From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #558 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 Tuesday, 10 September 1996 Volume 01 : Number 558 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Help on IRC? unsubcribe Re: All Angels, PLEASE read this :) New YWMFM Remix NJC: Jewel, computers and parties... RE: Re:re:Re: An article about Tori Amos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eparkinson@ALPHA2.CURTIN.EDU.AU Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:35:46 +0000 (WST) Subject: Help on IRC? Ok. Firstly what irc is the jewel group on? If its Efnet, thats cool i can manage that. If its the undernet i'm not sure. I've read somewhere that Australia has been exluded from the undernet :( If anyone could give me a server that would get me to where i have to go i would be most appreciative! Thanks! Mike ------------------------------ From: Kevin Young Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:52:10 -0400 Subject: unsubcribe Please unsubscribe me from this mailing list. For those of you that need to... you can reach me at rainsoft@worldnet.att.net I am still working on the master video collection and will be in touch with all that wish to contribute soon. I'LL BE BACK. Kevin ------------------------------ From: jeffw (Jeff Wasilko) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:07:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: All Angels, PLEASE read this :) CornFlkG1@aol.com writes: > I joined the list around June of 1996. I had no idea what everyone was > talking about, and I kind of just read my way through the mail. Eventually I > learned that our list was formed by people on the Milla (another singer) list > and started off very small. A woman named Hiranya , who works for Jewel, is As the one and only founding member of the list (-:, allow me to correct you (as Jeff Hanson has already). The list started Feb 19, 1995. Early subscribers were Jon (elisheva@netaxs.com), Jeffrey Hanson, Neal Copperman, Matt Bittner, Steve Ito and Neile Graham. The list was an offshoot of Ecto (the Happy Rhodes list), since it was Neal who was responsible for evangelizing Jewel to the rest of us (and therefore convincing me to see Jewel when she did her weekly FREE shows in Boston. This will be very hard to believe, but there were only 145 messages posted to the jewel list between Feb 19, 1995 and June 5, 1995. - -Jeff ------------------------------ From: Dan Stark Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:24:21 -0400 Subject: New YWMFM Remix Hi! I guess I get to be the lucky first reviewer of the new You Were Meant For Me single remix, which I got to bring home for a listen tonight! Back on August 1st, Hiranya told us two versions had been recorded. The official release appears to be the one that stayed true to the original album version, not the Flea/T-Bone mix. The instrumentation is very similar to the album, but the mix sounds fuller, more solid, and generally better. The big difference is Jewel's vocal, which she has clearly re-recorded. We saw at Woodstock, and you can hear in this new recording, that Jewel's singing has become much stronger since she recorded Pieces Of You. In the album version of YWMFM, she seemed to improvise her way around a few notes, but her vocals on this single are perfect. There is also some slick vocal harmony through the chorus on the remix, and it's in a slightly higher key, and ever-so-slightly faster, so it sounds a bit brighter. Unfortunately there are no bonus tracks on this CD, but maybe that second we heard about version will surface for a future tree. I didn't say so at the time, but I never did care much for the Juan Patino mix (Phyllis Barnabee version, the one on Radio Angels). It seemed like that one was just manufactured for radio, and I thought the meaning of the song was lost in the rocked-up production, and much of Jewel's own signature along with it. I could be wrong of course, but that's how I heard it. The song as it appears on the new single has all the feeling and expression that makes it so good to begin with, plus great production too. So will the alternative/modern-rock stations play it? I don't know, it's pretty light, and the stations that put WWSYS next to Alice In Chains and Nine Inch Nails might have trouble doing the same with this one. But I think it's a definite add for the Top-40 and AAA staions. And depending on how Atlantic markets this one, it could end up being a huge A/C hit. That is to say, she could end up on the "Lite" stations next to (gag) Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey, and the rest of the focus-group favorites, it's definitely smooth and soulful enough for that format, even if that's not what Jewel is really all about. I can't believe what a cool cover insert Jewel designed for this CD! It's a Jewel pen-or-pencil drawing...if you've seen her drawings of Angels, or the kind of figures she drew for the elusive Shiva-Diva-Doo-Wop or Phyllis Barnabee promos, you'll know what I mean. This one appears to be a self-portrait, a sort-of Jewelly-looking figure with a guitar body and mermaid-type flippers for hands. In the shoulder-length hair