From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #160 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "jewel-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. jewel-digest Wednesday, 24 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Can somebody help me get some of Jewel's earlier works? Jewel @ 9:30 Club, DC be kind-help me out please! jewel stuff Look out for a loon! WWSYS-Time check Re: Letterman-Jewel-Blue-BEAUTIFUL! Jewel/Bruce Re: oh my god People mag Tape Trees ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Angela6359@aol.com Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:57:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Can somebody help me get some of Jewel's earlier works? i also want some early recordings! help someone please! ------------------------------ From: Steve Sak Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:17:52 -0400 Subject: Jewel @ 9:30 Club, DC I dont know if anyone mentioned this but in the advertisement for the Jewel show that it was mentioned that the forst 200 people in the door would receive a tape of "previously unreleased Jewel songs". I know im gonna be there early! Any idea what it could be? Steve Sak ------------------------------ From: HEBERT_J@bentley.edu Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:32:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: be kind-help me out please! hello! i am willing to do ANYTHING for anything live or unreleased by jewel. please help me out cuz we're all in this together-we all love her music and that should be reason enuff to give me a hand. i do have a show from jan. to offer so if you can help me out, i would be in debt to you for ever and you will be rewarded. thanks alot for your help and attntion. peace keep smiling, jeff ------------------------------ From: Jon Held Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: jewel stuff Patty - Jewel DOES know about this list. She even writes us a letter occasionally, they are posted here by Hiranya (a friend of her mother's). Jewel also has read some of what we write, and she is quite impressed with us. Kathleen - I agree with what you said about Mariah - she has one of the best, most soulful voices I've ever heard, but she sold out, and most of her songs really SUCK. I've always wanted her to do a gospel-type album. Her voice would shine in that style. The rest of you who were vaguely dissapointed with Jewel's Letterman performance - keep in mind that, aftr hearing a song a few billion times, a new version of that song will ALWAYS sound strange. I guarantee that if you listened to Jewel's Letterman version of WWSYS a few more times, you would like it more, and see that it's just a different interpretation, with its own beauty. -Jon Held elisheva@netaxs.com DISCLAIMER - These opoi^H^H "dang", ^H, [esc :q :qq !q "narf!" :Q! "Whaddya mean, Not an editor command?" :wq! ^C^C^C !STOP ^bye ^quit :quit! !halt ... ^w^q :!w :wq! ^D :qq!! ^STOP [HALT!...CEASE!!! "Why's it doing this?" :stopit! :wwqq!! ^Z ...DOH! ^L ^ESC STOP :bye bye bye! Hey, what's this red button dSAVING EXITING THANK YOU FOR USING EDLIN ------------------------------ From: Amanda Morgan Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:59:12 -0700 Subject: Look out for a loon! Hello all my fellow Jewel lovers... I'm new to this list, as you can see, but what a lovely thing to spend my time doing, talking about my favorite singer, I just wanted to thank you guys and any higher being that brought me to this list, I thought I was just some freak in my area who was in *)_LOVE_(* with the beautiful music of Jewel. Oh well enough ranting and raveing for this loon.. Neysa ------------------------------ From: bill_mccormack@prodigy.com ( BILL MCCORMACK) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:12:10 EDT Subject: WWSYS-Time check In case anyone's interested here are the times on a few WWSYS performances: Letterman 3:07 VH1 xroads 2:45 Music video 3:52 POY 4:00 -Bill ------------------------------ From: "J.j. Varley" Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 19:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Letterman-Jewel-Blue-BEAUTIFUL! On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Erik Altman wrote: > She seemed veeeeeery nervous on Letterman. Her voice didn't have the > projection and power that it usually does. I imagine that knowing > several million people would be watching could be intimidating. > Funny though, she still has that cute, "rocker girl" stance with her > knees bent inward. She seemed nervous to me too, and I think this made her performance a little sloppy (ooh, blasphemy). She did look scrumptious, I'll admit-- though Nicole, the audience member/quiz-show contestant wasn't far behind. - -- J.j. Varley | jvarley@netcom.com | San Diego, CA "He has two consuming ambitions, never achieved: to overthrow the government and to get his trousers mended." ------------------------------ From: j.mullins1@genie.com Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 01:20:00 UTC 0000 Subject: Jewel/Bruce Someone mentioned what they noticed about Jewel having similar stage personalities, talking between songs and strumming, etc... I know lots of musicians who do that. I don't think Jewel will be famous because of it, and I don't think Bruce's stage personality had very much to with his sucess either. If it did, then I'm glad I'm the same way on stage :) All great storytellers are that because they have a knack for it. Wether it be Jewel, Neil Young, Bruce, Dylan, whoever, they do such a great job with the songs that the talking they do between songs is really not much more than random banter to them so they can catch their breath, tune up, etc. Which is not to say that it is insincere or anything, because for the people I've seen live (Jewel, Neil, Gordon Lightfoot, Melissa, and others), it really feels real, if that makes sense...they all appreciate their audience very much, and you can hear that usually. So wether or not Jewel ever says another word on stage will not stop her from having a tremendous career ahead of her! :) IMHO, of course. Shakey (j.mullins1@genie.geis.com) "They say that people don't try, that's just a lie, they work miracles" - G. Lightfoot ------------------------------ From: JewelFan@aol.com Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:18:18 -0400 Subject: Re: oh my god please tell me more about the orlando show. I didn't gety to go (LONG story) but I had tix. Man, I was pissed!! We should meet before the Sapphire show. Does that sound cool to you? WBS! -jenn who's going MAY 27th????????? ------------------------------ From: Brian820@aol.com Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:07:06 -0400 Subject: People mag Was Jewel ever in People magazine? I know that she was supposed to be sometime soon. Anyway, I though the Letterman performance was really cool, especially that long note toward the end. The new guitar was also awesome, although it did seem larger that her old one. I'm so excited that Jewel is having an all ages show in Chicago; she was here in December but it was an 18+ show, so I couldn't go (I'm 16). But now I'm elated! AND I'm also gonna see Tori in June!! :) This is so cool! Brian820@aol.com ------------------------------ From: Linus Gelber Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tape Trees Hi y'all - I've not been around long enough to know the movers and shakers on this list, but I can't help but notice the pleas of people like myself for tapes and such of her live performances. And thought I'd chime in with a suggestion. Since Jewel is touring and promoting now, there are lots of radio and TV appearances that some of you are taping--others are missing them (I don't have a TV, and am rarely at my tape deck when cool folks are on the radio). I'm on the Elvis Costello mailing list, and we have had great success with tape trees for live shows and regional broadcast stuff, as well as rare recordings (of course, Elvis has near 20 years of career to pick over, so it's a little different). CAVEAT: As much as possible, we on Elvis respect copyright. Money NEVER changes hands when music does, other than to pay for buying blank tapes and mailing costs. Commercially available recordings (albums) are NEVER distributed on the list. Boots and radio stuff are a pretty gray area, but we do what we can to stay on the clean side of the gray. The same should hold here. Tape trees work like this. Say we have someone with a high-quality live tape, or three or four people who can assemble 90 minutes' worth of radio stuff--not too repetitive, one hopes. (Same can work for video, but it's more tedious and transfer isn't as good.) Someone with good tape-to-tape facilities, or DAT-to-tape, volunteers to make a 90 or 100 minute seed tape. This person dubs, say, four copies of the seed tape--must be good quality copies, nice stereo, etc. These four copies go to four other volunteers with good tape-to-tape setups; they are called branches. Each branch records another four copies to go to "leaves" on the tree--now one tape has made it to 21 people. If necessary each branch can do five or six leaves (with 6, 43 tapes change hands), or there can be sub-branches if the equipment is good enough. Each generation of tapes is slightly less fine than the previous, so in general you want to keep it to no more than two or three dubs. We've had great success with this over on the Elvis list. The idea here is the same as a pyramid scheme, except that everything flows down and there is no $50,000 in six weeks promise 8=> like in those endless spams. Leaves contribute either blank tapes + postage or money to cover blank tapes + postage to their branches. At first assigning branches and leaves is a random process, later we might get interested in finding out who and where people are so that they can go regionally and fans can, if they choose, meet to tape and trade instead of doing everything by Snail Mail. Me, now, I have only the CD and the SPEW recording (YWMFM is quite different on SPEW, and would therefore be fodder for an eventual Rarities tape--we've done 6 such on the Elvis list) and would love to have the early tapes you all seem to have, as well as any good soundboard or audience tapes that come out of this tour. But one person shouldn't have to make recordings for everyone; this is far more democratic, and gets the music around widely. What do we think? Will this work here? Each tree does need a gardener to collect and assign names; after that's done and posted, the process works by itself. Ciao - Linus - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linus Gelber linus@panix.com Brooklyn, N.Y.C. - -o-<< WASTE cyrano@nycbeer.org Peripheral Visionary - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #160 ***************************