From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #183 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 Wednesday, 8 May 1996 Volume 01 : Number 183 Today's Subjects: ----------------- LA Show Re: birfday? Big Band singer (was Re: LA concert) Re: birfday? Re: Kerry H The Grove, Raleigh NC Jewel vs. head Cranberry? Jewel - DC - May 17 RE: Jewel vs. head Cranberry? Re: Big Band singer (was Re: LA concert) Big Blue's Daddy Carnivore-Lyrics Disappointed by Jewel? More Ferrington Stuff Re: hfstival hfstival Re: hfstival Extra Jewel tix NYC the odeon in cleveland, may 14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sinjin@ecn.com Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 07:53:59 GMT Subject: LA Show I've been remenicing about the 5-4 Jewel show in LA (certainly I haven't been praciticing my spelling!). Anyway, did anyone else get the feeling that Jewel seemed a little cold, almost machine like, when she came out for her encores? Like maybe after she finished her routine she just sent out a Jewel-bot programed to: PLAY HIT RECORD YODEL EXIT STAGE RIGHT. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy hearing WWSYS with the band and her Chime Bells still never ceases to amaze me, but I didn't get the feeling that she put herself into it (especially chime bells) as she has done in the past. I dunno, maybe she was just emotionaly spent from such a rockin performance or maybe she is just sick of yodeling almost being a REQUIREMENT for her show, or maybe it's just me. If you went to the LA show (or any other show for that matter) and have any opinions on this, lemme hear 'em. Also, I was just wondering what my fellow Jewel-junkies are like aside from our common bond of her music, so if anyone out there wants to, please email me with a bio (hobbies, fav foods, fav music {Jewel...duh}, stuff). Interesting to see what the range of appeal her music has. Thanks! Oh yeah, another addition to the Kilcherprenic list: If you think that Jewel is staring at YOU personally during her concert (or is flipping only YOU off, etc), then you're obsessed. But we don't know anyone like that...do we? :) HoldingMyBreathTillJewelReturnsToLA, Sinjin ------------------------------ From: Aaron Matthew Suever Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 08:06:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: birfday? On Mon, 6 May 1996, PAUL KYUSAM KIM wrote: > Isn't Jewel's birthday coming up this month? > I've been meaning to post this for a while but it keeps slipping my mind. Doh! I was gonna post this too, since no one had mentioned it yet, but I was gonna wait till after *I* saw her on the 12th. That way I'd be the cool one when I gave her something at the show (selfish me! ;) Aaron ------------------------------ From: Chopped Liver Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:06:23 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Big Band singer (was Re: LA concert) On Mon, 6 May 1996, jeffrey hanson wrote a very cogent post which included: > didn't own other instruments, etc. She's said before that her dream as a > young girl was to be a Big Band singer. Oh, wow! Cant you just hear Jewel's wonderful voice singing torch songs with a big band? Makes me want to compare her to Linda Ronstat and Billy Holiday. Chopped Liver (Charlie) watkins@selway.umt.edu ------------------------------ From: "Ken Winchenbach" Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:28:36 +0000 Subject: Re: birfday? Here's what I'd reccomend on such late notice. Anyone that wants to send Jewel a birthday greeting, write it down in email, and send it to me, with the subject "Jewel's Birthday." I'll copy all these messages into one big collection, print it out and send it to her. It won't be real fancy, but it will work. If people want to send her individual cards, they could send them to me by postal mail, and I'll include them with the big card. I'll send the birthday greeting on May 16th, how's that sound. So hopefully it will get there, and she'll get home to get it. So anybody that wants to be a part of this, needs to send me something by email or postal mail before the 16th. Anyone got any further ideas? birthday thoughts... ---------K e n---------- <> walden@nh.ultranet.com http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~wink/ "You must live as you think, or sooner or later you will think as you live." ------------------------------ From: Greg Dunn Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 12:24:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Kerry H OK, angels. Thanks for your input. This will be the last "broadcast" interruption. :) I'll be collecting messages that you'd like to have forwarded to Kerry until Thursday or Friday, then I'll merge them and send her a printout via U.S. Snail. Just Email me directly at GregDunn@indy.net and I'll do the rest. Anyone who feels they absolutely have to send her a personal card, Email me and I can probably give you the address. :) Thanks, everyone, for your concern. I will put in a good word for the list when I send the message to her. - -- | Greg Dunn | "Information is not knowledge; | | Greg@gdunn.indy.navy.mil | knowledge is not wisdom; | | GregDunn@indy.net | wisdom is not truth." | | GregDunn@aol.com | Frank Zappa | ------------------------------ From: "John M. (Mike) Reel" Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:23:39 -0400 Subject: The Grove, Raleigh NC Anybody on this list going to see Jewel at the Grove in Raleigh NC on May 30th. I am going but was wondering how many of the people on this list were in the RDU area. Later ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:42:11 -0400 Subject: Jewel vs. head Cranberry? Angels, I've read numerous posts about Jewel and the head Cranberry (Delores). Being relatively new here (5 weeks), I am lost and in the dark on this one. Can anyone in cyber-ville fill me in on what the buzz iz on this one? Mike Connell |-------------------------------------------------------| | Ducksoup@spectra.net jew*el noun | | Boltmaniac@aol.com 1. A gem | | DuckOfPrey@aol.com 2. One that is treasured or | | VW 3NWL651@aol.com esteemed | |-------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ From: David Mocko Date: Tue, 7 May 96 15:40:45 EDT Subject: Jewel - DC - May 17 DC area fans, Correct me if I'm wrong, but the U Street Metro stop is much closer than the Metro Station stop that others have previously mentioned. I agree that meeting at the 9:30 Club is the way to go. I'd rather get there as soon as possible to see if I can get the promotional tape. We should meet inside before Duncan Sheik or on the line [online? :) ] waiting to get inside. Who's in charge of organizing all the people that have posted so far? Please e-mail me. Can't wait! David - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David Mocko, Building 22, Room C114 mocko@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov Code 913 - Climate and Radiation Branch Voice: (301)-286-8880 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fax: (301)-286-1759 Greenbelt MD 20771 http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~mocko/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Kim Littlejohn" Date: Tue, 7 May 96 15:10:50 UT Subject: RE: Jewel vs. head Cranberry? Hello When she played (plays?) Pieces Of You she imitates Delores's voice (fagot - ot - ot - ot) the way Dolores would say it... And she describes Dolores (her wedding dress, how she's too cool for body piercing, how Keanu Reeves would hold her train to prove he wasn't gay, how she'd hold Kellog's cornflakes in her palm... etc) in all different ways... Sometimes she'd even sing a whole verse how Dolores would beat her up... That's about it... =) Kim "However far away I will always love you... Whatever words I say... I will always love you..." ------------------------------ From: Tom Proven Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Big Band singer (was Re: LA concert) > Oh, wow! Cant you just hear Jewel's wonderful voice singing torch songs > with a big band? Makes me want to compare her to Linda Ronstat and > Billy Holiday. I think she'd prefer Ella Fitzgerald, right all? Tom email: provent@pls.lib.ca.us jewel/kristin\tanya/lush\happy/catherine\tori/stereolab\milla mary\massiveattack/bob\heather/juliana/dandys\orb/drunkenboat "Stories of rags to riches leave me in stitches and with a thread that's hard to follow" -Trash Can Sinatras "Don't have to be fucking brilliant to see I'm not as smart as I seem to be I'm not as bright as i used to be I'm not as sharp as I think I am" -Dandy Warhols ------------------------------ From: Carter Navarro Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:16:54 -0700 Subject: Big Blue's Daddy I reread that note Hiranya delivered from Miss Kilcher a couple of months ago to get the name of the guy who I believe designed Big Blue. 'Twas Danny Ferrington, and after a short Yahoo search I discovered an interesting tidbit: he also custom-built a guitar for Kurt Cobain four years ago. I copied the short article I found about Ferrington, and reproduced it here. Most of it is Cobain stuff, but there's also a little about Ferrington's general style. From the sound of it, he deals primarily with electrics, so I may have Jewel's guitars confused (Big Blue is definitely acoustic). If I'm wrong, someone please correct me. By the way, Big Blue is even prettier in person, even if it's a bit smaller than I had originally thought. Here y'all go: THE FERRINGTON GUITAR The luthier Danny Ferrington made a custom guitar for Kurt in 1992, based on the Fender Mustang. "Kurt is left-handed, and he really likes the Fender Mustang he's been playing for a few years. But his playing style is so rough, and left-handed Mustangs so rare, that it was beginning to look as if his favorite guitar was going to break apart right out from under him. I'd talked with Nick Close, one of Nirvana's roadies, about trying to find replacement necks for the Mustang, but finally Kurt called me to talk about ordering a new custom guitar. "Nirvana left for Australia a few days later, and Kurt faxed me a great little picture showing where he wanted the pickups to be and what shape to use for the body. It was the first time I'd collaborated by fax, and I thought it was real fun to be designing a guitar by long distance using such a modern communications technology. "I built his guitar to be a lot like that old Mustang, except we used a Gibson-style bridge that's better at keeping the guitar in tune, and I made the neck a little straighter so that it won't be so apt to break when Kurt plays it hard. It's tricky making left-handed guitars, though, because everything on a left-handed guitar is counter-intuitive for me. Right off the bat I made a few mistakes on Kurt's guitar, so finally I took to labeling all the parts 'This Side Up' to remind myself that I needed to do everything backwards. The guitar turned out real well, and a few months later Kurt came by with his wife to pick it up. Just after he started playing it he stopped dead in his tracks and said, 'This is like my dream guitar!' His wife asked, 'Honey, are you gonna trash this one too?' but Kurt got this horrified look on his face, and in a solemn voice he said, 'No, this one's going to be my recording guitar.' I was tickled to death, and it was incredibly satisfying to hear that I'd hit the nail right on the head. [18] The Ferrington guitar is distinguished by several features. It has heart-shaped fretboard "dot" inlays, a stylized "f" (for Ferrington) on the peghead, three pickups (which look like single coil neck and middle pickup, and a humbucker bridge-position pickup), and an almost-Mustang pickguard where the plastic continues right down to the control knobs (this section is chrome on actual Mustangs). The Mustang slide switches are replaced with a toggle switch where the input jack would be. The actual input jack is a Stratocaster- style jack mounted below the pickguard. The body is basswood, with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Its finished in what Fender calls sonic blue, with a red-swirl mother-of-bowling-ball pickguard. I don't know of any pictures or footage of Kurt playing this guitar, but this could be because it was used only as a "recording guitar." ***** - - Carter, Not Completely Sure What a "Luthier" Is ------------------------------ From: Tom Proven Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Carnivore-Lyrics My best attempt-- So much space can fit inside More than words can say I'm left here with my hands(?) open Trying to (?)mend space I used to know you But not anymore Your substance has been subtracted Word by word Silence in my ears where once you offered your conviction Your promises are dropping (?)They're cracked with nostalgia But, that's all right That's okay Had no business giving myself to you anyway Be careful next time for sure And I'll Never trust my pink fleshy heart I'll never trust my pink fleshy heart To a Carnivore Carnivore So he's an ex-thing(?) or it's always an ex-thing Your perfection amen(?) or your perfection they(lay) mend, or you're perfection amen (I?) was fragile as your thoughtlessness as strong as you can bend you could only believe in ______ (sounds like embryo, or in braille, angry old) (put all your high roles) through a telescope Lavender haunted you just like the _______ (sounds like unlamp) in yellow You have a fire down in genius, subtlety and you slip through the fingers of ambiguity Well, that's all right That's okay Had no business giving myself to you anyway Be careful next time for sure And I'll Never trust my pink fleshy heart I'll never trust my pink fleshy heart To a Carnivore (? on this fill-in bridge part) Well I didn't know but I'll I won't do it again next time I won't hunger for this thing I take back my tongue and my poetry This time i won't be too easy to read And I'll never trust my pink fleshy heart (x3) to a carnivore (x3) An appropriate comment from Tori "Built my own pretty hate machine" I'm sure this is influeneced by my thought that this is based on Sean Penn, so it may be off in that direction. (Although she did comment before the song "The beauty of relationships. You know, at least you get a couple of good songs out of them." Take it as you will. Tom email: provent@pls.lib.ca.us jewel/kristin\tanya/lush\happy/catherine\tori/stereolab\milla mary\massiveattack/bob\heather/juliana/dandys\orb/drunkenboat "Stories of rags to riches leave me in stitches and with a thread that's hard to follow" -Trash Can Sinatras "Don't have to be fucking brilliant to see I'm not as smart as I seem to be I'm not as bright as i used to be I'm not as sharp as I think I am" -Dandy Warhols ------------------------------ From: j.mullins1@genie.com Date: Tue, 7 May 96 22:25:00 UTC 0000 Subject: Disappointed by Jewel? Paul wrote that he wasn't happy with some of Jewel's performances at the LA show. I haven't seen her yet on this tour, but am looking forward to it. I can understand the shock of hearing solo tunes with a band for the first time, but they sometime do grow on you with repeated listenings. Which of course you can't do at a live show. And remember too that for live shows, especially at these type of venues, that the mix isn't always going to be good, and it depends where you are sitting (or standing). That could also explain why you couldn't hear her blues solos. And if they only had three days of rehearsal, they probably haven't gotten all the arrangements down just yet. If her next album is with a band, then you may enjoy hearing some of the tunes you know and love done with a band. As far as changing the arrangemnt for "I'm Sensitive", hey, it's called artistic growth. You still have the album if you want to hear the original version. I can't wait to hear different arrangements of some more familair tunes! And emotion doesn't get drowned out by a band. It just gets expressed in a different fashion. I think Jewel is so creative and she culd do so much musically that I'd be a bit bummed if her next album sounded like POY. I don't think Atlantic has much say over wether she plays with a band or not, either, though I could be wrong. If they had the input, why would her debut album be so sparse? Nobody I can think of would want that. Not with the audiences they have to sell to these days... This is NOT a flame at all, but just pointing out a few things that may help you see things in a different light...or maybe not. But thanks for reading! Shakey (j.mullins1@genie.geis.com) "People ask why I'm chasing a comet's tail I tell them because standing still is like being in jail" ------------------------------ From: Carter Navarro Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:48:29 -0700 Subject: More Ferrington Stuff I found out Yahoo sucks, as I tried Alta Vista and got a much better site. This one has a picture of a VIOLIN that Big Blue maker Danny Ferrington designed (so I guess he DOESN'T just make electrics). And hey, I found out what a "luthier" is: "a maker of stringed instruments." Duh. Here's the address: http://www.equipro.com/bowed/ferrngtn.htm The page has an address from which you can order the "Ferrington Guitars" coffee table book that Jewel owns. The price wasn't listed, probably for good reason. Books like that cost more than my car. - - Carter, Who Will Try to Fit "Luthier" Into a Conversation Today ------------------------------ From: LoisMRod@aol.com Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:44:14 -0400 Subject: Re: hfstival btw, I don't know about the other jewel appearances, but if you're 21 and older, you can get into the Houston show for $1.07. Yup, just a little more than a buck. Lois ------------------------------ From: PAUL KYUSAM KIM Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:34:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: hfstival Here's what the Atlantic page says at www.atlantic-records.com/news_events/#Jewel Jewel recently performed her hit single" Who Will Save Your Soul" on CBS-TV's "Late Show With David Letterman," and her characteristically hectic schedule will continue throughout the tour. On May 8th, she will perform at Houston's Urban Art Bar in association with the station KTBZ-FM. On June 1st, she will play the annual WHFS Festival held in Washington, DC's RFK Stadium, and then will go back to the station's studios, where she will DJ for two hours! There it is. Official as can be. Now I wanna know if she's doing mainstage or sidestage Paul "run Luke run" Kim ------------------------------ From: Tazarazz@aol.com Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 22:06:45 -0400 Subject: Re: hfstival Well, they aren't advertising her on the radio yet for the show, so i'm guessing that she's a side stager! ------------------------------ From: j.mullins1@genie.com Date: Wed, 8 May 96 02:16:00 UTC 0000 Subject: Extra Jewel tix NYC Wow, first Tori and now I have an extra ticket for the Irving Plaza May 16 show. Anyone interested? Email me privately... Shakey (j.mullins1@genie.geis.com) "People ask why I'm chasing a comet's tail I tell them because standing still is like being in jail" ------------------------------ From: Kamyar Aram Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 00:03:47 -0400 Subject: the odeon in cleveland, may 14 hello angels, i would really really appreciate if someone could give me directions to the Odeon in cleveland for the 14th show... i'm coming from columbus so i really have no idea... thanks in advance... wow, dylan tomorrow, jewel in a week... after that i can die... peace yar ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #183 ***************************