From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #182 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org 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 Saturday, June 25 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 182 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni bit torrent ["Laurent Olszer" ] Re: Joni bit torrent [Catherine McKay ] From a recent interview with Wayne Shorter.... [Jenny Goodspeed ] Joni stuff [jrmco1@aol.com] The date is set ["Sherelle Smith" ] New Joni news [jrmco1@aol.com] Re: New Joni news [Catherine McKay ] Re: New Joni news [Smurf ] Her Majesty gittin' i-jiggy with it [jrmco1@aol.com] Celebrity CD Compilations column [jrmco1@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:56:50 +0200 From: "Laurent Olszer" Subject: Joni bit torrent Hi I'm trying to download Joni with the Persuasions 79 and Berkeley 79. My download has been stuck at 69% for over a week now. It seems there are no seeders. What can be done? Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:15:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni bit torrent - --- Laurent Olszer wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to download Joni with the Persuasions 79 > and Berkeley 79. My > download has been stuck at 69% for over a week now. > It seems there are no > seeders. What can be done? > Laurent > I did download that and I was seeding but after a while, it looked like there were no peers left. And it also looks like maybe the tracker is down (?) I checked the trading page & it says there are no torrents being offered. If/when whatever it is, is resolved, I can jump back on that & help seed it. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jenny Goodspeed Subject: From a recent interview with Wayne Shorter.... Q: Joni Mitchell is also on Nonesuch. What is it about her music that attracted you to play on so many of her albums? A: She's talking about things in her lyrics, and she's a fighter. She told me that around the time when she recorded "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" and "Mingus" that someone sent her a letter accusing her of playing a minor second within a chord and how that was destroying the [pop] feeling she was known for. It was like saying she was going over to some other side. It's like her song "Both Sides Now" that she wrote when she was 20 or 21. It was about an encounter she had with a man and the daughter she had. She recorded it and a record executive said to her, "You know, don't you?" The words struck him on a business side. She said she had to think fast, on her feet, so she said yes. And the executive detailed it out: We get young artists, squeeze the blood out of the stone, then throw them away and get another young artist. That's what the industry is like. for the whole interview: http://www.billboard.com/bb/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000966682 Jenny Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:11:54 -0700 From: Kate Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #181 onlyJMDL Digest: > Forgive me if this has been around the list for a while. This online entry > is a fairly concise and flattering summary of Joni's carreer. > > http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002397 > > Michael in Quebec I think it's been updated since some of our listmembers got on their case for calling Joni a folksinger. Anyone know for sure? I haven't been watching closely. Kate Kate Johnson Subject editor, architecture, dance, film, and theatre The Canadian Encyclopedia The Historica Foundation of Canada http://www.histori.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:25:46 -0400 From: jrmco1@aol.com Subject: Joni stuff Gail walks into my home office this morning and goes "Holy sh**! It's turning into a Jonifest in here!" So, I've gotta unload some stuff. Rather than go the ebay route, I'm going to offer up some real good Joni-related memorabilia right here, for free. Stay tuned for the list of giveaways under this subject soon. - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:41:15 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: The date is set Hi my friends, What once was just a dream has just become a reality. I've booked a date for my first concert. (knees wobbling!) It will be September 17th at 8:30 pm at Market 5 Gallery in Eastern Market. (Tickets will be $25) I went down there to meet with the proprietor yesterday and I signed a contract, gave him my deposit duckies and it's a deal. He was very no-nonsense, but I could tell that he really wants to help me make this a success. I was very touched. His experience came through loud and clear. He suggested that I have a reception after the concert. I was happy with the idea. I just have to work out the details. I feel good about this. I have a group of family members to help out as staff, almost all of the musicians are on board (playing phone tag with the most important one though!) and I think I've given myself enough time to do this properly. My number one concern is putting together a very tight show. I have friends here at Washington Sports and Entertainment who are willing to help me and at Black Entertainment Television (BET) who have also agreed to spread the word. All of these people know people and so I am hoping for a ripple effect. I also plan to do some advertising on the radio station that is playing my music on certain Sundays. My company deals with them so I am going to try to set it up that way. Another coworker in our Corporate Marketing department who is a musician in her spare time has shown interest in helping me as well. Even my HR manager is rooting for me! Whew! I'm not trying to make a profit for myself personally, but am trying