From: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org (wanderer-digest) To: wanderer-digest@smoe.org Subject: wanderer-digest V1 #22 Reply-To: wanderer@smoe.org Sender: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wanderer-digest Saturday, November 3 2001 Volume 01 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: joni's guitar tunings [Susan McNamara ] Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC [Susan McNamara ] Re: Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC [slarty ] Re: Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC [Susan McNamara ] Re: Guitar Tuning Page ["Michael Paz" ] Re: Guitar Tuning Page [slarty ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:44:19 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: joni's guitar tunings I thought this was a great thread for the Wanderer list. At 3:00 AM -0500 11/2/01, onlyJMDL Digest wrote: >Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:20:24 +0000 >From: Howard >Subject: Re: Joni's guitar tunings > >Laurent, > >In nearly all of Joni's songs where she is playing alternate-tuned >guitar, any other guitarists playing on the track will play in standard >tuning. The only example that I can think of where another guitarist >plays on a Joni song and *does* use alternate tunings is Steven Stills >playing on "Carey" (tab for this available at www.jmdl.com/guitar). > >Some of Larry Klein's bass parts (and maybe Jaco's?) go pretty low - >this could be down to lower-than-normal tunings, or it might just mean >they used 5 or 6-string basses. > >I think the fact that Joni always worked on alternate tunings, with the >band used to "normal conventions" made it difficult for her in the early >days to communicate her ideas. The band members were probably used to >being told chord names and so on, but Joni's tunings made this >difficult, and the complex sound of her chords also made it harder for >the musicians to pick up the notes by ear. > >Howard > >From: "Laurent Olszer" >> >>Could a musician please help: When playing Joni with her alternate >>tunings on >>guitar, does the rest of the band ALWAYS use standard tuning? >> > >Examples? - -- Susan McNamara Assistant to the Dean of Students Cornell University 401 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Voice: (607) 255-1115 FAX: (607) 255-8082 E-Mail:sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:48:40 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC Hi Gang: WFUV FM from Fordham university is having Joni Mitchell Day on Wed, Nov 7 (her nibs' birthday). One of the programmers emailed me the other day and they are going to interview Les and me for the show! Cool. If you hail from NYC enjoy the great music! I'm lucky if I hear Janet Jackson's version of Big Yellow Taxi up here in Ithaca! sheesh. take care, sue ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:20:29 -0500 From: slarty Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC We'll be listening. Also live online. http://www.wfuv.org/ Susan McNamara wrote: > Hi Gang: > > WFUV FM from Fordham university is having Joni Mitchell Day on Wed, > Nov 7 (her nibs' birthday). One of the programmers emailed me the > other day and they are going to interview Les and me for the show! > Cool. If you hail from NYC enjoy the great music! I'm lucky if I > hear Janet Jackson's version of Big Yellow Taxi up here in Ithaca! > sheesh. > > take care, sue ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:26:43 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC GREAT!! Thanks, ken, I was hoping we could do that. I can't wait to hear their songs. Bob should be alerted that they are also playing Joni covers, too! sue >We'll be listening. Also live online. >http://www.wfuv.org/ > >Susan McNamara wrote: > >> Hi Gang: >> >> WFUV FM from Fordham university is having Joni Mitchell Day on Wed, >> Nov 7 (her nibs' birthday). One of the programmers emailed me the >> other day and they are going to interview Les and me for the show! >> Cool. If you hail from NYC enjoy the great music! I'm lucky if I > > hear Janet Jackson's version of Big Yellow Taxi up here in Ithaca! > > sheesh. > > > > take care, sue - -- "Heart and humor and humility will lighten up your heavy load ... " - Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:50:17 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell Day on WFUV 90.7 FM NYC Yes, I'll try and get a copy here and send it to you (and anyone else who wants it). I'm really excited about it! take care, sue >This is great news, Sue! Hopefully the radio station will give you a >copy of the show (I can't get internet radio worth a crap here! :) > >Mark > >At 2:48 PM -0500 11/2/01, Susan McNamara wrote: >>Hi Gang: >> >>WFUV FM from Fordham university is having Joni Mitchell Day on Wed, >>Nov 7 (her nibs' birthday). One of the programmers emailed me the >>other day and they are going to interview Les and me for the show! >>Cool. If you hail from NYC enjoy the great music! I'm lucky if I >>hear Janet Jackson's version of Big Yellow Taxi up here in Ithaca! >>sheesh. >> >>take care, sue > >-- >Mark Domyancich >harpua@revealed.net >cd/shn trading: http://db.etree.org/domyancich - -- Susan McNamara Assistant to the Dean of Students Cornell University 401 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Voice: (607) 255-1115 FAX: (607) 255-8082 E-Mail:sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:23:54 -0500 From: slarty Subject: Guitar Tuning Page Oh my. I started out at the WFUV web page, started listing on line and heard a singer I haven't heard before. Jonatha Brooke. Went to her web page and from there ended up here. Another Guitar tuning web page. http://www.museweb.com/ag/tunings/fm_tunings.html Lots of tunings for lots of artists. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:20:22 -0600 From: "Michael Paz" Subject: Re: Guitar Tuning Page I had Jonatha on my TV show after hearing about her on the JMDL list. What an amazing player and a wonderful sweet down to earth lady. We hung out for a whole day and she contacted me and asked if she could come back on the show with her band. Make sure to check out her Live album. Paz P.S. Marian has a bunch of her transcriptions already done. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "slarty" To: Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:23 PM Subject: Guitar Tuning Page > Oh my. I started out at the WFUV web page, started listing on line and > heard > a singer I haven't heard before. Jonatha Brooke. Went to her web page > and > from there ended up here. Another Guitar tuning web page. > http://www.museweb.com/ag/tunings/fm_tunings.html > Lots of tunings for lots of artists. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:46:36 -0500 From: slarty Subject: Re: Guitar Tuning Page What little I heard I liked a lot. I'm going to check her out more when I get a chance. For now, though, it's of to beddy-byes. Ken Michael Paz wrote: > I had Jonatha on my TV show after hearing about her on the JMDL list. What > an amazing player and a wonderful sweet down to earth lady. We hung out for > a whole day and she contacted me and asked if she could come back on the > show with her band. Make sure to check out her Live album. > > Paz > P.S. Marian has a bunch of her transcriptions already done. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "slarty" > To: > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:23 PM > Subject: Guitar Tuning Page > > > Oh my. I started out at the WFUV web page, started listing on line and > > heard > > a singer I haven't heard before. Jonatha Brooke. Went to her web page > > and > > from there ended up here. Another Guitar tuning web page. > > http://www.museweb.com/ag/tunings/fm_tunings.html > > Lots of tunings for lots of artists. ------------------------------ End of wanderer-digest V1 #22 *****************************