From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V2 #893 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you wish to unsubscribe, send an email to jewel-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V2 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. jewel-digest Saturday, November 22 1997 Volume 02 : Number 893 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MrBB-ANSWERS - Jewel's aria [Crunch ] Connections: Jewel and "Jerry Maguire" ["Jay C. Johnson" ] Quote List, Whoops [Zaria2@aol.com] Jewel on Steve Poltz new solo allbum [Fred Norris ] wondering.... [VampSlayr6@aol.com] Again, Not hate mail to all the People leaving PLEASE READ [MS81582@aol.c] Yet another haircolor post [pigs@swva.net (Martin)] Jewel tapes [SnowyDay85@aol.com] Jewel tapes [SnowyDay85@aol.com] foolish games [Stina38@aol.com] Future Folklore Tapes [jsclose@earthlink.net] Thoughts on the hair-color issue [Pulp ] *NJC* Michael Hutchence [The Lovable Angel ] Re: foolish games ["Matt Adler" ] Opera and Madrigali ["marco coletti" ] [none] [SpGrlzRock@aol.com] hello [SpGrlzRock@aol.com] who can...?? [SpGrlzRock@aol.com] more thoughts on the hair issue [HCCZ70D@prodigy.com ( SARAH MERRITT)] Jewel on Atlantic page? ["Jennifer Bowman" ] Jewel - Dishwater blonde with English teeth! ["Chris Groves" Subject: Re: MrBB-ANSWERS - Jewel's aria =) There is an "Aria" in Lakme, a 19th century French opera by Leo Delibes! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 97 0:39:54 CST From: "Jay C. Johnson" Subject: Connections: Jewel and "Jerry Maguire" I just saw the movie "Jerry Maguire" (a really really good movie) and it reminded me so much of Jewel and her messages. First of all the obvious: Renee Zelwegger (sp?) does look very similar to Miss Kilcher. (great casting job) But this has already been discussed on the list, so I won't say anything further. 2nd: the film also has an anti-cynical message ( I think. I don't know the real definition of "cynisism" and I keep forgetting to go to the library to look it up, even though I hear the phrase over and over). Jerry does address this in the speech that he gives after the "Big Game" (you know, it's like the last big scene, in front of the women's group). There are alot of other things, but I can't seem to remember/explain them right now. (this always happens to me. I come up with a great thought, but can't comunicate it. AAAARGH!!!) Anyways, let me know your thoughts on this. Thanx. Have a great day, Jay Johnson the equilateral try-angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 01:07:53 -0600 (CST) From: pwmielech@stthomas.edu Subject: NJC Rugburn's tabs I'm looking for the tabs to that great rugburn's song, I Love You or I Love Ya. It would be much appreciated if someone sent them to me or got me started. Thanks pete ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 02:53:35 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: Steve Poltz news Rocktropolis allstar daily music news November 21,1997 http://www.allstarmag.com JEWEL COLLABORATOR STEVE POLTZ GOES SOLO Pop quiz: Who wrote "You Were Meant For Me?" Jewel? Well, you're half right. Jewel co-wrote the track with Steve Poltz, of San Diego's offbeat Rugburns, who is now going solo. Poltz's solo album debut, One Left Shoe - -- most likely featuring Jewel on some tracks -- is due March 10 on Mercury. Poltz also co-wrote "Adrian" from Jewel's seven- times- platinum- seller Pieces of You, and appeared with Jewel in the steamy video for "You Were Meant For Me." Although the album is near completion, Poltz did return to the studio to mix some more songs, and since a final track listing hasn't been established yet, it's not definite that the songs that Jewel worked on will make it to the final cut. (Most likely they will.) Steven Soles -- who has worked with Victoria Williams and Peter Case -- produced the album. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 08:27:36 -0500 (EST) From: Zaria2@aol.com Subject: Quote List, Whoops Hi guys! When I was writing up the list I clicked send by accident. I will still be collecting them until 10 pm tonight and then I'll send out a master list. Sorry about the mix up. Thanks to everyone who has helped. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 09:37:48 -0500 From: Fred Norris Subject: Jewel on Steve Poltz new solo allbum JEWEL COLLABORATOR STEVE POLTZ GOES SOLO Pop quiz: Who wrote "You Were Meant For Me?" Jewel? Well, you're half right. Jewel co-wrote the track with Steve Poltz, of San Diego's offbeat Rugburns, who is now going solo. Poltz's solo album debut, One Left Shoe -- most likely featuring Jewel on some tracks -- is due March 10 on Mercury. Poltz also co-wrote "Adrian" from Jewel's seven- times- platinum- seller Pieces of You, and appeared with Jewel in the steamy video for "You Were Meant For Me." Although the album is near completion, Poltz did return to the studio to mix some more songs, and since a final track listing hasn't been established yet, it's not definite that the songs that Jewel worked on will make it to the final cut. (Most likely they will.) Steven Soles -- who has worked with Victoria Williams and Peter Case -- produced the album. Fred ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 09:59:59 -2053 From: Roxanne Jones Subject: Glad to be back! Hi,my friends!! My computer was getting fixed. I've missed u all sooooo much. How have the skittles on your side of the rainbow been?? Mine have been pretty bright. Jealous of my friend,Jason, cuz he got to see Sarah McLachlan. I've been busy with school. I think Jewel's music is both sweet and powerful at the same time. It's grrr-eat we have so many people togther to celebrate her music. I hope I can get the Lilith Fair on Pay-Per-View. Let me know how you all r doing!!K?? "SweetQueen Angel" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:15:57 -0500 (EST) From: VampSlayr6@aol.com Subject: wondering.... I was wondering if anyone is stupid like me and wrote to the screenname on the inside of the cover of Jewel's CD...if you did did you get a response back at all? cause i did and was wondering if she sends the same thing all the time or someone actually writes it for her...so if you can let me in on this...anyone at all...either post it or send it to me privately Beth the wondering angel now ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 10:29:04 -0500 (EST) From: MS81582@aol.com Subject: Again, Not hate mail to all the People leaving PLEASE READ Ok...well with all the recent fuss about everything i have something to say. After our one month break and that huge fight, well we have to stop. we are supposed to be like a family, to everyone, even the newbies. Weve got to stop fighting. I personaly dont care what people talk about as long as its nice and not bashing other people. There is nothing wrong with asking questions like "does jewel smoke" we WANT to know everything about jewel and there is nothing wrong with us wanting to do so. About the mail, i know its a lot of mail, but just go threw a select process on what you read. A lot of the stuff i read i read becuase the subject sounded intresting. And to all the people fighting please STOP and if you insist on fighting please do it in private, look how many people are leaving do to the fighting. its crazy. There are a lot of young people on this list, me being one of them, and some of the people on this list are making a very bad immpression. If anyone would like to write me on this subject, if it is positve, feel free to post to the board. I beg of you though, if its negative e-mail me personaly at MS81582@AOL.COM Love, Michelle the prettiest baby angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 08:48:46 -0500 From: pigs@swva.net (Martin) Subject: Yet another haircolor post Hi! I was thinking about how on the cover of the WWSYS single, Jewel's hair and eyebrows are dyed really dark. I'm not sure why she did that specifically, but anyway...the dark undertones in the video and her eyebrows are probably the result of this. I don't know if she just let the dye grow out or if she dyed her hair back to blonde and didn't risk dying her eyebrows again, but I have a feeling the dark hair you see is a remnant of Jewel's tryst with a bottle... Be well, Erin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:17:49 -0500 (EST) From: SnowyDay85@aol.com Subject: Jewel tapes I have never posted a message on the list and I think this is how I do it; but if not; I'm really sorry in advance for any damages done. It seems that when I look through the emails that is is pretty easy to get Jewel tapes. I was wondering the cost range and any disclaimers and also seeing if I could buy any, preferably one with the song "Emily" on it. Secondly, I do not have Real Audio, Real Player, or any of that. A lot of the non-LP jewel files on download end up as sribbled text documents. Does anyone have any good sites for me? Lastly, if anyone knows anywhere where I can get other non-LP jewel tracks, tell me. In particular, I'm looking for Save the linoleum. I was really unsure of how to do this so please don't be mad at me if I do something wrong!! Sincerely, Snowy (the confused Angel) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:21:51 -0500 (EST) From: SnowyDay85@aol.com Subject: Jewel tapes I would also like to add (i'm so stupid sometimes) that if these have any liabilities or are taking money away from Jewel I'm not really interested anyways. I don't want any copyrights or anything ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:45:04 -0500 (EST) From: Stina38@aol.com Subject: foolish games HI! Just to let everyone know. On the VH1 countdown Foolish Games was number 6. Justina ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:01:05 +0000 From: jsclose@earthlink.net Subject: Future Folklore Tapes Is Liz Clark still on this list? We sent her our tapes for the future folklore tapes long ago, but we haven't heard anything. Anyone know whats up? Liz, are you out there? Jim Close jsclose@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:08:40 -0500 From: Pulp Subject: Thoughts on the hair-color issue It's probably best to stick to what people have seen at actual jewel concerts (or, I suppose, on television) when you're trying to determine her hair color. From experience, I know that one can achieve varying degrees and color, and darkness thereof, through photographic methods; it's perfectly possible, with the right lighting and a little technique in the darkroom, to get a picture of a blond who's hair comes out looking a solid brown. The same goes for film; lighting and development can change the color-scheme of things a great deal. Television, on the other hand, is shot (basically) straight to tape (or straight to broadcast) with little post-processing of the image itself, so the only lighting effects which occur are those involved directly with the concert being filmed. Live shows are even more honest; there are no cameras at all between one's eyes and, for example, Jewel's hair. Just a thought; I'm not exactly a veteran television producer, so if anyone out there has television production experience and can verify or dispute what I've said, please do so. :) And this has dangerous potential to spawn into a cult-ish "Jewel's Hair" sub-fanclub. EFAs: Every Follicle Angels. "Please shampoo and condition me, twice if desired, I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way..." I'd better stop before I hurt myself. ;) Peace, Josh |-- --- ----- -|- ----- --. Josh Millard ... pulp@wpi.edu ... http://www.wpi.edu/~pulp | "Nothing is trivial." -Eric Draven, "The Crow" ---- ---| |--- "I hope." -The Shawshank Redemption ----- _| ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:49:13 -0500 (EST) From: The Lovable Angel Subject: *NJC* Michael Hutchence For those that don't nkow, I am a big fan of INXS.. and it shattered me when I heard the news Today, Michael Hutchence, lead singer from INXS (who i believe also has a song on the Batman Forever soundtrack) hung himself (apparently with a leather belt) In an Australian hotel Which brings me to this question - WHy are all these musical figureheads DYING? what's up with this? ttyl - -linda the lovable angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:05:54 -0500 From: "Matt Adler" Subject: Re: foolish games that sux, we have to do something to fix it. Time to spring into action. - -----Original Message----- From: Stina38@aol.com To: jewel@smoe.org Date: Saturday, November 22, 1997 1:35 PM Subject: foolish games > >HI! Just to let everyone know. On the VH1 countdown Foolish Games was number >6. > Justina > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:28:00 PST From: "marco coletti" Subject: Opera and Madrigali I want to thank Adrian for the reserach on Monteverdi, but I need to answer the MrBB call for italians. The right spelling is "Lasciatemi morire", that means "Let me die". I can't believe that while Jewel is singing operas and madrigali in Italy, I'm still in Columbus,Ohio... Ciao a tutti Marco ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:59:23 -0500 (EST) From: SpGrlzRock@aol.com Subject: [none] not necessarily. you can't always even base it on looking at the person's roots. i have never dyed my hair and i look like i have roots. my hair is naturally light brown but since i go outside a lot, it is lighter at the ends than at the roots. just thought i'd 'spress my opinion on thing once in a while. take care. niina the utterly confused angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:54:19 -0500 (EST) From: SpGrlzRock@aol.com Subject: hello it might be a really stooooopid question but then again, if i dont ask, then i'll never know. WHAT the heck is a RA? someone sent me an itbe.ra and i knwo it has to do with SIBTW, but what is it? i would greatly appreciate it if someone told me. hmm seems i always have a question about something. niina the utterly confused angel ps nona did you ever join the list? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 15:15:03 -0500 (EST) From: SpGrlzRock@aol.com Subject: who can...?? another question. sigh. well i was jsut wondering, who am i supposed to e-mail about teh SE eda gathering? i am very interested but live in centr. FL... niina the utterly confused angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 15:06:21, -0500 From: HCCZ70D@prodigy.com ( SARAH MERRITT) Subject: more thoughts on the hair issue Ok....so this has been about worn to death, but...I had some thougths that no one had yet posted, so, I figured maybe someone would be enlightened. Ok: 1) If you see the pictures of Jewel when she was 14 in Rolling Stone, she had dark blond hair 2) On the Hard Rock Live show, Jewel's mother had similar-colored hair 3) In a poem on Jewel's album she writes, "I have blond hair" (I suppose she could have written this even if it was colored, but I don't really know why) 4) Jewel's coloring supports her hair color; she looks like a blond In conclusion, I think Jewel's hair is probably dark blond and she probably highlights it to the color she has now. In WWSYS, her hair looks about dark blond, but the lighting (as others have stated) made it look a little darker. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 15:20:47 -0500 From: "Jennifer Bowman" Subject: Jewel on Atlantic page? Hey! I just went to the Atlantic Records page and there was a banner the said "Jewel's San Diego Homecoming Nov. 24 @ 9 p.m." Does anyone know anything about this? Is this a concert? Please let me know. Thanks! ~Jennifer :) ------------------------------ Date: 22 Nov 97 20:34:00 +0100 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: Jewel - Dishwater blonde with English teeth! Just found this article at the Electronic Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk). An online version of the UK broadsheet The Daily Telegraph. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ etcetera | Rock=20 Electronic Telegraph Saturday 15 November 1997 Issue 905 Pieces of Jewel She comes from Alaska, but her teeth are English. Her first album sold millions in America and next week she visits Shepherds Bush. Peter=20 Silverton meets Jewel. FOR a 23-year-old blonde who has sold 7.5 million copies of her debut=20 album to her fellow Americans, who played Dorothy in a television production of The Wizard of Oz, and who "met with" both Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg before landing the female lead in Ang Lee's forthcoming Western, Woe to Live On, there is something idiosyncratically un-American about Jewel: her teeth. In clear view as she sits on the carpet of a Kensington hotel room chewing an apple, her teeth are uneven and lacking in lustre, strangers to modern orthodontic imperatives. Americans have an=20 adjective for teeth like Jewel's: English.=20 But then she doesn't think of herself as an American, never has. She's an=20 Alaskan. "It's a different country to the States," she says, chewing. Her accent is light and, to an English ear at least, clear, unmarked by the=20 regional murkiness you'd expect in an isolated state such as Alaska. "It=20 has a different culture. People look at me very oddly in the States, but=20 at home I fit right in. Alaska breeds a different kind of person. The=20 closeness to the elements creates an innate spirituality."=20 To reach Jewel's home-town, you go to Alaska, get in a car, head west and=20 drive till you can drive no more. She grew up in a log cabin without=20 plumbing or TV, in Homer, a town of 4,000 weather-worn souls 250 miles=20 west of Anchorage - which is literally where the road runs out. From there= =20 on, it's snowcat or walk it. Even the road from Anchorage is not without=20 excitement. In winter they cut it through the snow and at times the snow=20 is banked up 20ft high on either side. "But you can drive it," says Jewel. "If you're a good driver."=20 These days, in the words of Details magazine, she's "the wonder from the=20 tundra, a guitar-strumming siren, a multi-platinum Pollyanna". (Because of the romantic oddness of Jewel's life story, book and film analogies figure= =20 big in her cuttings file.) But her life has been far more exotic than=20 those magazine wordplays. She is the daughter of a Swiss immigrant father=20 - - Atz Kilcher, born in Basel, a Vietnam vet turned social worker and=20 alcoholic - and a former beauty pageant contestant, Nedra, a native=20 Alaskan who now manages Jewel (like Madonna, she dropped her surname on=20 the way to success).=20 Nedra and Atz were both Mormons. "That didn't set me apart from other=20 children," says Jewel, scratching her head through her shoulder-length=20 blonde hair (actually, it's an upfront pop-star mix of bottled blonde on=20 top of original dishwater blonde). "It's a very undamaging religion.=20 Strong on country and family." Sometimes Mormons are strong on more than=20 one family at a time, I joke. She doesn't laugh.=20 Her parents also worked as a folk duo, recording a couple of albums and=20 working the tourist hotel circuit. When Jewel was six, she and her two=20 brothers were brought in on the act. Jewel adored it. Atz, being Swiss,=20 also taught her to yodel - a skill she regularly demonstrates in concert=20 but has yet to commit to disc. "People demand it in shows," she says.=20 "But it would be trite on record."=20 Then, when she was eight, her parents divorced. She went with Dad. Dad=20 went to the bottle. "For a child," she told Interview magazine, "divorce is like being torn out of the only air you've ever known. My pen became,=20 to a large degree, my oxygen supply." Charged with that need, she started=20 to take her music very seriously while simultaneously embarking on years=20 of picaresque adventures.=20 There was a sojourn in Hawaii, an adoption by a Native American family=20 and a scholarship to an arts school in Michigan. There was her father=20 unwittingly letting her be photographed by a man who turned out to be a=20 child pornographer, and bursting into tears of pride when she started=20 dating a black boy. There was a move to San Diego, a surfing phase, a=20 kidney infection. There was a long period spent living in a van (her=20 mother lived in her own van nearby, though not next to Jewel's as is=20 often recorded). "People romanticise it a bit," she says, without irony. There was also a time spent canning salmon and a period when she was=20 marble-carving: "It taught me more about singing than I thought it did at the time." She is also a dyslexic - though one, she mentions in passing,=20 who reads scientific journals. And when she sings, she sees "tunes as=20 shapes", and in colours. Her big American hit, "Who Will Save Your Soul",=20 appears to her as "a little step with a squiggle at the end". Ella=20 Fitzgerald's voice "has a lot of blue and purple - with a squiggle". Joni=20 Mitchell is "all yellow".=20 Nor does the rich complexity of Jewel's history and psyche stop there.=20 When her success at singing in local coffee houses eventually led, in=20 1993, to her recording a debut - and so far only - album, Pieces of You,=20 she worked with some industry legends. "You remind me of a little girl=20 called Janis," said the keyboard player Spooner Oldham, a chain-smoking=20 pencil of a man who played with Joplin and also tended Aretha Franklin's=20 debut on the Atlantic label. Drummer Kenny Buttrey had played with Elvis=20 and Dylan. And bass guitarist Tim Drummond played with Neil Young. But=20 when the record came out it was widely ignored. Radio stations, she says,=20 were in love with the grunge of bands such as Nirvana: they weren't=20 interested in the plangent, acoustic music of Jewel. "She was the hardest=20 artist to break and took the longest to break in this company's history,"=20 said Atlantic general manager Ron Shapiro. "The key to marketing her was=20 to have her out there relentlessly." She toured America till there was=20 nowhere left to tour.=20 Along the way she picked up influential supporters: Neil Young, whose=20 contacts provided the producer and band for the album; Bob Dylan, who let=20 her tweak his nose - it's a hobby of Jewel's, tweaking noses (Bob's big=20 one felt "squidgy"); Sean Penn (they had a thing together for a while,=20 then he went back to the mother of his children, though not before putting= =20 a Jewel song on the soundtrack of The Crossing Guard and giving her some=20 advice about acting which she still cherishes: "The less you think about=20 it, Jewel, the better you are").=20 It was a long slog. It took her two years to sell 100,000 albums. Now=20 she's selling that many a week. "Unbelievable," she says. Yet she has=20 never been f=EAted by the critics. "Every generation still needs its symbol= =20 of delicate-flowerhood, wandering wide-eyed through life," wrote one.=20 Jewel was not amused: "That journalist was waiting for someone to apply=20 that analogy to," she says, seemingly unaware of the air of achieved=20 innocence that she carries with her. Fans at her US shows carry signs that= =20 say, maintaining our innocence! On her record sleeve is a poem entitled "Me". It begins, "I have blonde=20 hair/I pluck my eyebrows", details various misdemeanours - cheating on=20 boyfriends, for example - and boasts a little: "I have firm breasts". But=20 it's also a hymn of anticipated regret, full of the knowledge that things=20 won't always be as they are now, that decay is inevitable. Is it=20 autobiographical? "Unreservedly," says Jewel.=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris. - -- Jewel, Pieces Of UK - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V2 #893 ***************************