to make sure everyone gets paid and that the concert goes well. When I cost everything out, this is what I get. The venue can hold about 200 so I have to base things on that number. I don't want to bend ears too much so please feel free to email me off list if you want the gory details! This all started from singing Dreamland, Edith and the Kingpin and Hissing of Summer Lawns into a pocket tape recorder in my bathroom for "A Tape of You". That's when I got the nerve to try this again so I am perclempt with gratitude to this list. This place gives you the freedom to dream.....Ah...yes.... Love, Sherelle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:58:58 -0400 From: jrmco1@aol.com Subject: New Joni news This just in from my sources in Canada: - - There's cover story on Joni in this month's Reader's Digest, Canadian edition. - - Joan is selling her childhood home in Saskatoon and her parents are moving into a "condo." Someone Jmdl, and preferably Canadian, buy the old house, now, okay? Thanks. - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:11:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: New Joni news - --- jrmco1@aol.com wrote: > This just in from my sources in Canada: > > - There's cover story on Joni in this month's > Reader's Digest, Canadian > edition. > > - Joan is selling her childhood home in Saskatoon > and her parents are > moving into a "condo." > > Someone Jmdl, and preferably Canadian, buy the old > house, now, okay? > Thanks. > > -Julius > I'm amazed Bill and Myrtle would still be in a house at their age. Wow! I thought they'd have gone condo years ago. Did they stay in the house that Joni grew up in all this time? Somehow, I imagined Joan might have bought them something fancy-schmancy, but maybe they liked the place they lived in. I wonder how much they want for the place? Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:43:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: Re: New Joni news - ---About Joni's childhood home, Julius wrote: > Someone Jmdl, and preferably Canadian, buy the old > house, now, okay? Wouldn't it be just wickedly perverse to buy the old place, knock it down, and put up a parking lot? - --Smurf "The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with." --Bruce Springsteen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:45:25 -0400 From: jrmco1@aol.com Subject: Her Majesty gittin' i-jiggy with it Is Elizabeth a dancing queen? Everyone wants to know what QEII has on her brand-new iPod. - - Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle Pop Music Critic Friday, June 24, 2005 Queen Elizabeth is getting crunk these days at Buckingham Palace. That means QEII is gettin' jiggy widdit with her new iPod. The British press has reported that Her Majesty commanded a member of her staff to ye olde Apple Store on London's Regent Street to procure for her personage one silver 6 GB iPod Mini, capable of holding 1,500 songs. And, yes, she got a royal discount. Now everybody is wondering exactly what tunes are making it onto the 79- year-old monarch's playlist. The most popular guesses seem to be Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," the Stone Roses' "Elizabeth My Dear" and, naturally, ABBA's "Dancing Queen." Those might seem good choices until you consider the lyrics for the second song: "Tear me apart and boil my bones/ I'll not rest till she's lost her throne/ My aim is true my message is clear/ It's curtains for you, Elizabeth my dear." You're more likely to catch Prince Charles' break-dancing in the front lawn of Buckingham Palace to Prince's "My Name Is Prince." Assuming Elizabeth enjoys repeatedly hearing her own title in song, she might consider something a little more sophisticated, for example David Bowie's ode to transvestites and heroin, "Queen Bitch." Or if she's having a bad day and needs something to lift her spirits, it's hard to beat the verses of Queen Latifah's "Queen of Royal Badness": "The queen is hyped up, awesome and deadly/ If you don't dance, grab a chair and plex, B." But even QEII would find Juice Newton's 1981 hit "Queen of Hearts" totally lame. But, after all, Elizabeth has been around. She's lived through Elvis and Sinatra, the Beatles and the Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. She was there when they invented rock 'n' roll, skiffle and swing. Disco? There are rumors of pictures floating around involving her, Andy Warhol and a white horse at Studio 54. And punk rock? Let's not forget that in 1977 the Sex Pistols serenaded her from a boat in the Thames during the Silver Jubilee celebration. "God Save the Queen"? Why not? Sure, the lyrics might be a little hurtful, especially the bit about, "God save the Queen/ She ain't no human being/ There is no future/ In England's dreaming." But, hey, that guitar riff royally rules. Some better downloads might include the Beatles' "Her Majesty," because, well, she probably considers herself a pretty nice girl. Pearl Jam's version of "Crown of Thorns" might feel good on a rainy day. There's also Stevie Nicks' "After the Glitter Fades" for those contemplative days when the corgis aren't enough to lift her spirits. And if Elizabeth's feeling a little kinky? Why not XTC's "King for a Day"? A few years ago, Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana" would have easily topped the personal playlist. As much fun as it is to imagine that Queen Elizabeth has loaded her iPod Mini with all kinds of great music by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Interpol, Missy Elliott, Joanna Newsom, Bloc Party, Kings of Leon, the Magnetic Fields, Gwen Stefani, Rufus Wainwright, Ladytron, the Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys, the sad fact is her playlist probably looks more like one of those Starbucks samplers compiled by Norah Jones with boring old farts like Joni Mitchell and Verdi. Still, it's got to be better than whatever's on George W. Bush's iPod - -end- - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:53:51 -0400 From: jrmco1@aol.com Subject: Celebrity CD Compilations column Their favourite things By Samantha Selinger-Morris Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald June 25, 2005 For years you've been able to buy their clothing lines, perfume and even - if some of the dodgier eBay offerings are to be believed - their organs. Now you can buy a piece of the celebrity soul. Celebrity CD compilations - mixed albums of favourite or inspiring tracks, compiled by the star themselves - are storming the music industry. Hundreds of artists, including the Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson, have done one. The personal mixed tape for an In Style age, they provide the ultimate voyeuristic experience. "They allow you to have a peek into a famous artist's record collection," says Stewart Hanna, distribution manager of DMC Records, Australia, the local distribution arm for the British label of the same name that is releasing its 26th celeb compilation on Monday. "Each CD has its sleeve notes which explain why, in the artists words, they chose [each] track. [Some are like] short novels, detailing [the artist's] upbringing and childhood." So many are on the market now - British label Azuli and American coffee chain Starbucks, for example, are also pumping them out with astonishing regularity Aching to relive your teenage angst in a music-induced fog of Catcher in the Rye type introspection? Choose Morrissey's collection (from DMC's Under the Influence series), and listen to the obscure track Arts and Crafts Spectacular - a quirky ditty about a quilter being pipped at the post by an upstart named Tracey - by American band Sparks, while reading the former Smiths frontman's accompanying liner notes. "At 14, I want to live with these people, to be - at last! - in the company of creatures of my own species." Those considering therapy could lull themselves into a state of self-love with Nora Jones's collection, from the Starbucks Artist's Choice series. (The melancholy strains of Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and Etta James will always convince you of your comparative sanity.) For those nights when the I-wish-I-was-a-rock-star-instead-of-an-accountant feelings threaten to take over, DMC's Back To Mine series transports you, musically, to your favourite artist's house at the end of an all-night binge. "You've got to imagine that you've all staggered back to Everything But the Girl's house, and that's what [songwriter] Ben Watt will put on the stereo, while you have a drink and what have you," Hanna explains. Just where did this trend come from? Dean Buchanan, program director of radio station Nova 96.9, says it's an offshoot of the existing compilation CDs - the dinner party mixes, the '80s mixes, the DJ mixes like the Ministry of Sound - that have been going strong since the early 1990s. The newest genre, he adds, is driven by record labels desperate to remain profitable in a market that's increasingly being squeezed by the iPod and internet downloading. "The record business is no different than any other business," Buchanan says. "It's no different than service stations adding grocery aisles rather than just selling petrol. If you're not developing new revenue streams for your business, you're in big trouble." There's no doubt compilations are an easy buck for record labels. Unlike producing an original album by a new band, they save labels from recording fees, mixing fees and the often astronomically high advertising fees associated with promoting a new act. But why are the musicians so keen to participate, when the venture is prone to criticism of cashing in and selling out? Joni Mitchell, who signed up for the Starbucks series, explains on the shop's website: "By the end of the 20th century, it seemed to me that the muse had gone out of music and all that was left was the 'ic'. Nothing sounded genuine or original. Truth and beauty were passe . . . I quit the business. I volunteered to take part in [this project] in order to force myself to review the songs and compositions that, over the course of my life, really got to me." Soon, Australians will have the opportunity to scrutinise the tunes that "got to" Joni - and many other big-name stars. Starbucks Australia is looking into bringing its celeb compilations to local stores this year. Plus there's the latest DMC release, compiled by the Libertines lead singer Carl Barat, on Monday. Will we embrace the trend, as the US and UK have? Melbourne musician Kim Beissel certainly thinks so. In fact, he already has, having already produced two albums of songs that inspired Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (unsanctioned by the band) in 1998 and 2004. Local label Rubber Records put out the albums, and Beissel is keen to do another one. It isn't about the money, he says (he netted only "about $5000" on the first volume), but rather the fact that the trend provides a functional outlet for obsessive fans - and there are many - like himself. "I'm like the guy in [the Nick Hornby book] High Fidelity, [who says] 'Have a listen to this obscure track, dude,' and the 17-year-old goes, 'That's awesome.' There's a satisfaction in that. What was it like the first time you ever had truffles, or whiskey? It's just passing on something that you like." - -end- - -Julius ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #182 ********************************* ------- 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)