Man, if he'd gotten with the Cliff Burton Metallica---!
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
The Cliff Burton Dave Mustaine Metallica, even.
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
And Joni. (Who might have liked Fernando too.)
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Slayer's still around. WTF Lou, you missed your chance!
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
(or was still around)
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
Srsly, I could see Mitchell and Reed getting together later on, at least for a little while, with Saunders or RIP Rob Wasserman, say.
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/joni-mitchell-announces-new-asylum-albums-1972-1975-box-set/
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Fernando Saunders’s octave figure on “Waves Of Fear” is one of the greatest moments in Lou’s post-‘70s work.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 July 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^
― brimstead, Friday, 29 July 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
My favourite Fernando Saunders with Lou moment: the bass solo at the end of "Ecstasy".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 30 July 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, Austin, Texas, January 1976.📷Norm Beitch pic.twitter.com/xLrY2BmucN— Lonesome Suzie (@NathalieO5) August 1, 2022
― dow, Monday, 1 August 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Was wondering if she played any w Rolling Thunder--search led me to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaO5UZ5OcI
1975 fundraiser at Lightfoot's house, here she's with Dylan and McGuinn
― dow, Monday, 1 August 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
No unreleased music on this new box set, damn :(
― MaresNest, Monday, 1 August 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
Her adjustment of "Baby Blue":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzGD4eTifPk
― dow, Monday, 1 August 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
this is just another of the regular LP series boxsets, there should be a separate archives one of the unreleased stuff too at some point
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 1 August 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
I'm more lenient about Joni Mitchell changing the chords (and words) to "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" than when the 13th Floor Elevators did the same.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 1 August 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
XP - Oh thank goodness!
― MaresNest, Monday, 1 August 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah, and as the YouTube poster mentioned, Dylan himself had already been changing some of his songs in live performance.
― dow, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
Her first song to gain prominence was ‘Urge For Going’, which Tom Rush recorded as a single in 1966.The song’s an account of winters in Saskatoon, Canada, where Mitchell grew up, a town subject to extreme temperatures, with warm summers and freezing winters."When winter comes along and the farms are all harvested and they don’t really have much to do if they don’t keep cattle. So most of them have winter houses in the Bahamas and Florida and they just escape, you know, to all the warm places like Philadelphia. [laughter] The rest of the people who have to stay there feel sort of like this…"Joni Mitchell
The song’s an account of winters in Saskatoon, Canada, where Mitchell grew up, a town subject to extreme temperatures, with warm summers and freezing winters.
"When winter comes along and the farms are all harvested and they don’t really have much to do if they don’t keep cattle. So most of them have winter houses in the Bahamas and Florida and they just escape, you know, to all the warm places like Philadelphia. [laughter] The rest of the people who have to stay there feel sort of like this…"
Joni Mitchell
― dow, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
Rush's version conveys the distinctiveness of her songwriting, the way she already had everything lashed together, nothing strained.
― dow, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
So does her version, but in 1966, people must have said, "Damn, who wrote that?"
― dow, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
Canada: this is not the rush youre looking for…
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
[laughter]
― dow, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
I also initially read it that way! I mean, Nazareth found success with This Flight Tonight...
― doug watson, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
Oh, I can totally hear Geddy Lee singing "Urge for Going"! GL & Lifeson should do a Joni tribute album---maybe they could get the first Rush drummer, if he's still around.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
Or they could host an all-Canada tribute set: get Randy Bachman, Corb Lund, Terri Clark, Bruce Cockburn, Blue Rodeo, Nelly Furtado, Drake, Colter Wall, Neil Young---who else?
― dow, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Arcade Fire? Kinda boring, but maybe with the right material---? that's one of the best things that can happen on tribs: when somebody you've written off rises to the occasion, finally not culturally deprived by their own songs.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
Re-unite Northern Lights!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_Are_Not_Enough
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
Sarah McLachlan has already recorded covers of "Blue" and "River".
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/409bJBn.jpg
Please tell me there was a Randy Bachman stamp.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Hah! Anybody ever see that SNL sketch, Amerida, a parody of Amerika where it's the Canadians who takeover America? "Stay tuned for Late Night with Gordon Lightfoot..."
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
“Oh, just relax and have a nice cold Labatts.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 August 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Garden?wprov=sfla1
Canadian Joni tribute album.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 August 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
Cameron Crowe was interviewed by Rolling Stone about Joni Mitchell and this was very sweet:
“Joni has a childlike appreciation of what’s going on right now,” says writer/director Cameron Crowe, who first interviewed Mitchell for Rolling Stone in 1979, and has spent time with her recently. “She’s having the experience that few people have that came that close to dying – she actually can see what it would have been like for people to have lost her, and see them express how much she means to them. And it’s enormously moving to her.”
― birdistheword, Saturday, 6 August 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Man, what kind of children has Cameron Crowe been hanging around with.
― pplains, Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
Just saw this from Keith Strickland in the NY Times' new interview with the B-52s:
[Ricky Wilson] removed the G string from his guitar, which eliminates some of the midrange frequencies, and he played with only five strings. That happened by accident. When I played the guitar, if I broke a string, I wouldn’t change it — I’d just retune the other strings to an open tuning. I liked how it sounded.
One day, Ricky was annoyed because I hadn’t changed a broken string on the guitar. I said, “You should play it like that.” He scoffed it off. But the next time I went to his house, he was sitting on the edge of the bed, playing and laughing. He said, “I’ve just written the most stupid guitar riff you’ve ever heard.” And it was the “Rock Lobster” riff, played on five strings in an open tuning.
He and I were aware of open tunings because we were both big fans of Joni Mitchell, who used them a lot. People always say, “Really? You like Joni?” because our music is nothing like hers. Some of the chords she used were so beautiful, and they sound unresolved. Open tunings offer different color palettes or voicings that might be physically impossible to play in standard tuning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/arts/music/b-52s-final-tour.html
― birdistheword, Thursday, 11 August 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
ha that's awesome, also the G string is a notorious misbehaver re: tuning so fuck it anyway
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 11 August 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
love the moment in the Rolling Thunder doc when she's playing Coyote (linked recently itt) and Dylan & McGuinn are trying (semi-successfully) to follow her and she kinda scornfully says "it's in G" as an aside while playing
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 11 August 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
the most electric moment in that film!
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 August 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
b-52's story yet another example of: everybody digs joni. can't argue with that.
the G string is a notorious misbehaver
this is fake news — the g string is a physics-defying psychopath and IT MUST BE STOPPED
also i love the (apocryphal?) anecdote how some of joni's most unique tunings came about out of some form of necessity, i.e. saying "fuck this, i don't care if it's *wrong* it's the only way my song sounds good"
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 11 August 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
fools, use a wound G instead of the plain abomination
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 August 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
oh friend,
i play flatwounds. i am not a not smart feller.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 11 August 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
flats with a wound G, perfect!
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 August 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
sigh.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 11 August 2022 04:45 (one year ago) link
I read somewhere this was partly because of lingering after-effects of childhood polio (stretching issues for the fingers I guess), dunno if that's true though.
― terry and june as hauntological relic (Matt #2), Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
It's in the 2017 bio.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:58 (one year ago) link
So if he removed the G string, he's playing with just a gap in the middle of the neck?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 11 August 2022 10:47 (one year ago) link
https://alchetron.com/cdn/ricky-wilson-american-musician-0bc2aa19-3bc2-46e0-be3d-ba593427425-resize-750.jpegfucking legend
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 August 2022 10:57 (one year ago) link
there are apocryphal stories that nobody could tune his guitars but him, but I'm not sure how that could be true
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 August 2022 10:58 (one year ago) link
Ha! That's so punk...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 11 August 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link