From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #114 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, April 14 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 114 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Henry Diltz & Jonifest photos [PassScribe@aol.com] Re: Henry Diltz & Jonifest photos [Jerry Notaro ] [none] [Dave Blackburn ] Re: JoniFest photos [PassScribe@aol.com] Top 100 [Jerry Notaro ] Turbulent Indigo ["Mark Riley" ] Re: Turbulent Indigo [Victor Johnson ] Re: Joni part of Photo Exhibit in Daytona Beach [jeannie ] Re: Turbulent Indigo [Bob Muller ] Mingus Songbook ["Jamie's Box of Paints" ] Joni #36 [Motitan@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:26:57 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: Henry Diltz & Jonifest photos > From: > Subject: Henry Diltz > > I really enjoyed reading Kenny's report of his Henry Diltz experience. From > what I know Henry just has some kind of natural gift with photography. I > don't > think he does anything special to enhance the photographs. He just has > something that is magic. I wish I could learn it! Last I knew a few years > ago he was still taking photos with his 40 year old Nikon camera. > Of course, Henry has a gift as a photographer. But, the camera (and especially the LENS) DO make a difference in the quality of photographs. I'll always remember a friend of mine who had a Pentax (back in the '60's) with a Super Takumar lens that had such resolution, and handled color so well, that you could see the difference in the photos whenever that lens was used. And, as much as I respect digital, there's something about film that may never be duplicated with pixels. > I'm not sure if the video Kenny saw was the Under the Covers DVD or part of > something called his "slide show" which I've heard is something else. > > Well, now that I've learned that "Under The Covers" video is available, I will have to put it on my birthday "wish list". Oh, I've finally gotten my photos from JoniFest ready to post on Chris' website. I applied for my "membership" last night & am waiting for "authorization" to post my pix; as soon as I do that, I'll let you all know. I tried to post them on my Kodakshare site but they wouldn't upload for some reason; I'll keep trying. Did Smurf post the shots I took of him (doing his act) with his camera yet? I'm dying to see those! Kenny B ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:35:23 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Henry Diltz & Jonifest photos Under the Covers is a MUST for any Joni fan or fan of that era. There were great photographers there and Henry was the best. Last summer Sharon G. took my friend Frank and I to a SoHo gallery where his work was displayed. And another great exhibit of his was I saw was at the Dream a Little Dream Off Broadway show a few years back. Jerry >> From: >> Subject: Henry Diltz >> >> I really enjoyed reading Kenny's report of his Henry Diltz experience. > From >> what I know Henry just has some kind of natural gift with photography. I >> don't >> think he does anything special to enhance the photographs. He just has >> something that is magic. I wish I could learn it! Last I knew a few years >> ago he was still taking photos with his 40 year old Nikon camera. >> > Of course, Henry has a gift as a photographer. But, the camera (and > especially the LENS) DO make a difference in the quality of photographs. I'll > always remember a friend of mine who had a Pentax (back in the '60's) with a > Super > Takumar lens that had such resolution, and handled color so well, that you > could see the difference in the photos whenever that lens was used. And, as > much as I respect digital, there's something about film that may never be > duplicated with pixels. > >> I'm not sure if the video Kenny saw was the Under the Covers DVD or part of >> something called his "slide show" which I've heard is something else. >> >> > Well, now that I've learned that "Under The Covers" video is available, > I will have to put it on my birthday "wish list". > Oh, I've finally gotten my photos from JoniFest ready to post on Chris' > website. I applied for my "membership" last night & am waiting for > "authorization" to post my pix; as soon as I do that, I'll let you all know. I > tried to > post them on my Kodakshare site but they wouldn't upload for some reason; I'll > keep trying. Did Smurf post the shots I took of him (doing his act) with his > camera yet? I'm dying to see those! > > Kenny B > > > > ************************************** > See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:29:34 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: [none] Jahida, I can offer you a chord chart of A Chair in the Sky that we do with our Joni band. A little modified at the end because we segue into Dry Cleaner, which is just a Bb blues. The Joni version of GBPPH has the written melody plus words composed to someone's solo played over the changes starting at "When Lester took him a wife". Don't know whose solo it was but it might be a project to find out... Dave Subject: Mingus Songbook Ok...I know someone must have it. If you do, can I request a favor from you? Pretty please. The little jazz musician/vocalist wannabe over here would love to have the Joni version copy of Goodbye Porkpie Hat. Or Dry Cleaner from Des Moines. Heck, I'd love them all, but I know I can't be greedy or nuthin'. So GPPH or DCFDM would be just fine. GPPH is my first choice however. I'm pretty skeptical on it even being in the songbook because of the fact that she technically didn't write it, but it is so different from Mingus's that I am hoping she did put it in there. You know who I need? Larry Klein. Anyone got his number? Or hell, maybe even Joni's would be fine. heh heh So, I must admit, I am a little surprised that not one person replied to my idea for a summer Jonifest in Vermont. Are y'all that tuckered out from this one? Love, Jahida> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:13:17 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: JoniFest photos Hi, gang, Well, I finally managed to get my photos of this year's fest onto Chris' website; to view it there, go to www.hatstand.org/gallery, and then go to Joni related albums. If I have any names missing or wrong, please let me know and I'll add or correct as necessary. I've also uploaded the photos to my Koday photoshare gallery; you can view them there if you'd like by going to http://www.kodakgallery.com/AlbumMenu.jsp? and picking the appropriate album. I think you have to set up an account there but it's free & easy to do. You'll also find my photos from the "Night In The City" event at Rockwood, in lower Manhattan, the night after the Joni Tribute at Carnegie Hall, in case you haven't seen those. Enjoy, Kenny B ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:30:58 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Top 100 Our Creative Loafing newspaper9s newest issues is Chicks Rock. There is a 100 Must-Have Albums by Women Artists list and article. It is quite a well thought out list. Joni9s entry is Blue (of course) and the only woman to have 2 titles? Laura Nyro. The whole article can be read at: http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A225865 there is also a podcast with some Joni clips. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:28:46 -0500 From: "Mark Riley" Subject: Turbulent Indigo I finally got around to buying Turbulent Indigo, it's an excellent cd. Not as good as Blue but hey what else is? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:01:42 -0400 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: Turbulent Indigo On Apr 13, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Mark Riley wrote: > I finally got around to buying Turbulent Indigo, it's an > excellent cd. > Not as good as Blue but hey what else is? I really like Green and Purple. Yellow and Red are okay but I think they're kind of overrated. And then there's Black, which totally rocks. Victor ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:59:40 -0700 (PDT) From: jeannie Subject: Re: Joni part of Photo Exhibit in Daytona Beach Hello there, passscribe and all, Nice to stroll these hallways and galleries once again. So glad to know that there are now sweet memories about this past Joni-Fest. How I wanted to go, but circumstances made me understand it would not have been feasible this year. Maybe next year. I have a whole year to plan and pray that nothing prevents me from attending once again. I don't even know if Joni attended. Did she? But this post about the Joni gallery is good news, at least, to feel somewhat compensated for feeling left out of the fest. I may be heading out to Daytona Beach with my mother, brother and sister in law for my niece's graduation from Embry-Riddle on May the 4th or 5th...somewhere around there. I was hesitating attending because I'm in no mood for humidity this early in Spring..San Antonio is hot and humid enough. But the Diltz gallery just might be the solution to get me out of this synesthesiatic blue box of paints I'm living in only to come out for Joni's music...I've been on Joni's album with the cd's artwork of Joni's self portrait behind the cartoon coaster and a glass of her holy wine. I love that album. Been playing it everyday and it's my only joy in town, along with the mystical pets who have come into my life. I like it here in the moment though, but it's time to venture out once again for some sort of new stimulation and the gallery is a good place to start. I'll be calling my niece, Audrey Jo, in DB to go check the photo exhibit out on some sunny Sunday with her boyfriend. Joni's in my blood like holy wine and I'm not a fanatic fan...I just love Joni's creations so much. Lately, when I go to my apartment alone just to go into my 'splendid isolations' as Warren Zevon penned it, and listen to Both Sides Now and A Case of You, I forget it's Joni expressing herself because she enters right into my soul and it ends up being just the Magical Physician and me and I cry because it's Joni in me and I give it all up to Him and those are the most beautiful ecstasies of love I've ever experienced. And when Larry Klein mentioned that Joni wrote the words of this project as if she wrote the words with her own blood, Larry Klein was right on! It's as if Joni and I have the same blood of love running through our veins and arteries. O' Lord, and it was especially powerful on Good Friday going up that hill towards Calvary with a case of Him on my back along with that damned heavy cross that the wicked prosperous put on us. So see, Joni's full of "spiritual electricity" and her music takes me there even if I forget she's singing....we just mesh as one and sometimes I feel I'm taking advantage of Joni always being there, but let me tell you, she's always in me because her most potent muse is her own inner child and then I fling into a kaleidoscope of life's new possibilities of my deep Self of the present. Pablo Picasso said that every child is an artist. The problem, he states, is how to remain an artist once she/he grows up and Joni's done a fine job of wearing her mama's nylons 'neath her little cowgirl jeans. Thanks Joni, for being my childhood friend be it neath the Brooklyn Bridge or way up there with the upstairs choir. jeannie NP as I work, Thinking About Tomorrow by Beth Horton. NR: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Mystical Dogs by Jean Houston PN: Clouds by Joni - --- passscribe@aol.com wrote: > Hi, gang, > As many of you know, Ro & I are spending a > short vacation with my cousin & his wife in Port > Orange, Florida. Unfortunately, the weather has not > been great and it was drizzle & rain all day today. > FORTUNATELY, my cousin's wife Joan told us of a > photo exhibit at the museum at Daytona Beach > Community Collage, called "Kiss The Sky", featuring > the work of noted rock photographer, Henry Diltz. > So, what better day to check it out? I don't know if > this exhibit has been traveling around or if any of > you have seen it/mentioned it on the JMDL, but I > just had to tell you all about it. > First of all, Diltz is best known for his > candids, portraits and album covers of such sixties > & seventies artists as CSN, Neil Young, Mama Cass, > Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & the Doors, Jackson > Browne... and JONI! The photos on exhibit have been > arranged mostly by catagory and then by artist, and > the quality is supurb! As many of you know, I've > been involved in photography most of my life and > I've gotta tell ya... these things are EXQUISITE! > Many are blown up to 30 x 40 inches and still retain > unbelievable sharpness and resolution. There is a > copy of the cover of the first CSN album enlarged to > about 4 x 8 FEET and it's beautiful! Another shot of > the Doors' Morrison Hotel takes up an entire 10 x 12 > foot wall! I don't know if the originals Diltz shot > were so good or that some work was done in the > studio to make them so great, but the results are > awesome. > And then there's Joni. One wall contains over > a dozen images of Joni and, to see that angelic face > from the early years staring out at me from a 30 x > 40 inch color portrait... I had tears in my eyes. > Simply gorgeous! You know that b&w shot of Joni by > the window of her Laurel Canyon house (it was in the > latest David Crosby book, I think) it's there in > full color with perfect lighting, and... there's > another that goes with it right next to it. There > are story boards on the walls by the photos telling > you about the artists and the photos as well as a > directory with info about each of the photo, all of > which are numbered. It's a well-produced exhibit. > There is also a room showing super 8 home > movies Diltz shot at Woodstock, some of the folks > setting up the stage but mostly of some of the > attendees bathing in the nude in the lake (similar > scenes are in the movie). Then, there's a DVD > playing continuously on a large screen TV featuring > Diltz & partner Gary Burton talking about the many > album covers they've done. It includes footage of > them going back to the present-day locations of some > famous locales that aren't there any more (the > Morrison Hotel, the house used on the first CSN > album, etc.) and the stories behind the shoots. > There a lot of footage of Joni (with CSN, Mama Cass > and alone) that's REALLY interesting and I learned a > lot I didn't know. You know those b&w stills of Joni > & Graham in the back seat of a car, taken on the way > to a shoot for CSN? Well, she was writing as the car > was moving and Diltz was shooting candids. Long > afterward, Diltz wanted to see what Joni was writing > so he blew up one of the shots re! > aly large and... you can see she was writing the > lyrics to "Willie". Maybe some of you knew that but > it was a surprise for me. There's also extensive > talk & footage about many of Joni's other photo > shoots and the album cover to Blue. > Well, if anyone lives in the Daytona Beach > area, or you feel like spending a couple of days at > the beach here and checking out the exhibit, and you > can drive or find a cheap air fare, I highly > recommend this event. It runs until June and will > have various additional displays on different days. > For more info, contact the museum at (386) 506-4475 > or www.smponline.org. > Sorry this post is so long but... I'm psyched! > > Kenny B > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out > more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:08:00 -0700 (PDT) From: jeannie Subject: Re: Turbulent Indigo I've been into lime green lately, myself. Lime green sandals of all sorts, shades of lime green blouses, hair ornaments and necklaces...like to mix it in with either baby blue and orange hues. I tell 'ya, I'm realizing I have been living in a box of paints for a little over a month. Time to snap out of it and juke box dive into a dervish dance with Joni! :) jeannie - --- Victor Johnson wrote: > On Apr 13, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Mark Riley wrote: > > > I finally got around to buying Turbulent > Indigo, it's an > > excellent cd. > > Not as good as Blue but hey what else is? > > > > I really like Green and Purple. Yellow and Red are > okay but I think > they're kind of overrated. And then there's Black, > which totally rocks. > > Victor Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:58:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Turbulent Indigo I'm not sure that "Blue" is even in my top 5 Joni albums...which is not to say that it's not a superb album. Congrats on your purchase of TI - what stands out as your favorite tracks on it? Bob NP: Kings of Leon, "Because Of The Times" - --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:43:32 +0100 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Mingus Songbook Jahida I might be able to help you in this. Please email me offline Jamie Zooby - -- 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 http://www.jamiezubairi.co.uk Facebook me! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:02:39 EDT From: Motitan@aol.com Subject: Joni #36 I don't know if you've seen or not but Q magazine (a nice little British music mag) has a list of the greatest 100 singers and their 1000 greatest songs. Joni made #36 which I thought was awfully low compared to some of the others above her! Some songs they had listed for her as good vocal performances included Chelsea Morning, Both Sides Now, Big Yellow Taxi, Coyote, Yvette In English, Free Man In Paris, etc (can't remember the rest). This list really should have been named the 100 most important singers as they have John Lydon (from the Sex Pistols) in the top 20. Don't get me wrong, I like the Sex Pistols (they're hilarious!) and I do believe Rotten is the voice of punk but that voice is not a good one! Punk isn't known for being technically good and Johnny Rotten (expressive as he may be) can't sing! That's why I say they should have titled it the most important singers. Bob Dylan was #18 and even the magazine itself said he wasn't a born singer. I like Dylan but even I know he can't really sing. I mean, Freddie Mercury (clearly a good singer) was somewhere in the 20's or 30's. Anyhow, Elvis Presley was #1, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin were 2 & 3. John Lennon was #5. But a list is just a list. You know what they say.....opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. - -Monika ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #114 ********************************* ------- 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)