From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #256 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 Friday, September 8 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 256 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Michael Hedges [rsc1@humboldt.edu] Re: SJC "Best Male Joni" [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Joni Mitchell Fights Miner to Keep Canadian Paradise Unpaved [jonijoe@ema] re: Michael Hedges ["Anne Sandstrom" ] Various threads (not all Joni) [] Re: Various threads (not all Joni) ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Various threads (not all Joni) [] Re: Various threads (not all Joni) ["Randy Remote" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 23:45:32 -0700 (PDT) From: rsc1@humboldt.edu Subject: Michael Hedges > Michael Hedges is dead??? Michael Hedges sang??? Yes to both questions. Michael was driving home to Mendocino, CA, the day after Thanksgiving, 1997, in a terrible rainstorm, when his vehicle went off the twisting two-lane highway. His body was not found until a few days later. A huge loss to the music world. Hedges was one of the most unique and groundbreaking guitarists to have graced the planet with his talents. Truly an amazing player. He always sang during his concerts, and released the first album to feature his vocals in 1985, "Watching My Life Go By". Later albums mixed vocal tunes with instrumentals. Though it's been almost 9 years since his passing, I still miss his playing, his wit, his view of the world. A wonderful and complex man. Gus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:38:33 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: SJC "Best Male Joni" Hi Ben. I have found several Australian male artists to be almost as articulate, lyrically as Joni and as politically aware. One of them is David Bridie. He started out as the writer/performer and singer of the "Indie" band, Not Drowning, Waving. He and several other people formed the offshoot band, My Friend The Chocolate Cake. Bridie likes to collaborate with many different musicians of different styles including indigenous musicians. He has collaborated many times with long time friend, John Phillips. It is when he sings about everyday life in tough circumstances and the emotions experienced by everyday people that he conjures Joni's spirit to me. Act of Free Choice was his first solo album. The title refers to the bogus referendum the Indonesian government put to the people of West Papua for self determination and independence. His voice is earthy and his lyrics are thought provoking. Mark in Sydney NP Waiting - David Bridie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:35:08 -0400 From: jonijoe@email.unc.edu Subject: Joni Mitchell Fights Miner to Keep Canadian Paradise Unpaved Joni Mitchell Fights Miner to Keep Canadian Paradise Unpaved c.2006 Bloomberg News By Christopher Donville Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell, whose first hit 36 years ago was about the perils of paving paradise, is trying to prevent a London miner from muscling in on her piece of it. Pan Pacific Aggregates Plc plans to build a $100 million industrial-rock mine on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, where mild temperatures and a rugged shoreline attract vacationers and retirees from around the world. The quarry would take an "incredibly beautiful area of wildlife and turn it into an industrial moonscape," Mitchell said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. The singer gained fame in 1970 for "Big Yellow Taxi," whose lyrics railed against developers who "paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Mitchell, 62, is one of more than 4,000 people who signed petitions circulated by two groups opposing the mine. One of them, Save Our Sunshine Coast, led an armada of 70 yachts and sailboats along the coast in July to protest Pan Pacific's plan. The retirees and second-home owners are facing off against workers who say the region needs the jobs the mine would bring. As the economy shifts toward tourism and retirement services, it's generating jobs that pay less than loggers and mill workers have made. Pan Pacific said it plans to hire at least 100 local workers to help export 6 million metric tons of crushed rock a year, mostly to California. First it must submit a report on the mine's environmental impact to the provincial government next year, obtain a zoning change and receive a mining permit. 'We Need the Jobs' "I'm singing the mine's praises," said Russ Clarke, 73, a retired forestry-road builder who lives in Sechelt, a town of 10,000 people about nine miles (14 kilometers) south of the proposed rock mine. "We need the jobs. This town used to have 300 loggers. Now there's only 25." British Columbia annually consumes about 60 million tons of the materials Pan Pacific plans to mine -- crushed limestone, used in making cement, and dolomite, used in ceramics and fertilizer. The province's economy grew 3.5 percent last year, compared with 2.9 percent for the rest of Canada, led by a construction boom for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Pan Pacific, whose shares trade on London's Alternative Investment Market for smaller stocks, said the mine is the first of several it may build near the Sunshine Coast on the forested slopes of the Caren mountain range. Coexisting With Tourists "We see no reason why our development cannot coexist with tourism and other land uses," said Don Nicholson, 67, Pan Pacific's chairman. The company has spent about C$25 million ($23 million) to develop industrial-rock mines on the Sunshine Coast, said Cal Mark, project manager. That includes acquiring mineral rights beneath much of the Sechelt Peninsula, about 35 miles northwest of Vancouver, purchasing mining permits and building access roads. Exploration in the area began in 1969. Pan Pacific's first mine on the Sunshine Coast would disturb about 215 hectares (531 acres). It also would cut a 6.6-mile swath through coastal forests for a rock conveyor system to Wood Bay, where Pan Pacific plans to build a port. "Wood Bay is the most lightly populated area on the Sunshine Coast," said Mark, 58. "Bringing the conveyor and offloading port to Wood Bay should have the least impact." Million-Dollar Homes That's little consolation to people who own seafront homes valued at C$1 million to C$4 million that sit within sight of the planned port, said Garry Nohr, an elected representative of the municipality, the Sunshine Coast Regional District. The Sunshine Coast's population jumped 3.2 percent last year to 28,557, the biggest increase in the province. "Pan Pacific sees the area as rural," said Nohr. "People who live here see it as