From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #168 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "jewel-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. jewel-digest Sunday, 28 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 168 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Norfolk, VA? Re: I shot Andy Warhol Re: Jewel and Mainstream big time Jewel in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (reply) Re: big time Jewel and Mainstream One saving grace THANK YOU!!!!! Carter: turn that frown upsidedown Re: Jeff Hanson! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Katie Johnson" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:42:39 EST Subject: Norfolk, VA? Does anyone know if she is playing in Norfolk, VA? I was told that it was posted that she was playing in Norfolk, NC, but that this may have been a typo. Anyone know? If so, please write back asap! If she's playing in Norfolk, she's probably going to be at the Boathouse (steam machine w/ security guards from hell). Cheerz, Katie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kate Johnson * kajohnson@main.rmwc.edu ------------------------------ From: "Mark Anthony Miazga" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:20:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: I shot Andy Warhol > >Is this (I shot Andy Warhol sndrk) available to the public yet? When? > > I expect a decent record store will have it soon if not already. You might > want to try to get a preview first, to be sure you want to pay full price > for essentially one song. Well, in my new Entertianment Weekly magazine, it says it comes out Tuesday, April 30. The soundtrack got a B+, and Jewel was spoken of favorably for covering Donavan. I think I will get the soundtrack. REM is also on it covering an old Troggs song, and I'm a real sucker for interesting covers. Plus there's some good oldies. It looks good. BTW, there is also pretty big picture of Jewel on the page opposite the soundtrack. I didn't notice her, but read the caption. She looks different... hair darker (wet?), but it's a nice picture. This is all in the latest issue of EW, with Hootie on the cover, proclaiming the 25 best selling albums of all time. - -- Mark Miazga Michigan State University miazgama@pilot.msu.edu East Lansing, MI USA - -- Check out my homepage at Firefly: http://www.ffly.com I'm "Sparty" -- ------------------------------ From: Peter Wang Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:58:49 -0400 Subject: Re: Jewel and Mainstream I feel the need to post my opinion on this, I just hope she don't burn out and/or fade away. Other then that, I'm glad she's getting more exposure. Just my thoughts =-) -pete j wang visit my personal web page at http://www.users.nyc.pipeline.com/~petewang and my Jewel Kilcher Guitar Tab page at http://www.users.nyc.pipeline.com/~petewang/jktabs.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ And if you want, to belong ^ ^ And you missed the extremes ^ ^ The extremes, act it out ^ ^ Practicing ^ ^ Perfecting ^ ^ On to me ^ ^ On to me ^ ^ - Kurdt Kobain ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------------ From: "James H. Judd" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:34:53 -0500 Subject: big time >Subj: Interesting Free Offer........ Well, looks like the jewel mailing list is finally big time ;) Did i miss a post about how many people are on the list now? If so, just mail me. Otherwise, how big are we now? I forsee great growth in the near future with the headlining tour(duh). And Carter, cheer up- we all get jeweled out once in a while. Just wait a few days and you will realize again how every other artist sux :) (tee hee, nothing personal all you fans of other "artists", ha, like they deserve to be called artists. Performers maybe, but Jewel is the One True Artist(tm) ) (sorry for that last parenthesis (but if you know what Lisp is (you understand my affliction. (If you don't, avoid it like the plague. (It's an EVIL language for AI (that has a bigillion parenthesis that have to match up perfectly)))))) James _________________________________________________________________________ juddjam@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~juddjam Computer Science Grad Student Network Services Web/Lab Guy ------------------------------ From: "Mark Anthony Miazga" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:10:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Jewel in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (reply) > She's in the music review section regarding her cover of a Donovan tune > for the upcoming WHO SHOT ANDY WHARHOL? movie. EW calls her cover "glittering". Quite different than that other critic, huh? - -- Mark Miazga Michigan State University miazgama@pilot.msu.edu East Lansing, MI USA - -- Check out my homepage at Firefly: http://www.ffly.com I'm "Sparty" -- ------------------------------ From: diciccda@saber.udayton.edu Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:35:16 -0400 Subject: Re: big time Hi All! after james asked how many were on the list now, i became quite curious myself there are now 398 people on the list and to give you an idea of how much jewel's popularity (for lack of a better term) has increased, when i joined the list in early february i was numner 110 on the list, so that means since early february, nearly 300 people have joined That's pretty impressive! Cheers, dave-who-is-procrastinating-and-doesn't-want-to-study-for-exams-so-instead- he-is-willing-to-do-jewel-related-statistics diciccda@saber.udayton.edu ------------------------------ From: CJDavid@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL Date: Sat, 27 Apr 96 11:55 EDT Subject: Jewel and Mainstream What I found interesting (and yes I am procrastinating doing my work) is that WWSYS is what hit. Here's my logic: WWSYS has been around forever and was never a big play item, not even on VH-1. Then YWMFM came out and it was this slick up-tempo type song with a video directed by Sean Penn. I mean Sean Penn. If there was ever a video made to hype the hell out of a star it was that video. And it was a complete bust, even now that you can seee WWSYS you still can't see YWMFM. The company had to go back and push the original less-polished Jewel. The girl with the guitar, not the girl with Sean Penn and a rhythm section. Is this saying something about the difference between honesty and a new coat of shine? It would be optimistic if it was, but so many artists that shine just enough are still hitting. So, it has to say something about this specific star and this specific audience. N'est pas? Peace, cara "We can all imagine the world. But, can we imagine it without us?" ------------------------------ From: Sean Hooks Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 21:29:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: One saving grace Date: 27-Apr-1996 09:23pm EST From: Hooks, Sean SHOOKS Dept: STUDENT Tel No: (201)-408-5581 TO: Remote INTERNET Address ( _IN%jewel@smoe.org ) Subject: One saving grace The one saving grace about the commercialized Jewel that I talked about in my post about Jewel and Mainstream was that WWSYS is the first song on Pieces of You. What do I mean? Simply that people will buy the album, put it in, listen to WWSYS, than get the next eight songs. All acoustic basicly and very radio-unfriendly, especially the song immediately following WWSYS, Pieces of You. If anything turns off shallow, pop music people like those who listen to z100 and watch MTV, it is songs with lyrical depth that are devoid of catchy tunes and rhythyms, that is what Pieces of You is. So these people will have to sit through nine songs before they get to more pop music in the form of You Were Meant for Me. Than after that they get more of the real Jewel again, low key guitar strumming accompanied with deep lyrics. That's about all, just fleshing out my last post a little more. I anxiously await seeing Pieces of You CDs sitting in Used CD racks because the wrong people bought them, were turned off by the fact that they expected more songs like WWSYS and didn't get them so ditched the CD. Later, Sean Hooks PS: By the way, I love WWSYS, it is the song that made me a fan I must admit. But the acoustic version, not the radio and album one. It is a great lyrical song that unfortunately also sounds good to the untrained ear that pays no mind to what a song is saying and only how it is being said. ------------------------------ From: WHITEH17@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 22:04:32 -0500 (CDT) Subject: THANK YOU!!!!! Date sent: 27-APR-1996 22:00:47 Sorry to post this to the whole list, but there are too many people to write individually. I just wanted to say thank you to all who wished me a happy birthday! (and BTW, IT WAS!!!) I am amazed at the responses that I have received from all of you, and it is really touching to see something like this from people I technically do not even know. It is very refreshing, and you'll never know the joy that you all have brought me. For that I say THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace everyday angels.....I Love Ya Hollie \|/ ____ \|/ @~/ ,. \~@ /_( \__/ )_\ \__U_/ Do you hate me, 'Cause I'm Pieces of You? Internet - whiteh17@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu ------------------------------ From: volcano@sirius.com Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 04:46:57 -0700 Subject: Carter: turn that frown upsidedown > From: Carter Navarro > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 02:25:51 -0700 > Subject: Whiny & Depressing Post: Don't Read Me Carter, How did I *know* this posting was from you simply from the subject manner?? As always, you brought quite a few laughs. :) Cheer up ol' buddy, only 6 more days until we see *your* (what you think *I'm* obsessed too?? Didn't think so... ;) ) obsession. What a way to start May. Smile damnit!! hehehe Candra ------------------------------ From: gregdunn@indy.net (Greg Dunn) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 22:58:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Jeff Hanson! >A first show in a brand new city for an unknown artist is an intimidating >thing, but think of how much easier it would be if you arrived and found you >already had fans there, who were already requesting favourite songs by name. >So not only did they affect the people on this list, they made the infant >stages of Jewel's professional career a bit easier for her, and in that way >made it easier for Jewel to make a living doing what she loves... Yup, when I met her in Indy at her first appearance she was quite pleased to find members of her internet fan club already there. She had a nice group of people crowding the front of the stage, supporting her. I still can't quite believe I was the only one who looked her up after the show... >And of course, each of us who heard about Jewel told a dozen friends. And >they told a dozen friends, and so on, and so on... :-) So their impact on >Jewel's fanbase must be considerable. Well, I probably told *two* dozen... :) but my friends already accept that when I get excited about a performer, they have to endure me prattling on for weeks. I know darn well that through me and my daughter, several people heard enough to go buy a copy of PoY, and others have stayed up late to watch her on TV. And *everybody* is tired of the clippings, scans, and photocopied autographs on my wall at work. :) I guess we're all, more or less, evANGELists. - -- | 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 | ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #168 ***************************