From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #42 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 Wednesday, February 8 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 042 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni at Wembley 83 dvd Vine [Duarte Moniz ] Re: concert comparisons [Bobsart48@aol.com] Ralph McTell's Time's Poems. [Gertus@aol.com] Re: concert comparisons ["Kate Bennett" ] RE: View my photos [Duarte Moniz ] Joni collection ["MIKE HICKS" ] Re: Joni collection [J Kendel Johnson ] Re: concert comparisons [Debra Shea ] "Mini-tribute" Feb 13 in Austin [J Kendel Johnson ] Carnegie Tribute and Rockwood events ["Les Irvin" ] Rock on Rockwood - Thursday night in the city [Bob Muller ] Hello and can you help me [Lisa Resnick ] Re: Hello and can you help me ["Gerald A. Notaro" ] Re: Hello and can you help me [Bob Muller ] Re: concert comparisons [Bobsart48@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:45:46 -0000 From: Duarte Moniz Subject: Joni at Wembley 83 dvd Vine Box of Paints [jamiezubairi@gmail.com] will reoffer soon. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:00:53 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: concert comparisons Debra replied in part: "For the TNT show: Joni was there, Joni performed, it was all going to be taped, and there was some variety in the show. In addition to the singing, speakers were given enough time to tell about their connection to Joni and her music and even gush a little. There were also films about Joni while the set was being changed. A lot of thought and preparation went into that show." I was not at the TNT concert, even though I worked right across the street - wasn't on the JMDL, so didn't know the story. Of course, I saw it on TV and taped it for multiple future viewings/listenings. How was the sound that night ? How long did it last start to finish ? How much was cut from the TV show ? How many other listers were there ? Who ? I also was not at Central Park, but was not overwhelmed by the bootleg - but of course, it was outdoors, and a bootleg. And, I only caught the last hour or so at Wall to Wall. So, my sense of comparison is rather limited. Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:22:57 EST From: Gertus@aol.com Subject: Ralph McTell's Time's Poems. I've just received a book called Time's Poems. It's a collection of over 200 of Ralph McTell's lyrics and poems. In his introduction, Ralph thanks the guitarists, poets and songwriters who have inspired him. Joni is one of the songwriters and she is in good company:- "Songwiters like Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Taylor, Cole Porter, Robert Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, George Gershwin, Joni Mitchell, John Prime, Jake Thackray..." Jacky ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:24:34 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: concert comparisons They should have called me! LOL. Seriously though, I've done a few years of these tributes to Joni (& others) as fundraisers for local music programs & you absolutely have to have something going on between performers. I would tell stories of Joni's life (courtesy of the JMDL archives!) & relate it to the song up next. The audience LOVED these parts because few of them had ever heard these stories. Plus we had Jim Messina (engineer for Joni's first time in the studio with David Crosby prior to her first album) & Tom Rush (most already know the role he played in Joni's career by now) telling their remembrances. The performers at LEAST should have been encouraged to share their inspirations! >On further reflection, it's unfair to compare the (rich, many resources available, made for tv) TNT tribute with the one at Carnegie Hall, which was a fundraiser, so they wouldn't want to spend the money on things such as films. It would cut into the money raised. An enthusiastic live announcer, though, would have made a huge difference in the feel of the show.< ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:37:27 -0000 From: Duarte Moniz Subject: RE: View my photos Hi Michael Great photos ! I only recognize Jimmy Scott, Richie Havens and Lou Reed. Jimmy is a fave of mine. Great voice ! Can you tell us more about his performance ? Thanks. Duarte (in Portugal) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:03:36 -0500 From: "MIKE HICKS" Subject: Joni collection I just purchased the Hejira LP, for about the 4th time, as well as two cd's. However, this one is an autographed edition of the original album and cover signed by Joni, Neil Young, and Larry Carlton. I have it in an album frame and it looks great. My room is beginning to look like a Joni receptacle, with all the pictures and memorabilia. The wife is probably getting a little jealous. She's a good sport. Just thought I would share my infatuation with anyone who cares. BTW, I have really enjoyed your coverage of the Joni tribute. It's good elixir for those who must remain. Mike NP: Cat Power - The Greatest ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:26:31 -0800 (PST) From: J Kendel Johnson Subject: Re: Joni collection MIKE HICKS wrote: I just purchased the Hejira LP... an autographed edition of the original album and cover signed by Joni, Neil Young, and Larry Carlton. Wow! I think we must see pictures of this! J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:37:33 -0800 (PST) From: Debra Shea Subject: Re: concert comparisons - --- Bobsart48@aol.com wrote: > I was not at the TNT concert, ... > > How was the sound that night ? > > How long did it last start to finish ? How much was > cut from the TV show ? > > How many other listers were there ? Who ? The sound was good, except for Richard Thompson's Black Crow. I couldn't hear his singing very well on that. Otherwise, it was a big booming enjoyable concert. Nothing was cut for the tv show, not even Cyndi Lauper's extension of her song, which surprised the musicians. It lasted as long as the televised show did. There was a big announcement before it all started about how breaks would be taken occasionally (which on the tv show would be when commercials would be shown), and those two or three minute periods were the only times nothing was happening. Films being shown or people talking at the podium took place while the stage was being rearranged for the next performer. Before it all started, we were also told to be noisily enthusiastic, which wasn't a problem. There were a few listers there, some who haven't posted in a long time and may not be on the list anymore. I'd gotten my ticket from and sat with Wirly Pearl, and I remember seeing Patrick and Kay briefly. After the show, I went backstage and watched some people being interviewed, but couldn't find Joni. There was a lot of press there. I got one of those huge posters of Joni in the black dress with her guitar. My favorite parts of that evening were hearing Cyndi Lauper's sexy redoing of Carey, and hearing Richard Thompson for the first time, doing Woodstock, just him and his guitar in a single spotlight. Very dramatic. The whole show felt like a grand and exciting adventure. And, of course, it was great having Joni in the room and ending the show with her updated world-weary orchestra-backed Both Sides Now. It was a love-fest and everyone seemed happy to be there, audience and performers, too. Debra Shea Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:05:07 -0800 (PST) From: J Kendel Johnson Subject: "Mini-tribute" Feb 13 in Austin FYI, for anyone who might be attending the Folk Alliance conference in Austin later this week: Monday, Feb 13th, 1:00 pm Joni Mitchell Tribute: SONiA and others TBA! Music Room at the Austin Hilton TBA this Friday. www.folk.org www.marketmonkeys.com/guerilla.html www.soniadf.com J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:36:45 -0700 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: Carnegie Tribute and Rockwood events Photos have been added to the Carnegie Hall tribute page: http://jonimitchell.com/events/event.cfm?id=166 Can anyone help me with names and photo credits? Many thanks, Les ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:34:35 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Rock on Rockwood - Thursday night in the city Since by now most of you have seen the great pics of the Rockwood Music Hall event, I thought I would submit a write-up to help give a feel for what went down. The event, called "Night In The City" was a fundraiser for Katrina's Paino Fund. I'm not sure of the final total amount raised, but we did pretty good considering you could only fit so many folks into the space. First & foremost, major kudos need to go out to Kay Ashley, who put so much effort into organizing this show. I was honored that she asked me to MC it, and was challenged to orient myself to the performers that I was unfamiliar with; this was for the most part a gathering of NYC singer-songwriters, with a goodly number of out-of-towners and JMDLer's rounding things out. The concert was supposed to start at 11:00 initially, then got bumped to Midnight. I arrived at Rockwood around 11:00, not knowing the size of the venue (it was very intimate, about the size of your basic living room) but nobody I knew was there yet, so I wandered around a bit, eventually finding Zozo's Coffee Shop, where I enjoyed a couple of good cups of java, assuming (correctly) I'd need them for later. Walking back to Rockwood, I was happy to see Scott & Jody crammed in the corner and went in to join them. Shortly thereafter, more and more folks started filtering in and Kay & I got squared away on the order of business. I don't remember the exact starting time, but there was a healthy crowd of JMDLer's, performers, and other patrons who were there to check it out. Joy Askew (who had performed at Joni's jazz in 2000) was supposed to kick things off with Woodstock & Coyote; unfortunately she had some health issues and couldn't make it. A bummer as she was the highlight of the Central Park concert imo, but not a problem as Allison Tartalia was ready to go with a piano-based version of All I Want, a nice way to open the show. She lost her place in the lyrics but recovered nicely and the audience was certainly relaxed enough to just laugh it all away as well. Angela McKenzie was up next and turned in an excellent version of Sex Kills and also Black Crow (?) with Paz playing guitar behind her. John Kelly, the legendary performance artist and Renaiisance Man, graced us with a nice take of For The Roses, accompanying himself on acoustic, and then tried to leave the stage only to return and perform Shadows and Light in a chilling acapella, very in-the-moment performance with many dramatic pauses. It was really cool watching John perform after having only read about him for so long. After John was Lynn Skinner from Denver, accompanied by Bob Schlesinger on piano. Lynn has done several Joni tributes on her own and typically employs a whole orchestra of musicians, and her catalog of songs is very deep. She performed two numbers, For Free and Not To Blame, the latter done to a very dramatic effect, very chilling. It was great to hear Lynn live and it definitely left me wanting for more. Victoria Lavington was next, and she commented that she hadn't been on stage for over a year. You certainly couldn't tell it as her singing was crystal-clear and very emotionally-invested. She sang Blue (with David Lahm on piano) and Conversation (with Kay on acoustic guitar). Towards the end of Conversation, Elizabeth Dotson-Westphalen joined in on trombone (imitating the horns on Joni's own version) and it was a very cool moment. Elizabeth also duetted with David Lahm in an instrumental take on his arrangement of Fiddle and the Drum, and just to prove she can sing as good as she can play the trombone, she performed a wonderful version of Last Time I Saw Richard with David providing exquisite accompaniment. Our own Kay Ashley was next, and she played & sang Night In The City with Victoria & Elizabeth providing backing vocals, and then took a solo turn on A Strange Boy. Kay was her always-excellent self! Lisa Roma from NYC was next, and she sang People's Parties (w/Paz on acoustic) and Woodstock (w/Paz on the Parker Fly/VG8). Michael then took the stage to himself and did Chinese Cafe on piano and Love Puts On A New Face on guitar. As always, Michael made playing and singing seem so effortless. Bryan Thomas had been scheduled in the program earlier but had not arrived - we found out later that he had gone to see his other favorite performer, Prince. He did his electrifying and original version of Black Crow and although the audience was cheering and begging for more, it was not to be. Gary Zack was up next, and he brought a backing track with him from some recent recording sessions and did a great take on Joni's unreleased gem Just Like Me. Very cool to hear this one performed live, and Gary did a great job. Alison Einerson (pronounced "Eee-nerson", not "Eye-nerson") was up next, and turned in a very nice and fun You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio with Paz on guitar. Donna Binkley (aka The Texas Tush) followed and she & I reprised our Jonifest version of John Prine's In Spite Of Ourselves; lots of fun and thanks Donna for the invitation, it was my pleasure. Donna then brought the mood to a more somber tone with a very moving version of I Think I Understand, one of my favorite Joni songs. Kira Lesley, all the way from Portland OR, was up next, and she had performed at the JMDL reception the night before as well. I can't remember the Joni song she played, but Michael played guitar for her. Kira then played guitar and sang an original song called "They Can't Medicate Me", a funny song about resisting a Ritalin-crazed culture. This was to have been the closer for the night, but Kay said that another singer was inspired to perform, so Abby Ray came onstage and performed a really pretty Blue with David Lahm on piano. Whew! Like I said onstage - "Carnegie Hall ain't got SH*T on us!" and everyone who was there will agree; the performances were all excellent and once again the sweet chords of Joni rose up in waxed New York City Halls. Even though it was 3:45 in the morning, several JMDLer's were ready to keep the night going and went to grab something to eat. I was ready to call it a Night (In The City), and I enjoyed the walk back to where I was staying in Chelsea...goodnight, it was a Chelsea morning... Bob NP: Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Behind The Sun" - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:16:15 -0500 From: "casper56" Subject: Thoughts on the tribute. I went to all 3 and I must say Central Park was my favorite (of course that might be because after several Heinekins when it was over I just strolled backstage and there was Joni sitting all by herself; I went over, introduced myself (I was sort of covering it for Wally at the time) and for the next two hours just gabbed away. It was like we had known eachother for years; incredibly accessible. All the performers were there and Chaka kept coming over and wanting Joni to leave to go to some great club.) Anyway back to this tribute. Even though I was in the front row the sound was great! You could actually here the voices unmiked. Overall though it was a mixed bag. How could you perform and not know the tune or the words to the song, although Jane Siberry did the same thing at Central Pk. on A Strange Boy. Tom Rush's Urge for Going was great; could be because it's one of my favorites. Betty LeVette was great as seems to be the overall concensus. Judy Collins, what a head of hair; loved Shawn Colvin, Cowboy Junkies, Jimmy Scott, even Neil Sedaka. What's up w/ Suzanne Vega? I never really thought her voice was very expressive but this was like "snore". I don't even think she sang the whole song. I felt she and a few others seemed to be rushede.I think others also sang shortened versions, maybe there was a time issue. Anyway it was nice meeting the "listers" AND WHO KNOWS, I HAVE A FEELING WE HAVEN'T HEARD OR SEEN THE LAST OF JONI. IMHO, Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:50:30 -0800 (PST) From: Lisa Resnick Subject: Hello and can you help me Hi everybody. I'm new to the list. I've been a Joni fan since the 70's- and my friends complained then that they couldn't shut me up, talking about every Joni song. That was my favorite time period. I saw her perform in Forest Hills when she put out Mingus, but didn't follow her much after that. Discovering this group has me thinking about, and singing her songs again. My Google search for a particular unrecorded album brought me to discovering this group. Maybe someone here can help me find it. I don't know the name of it either. I used to have a tape of Joni singing, presumably in London. Songs I recall were:1- Mr. Green-where she took the best lines of uncompleted songs and put them in one song. I loved this catchy song. 2- London Bridges (falling down...) 3-The Coca Cola Commercial -a play on getting high with lyrics following like "everything's better with Coca Cola" Thanks, Lisa - --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:19:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: Hello and can you help me Those are, I believe (I'm at work and not at home where I have these), the 2nd Fret recordings, which have been bootlegged under various names over the years. They were recorded in Philadelphia in 1967. Jerry Lisa Resnick wrote: > Hi everybody. I'm new to the list. I've been a Joni fan since the 70's- > and my friends complained then that they couldn't shut me up, talking > about every Joni song. That was my favorite time period. I saw her perform > in Forest Hills when she put out Mingus, but didn't follow her much after > that. > Discovering this group has me thinking about, and singing her songs > again. > My Google search for a particular unrecorded album brought me to > discovering this group. Maybe someone here can help me find it. I don't > know the name of it either. > I used to have a tape of Joni singing, presumably in London. > Songs I recall were:1- Mr. Green-where she took the best lines of > uncompleted songs and put them in one song. I loved this catchy song. > 2- London Bridges (falling down...) > 3-The Coca Cola Commercial -a play on getting high with lyrics following > like "everything's better with Coca Cola" > Thanks, Lisa > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:10:01 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Hello and can you help me Jerry is correct, Lisa - and the song you were thinking of is not Mr. Green but rather Mr. Blue. Let me know if you need copies of these recordings to add to your Joni collection. Bob NP (Now Playing): REM, "Leave" - --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with your Yahoo! Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:01:55 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: concert comparisons Debra answered all my questions, finishing: "My favorite parts of that evening were hearing Cyndi Lauper's sexy redoing of Carey, and hearing Richard Thompson for the first time, doing Woodstock, just him and his guitar in a single spotlight. Very dramatic. The whole show felt like a grand and exciting adventure. And, of course, it was great having Joni in the room and ending the show with her updated world-weary orchestra-backed Both Sides Now. It was a love-fest and everyone seemed happy to be there, audience and performers, too." Thanks very much for taking me there with your full reply, Debra. It was, then, as I have imagined it (with even less in terms of TV interruption than I would have expected). In the immortal words of Roberto De Vicenzo, "I am a stupid" - for having missed it :-) Bobsart ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #42 ******************************** ------- 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)