At 3:00 AM -0400 9/21/02, JMDL Digest wrote: > >Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 01:14:58 -0400 >From: "Jim L'Hommedieu \(Lama\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: "Produced by Joni Mitchell" > >In many interviews, she's said that she "doesn't know what the word means". >Sometimes she says that she generally doesn't work with "outside" producers >'cause she doesn't "want someone ELSE'S brush strokes" on her canvas. > >That said, I wouldn't be the first person to notice that she gave some >people a great amount of creative freedom to move around within her canvas. >Jaco for example at the very begining of "Sweet Sucker Dance". Just before >her vocal starts, he put this figure in that practically steps on her. Most >people wouldn't have left that in there but it really builds tension in a >jazz way. There's no way (in my opinion anyway) that a rock bassist like >John Entwistle would have stepped into that particular space. It says >oceans about Joni's thirst to collaborate in those days, and about the fact >that she had some really, really wonderful players with her. > >Maybe there's chapter to be written called "Joni's sidemen". Hmmmmm. >Stills, jt, Shorter, Erskine, Blade, Hancock, Jaco, Larry, shit! That's >just for starters! > >Lama
Brilliant collaboration, it seems to me. Brilliant in the direction of genius. Richard in San Francisco n.p. Doug Echols spinning live on WPKN-FM, 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT, http://www.wpkn.org live feed...
