From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V2 #541 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, July 9 1997 Volume 02 : Number 541 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel In August's "Q" Magazine (Long) [Richard Martin ] JC: Spin Online Interview [EFraser311@aol.com] Interviewer is idiot [st_kuo@ix.netcom.com] Jewel in US magazine! [st_kuo@ix.netcom.com] ANYONE [Connie ] SEE YA! [Connie ] MrBB-To All Bearsville Reunion Attendees [ABershaw@aol.com] Re: Bearsville 97 ["Brett Fagan" ] NJC: All-Star game ... [Mike Thiel ] *NJC* A band I need to help... [GRooVe MoNTHLY ] foolish [capdetar@westol.com (chris a detar)] JC: People Mag. [EFraser311@aol.com] Re: Jewel on cover of details [Court Schuett ] Tape Bag [red_ranger@juno.com (Nick the blurred Angel)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 19:28:00 +0100 From: Richard Martin Subject: Jewel In August's "Q" Magazine (Long) I don't know whether this article has been posted to the list yet.If it has,I'm sorry.If it hasn't,here it is. "Fuck You !" Jewel Kilcher,23,native of Homer,Alaska,seller of four million copies of her album Pieces Of You,is flipping a cheery V-Sign to the punter who has asked,before she's played a note,whether her breasts are real.His 40 fellow Glaswegians,mostly record shop owners,bussed in at record company expense in the hope they'll plug Jewel a tad more keenly,chuckle along.Here,at Maxaluna,on Sauchiehall Street,with a backdrop of Peter Wyngarde,she takes her guitar off her back,unzips its bag and plays half an hour of songs interspersed with yodels and anecdotes about meeting Bob Dylan.Not one bold Scotsperson dare go within 10 feet of her.As she finishes (no encores),to complete the package,Jewel places the guitar back in its case,zips it up,puts it on her back,marches off to a waiting Rolls Royce and shoots back to her Hilton Hotel,with Nedra Carroll,her "mom" and chaperone in tow. "It's not hard to come to Europe where nobody knows me,"she coos."People ask how I go from playing big halls and being famous to places where they treat you like shit.Neither seems real or very different". Yule Kilcher,Jewel's paternal grandfather,emigrated from Switzerland to Alaska in time to help draft the state charter.His son,Atz,married Nedra and the pair made albums as a folk duo.Jewel and her two brothers were raised as mormons on a homestead with no running water or television.When Jewel was 8,her parents divorced.She found herself with Atz,who liked a drink.Soon,it was off to "mom" in Anchorage.After Jewel secured a "vocal scholarship" at Interlochen Fine Arts Academy,Michigan,Nedra re-located to San Diego.Jewel joined her,living in a VW van.Nedra,one of life's chaperones,lived in the van next door. "It was horrifying," Jewel clucks."I was young,my hands were small.I didn't have an understanding of how to make an impact on my world,how to get beyond waitressing in coffee shops." Broke and low on self-esteem ("I never thought I was a good songwriter,or even that I was a songwriter.I was never that self- assuming of myself"),whatever a vocal scholarship was,it was time to put it to good use.Soon Jewel was singing her heart out at the Innerchange coffee house. "I was tired of surviving,putting all my time,my creativity into worrying about rent.It's a shitty,degrading thing to waste yourself on." She took hold of her own life. "I've spent a lot of my life being very confused and very lonely and separated from any belief I could live a life that was worth living,"she whispers."I see how many people do that and it gets to me,it always has.The situations I was put in,instead of hardening me and making me cynical,gave me greater compassion.Take suicide-it's not caused by one thing,it's an accumulation of little cruelties we inflict on each other,so we go through life hoping nothing happens to us.Not many people feel like taking control,which is unfortunate.I care a lot about that and that's what got me out of the situation I was in." This meant a slacker life. "I sang one night a week and spent the rest doing what I wanted,"she smiles."Surfing.Writing a lot.I love scientific literature,studying the effects of voice on the human body.That's where I found my freedom." In 1994,she signed to Atlantic Records and Pieces Of You was mostly recorded In Neil Young's Broken Arrow studio in Woodside,California. "I wanted the album to be a time capsule,to represent me honestly.I'm not embarrassed by its openess.It has courage and integrity.I though it would only sell 30,000,so it wasn't like I was taking a big risk,like I was going to be this open in front of millions of people.When I wrote it,I was a teenager,struggling with how to live in the world without involving myself in extremes.How to be spiritual and not have to be a hippy or some new ager.We're at a time where we're learning spiritualy,without having to live on mountain-top communes. "When I was 18,life was unbearable,so it made me ask,What do I enjoy doing ? Are dreams hobbies ? Is 'dream' too cliche ? Can I believe in dreams ? It made sense to move from 'I feel fucked up' to 'What are we going to do about it ?' "Several things could have filled my void,but I was just a little better at songwriting than marble carving.Selling four million albums three years later is like a beat-up car winning the Indy 500.It wasn't built for this.It's competing with things that are slick,really cool and high- tech.This is just girl and guitar.I didn't think it was possible,to tell you the truth." Virtually chorus-free,the Tori Amos-like Pieces Of You was received badly. "As I predicted,nothing happened," she remembers."The radio stations said it was unlistenable and over their dead bodies would they play it.It was fine for me-I didn't think I'd exist within what was popular." Atlantic smartly sent the cheap-to-maintain Jewel and her trusty guitar across America.She headlined coffee houses and supported anyone:Pete Murphy,Jeff Buckley,The Ramones,even The Beach Boys.She secured herself a cult following and 14 months after its release,Pieces Of You began to take off.Now,it's been 70 weeks in the American chart and-hooray-she's a star.It's said she's a great beauty of the age. "It's funny how many of us feel moral depravity,don't you think ?" she muses."Through osmosisis,I got a big dose of,like,moral depravity.I've struggled with that,but I try not to play on my sexuality.I love words and turns of phrase-to me,that's sexy.It's easy to believe others are beautiful and much harder to believe you are.I don't know many women who look in the mirror and think they're beautiful.They think,Oh I was beautiful in that picture but I must be an ugly cow today.But at the same time,you are aware of yourself." It's a curse then ? "Yes,but it's hard in my position,"she whines."I can't care about people perceiving me,I can't exist like that.I can't create when I worry about people thinking I'm just a pretty face.I have driven myself nuts.It's tremendous,the burden." Wisely,the first things she did as a star were, a)wear a see-through dress at this year's Grammies ( "It was such a big deal," she puzzles,all Phoebe from Friends."Like,you can't be spiritual and sexy ? "),and b)cop-off with high-profile actor Sean Penn. "It's so insignificant to my music," she snaps (though Penn directs the video to current single,You Were Meant For Me),"that,I kind of,like don't want to talk about it.I find it so silly.I don't have much patience for it.It's disappointing that people continue to focus on it,to talk about it." Shw will not,we may assume,be covering any Madonna songs in the near future. All-in-all,a well-written article,and a lot better than many others that I have read recently. Further on in the magazine,appears the first advert that I have seen in a UK magazine for Pieces Of You.Featuring a great backdrop picture of her,it reads: Jewel,Pieces Of You.....Possessed of a vibrant imagination fuelled by the vastness of the Alaskan wilderness,the musical instincts of a life- long performer,and the courage to cut her own path in life,Jewel embodies a single poetic voice.But if you listen closely enough to PIECES OF YOU,you may well find a piece of yourself lying within the songs. I hope that you enjoyed reading this. - -- Richard (the original UK EDA !!!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 13:09:52 -0700 From: Snif Subject: :) Hi, My name is Connie and im a really BIG fan of Jewel ive got all her poems and songs on my walls and lots of her pictures...... Really she is great, lots of my friends dont know her but when i put her CD on they go crazy... I want to know if Jewel has more poems appart from the ones here in this page and the ones in the CD..... Thanx a lot Smax Connie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 22:45:51 -0400 (EDT) From: EFraser311@aol.com Subject: JC: Spin Online Interview I'm not sure if this has been posted or not, but Spin Online did an interview with Jewel, and she mentions the EDA's so I thought I'd post what she said: S: I heard there were some live tracks on the album. J: Yep. It was really sweet, my fans asked me over the internet- I have a group of fans that named themselves after one of my songs "Everyday Angels I'm Sensitive" -- they asked me to put on a free concert if they all came to Woodstock. I said yes, and so people drove from San Francisco, Missouri, Florida, Canada, all over. They camped out and called it Jewelstock. I recorded those sessions and put some of the songs on the album. S: How many of these fans are there? J: I don't know really. Because radio never played me in the beginning and I toured so much, I got a really strong following going. They've really kept my spirits up. They bootleg my stuff. Their goal is to get all