From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #61 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 Thursday, May 29 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 061 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Amelia it was just a false alarm ["Anita Tedder" ] Another Joni mention on Jeopardy! [Patti Parlette ] Found on Amazon JC [Russell Bowden ] A Joni buried treasure.... [KEVIN DOHENY ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #60 [PassScribe@aol.com] Re: Found on Amazon JC ["Randy Remote" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:32:29 +0100 From: "Anita Tedder" Subject: Re: Amelia it was just a false alarm Monika wrote: " Well I won't say any more as far as dissecting this lyric goes since it has been so thoroughly analyzed." Just wanted to say how much I also enjoyed your analysis,too, Mark. Monika also said: "And anytime something comes into view for me personally and turns out to be something entirely different or the hope is squashed or whatever it may be, I always sing this line in my head. "Amelia it was just a false alarm." It brings me some comfort personally." I think bringing comfort is one of the greatest things we humans get from music - and Joni has given bucket loads of comfort via her music. Another good reason to belong to JMDL. Anita Tedder ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 07:02:16 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: banshee It could also be harmonica through a distorted amp. Pretty ugly either way and way too loud in the mix. When I remastered STAS that sound was killing me, and not in a good way. Dave <<< What IS that siren thing on 'Nathan La Freneer'? It's an instrument? Electric guitar.>> The album insert states: Lee Keefer and Joni Mitchell on banshee. But this brings up another question - what the heck is a banshee? And why does it take two people to play it?> Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:01 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Another Joni mention on Jeopardy! Welcome home, Kenny B! I hope you got lots of picture postcard charms from your trip. You wrote, for "completists": A bit late with this minor bit of Joni trivia, but I didn't notice it mentioned before and thought I'd throw it out there for all you "completists." On the May 19th Jeopardy!, the reigning champ got the "daily double" and bet a couple thousand dollars; the "answer" was (something like) "This Jazz musician won a surprise Best Album Grammy for his, 'River: The Joni Letters.'" As usual (!) the guy just looked completely clueless (as in George-Bush-Deer-In-Headlights-Stare) and couldn't come up with Herbie Hancock (or any OTHER name). **** LOL! I saw that, too! I was screaming at my TV screen: "You IDIOT! How smart can you be if you don't know diddly 'bout Joni (HELLO!), and that Herbie's "River: The Joni Letters" was the freaking ALBUM OF THE YEAR???!!! Dummy. That night, I sorta/kinda mentioned it in this manner (I was romanticizing some pain that was in my head at the time): "I *was* going to post tonight w/ congratulations for Nate and Mikey and their families (congratulations encore un fois, Joni Papas!), and a Joni/Herbie question on Jeopardy, but now I'm just going to blow this damn candle/computer out." Ha ha. "All the guilty people" he said They've all seen the stain On their daily bread On their christian names I cleared myself I sacrificed my blues And you could complete me I'd complete you So now, we've completed each other! Mitchellian Completists! By the way, thank you for the Sheila Weller interview. Quelle coincidence, it came just one hour after I finished reading GLU. I had taken it slow, wanting to savor it, and I was a little sad. I always get a little sad at the end of a great book because I don't want it to end. Yeah, well, I went out to my mailbox and stopped a postman passing by, and -- lo and behold! -- there was the CD. The GLU gift goes on... Instant karma! I love the good karma on this list. And we all SHINE on, like the (judgement of the) moon and the stars and the sun...no solitary path here! ; ) Milles mercis, mon ami d'esprit! Love, Patti P., getting ready for the big event at Proud-headed Lizzie's Curbside Cuisine at noon...I went to the balloon store this morning and bought an armload of bright balloons...I asked the lady if she had a moon balloon (I teased her for the moon) and she looked at me like that dummy on Jeopardy! I was thinking "is one a moon, dear clown, tied to a string for me" but didn't bother to explain....no need to explain....it's just as natural as the weather in this blue blue sky today Shine on lousy leadership! http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?submit=1&search_distance=30&search_zip=06250&action_id=121 _________________________________________________________________ Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the im Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:45:13 -0700 From: Russell Bowden Subject: Found on Amazon JC This has probably been discussed, but I just saw it and am sending it on. A review of The Joni Letters. I'm a professional musician. Along with Tom Scott, I started the group L.A Express in the 70's and performed on Joni Mitchell's albums, Court & Spark, Miles of Aisles, etc. This CD which won the Grammy album of the year is not worth buying. The musical wanderings of Herbie and the almost unrecognizable songs of Joni's are an exercise in musical futility. Herbie needs a tinkle-ectomy and most of the vocalists are totally underwhelming. Obviously, this was a politically motivated choice by NARAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Max Bennett, bassist and composer. Dreams are the bright creatures of poem, and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun,which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.Charles Dickens _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the im Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:00:34 -0700 (PDT) From: KEVIN DOHENY Subject: A Joni buried treasure.... (Soundin like patti)...I met a friend of spirit recently....He drank but I doubt he womanized..lol.. He has a boyfriend.. haha Anyway he had all of these Joni cds I had never heard before..Now I am not sure where they came from but I am just happy he made me copies..Some are "bootleg" I guess and i am not sure what people's feelings are about that but I didn;t really care since my friend wasn't alive in the late 60's or 70's to do the actual bootlegging..lol..What I am trying to say is I want to share what i have with you all but i am not sure what the protocol for that is..Odds are you all probably have all this..Either I know there was something called a tape tree I don;t really know how it works but anyone interested or someone who knows the "rules" to this type of thing..please email me..If you send me a self addressed stamped envelope(like ed mcmahon lol) I'll be happy to copy and send for free.. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 22:52:46 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #60 > Catherine McKay > Subject: Re: The First Album 40 years on, desert island top 5 records vljc > at this point, I'm afraid > > David Eoll wrote:StaS is one of my favorite albums, bar > none. Serious desert island material. > > Actually, there's a serious flaw in that whole desert island > top 5 concept. How will you play them? > SOLAR POWER! Those desert islands usually have lots of sunshine. ;-) Kenny B > ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4& ?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:44:03 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Found on Amazon JC I had not seen this-fairly recent, his review is titled: The most boring album of the year!, April 9, 2008 pretty harsh, if it's really him. > This has probably been discussed, but I just saw it and am sending it on. > A > review of The Joni Letters. > I'm a professional musician. Along with Tom Scott, I started the group L.A > Express in the 70's and performed on Joni Mitchell's albums, Court & > Spark, > Miles of Aisles, etc. This CD which won the Grammy album of the year is > not > worth buying. The musical wanderings of Herbie and the almost > unrecognizable > songs of Joni's are an exercise in musical futility. Herbie needs a > tinkle-ectomy and most of the vocalists are totally underwhelming. > Obviously, > this was a politically motivated choice by NARAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Max > Bennett, > bassist and composer. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #61 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe