From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #717 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 Wednesday, July 15 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 717 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #285 abbey road [Kenney C Kennedy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:48:27 -0500 From: Kenney C Kennedy Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #285 abbey road i was a naC/ve, straight kid, a junior in high school when Abbey Road came out. i remember playing Side 2 on repeat on my stereo turntable. i was in awe. Coincidentally, i had a month prior seen Joni on The Dick Cavett Show right after Woodstock and fallen hopelessly in love. i found her (Clouds) in the miscellaneous female bin at a downtown record store. (i don't remember if i bought Ladies of the Canyon or Song to a Seagull next, but had both down by the time Blue was released, which i adored on first listen, as i had Abbey Road.) There are of course a lot of great Beatles albums, i own their CD box set, but AR is my favorite. Cordially, kK On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:00 AM, owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) wrote: > > JMDL Digest Tuesday, July 14 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 285 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: Stereo gear flea market today, njc [Michael Paz > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:58:38 -0500 > From: Michael Paz > Subject: Re: Stereo gear flea market today, njc > > That is just TOO much information you little shit!!! > > LMAO > > > On Jul 12, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Victor Johnson wrote: > > Abbey Road...released the day I was born. Love that album. > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Dave Blackburn wrote: >> I think the confusion about it is because much of Let it Be was recorded before Abbey Road, and most of it IS a studio recording. It was released in 1970, after the breakup of the band. The Wikipedia entry states >> >> "Most of Let It Be was recorded in January 1969, before the recording and release of the Beatles' album Abbey Road. For this reason, some critics and fans, such as Mark Lewisohn, argue that Abbey Road should be considered the group's final album and Let It Be the penultimate.b >> >> If you go by the last GOOD Beatles album, then Abbey Road wins hands down. >> >> Dave >> >> >>> On Jul 11, 2015, at 7:44 PM, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: >>> >>> I went to a small flea market for stereo gear today. It was mostly guys like me, around 60 years old. While all of us old lions were thumbing the LPs, someone grabbed the mic and asked a trivial question: >>> >>> "Which Beatles album, >>> released in 1969, >>> was the last studio album they recorded?" >>> >>> To no one in particular, I sniffed, "That one's too easy!" I was surprised when two people around me said, "Let It Be". >>> >>> That's wrong. Why? >>> It's wrong in at least 2 ways; I think it's wrong 3 ways. Anyone? Bueller? I'm sure Bob, Michael, RR, and Dave know. Anyone else? >>> >>> JIm > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2015 #285 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 07:46:41 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #285 abbey road My recollection of Abbey Road...my Dad was a big Beatles fan, he would buy their albums and give them to my sister as a 'gift'. Of course, no sooner than he gave it he'd want to play it right then. I'm not sure that Abbey Road was his favorite but it blew my sister and I away. Many more listenings after that. Of course, one cannot speak of Abbey Road without recalling the re-creation of it in Paz' back yard THAT night. You miss a Jonifest, you miss a lot. 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And now that we're past the halfway point of the year we have just about played out all the "River" releases from Christmas 2014. And soon it will be coming on Christmas again...anyway, off we go: https://www.yousendit.com/download/bXBZblRndWN6RStFTmNUQw 1. Lara Puglia - Shadows & Light - Ethiopia2. Abbie Stands - Both Sides Now 3. Blue Rodeo - River4. Will Taylor & Strings Attached - Carey5. Big Yellow Taxi - People's Parties6. Maggie Hollenbeck & Grahan Sobelman - All I Want7. Toronto Starlight Orchestra - Both Sides Now8. William Close & The Earth Harp Collective - River9. Claire Lawrence - Big Yellow Taxi10. Diane and Bob - Hejira11. Tuba - Black Crow12. The Retros - Both Sides Now13. Steven Gellman - River14. Mark Best - For Free15. William Waddell - Refuge Of The Roads16. Confetti - Big Yellow Taxi17. Jackie Pack - The Circle Game18. Christine Anu - River 18 tracks, 18 hits. Enjoy. Bob NP: Toronto Starlight Orchestra - "Both Sides Now" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:44:12 -0500 From: Kenney C Kennedy Subject: Love Has Many Faces i received "Love Has Many Faces - A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced" today. i own the DVD of "The Fiddle and the Drum" choreographed by Jean Grand-MaC.tre & danced by The Alberta Ballet. (i cried near the end.) More on that, maybe. i already know i'm going to like this box set / mix. For those who did not rush out & buy it, there is a xerox'd handwritten note by Joni i will transcribe here. "Dear Listeners and Readers, You will notice a discrepancy between what the list says the sequence is and what you'll hear at the beginning of Act II. This error is on me. Just before we went to print I changed that sequence. We continued to remaster and during that process I realized I had lost the opening. I had a deseision (sic) to make -- leave it or fix the music. I fixed the music. Here is the correct order: (1) Court and Spark (2) Not to Blame (3) Nothing Can Be Done (4) Comes Love (5) Trouble Child (6) No Apologies. My apologies, Joni" (Listed: 1-C&S; 2-NA; 3-TC; 4-NTB; 5-NCBD; 6-CL) i just LOVE that this is in her cursive, & sorta wish i knew handwriting analysis! i like the curlicue she puts on her capital I. There are 13 tracks per disc (act), 14 on one. i had at one point thought of going to Alberta to see the ballet i thought was in production. It was on the AB site i learned that the choreographer had been unable to convince Joni to pare the source material to an hour or so (a full-length ballet). What i hope happens eventually is the company will do the entire 4 acts in 4 seasons. That might be too much to hope for. The ballet TFATD was successful -- i'll say with the exception of "The Beating of Black Wings," which did not receive applause, or only a smattering. (i won't go into why i think that was.) All right, TFATD (ballet) runs 48 min 40 sec ~ Act One of LHMF runs 55 min 38 sec. i didn't calculate time of Acts 2-4, but i don't think there would've been a problem with 7 more minutes, altho that's not a minuscule amount of choreography, if they could've agreed to limiting it to the one set. i really don't understand why other famous companies aren't lining up to do at least one act. A 4-hour ballet in one night, or even over one season, is of course out of the question. It's pretty amazing Joni was allowed to dictate the play list for TFATD, when the Jean approached her with an idea of what songs he'd wanted, and probably already had an outline of what he would do. We'll never know what that would have been like; pretty damn good i bet! i'm listening to Tax Free (Act 2) now, which is a good remaster, but am bewildered what it has to do with (romantic) LOVE; ditto for The Wolf That Lives in Lindsay* or Hana (same act), Lakota (Act 3), and God Must Be a Boogie Man+ & Raised on Robbery (Act 4). (*absolutely love this ~ +never cared for GMBABM, & disliked it a lot as almost a comedy act in the video of her Wild Things Run Fast tour) ("And now i sit up here a critic..." :o) cordially, kK ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #717 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe