From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #32 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, April 30 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 032 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Video on Youtube...possible old news [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: Joni's eighteen bucks [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Re: Joni's eighteen bucks ["Mark Angelo" ] Allison Moorer does Joni ["Happy The Man" ] Re: Allison Moorer does Joni ["Jerry Notaro" ] What is it with Jackson Browne? ["Mark Angelo" ] Re: SJC Timeless ["Mark Scott" ] Re: SJC Timeless ["Mark Angelo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:36:27 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Joni Video on Youtube...possible old news Hi Matt, This is an excerpt from Joni's performance on April 22, 1974 at the New Victoria Theatre in London. In concert with Tom Scott & The LA Express, she did a 3-night stand and the third performance was videotaped. Parts of this performance were broadcast later that year on the BBC's "Old Grey Whistle Test" and copies of that broadcast have been in circulation for awhile. The performances are extraordinary, as you can tell. Bob NP: Sun Kil Moon, "Tonight In Bilbao" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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Kenny B (just getting back from vacation & catching up on emails/posts) ************** Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:11:50 -0400 From: "Mark Angelo" Subject: Re: Joni's eighteen bucks I think Dionne Warwick and her Psychic Friends Network along with Miss Cleo probably did considerable harm to the fortune-telling sector after their years-long campaign of revealing the unique fortune that awaited you with a simple phone call, and the zaniness of it all likely affected the confidence, and hence the amount that could be demanded, of consumers seeking such divine foresight. "Warwick, to her chagrin, became the brunt of many jokes when the Psychic Friends Network was forced into bankruptcy in the late 1990s: Why, she was often asked, did she not see it coming?" Mark in Florida On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Monika Bogdanowicz wrote: > Hmm, $18 seems like a lot to pay to get your fortune told back in the > 70's when today you can go to a psychic for $15-30...now in 2008. So not > only did Joni have her $18 go up in smoke, I think she paid too much. > -Monika ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:34:00 -0500 From: "Happy The Man" Subject: Allison Moorer does Joni Went to see Steve Earle Sunday night at the Paramount and guess who opened...his 7th (or is it 6th) wife Allison Moorer. I'm not fond of Allison, wait that's probably an understatement, uh....she.....well..... (my mom said if you don't have nothing nice to say) wait I do...She did about a seven song set to open for Steve and she did her cover of "Both Sides Now" which was by far and away the most unbelievable performance of the evening by Allison. I'm glad at least she treated Joni's music well. NP: Tegan and Sara - Nineteen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:50:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: Re: Allison Moorer does Joni I'm a big fan of hers. I think her cover of BSN is one of the best of the many hundreds out there. Jerry NP: Lizz Wright - Old Man Happy The Man wrote: > Went to see Steve Earle Sunday night at the Paramount and guess who > opened...his 7th (or is it 6th) wife Allison Moorer. I'm not fond of > Allison, wait that's probably an understatement, uh....she.....well..... > (my > mom said if you don't have nothing nice to say) wait I do...She did about > a > seven song set to open for Steve and she did her cover of "Both Sides Now" > which was by far and away the most unbelievable performance of the evening > by Allison. I'm glad at least she treated Joni's music well. > > NP: Tegan and Sara - Nineteen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:37 -0400 From: "Mark Angelo" Subject: What is it with Jackson Browne? I just read the piece from the JMDL Library Joni Mitchell's 70s Suicide Attempt which gives many details supplied in the book "Girls Like Us" regarding the event. I know this has been discussed before, but what struck me was that the episode, and I have every reason to believe it, involved Jackson Browne of all people. Why does this surprise me? Although the writer does not mention it, after Jackson initially had an altercation with Joni and struck her (hmm....seems this was to happen later with Daryl Hannah), he never attempted to repair the relationship and stuck up a relationship with another woman who would bear Jackson's child Ethan. Joni, it is claimed, cut herself, took pills, smashed herself against a wall, bloodied, and vomited the pills. I find this completely in keeping with the rest of the story which goes untold by the reporter. Jackson Browne's new love interest would herself go on to successfully commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills a few months after their marriage in 1975. Jackson Browne would subsequently release The Pretender, my first exposure to his music which consumed me for awhile, and subsequently bought all his 3 previous CDs, which were less heavily produced (less commercial), including my personal favorite "Late For The Sky". I so identified with Jackson Browne at that period of time in boarding school I wanted for the longest time to dye my natural blond hair - flings hair back - just kidding - (I felt cursed to have blond hair at that juncture in time) to Jackson's brown color (no pun intended). I still think those works were outstanding. I wasn't impressed with the follow-up Running On Empty, and soon stopped buying his product and have not been impressed with anything I've happened across since. I was still following Joni's every release, marveling in THOSL and Hejira. I have heard a number of JMDL'ers comment that FTR was their favorite piece. It's a splendid work inarguably, and I miss the kind of things that albums provided, such as the watercolor insert of her enjoying the scent of a rose IIR. I wondered if the heavy use of the piano, which would diminish substantially with ever-increasing use of the synthesizer and particularly the Roland VG-8 in subsequent albums, giving many of them an almost mixed electric/acoustic guitar effect, was partly why. Now after reading this piece, I think perhaps the creativity that was funneled into the album from what was an obviously HEAVILY emotionally charged period (the writer states FTR was created during the breakup and subsequent suicide attempt) may make this a favorite of many JMDL'ers. Interestingly, the author states "Car On A Hill" was written specifically about Jackson and the event. To me the song speaks to a strained relationship in which she is still at the point where she will put up with quite a bit, but reflects a nervous anticipation of the arc of love moving swiftly in the direction of wanting to see the love object in that initial state of infatuation, but contemplating the denial to oneself that signals that perhaps the love object is not the person you had envisioned at first glance. "He said he'd be over three hours ago, I've been sitting here waiting" and "It always seems so righteous at the start, when theres so much laughter , when theres so much spark, when theres so much sweetness in the dark". It doesn't speak to me of a suicide attempt or a relationship that is so broken yet that one would consider this as apparently the GLU author states. So this information is seemingly at odds with the statement in the report that the suicide attempt was during the making of FTR, or maybe not if one dismisses the notion that "Car On A Hill" was not specifically about the attempt. As far as FTR, I know the songs, I'd be interesting in knowing which ones were written specifically about Jackson. "Where are you now, are you in some hotel room, does it have a view?" (See you sometime) - comes to mind for one. And the anger and frustration she must have felt with Jackson that drove her to such drastic measures... you can even feel them in "Judgment of the Moon and Star's (Ludwig's tune)" - as if she'd been down that road herself and knew there are better ways of expressing feelings of desolation, abandonment, anger, and frustration, or even (futility-Song for Sharon) for that matter - than turning them inward on yourself. Anyways, I can see Joni thinking - here I've found a handsome man, perhaps a soul-mate even, after all his lyrics - at least through "The Pretender" indicate an ultra-sensitive individual such as herself, honest, soul-searching, often unapologetically delving into melancholy as she does - someone who "ain't afraid" of the devil, the seemingly perfect combinations, only to find she'd happened upon a misogynist and apparently a narcissist to boot. "Late for the Sky", "Looking into You", "I thought I was a Child" among many, many, others off his first 3 albums are truly memorable. But without knowing much about him, this man seems to have serious anger problems as well as a misogynistic streak, and this from a former fan. I know I remember reading in the list that there is a lot of controversy regarding the episode, but I find it totally plausible in light of these other women in Jackson's life, and eerily similar tales. I still think his early compositions are beautiful and uncommonly personal works, but I've long since (decades) stopped following him musically, and ... this unfortunate event, which I can envision, is really not altogether unexpected or that far-fetched IMO. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:35:20 -0700 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: SJC Timeless - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Angelo" > Anyways thanks for that mention of RLJ. I just may have found a new > "something to obsess over!" "Flying Cowboys"...what a fantastic song > and > video!...very much needed btw, at this moment in time in my life. > > Rickie Lee Jones - Flying > Cowboys Mark, I had never seen this video! Thank you so much for sending it! I have seen Rickie Lee Jones in concert 3 times. The second time was from 2nd row center of the Moore Theatre in Seattle and her last song was 'Flying Cowboys'. I love the way she belts out 'when I-I-I was you-ung I was a wi-ild, wi-ild one!' Makes me particularly nostalgic now for my own somewhat wild younger years after recently re-visting the scene of many of my wild times! What a natural high we floated out of the Moore Theatre on after Rickie Lee sent us on our way with 'Flying Cowboys!' 'Flying Cowboys' is my favorite RLJ album. Many here will probably say 'Pirates' is her best but I just love 'Flying Cowboys'. You need to check out 'Satellites', 'Rodeo Girl' and 'Atlas' Marker' as well if you get the chance. Her eponymous debut is one of the best first albums ever recorded by anybody. The writing and performances are all incredibly strong - 'Last Chance Texaco', 'Young Blood', the heartbreaking 'Company' - just about every track is a gem. 'Pirates' was her sophomore effort and has the classics 'We Belong Together', 'Living It Up' and 'Skeltons'. There are some on the list who were around back when I was a detractor of Rickie Lee's. I just didnt' get her. Until I saw her in live performance. Some people have said they have been disappointed by Rickie Lee - that she was drunk during a performance or not up to par. She has never let me down. Her singing is genuine, passionate and accomplished. To experience her live is to feel her in your bones. For a long time after I did my 180 in my opinion about her, I signed my emails to the JMDL 'Mark E. in Seattle'. Edward is my middle name but I was going for a parody of RLJ's only hit, 'Chuck E's in Love'. What I meant was Mark E's in love...with Rickie Lee Jones. I offered to eat a dish or two of crow after seeing her. Mark E. in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:06:34 -0400 From: "Mark Angelo" Subject: Re: SJC Timeless Mark E. in Seattle said in part: "I have seen Rickie Lee Jones in concert 3 times. The second time was from 2nd row center of the Moore Theatre in Seattle and her last song was 'Flying Cowboys'. I love the way she belts out 'when I-I-I was you-ung I was a wi-ild, wi-ild one!' Makes me particularly nostalgic now for my own somewhat wild younger years after recently re-visting the scene of many of my wild times!" Mark, I am mesmerized right now with the song and the video, I have played it umpteen times.Apparently produced in 1989, I am still floored by how Joni-esque she appears at least in this video, very striking especially the part where she sings with her Indian friend. The visuals in the video of Native American peoples, coyotes, and eagles are quite familiar to us Joniphiles as well. I too love the ending lines and the emotion that pours forth in them. Not that I was as wild as she was by any stretch of the imagination, but my world has certainly become much smaller in many ways as I have aged. But the world is turning is faster Than it did when I was young Oh when I was young I was a wild, wild one... I found it quite remarkable as well that she was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where apparently she was quite a "wild, wild one" and ran away from home and hitch-hiked a number of times. The video's imagery makes me nostalgic about my youth, and more recently for my years spent in Arizona when I moved out there some twelve years ago. Although I loved Phoenix, the air is so heavy with man-made particulate pollution, many times obscuring the mountain vistas, but causing me such respiratory problems that I ended up in Tucson where I may return as I have missed The Old Pueblo terribly these past two years. I always simply associated her with the song "Chuck E's in Love" and never thought much more about it. This video, however, has me intrigued about the rest of her songs for now. I'm so glad you used the term "eponymous debut", I was using the word eponymous so much I had to stop myself as I was wondering if I needed to censor myself as up 'til now I haven't noticed anyone else use it. "Self-titled" has a certain ambiguity in my view. They titled it themselves? What title did they choose? etc ;-) BTW I too am a Mark E., however the E stands for "Eric" - I think the spelling Erik goes better with Mark, but I was not given a choice in the matter. Mark in Florida NP: Rickie Lee Jones Flying Cowboys ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #32 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe