Hello everyone - this is my first official correct entry to this list - the last one was an undeleted digest packed full of repeated information which must have made for a great intro - so thanks to all the very kind little prompts that people have included in their welcoming emails. It wont happen again!!
Anyway, I was asked how long i had been listening to Joni because this is what all you "old fogies" want to hear - why do you assume i am not an old fogie, is it because i cannot follow simple instructions about returning emails ? :-) Here is my Joni story - my brother was a big fan (student years do that to people and i missed all of that jazz coming from the old school 'university of life' way of thinking) and he taped "For Free" in a compilation for me. It didnt really reach me, i must have been around 24 at this stage and was living in London and doing BAD stuff........a couple of years later i moved to Bristol and hired Turbulent Indigo and Don Juan's.. from the record library and taped them. And fell in love.....with music, imagination, sorrow, art, everything... and oh yeah, Joni. I shifted consciousness in an artistic way and I havent looked back. I consider myself a fully fledged obssessive taking great personal offense at ANYONE who criticises or doesnt understandthis womans music. For the Roses is beginning to be a very strong timeless standard that does shift and move again each time but i REALLY have to be in the right mood for this to happen. In a recent digest someone mentioned "Nothing Can Be Done" as a weak track - the context and meaning of "weak" was discussed but that is not enough. The song is very far from weak. A song with that title is not going to be musically 'full'. The spare, lonely bass riff and tight vocal melody are all is needed (especially in the context of the album) to create a frustrated feeling of 80's wealth and the cold vacuum of love losing. Horses for courses but that song is magic. I was bored with the political ranting - or ego infomation swapping - that featured alot in the digest recently. We hear about it alot over here and of course it affects us all but we are not struggling with victim/aggressor mentality. It seems to the rest of the world that 9/11 posed to settle a karmic debt that the U.S is having a big problem handling...... anyway, i am starting it all off again.....sorry. I have a big 'flu head cold shitty thing - poor me poor me poor me!!! More soon........ Robin Robin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
