Great story Ashara! Thanks for being such a pain in the ass, I mean so
determined. Only five more sleeps to go until I am home.
Love
Paz
NP-White Bird-IABD Live Gold Mine Winery, Sonora, Ca, 8-26-00
on 8/26/01 7:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you all SO much for all the wonderful Birthday wishes! I started to
> write each and everyone of you indivually, but there are just too many and
> not enough time
> before Jonifest begins! What a wonderful birthday I had!
>
> Jesse is all settled in college and I am frantically getting reading for 60
> crazy Joni fans to descend on my doorstep. But I wanted to take a minute to
> tell you a wonderful Joni-related story. While in Boulder, I visited a used
> record shop, Bart's CD's. On the wall there was a ton of music memorabillia:
> signed Jerry Garcia pictures, very old posters, and a host of other rare
> things including a poster of Joni from the Wild Things tour of 1983. I asked
> the salesclerk if the pieces on the wall were for sale, and he replied no,
> that it was the owner's personal collection. He continued that the owner had
> been offered money for items before, but never has sold anything. Not one to
> take no for an answer, I asked when the owner would be in. Two days later I
> returned to the store, talked to the owner, and he informed me that that the
> Joni poster actually belonged to another store owner a block and a half away.
>
> Off I went down the street, only to find the owner of the shop was in New
> York city at a gift show. I expained the situation to the young woman who
> worked in the shop, and she offered to call her boss in NYC. She asked if
> there was a "story" that went along with it, and with ever-so-innocent eyes I
> related just how much Joni meant to me, what an influence she had in my life,
> and that today was even my BIRTHDAY! (Of course I mentioned the 60 people
> from all over the world that would be descending on my house within a weeks
> time that would LOVE to see the poster too!) Duly impressed, she made the
> call! Her boss explained on the phone how Joni personally gave her that
> poster on the stage of Red Rocks when they met during the 1983 concert. After
> may "ah hahs" and "uh hums", the salesclerk hung up the phone.
>
> I was *sure* at this point it would be a cold day in hell before "Diana"
> would part with a poster that was given to her by Joni. The salesclerk looked
> at me and said, "You happened to ask at a good time- she is simplifying her
> life and getting rid of many belongings." After about 30 seconds of
> negotiating, "Holly" and I were walking back down the street to Bart's to
> hand the poster over to me!!
>
> Between all of your wonderful birthday wishes, and this very special find, it
> was a truly special birthday!!!
>
> Hugs,
> Ashara
