Joni Mitchell bootleg: know anything about it?

[White, Jared Conway]

Hi there 8-)

In a stroke of unbelievable luck recently i managed
to acquire a vinyl pressing of a Joni Mitchell bootleg
album called "Winterlady": live recordings made in
Canada in 1967 (so the cover says). I wondered if any
other Joni fans out there could give me any more information
about it.

The cover has a black and white picture of a person climbing
a fire escape, with a cape blowing behind them in the wind,
with: Joni Mitchell : Guitar and vocals
The Audience : Pleasant response
The Radio Interviewer: Interesting questions.

Recorded in Canada
FW 8224.

There is also a bizarre paragraph typed on the cover,
which i can type up and post if anyone is interested.

Tracks are:

The Circle Game
London Bridge
Joni's Coke Commercial
Eastern Rain
Just Like Me
Brandy Eyes
Drummer Man
Winter Lady
Mr. Blue I'll Be Laying You
Urge For Going
Sugar Mountain (Neil Young's song)

Does anyone know more about this? the record itself has
a label of an artist i've never heard of: an album
called "Spindizzie" by Bruce Dillon. Anyone know what
this is/was?

Any information would be appreciated.

Jared

[WallyB2000]

Hi!
This message is in response to your post re Mitchell's boot "Winter
Lady". The material was taken from tapes of WMMR, a Philadelphia radio
station that Joni frequently visited during the late 60's. The boot
includes snippets of conversations and of course the songs. I've owned a
copy for years and I've cherished it. There is also a vinyl boot called
"The Posall & the Mosalm" which contains much of the same material but
some songs are different. Neither of these have appeared on CD boot as
Mitchell isn't a huge seller anymore but there are CD boots of her
performance in London in Oct.,1970 with quest James Taylor. Also there is
a recent CD boot called "Just Ice" which includes the live performance
parts of her appearance on Canadian TV's MuchMusic program called
"Intimate & Interactive". It was wonderful to see and hear Joni sing live
again after so many years off the road.

Wallyb2000

[GeneS5]

In reference to:

>>This message is in response to your post re Mitchell's boot "Winter
>>Lady". The material was taken from tapes of WMMR, a Philadelphia radio
>>station that Joni frequently visited during the late 60's. The boot
>>includes snippets of conversations and of course the songs. I've owned a
>>copy for years and I've cherished it. There is also a vinyl boot called
>>"The Posall & the Mosalm" which contains much of the same material but
>>some songs are different.

For the sake of history let me clear up a few innaccuracies. I was the guy
who interviewed Joni in the late 60s and it was my folk radio show (and
some live performances from the Second Fret in Philly) that were
bootlegged. The interviews from 1967 were recorded on my Sunday night
radio shows on WHAT-FM (96.5) in Philadelphia (the station is now WWDB) My
assistant, Ed Sciaky who was doing a show on his college radio station
(WRTI at Temple) taped my interviews with Joni and then took his WRTI
recorder to the Fret to get her in concert. Theses historic taped shows
were first aired on WHAT-FM and WRTI-FM and played years later on WMMR
when both Ed and I were DJs there. That's when they were bootlegged.
During the first interview Joni's husband Chuck was in the studio---they
did "Circle Game" together, but the quality of that tape was bad and I
rarely repeated it. Also during one interview she sang "Sugar Mountain"
and told the story of how a friend of her's in Toronto was unable to get
into this folkie coffeehouse when he reached age 20 so he wrote this song
to bemoan loosing his teen status, and entre to the club. She said his
name was Neil Young , but never went on to tell me that she wrote "Circle
Game" in response to "Sugar Mountain". I heard her relate that story years
later in the BBC radio concert she did with James Taylor. Interesting
stuff eh?
Just thought I'd set the record straight. On the back of one LP the
bootleggers thanked the people at WMMR for playing the tapes they ripped
off. They didn't know the true origin of the tapes. Meanwhile that's my
voice on those snippets of interviews.
Gene Shay/ WXPN, WHYY, Philadelphia (Still doing Sunday folk shows after
all these years!)

[jefl...@gmail.com]

Gene, Did you ever interview Joni at WMMR? I remember listening to a program no earlier than 1970. I'd always assumed that it was live.

Is there somewhere to go to stream these interviews, I'd love to hear her youthful voice again.