From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #331 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, November 18 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 331 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni & Bob Steve & Bill [Michael Flaherty ] Joni & Bob Steve & Bill [Happy The Man ] Re: concert memories [LC Stanley ] Susanna Hoffs talking about Joni [Chandra ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Re: Joni & Bob Steve & Bill >Now all that to say that I don't know Joni and only can go by what I have read. I do not know how she was in the studio though I doubt that she would call people assholes and shitheads, especially someone like Shorter. Not if she wanted them to keep playing, she wouldn't! Job's employees had less options, I suspect. But no, I don't think Joni would talk to someone that way. She was less harsh with hecklers than Jobs was with friends. Btw, when Jobs accused Gates of stealing his computer, Gates replied that he had broken into Xerox to steal theirs, but Jobs had beaten him him to it. :) Michael F. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:36:32 -0600 From: Happy The Man Subject: Joni & Bob Steve & Bill Reading Issacson's biography of Jobs. He was fascinated with Dylan. Though as I read along he (Jobs) reminds me of Joni. Narcissistic personality disorder is how it is presented by Steve's ex girlfriend. I have a very creative family member that everyone struggles to be around who suffers from the same thing. Steve also said Bill Gates had no original thought, that he stole from everyone else which reminds me of something that Joni has said about Bob. Now all that to say that I don't know Joni and only can go by what I have read. I do not know how she was in the studio though I doubt that she would call people assholes and shitheads, especially someone like Shorter. Also there is a chapter subheadings called Slouching towards Cupertino. Peace, Craig NP: Dan Manganese, Post-War Blues Sent from my Kindle Fire ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:01:25 -0600 From: LC Stanley Subject: Re: concert memories Wow Susan... you put me right there by your description! Thanks!! Purple and chocolate brown gowns... I want to hear more! Love, Laura On Nov 17, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Susan Leviton wrote: > Hello, everyone. I've been an occasional reader of the posts for many > years, and Jim just encouraged me to share some memories of Joni > concerts. So here's a peek into my personal WayBack Machine! > > I tuned into that famous 1970 BBC broadcast and made it clear that I > would lock myself into a room with the radio if my then-boyfriend > couldn't swear he'd be totally silent for the entire time. There I > sat in front of an old Grundig radio, holding a shoe-box sized tape > recorder up to the speaker the whole time, about to burst because I > had to be silent as well! I quite literally wore out the tape... > > When Court and Spark was released, I ran to get a copy immediately, > and the only variety on my Motorola stereo was when I'd flip the > record from side to side. News of her concert at the Academy of Music > in Philadelphia, where I was working, sent me flying down to the > theater as soon as work was over the 'first' day of ticket sales. > Ha! Tix were gone instantly. I went home, crestfallen, trying to > figure how much I could afford to pay a scalper. > > A few nights before the concert I had a dream. I dreamed an entire > concert! I woke up filled with Joni's presence and figured that I > was given the gift of a concert even if I couldn't get into the Academy. > > On the afternoon of the concert, I made my way downtown to encounter a > small group of serious Joni Mitchell fans. We decided to break into > pairs and try to find tickets for sale at the venue. As we got > closer to showtime our spirits remained high. Lo and behold, the pair > that had placed itself by the box office hit paydirt. At the last > minute, comp tickets which were being held for the press were made > available! The entire group of us made our way to box seats! I > still remember Joni's two dresses that night - an earthy purple gown, > and then a chocolate brown one. I painted her in each of them onto > the album cover back after I finally floated home that night. I'm > pretty sure I was not the only person in that glorious hall who felt > she was singing right to me. I may have been the only one who > couldn't sleep for the next two nights, though!! > > Thank you all for sharing the energy that inspires so many of us. > > Susan Leviton > > Susan Leviton > 717 236-0231 > www.susanlevitonarts.com > > Pennsylvania Humanities Council > Commonwealth Speaker > www.pahumanities.org > > 2012 PennPAT Roster Artist > (Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour) > www.pennpat.org > > "Bringing traditional Yiddish arts into the 21st Century!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:00:57 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: Chandra Subject: Susanna Hoffs talking about Joni From the latest Rolling Stone. Are there older songs that have changed for you as youbve gotten older, had a family? Yeah, songs kind of grow and change with us and do, in fact, take on new meaning as we grow up. I always think about when I was a little girl listening to Joni Mitchell songs and having no idea about the complexity of relationships, the love relationships, that she was talking about. And then rediscovering those records again as an adult woman, I was like, "Oh my God, I totally get what shebs saying here, this is so incredible." But I still loved it as a little girl. And the same is kind of true for some of the songs that we wrote in our twenties. I can still remember writing "In Your Room" b itbs still one of my absolute favorite songs to play live, along with songs like "Hero Takes a Fall," that I also wrote in the Eighties. Theybve grown and changed with me and the same emotion, I think, is the thing that rings true. The kind of really intense emotions, which have always compelled me to want to write or say something in a song and get that feeling kind of transformed into a song, those things never really change. What have been some of the Joni songs that as youbve gotten older you understood and appreciated? "Peoplebs Parties," from Court and Spark. Having lived in Hollywood and being married to someone in the movie business and having been to a lot of parties as an adult, I definitely can listen to a song like that. The images that she wove in the lyrics are just outstanding and perfect. On Blue, there were tons. "California" is a great one. "A Case of You" is just brilliant. "All I Want" b Ibve always loved that one. Have you ever met Joni? Yes, I met her when I was working on a solo record with David Baerwald, whobs a good friend of hers. Actually, Larry Klein, her ex-husband, was one of the bass players on the record. So I got to hang out with her and jam with her and we sang a version of "Love Potion No. 9" in the studio for giggles. It was really kind of fun. And I met her another time at a Shawn Colvin concert at McCabe's Guitar Shop, one of my favorite clubs in L.A. cheers, Roch ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #331 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe