From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #163 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 Thursday, 25 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 163 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Another new song! Re:losing Jewel on Dave - Reply The Rugburns at Kent State [none] Optical Injuries & The New Jewel Chicago Willy Porter (NJC) Re: Jewel really is a babe! steve fondow NYC concert/guitar/Letterman More Letterman, Andy Warhol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Frank Provost (MCOM)" Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Another new song! The station I work at got the Craft soundtrack today and, to my knowledge, it's a new song (so correct me if I'm wrong) called "Under the Water". The songwriting credit is "J. Kilcher, R. Sall". The other name is Ralph Sall, who also produced the track and does some programming on the track. Programming? Yeah...it's a bit different than the stuff we're all used to. It has a sound similar to a dance track, but I refuse to catagorize it with that word. It has a band on it, one of the musicians being session ace/ex-Living Colour bassist Doug Wimbish. It is, as I said, drastically different from her stuff on POY, but I do like it quite a bit. More than the cover of "Sunshine Superman" on I Shot Andy Warhol (though I also like that track). All Jewel is credited with is vocals. Keep an eye out for it...the whole soundtrack is pretty good. Better than most. Another note on Letterman: She may have played it faster because Letterman, as does most talk shows, has a time cap. A song can go no longer than a set time. Don't know what it is, but with time so valuable when taping a show (leaving ample commercial space) it _must_ be under 4:00 (the length of WWSYS on the album). Later, Frank ------------------------------ From: rkantrow@Phoenix.kent.edu (Kantrowitz Ronald ) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:35:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re:losing Jewel on Dave - Reply As Mary mentioned, Dave did say that something to the effect that "for you kids out there we have Jewel" but I am an avid fan of Dave and almost every night he says something on the lines of "Hey kids, do you like that Rock 'n Roll? We have...." So don't take it to heart. He is not a musically knowlegable guy. He probably doesn't even know until the day of the show who the acts are. - -- . . . . . . . . . . . . R o n K a n t r o w i t z . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------------------------ From: rkantrow@Phoenix.kent.edu (Kantrowitz Ronald ) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:56:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: The Rugburns at Kent State Hey Angels, If anyone is interested the Rugburns are going to be playing at FlashFest at Kent State MACC center tomorrow at 4:35-5:35 it's free. This is mostly addressed to the Cleveland/Akron area folks who can make it. It's related because our lovely Jewel has played with them and I just thought some of you might be interesed so with that, I'll mull over my other forty something posts. Thank you angels for standing by. - -- . . . . . . . . . . . . R o n K a n t r o w i t z . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------------------------ From: amanda hanig Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:27:10 -0500 Subject: [none] I personally would like to see jewel tap dance. Maybe she could have blue shoes to match her guitar. That would be funny. Banana!!! amanda ------------------------------ From: Carter Navarro Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:56:46 -0700 Subject: Optical Injuries & The New Jewel I don't know if this is the tidal wave, but if it isn't, it sure is one good imitation! I have nearly recovered my sight after Jewel's Letterman show. My hysterical blindness and the realization that I was putting my activity on this list ahead of my collegiate endeavors are responsible for my less-than-overloading presence on this list in the past couple of days. Then again, I AM getting about 482 digests per day now, so it's a little harder to plow through all the mail and find stuff to comment on or add to. I'm sure quite a few of you were thankful for the break. But just when you thought it was safe to go back in the List ... duh-Duh, duh-Duh, Oh No! Carcharadon Carterias! The Great White Eel! So, more on Letterman. I've watched the performance a couple more times. I had to use a staple remover to get my eyes off the skirt, but after that extremely painful procedure, here's what I noticed: First, Jewel is very good with cameras. Instead of sweeping the studio audience, she plowed right into the lens whenever it framed her front-on. Gutsy and seductive. Well, she's not too good with flash cameras yet, but when you are up on stage and everything you see before you is black, a camera flash can be worse than the eruption of an A-bomb in the mid-winter Arctic. Subtle reminder, folks: holster your cameras during your trips to see Jewel. She may be more than happy to pose with you afterwards, but don't scar her corneas while she's singing. Next, why the change of clothes? I hit Atlantic's site and downloaded the five rehearsal shots. Let's see, same hair, same guitar, yet something was curiously different. The