From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #516 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Saturday, August 28 1999 Volume 04 : Number 516 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, 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 * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "Presence" * OR * go to the Atlantic Records site at http://www.atlantic-records.com * and go to the "On Tour" 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 V4 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- * Blue Shirt? Heart Song, Night without Armor, Wizard [Steven Eric Romer ] * Review: Birmingham Concert (Long, but GOOD) [Jason Bartel ] * Re: Australians get nothing? [Koos van Zyl ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:18:14 -0400 From: Steven Eric Romer Subject: * Blue Shirt? Heart Song, Night without Armor, Wizard Hey Everyone, How are you all doing? I had a question--do EDA's wear blue or just blue ribbons? I was wondering because I wore a solid blue Tommy Hilfiger shirt with blue jeans to Jewel's concert here in Knoxville when I met her. I didn't know about EDA's or anything at the time :-( (I have learned a LOT since then from all of you!). I found out about this list when I visited the Jewel merchandise site after the concert. It was a nice suprise that Tommy Hilfiger was a sponsor when I got there. I just now read an E-mail (ANGELdsney/Anyone going to Tampa tonight?--digest#513) about an EDA wearing a blue shirt at a concert. When I was standing there at the gate in my solid blue Tommy shirt and blue jeans (by chance), she totally must have thought I was an EDA "in the know" about such things. She sure smiled and waved warmly at me. And I was clueless... Did I mention what an idiot I am? Let me reiterate that at this juncture.. I just received the book "Heart Song" and the paperback of "A Night Without Armor" in the mail from Amazon.com. I also received the Wizard of OZ soundtrack with the order. Reviews later, but so far they are Jewels--pun intended. I just love her name--it is so appropriate for so many reasons--including in the heavenly sense that Huxley points out in "The Doors of Perception" (anyone who has read this book will know what I mean--jewels intimate the heavenly). My two favorite poems from her book after about a 10 minute perusal before work are "God Exists Quietly" and "Miracle". I don't know what you all think about the unauthorized biography I am reading called "Heart Song", but after reading for about 5 minutes I think it is good so far. I like the quotes from Jewel. I usually write and underline stuff that stands out when I read. When the book says about her traits: "insisting on doing what felt right, practicing with zeal, and working outside the status quo", I underlined. I think insisting on doing what feels right outside the status quo is the key to doing what is in your heart. I was in graduate school for behavioral neuroscience (at Emory University in Alanta) for 4 years, and ran into a lot of trouble with status quo. At one point someone with authority there (who I really liked) was advising me to change the topic for a paper I was going to be spending months on because it was something I could tackle later when I got my degree supposedly (to avoid stepping on toes). I knew there was little chance of that with the way post-docs, and funding systems are set up. I said what do you want me to do? I feel I can't talk honestly about the brain without mentioning this stuff I came up with (glial cells, etc.--technical), what do you want me to do, Lie? That was the end of that conversation. Anyway, I ended up leaving school over these things after trying another university. I had completed almost all the coursework for the PhD, which made it harder. I have been writing a book on my own for a couple of years now... People don't understand that I "threw away" so much by leaving school, but the only reason I was there was because of what was in my heart. NOT for the usual reasons they imagine. I didn't throw anything away. Anyway, I can relate to Jewel being like this. I think it is something important in her life that we can all take into our own lives as an inspiration to live life to the fullest. Hope my (much less famous, but happy) story helps too. If we all did live like this, I think we all would find that we had many many soul mates. More than we could imagine. We are not all that different down deep, and there is more unity in humanity than people would guess from scratching at the surface like most of us do in our lives. Much more. Much more that is meaningful too. I like the "all the worlds a stage" quote from Shakespeare. What part do you play in this grand unity? When you think about it, meaning itself arises from unity. For example, any single concept gathers its meaning from a constellation of other concepts related to it. The word "Jewel" has meaning for all of us in more than one way--as I said about Aldous Huxleys book, and because we have all kinds of different associations from our experiences for the word in our minds. As another example a diamond is a jewel forged from carbon atoms under certain high temperature and pressure conditions. Is it just coincidence that humans are made of all carbon-based chemistry? ("Carbon Units" as Voyager called us in the first Star Trek movie!). This enhances the meaning of diamonds which sparkle with all colors of the rainbow for me. They symbolize the soul to me. To me, life is an epic poem. From the thorns among the roses to the rebirth of the butterfly from the chrysalis. We are living in an unimaginably beautiful tapestry of meaning woven and bound into a book of life. To read it is to float through heaven, watching God's own pen move. That is why I love truth, learning, and reading so much. Anyway, Jewel certainly enhances the meaning in my life in more ways than even my verbose E-mails can relate. Besides, true meaning is complex and continuous in time, not broken, packaged and parcelled like prose examples of it. Poetry is the art of sharing meaning by mixing the complex and continuous paints of universal concepts to bring out your heart from under the layers... It just goes right along with all-things-Jewel that she should be a poet. Steve "the Logos angel" "mankind cannot conceive the wealth of light that will be shed on current and ancient mysteries when we decipher the workings of the brain and mind. It is the ultimate science which will transform humanity forever." (from the book I'm writing) Thanks Spiritcc33, or "Spirit". My new name is on this one. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:50:01 -0500 From: Jason Bartel Subject: * Review: Birmingham Concert (Long, but GOOD) Hi fellow EDAs! Sorry it took so long to get this out to you guys (the concert was on Tuesday), but its been a busy week. The concert was great! It was everything I was hoping it would be. I'd like to thank Jewel for coming to Birmingham, I was expecting to have to drive to Atlanta (I was ready and willing if I had to :-) ). So imagine my surprise when I found out she was coming to town! Anyways, I'm not gonna give a typical review here, rather I'd like to tell you about what kinda of effect Jewel's music had on one of the people attending her concert. Now I've been a fan of Jewel since 95, so I'm more than aware what kind of talent she posesses. I believe, like Jewel, that music can have a very power influence on people. What I witnessed Tuesday night was a confirmation of this belief. The concert opened up with Rusted Root playing for about an hour, during which this loser in the row behind me kept talking through their show. This didn't really bother me too much cause I'm not a big RR fan, but it was still kinda annoying. Anyways he kept it up during Steve's performance, but not as bad. I went to the concert with my brother and he was starting to get annoyed at this loser at this point. I told Grant (my brother) to just wait and watch what happened when Jewel took the stage. I wanted to test a theory out. Jewel took the stage and this is when it got interesting. This loser had apparently been "dragged" (I don't see how anyone could be "dragged" to a Jewel concert) by his girlfriend to the show. He started making some rather rude and lude comments about Jewel. Stuff like "man I'd like to see her in playboy, and I hope she doesn't sing any of those mushy, crappy love songs." At this point I was begining to loose my cool, cause he was saying some stuff I can't and won't even repeat here. It's not so much that he was insulting Jewel, although that is a good enough reason for an ass whooping ;-), he has the right to his opinion (even if it is wrong ;-) ), it was that he was making a snap judgement with out giving her a chance. This kind of close-mindness pisses me off to no end. I don't mean to give Alabama a bad rap here, but I run into this kind of thinking here all the time. Anyways, this jerk keeps yapping about various subjects thought her first couple of songs. As a matter of fact the whole audience was talking through the first couple of songs. There must have been a bunch of new people there. But there were a quite a few real fans because we stood up for the first couple of songs, and cheered quite loudly. I think Jewel was surprised. Back to the jerk, when she got done singing Jupiter, she started telling the story of when she met Steve, and I think really connected with the audience at this point. I say this because the jerk behind us started to get quieter. Now at first, I though his girlfirend had just elbowed him enough. It didn't matter at this point really, cause he had shut up by the time she played Barcellona. I looked back to see if my theory of Jewel's music was holding up, and sure enough, here was that former a-hole dancing right along with the music. I smiled to myself thinking, "Cool, just what I thought." I tapped my brother on the shoulder and pointed out the former-jerk. Grant was taken back. He couldn't believe it. In a matter of less than an hour, Jewel's music, performance, and mere presence had tamed the savage beast. :-) After this point it was just icing on the cake. She did one wonderful song after another. Including naming a new song "Alabama". She said she hadn't finished it yet, but it sounded great! Thanks Jewel! That's bound to get ya some more fans here. They really like it when you name a song after them, ie. see "Sweet Home Alabama". ;-) She finished up the main set with an excellence long version of Who Will Save Your Soul, complete with scatting and dueling with Doug on guitar. I think her vocal range and abilities blew the former-jerk away cause I heard him say, "Damn she's really, really talented!" I smiled to myself, thinking "Now, if only the rest of the world would wake up and realize that!" After that she exited the stage, and my brother asked if that was it, but I told him, "Nope, she'll be back for a few more songs, just wait." And sure enough after a few minutes, she re-took the stage and sung Absence of Fear, one of my personal favorites. She then asked for one of her poetry books from the audience. Only one girl had the book on hand. Now I felt pretty bad at this point cause I had debated whether on not to take mine. I was expecting a lot of people to take theirs and I wouldn't stand a chance of having mine signed. Oh, well, maybe one day I'll get a chance to have mine signed and/or doodled in by Jewel... After she finished reading "May brought longer days" to the audience I heard that same former-jerk say "You know what? Jewel truly is an Earthly Angel!" At this point I knew she had won over another fan. More importantly, she had changed someone's mind, and possibly opened their minds to compassion towards others and not just making snap