yes
but who will fix the pitch
― niels, Monday, 13 August 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
Yeah I was like 'what's up with this' and then she started singing and my computer exploded
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 13 August 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
I'm kinda into it, but I regularly slow down/speed up songs I love that I've burned out on. Probably why I love live recordings. Nice to hear her killer guitar playing so fast & tight here. Fixing the pitch would be easy, it's just a tape speed issue. If I weren't busy I would bounce that to tape and reupload it. Maybe in a couple weeks.
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 August 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
I was going to fix the pitch on that but I had a hunch and was right - the whole show's up in perfect pitch here:
http://ia801406.us.archive.org/21/items/JoniMitchell1979ForestHills/JoniMitchell1979ForestHills.mp3?cnt=0
setlist:
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/JoniMitchell1979ForestHills.html
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
also noticed in that youtube video that her strat has a Gibson headstock decal - just a photoshop joke or was she hanging out with EVH??
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Amazed how little from Blue makes it on that setlist
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 20 August 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
Doesn't sit well against her mid/late 70s records imo
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 07:14 (five years ago) link
any idea what phaser is used all over this album? whatever it is, it seems like they set it all the way to the slowest rate and just left it on throughout the entire recording session.
for a long time, i would have easily said blue or court and spark were my favorite joni album, but hejira has been the one i go back to most frequently the last few years. there's just something different and transcendent about this album. the older i get, the more i find that my favorite music is stuff that i just love, without any real way to exactly articulate why — besides just saying that i love how it sounds; which isn't very descriptive, but also feels like the best way for me to put it.
anyway. it's exceptionally good.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
I find its the one that suits my mood the most, definitely. can't hear a phaser, sure it's not your copy?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
The Boss CE-1 chorus/vibrato pedal was released in 1976 and was the first chorus effect in a pedal format to be available; it is very likely a part of the guitar sound on Hejira, along with a phaser pedal giving a "liquid" swirling effect - likely the MXR Phase 90 which had been released in 1974 and was the first product sold by MXR. Then one or two more layers of guitars, including an acoustic, would be added and then be panned left, center and right, giving the album its lush panoramic texture full of modulated movement.
https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=4622
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
then you have mad Jaco on top playing with a delay pedal that sounds like a chorus (iirc). very cool sounding album. I can't abide folk Joni but this is an all-timer for me
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
Seems like they're guessing, though.xp
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Killer Live show from around the Hejira days https://youtu.be/bLKb9Ms68ME
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
yeah, i was wondering if it was just a good old phase 90; i know the effects market was infinitely smaller back then and it could've only been one of a handful. i play a phase 90 a lot in my own music because, again, i just love how it sounds. makes sense, even if it is just an educated guess.
thanks for that link, cal. will definitely check it out later.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
!!! that band
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
yeah shadows and light is a great live album, and I love that dvd. persuasions on the title track *shivers*
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
love the version of dreamland too
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
Oh, it was the Shadows and Light show? That's my favourite Joni some/many days.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 11 June 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
and now is the time for me to admit that i just now learned about the existence of that album.
off to discogs!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 12 June 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
I was always under the impression that the modulation sounds on the album were from Roland Jazz Chorus amps. I used to have a 70s one and could get the same chorus/vibrato sounds (though the chorus circuit in the amp is basically the same as the CE-1). Joni actually claimed a few times that the amp was actually designed for her, but I've never found any corroboration for that.
― whitehallunity, Friday, 12 June 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
The Roland jazz chorus is the most trebly amp I’ve ever played through as a humble guitar player. Not for everyone.
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
Free manhttps://open.spotify.com/track/60eqXSs8J3c4QERz7AqvBH?si=NVaPkBIRQVOHEEe4GVvALw
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
it definitely sounds like the precursor to those Jazz Chorus sounds that were so big in the 80s
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 June 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
Shame they didn’t play Help Me. Would have kicked with this group
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
man, a Phase 90 and a CE-1. the most basic modulation setup for guitar. Leg
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:24 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Thin as paper
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:44 (three years ago) link
If you haven't seen this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxMwGTQ1bzU
― lukas, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
oh heck the whole thing is available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLKb9Ms68ME
― lukas, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
just looked at the comments and ... apparently a pristine concert performance by a once-in-a-lifetime supergroup is already pretty well known? news to me anyway.
― lukas, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I was aware of that concert on YouTube. But always worth spreading the word
― Duke, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
i was not aware, thanks!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
Terrific review (10!)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/joni-mitchell-hejira/
― jaymc, Sunday, 4 December 2022 05:23 (one year ago) link
was an 8.0 last time. gonna go read this now
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 4 December 2022 05:44 (one year ago) link
that review is wonderful
― estela, Sunday, 4 December 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
yeah like hanging out with a super-literate friend who loves the album as much as I do
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 December 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
yes, thanks for sharing
haven't listened to the album since it was taken off spotify
now I'm listening again
it is the best
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 4 December 2022 09:15 (one year ago) link
that’s funny because I haven’t listened to Spotify since then
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 December 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
touché
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 4 December 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
bit of a dickish comment from me tbh
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
goat album. outstanding review. accurate score.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
As someone who benefits greatly from context and narrative, this may be personal, but to me, a great review falls somewhere between reading and listening. Even as you're reading it there are subtle recalibrations of sense memory taking place, different positions from which to view experience opening up; I return to the music altered, the music changed too. Hard to explain. Anyway, that was a great review.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
blue motel room perfectly understated, suits hejira like buckets of rain does blood on the tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Raw8Hmlj4c
honey tell 'em you've got... ggggeeeerrrms
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:43 (six months ago) link
Thank you; we've got our first cold morning in Savannah and this will be the perfect thing to listen to while driving the kids to school.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:48 (six months ago) link
Coyote's in the coffee shopHe's staring a hole in his scrambled eggsHe picks up my scent on his fingersWhile he's watching the waitresses' legs
awful good
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 18 February 2024 12:45 (two months ago) link
The lyrics are just next level, the sheer craft of them.
Something I was struck by recently is how perfectly each opening line sets up the song’s story (not in the sense of encapsulating it; more like dropping a pin on a map and then exploring outwards from there) and draws you in:
- “No regrets, Coyote / we just come from such different sets of circumstance”- “I was driving across the burning desert when I spotted six jet planes / Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain”
etc.
You immediately want to know what is coming.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:27 (two months ago) link
This is my favourite JM album. Going to listen again right now.
― Duke, Sunday, 18 February 2024 23:18 (two months ago) link