From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #290 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, October 11 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 290 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni to do a new album? ["Jamie's Box of Paints" ] Re: Dylan and Joni and old has beens [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] RE: New Joni album on the horizon? [Em ] Re: Dylan and Joni and old has beens [Em ] The REAL interview ["Les Irvin" ] The REAL interview ["Les Irvin" ] Re: The REAL interview ["rflynn@frontiernet.net" ] Words to one of Joni's new songs [Les Irvin ] Re: The REAL interview ["Jenny Goodspeed" ] Re: new album ? ["Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" ] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20The=20REAL=20interview?= ["=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20] Dylan and Joni and old has beens ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: new album ? ["bluejr@adelphia.net" ] Re: Words to one of Joni's new songs [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20Photography=20of=20Henry=20Diltz=2C=20au tographed=20=20by=20joni?= ["=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" ] Joni and Robert Plant [Bryan ] =?UTF-8?B?cGhvdG9z?= =?UTF-8?B?IGpvbmkg?= =?UTF-8?B?YW5kIG90?= =?UTF-8?B?aGVycyA=?= ["=?UTF-8?B?TEVTTEkgQSBXQVRUUw==?=" ] Re: The REAL interview [Norma Jean Garza ] Re: Dylan and Joni and old has beens [] Henry Diltz photography (no real Joni) [] Hejira at 30 - 9 stories for 9 songs ["Michael O'Malley" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:13:24 +0100 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: Joni to do a new album? Well of course her voice won't have the range etc etc... but as it's a self-written not covers not older songs project, I suspect that they will have been written for that (limited) range.... BUt hey, I'll buy it and make sure its played... I love Marianna Faithful's voice and that IS shot to pieces! Much Joni Jamie Zoob On 10/10/06, Paul Headon wrote: > Joni to do a new album? > > Does anybody besides me worry that perhaps her voice wont be up to it. I > would like to add here that I would welcome anything that Joni thinks is > good enough for her to release. > > > Best wishes, > > Paul Headon. > in Wales) > - -- I am a lonely Painter I live in a Box of Paints I'm frightened by the devil But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... Jamie Zubairi can be found for voice-overs at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 acting CV and showreel at http://uk.castingcallpro.com/u/81749 and on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/jamiezoob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:18:39 +0000 From: "vincenzo mancini" Subject: Carey video Cyndi Lauper Smurf wrote: ... Are its performances available as audio tracks anywhere? Sorry for not using the NO JC tag but I tried to get in touch with Smurf and it seems that hotmail is blocking e-mails directed to yahoo. Smurf, I could copy the TNT audio tracks on a CD for you; if you have another e-mail address please contact me off list. As to the JC, some months ago I also tried to contribute to the Fiction section but it seems that you never got it... Vincenzo May your skies be blue iPod, Therefore I Am by Dylan Jones Page 73: "... iBondage , Up Yours! It's Time for Punk! 73 room and play Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, or Van Morrison. I didn't feel embarrassed, didn't feel as though I were letting the side down; ..." Page 196: "... " "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell, and the deeply suspect "My Sharona" by power-pop wannabes the Knack. He was given his machine by his daughters, and ..." Page 199: "... program that has been broadcast in living memory. Or, you just might want to wallow in a day's worth of Joni Mitchell-scramble the stuff up, ..." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:21:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alice Brown Subject: Re: Joni to do a new album? Hey JoniBuds, I do worry about her voice, but as long as she can sing at all, I'll be happy to hear anything new that she has recorded. I admit, I can't stand big band music; I don't know why, it just bothers me somehow. I did appreciate BSN a bit, but don't listen to it anymore. I hope, if it does happen (yes, I'm skeptical) that they aren't big band types but Joni types. All this talk of a new album got me remembering the day I found out that TTT was released. I tend to have really limited contact with the media because I'm so intense and I get triggered too much. Anyway I had no idea that a new Joni album was on the horizon. I was driving in my car listening to NPR or something when on comes Sex Kills. I was mesmerized in a millisecond, my mind suddenly on alert, could it be? I had heard only the music, and then that voice. I was overjoyed and suddenly my reality shifted. Where was I driving to? Who the fuck cares? I turned my wheel towards the nearest music store. All jazzed up, senses keen. I entered the store and made a beeline for the Joni section. There it was! My next thought was, "Oh shit, there's trouble in paradise." I knew by her awesome but sad self-portrait that Joni's relationship with Klien was in trouble. I felt really sad about that. I got over it and went back into my trance as I listened to another treasure from Joni. Treasure? Gem? There are no words to describe how much every Joni album means to me. Hundreds of hours of joy, and so much more. Love, Alice ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:36:11 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Dylan and Joni and old has beens Kakki, you could always point out that Modern Times was the #1 album in the country when it came out. That may not be evidence that people are listening, but they are buying. And while the Stones had a long string of weak ones, "A Bigger Bang" from last year was really a powerhouse and could have come out at the same time as Exile, Sticky Fingers & etc. (lyrical references notwithstanding). Joni remains relevant and still has so much to say that needs to be said. I'm not exactly holding my breath but I'm excited as well about the news and you know I'll be looking for covers of those new songs as soon as they come out. And speaking of Lennon - Coverville's latest show is a Lennon tribute, he'll be doing a Joni tribute on her birthday as well so stay tuned for that. If he uses ALL the tracks I've sent him it'll be a 2-hour show! Bob NP: Coverville #250 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. 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I'll believe it when I see it. > > And I'm hoping against hope there are no Vince Mendoza orchestral > arrangements on it if it does happen. > > Though there's no Joni album I haven't bought (many of them several > times > because of changing formats). > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > RoseMJoy@aol.com > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:57 PM > To: ckarma@hotmail.com; joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: New Joni album on the horizon? > > In a message dated 10/9/2006 11:38:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > ckarma@hotmail.com writes: > > Me: Just when I'd truly made peace with the thought it would never > happen > again. I'm just overjoyed! > It's that muse named Art I tell ya ;~) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:02:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: Dylan and Joni and old has beens funny thing though, I don't recall ever hearing people like the Beatles or the Stones wish that their musical mentors would go ahead and quit. Like you'd never hear someone groaning about Chuck Berry making a new album, or Willie Dixon or Memphis Slim or Bo Diddley. That's one thing I've always really respected about the first couple waves of rock and roll, that even though in a sense there was this rebellion against their elders (parents), there was still this tremendous respect and affection for their MUSICAL elders. The reason I like it when music draws from the past is that it keeps a kind of circle going. Em - --- kbhla@sbcglobal.net wrote: > Had to share a conversation I had tonight with a co-worker of a > friend. She > always tells me how much she loves Joni and how she has been > practicing > guitar every night and writing songs. Her mother was/is a hippie and > while > she is a bit younger, she regards herself as a hippie, too. So I > thought > she would be glad to hear that Joni might be coming out with some new > songs. > Oh no, she was horrified and thought that Joni was right to quit when > she > did. She actually compared Joni to the wrinked likes of Bread, Peter > > Frampton and the Rolling Stones not knowing when to hang it up. I > argued > that lots of people would just be glad that Joni was still creating > and even > if her renditions were not quite like the old days, there are always > great > artists who could interpret and cover (Hi Bob) her new songs. Oh no, > she > said, covering her face with her hands, it is too horrible to > imagine. Then > I said Dylan is still going strong even though he can't sing anymore > and he > just came out with a new album that is getting good reviews. She > laughed in > my face and said no one buys or listens to Dylan anymore. I said yes > they > do and she said no they do not! Parallel universes, eh? LOL > > Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:15:14 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: The REAL interview Joe wrote: >What's weird is that it seems like such an afterthought here. You >would think (well, maybe we would think) that that whole article would >be about the recording of the new music, but that's just a detail >casually mentioned in passing. Like a magician's slight of hand, Sunday's "Hejira" article distracted us from the REAL interview published a day earlier: "Joni Mitchell has stepped out of retirement to work on her first album of new material in nearly a decade, driven by a desire to add a fresh voice to the warnings of pending disaster from war and environmental damage and offer "courage through tough times." Ms. Mitchell has already laid down the basic tracks for five songs in her home studio in Los Angeles. The album is still untitled... "Like most of her records since 1974's classic Court and Spark, Ms. Mitchell will employ the talents of long-time friends and jazz musicians, most notably Brian Blade on drums, Wayne Shorter on soprano sax and Herbie Hancock on piano. She intends to produce the album and will play piano and synthesizers too, as well as both acoustic and electric guitars, and overdub with pockets of orchestration." Full article: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1460 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:07:14 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: The REAL interview Joe wrote: >What's weird is that it seems like such an afterthought here. You >would think (well, maybe we would