From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #686 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, 17 October 1996 Volume 01 : Number 686 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NJC: the Toni list Skinny's Idea (Storytellers) Re: JC:her guitars PLEASE READ! - EDA Cover Tape Extension (again) Re: JC:her guitars audionet problems Re: JC:her guitars Re: al-bummer update Re: al-bummer update Re: NJC: Need A Piece of Your Love... WHAT?! Sorta JC: Ferrington Guitars I was also at FarmAid NJC: Patty Griffin CD fer sale NJC - switching e-mail address NJC- need some opinion on STL cd Re: JC:her guitars Re: Stuff NJC: Ok, some Re: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd Re: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd Re[2]: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd NJC: Mailing Lists ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: gregdunn@indy.net (Greg Dunn) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:43:38 -0500 Subject: NJC: the Toni list >Where do I sign up for the Toni Dunn list??!! Is it in digest form? >But does she smoke? I LIVE the list over here! :-) No digest, everything is fully detailed and the messages are delivered dozens of times a day -- at all hours. Toni and about 3-4 of her friends do not smoke; in the midst of about 100 who do. I'm proud of her for that decision, but I had nothing to do with it. Speaking of the list, check out Toni's home page update for pics of her and the new band... http://members.aol.com/gregdunn/toni.html - -- | Greg Dunn | "And I don't think it's my | | GregDunn@aol.com | fault... you never get what | | gregdunn@indy.net | you want." | | http://members.aol.com/gregdunn/ | Patty Griffin | ------------------------------ From: SkinnyPete@aol.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:08:32 -0400 Subject: Skinny's Idea (Storytellers) I just saw a comercial for VH1's fairly new show "Storytellers" in which the featured artist tells the story behind the song before actually playing it. If you haven't seen it, it's kind of a narrated Unplugged. It has featured Sting, The Black Crowes, and the lead vocalist of The Kinks. This would be THE BEST show for Jewel. It's perfect, no it's made for her. She could tell her little "Drug bust" story and her father's eyebrow story and all of them before the songs. I think I'm gonna write a letter to VH1 suggesting Jewel as a performer on that show. Good idea? Anyone? We know that she has been getting alot of airtime on VH1 in the past year. - Skinny Pete P.S. I hope the moon isn't made from cheese. I hear Neil Armstrong is lactose intolerant. ------------------------------ From: Chopped Liver Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:16:12 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: JC:her guitars On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Richard A. Bond, Jr. wrote: > I've read a lot about Jewel and guitars lately. Anybody know how many > she owns? And maybe what they are? > > Rick Bond > The ones I know about are a Taylor 912C and a custom-designed Farrington (appectionately called Big Blue on this list). But she's gotta have an electric, right? Chopped Liver (Charlie) watkins@selway.umt.edu Share publicly, flame privately, " 'Cause anyone can start a conflict it's harder yet to disregard it ". ------------------------------ From: Crash Boy Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 02:18:22 +0000 Subject: PLEASE READ! - EDA Cover Tape Extension (again) Hi guys! Due to a lack of entries, the EDA Cover Tape is hereby cancelled. JUST KIDDING!!! :) Actually, after talking to Mike Connell and Greg Dunn in the last AOL Chat, I was persuaded to extend the due date for entries for the EDA tape yet again. Their main arguments were that the one month deadline was too short as it was, and extending it another month just as the fall semester started was asking a bit much of people. Okay, I thought, good argument. So, I now announce the deadline is December 31st, 1996. Yes, you now have until the end of the year to send in your submission. After that, then I will take what I have and go with it. If it's less than one full tape, then so be it. But with now a combined five months since the EDA Cover Tape project was first announced, I believe this is more than adequate time for submissions. And in the case of newbies, you have almost two months to record your cover. Now, I'm well aware that this isn't quite fair for those EDAs who rushed to record their songs after the initial announcement of the project. Well, if they would like to redo their contribution(s) or send more, they are more than welcome to do so. Otherwise, for those who want to submit for the first time, it's simple. Just tell me what you want to do, so I can get an idea of who's doing what. There's no limit to how many songs you can do, and it's okay if multiple do the same cover. Hey, it happens. After you tell me your selection, I'll tell you where to send it. And if possible, please include a picture of yourself and/or band, for inclusion on the j-card being designed. And lastly, do not worry about quality of recording. If all you have is a boombox, so be it. We have facilities for cleaning up that kind of stuff (I think). Thank you in advance for all submissions. This will be the last post from me regarding the EDA Cover Tape until the treeing starts sometime in January/February. Hey, we'll still get it out before Jewel's next album! Coolness to the fullness. Heh heh. 'Bye! eric :) ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:25:47 +1100 Subject: Re: JC:her guitars Chas/Chopped Liver wrote: > The ones I know about are a Taylor 912C and a custom-designed Farrington > (appectionately called Big Blue on this list). But she's gotta have an > electric, right? Well, she jammed with an electric guitar at the Casino Club show at Hampton Beach in August. Anyone else? She play electric at any other shows? Mike ------------------------------ From: Garrett Fabian Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:29:29 -0400 Subject: audionet problems Hi! I have a Cyrix P150+ processor and a 33.6 modem, yet audionet gives me some song and dance about either my computer or "bandwith" not being good enough to listen to the Jewel concert. It *will* play the first clip, but it says it's playing a 14.4 network stream. I've got this swell computer, but I don't know enogh about computers to fix this problem. Isn't ironic...dontcha think? (Alanis--*ack*, *barf*, *retch*). Can any of you computer-whiz EDAs help me out? Thanks in advance! - --Garrett ------------------------------ From: Garrett Fabian Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:34:11 -0400 Subject: Re: JC:her guitars At 08:16 PM 10/16/96 -0600, you wrote: >But she's gotta have an electric, right? > > >Chopped Liver (Charlie) >watkins@selway.umt.edu At one of the shows I went to, she played Race Car Driver and Rocker Girl on a white electric. It wasn't a more common type that I would have recognized offhand. She said someone in San Diego gave her an electric guitar, and that at night when no one's around, she tranforms into...*Rocker Girl* :) ------------------------------ From: W1GGY2@aol.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:39:20 -0400 Subject: Re: al-bummer update Sinjin wrote: >>* -Ya notice how people shortened "See you later" to just "laters" then to "later" and now to just "late"? Well I'm one step ahead of the trend, I shortened it to just "La". Now I'm cool too :P<< No, I hadn't noticed. In fact, I think you just made that up. You'll NEVER be cool. >:-) <------evil, wicked grin A ------------------------------ From: W1GGY2@aol.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:39:18 -0400 Subject: Re: al-bummer update M.C. Hammer (known as Mike) writes: >>First they drop that one on us....album delayed two months....then they all leave the country and/or go on vacation.<< Yea, that Jewel. Can you believe that? Leaves us sitting here waiting for the album while she prances around Europe. Gee, Jewel, why don't you try WORKING for a living instead of lollygagging around all the time? The above represents EXTREME sarcasm, for those that need to be told. :-) A M Y ------------------------------ From: W1GGY2@aol.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:39:27 -0400 Subject: Re: NJC: Need A Piece of Your Love... WHAT?! I just want to say PEOPLE! don't be AFRAID to post! Just because people are complaining about a lot of posts doesn't mean what you have to say isn't valid or of interest. Ben, your letter is most certainly Jewel content. Discussing Jewel's lyrics and what they mean is a big part of what this list is for. There's no need for apologies! Amy Ben Scott wrote: >>>> Howdy all, sorry to clutter the list with this bit of NJC (why is it that I never have any JC to write about?) but this time I had to write, well not had to write, just felt like it. And sorry if I'm not one of the old saws out here, and I fervently hope they come back so all us new saws can see what the list should be like. :) Today driving my brother home I had "Rare Angels" in the tape deck...... ------------------------------ From: Garrett Fabian Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:53:57 -0400 Subject: Sorta JC: Ferrington Guitars Jewel's Big Blue is a custom guitar made by Danny Ferrington. Another great musician, Kurt Cobain, also had a Ferrington custom. Here's the story: The Ferrington Guitar. The luthier Danny Ferrington made a custom guitar for Kurt in 1992, based on the Fender Mustang. "Kurt is left-handed, and he really likes the Fender Mustang he's been playing for a few years. But his playing style is so rough, and left-handed Mustangs so rare, that it was beginning to look as if his favorite guitar was going to break apart right out from under him. I'd talked with Nick Close, one of Nirvana's roadies, about trying to find replacement necks for the Mustang, but finally Kurt called me to talk about ordering a new custom guitar. "Nirvana left for Australia a few days later, and Kurt faxed me a great little picture showing where he wanted the pickups to be and what shape to use for the body. It was the first time I'd collaborated by fax, and I thought it was real fun to be designing a guitar by long distance using such a modern communications technology. "I built his guitar to be a lot like that old Mustang, except we used a Gibson-style bridge that's better at keeping the guitar in tune, and I made the neck a little straighter so that it won't be so apt to break when Kurt plays it hard. It's tricky making left- handed guitars, though, because everything on a left-handed guitar is counter-intuitive for me. Right off the bat I made a few mistakes on Kurt's guitar, so finally I took to labeling all the parts 'This Side Up' to remind myself that I needed to do everything backwards. The guitar turned out real well, and a few months later Kurt came by with his wife to pick it up. Just after he started playing it he stopped dead in his tracks and said, 'This is like my dream guitar!' His wife asked, 'Honey, are you gonna trash this one too?' but Kurt got this horrified look on his face, and in a solemn voice he said, 'No, this one's going to be my recording guitar.' I was tickled to death, and it was incredibly satisfying to hear that I'd hit the nail right on the head" (28). The Ferrington guitar is distinguished by several features. It has heart-shaped fretboard "dot" inlays, a stylized "f"(for Ferrington) on the peghead, three pickups (which look like single coil neck and middle pickup, and a humbucker bridge-position pickup), and an almost-Mustang pickguard where the plastic continues right down to the control knobs (this section is chrome on actual Mustangs). The Mustang slide switches are replaced with a toggle switch where the input jack would be. The actual input jack is a Stratocaster-style jack mounted below the pickguard. The body is basswood, with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Its finished in what Fender calls sonic blue, with a red-swirl mother- of-bowling-ball pickguard. I don't know of any pictures or footage of Kurt playing this guitar, but this could be because it was used only as a "recording guitar" Reprinted w/o permission from "~The *NEW* Kurt Cobain Equipment FAQ~, Version 1.9" at http://members.aol.com/bhabes/private/nkcequi.htm - --Garrett ------------------------------ From: Rob Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:13:32 -0700 Subject: I was also at FarmAid Hi guys, This is my first post to the list. I was also at the FarmAid concert. Didn't see spyflower or KT. I was the guy wearing my Jewelstock shirt. (Got quite a few questions and comments about it.) One guy from backstage called me over to the press tent and was showing my shirt to some other people there. He was explaining the Jewelstock concert to them. They were all wearing artist passes (one of the 3 or 4 backstage passes). Jewel was great, but I wish she could have played longer. Most of the other bands were good too. I got there around 10AM and stayed until near the end of Willie Nelson's set. I ended up leaving at 2:45AM (I was dead tired by then). Thats it for now. - -- Rob beck@netside.com ------------------------------ From: doog@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Doug Scofield) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:02:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: NJC: Patty Griffin CD fer sale afternoon, y'all. i've given the patty griffin cd a real college try and i just haven't been able to get into it. the first to email me for conformation, and send me $9, gets it shipped to them ASAP. i bought it new and it's been spun just a few times. bummed about jewel's album delay! :-( doog - -- doug scofield doog@mangonet.com pompano beach, florida also doog@mail.hcsc.com the miracle is not walking on water; the miracle is walking on the earth -- thich nhat hanh ------------------------------ From: Dave Winters Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:21:30 -0400 Subject: NJC - switching e-mail address I won't have this address anymore starting tomorrow. I switching where I receve the list to my school address. If anyone really cares dave winters now d_winters@emerson.edu Dave Winters ************************************ *V I D E O C O N S T R U C T I O N* ************************************ *>Voice 603 437 5514 <* *>Fax 603 437 5426 <* *> DaveW@xtdl.com <* *>http://videocon.com<* *> Derry, NH 03038 <* *********************** ------------------------------ From: surfrank@32958.Surf.Tach.Net (Tach.Net User) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:33:41 -0400 Subject: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd Is an autographed POY album worth more or less or equal than a "Save the Linoleum" cd? ------------------------------ From: "Andrew Levstein" Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:38:57 -0400 Subject: Re: JC:her guitars She definitely played an electric at the Toronto show at the Opera House in May 96. A very plain, tan-coloured guitar, which a guy named Bill also played on Love Me Just Leave Me Alone. Andrew Levstein lev@idirect.com > > Well, she jammed with an electric guitar at the Casino Club show at > Hampton Beach in August. Anyone else? She play electric at any other > shows? > > Mike ------------------------------ From: SDFAngel@aol.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:47:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Stuff In a message dated 96-10-16 13:47:25 EDT, bmeskin@mailbox.syr.edu (Brett M. Eskin) writes: > that Rafa guy is mad annoying. That's not nice Brett! SuPeRdEfOrMeD aNgEl ------------------------------ From: "James H. Judd" Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:00:39 -0500 Subject: NJC: Ok, some Hey, I was down in the arcade and saw the teaser for this old game called Final Fight. In it, the daugher of this guy gets kidnapped and he has to save her blah blah blah. Anyway the point is the girl's name is Jessica! Ok, lame, but that song has always been special to me. If you aren't familiar with it, it is similar to Emily from _The Crossing Guard_. Jewel used Jessica as a car with spare parts for Emily. She told me at JS that she had recorded punk and regular versions of it- still no idea which is gonna be released. A side B side anyone? :) Oh, incidently not to make myself sound too important- Hiranya told us about the two versions before JS so i asked her about them- i'm not her personal sounding board or anything :) James ________________________________________________________________________ Computer Science/Engineering Eng. Network Services Web Guy http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~juddjam Auburn University Auburn, Alabama ------------------------------ From: Mike Connell Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00:08 +1100 Subject: Re: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd Tach.Net User wrote: > > Is an autographed POY album worth more or less or equal than a "Save the > Linoleum" cd? IMHO, an autographed STL by far. It's alot rarer. An UN-autographed STL...not sure. Mike ------------------------------ From: "James H. Judd" Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:06:42 -0500 Subject: Re: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd - - > Is an autographed POY album worth more or less or equal than a "Save the - - > Linoleum" cd? Which one is more valuable to you? That's all that matters. No hostility intended. James, who actually asked a girl out tonight for the first time in forever ________________________________________________________________________ Computer Science/Engineering Eng. Network Services Web Guy http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~juddjam Auburn University Auburn, Alabama ------------------------------ From: hgladman@mgdestmx01.erin.gov.au Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 14:18:40 EST Subject: Re[2]: NJC- need some opinion on STL cd >James, who actually asked a girl out tonight for the first time in forever Three cheers for James!!! yay!!!! He forgot to add that she said yes, too. ;-) Helen - and no it wasn't me cos I'm in Australia and he's in Alabama. Think about it. :-) ------------------------------ From: Ben Scott Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: NJC: Mailing Lists Crap, sorry guys. I was at a friend's and was showing him how to do some stuff (like checking and sending E-mail) and when I left he wrote on my E-mail address. So he sent a message to you guys. I think he was writing about other mailing lists. Sorry for the mixup. Ben Scott ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #686 ***************************