We should print out his email and send it to her management..... :) With a note saying, "Hey Joni, maybe the 'hits' package wasn't such a bad deal after all. Here's a guy who 'found your door' and BOUGHT YOUR ENTIRE FECKING CATALOG! You can relax now. Love, JMDL. PS, Leonard Feather of downbeat *LOVED* Mingus. Get over it, baby. The water's fine and we love you."
Newbies. Gotta LOVE IT! Lama PS, Translation for those new to Joni: For decades Joni flatly refused to put out a "Greatest Hits" collection even though the record company executives said they wanted one. Loosely translated, and in part, this means that the general public wanted one. (HINT! People who haven't bought anything from you will buy your hits collection. HINT!) Her take, and she probably has some experience, is that a hits package would "kill off the catalog". That means that she feared that people would buy the hits collection and never buy anything else. That's probably very true of some bands. [A new thread?] But the point is that Joni's quality is so impossibly high that I will bet that lots of people are going, "Wowser- maybe I'll spring for "Court & Spark" next." Once they "get" (and I mean "appreciate") THOSL, forget it. They have to have the whole catalog. Is there anyone who loves THOSL and decided to stop buying her albums with just that one? "He says [Impossible] as he hands you a bone and something is happening and ya don't know what it is; do you, Mister Joan--s." I guess every hits package has a shadow and it has some source of light. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <<Your first Joni album was 'hits'? Did I read this > correctly? That's amazing to me because it was so > recent. >> > > What was more amazing to me was that he came to her > MUSIC by way of her PAINTING. Can anyone else here > make that claim? > > I would imagine that quite a few people (especially > young people wanting an introduction) would pick up > "Hits" first. > > Bob > > NP: Dylan, "Isis" Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
