From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #309 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 Tuesday, November 1 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 309 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- would anyone like a set of video tree #2 [william burnworth ] the Blonde in the Bleachers cover [carmel rotem ] Re: the Blonde in the Bleachers cover [Jamie Zubairi ] Day After Day and The Protea Man [est86mlm@ameritech.net] RIP David Rea [Steve Dulson ] Joni's Portrait of David Rea [est86mlm@ameritech.net] RE: Joni's Portrait of David Rea ["kbhla" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:42:31 -0400 From: william burnworth Subject: would anyone like a set of video tree #2 Greetings all.. We are downsizing in advance of an upcoming move to a smaller house and are divesting ourselves of videotapes. I have a set of the 2 tapes comprising video tree #2 (and the play by play text by Coyote Rick of the "Joni/Mendel art exhibition) to anyone who would paypal or send me postage. I can plug in your address to stamps.com to tell you how much. happy Monday! hope all is well. Love,William in Miami ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:53:57 +0000 From: Steve Dulson Subject: Fwd: [FAR-West] David Rea Forwarding from the FAR-West list - a different take on DR.... Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-mxlb.mail.rr.com ([10.127.255.90]) by cdptpa-imta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20111031231132272.IUAE10779@cdptpa-imta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:11:32 +0000 Return-Path: X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-RR-Connecting-IP: 64.90.176.26 Received: from [64.90.176.26] ([64.90.176.26:55668] helo=folkserv.net) by cdptpa-iedge09.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 32/38-17669-42B2FAE4; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:11:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=rm04a.folkserv.net) by folkserv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1RL0lV-000Ond-3T for tinkersown@ca.rr.com; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:55:37 -0500 Old-Message-ID: <1A6090DE0FFA4C629315458F03412464@neil> From: "Tweet" To: Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:55:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-ELNK-Trace: f0518264f8d314ecc06e95782e8f638e7e972de0d01da94059cd82bcb1 afd366cfa8338e0b0e7d07350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 76.254.33.2 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 1.01d X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Message-Id: <773118885$142871574$1448130022@folkserv.net> Received: from [76.254.33.2] (helo=neil) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1RL0l8-000858-Bi for farwest@folkserv.net; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:55:14 -0400 Subject: [FAR-West] David Rea X-BeenThere: farwest@folkserv.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tweet , Folk Alliance Region West Coast List-Id: Folk Alliance Region West Coast List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: farwest-bounces+tinkersown=ca.rr.com@folkserv.net Errors-To: farwest-bounces+tinkersown=ca.rr.com@folkserv.net Hi Folks, David Rea had so much talent. He was always going to quit drinking, but ended up drinking himself to death. In the entertainment business, we lose so many people to drug abuse and alcoholism. I knew David since the Toronto days where we first met. I moved to California, and was on the road for years with different acts doing lights, sound, and stage managing. I worked with Lightfoot during those years he toured out here, and eventually got reacquainted with David. I'm the engineer/producer of "Feelin' Good" and "The Brass Ring" albums. I spent a lot of time with David during that time. As the engineer and producer of these albums, I was never paid for any of the recording time or the backup musicians I hired (and paid for) myself. Our friendship faded as he continued to ignore his financial obligations. David was an talented writer and player, but never had a grasp of the music business. Consequently, he lost quite a bit of money because of royalties and residuals he didn't know he was entitled to. I finally cornered one of his former agents into paying him back royalties for "Mississippi Queen", which we re-recorded on "The Brass Ring." He composed music for a song I had wrote titled "Lone Wolf" while I was working on a book with the same title. David proceeded to copyright the song and register it with ASCAP under his own name without telling me. I have strong feelings of betrayal after David Rea's first two projects with me, and then trying to steal the rights to my song. After many unanswered phone calls and letters, I decided that our friendship was not worth pursuing. He was a silver tongued devil, who always found someone that would put up the money and time to record his music. In bios and eulogies, he gets too much credit for bringing up his children, who were raised by his ex-wife, Morna. David never had a kind word to say about Morna, but he spent alot of time puffing himself up as the "suffering father". Inspite of this, I had some good memories of working with David. He let me put together most of the arranging on all the songs you hear on the two albums I produced and recorded. David worked as a backup guitarist for many musicians whose albums I recorded over the years. I received e-mails expressing mixed feelings by those of us that knew him, but nobody can deny the creative genius he once had. Neil www.ashipstale.com _______________________________________________ FARWest mailing list FAQ: http://www.far-west.org/list_FAQ.htm To post a message: FARWest@folkserv.net To subscribe or unsubscribe: http://www.folkserv.net/mailman/listinfo/farwest ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:19:10 -0700 (PDT) From: carmel rotem Subject: the Blonde in the Bleachers cover Hi, just found this on while roaming around youtube: the Blonde in the Bleachers cover by Okkervil River. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBe_Vz-eoS8&feature=related never heard of that band, and I kinda liked that cover... Carmel. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:12:16 +0000 From: Jamie Zubairi Subject: Re: the Blonde in the Bleachers cover I have an album by them. They're pretty good. Looking forward to this. Jamie Zubairi Sent from my iPhone On 30 Oct 2011, at 20:19, carmel rotem wrote: > Hi, > > just found this on while roaming around youtube: > the Blonde in the > Bleachers cover by Okkervil River. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBe_Vz-eoS8&feature=related > never heard of > that band, and I kinda liked that cover... > > Carmel. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:21:36 -0700 From: "kbhla" Subject: RE: RIP David Rea Thanks to Steve and Scott for the reminiscences of David Rea. I'm sorry to hear that he passed away this year. I only knew of his Joni connection and had no idea of his other accomplishments. I remember Scott relating to me years ago the story of meeting up with him. Very sad that he is gone at a relatively young age. It was mentioned that David wanted to use some Joni artwork in one of his newer releases. I recall somewhere that someone (maybe Scott or someone else) sent me the Joni watercolor portrait of him. It was really wonderful but I can't readily find it now on the internet. Whomever may have it - it would be great to forward a link to the group. Kakki >This from folkie Tom May, regarding the subject of Joni's "Play Little David Play." - - --- >Many Far West members might know David Rea, who truly lived an incredible life and career in music. >From his work with Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, and others- to his own great songs- he left an impact. >He lived in the Bay Area in the 90's and moved to the Pacific Northwest later that decade ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:05:19 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Day After Day and The Protea Man FYI: Gary a/k/a The Protea Man (so named for his amazing story with Joni & his King Protea gift to her at a 1972 concert in Detroit), has shared his original, signed & well-preserved 1969 concert program referencing "Day After Day" in *A CHRONOLOGY OF APPEARANCES* here: http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/detail.cfm?id=1250 There's also a link off that page to read the contents in the LIBRARY: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2442 Check it out! Laura ***************************************************************************** Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:45:39 -0400 From: "Gary Z." Subject: Re: Day After Day Hi Bob, I have an old concert program from the first Joni concert I ever attended at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ontario on July 10th, 1969. In the biography it contains, it states: "As time went on, she found she enjoyed singing more than painting, and decided to make a trek to the Mariposa Folk Festival, a three-day trip east on the C.P.R. On the way she wrote her first song, a blues number called "Day After Day," timed to the clacking of railroad wheels on steel rails." I think I have a list of the songs she performed that night. I'll have to look for it. That concert hooked me on Joni and her music for life. It was my first chance to get to meet her, and she signed that program for me. If I remember correctly, she wore the same green velvet dress that she wore on the Dick Cavett show soon after. Woodstock took place around that time, didn't it? Hope all is going well for you in China. Stay safe! Gary Detroit ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 9:40:38 -0400 From: Steve Dulson Subject: RIP David Rea This from folkie Tom May, regarding the subject of Joni's "Play Little David Play." - --- Many Far West members might know David Rea, who truly lived an incredible life and career in music. >From his work with Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, and others- to his own great songs- he left an impact. He lived in the Bay Area in the 90's and moved to the Pacific Northwest later that decade Goodbye, David...... Terry Currier, from Music Millennium in Portland, and I got to the hospital yesterday just as our old pal, David Rea, passed away. He had been ill much of the summer. I did many, many gigs with him the last years of his life after re-meeting him at the Napa Valley Folk Festival, where we both performed in 1994. I had met him originally in Toronto in the 1970's. He was a character of the first order, with songs and tales to keep you entertained for as long as you cared to listen. He was fortunate in last 10 years to live with Kathleen Stokes in Portland, who he loved dearly and who loved him. So many folks out this way are unaware of his amazing history and importance in American Roots Music. Here is a just a little bit of what David Rea, picker/songwriter extraordinaire, and my good friend, did with his life....... We will do a tribute to the man and his songs in Portland, most probably in early December. This Sunday (October 30th) is my annual appearance at the Horse Brass Pub, with friends accompanying me. David loved coming to that gig and picking and singing, and he will be sorely missed. As I said when my old friend Don Younger, of the Horse Brass Pub, passed away earlier this year; We will not see his like again. Farewell, old pal. Born in Ohio, near Akron, in 1946, David began playing Bach on the piano at age 5. By the age of 12, he was playing banjo and guitar. Smitten by the music of Merle Travis and Robert Johnson in his early teens, David also learned from the blues and bluegrass recordings that came north with the rubber workers in Akron's factories. Late at night, under the covers, he'd listen to rock n' roll records played by legendary DJs, who later became friends: Alan Freed, Mad Daddy, Big Wilson and Murray the K. In 1964, when he was 17, David moved to Toronto, where he had his first commercial success at the center of what was one of the world's hottest acoustic music scenes. David worked with Gordon Lightfoot to create the filigree guitar style on Gordon's debut album, "Lightfoot!" David played some live shows with Lightfoot in the early years (1964/1965), before Lightfoot could afford fulltime sidemen. Having established himself as a topnotch sideman, David appeared with some of the finest artists of the 1960s, including Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Judy Collins and Tom Rush. At this time, David also played with many old time bluesmen, such as Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson, Skip James and Son House. David's complex guitar style was heard again on the landmark Ian & Sylvia albums, "Nashville," "Lovin' Sound," So Much For Dreaming," and "Full Circle." While working with this popular folk/country duo, David's friends, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, urged him to write his own material. Ian & Sylvia soon recorded his songs, "Pilgrimage to Paradise," The Minstrel," and "Ninety Degrees by Ninety Degrees." In the late 1960s, David wrote and recorded songs with Felix Pappalardi, producer of the English band, Cream. This partnership resulted in David's two solo albums on Capitol Records, "Maverick Child," in 1969, and "By the Grace of God," in 1971, which featured members of Pappalardi's band Mountain, with the Young Rascals, Kenny Buttry, Vassar Clements, Tommy Jackson and Norbert Putnam. David also co-wrote several rock classics for Mountain, including, "Mississippi Queen," which earned a Gold Record. The song has a life of its own, and is used frequently in other media, including a recent use in the soundtrack of the 2010 Sylvester Stallone movie, The Expendables. In 1970, David played on "Jesse Winchester" (Jesse's debut album, produced by Robbie Robertson of The Band), and recorded with the Clancy Brothers on "Show Me The Way" and Judy Collins on "Whales and Nightingales." Following Richard Thompson as lead guitarist for Fairport Convention, David joined the group in "The Manor Sessions," in 1972. His third album, "Slewfoot," was recorded in 1973 for Columbia Records with members of the Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage. In 1976, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) produced an opera written and composed by David, inspired by the story of San Francisco's eccentric, self-proclaimed "Emperor," Joshua Norton. Its success was followed by several other CBC projects. In 1988, he created "David Rea's Robert Johnson," a three-part series about the famous bluesman, and "Music Don't Mind," a dissertation on the convergence of African and European music as the foundation for American music. David was awarded the 23rd International Gabriel Award for Excellence in Broadcasting for the Robert Johnson series. During much of the 1980s, however, David took time out to raise his three children, playing only short tours and selected festivals and projects. His skills remained in demand, though, as he played on albums by David Maloney and others. David also wrote a wealth of new songs that came out on "Feelin' Good," in 1986, and on "The Brass Ring," in 1993. While on tour with Ramblin' Jack Elliot, in 1995, David fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and moved from California to Bainbridge Island, just west of Seattle. David's 6th album, "Shorty's Ghost," was released in 1997, His seventh album was released in August, 2000 and is aptly titled, "David Rea - Times Seven." With cover art work by his long-time friend Joni Mitchell, the CD provides a sort of retrospective. He was making plans for a new album that he had hoped to start working on soon. *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region - West) tinkersown@ca.rr.com www.far-west.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:59:29 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Joni's Portrait of David Rea Kakki, Is the album cover what you are referring to? http://jonimitchell.com/paintings/view.cfm?id=440&recs=2#viewing Laura Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:21:36 -0700 From: "kbhla" Subject: RE: RIP David Rea Thanks to Steve and Scott for the reminiscences of David Rea. I'm sorry to hear that he passed away this year. I only knew of his Joni connection and had no idea of his other accomplishments. I remember Scott relating to me years ago the story of meeting up with him. Very sad that he is gone at a relatively young age. It was mentioned that David wanted to use some Joni artwork in one of his newer releases. I recall somewhere that someone (maybe Scott or someone else) sent me the Joni watercolor portrait of him. It was really wonderful but I can't readily find it now on the internet. Whomever may have it - it would be great to forward a link to the group. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:28:21 -0700 From: "kbhla" Subject: RE: Joni's Portrait of David Rea Hi Laura, I'm getting an error message at the link but it probably is the album cover I recalled. Scott has sent me the cover art plus a really fabulous photo of Joni and David at the Mariposa Festival. I don't have a way to easily provide a link but will post the images to the Facebook JMDL page and hopefully someone else can link it to here.' Thanks Laura (and Scott)! Kakki - --------------------------------------------------------------- Kakki, Is the album cover what you are referring to? http://jonimitchell.com/paintings/view.cfm?id=440&recs=2#viewing Laura ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #309 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe