From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #61 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "jewel-digest-request@smoe.org" with "unsubscribe" as the body. jewel-digest Monday, 19 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MTV has finally caught on... Re: MTV has finally caught on... Re: of course... sorry Jewel on MTV Rock News [none] Re: tempe, az Set Lengths Good Karma Hi! mtv online [MAILER-DAEMON: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: smoe.com: host not found)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Patrick Brown Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:04:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: MTV has finally caught on... CJDavid@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL was only joking when they said... # # They gave her over 3 minutes, which is a lot for that last slot. And # the interview was actually good, considering it was an overview # interview... So all and all I say thumbs up, the only problem is I'm # not so sure that's great. This means, and I've seen it with almost all # the HORDE-type bands, bigger venues and not the same kind of audience # that has previously been there. In other words, more people who want to # hear that one radio song, something like the rush when Blues Traveler # plays "Run-around" or Tori Amos played "god" on her second tour. All This is true, though Blues Traveler handled this phenomonon quite well -- the very first song they play is Run-around so they get all those people out of the way and then the real fans can enjoy the rest of the show. # don't want to attack her for being popular, a trend I also saw manifest # itself with a lot of the HORDE-type bands... ANyway, as usual, just my # thoughts and ramblings... # Of course, with some fans people like them because they're not "mainstream" (whatever that means). So when the obscure cult band becomes popular these people are in a snit because if they like this band then they're "mainstream" which goes against why they supposedly like the band. I don't see this with Jewel, I see people like Jewel because she's honest, spiritual, inspiring, and just plain nice. So her becoming mega-popular is the best thing that could happen to this world! pat - -- ## All opinions expressed are yours; you have only yourself to blame. ## "two roads diverged in a yellow wood and i, i took the third and that is why i am lost." -- daniel perett ------------------------------ From: awalker@macalstr.edu (Aaron Walker) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:49:21 -0600 Subject: Re: MTV has finally caught on... Patrick Brown said: >CJDavid@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL was only joking when they said... ># ># don't want to attack her for being popular, a trend I also saw manifest ># itself with a lot of the HORDE-type bands... ANyway, as usual, just my ># thoughts and ramblings... ># > >Of course, with some fans people like them because they're not "mainstream" >(whatever that means). So when the obscure cult band becomes popular these >people are in a snit because if they like this band then they're >"mainstream" which goes against why they supposedly like the band. I wouldn't say that I like bands solely because they aren't "mainstream," but I do find it strange when bands that I like hit it really big. I'm still trying to grasp the fact that two groups/artists that I really like are up for grammies this year. Liz Phair is nominated for one of the songs off of the Higher Learning soundtrack, and Primus is nominated for Wynona's Big Brown Beaver. I think that NIN is also up for something, but they've always seemed fairly popular (since I've liked them). I think that the main problem people have with a cult artist becoming more famous is that they don't really feel like they have as much of a special relationship with the artist anymore. It's also frustrating when you've been able to see an artist in a small venue and really appreciate them, then try and see them in some huge concert with thousands of fans. I've pretty much given up on going to large concerts because I don't feel much of a connection to the artist. I'll go if I can be close, but if I'm going to be really far away I might as well not be there. Once again, just my opinions. I would like it if Jewel became very* successful because I think she deserves it. - -Aaron Walker Email address: awalker@macalstr.edu Home Page: http://www.math.macalstr.edu/~awalker/ ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:44:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: of course... On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Sabra Richardson wrote: > 1,000 miles away and lying next to the Zephyr club, Sad tale Sabra :( You should have given it a try anyway though. I won tickets to Let's Active at the Zephyr when I was 19 and didn't get carded. I can't remember who I was turned away from seeing there the next year though. That wasn't my fault though. The foolishness of going to a show with someone older than 21 who looked about 17. Caused all the rest of us to get carded. I'm guessing the Utah club scene still sucks? (I left in 1987.) Neal ------------------------------ From: dyani Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 12:35:05 EST Subject: sorry sorry to do this but i've got to try something. will someone email me if this is posted to the list? again, sorry, i hate seeing messages like this and i really don't want to do this, but i've got to test something. dyani ------------------------------ From: gregdunn@indy.net (Greg Dunn) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 13:54:05 -0500 Subject: Jewel on MTV Rock News Managed to tape this segment at 10 AM today. Not bad; the longest sample of yodelling I have seen on video yet :) The Irving Plaza segment was cool; pieces of several songs (Morning Song, Chime Bells, Near You Always) and enthusiastic applause from the audience. Clips from both videos, and a short but intense interview fragment. Jewel looked very positive and slightly nervous, like she does in front of an unknown audience. Tabitha Soren got a few small facts wrong, but nothing flagrant; the interviewer (can't remember her name!) was a little better, though asking some irrelevant questions... I'm looking forward to the new "boot" tape with (at last) a recording of "Chime Bells Ring"; though a video of the complete song would be even more fun :) Jewel Rewels! - -- | Greg Dunn | "Information is not knowledge; | | GregDunn@aol.com | knowledge is not wisdom; | | gregdunn@indy.net | wisdom is not truth." | | Greg@gdunn.nawc-ad-indy.navy.mil | -- Frank Zappa | ------------------------------ From: ChasJKfan@aol.com Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 14:09:13 -0500 Subject: [none] cript from the Jewel interview on MTV's week in rock. If anybody missed this, check it out. They show video clips of her in concert and she yodels and stuff. Cool! Chas (Tabitha) Oscar nominated actor Sean Penn has been living in an Airstream trailer on his multi-million dollar property in Los Angeles and sometimes dating twenty-one-year-old singer Jewel Kilcher, who used to live in a van in San Diego. She's just called "Jewel" on the cover of her debut album, "Pieces of You," and she's traveled an unusual road to the edge of stardom: her parents were locally noted singer-songwriters in her native Alaska, where she was raised on an 800 acre homestead with no television or even a shower. She toured with her parents from the age of six -- and after they divorced, continued touring with her father -- finally ending up in San Diego, California, where she started writing and singing the songs that first attracted attention on the local coffeehouse circuit. Alison Stewart caught Jewel's act in New York City recently and filed this report. ALISON STEWART: So, you're from Alaska, right? JEWEL KILCHER: I am. STEWART: I went to Alaska for vacation this summer. KILCHER: You did? STEWART: I did. What in your music is indicative of you growing up in Alaska? KILCHER: It's hard to separate things. I think ultimately it just gave me a lot of discipline. It gave me a strong feeling of, I guess, a serious centering. I really know myself because there weren't a lot of distractions like TV and things like that. I was raised writing. I spent a lot of time just with myself in my head or with a family that sang constantly. I've been singing in hotels and bars since I was really little. And I think more than anything, it was a lifestyle that gave me a certain optimism. STEWART: At the age of 18, Jewel moved south to San Diego, California where she got a job singing once a week at a local coffee shop. Four of the tracks on her debut album, "Pieces of You," were recorded at her coffee shop gigs. KILCHER: I'd been playing guitar for about a year and a half when I did the album, and writing songs for about a year and a half. I'm not very good. I'm much better live than I am recorded. So I just wanted it to be a real kind of honest representational time capsule of where Jewel was. That's the coffee shop I sang in, that I recorded in. And it's just kind of an honest album. It's kind of dorky but... STEWART: How do you learn to do that [yodeling] exactly? KILCHER: I was a very bored and deranged, disciplined little girl. My dad yodeled, but he wouldn't teach me because he said I was too young. And I think I did it out of spite. I just practiced constantly and I got kicked out of the 3rd grade with a note during math class saying "we appreciate Jewel's artistic endeavors but would you ask her not to yodel during math class." I still can't multiply but... STEWART: Now Sean Penn directed your video. KILCHER: Uh huh. STEWART: How does Sean Penn go about directing a video? KILCHER: I did my first video... like all of the ideas from it. And everything he does, I think he basically does all by himself. So we had two very opinionated people working on the project. We got together, and got our ideas together and ultimately you just have to turn it over and trust. And he wasn't a very hard person to trust that way. STEWART: Question du jour, the rumor mill has you guys are an item. Are you dating? KILCHER: I don't really talk about it. Next question. (Tabitha) Jewel and South Carolina singer Edwin McCain play Salt Lake City on Monday. ------------------------------ From: Hiranya@aol.com Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 16:01:29 -0500 Subject: Re: tempe, az Jewel's leg of her tour with Edwin M ends with the LA show on the 29th. On March 2 Jewel is at the Spreckles Theatre in San Diego sharing a bill with her friends The Rugburns. On March 9, she will be the guest at KRBE's Acoustic Lunch in Houston, Tx. It will broadcast live from the Rhino Room on Sat. from 10a-2p. Jewel will arrive at noon, perform three songs live, and do an interview with Scott Sparks. Afterward, she will sign autographs and mingle with listeners. The event is free to listeners. On Fri Mar 1 Jewel will be on Radio Anarchy, 91X, 3pm, San Diego, CA Bye, Hiranya ------------------------------ From: be424@scn.org (SCN User) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 13:10:47 -0800 Subject: Set Lengths How long are Jewel's set lengths average? I know she's playing before Edwin McCain, so she's got to have a limit; the reason I ask is because I need to tell my ride when to pick me up ..the concert starts at 7:30 (so they say) so I assume she'd finish around..9 or 9:30? phong - -- Hello. Tomorrow will not be your lucky day. In fact, you won't have any lucky days this year. Please respond to . Woohoo. "I'm having lunch at the Kremlin." ------------------------------ From: JefffSmith@aol.com Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 16:41:46 -0500 Subject: Good Karma I thought I'd share a little story that happened today. I was drving in Boston looking for a place to park near my favorite used record store, and after a few trips around the block, I found a spot. Just as I was about to back in, I noticed a car behind my space struggling to get out of their space. We had a lot of snow yesterday and this huge Cadillac was really plowed in. Snow was up to mid door for the entire length of the car. I figured they have enough trouble trying to get out without me parking right in front of them so I got out to see if I could help. Well, it turns out the driver of the car was a little old lady, her Cadillac looked bigger than my apartment! So, I got the shovel out of my trunk and spent 15 minutes digging her out. She was very grateful and offered me some money, but I couldn't take anything from someone who looked like a nice Granny. So she went on her way and I walked into the record store Lo and behold, in the Jewel bin, was Save the Linoleum! I had been looking for it for 6 months or more! I could hardly believe my luck. It just goes to show that sometimes doing a good deed brings you some good fortune yourself. I know that CD was there regardless of whether I shovelled that lady out, but then again, maybe... Jeff P.S., I even had a 20% off coupon for the CD! ------------------------------ From: dusttrap Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 18:17:36 -0800 Subject: Hi! jewel, How's it going? I put my name on your mailing list a few months ago when I saw you at Saratoga Winners in Latham NY. I havn't gotten anything yet I 'll leave you my address again. Veronica Polinsky RD#4 2995 Amsterdam NY 12010 P.S Are you planning on coming out with a new album anytime soon and when is the next time you will be in the NY area? Hope to hear from you soon ------------------------------ From: chris Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 18:29:54 -0500 Subject: mtv online Hey everybody if you want to see the whole transcript and some pics fomr the jewel interview then go to MTVOnline. THey have the whole thing there on the MTVNEws page. I just checked it out. I just hope that she doesn't get screwed by all of this new attention. - -- One never knows what affect the next actor will have on the stage when he or she steps forward. -Restiff Bard ------------------------------ From: be424@scn.org (SCN User) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:50:54 -0800 Subject: [MAILER-DAEMON: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: smoe.com: host not found)] Sorry to bother you guys again, but has anybody bought tickets for the Seattle show since it changed venues to the Pioneer Square Theatre? I tried calling the box office, and the recording didn't even have Jewel/McCain listed on Thursday (although it might be old and not updated), I tried going to the Theatre itself on my way back from getting Phantom tickets ($60 each (!)), and the theatre looked like it had been deserted.. Ticketmaster Online doesn't have the concert listed.. Phong PS: Ignore the topic; that was an error on my part earlier - -- Hello. Tomorrow will not be your lucky day. In fact, you won't have any lucky days this year. Please respond to . Woohoo. "I'm having lunch at the Kremlin." ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #61 **************************