think) that that whole article would >be about the recording of the new music, but that's just a detail >casually mentioned in passing. Like a magician's slight of hand, Sunday's "Hejira" article distracted us from the REAL interview published a day earlier: "Joni Mitchell has stepped out of retirement to work on her first album of new material in nearly a decade, driven by a desire to add a fresh voice to the warnings of pending disaster from war and environmental damage and offer "courage through tough times." Ms. Mitchell has already laid down the basic tracks for five songs in her home studio in Los Angeles. The album is still untitled... "Like most of her records since 1974's classic Court and Spark, Ms. Mitchell will employ the talents of long-time friends and jazz musicians, most notably Brian Blade on drums, Wayne Shorter on soprano sax and Herbie Hancock on piano. She intends to produce the album and will play piano and synthesizers too, as well as both acoustic and electric guitars, and overdub with pockets of orchestration." Full article: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1460 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:43:02 -0400 From: "rflynn@frontiernet.net" Subject: Re: The REAL interview The glass is half full! Richard Quoting Les Irvin : > Joe wrote: >> What's weird is that it seems like such an afterthought here. You >> would think (well, maybe we would think) that that whole article would >> be about the recording of the new music, but that's just a detail >> casually mentioned in passing. > > Like a magician's slight of hand, Sunday's "Hejira" article distracted us > from the REAL interview published a day earlier: > > "Joni Mitchell has stepped out of retirement to work on her first album of > new material in nearly a decade, driven by a desire to add a fresh voice to > the warnings of pending disaster from war and environmental damage and offer > "courage through tough times." Ms. Mitchell has already laid down the basic > tracks for five songs in her home studio in Los Angeles. The album is still > untitled... > > "Like most of her records since 1974's classic Court and Spark, Ms. Mitchell > will employ the talents of long-time friends and jazz musicians, most > notably Brian Blade on drums, Wayne Shorter on soprano sax and Herbie > Hancock on piano. She intends to produce the album and will play piano and > synthesizers too, as well as both acoustic and electric guitars, and overdub > with pockets of orchestration." > > Full article: > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1460 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:02:13 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: Words to one of Joni's new songs In the interview with the Citizen, Joni disclosed the words to several songs she is working on for her latest album. Here is one, a piece she described as "a good poem for courage through tough times, a soldier's poem, really." HOLY WAR There's nothing on earth As unholy as a war, The rich sacrifice the poor. If I had a heart I'd cry. In fairy tales the good go to heaven And the evil go to hell, Ring the funeral bell. If I had a heart I'd cry. Holy earth, religion has failed us, It failed to make us kind, It spoke of light but kept us blind. If I had a heart I'd cry. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:31:44 -0400 From: "Jenny Goodspeed" Subject: Re: The REAL interview This is a great interview Les, thanks! Some people may shake their heads at her inflated (and rightly so) sense of self, but it makes me smile: "People were just not ready for a lot of my later work  they had their heads in the sand, or up their asses, or something. I was just dismissed as Chicken Little and now, of course, everything I wrote is with us in a way that nobody can possibly deny." And her response to whether Kipling would have minded her making some changes to his poem: "Oh, no! I've made it better," she says with a smoky laugh. If only I had a thimbleful of that sort of self-efficacy. Jenny On 10/10/06, Les Irvin wrote: > > Joe wrote: > >What's weird is that it seems like such an afterthought here. You > >would think (well, maybe we would think) that that whole article would > >be about the recording of the new music, but that's just a detail > >casually mentioned in passing. > > Like a magician's slight of hand, Sunday's "Hejira" article distracted us > from the REAL interview published a day earlier: > > "Joni Mitchell has stepped out of retirement to work on her first album of > new material in nearly a decade, driven by a desire to add a fresh voice > to > the warnings of pending disaster from war and environmental damage and > offer > "courage through tough times." Ms. Mitchell has already laid down the > basic > tracks for five songs in her home studio in Los Angeles. The album is > still > untitled... > > "Like most of her records since 1974's classic Court and Spark, Ms. > Mitchell > will employ the talents of long-time friends and jazz musicians, most > notably Brian Blade on drums, Wayne Shorter on soprano sax and Herbie > Hancock on piano. She intends to produce the album and will play piano and > synthesizers too, as well as both acoustic and electric guitars, and > overdub > with pockets of orchestration." > > Full article: > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1460 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:45:30 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" Subject: Re: new album ? According to the Chronology of Appearances at http://www.jonimitchell.com/chronology/#2000 , The Both Sides Now tour in '00 was: Los Angeles, CA Concord, CA West Palm Beach, FL Atlanta, GA New York, NY Columbia, MD Wallingford, CT Rosemont, IL Clarkston, MI (Detroit) Camden, NJ Clearly, it's time to put some money aside each payday. Hell, yes. All the best, Jim L. jonijoe@email.unc.edu >What's weird is that it seems like such an afterthought here. You would think (well, maybe we would think) that that whole article would be about the recording of the new music, but that's just a detail casually mentioned in passing. (Not that I don't love the focus on Hejira, my favorite album) If it is true and exactly as we're reading it, my biggest hope is that she will go on tour with it. Even if that means like, 6 stops, I would go to the nearest one.> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:53:15 -0700 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20The=20REAL=20interview?= Subject: The REAL interview les wrote: . > >Like a magician's sleight of hand, Sunday's "Hejira" article distracted us >from the REAL interview published a day earlier: > >"Joni Mitchell has stepped out of retirement to work on her first album of >new material in nearly a decade, driven by a desire to add a fresh voice to >the warnings of pending disaster from war and environmental damage and offer >"courage through tough times." " I said send me somebody who's strong and somewhat sincere" whooping with joy in topanga! - ---------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:39:27 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Dylan and Joni and old has beens >She laughed in my face and said no one buys or listens to Dylan anymore. I said yes they do and she said no they do not! Parallel universes, eh? LOL Kakki< It was the number one album a few weeks ago as I recall. How does she think that happened? She is young & needs some edgucatin... music is not just for only the young to produce... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:38:44 -0400 From: "bluejr@adelphia.net" Subject: Re: new album ? There's a Boston date missing (Harborlights Pavilion) from that 2000 list. J. Original Message: - ----------------- From: Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama jlamadoo@sbcglobal.net Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:45:30 -0400 To: joni@smoe.org, jonijoe@email.unc.edu Subject: Re: new album ? According to the Chronology of Appearances at http://www.jonimitchell.com/chronology/#2000 , The Both Sides Now tour in '00 was: Los Angeles, CA Concord, CA West Palm Beach, FL Atlanta, GA New York, NY Columbia, MD Wallingford, CT Rosemont, IL Clarkston, MI (Detroit) Camden, NJ Clearly, it's time to put some money aside each payday. Hell, yes. All the best, Jim L. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:27:14 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Words to one of Joni's new songs Wow - simply overwhelming news, Les - keep it coming. I'm happy and proud to hear that Joni feels she *has* to join the chorus of artists' voices speaking out against the global insanity. "Pockets of orchestration"....I can deal with that. I think the key point is that she's not OBLIGATED to create this work but rather feels driven to do it. There's a big difference in the two, I think. Bob NP: Joni, "Come In From The Cold" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. 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I said that's a great shot of neil at zuma. she had no clue that i was talking about neil young. but she perked right up when i told her i was with a fan site for joni and wanted more information on diltz's work but she didn't know zip about the autographed editions. The answer to my big question: Was joni at the opening? NO ! so we hadn't missed a chance to raise our glasses to her. Jennifer called the co-owner, Sam Milgrom to get the info on the autographed ones which were not available right now in that store! She handed over the phone to me. the photos of joni were basically the ones that have been on diltz's website for a couple of years. they can be bought at any of the stores including the denver one. joni #1 on henry's site is the one offered in platinum and silver gentian with her autograph. there are plenty of these for everyone if you can afford the hefty price! there are 10 of the platinum prints at $7500 with the price going up as there are fewer left! the silver gentian are $2000 each ( an edition of 50) with the price rising as there are fewer left. Take a look at http://www.henry'sgallery.com/mainframe.html There were 4 photos of Joni on the wall. one of the ones with gram, on the way to the csny photo shoot, (a slightly different one than the one on his site) Joni seated at the dulcimer (color) in that long knit dress the famous windowsill one (color) the b&w portrait that is the autographed one 11 by 14 open editions are $400, 16 by 20 limited to 275 are $800 20 by 24(b&w) or 20 by 30 (color) limited to 100 are $1200 except the autograohed one which is $400, $1000, and $1400 respectively sans autograph Prices do not include the frames there were 4 photographers featured, one named marshall who had some books for sale. in one he had the photo shoot of joni for Look magazine. this wasn't on the wall. It was really a nice one. in all i would recommend a look see if you are near one of the galleries. jennifer said henry is writing a book and carries a notebook everywhere, scribbling down snippets of conversations. i said hey ray bradbury does that and got another blank look. there's kakki's parallel universe at work. anyway the book is something to look forward to. personally, even though i loved seeing the images- i'm waiting for the day when i buy a painting by joni. lesli - ---------- Original Message ------------- Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:21:37 -0700 From: To: Subject: Photography of Henry Diltz >Kate wrote: > >"Let us know how much the photos are going for (if they are not already >gone)! He tours quite a bit with his photo exhibition & is very friendly" > >Argh - we were so sorry to have missed the grand opening reception! Argh! >;-) Henry has galleries in La Jolla, New York and Paris and now has one >right near Guitar Center in Hollywood! I'm hoping to get over there >sometime this week and will give a report including a price range for the >Joni photos. > >"Born in Kansas City, MO, Henry Diltz moved around the globe with his family >while growing up. He briefly attended West Point, then took up the banjo and >co-founded the Modern Folk Quartet." > >>What an interesting background he has. > >He sure does. He also went to college at University of Hawaii. I love >hearing about Henry. He is truly the neatest, coolest person I have ever >met from that "era." Right up there with Joni. I found and bought his >first MFQ vinyl album on eBay which is autographed by Henry (then known as >"Tad" Diltz) and his bandmates. > >Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:36:44 -0400 From: "Christopher Treacy" Subject: New Disc, Expended Editions Hey Gang, Just poking out of lurk mode for a sec to say - after reading the Ottawa article on Hejira, I contacted Joni's publicist who informed me that, a) the new disc will probably be out next year and that b)the situation with the three expanded editions that've been discussed here before are still uncertain (sigh). Maybe Simon can shed some light on that situation? Cheers, Christopher ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:36:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Subject: Joni and Robert Plant I would love to hear a musical collaboration by Joni and Robert Plant. Sounds unlikely, I know. But whenever I listen to Plant's "Principle of Moments" album (and I listen to it a lot), I can't help but hear some Joni in it, the guitar and percussion mainly. I would much prefer the participation of someone like Robert over some of the previous collaborators and contributors on the existing albums. Of course, this thought comes up now only because it appears a new freakin' CD is in the works! Holy cow. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:49:12 -0700 From: "=?UTF-8?B?TEVTTEkgQSBXQVRUUw==?=" Subject: =?UTF-8?B?cGhvdG9z?= =?UTF-8?B?IGpvbmkg?= =?UTF-8?B?YW5kIG90?= =?UTF-8?B?aGVycyA=?= last post about this i promise just found this blurb from this week's city beat sam says it! "the portfolios are for the TOTALLY OBSSESSED AND WEALTHY" it ain't me babe still the gallery is a nice outing SUITE SHOTS ~ By DR. REBECCA EPSTEIN ~ Photo by Henry Diltz Now on Sunset: Jimi at Woodstock am Milgrom has always brought the rock. A native of Detroit Rock City, from the late b70s until the early b90s, he helmed the famous Sambs Jams record store b once the countrybs largest b in Ferndale, Michigan, as well as the still-running Magic Bag nightclub, which he sold in 1996 when he moved to sunny SoCal. Here, he ditched the vinyl for the visual and opened a music poster gallery on Melrose Avenue. He relocated that shop last year to Sunset Boulevard, where it became Mr. Musichead, a gallery for rock bnb roll art. Things kept a steady beat until just nine months ago, when Milgrom received a call from elementary school friend Richard Horowitz. Horowitz works with Yoko Ono as the exclusive purveyor of John Lennonbs original artworks. In 2001 he teamed up with legendary rock photographer Henry Diltz to open the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Manhattan, specializing in bfine art music photography.b MoHo was a hit, and, after opening a branch in La Jolla, Horowitz and Diltz (who shot the Doorsb classic Morrison Hotel album cover) decided it was time to reach music fans in L.A. bRich said, bYou have the perfect space and location, how about we merge?bb recalls Milgrom. Last weekend was the grand opening of Morrison Hotel Gallery, L.A. According to Milgrom, more than 400 people b including veteran photographers and members of brock royaltyb b checked in to check out its selection of limited-edition prints and portfolios by Diltz, Jim Marshall, Herb Greene, and Bob Gruen, among others. Now with Milgrombs roster, the gallery represents 25 photographers, including Merri Cyr, Jeanette Beckman, and Lynn Goldsmith to break up the boysb club. Print prices range from $400 to $10,000. At $50,000, the portfolios are for the totally obsessed b and wealthy. Still, Milgrom insists the gallery succeeds not only because it offers a combination of rarity, quality, and diversity (youbll find pix of hip-hop, punk, jazz, and metal as well as classic rock artists), but also affordability. bI thought our clientele was going to be just Baby Boomers, but we have a lot of first-time buyers in their 20s who had posters on their walls in college. They see something in the gallery for $400 and think, bGosh, I spent that on clothing last week, but I can have [a print] the rest of my life E2 and love it!b bRebecca Epstein Morrison Hotel Gallery. 7517 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 874-2068. Mon.-Thur. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Morrisonhotelgallery.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:51:15 -0700 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20Dylan=20and=20Joni=20and=20old=20has=20b eens?= i was at least that arrogant lesli - ---------- Original Message ------------- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:39:27 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" To: Subject: Dylan and Joni and old has beens >>She laughed in my face and said no one buys or listens to Dylan anymore. I >said yes they do and she said no they do not! Parallel universes, eh? LOL > >Kakki< > >It was the number one album a few weeks ago as I recall. How does she think >that happened? She is young & needs some edgucatin... music is not just for >only the young to produce... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:54:02 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Subject: Re: Nothing quite like..... LOL! Indeed. There is nothing quite like...... PAZ!!!! Thanks for the laugh, Joni brother! "As far as I am concerned I would be happy if she farted thru a flanger for 75 minutes., I am sure it would be better than 90% of the dribble out there today." Nobody but you! And to see her again.....wouldn't we all go to the ends of the earth? Ain't no mountain high enough! Sell our vehicles or homes or whatever it took? I will NEVER forget the RUSH when, after sitting with my best friend and her daughter, chatting excitedly at the Oakdale Theater on May 27, 2000, Joni appeared, like a vision, through the curtains on to the stage. Janis and I just grabbed each other's arms and gasped: "OH MY GOD! THERE SHE IS!" (I just got chills and goosebumps all over again writing that.) Love, Patti P., off to the phone banks (yuck) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:06:53 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Re: The REAL interview Thank you yes! Yes, we do need a little Joni these days..... Rosie in NJ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:25:45 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: 'if' by rudyard kipling 'if' by rudyard kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master, If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:30:44 -0400 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: The REAL interview Wow, This is amazing news. I truly believed Joni would never record again; it seemed like she could neither sing, nor play, nor write anymore. But the muse endures. It's my birthday. Happy birthday to me! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- dlmessling@rcn.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Norma Jean Garza Subject: Re: The REAL interview - --- Deb Messling wrote: > Wow, This is amazing news. I truly believed Joni > would never record again; > it seemed like she could neither sing, nor play, nor > write anymore. But the > muse endures. > > It's my birthday. Happy birthday to me! ` Happy Birthday, Deb. I'm happy and delighted, too, knowing that there's some beauty round the corner. Beauty, notes von Balthasar, "will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters (the true and the good) without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. Whoever rejects genuine beauty can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love." "Beauty is the radiance of all the transcendentals united."~Maritain~ "Elegant music has indeed a privileged place in any discussion of radiant form and the evidential power of the beautiful and how they relate to our human pursuit of the divine." ~Dubay~ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:30:38 -0700 From: Subject: Re: Dylan and Joni and old has beens I tried to tell her, Bob, but she just laughed me off! Maybe it's a generation gap that I'm clueless about! ;-) I also said you can't compare Joni to Frampton and Bread and she laughed even more! Then perhaps I posed the ultimate challenge by offering her the use of my copy of the new Joni songbook with the real tuning stuff she could learn. She did not accept the offer. I guess the "what is popular, what is commercial" mindset permeates in ways somehow. Maybe it is because I am getting older but I really do appreciate not only the greats but also the not so greats still getting out there and playing. I recall a few years back visiting the opening of Mandalay Bay hotel in Vegas. Dylan has just headlined the opening weekend and the Blues Brothers were playing the in-house House of Blues. But I was so amazed and happy to hear the old Grass Roots playing the little lounge there! No one who loves music should give it up if they still want to play. So what if they are not still popular or can sing and look good like the old days. I just think it is wonderful they are out there if they want to be. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:59:07 -0700 From: Subject: Henry Diltz photography (no real Joni) Lesli - thanks for the great report and for letting us know about the new gallery! I figured the prices would be high for the work because they have been in the past. At least we can look, I guess ;-) You said: "jennifer said henry is writing a book and carries a notebook everywhere, scribbling down snippets of conversations." YES!! Oooh, I can't wait for Henry's book. That will be a good, must read. " i said hey ray bradbury does that and got another blank look. there's kakki's parallel universe at work." Haha! My mom knew Ray in the old days when they were young and anonymous in L.A. He didn't like to drive and so took the bus every day to work (as did my mom) and they became buddies. But geez, just a few years later he was required reading in my high school. Oh well. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:42:07 +0000 From: "Michael O'Malley" Subject: Hejira at 30 - 9 stories for 9 songs Just back from a whirlwind holiday to points west, that included a stop near Ottawa. The Citizen also had another article by Doug Fischer on October 8th called Hejira -The 9 Stories Behind the 9 Songs. It's a bit too long for me to type here, but here are a few interesting tidbits that I thought might not already be common knowledge. The man in A Strange Boy was a 30-year old airline steward who accomanied Joni (as well as an Australian lover who had showed up at her door) on the now famous cross-country drive to New England in 1976. Said boy and Joni shook up the guests one night along the way when staying at an uptight B&B - - hence the lines ``While boarders were snoring under crisp white sheets of curfew/We were newly lovers then/We were fire in the stiff-blue-haired-house rules.`` Hejira was probably the toughest tune for her to write - an attempt to explain the reasons she left Guerin. After Song for Sharon came out, Sharon Bell made an album in Sakatoon, which she distributed to family and friends. Apparently she is a beautiful singer. Black Crow was inspired by an incident at Joni's BC home. It is, in part, a lament about about the logistical difficullty of travel to and from her home there - ferry, car, pontoon plane, etc. Blue Hotel Room was writen at the DeSoto Beach Motel, in Savannah, GA - an old funky lighthouse place on the beach. A regimen consisting of health food, vitamins and jogging helped her nurse her drug-soaked body back to health, after what she describes as ``the physical and mental abuse`` of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review. As for Refuge of the Roads, she was apparently dragged to see Chogyam Trungpa against her will when traveling through Colorado, but was ultimately grateful that he took her to a place of enlightenment, where there was no ego and no drive.`` It is bliss and it is nothing.`` However (she concedes with a laugh) his advice that she stop the self-analysis and work to reduce her ego, wouldn't be much good for an artist such as herself. So great to hear there may be new music in the offing - will it be heard this winter in the Alberta Ballet show ? Les, would you like a paper copy of the complete Hejira article for the archives ? Send me an address off-list. Cheers, Michael in Quebec _________________________________________________________________ Ready for the world's first international mobile film festival celebrating the creative potential of today's youth? Check out Mobile Jam Fest for your a chance to WIN $10,000! www.mobilejamfest.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:06:42 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Words to one of Joni's new songs Les wrote (Thank you very kindly): In the interview with the Citizen, Joni disclosed the words to several songs she is working on for her latest album. Here is one, a piece she described as "a good poem for courage through tough times, a soldier's poem, really." I write: Joni is right. This is a good poem. A good poem without the music (which none of us has heard). She rescues the refrain "If I had a heart I'd cry, which by itself is potentially banal, by its strategic placement, generating multiple and sophisticated ironies. I won't engage in an extended analysis tonight, but this one stands on its own without music. I'm a little more skeptical of rewriting Kipling's "If" but I reserve judgment ("of the moon and stars"?) till I've heard the setting and lyrical changes. But I must say that the lyrics of "Holy War" bode very well for this project. My glass runneth over! HOLY WAR There's nothing on earth As unholy as a war, The rich sacrifice the poor. If I had a heart I'd cry. In fairy tales the good go to heaven And the evil go to hell, Ring the funeral bell. If I had a heart I'd cry. Holy earth, religion has failed us, It failed to make us kind, It spoke of light but kept us blind. If I had a heart I'd cry. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:20:22 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Police Searching for Missing Madwoman in Mansfield Hi Jonilovers! Woo hoo!!! Great news here tonight. Group hug! Warning: I'm just joking here, in case anyone is as addle-brained as I have been lately. The news of Joni finally speaking out has me all aflutter. I have been *needing* to hear Joni's voice to help me through these waves of madness lately, and I can't tell you how glad I am. "I need to believe in something, once I could in our love...." Go Joni! Bring it on! NEWS BULLETIN Police Searching for Madwoman in Mansfield Mansfield, CT (Combined Wire Services) Local and state police were called to a home in Mansfield at approximately 9:30 p.m. Tuesday evening after neighbors complained of loud, "caterwauling" music emanating from a ranch house on a hill on Briarcliff Road. When police arrived at the home, they found no one there. They entered the home and immediately turned off the offending stereo system, noting that every CD in the system was by a musician named Joni Mitchell. The computer was still on, and the screen read: JMDL Digest Tuesday, October 10 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 373 Very strange case. A subsequent call to police from a woman in nearby Columbia reported that one Patricia Parlette of