From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #476 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Friday, December 6 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 476 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Alberta ballet postponed [Laura Oppermann ] Re: dancing clown [] RE: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely ["Susan E. McNamara" ] Re: new Alex Acuna interview [Dave Blackburn ] Re: Alberta ballet postponed [shadows and light ] Re: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely ["Mark" Subject: Alberta ballet postponed I feel for you Dave & Robin.....how very disappointing! Laura ~~~ NJC below. Get Caffeinated! ~~~~~~ The first 10,000 eligible FACEBOOK entrants each day, through Friday, will win a Cafi Escapes 4-count K-Cup pack sampler. http://krg.bz/1iAaH85 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely Robin and I were planning a mini-vacation in Alberta around the debut performance of Jonis new ballet, which explores the theme of love. We bought our tickets for the April 30th opening night. Yesterday we get a call from the ballet company box office saying Joni felt the theme of love she wanted to explore could not be adequately captured in a single ballet. So she pulled the plug, and all the tickets sold have to be refunded. We hadnt yet bought airfares yet, fortunately. I think rehearsals may have already begun so it might represent quite an economic hit for the Alberta ballet, unless Joni covers their losses. I guess the lady told Robin on the phone that they respect her artistic vision and that Joni was known for being uncompromising! Now that is headline news! You heard it here first. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:28:31 -0800 From: Subject: Re: dancing clown I'll give Dancing Clown a little love. It seems to be getting rained on. Her best? No. But "bad" Joni is better than a lot of "good" stuff. I will always have a soft spot for "Beat of Black Wings", "Lakota" and yes, "Dancing Clown". These songs led me and two friends to meet, interview and bathe, briefly, in the awesomeness of Joni. Marty - -----Original Message----- From: JMDL Digest Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:00 AM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1755 JMDL Digest Thursday, December 5 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1755 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- dancing clown [Marianne Rizzo ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:19:37 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: dancing clown "What's so terrible about Dancing Clown?" I also do not like the song To me it is just obviously not good. With so many so great songs, it fails in comparison. Even if it stood alone . . not good. Off the top of my head I do not like ray's dad 's cadillac (although there may be some musical merrits in there, still do not care for it.) and lead balloon either, but dancing clown may win out for the least favorite. - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1755 ****************************** - ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:50:51 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely Oh bummer. I wanted to go too. :-( Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Dave Blackburn Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 1:43 PM To: JMDL JMDL Subject: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely Robin and I were planning a mini-vacation in Alberta around the debut performance of Jonis new ballet, which explores the theme of love. We bought our tickets for the April 30th opening night. Yesterday we get a call from the ballet company box office saying Joni felt the theme of love she wanted to explore could not be adequately captured in a single ballet. So she pulled the plug, and all the tickets sold have to be refunded. We hadnt yet bought airfares yet, fortunately. I think rehearsals may have already begun so it might represent quite an economic hit for the Alberta ballet, unless Joni covers their losses. I guess the lady told Robin on the phone that they respect her artistic vision and that Joni was known for being uncompromising! Now that is headline news! You heard it here first. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:53:35 -0800 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: Alberta ballet postponed How disappointing. I wonder why it took her so long to realize this. There must be more to the story. - - Shari > On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:49 PM, shadows and light wrote: > > oh boy! jody and i too. i'd already calculated driving time to jasper. > but the box office hasn't called me yet. maybe they just got through the > a's and b's. > i tend to agree with joni. love has many faces and phases.. > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Laura Oppermann wrote: > >> I feel for you Dave & Robin.....how very disappointing! >> >> Laura >> >> ~~~ NJC below. Get Caffeinated! ~~~~~~ >> >> The first 10,000 eligible FACEBOOK entrants each day, through Friday, will >> win a Cafi Escapes 4-count K-Cup pack sampler. >> http://krg.bz/1iAaH85 >> >> >> From: Dave Blackburn >> Subject: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely >> >> Robin and I were planning a mini-vacation in Alberta around the debut >> performance of Joni s new ballet, which explores the theme of love. We >> bought our tickets for the April 30th opening night. Yesterday we get a >> call from the ballet company box office saying Joni felt the theme of love >> she wanted to explore could not be adequately captured in a single ballet. >> So she pulled the plug, and all the tickets sold have to be refunded. We >> hadn t yet bought airfares yet, fortunately. I think rehearsals may have >> already begun so it might represent quite an economic hit for the Alberta >> ballet, unless Joni covers their losses. I guess the lady told Robin on the >> phone that they respect her artistic vision and that Joni was known for >> being uncompromising! Now that is headline news! You heard it here first. >> Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 07:49:00 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: new Alex Acuna interview Thats more likely having a ton of studio work than indifference. Max Bennett said the same thing; it took his website designer two years research to make an accurate list of all the records Max played on, but Max just went from studio to studio 15-16 hrs a day playing tracks that eventually appeared on albums. Look at HIS discography: http://maxbennett.com/index.php/discography Dave On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Anita wrote: > Imagine playing on a Joni album and not even being sure or even hearing the end result. That's jazz, I guess. Thanks Dave! > > Anita ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:49:02 -0800 From: shadows and light Subject: Re: Alberta ballet postponed oh boy! jody and i too. i'd already calculated driving time to jasper. but the box office hasn't called me yet. maybe they just got through the a's and b's. i tend to agree with joni. love has many faces and phases.. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Laura Oppermann wrote: > I feel for you Dave & Robin.....how very disappointing! > > Laura > > ~~~ NJC below. Get Caffeinated! ~~~~~~ > > The first 10,000 eligible FACEBOOK entrants each day, through Friday, will > win a Cafi Escapes 4-count K-Cup pack sampler. > http://krg.bz/1iAaH85 > > > From: Dave Blackburn > Subject: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely > > Robin and I were planning a mini-vacation in Alberta around the debut > performance of Joni s new ballet, which explores the theme of love. We > bought our tickets for the April 30th opening night. Yesterday we get a > call from the ballet company box office saying Joni felt the theme of love > she wanted to explore could not be adequately captured in a single ballet. > So she pulled the plug, and all the tickets sold have to be refunded. We > hadn t yet bought airfares yet, fortunately. I think rehearsals may have > already begun so it might represent quite an economic hit for the Alberta > ballet, unless Joni covers their losses. I guess the lady told Robin on the > phone that they respect her artistic vision and that Joni was known for > being uncompromising! Now that is headline news! You heard it here first. > Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:42:47 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely Robin and I were planning a mini-vacation in Alberta around the debut performance of Jonis new ballet, which explores the theme of love. We bought our tickets for the April 30th opening night. Yesterday we get a call from the ballet company box office saying Joni felt the theme of love she wanted to explore could not be adequately captured in a single ballet. So she pulled the plug, and all the tickets sold have to be refunded. We hadnt yet bought airfares yet, fortunately. I think rehearsals may have already begun so it might represent quite an economic hit for the Alberta ballet, unless Joni covers their losses. I guess the lady told Robin on the phone that they respect her artistic vision and that Joni was known for being uncompromising! Now that is headline news! You heard it here first. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:55:28 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Paprika Plains Paprika Plains was indeed remixed for Songs of a Prairie Girl. As such, it is essential listening for Joniphiles. As Jim said, I wrote a rather exhaustive comparison of the two versions when SOAPG came out. It starts: This is only the second time an original catalog Joni song has been remixed (I think), the first being the Big Yellow Taxi version without the doo-wop vocals from the Big Yellow Taxi Remix EP (I'm not counting the espresso/taxi remixes since those were essentially new recordings). I consider Paprika Plains to be a religious experience. It is Joni's longest composition, and unique in it's conception. It started with 4 half hour piano improvisations recorded in LA at a time when Joni was feeling very 'in the groove' musically. These were edited to form one seven minute piece, then seven months after starting the project, she wrote a song inspired in part from a conversation with Bob Dylan, and inserted the original improv piece into the middle of this. Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter and John Guerin were added to the last section, recorded in London. The rest is here (scroll down to "comments"): http://jonimitchell.com/music/album.cfm?id=27.0&from=search Regarding dynamics of the original mix, another factor to consider in the LP days was that if you got the bass too loud, the needle would jump right out of the grooves.... RR > Jim, > Ah, Songs of a Prairie Girl is one of the few I dont have. > As to your point about Joni wanting the listener to get to the louder > section much later in PP, she could not have foreseen the modern > listeners attention span or the typical listening environments people > have now, far removed from the living room hi-fi of the 70s. There is also > a limit on how quiet a signal can be recorded before the tape hiss and > surface noise of an LP makes it unlistenable. The tone even thins out > considerably from the preamps not working at their optimum gain. I suspect > her artistic vision for the dynamic journey of PP, valid in itself, took > priority over these things if she considered them much at all. > Dave > On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:08 AM, jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com wrote: >> Randy Remote wrote an essay about PP when the SoAPG compilation was >> released. I'm pretty sure that Les added it to the Library. >> Joni paid to have the pitches fixed. There is a great back story about >> the piano parts and Charles Mingus. All of that is great reading and it >> is in the Library too. >> If I remember right, she hired a recording engineer who used digital >> tools like Pro Tools to fix the piano pitches. >> Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:51:07 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely April 30th, huh? Well that won't be the way I will be spending my 60th, I guess. Oh well. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Dave Blackburn Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:42 AM To: JMDL JMDL Subject: Alberta ballet postponed indefinitely Robin and I were planning a mini-vacation in Alberta around the debut performance of Jonis new ballet, which explores the theme of love. We bought our tickets for the April 30th opening night. Yesterday we get a call from the ballet company box office saying Joni felt the theme of love she wanted to explore could not be adequately captured in a single ballet. So she pulled the plug, and all the tickets sold have to be refunded. We hadnt yet bought airfares yet, fortunately. I think rehearsals may have already begun so it might represent quite an economic hit for the Alberta ballet, unless Joni covers their losses. I guess the lady told Robin on the phone that they respect her artistic vision and that Joni was known for being uncompromising! Now that is headline news! You heard it here first. Dave ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #476 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe