From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #730 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 Thursday, July 23 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 730 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Jonifest 2014 (now with some Joni content) [lawntreader@googlemail.co] Re: Jonifest 2014 (now with some Joni content) ["mep@chorus.net" ] Free Hotel Room In Paris? [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] RE: Joni heaven ["mep@chorus.net" ] Interview with Joellen Lapidus & Rick Scott [Mark Domyancich ] WSJ article on Free Man in Paris [ava rosenblum ] WSJ: Candace Bushnell on Joni Mitchell's "Free Man In Paris" [Steve Dulso] Free Hotel Room In Paris? [Betsy Blue ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:22:39 +0100 From: lawntreader@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Jonifest 2014 (now with some Joni content) What great times! I remember my first JoniFest in 2003 was videoed and I still have some DVDs, not least Ashara delivering Joni's guitar to Steph and I and playing my arrangement of Woodstock with everybody. I remember Jack playing 'Blue Boy'. What a twist his performance gave to the song. And what incredible performances and walks there were. Those memories are amongst the happiest in my life. Brian, you are right about feeling like family. Here's to BobFest 2015! Anita > On 22 Jul 2015, at 06:53, Brian Gross wrote: > > Looking back through some old archives, I came across a couple of JoniFest group shots from the past. > The one on Ashara's back porch was from Labor Day 1999 and the one in the auditorium was from Labor Day 2000 in the church in Newburyport, up the road from Ashara's (in eastern Massachusetts, for those who don't know) > > http://s131.photobucket.com/user/njJoniGuy/media/Fest99_zpszfg8pscu.jpg.html > http://s131.photobucket.com/user/njJoniGuy/media/Fest00_zpsr87nt7vz.jpg.html > > Seeing the smiling faces of Smurph, Kenny Grant and Mary Grace makes me sad that they're no longer here on Earth with us, but very glad to have known them and call them Family. > > http://s131.photobucket.com/user/njJoniGuy/media/Fearless_Joni_Pic.jpg.html > And here's to the Queen Undisputed of Mind Beauty, may her health and strength return soon and in abundance. > > later, > Brian > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. > And usually for the same reasons. > ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:22:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: Re: Jonifest 2014 (now with some Joni content) Anita wrote: "What great times! I remember my first JoniFest in 2003 was videoed and I still have B some DVDs, not least Ashara delivering Joni's guitar to Steph and I and playing my arrangement of Woodstock with everybody. I remember Jack playing 'Blue Boy'. What a twist his performance gave to the song. And what incredible performances and walks there were. Those memories are amongst the happiest in my life. Brian, you are right about feeling like family. Here's to BobFest 2015!" Ab, Jack. B Gone, but not forgotten. B I wish I had been able to hear that performance! B I can just imagine what he would have done with that song. . . or maybe I can imagine it because I heard him do it at a later date! B (Not sure.) And, re: "Bobfest": I regret that I won't be able to make it due to a scheduling conflict. B But a good time is sure to be had by all!! Mary P. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:26:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #354 Steve Danielson wrote: "Someone could comment that Joni was a space alien posing as a Free Man in Paris to collect evidence for the Galactic Federation's takeover of Earth, using the Eiffel Tower as a broadcast point." She wasn't? B She didn't? ;-) Mary P. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:05:01 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Free Hotel Room In Paris? Didn't Free Man in Paris have to do with skipping out on a hotel bill in Paris?> I hadn't heard that, specifically - my understanding is that it's just a biographical portrait of David Geffen, her then-manager, who was gay and closeted and was able to escape to Paris and not have to worry about all his business concerns (nobody calling me up for favors, and no one's furute to decide) and not have to closet his sexuality. 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I will try to post it in the next day or so, and apologize in advance if what I say has already been beaten into the ground during my ten-year foray to the convenience store to get milk. Mary P. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:59:20 -0500 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: Interview with Joellen Lapidus & Rick Scott My apologies if this has already been posted, but there is an interview with Joellen Lapidus (who built some of Joni's dulcimers) and Rick Scott, another dulcimer player, who was hitchhiking in Canada when Joni picked him up. I haven't had the chance to listen to it but it should be a good listen. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hearts-of-the-dulcimer/id1014348960 - -Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:26:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: RE: Joni heaven Catherine wrote (and others followed): "It has to do with the "Is God dead?" question that was being discussed around the time. I remember a Time magazine cover, for some weird reason, that turns out to have been printed in 1966. The album came out in 1973. Joni wonders whether God is dead. He is, at the very least, on death row, so his time may be up. But Joni is also a fan of Nietzsche, who said that God was dead. (Can one be a *fan* of Nietzsche? Well, y'know...)" I understand the "God is dead" and Nietzsche references. B But my reaction upon hearing the line "and the Lord on death row" is always, "Well, what did he do?" B There seems to be the suggestion of a crime, and a heinous one at that. Would Nietzsche, and maybe Joni, say that God is not only nearly dead but indeed sentenced to death because he committed many crimes. . .or at least, that many crimes were committed in the name our conception of God? B Or perhaps "God's" only crime was not keeping up with modernity? Mary P., Still waiting for that symposium presentation, or maybe book, on "Religion and the Spirituality of Joni Mitchell"! B ;-) B ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:40:07 -0500 From: ava rosenblum Subject: WSJ article on Free Man in Paris Here is a link to the Bushnell article. It doesn't say what previous post says it said. http://www.wsj.com/articles/candace-bushnell-on-joni-mitchells-free- man-in-paris-1437485613 ava ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:51:07 -0400 From: Steve Dulson Subject: WSJ: Candace Bushnell on Joni Mitchell's "Free Man In Paris" Sue sent: > http://www.wsj.com/articles/candace-bushnell-on-joni-mitchells-free-man-in-pa > ris-1437485613 The first comment on the article included this: "The dichotomy for Joni's life was in her struggle to exist as a feminist lesbian in a man's world. She saw how living with sociatal imposed horizontal stressors, caused her to use Paris as a this utopian model." Hmmmmm....... *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA tinkersown@ca.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:49:02 -0700 From: Betsy Blue Subject: Free Hotel Room In Paris? > Didn't Free Man in Paris have to do with skipping out on a hotel bill in > Paris? Robbie Robertson said that in the PBS Geffen documentary with the great use animation and Joni songs to demonstrate some of the events in Geffen's life. Apparently the hotel wouldn't take a check or something. Betsy ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #730 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe