From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #227 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, August 9 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 227 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni Isle of Wight performance question [KindTaper@aol.com] Dulcimer v. orchestra [BRYAN8847@aol.com] Dog Eat Dog pressing didn't sound bad to me... [KindTaper@aol.com] Re: Dog Eat Dog pressing didn't sound bad to me... ["mackoliver" ] "Refuge of the Roads" DVD [simon@icu.com] Re: Joni Isle of Wight performance question [Catherine McKay ] Re: Covers 55 [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Covers 55 [AsharaJM@aol.com] Re: Covers 55 [Smurfycopy@aol.com] RE: Joni Costume Party ["robin mortlock" ] Re: Isle of Wight Festival '69 or '70? [Randy Remote ] RE: Joni Costume Party [=?iso-8859-1?q?Jamie=20Zubairi?= ] Re: Covers 55 [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] RE: Joni Costume Party [Brian Gross ] Covers 55 giveaways [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Joni Isle of Wight performance question ["Donna Binkley" ] "Hippies" the book [MINGSDANCE@aol.com] Happy Birthday Susan sjc [MINGSDANCE@aol.com] Today's Library Links: August 9 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 03:06:08 EDT From: KindTaper@aol.com Subject: Joni Isle of Wight performance question Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. I saw a clip of this festival where she was playing Woodstock and Big Yellow Taxi and two things happened that made me wonder about her day: 1) If you have seen the clip, you know that she gets really irritated at the audience and even stops her song to tell them how obnoxious they're being. Does anyone know of any other events or what it was that drove her to the breaking point that day? I have never seen her so upset. 2) Before she starts another song, some guy tries to get her to let him use her mic to say something about a band or some nonsense. I imagine it had to have creeped her out a little. The police end up hauling him off (at first I thought he was tripping, and he still might have been). I just can't imagine this was a good time for her, and just wondered if she has ever spoken or written about that show. Thanks for any info...and now back to your regularly scheduled conversations. Wes ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 03:12:58 EDT From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Dulcimer v. orchestra In a message dated 8/8/2004 12:03:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, les@jmdl.com writes: > BTW, At the BSN stop in 2000, I heard a few people in Detroit call out, > "Where's the dulcimer?" I heard some similar comments shouted out at the Bay Area show. I couldn't believe it. I think those folks probably hadn't kept up with Joni's music at all over the years. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 03:14:50 EDT From: KindTaper@aol.com Subject: Dog Eat Dog pressing didn't sound bad to me... Lama wrote: << In addition, when Dog Eat Dog was new, the sound on the LP was pretty darned bad. For an album with so much texture and detail to be hamstrung with gritty mastering is just a shame. It was hard to listen to. When listening to the store bought LP, I had no idea there was a great album under all that noise. Decades later we know the grit isn't in the master tapes! So, with the hindsight of more than 2 decades, it wasn't Joni's fault at all. Her DED was too richly textured for the poor quality transfer and / or pressing that Geffen Records did. >> Maybe my young ears aren't as judgemental when it comes to sound (but I think I'm very picky) as others, but the promo LP pressing I listened to of this album sounded *stellar*. That was one of the things that stood out about it the most to me. Just a thought. Wes ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 02:31:39 -0500 From: "mackoliver" Subject: Re: Dog Eat Dog pressing didn't sound bad to me... I agree with you Wes. I find the album fantastic in every way. One of my favorites. Think Hejira sucks basically. Just goes to show everyone has different ideas of what quality is. mack - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:14 AM Subject: Dog Eat Dog pressing didn't sound bad to me... > Lama wrote: > > << In addition, when Dog Eat Dog was new, the sound on the LP was pretty > darned bad. For an album with so much texture and detail to be > hamstrung with gritty mastering is just a shame. It was hard to listen > to. When listening to the store bought LP, I had no idea there was a > great album under all that noise. Decades later we know the grit isn't > in the master tapes! So, with the hindsight of more than 2 decades, it > wasn't Joni's fault at all. Her DED was too richly textured for the > poor quality transfer and / or pressing that Geffen Records