Re: Back to Joni

[Les Irvin]

At 2/11/2003 02:13 PM, Laurent Olszer wrote:

* "Joni's 1st hit was You Turn Me on I'm a Radio, and the band Nazareth had a
hit in the UK in 11/72 with This Flight Tonight".
That's kind of hard to imagine, isn't Nazareth a heavy metal band?

Relevant links of interest from The Library:

"We used to listen to Joni as we were travelling round in the van," recalls Nazareth's bass-player, Pete Agnew. "'This Flight Tonight' was a big favourite."

http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=921

* "DJRD in 1977: Mingus contacts Joni being impressed with Paprika Plains."

"Joni Mitchell is a nervy broad. That's what Charles Mingus said, and he should know. Dressing up like a black dude on her own album cover, out of tune orchestras on "Paprika Plains," Burundi drummers and synthesizers. Wayne Shorter soloing over a 12-string guitar 'Course, Charles had been dealing with nervy broads all his life, but this one was different. This one took risks not just to impress folks or for cheap thrills, but because her restless muse demanded it of her... Charles liked that. Liked it so much, in fact, thatknowing he was dyinghe asked her to write lyrics for and record his last series of compositions."

http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=199

* I didn't understand any of the following: circa 83 there's a movie called
"Love" which has not been seen, "with 9 women" (?), then she paints, then
there's something about a refuge group.     Can anybody make any sense of
this?

"[Director] Levinson had thought of then going from country to country for views on love... He approached Joni Mitchell, a Canadian, to write the music for the film. She decided instead to write one of the screenplays - and star in it as well."

http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=160

* "Amnesty show in 86: Rolling Stone calls it the worst performance of the
year".  (RS gets my "worst asshole of the year award" too).

"At the Amnesty Benefit I was asked to go on at the last minute, so we rehearsed backstage with borrowed equipment and went on and did three songs, for which I received my annual Worst Of award from Rolling Stone - for years Rolling Stone has been giving me a Worst Of something-or-other award every year. Anyway, people were throwing things at me at the Amnesty Benefit..."

http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=358

Les, subtly promoting the search engine at JMDL. :-)