my material. S: And that's okay with you? J: Its good because I write alot of new stuff and I forget'em. If it wasn't for my fans sending me back the bootlegs the stuff would be gone forever. They don't sell'em. Just thought some of you might want to see that!! I CAN"T WAIT TILL BEARSVILLE!! Ali :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jul 97 17:47:18 GMT From: st_kuo@ix.netcom.com Subject: Interviewer is idiot I just finished reading the interview of Jewel in US magazine. Is it just me or don't you think the interviewer intentially gave Jewel hard time? When they first met Jewel checked him up and down and commented,"ah, a predator." I think Jewel hit the mark cuz that guy kept asking her dumb questions to corner her and maybe to intimidate her. What do you all think? an unhappy angel, Stanley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jul 97 17:47:13 GMT From: st_kuo@ix.netcom.com Subject: Jewel in US magazine! I just bought the August edition of US magazine which features Will Smith and Jewel on the cover(Jewel is on the upper right corner). It has a rather big picture of her inside, along with two pics of young Jewel(one of them at pg 60) so I urge all of EDAs to go out and buy it. Later. "I was thinking that I might fly today." -Jewel EDA always, Stanley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:15:41 -0700 From: Connie Subject: ANYONE Does anyone know where I can find more poems (not the ones in the cds) from Jewel and the lyrics of the unkwon songs...... Thanx Connie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:24:13 -0700 From: Connie Subject: SEE YA! Good night to all.... Dream with the sweetes angel ******JEWEL******* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:38:02 -0400 (EDT) From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: MrBB-To All Bearsville Reunion Attendees Hi all, Dennis & I were talking about The Bearsville Reunion tonight. I'm still not sure if I'm going but I came up with an idea that could be fun for all involved. I suggest each person going compile one tape of their favorite non-Jewel material. It can be anything you like or think others might enjoy. At Bearsville, throw all the tapes in a bag & take home a different one. It's that simple. Just one big "Tape Exchange". Everyone's bound to get something good & it's a great way to learn more about the EDA whose tape you happen to choose. Sound like a worthwile idea? Alan(MrBB) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 20:48:55 PDT From: "Brett Fagan" Subject: Re: Bearsville 97 I've just recently joined the list and heard alot about this Bearsville '97. Could somebody please help and inform to what exactly will be going on. I've read alot about last year. Thanks. _______________________________________________________ Get Private Web-Based Email Free http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:46:48 -0400 From: Mike Thiel Subject: NJC: All-Star game ... I'm just wondering, but did anyone record the All-Star game today? Stupid me forgot about it, and I REALLY wanted to watch it. Then when I heard that my favorite player was named MVP with a homer to win it, that just made me even madder!!! :) ESPECIALLY to do it IN Cleveland ... they've been my team forever, and I really wanted to hear the crowd get behind Sandy and Jim, and to boo the HELL out of Albert and Robby. :) I can't believe I forgot to watch it!!! (*sad*) So if anyone recorded it, could you PLEASE e-mail me? Thank you so much. Lotsa Love, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:57:39 -0400 (EDT) From: GRooVe MoNTHLY Subject: *NJC* A band I need to help... Hey, there's a lady at my father's work who introduced us to her nephew's band, Quasi Qua (italian for "Almost there") and they are a contemporary classic rock band. You don't know how incredibly GOOD they are.. they are AMAZING.... and they're comign to New Jersey and I've been assigned to help my dad out with them to find them some venues to play..... if anyone in NJ or NY can help me out, please let me know.. this would be anamazing opportunity, especially if these guys were to become famous.. ttyl - -linda :) _\|/_ o o ...ooo....(_)....ooo..................................................... | | | | Linda E. MacIntyre | "do you hate him, 'cause he's pieces | | brownie@tsb.inet-images.com | of you?" | | Editor of the angel's virtual| - jewel "pieces of you" | | poetry collection and GRooVe | "what do you do when all your enemies | | MoNTHLY | are friends?" | | | - foo fighters "monkeywrench" | | check out the web page - | "can you look out the window without | | http://www.geocities.com/ | your shadow getting in the way?" | | SunsetStrip/Stage/7809/ | - sarah mclachlan "building a mystery"| |..............................|........................................| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:09:29 -0400 From: bizmarquee@juno.com (Tony K Tran) Subject: NJC: Spew+ Hello EDA's!! I just recently picked up the Spew+ with Im Sensitive on it from an used book store and i was wondering if anyone that has it to help me get it running? I cant seem to get the multimedia and videos to play!!! =( Email me privately if you have any comments?? Thanks!!! I know this has been mentioned before but Jewel is on the August US magazine!! It has the cutest picture of her at a really young age playing the piano!!!!! Just seeing that picture is worth a 1,000 words!! The picture alone is worth the cost of the magazine!!!!!!! I recomend you guys go get it!! She is tooooo cute in that pic!!!!!!!!! =) I also got the new Tara Maclean Cd!! Its so wonderful!!! If you guys ever see it in the store get it!! Her voice is so wonderful!!!!!!! So are lyrics!! Hope to see her live one day! Still looking for an issue of Rolling Stones with Jewel on the cover!! if anyone can help me out please email me!! =) I really appreciate it!! Well gotta go! Later!! - -Tony "Innocence need not be lost it just needs to be maintained....." -Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 21:17:17 -0700 From: David Lee Subject: Re: Jewel on cover of details She Who Is wrote: > Yup, she's in there. It's a pretty cool article, and it does mention > the > EDAs, which is exciting, but it makes us sound like a cult with Jewel > as > our leader, in other words, as a bunch of psychos. Sometimes I look > at us > and wonder, is it that far from the truth ;) ? > I don't know...... does this big tatooed "J" on my forehead mean I'm a psycho? David j:^) > Bless and Be Blessed; spread the Love! > Christina ^ ^ > ( \ / ) > (_ \*/ _) > (_ O _) > ( s| > < |s ) > ( / \ ) > (/ / \ \) > /angel\ > --------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:21:24 -0400 From: capdetar@westol.com (chris a detar) Subject: foolish today i heard foolish games on the radio. guess it's been released. chris ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** ** ** ** Put your business on the map and your mark on the internet ** ** with help from Greensburg Comes Alive, a Web Page Design Company ** ** contact Chris (capdetar@westol.com)or Clentin (ccmart@westol.com) ** ** to find out more ** ** ** ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:38:57 -0400 (EDT) From: EFraser311@aol.com Subject: JC: People Mag. I don't know if this has been posted either, but I was just reading through the July 14 issue of People Magazine, and they have a really nice (but short) article about Jewel and Steve Poltz on page 25. It just kinda talks about how he helped in starting her career, but now he's the one asking her for advice. It's a pretty good article, just thought you all might be interested! Ali :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:36:32 -0500 From: Court Schuett Subject: Re: Jewel on cover of details >I don't know...... does this big tatooed "J" on my forehead mean I'm a >psycho? > Nope, just putting the 'fan' back in fanatic. :) That's what we always say on another list about some crazy stunt or driving 1000 miles just to see a band. :) - -=Court /* Court Schuett, a totally modern boy. schuett@waldo.ivcc.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If I was God no one would doubt it We wouldn't need church to get The mystery that we once knew The something we forget -Too Much Joy ***************************************************************************/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:46:17 -0700 From: red_ranger@juno.com (Nick the blurred Angel) Subject: Tape Bag This sounds like a great idea, only I feal left out because I can't go. =( SOOO, why doesn't someone orginize it list wide. Like you send them a tape, and they send you a different tape back, with the persons e-mail addy that sent it in. I am sure once this pick thing stops, that you guys will be sitting around going "gee, we really need to do something" I would do this myself, but being 15 limits my time and orgination. Sound like a worthwile idea? Nick the *unreconized* and blurred angel On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:38:02 -0400 (EDT) ABershaw@aol.com writes: >Hi all, > Dennis & I were talking about The Bearsville Reunion >tonight. I'm still not sure if I'm going but I came up with >an idea that could be fun for all involved. > I suggest each person going compile one tape of their >favorite non-Jewel material. It can be anything you like >or think others might enjoy. > At Bearsville, throw all the tapes in a bag & take home >a different one. It's that simple. Just one big "Tape Exchange". > > Everyone's bound to get something good & it's a great way >to learn more about the EDA whose tape you happen to choose. > Sound like a worthwile idea? Alan(MrBB) > > > ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V2 #541 ***************************