she has drawn many little pictures of fishes. Her head is surrounded by...is it a halo, or is it a design meant to portray her thoughts radiating out...I'm not sure, but it's a halo-y type design anyway. Handwritten in a semi-circle above the figure's head is the following message (sic): I CAN'T EXPRESS THE EXCITEMENT OR THE GRATITUDE I feel for all I have been given. I am living a dream because people have helped me . achieve it Thank You.Thank You.Thank You.Thank You. The Thank You's are written right along the halo design around her head. The shape of her left breast modified to resemble a horseshoe, and handwritten around it is "LUCKY Horse.shoe" Her abdomen area is darkened to resemble a stomach, and inside that shape is a fork (the kind you eat with). Inside the circular opening in the acoustic guitar body under the strings is written "Yum". It's signed "Jewel 96". I don't know if this will end up as a CD single in stores or not. But I've never seen an artist express their thanks to either radio or fans on a CD like this before. 'Classy' isn't even a good enough way to describe it. I sent a clip of the new single to Adam's 'Pieces Of Jewel' page, so hopefully he'll have that sample available for all to hear soon if it's not there already. I'm also going to try to get that cover art to him as soon as possible. I don't have a scanner, but there's one at my office, so I'll try to get that done tomorrow, you've got to see it! Best! Dan .,-*'`^`'*-,.__.,-*'`^`'*-,.__.,-*'`^`'*-,.__.,-*'`^`'*-,._ - --==[> All spelling errors due to line noise <]==-- - --==[> danstark@mnsi.net <]==-- _.,-*'`^`'*-,.__.,-*'`^`'*-,.__.,-*'`^`'*-,.__.,-*'`^`'*-,._ ------------------------------ From: Harrisbros@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:31:08 -0400 Subject: NJC: Jewel, computers and parties... ***Jewel: Pentium or Mac? Jewel is an original, through and through. (Mac) Jewel spurs creativity. (Mac) Jewel has always been user-friendly. (Mac) Jewel innovates and makes her own market. (Mac) Jewel ain't no cheap wanna-be. (Mac) Jewel appeals to a select mindset, not necessarily the masses. (Mac) Someone needs to talk Apple into hiring Jewel for endorsements! ***The News List is underway. Hallelujah! ***CJ wrote: >>forward me all the important happenings in the last few weeks. Namely tree info, messages from Hiranya, and, of course, those informative Harris posts... << Hiranya? Wow, I'm in pretty good company there... ;) ***Tom wrote of a potential New Years Eve EDA party in the Big Apple: Hmmm... THAT could be interesting. Lemme check my appointment book... - -- Dennis (woo-hoo, another party) Harris ------------------------------ From: "Mr. Molten Lasciviousness" Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 21:45:11 -0700 Subject: RE: Re:re:Re: An article about Tori Amos At 10:44 PM 9/9/96 -0400, W1GGY2@aol.com wrote: >Newt writes: >> I think he does have a point. Musicians, while having meaning to us >personally, do not dictate society. They influence the masses, but they >aren't personally responsible for any change in the world. >That takes individuals. I disagree here as well. There are contradictions in the above statements: namely, that musicians influence the masses but aren't personally responsible for any change in the world. By influencing the masses, they are very much responsible for stimulating change in the world. Also, musicians are individuals. Even bands. The messages they convey can change the world as much as could the word of a world leader. I'm not implying that they always do, but that potential exists, and has been historically exercised. >There must be a reason WHY musicians are given so much importance. It's not >ignorance. It's the fact that they (sometimes) say what we feel and they >bring us together and often make us feel less alone. There you go. I think it's clear why musicians are given such importance. Because they, as much as anyone else, are social leaders. But instead of being authority figures, they are the hearts and minds and consciences of the masses. As Amy pointed out above, they often express quite clearly the things that we think and feel and need to express, and under the auspices of artistic expression, rather than a coercive force such as government. That's one of the key differences, that people can relate so well with music and musicians because it is something that they have readily and willfully accepted, rather than having been made to accept or suffer the consequences. >Mia wrote: >>During a really not that fabulous first couple of weeks back at school, >Jewel's music is one thing that always is medatative enough to keep me sane >and happy, and in touch with simple life facts people all so often >forget...like human kindess, and peace. << > >I think that sums it up pretty well. Sorry if I've been a little mushy. > Don't be. I think that at one time or another we all share more or less the same thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears, and there's no need to apologize for expressing that. =) I thought Mia summed it up pretty well too. volt ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #558 ***************************