From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #216 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, August 4 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 216 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni in Philly, 1976 [carmel rotem ] Re: Joni in Philly, 1976 [Brian Gross ] Joni in phillly [Gerald P Kent ] Re: Joni in phillly [Brian Gross ] RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #223 ["johnnybgoode@lineone.net" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 01:28:48 -0700 (PDT) From: carmel rotem Subject: Re: Joni in Philly, 1976 Thanks you so much Catherine and Moni for that concert! listening to it at the moment and enjoying every second of it. what an unbelievable set list Joni gave there!! wish I could havebeen to one of those concerts, but damn I was born too late... Carmel. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 08:26:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Gross Subject: Re: Joni in Philly, 1976 I was at that concert at the Spectrum. The building was intended as a basketball/hockey/circus venue, not a concert hall (unlike the extraordinary Phila Academy of Music) and I remember being very disappointed at the quality of the acoustics at the time. When I got a copy of the show from our Archivist-in-Chief a few years ago, it was like night and day to my recollections. This recording ROCKS! Ahhh for the old days, when Joni was in the Philly area at least every 2 years ... The Second Fret, The Main Point, The Academy of Music, Temple Ambler Music Fair, the Spectrum and the last stop of her last tour, at the Sony E-Center in June 2000. Be well my friends, Brian - ----------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. And usually for the same reasons. - ----------------------------------------------------------- - --- On Wed, 8/3/11, carmel rotem wrote: > Thanks you so much Catherine and Moni > for that concert! > listening to it at the > moment and enjoying every second of it. > what an unbelievable set list Joni > gave there!! > wish I could havebeen to one of those concerts, but damn I > was > born too late... > > Carmel. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:36:30 -0400 From: Gerald P Kent Subject: Joni in phillly Brian, don't forget also joni's awsome performances at the early Philly folk festival Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:32:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Gross Subject: Re: Joni in phillly Yes, I did forget the Philly Folk Festival. And I also forgot the Robin Hood Dell West (now the Mann Music Center) concert with the Persuasions in 1979. It's a bitch getting old, but it beats the alternative (most days, at least) Brian - ----------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. And usually for the same reasons. - ----------------------------------------------------------- - --- On Wed, 8/3/11, Gerald P Kent wrote: > Brian, don't forget also joni's > awsome performances at the early Philly folk festival ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:02:28 +0100 (BST) From: "johnnybgoode@lineone.net" Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #223 Sue, I was actually thinking of old (cold blue) steel nose, as I had not thought Joni and Jimi knew each other well. It could apply to almost everyone in Laurel Canyon apart from F Zappa. John >---- Original Message---- >From: sem8@cornell.edu >Date: 03/08/2011 01:00 >To: "johnnybgoode@lineone.net" >Cc: "joni@smoe.org" >Subj: RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #223 > > >I think another person may have been Jimi Hendrix, but there were so many people hooked at that time. I like your reference to the football wives. Edith is for sure a codependent when she says, his crime belongs ... very needy. Sue >________________________________________ >From: owner-joni@smoe.org [owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of johnnybgoode@lineone.net [johnnybgoode@lineone.net] >Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 8:11 PM >To: joni@smoe.org >Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #223 > >>----Original Message---- >>From: owner-joni-digest@smoe. org >>Date: >02/08/2011 07:00 >>To: >>Subj: JMDL Digest V2011 >#223 >> >>JMDL Digest Tuesday, August 2 2011 Volume 2011 >: Number 223 >> > >Regarding Edith and the Kingpin. I am not sure as to >whether it is Coke or Heroin, but would argue that the KP himself would >not indulge in the drugs, as it would prevent him from continuing to be >a KP. Clearly Edith and the passed over girls are kept in thrall by >their addiction, in a similar way (but less tragically), that English >Footballers' wives are prepared to accept any humiliation, rather than >give up the money and champagne lifestyle associated with wealth. Maybe >in an odd way she is making a broader point about dependence on men? > >I >like the idea of James being the subject of Cold Blue Steel, but >weren't there many other addicts she knew at the time? > >John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:06:20 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire In this line she puts two words together that have similar sounds but they don't rhyme: Joni Mitchell said, >"Pin cushion prick fix this poor bad dreamer"> I think "blue steel" is the junkie. >Cold blue steel out of money> >One eye for the beat police> and >Blue steel still begging> >But it's indistinct> and >Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire> Policemen walk a beat; it's their turf. Blue steel is on the lookout for police. Who else but Joni would say, "one eye for the beat police". For years, I thought she was saying 'the Bay police', like she was in San Francisco. I love the way she stumbles over the word "police", dragging and tumbling over many syllables. You can feel the danger right there, in her phrasing. She's the best there is. Jim L'Hommedieu The lyrics: http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=179 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:54:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Catherine also did a great version of it at the Full Moon. She did Electricity too, and another one, might have been from FTR or not but I think that it was. I really enjoyed that set of hers and remember it well. And even though it's probably talked out, no one has mentioned one of my favorite Joni "image" lines that comes from this song: "fever in the scum-brown bowl" Very vivid image, that one, and a perfect series of words to describe it. Thanks to everyone for your thoughts on this song, the depth of it is truly incredible. I wonder how long it took her to write it? I'll bet not long, she was just in the zone and it spilled out. Bob NP: Elton John, "Tickin'" ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #216 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe