From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #129 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, February 22 1998 Volume 03 : Number 129 * If you wish to unsubscribe, send an email to jewel-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- I was wondering... ["Robby Fischer" ] Sampling and Plagiarism...and it's differences ["Oink oink" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 23:35:02 PST From: "Robby Fischer" Subject: I was wondering... I was wondering how many of you go the the VH1 soundboards and other such messages boards. Communtication in more than one place would definitely make this a closer atmosphere. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:55:28 PST From: "Oink oink" Subject: Sampling and Plagiarism...and it's differences Hi guys! This whole thing about Jewel taking lines from other artists or writers, poets, what have you, brings up an interesting point. (It also brings Puff Daddy to mind...but I won't dwell on that) Anyway, in musical terms, when an artist takes a line or two from another song, it's called sampling. I guess that's what Jewel does and it's not considered illegal or anything. Heck, Puff Daddy does it and look where he is, so there's no reason why Jewel shouldn't/couldn't either. But when an artist takes a song and claims it as their own, that's plagiarism. So what Jewel is really doing is called sampling, and pretty much everyone does it. I mean...there's only so many words/phrases in the English language. So yeah, I hope I cleared something up, if not a big whole for myself to fall into. :P Love, Nancy the angel who breaks everything sometimes (:clumsy:) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:05:27 -0500 (EST) From: pdallor@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Re: NJC: Henry and June Hi Guys-- This is Paul again, the guy who posted about Miller and Nin. Unlike them, I have NO idea what the Sausalito/Jujube reference is too--but I have a retarded little theory, which of course I'm going to share... Sausalito is a cookie; Juju beans are a type of candy. So, maybe Jewel or someone she knows tried making a batch of saualito cookies with Juju beans in them, and they didn't taste good, so she never did it again. But, for all we know, the Jujus and Sausalito could have really fallen for each other, and had a torrid love affair in the batter. Maybe they shared something that could have been really beautiful if fate had been kind enough to give it time to develop. Who knows how many star crossed lovers there are in the food world, forced apart by a simple matter of taste. Maybe Peanut butter and Mayonaisse were meant to be together (sorry--I think I misspelled mayonaisse, but never eat it, so I can't be sure). Conversely, maybe Jelly is Peanut Butter's Maudde Gonne. Think of the frustration of being deeply enraptured, and forced to exist in close proximity with a food you know you can never have. Like I said, kinda a retarded, far out theory, but it does fit, and who could blame Jewel for wanting to lighten things up once in a while instead of using the heady Miller/Nin reference. You can't take yourself seriously all the time. If you do, eventually you'll end up in an empty room, mumbling to yourself about Niezsche and Proust...and what fun is that? At any rate, I'm rambling, which is the cue I use to tell myself to shut up. Bye everyone!! Love, empathy, et cetera... Paul Allor ***** Anything can happen, child, anything can be. ---Shel Silverstein On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Oink oink wrote: > Love, > Nancy, the angel who breaks everything sometimes > **Now that we know who Henry Miller and Anais Nin are, who's Sausolito > and Jujube? She says that sometimes too. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:12:56 +0800 From: sonia yeung Subject: an interview--By Launch Mag Dear All, I surfed and got this wonderful piece of articles featuring an interview with JEWEL conducted by LAUNCH mag---------->> "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 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. Added note from list moderator: This interview was conducted in the summer of 1996 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 just 19 and learning how to write songs and play guitar. And I know that hard wood grows slowly, and if I wanted to have a long-term 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 to 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 just to keep playing. And my label kept me out long enough that people just 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 pre-nature mid-life crisis. So many of us are asked to compromise out 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 were going to waste. But I never even thought I could sing and make a living because that was a hobby. A lot of use 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 recorded 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 sculptured by our environments. Our flesh is sculptured by what is around us, as well as our psyches; By silence. In silence you hear who you are 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 there is 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 about doing what I am 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 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 Piece 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 a living doing barroom tours. I lived in my car, a lot of business 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 nerve a goal to make demos for record 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 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. LAUNCH : You obviously are no stranger to live gigs. You must travel a lot. Do you like being on that 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 am 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 Alaska. I am not doing this for fame or money. I am 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 am 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-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 band in front of 20,000 people, between the Ramones and Everclear. It taught me to be diverse and never to 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 is a huge dream. Neil is incredible. LAUNCH : Who inspires you? JEWEL : There's certain people who've never lost their creative integrity of what they're doing. Neil is like that. It's very rare. The world has become very immediate. It's hard to stay with one's creative drive. Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon. I found 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 been really a very big deal to people. I enjoy doing it but when I become I slave to it, it's frustrating and it shows. Like if I am 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 barroom with you 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's livesĦ­a 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 fans living out their dreams though 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 mother was always very encouraging. 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. 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 present me and my thoughts. So I feel like it's a more accurate reading of what I am. I am 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 very wave, they're all really exciting to me. There's always your first waveĦ­I 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 (wave?), 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 that? 60? I feel like that's how I'll be. Maybe when I am 60Ħ­I 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 dreams, they buy my albums. I find that very humbling. It keeps me growing 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 some 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 people perceive of you? JEWEL : I don't know. I'm always portrayed in the media as a na?ve 22-year-old trying to impress adults. What can I say? ~ THE END ~ I hope you all enjoy it! :> BTW, can you all please make a post if anyone finds any interviews with Jewel being printed and state the sources? I am dying for interviews of Jewel. Also, is there a way, other than keep checking the websites, to keep track of every new article that's about Jewel? Enjoy you day everyone!! :> Sonia (still thinking hard on an Angel name.....) And I am sorry I didn't always have a match that could start a fire big enough for your heart to catch. ~Jewel Kilcher ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #129 ***************************