From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #206 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, April 8 1998 Volume 03 : Number 206 * 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: ----------------- Fave Jewel Story ["Michelle Thomas" ] Is Anyone Listening? The Audience, Music, & Manners [Joel Siegfried ] EDA CONTEST [HRENB ] Re: Cranberries [James McGarry ] NJC: Indiana EDA's [Jennifer Anderson ] Re: dyslexic? [Luv2parT4 ] Re: Dolores Apology [ABershaw ] WIN!!! An EDA guitar pick (guess who!) [lil.goalie13@juno.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 16:32:22 PDT From: "Michelle Thomas" Subject: Fave Jewel Story Isn't it weird how i won't post for a few monthes, then i'll have this explosion of posting.... I've posted twice today. hmmm. Favourite Jewel Stories 1. my favourite Jewel story has to be the one about Ike Turner at the Innerchange... and her taking his parking space. It was told at the San Diego concert. 2. The K-Mart bathroom story about the two blue-haired ladies being scared of her. 3. the YWMFM pot story -love & muffins, michelle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 10:35:40 -0700 From: Joel Siegfried Subject: Is Anyone Listening? The Audience, Music, & Manners [Mike -- While this doesn't have much Jewel content, (there is some), maybe you could still use it, as the topic of concert etiquette often comes up. Rembember: short lines! :) Cheers, Joel] Is Anyone Listening? The Audience, Music, & Manners Commentary © 1998 by Joel Siegfried All Rights Reserved I had gone to my favorite hangout, Java Joe's to hear some fine acoustic music performed by a couple from Australia called The Betts. It was their first full bill at this venue, having played here before at open mike nights. Four people at a table off to my left was talking over the music, which distracted me enough to finally overcome inertia and reluctance, and go over to say a few choice words to them about respect for the performers. It was not the first time that my musical solitude had been intruded upon by inattentive or inappropriate comments from the house, though such behavior is very rare at the local coffeehouses, especially at Java Joe's. During the past summer, a Lilith Fair California venue had been a particular minefield of crowd noise, enough for Jewel to say irately before one of her songs, "You know, this would sound much better if you stop talking." Once, at a Tori Amos concert, she had stopped playing in mid-chord, looked up toward the far reaches of the balcony, and said in her best prima donna diva persona, "You want to talk. I'll wait until you're finished." After two seconds of silence, she resumed without dropping a note. I often wondered, what, if any are the boundaries between having a good time, and concert etiquette? Are there any standards? When did all the shouting begin? I mentioned my puzzlement to a friend, who send me copies of recent newsgroup messages by Tom Neff and Richard Flohil. They had some good ideas, tracing the evolution of recording fidelity past vinyl and tape to the present digital perfection. Along the way, they mentioned Sinatra, the Beatles and Elvis, and the advent of fandom, swooners and screamers. It all got me to thinking about my own personal musical odyssey, and other threads and influences. Let me tell you about some of them. Growing up in New York in the pre-digital age was culturally enriching, especially in a household that put a premium on awareness for the arts, and expressed it in season tickets to the NY City Ballet, trips to Broadway shows, and the Sunday New York Times strewn around the apartment each week as part of the week-end ritual. Still, those were primitive times. There was no TV. AM radio took its place as the electronic hearth, for music of the big bands, but mostly for those weekly shows, the Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, Amos & Andy, the Green Hornet, and all the rest that we listened to transfixed, watching the characters in the theater of our minds. Music was on 78 rpm vinyl. I took blurry, black & white photos with a Kodak Brownie camera that used 110 roll film. Milestones happened. I saw my first Broadway show, "The Moon is Blue", with Barry Sullivan in the wry, comedic lead. You could laugh when everyone else did, even if you didn't understand why. Off-Broadway, the Fantasticks opened, and through the decades maybe never closed, soon followed by Three Penny Opera. "Try To Remember" merged with "Mac the Knife", forever etched in memory. You cold touch the performers if you stretched out your arms, and feel the air move when they spoke. Words were holy, like prayers. The equation was a simple one: they talked, sang, acted, emoted, we listened, entranced. Sports were the only exception. At Knicks or Rangers games at Madison Square Garden, or that temple of endless broken dreams and green forevers in Brooklyn called Ebbets Field, you could scream until you were blue in the face, without hesitation. Spectator participation had its limits. The static of AM radio gave way to the monaural perfection of FM, from Alan Freed to WBAI, from folk to free thinking. I took tiny black & white photographs that could be peeled, still wet, from the back of a Polaroid Land Camera. School days passed slowly, but there were treasured moments. Once a girlfriend and I rode our bicycles in Central Park, and later spotted Milton Berle coming out of Lindy's deli with a group of people. We raced over, for there was no bigger or brighter star anywhere. "Uncle Miltie" was gracious. "Hey kids", he chortled, "have you ever heard of Elvis