From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #431 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, July 26 1999 Volume 04 : Number 431 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, 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 * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "Presence" * OR * go to the Atlantic Records site at http://www.atlantic-records.com * and go to the "On Tour" 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 fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- *Jewel's Woodstock on HFS here in Baltimore [NikosSong@aol.com] * Re: jewel-digest V4 #429 [FLoWeR2227@aol.com] * Please Please Please!!! [EPhili2568@aol.com] * Another article on Jewel's performance at Woodstock [Mike Connell Subject: * Another article on Jewel's performance at Woodstock Another article from http://www.addict.com/MNOTW/lofi/ This one concentrates on her performance :-) It has Real Audio exceprts of Deep Water and Foolish Games. Sorry if the formatting is crappy. If you have Windows, enlarging/maximizing your window may help Mike :-) ******** Woodstock '99 Report #55: Jewel Adored Elvis Costello Ignored While young singer/songwriter gets a warm reception, punk-era songsmith is heckled. Contributing Editor Frank Tortorici reports: ROME, N.Y. — Two singer/songwriters — veteran Elvis Costello and current sensation Jewel — received widely different reactions with their back-to-back sets at Woodstock on Sunday afternoon (July 25). Not surprisingly, the younger Jewel proved a much bigger hit with the largely teenage crowd. Costello, a punk-era veteran whose first album, My Aim Is True, came out in 1977, played the east stage first, offering a set of relatively bright and bouncy renditions of his best-known songs largely stripped of their edgy origins. He was accompanied only by his acoustic guitar (he switched to electric late in the set) and longtime sideman Steve Nieve's piano and keyboard. "I'm very bored," 20-year-old Connecticut resident Matt Parmalee said as Costello (born Declan McManus) played such early staples as "Accidents Will Happen" and "Pump It Up." "I don't know who this person is. I never heard of him." Not even a rendition of pop composer Burt Bacharach's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," which Costello and Bacharach perform together in the movie "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," was enough to get through to a listless, apparently confused crowd. A few screams of "you suck" could be heard. Costello did stripped-down versions of hits "Veronica" and "Everyday I Write the Book" along with obscurities such as "New Amsterdam," which he turned into a medley with the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away." He also broke into bits of Duran Duran's "Rio" and Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and reprimanded a pay-per-view cameraman. "F--- off for a minute and let me sing," he said. "After the first 500 pictures they're just as ugly." Only during that moment and during a sing-along version of "Pump It Up," the set closer, did any hint of Costello's punk origins surface. "I hope you like our new direction," Costello said to dead silence. Jewel (born Jewel Kilcher), by contrast, was greeted with deafening cheers as she walked onstage in a black halter top and black high heels. More heavily made up than usual, Jewel opened with "Near You Always" from her debut album, Pieces of You (1995). Immediately, hordes of young girls began mouthing her every word. Note from Mike - gee, I thought she had little, if any makeup on. I honestly thought that while thinking of Sean Hooks and the MUDS-2000 unit. "Please don't bring me flowers/ They're only whispers of sweet things you say," she sang, establishing her hippie-chick persona at a show for which it seemed particularly appropriate. "Today I have the coolest job in the world, I think," Jewel said, as she looked over the mountains of Woodstock festival-goers. Jewel evoked Janis Joplin, an icon from the original Woodstock, as her usually sweet crooning turned into husky belting on "Deep Water" (RealAudio excerpt of Deep Water, go to the web site), from Spirit (1998). On "Foolish Games" (RealAudio excerpt) she drew out the last syllable of "you're breaking my heart" for 30 seconds, during which her face contorted like that of a silent film actress. Jewel wiggled like actress Marilyn Monroe as she performed her first big hit, "You Were Meant for Me," to which she added some scat singing in the style of the late jazz singer Billie Holiday. Jewel introduced three new numbers, including what may be the hardest rocker she's ever written, "I'll Take You Downtown." (Note from Mike - it was "Down") The new songs also included the amusing "Your Race Car Driver." During the latter she sang about being in a speedster: "It's better than watching 'Star Trek' after you've smoked weed." "I wrote this song 'cause I believe in people as much as I believe in angels," Jewel said when introducing the encore "Angel Standing By," from Pieces of You. The performance ended with her trademark yodeling. "I like the inflections in her voice when she sings," 18-year-old Kristy McDonnell, of Massachusetts, said. "And [that] all her lyrics revolve around [her] personal life." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 23:01:04 -0500 From: "another cute cheap thrill" Subject: * "Jupiter" Video Debut on Monday - reminder Hey everybody, "Making of the Video: Jupiter" will be coming on at 10:30 Eastern time tomorrow night (Monday). I have seen various episodes of "Making of the Video" before, and it will definitely be worth watching. It shows the (edited) making of the video from start to finish, and the artist/band usually talks a little about the video and other things at different times during the show. Just thought I'd fill everyone in :) - - Annie "So much space can fit in a sigh More than words can say I'm left here with my hands all awkward Trying to mend space" - Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:20:27 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: * Jewel Fanatic repeating on MTV Monday :-) Hi folks :-) In case you never saw it, or wish to tape it...... According to RockOnTV.com, the MTV Fanatic episode with Jewel and EDA/List member Sarah will be on Monday (today, the 26th) at 12:30pm ET. Check your local listings in other time zones :-) Mike - - * If you are new to the Jewel list and need a helping hand, * or have a burning question about Jewel and/or the list, * The Jewel/EveryDay Angels List Homepage & Guide is at: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup * Many basic/common Jewel and list questions can be answered there :-) * * If you can't find the answer on the page have any list related * questions, please feel free to email me at ducksoup@spectra.net * or you can IM me on either of the AOL names below: * DuckOfPrey or WhyADuck55 and/on AOL or AOL Instant Messenger ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:32:34 EDT From: Sabato229@aol.com Subject: * Jewel on Dawson's Creek In the flesh? Hey Angels... I was getting ready to go ni-night and had the t.v. on. Entertainment Tonight to be exact. So I'm putting my son in his bed when i hear... "Courtney Love and JEWEL are set to make cameo's on the upcoming season of Dawson's Creek" Pretty cool huh? That's all that was said about it -- for now. Hopefully it will happen but we'll all have to wait and see as taping for the next season begins. Good Night, Angela ~born an angel~ ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #431 ***************************