From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #354 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Friday, January 1 2010 Volume 2009 : Number 354 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Interview unheard for 42 years ["Allison Crowe Music" ] Hejira [] Happy New Decade. [Mark-Leon Thorne ] jm.com down ["Les Irvin" ] Re: Happy New Decade. ["Mark" ] Re: Joni Interview unheard for 42 years [Anita G Subject: Re: Joni Interview unheard for 42 years Anita wonders what happened to the 'Sipping Lizard'? Me, too. There's entertaining word online: At this location, folk music fans heard Joni Mitchell as she began her career, as well as Cedric Smith, Phil Marcus Esser and others while sitting on the floor and drinking coffee. (see concert info below) But this was the sixties and Flint was not ready for the Sippin' Lizzard with its variety of anti-establishment entertainment. Police routinely raided the Sippin' Lizzard looking for marijuana-using "hippies." After a year and a half, Jackie closed the Sippin' Lizzard due to the harassment and building code problems. Jackie was not abandoning folk music, however, as she already had visions of a new venue which might be less offensive to the city fathers. The new site would be called the "Concert Gallery." you can read the full story @ http://www.flintfolkmusic.org/history.htm Happy New Year to all! Ad ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:57:32 +0000 From: Paul Castle Subject: New video in Library: Chris Botti on Joni Mitchell TheStaff@jonimitchell.com posted > Chris Botti on Joni Mitchell - 2009 > View it here: http://jonimitchell.com/library/video.cfm?id=178 Thanks for posting this, which I managed to watch yesterday - (but today I'm getting an "internal server error", for some reason) Interesting to hear him talking about - and demonstrating - the special tone he gets from his 1939 'Martin Committee Handcraft' trumpet. Think this video of him covering 'Easter Parade' (originally from one of my all time favourite albums - 'Hats' by The Blue Nile) is a wonderful example of that - and the chord sequence over the final sustain is an absolute killer for me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1itUXEPJLE Happy New Year, y'all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:14:33 +0000 From: Jamie Zubairi Home Subject: Re: New video in Library: Chris Botti on Joni Mitchell In fact is jonimitchell.com down? 2009/12/31 Paul Castle > TheStaff@jonimitchell.com posted > > > Chris Botti on Joni Mitchell - 2009 > > > View it here: http://jonimitchell.com/library/video.cfm?id=178 > > Thanks for posting this, which I managed to watch yesterday - > (but today I'm getting an "internal server error", for some reason) > - -- Jamie Zubairi Actor, Voiceover, Painter, Photographer. Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/yapqx3j Jamie Zubairi can be found for voice-overs at http://www.voices.com/people/jamiezooby acting CV and showreel at http://uk.castingcallpro.com/u/81749 http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/965489410181 agent: http://www.pelhamassociates.co.uk 01273 323 010 Website: http://www.jamiezubairi.co.uk Randomly Related Blog: http://jamiezubairi.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:11:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Subject: Hejira Finally, after all these years it's happened! I was able to play the word "hejira" in a scrabble game!!! I'm actually on the end of a hejira, headed back to Atlanta but stopping in Cordele because of freezing rain and sleet up ahead... I wonder if Joni is much of a scrabble player. I would imagine she's probably pretty good! Victor NP: John Coltrane : A Love Supreme Sent from Comcast Mobile ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:11:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Subject: Hejira Finally, after all these years it's happened! I was able to play the word "hejira" in a scrabble game!!! I'm actually on the end of a hejira, headed back to Atlanta but stopping in Cordele because of freezing rain and sleet up ahead... I wonder if Joni is much of a scrabble player. I would imagine she's probably pretty good! Victor NP: John Coltrane : A Love Supreme Sent from Comcast Mobile ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 02:20:29 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Happy New Decade. Hello to all my friends around the planet. It's 2AM, 1st of January, 2010 and I just had my night ride home, courtesy of a friend, from the spectacular fireworks on Sydney Harbour. What a show. Incredible. $6 million worth of show for the entire city. I loved hearing all the accents around me. South Africans, Germans, Dutch, English, Irish, Americans, Chinese, Lebanese, Greeks all wishing me a happy new year. It was wonderful. My friends and I were speaking yet another language - - sign. Of course, there's no accent with that language though :-) This year was the introduction of the new fireworks technology. Apparently they had computer chips in them. It was spectacular anyway. The harbour was glittering and the Harbour Bridge went off. I giant symbol of rebirth kept changing in the middle of the bridge while it spouted glorious colour across the arch and right along the expressway from north to south. Seven skyscrapers were used as giant torches and seven barges throughout the harbour synchronised the show. I saw no violence at all this year. People were very respectful. It was estimated that 1.5 million people crammed various parks around the harbour foreshore but we still managed to set up our picnic table. How decadent. What a stage! What a show! Although there is no Joni content, I'd love to know what sort of show your city puts on. I wish you all prosperity and happiness for 2010 and the rest of the decade. Mark in Sydney NP Better Than Sunday - Ladyhawke ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:44:16 -0700 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: jm.com down Paul wrote: >...today I'm getting an "internal server error", for some reason Yes, both Jonimitchell.com and jmdl.com are currently down - shut off by the hosting company for overloading their server - too popular, I guess. The hosting woes continue and I'm currently looking to move the sites again. They will both be back soon someway, somehow... Les ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:56:21 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Happy New Decade. - -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark-Leon Thorne" > Although there is no Joni content, I'd love to know what sort of show > your city puts on. Nothing as spectacular as what you describe, Mark. In Seattle, fireworks are placed all around the top of the Space Needle and up and down the legs. They are synchronized to go off to music. When it works, it's pretty nice. But there have been years when low-lying clouds have obscured the bursts of light to flickers in the clouds. And one year, there was something wrong with the synchronization and the fireworks kind of went off helter-skelter with no pattern, rhyme or reason and no relationship to the music. We did go to see them 1 year. I was working nearby Seattle Center where the Space Needle is at the time and had use of the company's parking garage. Usually we just stay home and watch the show on television, old fuddy-duddies that we are. > > I wish you all prosperity and happiness for 2010 and the rest of the > decade. And the same to you from Mark in Seattle to: > Mark in Sydney And all of the rest of the JMDL. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:03:48 +0000 From: Anita G Subject: Re: Joni Interview unheard for 42 years Thanks for this link Ad. Following on from this and having gone on to read the full article, what I liked in particular was how the coffee house got its name: "The name for the coffeehouse came from an incident at Paul's high school. Paul and his friends were constantly being harassed by school officials for their hair and dress. One day Jackie was called to school and found Paul in the counselor's office. In the course of the discussion that followed the counselor referred to Paul and his friends as nothing but a bunch of "no good, long-haired, guitar-playing, coffee-sipping lizards." And the "Sippin' Lizzard" was born. " Sounds like it must have been the only place to have been in 66/67. Wish I'd never cut my hair and my brother just said how much he wishes he'd never lost his :~)) Happy New Year, with much peace and love, to all! Anita x >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Allison Crowe Music" >> To: >> Cc: >> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:23 AM >> Subject: Re: Joni Interview unheard for 42 years >> >> >> Anita wonders what happened to the 'Sipping Lizard'? Me, too. There's >> entertaining word online: >> >> At this location, folk music fans heard Joni Mitchell as she began her >> career, as well as Cedric Smith, Phil Marcus Esser and others while sitting >> on the floor and drinking coffee. (see concert info below) >> >> But this was the sixties and Flint was not ready for the Sippin' Lizzard >> with its variety of anti-establishment entertainment. Police routinely >> raided the Sippin' Lizzard looking for marijuana-using "hippies." After a >> year and a half, Jackie closed the Sippin' Lizzard due to the harassment and >> building code problems. Jackie was not abandoning folk music, however, as >> she already had visions of a new venue which might be less offensive to the >> city fathers. The new site would be called the "Concert Gallery." >> >> you can read the full story @ http://www.flintfolkmusic.org/history.htm >> >> Happy New Year to all! Ad ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:26:19 -0800 From: "Allison Crowe Music" Subject: Re: Joni Interview unheard for 42 years Yes, indeed - gives us a little extra insight into Joni's giggle upon mentioning the name ( : I also like how, at the very bottom of the page, the performance dates are listed. Aye, here's to a wonderful New Year! Happy Hogmanay! Happy Sippin' Lizards! Slainte, Adrian ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #354 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe