RoseMJoy
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 05:28:05 -0700
In a message dated 4/24/01 4:44:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Joni wrote My Old Man when she was still > with Nash and Carry is really about a red-headed character named Carey > Raditz (sp.?) I think that it is on another live recording of Joni at the > Troubadour in L.A. in 1972, where she talks all about Carey, who was an > American hippie cook at the local (Mermaid) Cafe. In either that show or > another interview, she mentioned running into Carey years later at the > Renaissance Fair in SoCal. > > It may be about time to run another CD/tape tree to get these recordings > around to newer listmembers. > > I agree Kakki, we should make these recordings available to new listmembers. Some of these stories she tells are just priceless. I have a recording that Steve Ponsonby in Scotland was so kind enough to provide me with. (thanks Steve :~) It is dated 2/23/72 Live at Carnegie hall where Joni telling the story of meeting this person. She walks into a place and has some garbage to throw away. She sees this guy with a turban wrapped around and around in dirty whites. He had wild red hair and a heart in one ear and a gold loop in the other. She goes on to describe him with fierce blue eyes and the mark of Cane on his brows (thinking). She asks him what she could do with the garbage and looked at her abruptly and threw the garbage over his shoulders all over floor. He was the cook there LOL. She asks him for his birthdate. For his birthday she gave him 10 Mickey Mouse chocolate bars. Carey was very impressed because they had these Snow White cards in them in Greek and they were odd ones that nobody else had at the time. She went on to say she wrote him this song "Carey you're a mean old daddy but I like you." Rose in NJ NP: Woodstock Carnegie Hall 1972 [EMAIL PROTECTED]