so years(to which no-one responded, but i'm over it now) and i these certainly added another dimension to the obssessiveness i was feeling. I was at the time ensconsed in a repetitive dream like ambition of being a famous singer, no a VERY FAMOUS singer, luckily for the world i have copped on. But during this period the dreams featuring JOni (who i wanted to be like, if not suprpass) were not positive, in fact she was superior, cold and generally dismissive and not approving. They changed when i gave my ambitions up (after realising i actually had no voice worth broadcasting and my lycrics were better off inside a copy book never opened by anyone) and she was alot brighter and friendlier. I would shit my pants if i met her - but you know how these things happen, it might be perfect. SPideog "..where some may find their paradise, others just come to harm...." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:29:00 -0700 From: Mike Friedman Subject: The things you find in your music collection I was scanning around my iPod last night ont he train ride home, and started listening to an album by the lesbian Dutch singer Mathilde Santing that a friend recommended I buy a few years ago when I was in Holland for the 1998 Gay Games (she was a singer at the open and closing ceremonies and I had asked Rogerio about her). I hadn't listened to this album in quite a while, and there it was, a Joni cover. "I Had a King" in a live version. Very nice! ========================================= "I'm porous with travel fever, but you know I'm so glad to be on my own. Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger can set up trembling in my bones. I know, no one's gonna show me everything, we all come and go alone. Each so deep and superficial, between the forceps and the stone." - --Joni Mitchell, "Hejira", 1976 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:27:04 -0700 From: Mike Friedman Subject: Re: k.d. does Joni I read about this in Macleans when I was up in Canada a few weeks ago. Very much looking forward to hearing KD cover Joni! On Jun 24, 2004, at 5:31 AM, kerry wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I just discovered that k.d. > lang > will have 2 Joni covers on her next album- A Case of You and Jericho. > I > just saw her in concert on Tuesday and it was superb. She didn't do > the > Joni songs, but she did beautiful versions of songs by Neil Young, Jane > Siberry and Leonard Cohen. Her new record is called Hymns of the 49th > Parallel and if you haven't guessed, is a tribute to Canadian artists! > It > will be released July 27. > > Kerry > > ========================================= "No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up." - -- Lily Tomlin from "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" Mike Friedman San Francisco, CA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:52:53 -0500 From: "Donna Binkley" Subject: Re: [NortheastJonifest] JoniFest Attendees list Kay wrote: could you post an updated list of this year's festers? (I noticed that Chris Marshall's name is not on the last list I saw! Tell me it isn't so! Chris, you HAVE to come!!) Sure Kay! Here it is! And not only is Chris coming but all of Stryngs are coming as well woo hoo!! And don't forget that the extremely huggable Les Ross has now joined them so double woo hoo. db Attending Jonifest 2004 as of 23-Jun-04, 03:22 PM Kay Ashley (kay.ashley@willis.com) - Brooklyn, NY Jason Avery (joni_fan@hotmail.com) - Hamilton, ON Rachel Avery (posall@hotmail.com) - Hamilton, Ontario Donna Binkley (djb@binkleybarfield.com) - Houston, TX Karyn Callaghan (karyncallaghan@hotmail.com) - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Sue Cameron (scam1@freeway.net) - Clarkston, MI Chuck Eisenhardt (chuck@chucke.net) - Arliington, MA Lori Fye (lori@lrfye.lunarpages.com) - Silver Spring, MD Martin Giles (mlg@ukonline.co.uk) - Sudbury, Middlesex Jenny Goodspeed (jrgoodspeed@yahoo.com) - Shutesbury, MA Brian Gross (briangross@rocketmail.com) - Woodbury, NJ Mags Holden-Gross (magsnbrei@yahoo.com) - Woodbury, NJ Les Irvin (ljirvin@jmdl.com) - Colorado Springs, CO Victor Johnson (waytoblu@mindspring.com) - Decatur, Georgia Alex Krutsky (alex@jmdl.com) - Cambridge, MA Patrick leader (pleader@nyc.rr.com) - new york, ny Barbara Little (balittle@ptd.net) - Tafton, PA Chris Marshall (chris@hatstand.org) - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Catherine McKay (anima_rising@yahoo.ca) - Etobicoke, ON Maggie McNally (mm@celebrityseries.org) - Cambridge, MA Michael Paz (michael@thepazgroup.com) - Destrehan, La. Betty Peterson (bettytothefest@aol.com) - North Little Rock, Arkansas Steven Polifka (polifkas@matc.edu) - Milwaukee, WI Les Ross (lxross@ctrl.co.uk) - London, Derek Scurll (chris@stryngs.com) - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Laura Stanley (lcstanley7@aol.com) - North Little Rock, Arkansas Ashara Stansfield (AsharaProducLLC@aol.com) - Topsfield, MA Sarah Stringer (martin@alchemymastering.com) - Sudbury, Middlesex Jeff Williams (swtaipei@hotmail.com) - Racine, WI >>> groups@kayashley.com 6/23/2004 6:21:13 PM >>> Dear Donna, Hey, since I am a late, late comer to the list of committed attendees, I am wondering if perhaps there are others like me... Peace, Kay - ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM - --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NortheastJonifest/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NortheastJonifest-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ This message has been scanned by the E250. This message has been scanned by the E250. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:00:45 +0300 From: "G'n H" Subject: Re: Where does Joni live now and what does she do? This certainly is not a rumor, the rumor-teller stays always at Joni's when having a concert in that area. He said this guy is younger and that he works near Joni's place. Then, don't ask me where's the Joni's place in Santa Barbara. Or if she still stays with that Italian. : ) G'n H - - --- Kate Bennett wrote: > >!!!! At first I thought this might be a silly rumor >because I knew nothing of >this but then again I am often the last person on my >block to know of such things... > >So... I NEED DETAILS! Someone? Although almost >everyone on this list has met >Joni I HAVE NOT! (but I've met lots of her musician >friends) & now she is >hanging out in MY TOWN?! Where I have an annual >tribute in her honor every >year!? And I did not know this?! LOL... I am trying >to guess which Italian >(?) restaurant keeper this might be (in a town where >the majority of the restaurants are Italian...lol) ... hmmm... _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:08:05 -0400 From: "Tortorici, Frank" Subject: In France and the new compilation I rarely post since Joni has slowed down her activities, though I've been a lister since '97 or '98. I thought I'd comment on two items: 1) I think "In France They Kiss on Main Street" is one of Joni's best songs and is very catchy. Why is it not included on hits or misses? Why does she ignore it and not perform it or ever reference it? Just another example of Joni not really having a beat on what people want to hear from her. Is it ignored because it's too commercial? I have fond memories of hearing it as a pre-teen on New York FM rock radio stations when Joni still got airplay. When I rediscovered Joni in the early '90s it was a song I revisited with great joy. 2) That brings me to this new "issues" compilation, whatever the title is. This kind of thing just frustrates me and I think moreso 'cause it sounds like Joni is behind it and it is not solely some management decision. Joni is an artist of Dylan's stature. Why is she issuing a compilation disc of some of her least listenable songs? Joni and her people should be issuing something like the "bootleg series" Dylan is: great old live performances, rarities albums, maybe even a box compilation of her greatest stuff like Biograph. I fully realize she'll never be a big seller and that she has gotten some of her due with all the awards and honors a few years ago, but she'll never be fully appreciated, especially by record buyers, without such releases that do her vast catalogue justice. I mean I liked Travelogue a lot, but it's not the same thing ... Frank Tortorici ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:12:57 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE:only an Artist Anita> It's a relief to me to no longer see her as a prophet though, if I'm honest, I still think she might be regarded by history as a mystic.< I like that description of joni as a mystic... for me, that word has always encompassed something that is not limiting, positive, spiritual & searching (within & without connecting the self with the universe)... knowing joni does not like labels she may not like even this one but maybe she would... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:18:12 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Border's Book Store has a Joni Freebie Yay for Borders! The know where its at & they are bigger than Rolling Stone .. so there :~} Kate www.katebennett.com > For those of us that like these kind of things............... In the music department of Borders is a 61 page advertisement booklet titled: BORDERS ROCK ESSENTIALS free for the taking. The front and back of this booklet is made up of colored pictures of album covers. Court & Spark is in the middle of the front cover and repeated on the back. Page 17 is dedicated to JONI MITCHELL along with a picture of her and the following albums: BLUE 1971 COURT AND SPARK 1974 HEJIRA 1976< ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:32:43 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: FW: Pete Townshend likes Joni >Thanks for posting this. I quite like the Travelogue collection as well unlike some of the heathens on this list. Best Paz< YAY! Belated chiming in as another huge T'Log fan... Kate www.katebennett.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:53:41 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: In France and the new compilation "Tortorici, Frank" wrote: > I rarely post since Joni has slowed down her activities, though I've > been a lister since '97 or '98. I thought > > I'd comment on two items: > > 1) I think "In France They Kiss on Main Street" is one of Joni's > best songs and is very catchy. Why is it not included on hits or > misses? Why does she ignore it and not perform it or ever reference it? Hi Frank-another long-time-no-see! You're right, "France" should have been on Hits or Misses. She did not do it on PWWAM. Maybe she got burned out on doing it in the Jaco days...or maybe felt it was old hat.... I don't know..it's probably her most commercial sounding song, next to Help Me. Definitely the kind of thing you like to hear on the radio. > 2) That brings me to this new "issues" compilation, whatever the title > is. This kind of thing just frustrates me and I think moreso 'cause it > sounds like Joni is behind it and it is not solely some management > decision. Joni is an artist of Dylan's stature. Why is she issuing a > compilation disc of some of her least listenable songs? Joni and her > people should be issuing something like the "bootleg series" Dylan