Presley?" Of course, we were hip! "Well, this is Colonel Parker, his manager. Elvis is going to be on my show next week!" We were polite, but unaware that great tides of change were about to happen in music. Records were now 45 rpm singles with big holes in the middle and titles like ShaBoom ShaBoom, Earth Angel, FM had gone stereo, there were 12-inch LPs with nearly an hour's music on them. I saw Eddie Fisher perform live at the Paramount movie theater, with young girls fainting in the aisles. My favorite artists were Peter, Paul & Mary, the Kingston Trio, Judy Collins & Joan Baez. I took Kodachrome color slides with a tiny 35mm Zeiss Contessa range finder camera. High school gave way to college. I wrote a column called Circling the Square for my school paper. An East Village gallery invited me to one of their avant-garde shows, something called "Happenings" by Alan Kaprow, in which the performers and the audience merged and were interchangeable. The Beatles arrived in New York and played on Ed Sullivan along with Topo Gigo and Senor Wencez, and two guys who could ride unicycles while keeping 50 plates spinning on sticks. New York chic affected my values, and I hung out at places like the Living Room on Second Avenue, listening to Felicia Sanders sing through the blue smoke, while the management paid her the ultimate respect, by not serving drinks while she performed; or at a west side hotel which hosted Tom Lehrer in their beer garden every Saturday, and refrains of "The postman's got the longest route in town", or "Be prepared!"; or Brother Theodore ranting and drooling at Town Hall. The audience was getting to let their hair down. I bought a Minox spy camera the size of a pack of chewing gum, and took very grainy, tiny black and white images of people buying fish. When Rock & Roll was is full swing, I fear that I must have hid under a rock. Actually I moved to Europe. The closest I got to popular music was listening to Radio Luxembourg and going to a Françoise Hardy concert at the Salle de Musique in Geneva. It is hard to outrun one's genes. Mostly I gravitated towards the palaces of high culture, La Scala in Milan, the Danish Royal Ballet in Copenhagen, the Bolshoi and Kirov, and whatever symphony orchestra happened to be in town. Once I got to see Van Cliburn in concert. The audience never breathed. I took color and black & white landscapes and portraits with a Nikon F which I personally developed and printed. Seasons passed. I moved to California and became a vegetarian, for a while. The years moved by, like blurred traffic on the freeway. I had the radio on one night, and an extraordinary thing happened, a musical epiphany of sorts. A woman was singing, like no other I had ever heard before. Maybe the song was "Silent All These Years", I'm no longer certain, but after hearing Tori Amos for the first time, there was a great hunger to hear more. Message and messenger, content and all that was resonated within me from that experience opened a channel which led to further discoveries that are still on-going today. This was for me the bridge, the missing link, the Piltdown Man, the Rosetta Stone. It's hard to believe that, to quote Tori, "A kid who could play fucking Mozart at the age of 8", could evoke so many profound experiences. It is a mystery, really. Now I follow about 200 artists, female vocalists and acoustic musicians. For some of them, I take tiny digital photographs using a Kodak CD-20 camera, which makes their wardrobes look green, under most stage lighting conditions. I post these on my web pages, and dream about buying a better camera. So what have I learned about listening to live music? Not very much. It is a special chemistry, even a gift, which for some, when it happens, can reveal new wonders. Sure, I appreciate being among like-minded audiences, and from talking with performers, I know that is what most artists want as well -- that bond and that connection with the people they are performing for. Boundaries between sports and entertainment have been blurred. Television has become the pacifier and night light for the latch-key generation. People talk over it, so why not do the same at live performances? There's always lots of distractions and there are new gadgets and technologies which appear all the time. Attitudes about concert etiquette come from behavior and past conditioning, but people can change. At least, I hope so. Click. -=End=- - -- _______________________________________________________________ Joel Siegfried San Diego, California Email: mailto:ecto@home.com Voice Mail: (619)222-9236 Female Vocalists: http://members.home.net/ecto/index.html _______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:22:02 EDT From: Prism14960 Subject: Spring Break Special at The JeweStore! Hey Angels, I just went to the official Jewel website and they are having a Spring Break Special!! "For a limited time you will be able to purchase a T-Shirt and receive a Picture 5-Pack and a Calendar for only $22. That's a $37 value. What a deal!" Just thought I'd pass along the info. Bye bye Peace, Priscilla. "I got my first taste of freedom beneath the light of the moon.." ~ JK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:04:05 EDT From: HRENB Subject: EDA CONTEST Whats up all? no april fools joke this time like Mikes- but the prize isn't quite as good. Anyways - the contest is simple- make this weekend an EDA weekend- do something meaningful friday, saturday or sunday and tell me about it. ( something thats longer than 5 minutes-lol it can be helping an old person or something or adopting a stray dog or whatever - just something cool, then email me by 10pm pacific time sunday night and tell me what you did.Monday - I'll post about a few of them and who won. The prize- a 2 tape copy of innerchange days with one of the j-cards autographed by Jewel and Steve Poltz. These are not fake- I got them at Steves recent L.A. show at the Roxy. After sitting on my shelf a couple months I was like well Im the only one looking at it so , I ll give it way -lol ( Hopefully Ill meet them again someday anyways) Umm second place- a tape of what eve r angelfood you want all others - umm ill send you a photo of jewel or steve Peace Out Lone Wolf Barry HRENB@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:53:38 -0400 (EDT) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: Cranberries On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Michelle Thomas wrote: > What is she apologizing for? And also, I have an RA of a version of > POY where she totally rips on her, and is sarcastically saying "my idol, > Delores from the Cranberries..". What happened between them? Nothing happened between them. Jewel, dear, sweet, darling, innocent Jewel sometimes has a kooky sense of humour. She used to do a lot of joke-versions of POY half way into the song. Jewel just thought it was funny to impersonate DO'R while singing the POY chorus. It was eerily accurate. :-) She usually explained that she really does like and respect the Cranberries and DO'R... ...it boils down to, well... Jewel is a goof sometimes :-) James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:12:11 -0500 (EST) From: Jennifer Anderson Subject: NJC: Indiana EDA's I'm thinking about having an EDA gathering this summer for those of us in the Indiana area (although I don't know of many). Anyone interested in this, please email me privately! It would probably be in June and in the Indianapolis area. Maybe a cookout or something?? Send ideas, too! bye! - -Jennie \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ I'll be your dream I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy I'll be your hope I'll be your love Be everything that you need. -Savage Garden, "Truly Madly Deeply" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:40:26 EDT From: Luv2parT4 Subject: Re: dyslexic? Hi EDA's! In regard to your post about Jewel being dyslexic, the answer is yes. I've read in lots of different articles and interviews that she is. It was in a top 20 things most people don't know about her, along with how she loves to tweak people's noses and even tweaked Bob Dylan's when she opened for him. I just thought that was cute and funny. Al*the*Rain*Angel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:13:02 EDT From: ABershaw Subject: Re: Dolores Apology Hi, Several EDAs wrote to me asking the same question: "Where is the Dolores O'riorden apology on the Jewelstock Tapes?" Answer: It's not on the Jewelstock Tapes. I edited this out at Jewel's request. I dislike being so pathetically cliche', but it's one of those things where "you just had to be there". MrBB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:05:39 -0400 From: lil.goalie13@juno.com Subject: WIN!!! An EDA guitar pick (guess who!) Hey angels! I am in a better mood now that time has passed and I am moving on thanks to all of my wonderful friends. I also want to take this time to thank all of you angels who offered me help and support in my roughest times. I now know to remember that I didn't lose a best friend, but I gained a guardian angel. Thank you so much. In appreciation to this, I would like to hols another contest to thank all of my fellow angels for being so kind. Here it is.... This is something a bit different. I am going to write up 15 COMPLETELY RANDOM AND ON ALL SUBJECTS trivia questions. The angel who can answer the most right will win the pick. If there is a tie or if more than one person gets them all right, I will hold some sort of tie-breaker but I'll worry about that afterwards. RULES 1. WRITE "CONTEST" IN THE SUBJECT LINE 2. ANSWER AS MANY AS YOU CAN....YOU CAN GUESS OR LEAVE THEM BLANK IF YOU WISH 3. TRY TO DO THIS ON YOUR OWN =) 4. SEND THE REPLIES TO ME PRIVATELY! DUE DATE - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15TH. HERE IT IS..... 1. What is the name of the talking candlestick from 'Beauty and the Beast'? 2. In Robert Frost's poem 'The Road Less Travelled By', what comes after this line.... "I took the road less travelled by......" (it is the last line of the poem)! 3. Which song by Metallica has a recent sequel? 4. What is the first person form of the verb 'jugar' in the past tense in spanish? (jugar=to play) *if anyone gets this, i will be very surprised!!!* 5. Which composer is mentioned in Jewel's song, 'Foolish Games'? 6. What is the name of the lead singer of 'Sugar Ray'? 7. What are the first names of two of the 'Backstreet Boys'? There are 5. 8. If you take too much of this vitamin, you can get scurvy. 9. What is the name of the teacher Pacey crushed on in 'Dawson's Creek'? 10. What are the names of the two evil Australlian vampires on 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer'? 11. You can have this point free IF you have the corrct subject line and if you type 333 for this number. =) 12. What is the square root of 144? 13. What is the name of the lady who never shows her head on 'Muppet Babies'? 14. What are the names of Bart's 2 sisters on 'The Simpsons'? 15. How many colors are scientifically identified to be in the rainbow? THERE YOU HAVE IT. GOOD LUCK AND REMEMBER THE DUE DATE =) =) - -tara, the ice angel ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #206 ***************************