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ZIGZAG YEOMAN COTTAGE .... NORTH MARSTON ,0 Ul BUCKINGHAM MK18 3PH OJ :I 0. editorial board (!) (j) PETE FRAME OJ JOHN TOBLER £ ANDY CHILDS ;o The Famous MAC GARRY PAUL KEND\ll KRIS NEEDS advertising JOHN TOBLER r Brookwood 0 (048 67) 5840 c iii' (!) photographers ~ CHALKIE DAVIES ,OJ (/1 TOM CHEYENNE 0 :I layout PETE FRAME SAYINGS OF THE MONTH MAGENTA DE VINE "I got the feeling in the courtroom that there was absoJutely no understanding of the kind of life we lead. To them the things we come in contact with would be shocking, but they're as 11 subscriptions common to us in everyday life as the milkman coming to the door ... Keith Richard. and back-issues "I'm out to see Sir John Reid, and puke all over his face" ••• Malcolm McLaren. SUE ANDREWS 11 1 wouldn't let Grace Slick blow me" ••• Marty Balin. r-------------------1111 spend most of my time laughing my ass off" ••• Le~ Kottke. Those having the good sense and per- 11 ception to desire advertising space "They (Led Zeppelin) thought it was my fault Robert Plant had such a big cock ••• Joe in this publication should contact Massot (Director of 'The Song Remains The Same•). Richard Howell on 01-352-4239 or, liThe safety-pin kid in the bar is taking his attitudes straight out of the Sunday People, in his absence, John Tobler on 048- rather than thinking them up for himself" ••• Mick Farren. 67-5840 - either of whom will be 11 11 happy to furnish all the requisite fax. James Brown sucks ••• David Hancock. 11 This periodical is neither registered "Fairport Convention will go on until my knees go ••• Dave Swarbrick. 11 at the GPO as a newspaper, nor has 11 Kevin Coyne's lyrics make Bernie Taupin' look I ike a graffiti artist • •• Giovanni Dadomo. it the slightest connection, living or "I am not, 1 fear, a television person" ••• John Peel. dead, with the Melody Maker. Any heinous reference to said journal is 11 John Lodge has chosen 'Natural Avenue• as the title for his debut solo album- he feels that 11 total I y without mal ice, and is intended his whole I ife ha~ been one natural avenue towards it ••• Decca Records advertising hype. to be taken in the spirit of friendly "Nobody plays the blues any more -not unless they're black and old11 ••• Mick Brown. rivalry ••• except where otherwise stated. 11 Crosby Sti lis & Nash are back together. All the problems are over; we've patched every- r-------------------1 thing up and we're staring all over again" ••• Graham Nash. Theoretically, Zigzag "indisputably 11 Get sniffing kids. And don't stop till you hit the ceil ing11 ••• The Raver. the most splendid and informative monthly rock music magazine publi II lid rather be on Southend seafront than Sunset Strip; there's much more going on" ••• Wilko shed in Britain" hits the shops on the Johnson. second Friday of each month, which "If I had one leg, I'd be staggering11 ••• John Otway. is about a week after we manage to deliver it to the warehouse of Spot- 11 Hey, I know more than three chords nowl I know four and a halfl Jim practising all the time 1 ight Publications, Ltd., our princip ••• the Blue Oyster Cui t have shown me that rocklnlroll is hard work, it's harder than being al distributors. On occasion, due in the army11 ••• Patti Smith. · to circumstances entirely beyond the "When there's a tidal wave coming, you don't just sit and sip your coke and pretend every control of man, it comes out a week thing's cool, you jump in your boat and go, dad" ••• Ted Nugent. late. Contents copyright Prestagate Ltd. 1977. All rights reserved. Reprod-· CONTENTS uction in whole or part is forbidden STEVE HILLAGE: Gong nomad finds fame and worship as psychedelic solo star ••• page 7 unless you are a bonafide certified JONI MITCHELL: Interview-shy songstress overcomes phobia and ruminates ••• page 11 grade A1 goodbloke. Even so, you must first have sought and obtained RY COODER: Cult figure folkie sticks by his guns to leave the dark end of the street ••• page 16 the written consent of the publisher KEITH RICHARD: The wheels of jurisprudence grind into action ••• page 22 (which is not unreasonably withheld). Any rip-off artists who fail to satisfy· JACKSON BROWNE: Four men ride out and only three ride back. Chinese restaurants in these conditions can expect a vis it Winslow, Arizona ••• page 28. from Tobler and the boys. JOHN WALTERS: Intrepid explorer journeys north to Panto in Palmers Green. Shock horror drama probe ••• page 33. Established in April 1969, and motiv ated by the music, not the money. REVIEWS: Latest platters subjected to scrutiny by our panel of non-experts ••• page 37. Los Angeles, California: because my father played in bands when to the Carolinas, and found out ~hat South Sankey Phillips and Dave Wilson report. I was small - you know, marching bands Carol ina was too far south; I refused to and things I ike that. He played the trumpet. work there any more. North Carol ina was Joni Mitchell rarely gives interviews these I was always more interested in painting very nice: we met a lot of interesting days - on the grounds that she doesn't see than anything else, though, and I went off people.:.. very nice service people- which any point in them: 11 1 don't have anything to art coli ege ••• and every summer, my gave me a whole new point of view on the to say that would explain any of my wor!<s cronies and I used to go up to the I ake and war. I know a lot of really nice, a lot of more clearly", she says. Well, that's a sing around the campfire - you know, un really tragic, and a lot of really gung-ho matter of opinion; if she were willing to accompanied songs. soldiers. A captain who owned my guitar comment on some of her songs, m.aybe weld One summer 1 decided ••• Oh! I remember. before me wanted to give it to me, because be spared some of the preposterous inter I went to a coffeehouse to hear some jazz, he thought I was better than Peter, Paul pretations and observations by critics. What I find more interesting at this point because my friends were interested in jazz and Mary. He used to come in every night 11 in time, however, is not her output so much and I was kind of curious to find out what and get drunk and say 0h, you're better 11 as her route to the stars ••• how she start it was all about- 1 was still a rock and than Peter, Paul and Mary • So I bought ed out on that road which led her to that roller, teenybop go-to-the-dances-on the guitar from him at a very, very, very stratum of untouchable fantasyland where Saturday-night type. Any way, that night good price. Love it dearly. there was no jazz, there was this terrible she no longer has to mix with mere mortals. ZZ: When did you start working as a solo? The stories behind the songs are her folk singer. I didn't enjoy it at all, but own business - and at this stage in the 1 kept going down there ••• And I found JM: Around the end of 166. there were some things I I iked. I I iked game, one can understand her desire to ZZ: And when did you start to write your a group that was very Kingston Trio-ish; "keep her goldfish bowl as translucent as own songs? possible 11 ••• but she was quite prepared to they were local, and they were very amus discuss those early days in fair I y specific ing- it was really funny to hear comedy in JM: Well, I wrote one song in Calgary; terms - though her effusiveness faded music. 1 wanted the leader to teach me I don't remember what it was about, but rather swiftly when the coversation app how to play the guitar, but he wouldn't, so I wrote· it for Peter. I don't remember how roached Mr. Crosby and Mr. Sti lis, those I went out and bought myself a ukelele, it went, and lim sure he doesn't either. refugees from famous LA bands, who grew because my mother thought that guitar••• The next one I wrote was 'Day After Day•. so much closer in her presence during she thought that guitar music was sort of I wrote that when I went fo the Mariposa 1968. associated with country and western, which folk festival in August 1964. Then I wrote was sort of hill bill yish- so she said 'What Will He Give Mel in November of Since your editor is so obsessed with 11 No guitar11 ! 1964, and didn't write anything else until the need to supply as much background the following April when I wrote a s::>ng ZZ: So you got a ukelele instead? trivia as possible, let me just jot down called 'Here Today And Gone Tomorrow' some biographical details before the inter JM: Thatts right ••• and I plunked my way ••• an'd maybe one or two more; I ike I had view starts: Joni Mitchell was born Rob through most of that summer. Then, back one called 'The Student Songt. I guess · erta Joan Anderson on November 7th 1943, at college, I started playing in a club with I had written about five songs when I met which makes her 33 years old now.