judgements. Maybe this guy will go home and pick up a copy of her book, and her albums and actually gain an compassion for others and a determination for improving the human condition just like Jewel shares. I think this is why I like Jewel so much. It's not only the fact that she has great music, and is very talented in many ways, it's that she actully cares about others. Whether it's though Higher Ground for Humanity with her mom Nedra, or it's just simply trying to awaken compassion for others with her music and poetry. You won't any of that with Britney Spears! ;-) Now I'm not trying to get all sentimental, I'm just saying how many performers out there can you name that are like her? I can't really think of any. I think this is why I think she's so special and why I think it's a shame she doesn't get more respect in the media. Those people have made their own snap judgements like that jerk sitting behind me at the concert. That's one of the reasons I started the "EDA Jewel Airplay list" to try to get her songs some more regular airplay. I figure if we can get her enough regular exposure, maybe some of those former doubters will pick up one of her albums or her book and she how talented she really is. And we won't have to sit though as many ill-founded jokes about her tooth or music or poetry. I kinda like her tooth just the way it is. I think it makes her even more unique. But I've stood on my soapbox too long. Again, I'd like to thank Jewel for playing Birmingham. As you can see, it was worth the trip because you changed the mind of at least one individual, and maybe he'll become a better person for it. One person at a time, if that's how it's gotta be done, so be it. Now I know while Jewel herself doesn't read this group, she doesn't even own a computer, but some of Jewel's people read this group, so I'd really appreciate it if you could print a copy of this out for her. So when she gets depressed, and feeling like she's not making a difference, she can look back on it and have proof that she's on the right track, it's just gonna take some time. BTW congradulations to Tony Hall and his wife on their new baby! Jason Bartel "The Airplay Angel" Visit the EDA Jewel Airplay list and let's help Jewel make the world a better place! http://members.xoom.com/dwstudios/jewel/index.htm Set list for Birmingham Concert Oak Mountain Amphitheatre Tuesday August 24, 1999 1. Near you Always 2. Deep Water 3. What's Simple is True 4. Hands 5. Jupiter 6. Story about meeting Steve in San Diego and interacting with audience 7. You Were Meant for Me 8. Untitled song - Sounds very good and very beautiful 9. Fat Boy 10. Too Darn Hot 11. Barcellona 12. Life Uncommon (Very well done, another favorite) 13. Foolish Games 14. Down So Long 15. Down (Execellent performance, I like this one too) 16. New song "Alabama"! 17. Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone (Awesome rhythm on this, I love this song too! This is the kinda music most people don't know that she plays) 18. Who Will Save Your Soul (Long skat version) 19. Absence of Fear (Love it, very good performance, spell bound the audience) 20. Read "May Brought Longer Days" from her book 21. Chime Bells (Probably the most beautiful version I've ever heard her perform. I wish this is how she'd sing it from now on.) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:51:44 EDT From: Jwlfan112@aol.com Subject: * Jewel/Merle Single Release! Jewel and Merle Haggard's duet, "That's The Way Love Goes," will be released to country radio on September 13. There probably won't be a store single release. About the song, the song starts out with Merle, and then Jewel comes in on the second verse. I've heard this all from my friend that works at the local country radio station. Here's two pictures of the CD, if you're wondering about the legitimacy of the whole thing.. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:38:07 -0400 From: "SoulRdeemr" Subject: * EDA in WPB Do any of you know if they let you bring in guitars? I wanna get mine signed by Jewel and oh anybody who wants to meet up I am gonna be wearing a blue ribbon! - -- If I could tell the world just one thing it would be That we are all ok And not to worry Cause worrying is wasteful and useless In times like these I won't be made useless Won't be idol with despair I'll gather myself around my faith Of light the darkness is most feared My hands are small I know But they are not yours they are my own But they are not yours they are my own And I am never broken - -- Jewel from the song "Hands" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:09:59 +0200 From: Koos van Zyl Subject: * Re: Australians get nothing? Hey ppl! I've got one question: If the Australians claim they get "nothing", even if Jewel toured Aus. a while ago, I wonder what the South Africans, or even just the *Africans* get? What do you call less than nothing? My conclusion? *Before* *anyone* sends anything to *any* Australian, let the Angelfood roll into South Africa... The "please feel sorry for me and send me some angelfood" Angel - -- Koos van Zyl PO Box 15227 Lynn East 0039 South Africa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Hello peoples > We would just like to express how pissed we are. All you lot get all > the Jewel merchendise such as tyhe Target stuff, magazines, limited CD's and > posters PLUS all the TV appeaerences and videos. WE in down here have not > even seen the clip for Down So Long!! Is there anyone who is willing to send > us tapes and stuff (for money, or just out of the goodness of your angel > hearts)? Please. We are desperate and will accept anything. > from the desperate Angels Merrielle wrote: > > Salutations EDA's > > I have to totally agree with Louise...Us Aussies > would love to have what you americans have...you have conce ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #516 ***************************