On Oct 6, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Just for the record, Henry Louie was Joni’s manager (or was it recording engineer, Turq?). Henry and his wife Nadine were close to MMY in the early days. I once heard a story that some starry-eyed fan got close enough to Joni (who learned TM at some point) to say “Jai Guru Dev” and that Joni’s response was “Fuck you.”
Not surprising since one of her friends, Alan Ginsberg had discovered and exposed the Maharishi's phoniness many years ago (and IIRC correctly, Ginsberg published it in a newspaper).