did. >> > > Maybe my young ears aren't as judgemental when it comes to sound (but I think > I'm very picky) as others, but the promo LP pressing I listened to of this > album sounded *stellar*. That was one of the things that stood out about it the > most to me. > > Just a thought. > > Wes ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 01:17:20 -0600 From: Rob & Tracy Subject: Travelogue and Friends of Dog Eat Dog Cathrine the Great wrote: On DED, I love "Impossible Dreamer" and "Lucky girl". When I first heard "Ethiopia", I thought it was Joni trying too hard to be political and meaningful. Years later, after not hearing it for quite a long time, it sounded better to me, although i wish Joni had done something better with that last vowel in "E-thi-o-pi-AAAA", which always sounds kind of jarring to me. Well, add my ditto to that one as well. I love DED. LOVE IT. However, "Ethiopia" has never clicked with me, even though I have tried so hard to like it, since so many here rave about it. Maybe because I didn't get DED until probably 3 or 4 years after it was released - Didn't discover Joni until '87, so I probably didn't get around to DED until 89 or so. Anyway, "Good Friends" was played quite a bit on Saskatoon radio when it was released, and that is still one of my favorite Joni tracks for some reason. I love Side One of DED so much, and most of side two, but with "Ethiopia", it just seemed to try too hard to me - as Cathrine said, trying so hard to be political. Maybe it was because I was so sick of the Ethiopia singles - Band Aid, We Are the World, that hideous Canadian one, etc... Anyway, it just rubs me the wrong way to this day. And yes, DED kicks WTRF's ass in my mind, too! And, while I am being a heretic, I will admit that I LOVE LOVE LOVE "Underneath the Streetlight". Yes I do, I love it.... Evian npimh: that Sun City song from around the DED years - hmmm, wonder if it's downloadable.... I forgot about that one... it can't still be in print, can it? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:19:52 -0400 From: simon@icu.com Subject: "Refuge of the Roads" DVD Randy writes ... > > I wonder if there will be any bonus stuff on the DVD > that wasn't on the VHS (now out of print). > > david sapp wrote: > >> According to Rolling Stone Daily: >> >> "Refuge of the Roads" a JONI MITCHELL concert DVD >> from a 1983 show, will be released on August 24th" Yes, a Gallery of previously UnPublished photographs by Joel Bernstein. upwards of 50+ pictures, personally selected by Joni, from the several hundred submitted FWIW: this program was filmed on a soundstage in Culver City, CA., on Aug. 12, 1983, two weeks after the end of Joni's REFUGE World Tour andmoreagain, - ------------------ simon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:21:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni Isle of Wight performance question Wes, check this out. It might answer your questions: http://www.jmdl.com/performances/docs/700829.cfm KindTaper@aol.com wrote:I saw a clip of this festival where she was playing Woodstock and Big Yellow Taxi and two things happened that made me wonder about her day: 1) If you have seen the clip, you know that she gets really irritated at the audience and even stops her song to tell them how obnoxious they're being. Does anyone know of any other events or what it was that drove her to the breaking point that day? I have never seen her so upset. 2) Before she starts another song, some guy tries to get her to let him use her mic to say something about a band or some nonsense. I imagine it had to have creeped her out a little. The police end up hauling him off (at first I thought he was tripping, and he still might have been). I just can't imagine this was a good time for her, and just wondered if she has ever spoken or written about that show. Thanks for any info...and now back to your regularly scheduled conversations. Wes Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all live so close to that line, and so far from satisfaction - --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:53:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Travelogue and Friends of Dog Eat Dog --- Catherine McKay wrote: > When I first heard "Ethiopia", I thought it > was Joni trying too hard to be political and > meaningful. Years later, after not hearing it for > quite a long time, it sounded better to me, although > i wish Joni had done something better with that last > vowel in "E-thi-o-pi-AAAA", which always sounds kind > of jarring to me. Replying to my own post, upon reflection, the jarring AAAAA at the end of EthiopiA may have been a deliberate choice on Joni's part, and I wouldn't put it past her, to sound like a gasp of pain or a dying breath. It probably wouldn't be a good choice to use a bel canto vowel in a song about pain. ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all live so close to that line, and so far from satisfaction ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:56:53 EDT From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Blue - Rolling Stone Kate wrote: "blue has become just a classic & a standard... it is so interesting to read this review after all these years ... with both praise & condemnation ... brings home why joni became bitter early on about the music biz" Thanks, Kate, for the link that led to a re-read for me. I agree that the reviewer did not seem to capture all of the nuances of the work in Blue. For example, he found the lyrics of "Little Green" to be "dressed up in such cryptic references that it passeth all understanding" (for which I can hardly blame him, since I did not grasp said references until the story came out in the press to virtually smack me upside the head). And, he was critical of River and The Last Time I Saw Richard, even though he seemed (IMO) to be in tune with the artistic concepts that gave birth to them (judging from my reading of the rest of his review). However, the last couple of paragraphs in that review are hardly the stuff that would induce Joni to become bitter with the music biz. I quote: "The beauty of the mysterious and unresolved melody and the expressiveness of the vocal make this song accessible to a general audience. But "Blue," more than any of the other songs, shows Joni to be twice vulnerable; not only is she in pain as a private person, but her calling as an artist commands her to express her despair musically and reveal to an audience of record-buyers. And yet, despite the title song, Blue is overall the freest, brightest, most cheerfully rhythmic album Joni has yet released. But the change in mood does not mean that Joni's commitment to her own very personal naturalistic style has diminished. More than ever, Joni risks using details that might be construed as trivial in order to paint a vivid self portrait. She refuses to mask her real face behind imagery, as her fellow autobiographers James Taylor and Cat Stevens sometimes do. In portraying herself so starkly, she has risked the ridiculous to achieve the sublime. The results though are seldom ridiculous; on Blue she has matched her popular music skills with the purity and honesty of what was once called folk music and through the blend she has given us some of the most beautiful moments in recent popular music. " Amen. Except for the word "recent" (which need not be modified - merely deleted) Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:24:29 +0100 From: "Jamie Zubairi" Subject: Re: Joni Isle of Wight performance question Well, in Q Interview May 1988 she gets asked: Q: What did you feel at the time then about that public scrutiny via the media? JM: Oh I couldn't stand it. All that exploitation and posturing, the gasping at the mention of your name, the pursuit by photographers and phenomenon-seekers... you get that shot of adrenaline and it's fight or flight, I chose flight many a time. Q: Hard to do on stage, you're not supposed to... JM: *first time* I stood my ground was in front of half a million people at the Isle of Wight.What happened was this: It was a hostile audience to begin with. A handful of French rabble rousers had stirred the people to feel that we, the performers, had sold out because we arrived in fancy cars - Neil and I rented an old red Rolls, the driver had to sit outside, a real horseless carriage. Backstage there was all this international capital - bowls of money, open coffers. Some acts cancelled so there was dead space of about an hour. No one would go on. But in a spirit of co-operation, knowing it was death, I said, OK, I'll go out there. In the second number, a guy in about the fifth row, flipped out on acid, comes squirting up and lets out a banshee yell, guttural, demented, devils at his heels. It's as if a whale came out of the water, the waves, the energy from him spreads to the back so fast. Now the whole thing is *undulating*. I go an sit at the piano and this guy I knew form the caves at Matala, Yogi Joe, he taught me my first yoga lesson, he leaps up on stage. He gives me the Victory sign, he sits at my feet and starts playing the congas with terrible time. he looks up at me and says, Spirit of Matala, Joni! I bend down off-mike and say, This is *entirely* inappropriate, Joe. It was Woodstock, of all songs, to be singing, because this was so different - it was a war-zone out there. At the end of Woodstock, Yogi Joe springs up and grabs the microphone and yells, "It's desolation row and we're all doomed!" or something to this effect. A couple of guards grab him. The crowd then stand up and scream, "They've got one of ours!" And they're moving forward. Now what would you do? I've run for much less than that.But I thought, I can't. I have