opening question was, of course, rhetorical. My answer is: Jewel was showing the nation the transformation she underwent since the recording of her first album. When the Letterman audience goes to the record store to sample "Pieces Of You," they will see the young girl on the cover yet remember the spectacular butterfly that emerged on the 22nd. Will middle-aged men experience pedophilic guilt when they unfold "POY"'s insert and see the younger incarnation of the woman that threw them to the ground? Is the United States of America about to enter into a massive attack of Freudian psychosis, courtesy of Jewel Kilcher? I sure hope so! Since I am a Puritan Atheist (meaning I dress like the Quaker Oats man but don't believe in Santa Claus), I actually find Jewel blisteringly attractive the more she's covered up. She probably would have been a bit more comfortable in the earlier outfit, too, considering the notorious frigidity that plagues Letterman's set. FIFTY DEGREES FAHRENHEIT is what I've heard. Actually, "Puritan Atheism" means I am ridiculously conservative but believe everything in the universe is guided by nothing. Cute, huh? Would you like a chocolate? Next, lots of opinions regarding the Letterman rendition of "WWSYS" have been flying about like flaming arrows in a Kurosawa movie. Let me add my own private utterly valueless opinion: My main criteria for admiring a musician is: "Can they play just as well live as they do on their albums?" I have discovered that Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, Nine Inch Nails, and Jewel all do. With the satisfaction of that criteria, however, comes a desire to hear the music performed DIFFERENTLY than on the original recording. Artists differ on this. Tori Amos improvises more than Robin Williams during her concerts, so even her most popular songs can be unrecognizable until you've heard the chorus twice through. On the Bowie tour, NIN performed a version of "Piggy" so slow that it sounded like a completely different song (I also found out Trent can play the sax). Sheryl Crow could have been lip-synching to "Tuesday Night Music Club" for all I know, so I have to classify that concert as one of the less entertaining I've been to (excepting the wonderfully depressed reincarnation of "All I Wanna Do"). Jewel at the Catalyst, however, ranks right under my first NIN concert as being my favorite live performance. Trent had Marilyn Manson, the Jim Rose Circus, and a fantastic stage setup to make that experience unforgettable. Jewel had herself and her guitar. May that tell you something? (Yeah, Carter, it tells us you don't know what the hell you're talking about.) Maybe so, but when I see a musician live, I want a new interpretation, not a facsimile of earlier performances. Otherwise, I may as well just buy a Jewel mannequin and stand her up in the corner of the living room with "POY" on infinite repeat. Speaking of infinite repeat, I should wrap this up. Treasure the song you heard on Letterman, friends. She may never sing it that way again. Perhaps some of you are not unhappy to hear that, but Jewel should be thanked for giving us something other than Track One Verbatim. I'd love to hear it that way again on May 3, but I'm looking forward to yet another take on an already wonderful song. Don't worry about disappointment, though. Such reactions are a necessary and inextricable part of music. Even Trent performed a version of "Closer" that I was none too happy with. I think I just demolished my entire argument. Sorry. Finally, my apologies to Paul Kim. I slam my hand on the Bible and yell for all the world to hear that I did not intentionally imitate his First "Comment" Last idiosyncrasy, but if subliminal effects were the impetus for my habit, I credit Paul with being the creator. - --- Carter "Legally Blind Intellecutal Property Thief" Navarro ------------------------------ From: srfondow@students.wisc.edu (Steve Fondow) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:18:09 -0500 Subject: Chicago Hello all.. I am just looking for someone who is interested in seeing the Chicago show. I have an extra tic.. but I need a ride down to the show.. I am a little out of the way (Madison, WI) but any help would be greatly appreciated. I am waiting on a few other possibilities but if someone can get me there and back...the ticket is theirs. I saw Jewel on Dave and it was the first time that I have really experienced her performing one of her songs in full and live (I have seen the videos and heard the tapes but not like that). I really was very impressed and I am very excited that I am going to get the chance to see her. thanks for reading steve "Caught a lite sneeze Dreamed a little dream made my own pretty hate machine boys on my left side boys on my right side boys in the middle but you're not here." (Tori) Steve Fondow ------------------------------ From: srfondow@students.wisc.edu (Steve Fondow) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:25:15 -0500 Subject: Willy Porter (NJC) Willy is from the Madison area where I go to school and I saw him open for the Cranberries (my fav's) and Toad the Wet Sprocket. I dont really know about his works other than the fact that he has at least 2 Cds out (I think) and that he is a solo acoustic act much like Jewel. I think he is really great and he is worth checking out if you havent heard him before. I am glad that things are finally getting to be more my style. I love acoustic performers.. all takers. steve "Caught a lite sneeze Dreamed a little dream made my own pretty hate machine boys on my left side boys on my right side boys in the middle but you're not here." (Tori) Steve Fondow ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Jewel really is a babe! On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Steve D Dupree wrote: > I thiknk everyone > with great boots should be nice and _sell_ them to people who don't > have anything to trade. This of course doesn't apply to the people > who _do_ sell them, like those mentioned more than once in the FAQ > some people obviously didn't bother to read.... Please note that no one on this list (at least that I know of) SELLS boots. The legality of boots is iffy enough without selling them. Rare Angels and Radio Angels both come with a notice specifically asking people NOT to sell them, because the only individual who should be making money off Jewel's music is Jewel. No one objects to trades, and Rare Angels (and in a VERY short while Radio Angels) are available to anyone who sends a blank tape and a package with return postage on it to the dubbing site they are assigned. And video tapes are no more or less legal than audio tapes. - --Neile ------------------------------ From: "I'M NEVER ALONE, I'M ALONE ALL THE TIME" Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:16:06 CST Subject: steve fondow hey i am almost positive i am going to be able to give you a ride to the show, so please don't give up on me, i really want to see jewel in concert so if you still need someone email me back.ok thankx sean ------------------------------ From: j.mullins1@genie.com Date: Thu, 25 Apr 96 04:15:00 UTC 0000 Subject: NYC concert/guitar/Letterman Hi everyone- First, I thought she sounded a bit bored with WWSYS on Letterman. Can't blame her, she must've sung it 1000 time over by now. It sucks to have to do your "hit" when you keep writing new tunes. Of course, it's cool to have a "hit" in the first place :) Second, I finally got to see the guitar I've heard about. Was it custom from a person, or custom from Taylor's or Martin's shop? And which was the Taylor she used to play? I'm really getting into Taylor 6-string guitars lately thanks to Jewel. Finally, if anyone going to the Irving Plaza May 16th show, email me privately. We may have lots of fun in the afternoon or something before the show! A few of us should be getting together so far, the more the merrier! Shakey (j.mullins1@genie.geis.com) "They say that people don't try, that's just a lie, they work miracles" - G. Lightfoot ------------------------------ From: Dan Stark Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:46:00 -0400 Subject: More Letterman, Andy Warhol At 13:21 24/04/96 EST, Dean wrote: >I'd be willing to bet a whole bunch of money that musical guests don't get >to randomly pick the song they perform on talk shows. I'm sure a producer >or something gives them one, two, maybe three to choose from, but aside from >that their only choice is probably to not attend. I'm sure it's up to the artist to pick the song. It's just that appearing on Letterman is a major promotional opportunity, and it's generally understood that the current single will be played to promote the album, and so viewers can connect the artist with the song they've heard on the radio. I've seen exceptions though. PDeSanti@lmumail.lmu.edu wrote: >Jewel will have a song on the new movie "Craft" soundtrack. >Here is the soundtrack listing that I found on the net: > > Juliana Hatfield - "Witches Song" > Jewel - "Under the Water" > Letters to Cleo - "Dangerous Type" (*) > (...etc) I haven't heard Jewel's track yet, but I have had the chance to hear Letters To Cleo, who I normally like, SLAUGHTER my favorite Cars song! I _did_ get a copy of the I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack today though, with Jewel singing the 60's Donovan hit Sunshine Superman. I don't know if I would have even guessed it was Jewel right away, if I hadn't already known. It's a slickly-produced, rockin' pop song that sort of captures the 60's feel with its cheezy 60's guitar sound. Jewel sings overdubbed harmonies with herself like you hear a lot of female pop artists do. I actually think it's pretty cool...you can hear in her voice how much fun she seemed to be having. The critic who slammed it believing it was a serious cover attempt obviously didn't get it. This has Jewel's sense of humor stamped all over it. The rest of the soundtrack is all over the road, as soundtracks tend to be. There's REM covering The Troggs' "Love Is All Around" , previously only available as a single B-side. A couple of decent tracks by Bettie Serveet and Yo La Tengo. And some original oldies and other stuff I didn't find too interesting. I've forgotten when 120 minutes will be. Someone....anyone...(everyone)? Thanks! Dan - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAN STARK PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS danstark@netcom.ca dstark@freenet.npiec.on.ca will be forwarded Windsor, Ontario, Canada danstarkds@aol.com is cancelled - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #163 ***************************