Hec, I just wanted to let you know that the tape of Play It As It Lays arrived today. Thanks! I will watch it tonight...as soon as I finish my taxes.
Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Sue - Apr 30, 2009 2:21:03 pm PDT #995 of 6436
hip deep in pie
DavidS - Apr 30, 2009 3:05:36 pm PDT #996 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweet! Sorry it took so long to get it out. You'll be shocked at how pretty Tony Perkins was in the early 70s.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 30, 2009 3:53:30 pm PDT #997 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
DavidS - Apr 30, 2009 3:57:29 pm PDT #998 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dulcimer! (not a Hammered Dulcimer, though)
Sophia Brooks - Apr 30, 2009 4:00:33 pm PDT #999 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- I didn't know there was a non-hammered dulcimer! You learn something new every day.
Jon B. - Apr 30, 2009 4:02:39 pm PDT #1000 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The Bevis Frond guy has an electric dulcimer. It's like what Joni is playing, but with a pickup.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 30, 2009 4:19:00 pm PDT #1001 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
DavidS - Apr 30, 2009 4:48:11 pm PDT #1002 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Holy moses! I've never seen this young Joni stuff!
Great clip.
There's a new book out now about her and her Blue period (Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, Hejira). The author had extensive interviews with her and it was fascinating.
She started smoking when she was 9! She'd ride off on her bike and lay in the prairie grass smoking and looking at the clouds.
She had affairs with Leonard Cohen, James Taylor and (most famously) Graham Nash ("Our House"). Lots of songs about those beaus and lots of songs from them in return.
Much of Blue goes to her adventures in the hippie cave dwellings in Matala, Greece in 1968-9. That's where she met Carey.
"The Last Time I Saw Richard" was actually about the folk singer Patrick Sky, not her first husband as is often thought.
She had polio when she was young and her left hand is weak. That's why she started investigating unusual guitar tunings - both to make it easy on her hand to play, but also to add depth to her music because she couldn't be a fancy fingerpicker.
Jon B. - Apr 30, 2009 5:33:47 pm PDT #1003 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
There was a really good documentary on Joni a few years back that ran on PBS. [link]
Oooh, looks like you can get it on DVD: [link]
Liese S. - Apr 30, 2009 7:06:25 pm PDT #1004 of 6436
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The SO just played mountain dulcimer like that for church two weeks ago. They're a little country church; they really loved it.
eta: It's a super easy instrument to learn. It's open tuning, so pretty much everything you do on it sounds good.