is: > great old live performances, rarities albums, maybe even a box > compilation of her greatest stuff like Biograph. Exactly, exactly...and I would add the BBC show with James Taylor. They could probably sell a boatload, and we know the stuff is in a vault somewhere. They could be doing dvds of some of the concert material and TV appearances. How about an internet-only album of the "Alternate Mingus?". RR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:57:43 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Very cool music search thingy In a message dated 6/24/2004 6:30:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chris@hatstand.org writes: Then just play. Very very cool... I guess I expected all of little planet-things to spin or something, it just plays 30-second clips of her stuff, or am I missing something? And I love that discography, 5 releases, starting with Blue, Hejira & Court & Spark all of which came out in 1990! Bob NP: Joni, "Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire" (30 seconds anyway) :~) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:09:14 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: In France and the new compilation **You're right, "France" should have been on Hits or Misses. She did not do it on PWWAM. Maybe she got burned out on doing it in the Jaco days...or maybe felt it was old hat....** I don't think she's played it since those S&L days, she played a ton of songs on her '83 tour but not "In France" at least not that I'm aware of. My guess is that that '79 tour version with that awesome band was so killer that she just retired it then & there. Which leaves us with....COVERS! And 2004 has already produced at least one new release of the tune, on this CD which also gives us a new Jericho & Edith! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fourthstream You can hear 2-minute samples of all 3. No need to thank me, just doing my job, which has been a busy one thus far in 2004!! Let's hope the second half of the year is as busy as the first. Bob NP: Joni, "Happy Birthday Rap" (or whatever it's called) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:21:44 EDT From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: In France and the new compilation RR writes: << Exactly, exactly...and I would add the BBC show with James Taylor. They could probably sell a boatload, and we know the stuff is in a vault somewhere. They could be doing dvds of some of the concert material and TV appearances. How about an internet-only album of the "Alternate Mingus?". >> And I still wonder if there's anything interesting in the vault from the days before she dismantled her home studio. - --Smurf "I DON'T. Buy the tomatoes with. The stems. On them. They don't. Degrade. They go. Down the sink. And into the WATER. Then. They get lodged in the throats of little. OTTERS." - --Christopher Walken, as quoted -- and punctuated -- by Popbitch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:56:17 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Cowboy Junkies: offering audience recordings I've been really enjoying the new Cowboy Junkies' album, ONE SOUL NOW. In anticipation of their show here next month, I'll duplicate some shows on CD-R for JMDLEers. If you want all 3 shows (6 CD-Rs), that's great. If you want just the best sounding one (2 CD-Rs), that's okay too. Jun 29, 2001: Philadelphia, PA, US Aug 25, 2001: Cincinnati, Ohio, US Sep 23, 2001: Towson, Maryland, US The way this works is you write to me off-list and I'll give you my mailing address. You send blank CD-Rs along with return postage. Since there's no profit, this is sharing between collectors. The illegal process of bootlegging is making a profit from someone else's perfomance / recording. All the best, Jim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:21:16 EDT From: MINGSDANCE@aol.com Subject: RE:JONIFEST Lucy wrote; Mud squishing up between my toes on a walk back across the hill path from cocktails with Dave Mingus and everyone else at their house.... Mel Tormay version of Starry Starry Night (Vincent) after cocktails (see above) OH Lucy, Wasn't it all so grand as we stood outside the hall under our umbrellas in the rain watching Bette do her skit. I'm sorry to say I don't think we"ll be able to make it this year:~( I've started new Meds and have to be monitored. It was such a magical weekend. So many shining stars all sharing in the GIFT of Joni. I do hope that there will be several new friends made at this wonderful event. If there is a way I would go. It was our 23rd anniversary last year and this year it falls on my birthday. When I'm feeling blue I hear you joyous laughter, Murphy and Guzzi doing Joni Mermin on the deck, and Thursday night in the lez cottage hearing Gizzel letting loose, packed in like we were all 21 again at an after hours jam party. It was like coming home for a family reunion. If any of you are debating remember the old proverb: "He who hesitates is lost." I even chose the wining logo, good job Jenny, so I feel I should be there. I hope for all of you Joni shows up. Her art director told me she would rather hang with us than showbiz people. Peace Mingus ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:16:39 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: June 25 On June 25 the following article was published: 1998: "Knocking On Wood" - Entertainment Weekly Online (Concert Preview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=469 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #178 ********************************* ------- 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)