Briarcliff Road had phoned her 15 minutes earlier, *screaming* into the phone: "JONI NEWS! OMG! OMG! Oh sweet Lord almighty Joni blah blah blah blah new album blah blah possible tour blah blah hysterical laugher and crying blah blah blah it was on the latest digest can you f#$%ing believe that Joni is FINALLY speaking out blah blah the world has gone mad just like i said today on the jmdl blah blah i gotta go call Mary she'll understand she went to the tribute with me blah blah blah." The caller told police she was concerned for Ms. Parlette's safety and well-being, as she has been known to go off her Joni nut at times, but never like this. Well, not since she broke the caller's arm when Joni appeared on stage on the Oakdale theater in May 2000. She shared that Ms. Parlette had recently been despondent over the state of the world and had been volunteering at the Jed Dumont for Senate campaign headquarters, wanting to change the world, rearrange the world. Volunteers at the headquarters confirmed that Ms. Parlette had worked the phone banks for 3 hours this evening, polling Democratic and unaffiliated voters. One volunteer overheard her saying to a prospective voter: "What do you mean, you're supporting Creeperman? F#$% that stranger! He's a defector from the petty wars. "Sour grapes, cause I lost my heart, that's all he is." Do you think JONI would support Creeperman?" Shortly after 9 p.m., neighbors stated that the suspect was out in the street in her nightgown, drinking Rhein wine and smashing empty glasses down, toasting to apparently nothing. She was ringing doorbells that came ringing up like Christmas bells and rapping up like pipes and drums, and her legs were all bruised from banging into things. She kept saying: "Joni speaks! Oh, speak again, bright angel!" Police found a trail of Joni Mitchell CD's in the driveway. One of her sons, Michael, who recently moved out of the family home after his circle game was completed, arrived at the scene. He confirmed that his mother had become increasingly strange over the past few years. She had been replacing many of the family home's decorations with "Joni stuff". Michael said: "Last year I came home to visit Mom and she had a framed picture of Joni with 'some random person with a ruby in his ear' in our kitchen! Totally weird." Her oldest son, Chris, now living in Chicago ("won't you please come Chicago,no one else can take your place!"), was equally concerned. "Michael and I discussed doing something with Mom -- you know, putting her in some kind of home for aging children -- but she seemed happy and content with her gorgeous new wings, and peaceful, with her good dogs and some trees, so we didn't count on nothin'...we just let it slide. She was feeling real good, springing from boulders like the mama lion we know she is, and our friends all told us that she was looking fine. Now I realize we should have done something more. After visiting,,we often just left her on her small white bed, where she fell into her Joni dreams." Chris and Michael, while concerned about their mother's whereabouts, both opined that their mother was not a threat to others or to herself, and that she should definitely NOT be charged with breach of purpose. "That would be a total travesty. Our mother is Another Mother for Peace. She is a registered "peacemaker" with Code Pink. She probably just went off to take a walk A park A bridge A tree A river She might just be laying on the formerly hissing summer lawn (end of summer now, no more shiny hot nights), gazing up at the matella moon, wondering about the judgement of the moon and stars. Police, still concerned about the well-being of this apparently loving and kind, but obviously unbalanced "both sides now" woman of heart and mind, will launch a complete investigation. They have seized her computer and plan to contact certain individuals on the "jmdl" (a possible terrorist, lunatic-fringe organization), especially focusing on characters such as: smurfadelica, treegreen1, cassysweet, anima-rising, djb@binkley (who the suspect's brother suspects of being some kind of weird "internet predator" who met his sister in Houston in some barangrill in May 2006), nyro_in_detroit, an oddmund person, scjoniguy, and you know there may be more. (Such as some queen lucy in the UK, who may have spoken with the suspect about root vegetable recipes last year, and some nuri guy in israel.) The Department of Homeland Security has also been called onto the case, since the suspect's ties with the Jed Dupont campaign have raised suspicions that she is a terrorist sympathizer. (However, every one who knows the suspect says "BOLLOCKS!" to that theory.) If anyone has information on the whereabouts on this person, please contact your local Sunset Pig. Totally daft ce soir, Your ever-Joni-loving Patti P. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:26:38 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: re: The Real Interview "Ms. Mitchell has already laid down the basic tracks for five songs in her home studio in Los Angeles." I thought I read she dismantled The Kiva and turned it into a painting studio. Anyone? CC "She points a pistol through the door. And she aims at a streetlight while the freeway hisses. Dogs bark as the gun falls to the floor. The street light's still burning, she always misses. But the day she hits, that's the day she'll leave." -- JM ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #290 ********************************* ------- 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)