From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #678 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, December 3 1998 Volume 03 : Number 678 * If you ever 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 V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Insightful musings?/Verble dribble?-You Decide! [ABershaw@aol.com] Spirit Tabs ["John D'Amelio" ] I'm fairly new, but have to say my peice. [SONYJx@aol.com] The Jewel catalog and then some [dijewe1@juno.com (Diana Ruiz)] Jewel Video Project: Deadline to submit entries is Friday [Mike Connell <] Jewel on Extra [juel@mtneer.net (Sarah McCarthy)] Re: Jewel on CBS This Morning [ICURMINE@aol.com] NJC: EDA support group idea [lisak15@juno.com (Lisa A Klecanda)] My Take On Spirit ["Wizard" ] Re: I'm fairly new, but have to say my peice. ["Tiger Moon" ] Regis and Kathie Lee, and Jewel/Wizard Of Oz video [Stacey Mancarella ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 01:02:06 EST From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: Insightful musings?/Verble dribble?-You Decide! Hi all, I won't do this very often, but since many of you have asked me to, I'll take some time to simply state a few perceptions I have, instead of being my usual "MrBB" self. My apologies if any "Jewel-news" subscribers feel this is innapropriately posted there, but I wanted to relay this to all Jewel list subscribers & you can feel free to delete if you don't care to read a totally opinionated post or to know me better. With more cynical (& often funny, I admit!) & more "flat out mean spirited" articles in the press being written about Jewel & The EDAs lately, something interesting has been happening to the types of emails I've been getting of late. I've recieved quite a few very sincere private emails from EDAs asking me how I feel about "Jewelbashing people" & mean-spirited articles, etc. They are sometimes upset when Jewel or the EDAs get trashed in the media & ask me how I manage to stay so uneffected by it. I also have many friends who are longtime music biz vets & many of them have noted that I've changed: become less cynical & overtly positive in the past few years. Some even miss my comically cynical side, which is alive & well I assure you, but not so prominent these days. They've noticed these changes have coincided with my involvement in the development of the EDA community over the past few years. I've invited many non-EDA friends to scan through the never ending flow of email messages that the EDAs post to each other on these discussion lists & I've noticed the more cynical ones are always the ones more annoyed or sceptical of it all. This reaction is often triggered by the more flowery sentiments which are usually well intentioned, ie, sending out positive energy, EDA gatherings, thoughts of group hugs & especially the spiritually inspired posting in the wake of Jewel's most recent release "Spirit". Many of these sentiments are exactly the type of thing I too would've gagged on a few years ago & many of my more cynical friends & the media (& some EDAs) find so questionable now. Having personally met hundreds of you at shows & events over the past few years, one of the things I definitely recognize about The EDAs (& Jewel's fanbase in general), is that for many, myself included, this radically anti-cynical approach to life is not just a shared disposition but also an act of conscious dissent. It's a protest against the anger & thoughtlessness that charachterizes so much of our social & artistic temperment these days. Many people will continue to percieve the EDAs as naive, but I'm convinced their vision of community IS a desirable thing. Thus my dedication to the EDAs & my unending support of The Living Room Tour, The EDAFoundation, group volunteering & anything that gets you away from your computers & meeting each other for real. That's where the difference occurs. To many of Jewel's fans, especially the younger ones who never experienced the 60's, Jewel is virtually unique in post-Vietnam War musical history: a female musician & songwriter who is functioning as an ongoing, binding central point in a large scale fan scene that is viewing her music as reflecting their own vision of a better, more hopeful & open minded society. There's far worse visions out there. I'd sooner question the motives of those writers bashing The EDAs for refusing dissillusionment or bashing Jewel over her current lyric content & poetry, than the motives of those who "get it". All the best, Alan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 01:17:31 -0500 From: "John D'Amelio" Subject: Spirit Tabs Someone posted that there is a web site with new Spirit tabs on it. Does anyone know what that address is? Thanks, John The angel in Nirvana John D'Amelio Website: http://www.cs.lafayette.edu/~damelioj/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 01:19:33 EST From: SONYJx@aol.com Subject: I'm fairly new, but have to say my peice. Hi, I just started getting all this Jewel mail and I felt I had to say my peice. I got POY quite a long time ago and Spirit just the other day, but I love them both dearly. I don't like Jewel just for her music, I like her for who she is and how she carries herself. Does anyone feel they way I do? Her music is way more than music. It's not like regular music, it actually makes sense...how many other artists actually make sense? I feel like Jewel is trying to change the world and I think she may just succeed. A question to everyone...does anyone have ideas for me on voluteering over the holidays? I don't want to do the stuff that everyone does like ring bells or toy for tots although they are important...I want a complete hands on deal where i can actually sit down and talk to the people that I'm helping out. I kind of want a relationship so I don't feel like I'm just there for the holidays and gone afterward. Any ideas? I appreciate it. Please reply to me privately. ~~Sony~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:03:24 -0800 From: dijewe1@juno.com (Diana Ruiz) Subject: The Jewel catalog and then some Hey gang, I just got that Jewel catalog that Mike was talking about the other day. It's awesome!!!!! Um...I really don't understand how to order the stuff so if anyone can help me out, please do. Also, did anyone watch the Christmas thing on NBC? It was really good. I really liked what Jewel was wearing (it was cute) and she sang really well (as always). Keep up the good work Jewel!!!! Then for my grand finale, the Jewel, Kurt Loder thing. I wasn't reading the post on that so when was listening to the radio (show called "Charlie and Athina") and Athina "The Greek goddess of gossip" said that Kurt got a huge attitude with Jewel and that he had embarrassed her on national tv. The Charlie said, "How could he do that?!?! He should've said "okay this is Jewel I have to be nice to her" Then Athina said that Jewel said practically yelling "if you weren't being such a smart ass you would've pulled me to the corner and told me this in privet!!" And that Kurt said "oh later" The Charlie said, "That's all he had to say!?!?!" He was really upset about the whole thing but it didn't even go the way she said it. She was like joking around with him. (I think) Anyway, they (Charlie and Athina) are going to have Jewel on their show and ask her some questions about the whole law thing. Unfortunately, I can't listen to it nor just leave a tape recording because the show is like 3 to 4 hours and she might come at the end of the show. That show is on weekdays only early in the morning and I have to go to school!!!! bummer!!! I'll call them and see if I can get a copy. I'm sure the record their shows (I hope). Well that's enough from me for one day. Hope you all have a great day. {\O/} /_\ Diana an EDA FOREVER!! "Might as well smile, 'cause there's no point in being mean, guess that's just, What you get, When you forget to dream" *Nikos* ~Jewel~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 17:31:05 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Jewel Video Project: Deadline to submit entries is Friday Howdy everyone :-) First of all, I'd like to mention that the judges for this project/contest have been chosen and they were notified last night. There were 88 "applications" sent in, and I ended up going with 14 judges, instead of the original decision of 7 (it was HARD to narrow it down just to 14, really hard). OK...the main news here is that due to the large number of video storylines sent in thus far (well over 70), I must make the deadline for entries Friday instead of Saturday. These judges have to read and analyse all of these entrants, and narrow down their choices/votes all by Monday evening (my time), so we just do not have the luxury of time on our side. So, the deadline for entries is going to be 5:00pm Eastern USA time, Friday December 4th. Any entries I receive after that time cannot be considered. Please remember, send all entries to me at ducksoup@spectra.net and please have only the word VIDEO in the subject line, and please include your full name. One more thing, when sending an entry, only send a good old basic text email. Do NOT send any attachments, nor send the idea in HTML or any funky coding like that. Just text please :-) Mike :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:44:41 -0500 From: juel@mtneer.net (Sarah McCarthy) Subject: Jewel on Extra doubt if anyone saw this yesterday, but i was flipping and jewel was on the show Extra... it showed her at a show.. possibly the Aids show and she walked up onto stage and asked for a pair of finger nail clippers... a fella gave her a pair and she took, what i presume to fake nails off.... and then started to play guitar.... they had some kind of witty comment about it at the end... just to let ya'll know Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:34:58 EST From: ICURMINE@aol.com Subject: Re: Jewel on CBS This Morning <> Yep, I caught that too! But I saw a little preview blurb about it a few minutes before it played and managed to get my tape in the VCR and got the whole thing. If anyone is interested I might be able to be talked into a trade of some kind. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:49:47 -0500 From: lisak15@juno.com (Lisa A Klecanda) Subject: NJC: EDA support group idea Hello, again! Well, I've gotten a few positive responses about my idea for a support group. So here's what I'll do: I'll take the next 10 people who are willing to help. (If you're one of the few responses I've already gotten, I'll gladly put you on the "helper list") I may need more helpers in the future, but we'll see how it goes. So if you want to help, respond quickly! Email me your full name (middle name not needed), age, & email addy. Please put "support group helper" in the subject. Remember, I'll take only the next 10 responses for now. As a helper, I will asign you as an "EDA support buddy". Any person looking for a friend &/or support will need to email me first, then I'll asign a helper to that person. I'll post more info later on. Lisa The Short Angel Visit my website at http://homepages.lycos.com/~LAK3/lypersonal/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:18:17 -0800 From: "Wizard" Subject: My Take On Spirit As one of the doomsayers who feared this album would be an overproduced disaster after hearing Hands, I have to admit it not quite as bad as I thought. The production *is* slick, which is not inherently a bad thing (e.g. Steely Dan), but it did not suck the soul from her music as I had feared. When I first heard a tape back in '95 of some Alaskan chick that nobody heard of who did this yodeling bit, I was completely floored by the honesty in her music - that is still what appeals to me about her. I was pleased to see that this honesty was intact in the songs on Spirit. Deep Water made me cringe - when I've seen her perform it, and on the angelfood I have, she tears into it like a pitbull, with a sense of urgency. This version is too contemplative for me. Kiss the Flame could have been a Joni Mitchell outtake circa 1972 (for you youngsters, thats a GOOD thing). Innocence Maintained - I'm lukewarm about this version, I prefer the angelfood better. It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, though. Absence of Fear - someone needs to unplug Patrick Leonard's keyboard. Aside from the fact that I thought the keyboard was too predominant throughout the album, I would prefer to hear an acoustic guitar as the primary instrument on this cut. Do You - now here the keyboard works. This song is reminiscent of Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. Overall, I breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this album - we haven't lost our Jewel (even if she has become more studio-savvy). My only big complaint: PUT A GUITAR BACK IN THAT GIRL'S HANDS!!! Peace, Wizard The Angelheaded Hipster "Love flowers best in openness and freedom." Edward Abbey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 05:20:49 PST From: "Tiger Moon" Subject: Re: I'm fairly new, but have to say my peice. >From: SONYJx@aol.com >Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 01:19:33 EST >To: jewel@smoe.org >Subject: I'm fairly new, but have to say my peice. >Hi, I just started getting all this Jewel mail and I felt I had to >say my peice. I got POY quite a long time ago and Spirit just the >other day, but I love them both dearly. Yep, two great big shining jewels in our ladies crown of stars. Oops, sorry bout that MrBB. I mean, both alblums are artistically styled in a manner most pleasing to my acoustical pallette. They do not, I repeat do not make me wish to climb to the top of the highest mountain, through all my clothes off and become one with the spirit in all currently existing carbon based units. >I don't like Jewel just for her music, I like her for who she is and >how she carries herself. Does anyone feel they way I do? Hmmm, carries, as in carriage. Yes Jewel has a nice carriage, a definate "Classy Chassis". Opps, their I go again. What I really meant was that she does not scare my childrn when MTV comes on. In fact my teenage son appears to think she is rather "not sucky looking" as he so innocently professes. Actually I always wondered what it would be like if Einstein had been born a valley girl, birthed in Utah, raised in Alaska, then educated on "physics" on the strets of LA.. In other words she's a very nice girl with a nice smile and straight shoulders. >Her music is way more than music. It's not like regular music, Hey that's just what Kurt said. Anybody else think he might be related to the "Soup Nazi" - "No soup for you Jewel! Stepping in my line so casually. like you own the place" >it actually makes sense...how many other artists actually make >sense? Ahhh! It all makes sence now, yes I see it as I play Hands, backwards at 75 speed. "Only the self, be the self, which should be self evident now." God, she's like just so selfless and all, fur sure! I'm going to go out right now and buy four more copies, one for each room of my heart. Opps, sorry BB, what I really meant was, "Be still my little heart"<2 winks> > I feel like Jewel is trying to change the world and I think she may >just succeed. Yes, I think you may be on to something there my friend. She just might. One little sparkling, be-jeweld angel heart at a time. Merry Christmas type seasonal greetings to everybody! "I am needing you here, inside, the absence of fear" "but if you could hear my heart it would tell you,...." "knock, knock, knock, can Jewel come out and play?" Prrrrr, Rrr, Prrrrr,.... TigerMoon I hope no one has the name? if so, no soup for you! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:30:32 -0800 (PST) From: Morrissey Subject: My New Jewel Web Site Hi Angels, I recently put up my web site it doesn't have much right now but i'm working on it. the url is http://www.aros.net/~drizzt Also what did everyone think of the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, I thought Jewel was the best one out of em all! I'll be off the list for 2 days going to see the BYU game in Vegas. Angel BB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:23:20 -0800 (PST) From: Stacey Mancarella Subject: Regis and Kathie Lee, and Jewel/Wizard Of Oz video 2 things: 1. i love this list. i missed regis and kathi lee, and i got so many volunteers of people willing to make copies! you guys are great! thanks. 2. I don't remember who posted this, but someone ordered a copy of the video for the wizard of oz. wdoes anyone know where i can order a copy for myself? thanks. Stacey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 10:20:48 PST From: "Steve Garner" Subject: Down So Long - chord correction! hey everyone, I recently posted the chords for "Down So Long", but there's one quick correction I need to make. I originally said that the verse progression was Am-G-F-F#, but that last chord is wrong. The progression should be Am-G-F-G instead. Sorry about that, it was a dumb mistake on my part! Play the last G as a bar so you can slide up to it from the F and get the same sound as the recording. Sorry about that! Steve ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #678 ***************************