to stand up. The place I drew my strength from was very bizarre. I had been to a Hopi snake dance ceremony - it's a very high ceremony to bring rain to their runty corn crops. They dance with live snakes and there was one that stood up on the end of it's tail and launched itself like a javelin right into the audience. The people scattered but the musicians, the antelope priest-drummers, never missed a beat. Their earnestness, their sincerity, their need to bring rain, was unaffected. They kept the groove. So with my chin quivering, fighting back tears and the impulse to run., I said " I was at a Hopi snake dance a couple of weeks ago and there were tourists who acted like Indians and Indians who acted like tourists. You're just a bunch of tourists. Some of us have our lives involved in the music. Show some respect" And the beast lay down. The beast lay down. End of quote. It seems that Joni herself can't remember what she actually said but the gist of what she said is there. Some people claim that the crowd were restless not because of the performers but of the helicopters that were overhead that were making too much noise for them to hear the performances... I dunno. It was 3 years before I was born. Not sure if she speaks about this an any other interview but this is the first interview I remember reading EVER about Joni Mitchell. Anyway, having a sunny Sunday here in London Much Joni Jamie Zoob - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: Joni Isle of Wight performance question > Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. > > I saw a clip of this festival where she was playing Woodstock and Big Yellow > Taxi and two things happened that made me wonder about her day: > > 1) If you have seen the clip, you know that she gets really irritated at the > audience and even stops her song to tell them how obnoxious they're being. > Does anyone know of any other events or what it was that drove her to the > breaking point that day? I have never seen her so upset. > > 2) Before she starts another song, some guy tries to get her to let him use > her mic to say something about a band or some nonsense. I imagine it had to > have creeped her out a little. The police end up hauling him off (at first I > thought he was tripping, and he still might have been). I just can't imagine this > was a good time for her, and just wondered if she has ever spoken or written > about that show. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:40:07 EDT From: AsharaJM@aol.com Subject: Re: Covers 55 I just want to comment about this volume. Another interesting one from our great Covers Guy! GREAT picture on the front of the case, and the version of "How Do You Stop" from Riguelle & Hautekiet absolutely blew me away. It put this song in a whole new place for me. I keep playing it over and over. Thanks, Kovers King!! Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:09:00 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: Blue - Rolling Stone Yes fortunately he (surprisingly to me after all his prior heavy criticism) ends his review with high praise. BobS>>However, the last couple of paragraphs in that review are hardly the stuff that would induce Joni to become bitter with the music biz. I quote: ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 12:39:37 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Covers 55 Thanks muchly, Ashara...while I'm always wary of the word "interesting" used in a critique, I'm glad you are enjoying it. And I do know what you mean about a cover bringing you to a deeper appreciation of a song as I experienced the same thing when I heard Holly Near & Cris Williamson's recording of 'Tea Leaf Prophecy'. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 13:05:18 EDT From: AsharaJM@aol.com Subject: Re: Covers 55 In a message dated 8/8/2004 12:39:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, SCJoniGuy writes: Thanks muchly, Ashara...while I'm always wary of the word "interesting" used in a critique, Well.......they really *are* all interesting to me. Lots of these covers are a little, how shall I put it......painful to listen to, but I always find something interesting even in those. Mostly, I really admire the effort that people put into what they are doing. Then, every so often, like this "How Do You Stop" cover, I am blown away and mesmorized by the new appreciation it gives me for a song. I can't stop listening to this one! Thanks again, a million-fold for all the effort you've put into this project!! Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:15:11 -0400 From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Covers 55 Mista Mulla writes: << And I do know what you mean about a cover bringing you to a deeper appreciation of a song as I experienced the same thing when I heard Holly Near & Cris Williamson's recording of 'Tea Leaf Prophecy'. >> But gee, Mista Mulla, aren't you on reckid as placing Joni's version of that song somewhere near "Dancin' Clown?" Must be a wicked good covah. - --Smurf, with a Boston accent ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:54:54 +0000 From: "robin mortlock" Subject: RE: Joni Costume Party Jamie writes: No, fuckit, I know what I'll come as... Dorothy Lamour! - Thats the best one. I'd like to come as the German aristocrat from 'Two Grey Rooms' complete with 'a view...when you go by'...ie wearing a window pane and a mournful wistful gaze.... robin - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:27:29 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Isle of Wight Festival '69 or '70? Wes, about 3 years ago a lister named Ian Scott wrote in about his experiences at the Isle of Wight Festival, which contrast sharply with Joni's account. It's reprinted below. I'm also resending separately another morsel from Ranger Rick from the same time. Where are these folks now? Randy et al, That helicopter incident is particularly significant when you consider that the IOW Festival, 1970, was the biggest live entertainment event in the history of the world: roadies who worked at both were unanimous that it was bigger than Woodstock. Now, the impression that I get from all publications is that there was some hostility between the crowd and Joni that day. This is ABSOLUTELY not true. I was sitting inside the arena and in a good position to feel the general mood of the crowd, and I can assure you that the only hostility was directed toward the helicopter pilot flying overhead and NOT at Joni. 95% of the crowd did not even notice the Yogi Bear incident( he had no mike and was not centre stage) and more than 99% had no sympathy for him. By the time, Joni struck into "Big Yellow Taxi" the helicopter had gone and everybody was listening to Joni. It's a great pity that there is all of this negativity in the reporting about the day that Joni played in front of the biggest audience in her life, because, on the day, apart from the helicopter incident, which was an unfortunate interruption that could have happened to anyone, and the Yogi Bear stage invasion (which almost nobody noticed), there was just a huge amount of love for Joni. Ian >Ian Scott wrote: > >Unfortunately, until now, I've only ever seen Joni perform live once, when I > >> was in my teens and she performed at the Isle of Wight Festival (an English >> equivalent of Woodstock). I remember her performance was marred by a noisy >> helicopter flying overhead, which Joni could nether see nor hear. This >> resulted in 100,000+ people booing, jeering and shouting "go away" at the >> helicopter. Sadly, Joni thought the boos were aimed at her and started to cry. >> My heart and that of the whole audience went out to her. I wonder if Joni ever >> found out the real reason why people were booing that day? I hope so. Anyway, >> this leads me to my question. there were two big Isle of Wight Festivals, >> August '69 when Bob Dylan topped the bill and August '70 when Jimi Hendrix was >> t ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:27:52 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Joni's Isle of Wight Triumph The things you find in musty old boxes! I was looking through unpacked boxes last night (yes, I know we've been in this house 3 years now) and I came across an envelope of Joni clippings, one of which is very relevant to recent discussions. >From the Welland Evening Tribune (my home town paper), dated Thursday, September 3, 1970: Canadian Wins Ovation At Isle Of Wight Festival by Lewis Levendel LONDON (AP) The leading British pop newspaper has termed the Isle of Wight festival "Joni's triumph" in praise of Saskatoon-born Joni Mitchell's performance during the five-day extravaganza. Melody Maker, in its front-page story this week, says the folk-singer "overcame her considerable nervousness and stunned the crowd with a set full of peerlessly beautiful songs, leading to an ovation after several encores." Me again: I'm not sure how you recognize an ovation in the setting of a half a million already-standing people but it seems that this article reinforces Ian's reminiscences about the festival. Funny how the focus narrowed over the years to just how bad the Isle of Wight was for Joni. Ranger Rick ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 21:21:35 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jamie=20Zubairi?= Subject: RE: Joni Costume Party Hmmm, perhaps on that 'looking through the window' theme I'd come as someone who reminded you of Blanche DuBois, constantly hiding from the light, taking potshots at the lights but that might p!ss off the hostess somewhat.... Funny, that, same actress - Viven Leigh... both playing Blanche DuBois as well as Scarlett O'Hara. Is this a theme from Joni's film knowledge? Much Joni Jamie Zoob robin mortlock wrote: Jamie writes: No, fuckit, I know what I'll come as... Dorothy Lamour! - - Thats the best one. I'd like to come as the German aristocrat from 'Two Grey Rooms' complete with 'a view...when you go by'...ie wearing a window pane and a mournful wistful gaze.... robin - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. - --------------------------------- How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 100MB! Get Yahoo! Mail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 12:48:39 -0700 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: Joni's Latest Interview I'm in the midst of transcribing Joni's interview on KPFK and wanted to share this segment: "When I write my memoirs it will have very little to do with show business ..." When. Direct quote. When. Lindsay P.S. She does a lot of rambling in this one. Who is the editor that will rein her in?? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:46:55 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Covers 55 **But gee, Mista Mulla, aren't you on reckid as placing Joni's version of that song somewhere near "Dancin' Clown?" Must be a wicked good covah. I think so...and even though I think TLP is a weak song, I like this version of it with the CMIARS production values stripped off it. If anything, the Williamson-Near cover belies the weakness of the melody, but their presentation, a simpler one, is more appropriate for a song that tells a simple story. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 13:40:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Gross Subject: RE: Joni Costume Party I feel like the janitor of Shadowland. Having flicked his broom, way too many times. Sorry all. brian ===== After twenty-three years you'd think I could find A way to let you know somehow That I want to see your smiling face Forty-five years from now. --Stan Rogers Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 18:28:50 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Covers 55 giveaways Congrats go out to David Sapp & Jody Johnson, whose names I drew out of the folks who responded to my covers contest. Thanks to all who entered - Catherine & Mia were the high scorers but they both admitted to a little peeking at the lyrics site. Deb Messling, Steve P, and Dr. Laura all also got over 40 titles correct. Here's the list complete with the song titles: Alligators - Love Puts On A New Face Anaconda - Talk To Me Beagle - Shiny Toys "Here comes a boy and his beagle Walking with a man in a toupee and a man with his head shaved" Bears - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines Bees - Big Yellow Taxi, Who Has Seen The Wind Buffalo - The Three Great Stimulants Butterflies - Woodstock, For The Roses Caterpillar - Night Ride Home Chicken - Hejira, Talk To Me Clam - The Only Joy In Town Cow - Face Lift Coyote - Coyote Crane - The Pirate Of Penance Crickets - I Don't Know Where I Stand, Refuge Of The Roads Dolphins - Dawntreader Donkey - Dreamland Dove - The Silky Veils of Ardor, Dog Eat Dog Dragonfly - The Circle Game, Harry's House Elephants - The Jungle Line Falcon - Slouching Towards Bethlehem Fish - Be Cool, Lead Balloon Frogs - Cotton Avenue Geese - Urge For Going Goat - California Horse - That Song About The Midway, Night Ride Home Jaguar - The Windfall Lobster - Banquet Loon - Love Puts On A New Face Mink - Otis & Marlena, Raised On Robbery Peacock - Trouble Child Pig - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, California Pigeon - The Gallery, Ladies Man, Chelsea Morning, My Secret Place Rat - Borderline Rattlesnake - Ladies Man, Lakota Raven - Paprika Plains, Songs To Aging Children Come Reindeer - River Salmon - Lesson In Survival Sandflies - You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio Seagull - Song To A Seagull, Shiny Toys Sharks - Impossible Dreamer, No Apologies Sheep - Turbulent Indigo Shrew - Last Chance Lost Snails - No Apologies Spider - The Windfall Swan - Borderline Ticks - The Tea Leaf Prophecy (sort of a cheat on my part, as the line is: "Nothin' about him ticks her off And he looks so cute in his uniform" Tiger - Taming The Tiger Whale - Harry's House Wolf - The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey Thanks again to everyone who took part, I had fun with it! Bob NP: Tones On Tail, "Go" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:33:53 -0500 From: "Donna Binkley" Subject: Re: Joni Isle of Wight performance question Dear Wes, It could be said that any artist hopes for the respect of their audience in terms of quiet and attention. I heard it said by someone in my hometown that Joni had stopped a performance he saw because (in his words) someone laughed in the middle of one of her quiet songs and she said "Just take the piano away" and it happened, he saying that it was uncalled for. When I saw her in 1982 nothing of the sort happened. She was as graceful as a swan. I sat there singing along loudly until finally I had to go to the privy. Being close to the stage and in the middle I had to come back up the middle aisle to get back to my seat, during which time whe was singing yet another quiet song. In my fringe topped boots laced to the knee she looked right at me as I walked up the center aisle back to my seat. With a humorous look like she thought the 60's look was so out of style. I've never told that story before on the list, but I just got her new cd for my BIRTHDAY! Since the BF has gone into hiding, i decided to BF myself. I'll let that joke/thread spin where it will. Ha! love db >>> Catherine McKay 08/08/04 8:21 AM >>> Wes, check this out. It might answer your questions: http://www.jmdl.com/performances/docs/700829.cfm KindTaper@aol.com wrote:I saw a clip of this festival where she was playing Woodstock and Big Yellow Taxi and two things happened that made me wonder about her day: 1) If you have seen the clip, you know that she gets really irritated at the audience and even stops her song to tell them how obnoxious they're being. Does anyone know of any other events or what it was that drove her to the breaking point that day? I have never seen her so upset. 2) Before she starts another song, some guy tries to get her to let him use her mic to say something about a band or some nonsense. I imagine it had to have creeped her out a little. The police end up hauling him off (at first I thought he was tripping, and he still might have been). I just can't imagine this was a good time for her, and just wondered if she has ever spoken or written about that show. Thanks for any info...and now back to your regularly scheduled conversations. Wes Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all live so close to that line, and so far from satisfaction - --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals This message has been scanned by the E250. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: PWWAM WOW just got done watching it on Oxygen channel. She was just radiant I thought. What a great "Amelia" and the closing 'Dreamland" was really neat. I was hoping for TI, but that didn't happen. Oh well.... So that instrument she was playing? was that a VG8? I guess when she's feeling good and is in the mood, Ms JM is just one ultra charming individual. I got the feeling she indeed felt good, surrounded by her 4 or 5 "gentle men". I thought she sounded great, and I think her voice sounds really good doing her old stuff too. Just different. But still really wonderful. fun! anyway just thought I'd share my thoughts. Nite! Em ===== - ------- "Don't try to build an aeroplane when you just need a kite." Tee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 01:31:04 EDT From: MINGSDANCE@aol.com Subject: "Hippies" the book While shopping in Barnes&Noble for a 24th anniversary card for David I ran across a new Coffee table book called "Hippies." In the index there are three Joni pages mentioned, One is a full page photo of her hanging out of the Laurel Canyon house window in color. Another page is on the Woodstock story, and the third page is a photo of James Taylor and it talks of them living and playing together in the Laurel Canyon house until 1971. Neat discovery, however I thought it would look suspicious if I gave this to David for a gift since I was the old hippie and not him. Seeing everyone gathered in song circles gave me the "Blues" for Jonifest this year, depressed I can't go. I am mailing a raffle pack tomorrow with a Joni "Lithograph," a signed album, and a song book. Good luck to everyone! Peace Mingus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 01:38:16 EDT From: MINGSDANCE@aol.com Subject: Happy Birthday Susan sjc Sat. night was OZwoman, Susan Moss's 50th birthday bash at "The Main Street Cafe" in Homestead FL. I hope it was a huge success. I attended a Joni tribute there last fall and everyone sings great Joni covers there. They even get on stage and give testimonials about Joni. Well imagine that:~) Can't wait to hear the report Susan. Much Love Mingus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 02:18:09 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: August 9 On August 9 the following articles were published: 1974: "Joni's Melodies Touch Fans' Souls" - Detroit News (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=957 1979: "Mingus" - Down Beat (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=951 1979: "Three Distinct Approaches by Three Seasoned Singers" - Palo Alto Times (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=836 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #227 ********************************* ------- 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)