residential, within a rural setting." That's what lured Gail Jarislowsky, who has visited the area since childhood. The wife of fund manager Stephen Jarislowsky, of Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd. in Montreal, has seen killer whales and porpoises frolicking in the waves near her family's seaside cottage on Halfmoon Bay. She said she fears those sightings would become even rarer amid increased traffic by ocean freighters hauling away the rock. "We're not against development, but it should be measured and well reasoned," said Jarislowsky, 67, a member of the Halfmoon Bay Citizens Association, a taxpayers group. "This area is already under environmental pressure." The region has a gravel mine operated by Vancouver's Construction Aggregates Ltd., a unit of Heidelberg, Germany-based HeidelbergCement AG. Executives of Pan Pacific, who have held public meetings to build support for the project, say they will do everything possible to limit environmental damage. If the company passes all regulatory hurdles, mining may begin in late 2008. That could diminish the Sunshine Coast's allure for Mitchell, who has owned property in the area since the late 1960s and now has about 80 acres. The singer, who has won five Grammys, said she wrote most of her songs at her oceanside cottage. "This has been a place to restore my soul," she said. "It's like my Walden Pond." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:29:24 -0500 From: "Anne Sandstrom" Subject: re: Michael Hedges Ah, so tragic that he's no longer with us. I remember hearing it on the radio the day he died. I saw him live at a rather small venue in Cambridge MA. He did a rousing version of "Come Together" (which also appears on his live album). By the end of the song, we were all standing, no, DANCING on the tables!!!! The recorded version is great, but still doesn't capture quite the energy of the live experience. And to Les I., I saw Pierre Bensusan there too. What a night!!!! lots of love, Anne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:21:41 -0700 From: Subject: Various threads (not all Joni) My male Joni Mitchell (and I made this determination way back in the '60s) is Van Morrison. Bill Murray gossip - He was an investor in Les Deux Cafes - once a fave Joni haunt in Hollywood that a bunch of us have visited. His son was also one of the bartenders there. Les Deux Cafes suddenly closed up amidst some controversy a few years back but has now been reborn under new ownership as "Les Deux," the new hot spot for Paris, Lindsay Lohan, the assorted Jessicas and the rest LOL. Sarah Vaughn - the best I've ever heard. Saw her singing on a TV show and flipped. Got some front row tickets at a little club at the beach in 1981 to see her and totally flipped and fell out of my chair. Will have to pull Brazilian Romance out and play now. Music to do it by: Ha! I am probably too Irish Catholic to even think of it but can remember seductive music I fell in love (or lust) to - Joni's Blue, Dan Fogelberg, at least two Sergio Mendes albums, Arthur Lee and Love, The Doors (hey, whatever ;-), Led Zeppelin I (yeah, whatever), Cheryl Lynn (that was a lust one), Bill Champlin/Sons of Champlin (probably was really in love with Bill) and you know there are many more. Cat Stevens - Everyone I knew from 1970 to 1973 was in love with him. A bunch of us in college crammed into a Jeep and rode down to Tuscon to see him in '72. He had a complete meltdown on stage early on - started raging at someone in the first few rows and was vehemently flipping them the bird. Then he regained some composure and went on to do an excellent show. Michael Hedges - when he died in 1997 there were several wonderful posts about him here. They can be found in the archives. Other Joni places - Happened to end up at Hal's Bar & Grill in Venice (another JMDLer landmark) last night and of course pointed out Joni's painting there to my friends. Saw that they had changed out a few of the other famous L.A. artist works but Joni's remains. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:32:23 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Various threads (not all Joni) - ----- Original Message ----- From: > Cat Stevens> to see him in '72. He had a complete meltdown on stage > early on - started raging at someone in the first few rows and was > vehemently flipping them the bird. Then he regained some composure and > went on to do an excellent show. wow! > - Happened to end up at Hal's Bar & Grill in Venice (another JMDLer > landmark) last night and of course pointed out Joni's painting there to my > friends. Saw that they had changed out a few of the other famous L.A. > artist works but Joni's remains. wow again-which one is it? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:53:36 -0700 From: Subject: Re: Various threads (not all Joni) Hi Randy, You wrote about Cat: > > wow! Yeah, it was a memorable trip down and back and time at the show - heehee! Most everyone was all mellow, ahem, and then suddenly he became like the Incredible Hulk raging on steroids. Then he calmed down and it was all cool again and forgotten. Ha! > wow again-which one is it? It's an unknown abstract from the 1980s. I sent a link to a photo of it years ago and recall it ended up on the original JM.com site somewhere. Maybe we can find it in the "back pages." It is kind of dreamy and ethereal for an abstract. Lots of pinkish tones and a sort of vague, almost Rorshach-like image of perhaps Joni splattered in the center of the canvas in gold paint. Years ago one of the waiters there told me that the owner, Hal, is a friend of Joni and has a house full of her paintings. I wish he would rotate a few of them in and out! Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:00:10 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Various threads (not all Joni) From: To: "Randy Remote" > Yeah, it was a memorable trip down and back and time at the show - heehee! > Most everyone was all mellow, ahem, and then suddenly he became like the > Incredible Hulk raging on steroids. Then he calmed down and it was all > cool again and forgotten. Ha! How funny (weird funny)..a good show and soap opera to boot! Like Stills in that Big Sur movie where he almost fights that guy in the middle of the show. Years ago one of the waiters there told me that the owner, > Hal, is a friend of Joni and has a house full of her paintings. I wish he > would rotate a few of them in and out! Yeah, really...this fellow Hal...he's only encouraging her...that's why she's not making music. She's painting for Hal! ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #256 ********************************* ------- 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)