From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #4 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, January 4 1999 Volume 04 : Number 004 * 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 V4 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel guitar TABs ["Sarah Jones" ] [none] ["erin bannon" ] Media Play [Morrissey ] Re: Question ["jennifer lockie" ] Sarah's big changing Jewel post [Sean35RL@aol.com] maybe you feel this way too [thessalia@juno.com (la luna)] JEWEL ON STAR 104.5 TOMORROW 4TH (Philly/NJ) [owner-jewel@smoe.org] Jewel Rolling Stone magazines ["Tan N. Tran" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:38:39 PST From: "Sarah Jones" Subject: Jewel guitar TABs Hola EDA's I just got a brand new guitar for Christmas and I'm learning to play as we speak so if anyone has a home page with guitar tabs for any of Jewel's songs on it then I would greatly appreciate it if you could e-mail me the URL. Thanks so much in advance. Yours truly, Sarah Dancing Angel "Got studded tires, excuse me if I'm blunt I've got ribbed rims for her pleasure up front Got fuzzy dice with a secret door Full of flavored serums, breath freshener and more" -Jewel Race Car Driver ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:34:32 PST From: "erin bannon" Subject: [none] I've looked all over the place for more of Jewels music. If anyone knows were i could order more of here music (besides Peices of You and Spirit)PLEASE e-mail me at erinb_69 @hotmail.com. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:11:09 -0800 (PST) From: Morrissey Subject: Media Play Hi Angels, I was at media play yesterday and up came Jewel and her music video of Hands, everyone there was looking up at the TV I felt proud because I was buying 3 of Jewel's singles, but I was wondering if anyone know's what Jewel says in the Webcast interview when she comes back from the 10 minute break, I think it is like buy buy more, I believe in the liberty that people will buy my stuff. But it is kinda hard to hear since music is playing over her. If anyone wants a copy of that it is kinda big like 19 megs, email me and I will put it up on my web page. Thanks Angel BB ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:29:50 PST From: "jennifer lockie" Subject: Re: Question Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Jewel and Steve met at a coffehouse that she performed at in Santa Monica. Also, if you do find a ite that offers explanations to her songs, please send the address along my way. Furthermore, are you or anyone else out there in the GTA area? Cheers, Jen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:48:49 EST From: Sean35RL@aol.com Subject: Sarah's big changing Jewel post I agree with a lot of what Sarah said. Especially since it was obviously heartfelt and so dead on about the music business(and it is a business unfortunately) and how it promotes pretty boy bands with no talent and how the Smashing Pumpkins last album was a commercial failure. Her anger is thoroughly justified and well expressed. She also made me think of a parallel that I have somehow missed in all this. Jewel abandoning the solo acoustic style for a band sound of layered production where she no longer plays guitar is very similar to how she has changed her image from natural folkie coffeeshop girl to heavy layered make-up fashion chic image she seems to be going for. I think the word layered is key here. And it is frustrating for myself as a fan and a person. I'm not saying it's inherently bad to have a record with other instruments or a more produced record or to wear make-up and fancy dresses. BUT why do it if you don't need to??? If you are beautiful without make-up, why wear it? Most women who wear it do so because their looks can't cut it naturally. Same thing with music. If you music is wonderful as solo acoustic or minimalistically produced, why overproduce it or add unnecessary background guitarists, is not the act of a hack musician who does not have the talent to stand on his or her own. This is why Jewel is often grouped with the likes of Mariah Carey, the Spice Girls, Celine, etc and other pop successes who need to do the things Jewel is choosing to do, they need to do them, they aren't good enough to cut it alone. Jewel is, yet she chooses not to. They need to wear make-up to look pretty, they aren't as naturally gifted as Jewel physically. Their voices or instumental abilities need to be over-produced or played by studio musicians because they can't do it themselves, they don't have her talent. I think the frustrating thing is seeing someone who has the talent and the natural ability stoopiong to the tactics of those who are beneath her. It's kinda like Jewel got breast implants. There's something masochistic and self-hatred based about this whole thing that bothers me, like the song Enter from the East. I think she is conforming without even knowing it. Because I do agree with Alan(Mr BB) in that her heart is in the right place and that she is more a nonconformist for being optimistic and putting out a positive album in a time where cynicism is "in." That said however, I want to make a point in a second. But first I will disagree with Sarah about Pieces of You being this superior great album. It really isn't in my opinion and Jewel's truly great songs still remain unreleased. Also, I was surprised that someone who quoted Ani DiFranco in her post didn't like the song Do You. I think it is by far the best written song on Spirit if not one of her best written ever, say what you will about the instrumentation or production. It reminds me a lot of Ani especially in it's scathing criticism of women(in rhythym though it reminds me of Fuel, the Ani song), Jewel's contemporaries who are the brainless women just looking for a man, in lines like: These girls today with nothing to say No more pig tails and pony rides They're sophisticated, they drink lattes And have their eyes on a bigger prize Here Jewel really does get angry if just for a moment, and it is the best group of lines on the album, they have passion and vibrance and life. It isn't the cheesy, sappy, easily-criticzed stuff of If I could tell everybody one thing it'd be that we're all ok. Does she see the hypocrisy of a statement like that when contrasted with such a complex and useful metaphor by where she obviously does not think quite so highly of "everybody"? Like I said, maybe it's just Jungian duality. But like I said, I think Do You is clearly a wonderfully written song off Spirit, and like many of Jewel's best songs, it is an angry song, ringing true with passion and ferocity. That's my piece, there's just a lot of duality there to study, I mean after all she is a very young woman in the grand scope of things, and trying to understand this duality from a feminist point of view is something I will try to tackle next. Any help would be appreciated. Later, Sean Hooks "Woman is the nigger of the world." - -John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 22:41:39 EST From: thessalia@juno.com (la luna) Subject: maybe you feel this way too a slightly plump beautiful city-girl starts to take the world by storm. she doesn't play the guitar very well, and her voice is still experimenting with itself. i got ahold of this crazy promo called phyllis barnabee gets a bra..... and then pieces of you. i listened to angel standing by 25 times. enter who will save your soul: 1. jewel is finally getting played on the radio. i went to her show last week and she told some girl to shut up cuz she was talking during my own private god's gift to woman. she told us she likes burritos and she said fuck a lot. after the show i got to meet her and she gushed over me when she found out i was an eda. i like her views about joy and innocence but she isn't afraid to write about depression and lust. the list is buzzing about her becoming popular. sean warns everyone that we don't want her to become popular. jewel is on mtv with melissa. is jewel wearing too much make-up? 2. jewel education begins. on the list, we find out everything from her non-existent middle name to steve poltz's definition of cheese. a close knit family. a special family beaming with radiance. let's get together. the eda phenomenon leads to jewelstock. everyone knew the words to memoirs of a housewife. radio interviewers were still fascinated by jewel because they could have innocent crushes on her because of that crooked tooth, her wit, her ice-princess fertility. my friend and i stayed up late looking at porn pages and noone had yet spliced her head with some voluptuous naked woman doing jumping jacks.i somehow have 15 tapes of shows i didn't go to and know about every jewel media appearance 3 weeks before it happens. enter you were meant for me 3. jewel is singing to me. i print out pictures of her on a dot matrix printer in my dorm room and paste them in my journal with quotes from amen. everysong on jewel rocks the paradise is about me and my ex-boyfriend. jewel wears a sheer dress to the grammy's and all the eda's are online at the same time. i receive 40 messages saying "OH MY GOD, YOU CAN SEE HER NIPPLES" and "SINCE WHEN DOES JEWEL HAVE A BRITISH ACCENT?" the way jewel says "yellow" in painters and carnivore really bugs me. the video comes out and her sexuality, oh i'm sorry, SENSuality becomes the focus of 6million platinum americans. the list experiences extreme growing pains. what is the *exact* definition of NJC? everyone replies to any flames with "do you hate me because i'm pieces of you?"anyone notice that jewel wrote angel standing by for twenty different reasons? i still can't fall asleep at night unless i listen to jewelstock tape two. if you see me speak without words, know that i am speaking of the wind. 4. remember when the album was to come out in--was is november? of 1996? then february. 13 year old girls stop posting their poetry. jewel is on every major talk show. isn't she wearing too much make-up? what? race-car driver is about sex? the tiny lights tour. cello. hot dog fest. i secretly begin to base my own bitchiness on jewel. i somehow feel it is a rite of passage. like being a pre-raphaelite mixed with a juliana hatfield. ohh---remember when everyone thought juliana was jewel on my so called life? sometime during this time, my friends from germany came to visit me and i taught them about jewel. they loved the rarity of just a girl and her guitar--the same things i loved about her. she's even a dork! :-) she brought her parents on with her at hard rock live! enter foolish games 5. i was shocked by the radio version. is that a stray cymbal? the video was another beautiful artwork. is that jewel's horse? are those kimono girls. sean predicts the end of the world again. jewel gets more and more distant in interviews. i find myself falling asleep to silence. i hear foolish games everywhere i go and long for when she used to play her guitar when she sang it. she moves her hands unnaturally when she doesn't sing with the guitar. but look at that face. those eyes! and she convinces me that she is still that ice angel. i cover my new apartment wall with promo pics and magazine cutouts. jewel is on the cover of rolling stone and i don't recognize anyone who posts on the list anymore. people start treating mr. bb like a required liason. 6. jewel sings the national anthem. i just keep thinking of radio angels and how she says the anthem is an ugly song. she had yet another new look. isn't she wearing too much make-up? isn't her hair too blond? she doesn't shake our hands after the new years eve show that cost over a hundred dollars or something to attend. oh heavens no. i watch my second generation version of hard rock live in slow motion and learn to play every song on my guitar. i write i love jewel on the back of a bathroom stall door for nostalgia's sake. enter a night without armor 7. jewel gets spiritual. jewel gets blonder and lets her beautiful thighs reblossom. jewel makes a movie. jewel flies all over the world all the time. i don't feel like i know her. i can't quite get my jewel formulated smart ass remarks right. i delete every message on the list and have to join the digest because i can't keep up. i miss the harris bros. for some reason jewel never directly answers a question. go back and watch the view, rosie, even fanatic from right after anwa was released. and ohhh. especially oprah. i realize i have had 4 different email accounts since i have been on the list and lived 3 places. i feel a little bit worried when i find out the new album is to be called spirit. even the name is so blandly abstract compared to fritz creek store. but i am excited about the new album. maybe she will take that raw descriptive voice in memoirs of a housewife and louisa and her blue guitar and moon over austin and refine it. i love the characters in her songs. i haven't heard her say fuck in a long time. well i guess she is on network tv. enter spirit 8. jewel, where are you? you don't know if you even *like* your first album--if you ever did? remember when you couldn't pick a favorite song because they were all like your children? your eyes are clear but your teeth look like smashed out window panes. you are alone, aren't you. you are lost but you know you have to look like it is all on top of a grain of salt. maybe that's just what i want to think. maybe you are happy, but remember when you were in awe of bob dylan's garlic breath? i am sure that was all inspiration, not idolatry. if i could, i would steal you away and give you your own private alaska where noone cares who you are. what your purpose is. i am sorry that i was so upset that you barely played your guitar on your new album. that you have forgotten about spivy leeks. i am glad you had fun with the new rolling stone interview. i still believe in you, really. but now you are a celestial angel. i miss the "i am not five six, my legs aren't skinny as sticks" angel. i guess what i miss the most is that you used to bottle human nature so exactly with your combination of organic guitar playing and everyday life struggles. you made me feel that even if i was someone like louisa or the narrator in foolish games or the poem song, I COULD STILL FIND BEAUTY IN THE LITTLE THINGS and hope to be better tomorrow. i cannot relate to freedom anthems. i cannot relate to massive white noise music like i can to your very own fingers playing the guitar. you taught me to play the guitar. jewel go your own way. but i am disappointed and that is fair too. luna ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:51:06 EST From: owner-jewel@smoe.org Subject: JEWEL ON STAR 104.5 TOMORROW 4TH (Philly/NJ) FOR THE ANGELS WHO LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA OR NEW JERSEY WHO CAN GET STAR 104.5 SHE IS GOING TO BE ON TOMORROW MORNING WITH NANCY GLASS!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME, BUT JUST WANTED TO LET Y'ALL KNOw! THE ROMANTIC ANGEL ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 22:54:24 -0500 From: "Tan N. Tran" Subject: Jewel Rolling Stone magazines Hey all.....I've got for sale the two Rolling Stone magazines with Jewel on the cover. The issues are dated May 15 1997 (the Rolling Stone 200 issue) and Decemeber 21 1998 (Special Double issue). The magazines are in mint codition and for sale at their cover prices ($3.95 and $4.95) plus $5.00 s + h. I've only got one copy of both issues. The first to respond gets the issues. Please respond privately. Thanks! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #4 *************************