Hell, I love "Fiction" and "Good Friends" from DED.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B63FmFICQAALwAj.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 January 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
"They paved paradise/put up a designer boutique shop..."
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 January 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
i am listening to mingus as we speak, didn't notice this thread in SNA, but searched it to post about mingus! anyways this album is highly underrated, it's a little flimsier than the preceding albums but i just love the looseness of it, joni does jazz VERY VERY well and i've never had a problem with how deep she wanted to go into jazz.
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
Joni doesn't either!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 January 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
haha which is a good thing!
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
I like that portrait. Makes me feel like a lad again, hat in hand, before my girlfriend's Mom. Time and the Cali sun have not melted her.
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Then again, Google her self-portraits...
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
they are amazing!
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
Eh I kind of feel like Joni doing jazz never really sounds like jazz, just jazzed up Joni ( not necessarily a bad thing). But I need to give Mingus a closer listen.
― man alive, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
i don't particularly enjoy the "mingus" album but i've always been a little suspicious of how some critics seemed to want to punish mitchell for trying to make a "jazz" album, as if this white girl couldn't possibly know what she was doing. in fact i think more than a few of the critics were bluffing their supposed expertise in jazz that qualified them to disparage the album as not-jazz.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 9 January 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
I remember not liking it a while back. I so rarely like ANY jazz vocals, that Joni doing her take on them was not likely to please me. Right now I'm listening to it again -- the opener is kind of messy and pointless imo, an exercise, but I guess it does sound like "actual jazz" whatever little that's worth. God Must Be A Boogie Man is sort of overwrought. I also have a distaste for Jaco's intrusive, farty bass playing in general. The lyrics she put to Goodbye Porkpie Hat are cringey, but she does a credible job on the vocal. The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey is a very good tune though.
― man alive, Friday, 9 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
It's also the least "jazzy" of the tunes so far.
Pre-Mitchell Joni:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/vintage-video-of-joni-mitchell-performing-in-1965.html
― dow, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Thanks so much for posting that.
― skip, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Total aside, but the Jim Chapin announced on drums wrote one of the most important drumset books out there, like one of a handful that pretty much every drum student uses.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
She's already so much better than anything referred to as part of "the folk scene" aby then imo.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/joni-mitchell-taylor-swift-biopic/
Okay, like, some people just don't GET IT.
― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah not sure what to make of joni's reaction.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
acid grass and ginfibers in my skingobs of grins
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
Never seen this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-8d3z4lkaw
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Great new interview here: http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/02/joni-mitchell-fashion-muse.html
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's great! Still chain-smoking, I see.
She says she heard, on the radio, a record executive “saying quite confidently, ‘We’re no longer looking for talent. We’re looking for a look and a willingness to cooperate.’ ” The comment crystallized so much for her that she repeats it every chance she gets.
― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
incredible pic
morgellon's thing bums me out, dunno what to make of that
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
she's been making this same complaint since... 1968? 1970?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
according to joni mitchell, joni mitchell has been too good for the record industry since whenever
i mean, god bless her
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah she has been a curmudgeon forever. kind of refreshing -- she never settled into being a cozy personality. not interested in being lovable! i'd be curious to know what that "burglar" turned up for her nixed box set. probably some cool stuff! She mentions the guy her record company sent not long ago — “the burglar,” she calls him — to root around her storage unit to cobble together a boxed set she calls a “turd,” which she eventually got killed.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
oh to be a fly on the wall at the mitchell / geffen household
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
Yipes.
https://variety.com/2015/music/news/joni-mitchell-hospitalized-1201463950/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/JoniMitchellcom/status/583099213170417664
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
Some slightly better word
https://twitter.com/LeslieCBC/status/583101711973236736
https://twitter.com/LeslieCBC/status/583101436243902464
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
get well soon, joni
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
Still in hospital, but also "in good spirits":http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/entertainment/joni-mitchell-hospitalized/
― dow, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Bass Player Magazine just posted this"Dry Cleaner From Des Moines"... Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Pat Metheny and Michael Brecker bring this house down with this Shadows and Light Tour clip from 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpyCEUESEw
― dow, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Tour pic, also from Bass Player
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBsIRNWWEAAp_vY.jpg
― dow, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
(Lot of other Joni on that YouTube page duh)
― dow, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
full concert at same link, a YouTube thing nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XFbhSMxIM
― dow, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
That "tour pic" got Erskine and Hancock w J and J, doesn't it?
― dow, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
excellent late 70s style happening in those clips
― tylerw, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
:(
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/04/joni-mitchell-has-fallen-into-a-coma/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
oh no
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
so tired of cool people gettin sick and dying this year. can't some evil assholes get sick and die for once.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
sending you love joni I have so much for you
― marcos, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
Really hope she pulls through...this is so sad.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
so much for all the snark about "made up" illnesses--assholes. this is a tough day for my family and me
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
comas aren't made up. morgellon's disease looks pretty made up tho.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link