From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #655 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 Sunday, 6 October 1996 Volume 01 : Number 655 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NJC- Every Angel Please Read.. 7 UP college radio promo CD Re: Letters to Jewel NJC:Need advice oops, I messed up.- Launch interview was launched early Re: Letters to Jewel Maybe I didn't mess up. The Launch interview - Part 1 of 2 The Launch interview - Part 2 of THREE The Launch interview - Part 3 of 3 Re: The Launch interview - Part 3 of 3 jewel on net more info Re: more info Re: more info Foolish Games music, right here NJC:SDFA needs more advice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Barnabus Heckabus? Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:34:30 -0700 Subject: NJC- Every Angel Please Read.. Hi all- Just have something that is tearing me up inside that i think you all should be aware of cause i hope you dont make the same mistake. I lost my best friend and grandfather in the same month. The whole point to this is that i never told either of them that I loved them. My best friend and I had a fight the weekend before he died, i said things I should have not, neways I never had the chance tro sya I was sorry. My grandfather died a couple weeks later while i was at work.. he was my life.. the person who kept me going through all the shit i had to deal with in life. I never said good bye becasue of a phobia of hospitals. So my point is PLEASE PLEASE go and tell your loved ones you love them before your looking down at an open casket regrettting not doing it enough when they were there. I LOVE YOU GUYS! MAtt - -- - -------------------------------------------------- - -The unused toy, Keeper of the yellow brick road,- - -Sailing the Seas Of Cheeze, Falling asleep in - - -windoze, Drifting through time to find pieces of- - -you in a kinder gentler time and place. - - -*ozz@snowcrest.net*------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: SDFAngel@aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 02:52:43 -0400 Subject: 7 UP college radio promo CD I posted awhile ago saying that one of my contacts called. He wanted to sell me this promo but I already have it. He wants $50 for it. I believe skinnyPete and Liz Clark expressed interest. Maybe some other angels as well. I don't know how many he has but if I attained a copy on my own and he offers another one, then how hard can it be to dig up? SuPeRdEfOrMeD aNgEl ------------------------------ From: Dan Stark Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 02:52:21 -0400 Subject: Re: Letters to Jewel On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Alexander Stamou wrote: > And I think I have already asked this, but has anybody sent a letter to > Jewel and gotten a reply? If so, what did she say? Rafa seems to win in that category. He wrote to her (not sure at what address) and she answered his letter by acknowledging it at Jewelstock and playing his song. Not bad. - ------------------------------ DAN STARK danstark@mnsi.net Windsor, Ontario, Canada - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: SDFAngel@aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 03:13:13 -0400 Subject: NJC:Need advice I had college roommate last year. We had nothing in common. He loved music, I loved sports. I drank heavily, he was straight edged. Somehow after a little getting used to, we got along like bread and butter. Believing that everything could be better he left my room for a new roommate spring semester. He has since sworn that it was the worst mistake of his life. After of couple of different situations that made his name know around every different crowd, he had to leave school. Now his new school's radio station closed and as a proffessional Disc Jockey he has no place to go but back. He's looking forward to that like I can't believe. His name is Armand, he not only introduced me to Jewel's music but he and I where two of the first three people to attend the site of Jewelstock. Armand wants to room with me again back in the room we left last year. Queens 126. Now, how do I explain this to my current roommate Greg. Greg hasn't been a bad roommate in any way but Armand and I belong rooming together. We are both so crazy noone else understand's either of us. He hates to admit it, but everytime he ever came to me with girl trouble I had a completley accurate take on the situation. This is because I learned about human behavior in a textbook sort of manner. At a young age I never bonded with anyone, so I developed socially retarded, even today I behave in a peculiar manner. I hate people, but being unkind hurts and I don't ever want to hurt anyone. SuPeRdEfOrMeD aNgEl ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 08:13:29 -0400 Subject: oops, I messed up.- Launch interview was launched early EDAs, Oops, I just posted the entire Launch Magazine interview, before I got to edit it to a readable format. Well, anyway, there it is. Hope someone else will edit it and re-post it as I can't right now, gotta run. Mike ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 08:17:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Letters to Jewel Dan Stark, wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Alexander Stamou wrote: > > And I think I have already asked this, but has anybody sent a letter to > > Jewel and gotten a reply? If so, what did she say? > > Rafa seems to win in that category. He wrote to her (not sure at what > address) and she answered his letter by acknowledging it at Jewelstock and > playing his song. Not bad. Well, we pretty much _think_ it was Rafa, she said it was from a guy in Costa Rica. Rafa is from Puerto Rico. For all we know it coulda been from a dude in Costa Rica. ;) (I can see Rafa melting *now*) Mike P.S. Rafa, we all know she meant you....was just bustin' on ya'!!! ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 08:26:07 -0400 Subject: Maybe I didn't mess up. EDAs, Looks like that "I messed up & launced the Launch interview early" FUBAR got held up at Smoe. Jeffs program intercepts posts greater than 7k. Looks like that one was. So it won't be up on the list until he approves it, which hopefully he won't, as like I said, it's quite a hassle to read in it's present format. Mike So the moral of the story is....."sommetimes it's good to mess up".....or is it...."sometimes when you screw up, someone else is there to save your ass." ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 08:43:47 -0400 Subject: The Launch interview - Part 1 of 2 EDAs - Here's the first half of the entire interview from the Lauch CD ROM, issue #9. It was at the site that Crash Boy posted ____________ Part 1 of 2: "Overnight Success" is one of those terms that often is misused in describing the apparently meteoric rise of some new talent. And while it is understandable that casual music industry observers may have slapped this tag on Alaskan singer-songwriter Jewel, it is an egregious error nonetheless. At age 22, this artist can claim a debut album, Pieces of You, which cracked Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart and quickly ascended into the Top 30, while her hit song "Who Will Save Your Soul" reached No. 11 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. But make no mistake: Jewel began traveling on this path to success when most of us were still on the playground. This hardworking chanteuse was only eight years old when she and her father embarked on an open-ended tour of clubs and roadhouses, which eventually led Jewel to coffee shops and amphitheaters. Jewel is the cover artist featured on Issue No. 9 of the LAUNCH CD-ROM. Visit the Hang, where you can engage her in an interactive interview and hear a live, acoustic and exclusive recording of her hit "Who Will Save Your Soul." The following interview was conducted by LAUNCH executive editor Dave DiMartino: LAUNCH: You've had remarkable success with your debut album. Looking back on the process, can you think of anything that led you to the place where you are today? JEWEL: It took a lot of touring. In the beginning, a lot of radio stations said [my music] was unplayable, and video shows and TV stations said it was unlistenable. Which was fine, because I never expected to sell a lot of albums with this one; it was just supposed to be a time capsule of where I was. I was 19 and just learning to write songs and play guitar. And I know that hard wood grows slowly, and if I wanted to have a longterm career like Neil Young, it would just take touring. I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do. I was just glad to not be living in my car anymore, so I just toured. I would do 40 cities every 30 days, four shows a day; I worked a lot. I had a really good time, and got enough of a groundswell following to just keep playing. And my label kept me out long enough that people couldn't ignore me anymore. Radio had to start playing the songs. LAUNCH: Have you always wanted to be a singer, a songwriter? JEWEL: When I was 18, I went through a premature mid-life crisis. So many of us are asked to compromise our pride and health in order to have these roofs over our heads. And I didn't know how to face consciousness everyday just passing time. I didn't feel like I had any purpose in my life. My hands and my creativity was going to waste. But I never even thought I could sing and make a living because that was a hobby. A lot of us just aren't taught that something you love can make you money. It wasn't until I got fired from my last job that I decided: That's it. I don't care. I'd rather die and drop out of the world rather than wake up everyday and be so unhappy. I never thought I'd get a record deal; I just wanted to eat and do something I liked. It turned into this. And it's been a real blessing. LAUNCH: I've never been to Alaska. What is it like there? Did you enjoy growing up there? JEWEL: I loved being raised there. There was a lot of silence and open space. In some ways we're sculpted by our environments. Our flesh is sculpted by what is around us, as well as our psyches. . By silence. In silence you hear who you're going to become. You create yourself in silence.When you're surrounded by beauty and open space, it inspires you and it makes you feel that there's some sort of divine presence out there. Unlabeled. Having that as a youth--going through hard times--it kept me sane. As well as the discipline of being raised on a large homestead. That taught me a lot about doing what I'm doing now. LAUNCH: Did living on a homestead impact your life, the way you look at things? JEWEL: Probably only in a good way. I like people a lot, I wasn't raised to mistrust them. I was raised to be awake--to not kid yourself about people. I believe people are basically good; we all come from the same place, we all have fear. We want to be loved. We all want passion in our lives. It doesn't matter if you're rich or homeless, it's all the same. LAUNCH: You mentioned going through hard times. Is your life better now than it was before? Do you feel like you've had tougher times than the average person? JEWEL: It's hard to compare lives because everybody's bottom is their own bottom. Everybody experiences abuse in their own ways. It was a hard time, but I never felt I was given something I didn't have the tools to get over. Ultimately, my life forced me to figure out what I wanted to do. Which I think happens when you don't recognize the signs early enough. You get hints: "Hint, hint, hint, Jewel." Until I hit a wall. But that's nothing compared to what people spend their whole lives doing. LAUNCH: Coffee shops have really taken off as a big social thing in the past few years, and it seems the coffee shop looms large in your legend. In fact, you recorded much, if not all, of Pieces of You in the coffee shop that became your home base, right? JEWEL: It's the only place I really played. I was raised as a professional singer: Since I was eight, my dad and I made our living doing barroom tours. I lived in my car; a lot of the businesses there wanted you to play for $25 and food. But I couldn't afford that. This was my living, not just a hobby. So I found this coffee shop that just opened, was looking for business. They said I could keep the door money, and they would keep the coffee sales. And so I stuck with them and we both struggled together to get more people to come in. LAUNCH: And were you discovered there? Is that how you got your record deal? JEWEL: I just got a good word of mouth going. It was never a goal to make demos for records labels. Word spread somehow to A&R in L.A. and then one night someone from Virgin came down, and this was before I knew about the beauty of expense accounts. I bought him a burrito; he told me I could make a record. Then another label came and another label came. It happened like that. end of part 1 of 2 ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 08:57:00 -0400 Subject: The Launch interview - Part 2 of THREE EDAs - Here's the SECOND (of 3) part of the entire interview from the Lauch CD ROM, issue #9. It was at the site that Crash Boy posted ____________ Part 2 of 3: (I re-edited to 3 parts) LAUNCH: You obviously are no stranger to live gigs. You must travel a lot. Do you like being on the road? JEWEL: I'm learning to like it. It's very discombobulating for me. I'm definitely not a Willie Nelson who loves being on the road. There's not enough quiet; I can't be alone ever. I'm talking about myself all the time, and that becomes absurd. But I'm learning ways to keep myself quiet in my head, and remind myself of beauty. To keep inspired. But my spirit isn't really happy. I'd rather not be doing this, I don't care enough anymore. I would rather be in Alsaska. I'm not doing this for fame or money. I'm doing it because it serves my spirit and it reminds people to live their dreams. That's needed in the world now. I love it for that reason. I am made for it. I can sing four shows a day and not ruin my voice. I'm learning how to be good at it. LAUNCH: It must have been a real eye opener for you to go out on tour. You've played now with Neil Young and Bob Dylan. That must have been amazing! Tell me about it. JEWEL: It didn't start out that way! At first nobody would take me out on the road, so I had to do my own coffee shop tour. The only band the label could get to go out with me was another Atlantic band. They pawned me off on a goth band, Peter Murphy. So I toured acoustically--never with a band--for a goth band. It was hilarious. I'm now sensitive to people who've had their fangs filed. But they bought the album, so that's good. If anything, I got to appreciate such diverse people. Going on between punk bands in front of 20,000 people, between the Ramones and Everclear. It taught me to be diverse and never judge people, and to know that my crowd is anyone with a heart and has ears. It taught me to be very diverse. And it really paid off. Touring with Bob Dylan was a huge dream. Neil is incredible. LAUNCH: Who inspires you? JEWEL: There's certain people who have never lost the creative integrity of what they're doing. Neil [Young] is like that. It's very rare. The world has become very immediate. It's hard to stay in touch with one's creative drive. Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon. I find people like that very inspiring. LAUNCH: What's the coolest thing to ever happen to you in your career? JEWEL: The coolest thing ever? Singing with Bob Dylan. He invited me up on stage. I was blown away. I got to share a mic with him. I sang "I Shall Be Released." And just talking to him is hilarious, you know? LAUNCH: Yodeling is another factor that looms large in your legend. What's the story there? Are people always asking you to yodel for them? JEWEL: I've been doing it since I was six and it's always been a very big deal to people. I enjoy doing it but when I become a slave to it, it's frustrating and it shows. Like if I'm doing a love song and someone yells: "YODEL!!!" I find that annoying. But generally, I like to entertain a crowd and give them what they want. LAUNCH: Both of your parents are artists and performers in their own right. You mentioned touring barrooms with your dad as a child. Do you ever feel pressured by your folks to live out their dreams? Is it hard for you that you've become so successful and yet they haven't? JEWEL: I think that happens often in people lives. . .a child living some dream you put on them vicariously. Fathers do it to their sons. Mothers are jealous of beautiful daughters. It's the same with fans living their dreams through a hero. As a kid, these women with Marlboros and voices straight from the bowling alley would come up to me and say: "I could have been an opera singer, but I married old Hank here and now I have to cook him hashed browns. So you have to do it for us." And as a little girl, I was really burdened by that because I realized how tragic people's lives were for not following their dreams. You see that a lot in my parents' generation and my grandfather's generation. Then it was a much more sacrificial time. My generation gets to benefit for the first time figuring out, okay, we know money isn't the answer. So what am I here to do? I feel blessed. My parents aren't particularly like that. My mom was always very encourageing. My dad, was like "don't live in your car, go to school." My dad always wanted to be a songwriter, he still does. I think he's proud. But they're human. There are jealousies; it's all human. End of part 2 of 3 ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 08:59:30 -0400 Subject: The Launch interview - Part 3 of 3 EDAs - Here's the rest of the entire interview from the Lauch CD ROM, issue #9. It was at the site that Crash Boy posted ____________ Part 3 of 3: LAUNCH: You just finished your second album. But you didn't do this one live, did you? Why not? JEWEL: The reason I did the first one live was that I didn't know how to sing in a studio. I sing better in front of people. I get a better vocal performance. Being a studio artist is a different beast, a different animal. I've gotten more comfortable with it over the years; it's the same with my guitar playing. I just want an album to show where I am creatively. I've grown. My hands have gotten better at articulating how I would like them to represent me and my thoughts. So I feel like it's a more accurate reading of what I am. I'm better able to express myself both lyrically and musically. It's a fun process instead of a scary one this time. LAUNCH: I've heard you like to surf. Can you describe for me one of your greatest surf memories? JEWEL: I like every wave, they're all really exciting to me. There's always your first wave. . .I was kind of stupid, actually, I didn't know enough to be afraid. I went down with some guys after one of my shows. They looked like surfers. We went down to Mexico. I'd never caught a wave before. It was a pretty big day, five foot overhead, rocky place, beautiful point. A big wave came, I caught it, made it, got inside, and looked at how big the waves were, got horrified, and I thought what am I doing? But it was a good rush. LAUNCH: How computer-literate are you? JEWEL: I'm not computer literate, I never have been. I was reading Charles Bukowski last night and he has a poem called "My First Computer Poem." And how old was he when he wrote it? 60? I feel like that's how I'll be. Maybe when I'm 60. . . I love the Internet because it takes out the middleman: the record label, radio station, record store. It's the fans who allow me to live my dream, they buy my albums. I find that very humbling. It keeps me going, even when I think the business is suffocating everything beautiful and pure. I have a large Internet fan club, and I was recording in Woodstock, NY. Someone wrote in and asked: Would Jewel do this free concert for us if we all went out to Woodstock? So I put on this free show and 500 kids migrated out from everywhere, camped out. It was so great, they made T-shirts for themselves. All these kids who knew each other from the Internet got to meet for the first time. It was really great. LAUNCH: Do you have a favorite album, or an artist? JEWEL: I think the Replacements' Let It Be is one of the coolest records. k.d. lang, Ella Fitzgerald--they're very cool. LAUNCH: It must be weird for you; so many people have bought your record and probably think they know who Jewel is. How do you think people perceive of you? JEWEL: I don't know. I'm always portrayed in the media as a naive 22-year-old trying to impress adults. What can I say? End of part 3 of 3 ------------------------------ From: Tom Proven Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 06:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: The Launch interview - Part 3 of 3 Kids? Hmmm....interesting perspective. It *was* really great though. Thanks for posting this, Mike. > I have a large Internet fan club, and I was recording in > Woodstock, NY. Someone wrote in and asked: Would Jewel do > this free concert for us if we all went out to Woodstock? So I > put on this free show and 500 kids migrated out from > everywhere, camped out. It was so great, they made T-shirts for > themselves. All these kids who knew each other from the > Internet got to meet for the first time. It was really great. Tom ------------------------------ From: Patric Oesterheld Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:05:56 -0400 Subject: jewel on net Jewel will be doing a show @ 5p.m. on the internet on Friday. Anyone with the technology to record this--please do!!! There's a nice little page at http://www.audionet/concerts/jewel.com acouple pics, etc. Damn, I wish I had an ISDN connection! ------------------------------ From: Patric Oesterheld Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:31:12 -0400 Subject: more info Sorry-I was too excited to find all the info... so here more is! On the radio: If anyone lives in Houston-the show is at the Art Institute of Houston. Also the show will be broadcast on 104 KRBE. So get your tape machines ready. On the net:You're going to need Realaudio and Enhanced CU See Me- yes, the session is on video on the net!!! If you go to http://www.krbe.com and click on the See&Hear hot button. The CUSEEME is a LARGE download(5-6megs), so don't try to do this on Friday afternoon! Does anyone have the processor and the memory required to get this on your computer and transfer to video??? The other page is HTTP://audionet.com/concerts/jewel They're calling it a "Private session with Jewel", so it sounds very intimate. Audionet calls it "Live and unplugged". This will be so cool-- too bad there won't be a chat function:) The only thing I haven't seen so far is if there will be an archived version available on the net- so somebody's got to get it the first time!!! Talk to ya later, Patric HEY LIZ--I'm getting ready to watch the race--bet #24 doesn't win it! ------------------------------ From: Alexander Stamou Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:15:37 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Re: more info Just in case somebody doesn't figure it out. > The other page is HTTP://www.audionet.com/concerts/jewel ^ /|\ | /Alexander "too short to be the perfect son-in-law" Stamou ------------------------------ From: Leave the shadows dancing Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 12:35:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: more info On the audionet thing. I will record the entire thing the FIRST time. We have a T1 connection to the net. One problem.. if the concert is too late, the lab will close and I won't be able to do it. :P Which is actually possible on a Friday Night. This time I can actually do it because I have a tape deck that I can just bring down and plug the out-jack of the sound card into it. :) Yay! =) Let's just pray the lab is open past 5pm on Friday. *weak smile* Gerrit ------------------------------ From: Kate Kosteva Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 13:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Foolish Games music, right here Hi guys. I've noticed that there are more people other than me looking for this music. Why Tom didn't forward this to the list is beyond me, but here is a forwarded message that Tom Proven sent me: From the looks of the message, it seems as though it was sent to the list, but I don't recall seeing it there. Kate - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:01:34 +0000 From: Crash Boy To: jewel@smoe.org Subject: CRD: Foolish Games hi guys! i was bored the other day and came up with this. tell me if the chords sound all right. enjoy! Foolish Games by Jewel Kilcher Intro Dm Bb F C Dm Bb You took your coat off F And stood in the rain C You're always crazy like that Dm Bb And I watched from my window F Always felt I was outside C Looking in on you Dm You're always the mysterious one Bb With dark eyes and careless hair F You were fashionably sensitive C But too cool to care Dm Bb And you stood in my doorway F With nothing to say C Besides some comment on the weather Dm In case you failed to notice Bb In case you failed to see F This is my heart bleeding before you C This is me down on my knees Bb C And these foolish games F C Dm Are tearing me apart Bb C And your thoughtless words F C Bb Are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart Intro again Dm Bb F C You're always brilliant in the morning Smoking your cigarettes And talking over coffee Your philosophies on art Baroque moved you, you loved Mozart And you'd speak of your loved ones As I clumsily strummed my guitar You'd teach me of honest things Things that were daring Things that were clean Things that knew what an honest dollar did mean I hid my soiled hands Behind my back Somewhere along the line I must have gone off track with you Excuse me Think i've mistaken you for somebody else Somebody who gave a damn Somebody more like myself Chorus You took your coat off And stood in the rain You're always crazy like that second part of the song is the same as the first but with different lyrics, that's all. eric :) ------------------------------ From: SDFAngel@aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:20:11 -0400 Subject: NJC:SDFA needs more advice. My casettes got stolen from my car last week so I'm here in New Jersey dubbing my ninth hour of Matthew Sweet for the car. My best friend James called. I haven't spoke of him much as he doesn't like Jewel. Anyway seems Jame's girlfriend Christina left for florida for a week. When she came back she was completely cold to him. She came back to New Jersey for two weeks. He only saw her three times and that's because he begged her to see him. Then she left for florida with even saying happy birthday to him. As any remotely sensative person would be, he is a wreck. I invited him out to go for a movie, or a cup of coffee or something. Just to try to get his mind off it. He's worried about my time. But I told him I could evalute the situation more soundly then he could and insisted that we do something today. My question to the list is:Is is normal behavior for a girlfriend of eighteen months to turn the cold shoulder two weeks before leaving town for good? If not I thought the ex-factor may have been another guy, he swore it wasn't. Doesn't anybody have any ideas on what might induce such insensative behavior? SuPeRdEfOrMeD aNgEl ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #655 ***************************