From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #266 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 07 : Number 266 * 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 news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "calendar" * . * 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 V7 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] C'mon Tampa Reviews!!! [SullMa84@aol.com] [EDA] Jewelstock Tapes [DixieJewelAngel@aol.com] [EDA] not to bring up the past... ["now and zen girl" ] [EDA] Update on Sellouts [Fredsteve@aol.com] [EDA] Jewel Interview [Fredsteve@aol.com] [EDA] Tampa Show [Lara Horn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:15:09 EDT From: SullMa84@aol.com Subject: [EDA] C'mon Tampa Reviews!!! C'mon guys send some reviews I wanna read about everything from the stage setting to M2M to the merchandise!!! Can't wait! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:47:36 EDT From: DixieJewelAngel@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Jewelstock Tapes Hey ya'll So I met this guy who wanted to hear Jewel he had never heard her before and I let him listen to the Jewelstock tapes. (Don't ask why he hasn't heard Jewel he is nuts i guess) Anyways, I let him hear it and he LOVED her...And So being the nice person i am :) I gave him my copies of the Jewelstock.....And I never talk to him anymore lol....SO Can anyone send me the copies of the tapes, I'll pay the shipping costs and anything else that needs to be paid..Please e- mail me Dixiejewelangel@aol.com ~michele ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:35:54 +0000 From: "now and zen girl" Subject: [EDA] not to bring up the past... > Those of you who hate the fighting on this list may not want to read this. > I do not really want to go into the past but something really bothers >me.... When Jewel came out with her cd, alot of you complained that she is >selling out and that she was TOO produced.... THEN MICHELLE BRANCH came >out, and you talked about how much you love her and how great she is (she is >MORE produced then jewel ever has been) NOW Avril comes out and you talk >about how much you love HER now TOO, ANd she is WAYYYYY more produced than >MICHELLE... I just don't like how you diss jewel for doing something but it >is ok when others do.... Sorry, it is just my thoughts. GREAT POINT! alisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:55:18 EDT From: Rasputina11@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] Tampa Tonight!-my recap of show Jewel was amazing and beautiful tonight (when isn't she) The crowd was rude and boisterous at times, and she handled them so well!!! (tsk tsk to loud mouths- and to man in 6th row, who would wave his hand in air, to get her attention, and snap her pic, or something) Her voice was absolutely gorgeous- and the sound quality and acoustics were beautiful!! Her strumming was a little off sometimes, but she was so witty, and her voice so pure. the acoustic songs she performed: 1.Morning Song (attempted Little Sister, but forgot strumming pattern) 2.Cold Song 3.Grey Matter (it took awhile before she could start to sing, because of rude crowd, and everyone was in light-hearted mood. She had to get in to "character." 4. Violet Eyes (she assumed many of us had not heard this before) ok. I'm tired, and can't write in complete sentences :) Sasha~ the "I'm so happy, I just saw Jewel" Angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 04:11:11 EDT From: Cressyda@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Boston show Are there any Boston tickets out there? Jessica ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 08:20:24 EDT From: SullMa84@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Tampa Newspaper Review of Show Jewel Opens Tour `This Way' Minus Guitar By CURTIS ROSS cross@tampatrib.com Published: Jun 15, 2002 TAMPA - Jewel took the stage minus her guitar Friday night. The collarbone and rib she broke when a horse threw her in April hampered her playing skills, she said. ``But I will be thrilling you with my dance moves,'' she joked. Actually, the singer-songwriter did play guitar during the show's solo portion - ``I can't strum, but I can finger- pick a little,'' she explained to the crowd of 2,425 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Carol Morsani Hall. Friday's show was opening night for Jewel's U.S. tour. But she and her band - keyboardist Steve George, drummer Trey Gray, bassist T-Bone Hannon, and guitarists Stuart Mathis and Mark Oakley - were in fine form, having just completed a European tour. If Jewel felt the need to compensate for her impaired guitar skills, she put the effort into her vocals, which were far more powerful and soulful than she's captured on record, although her latest album, last year's ``This Way,'' comes a lot closer to the energy of her live performances than have previous albums. Jewel mined ``This Way'' for much of her set and it provided many of the highlights. The single ``Standing Still'' was a brisk and pleasing piece of alternative pop, and ``Serve the Ego'' and ``Everybody Needs Someone Sometime'' were late-set highlights. Older favorites also got a big response from the crowd. ``You Were Meant For Me'' got the crowd into sing-along mode, which Jewel encouraged by having the band play quietly and letting the crowd carry the song for a chorus. She knows how to encourage a crowd and when to discipline it, as well. She played the opening chords of ``Grey Matter'' over and over, waiting for the rowdy crowd to quiet down. Just as it did, a lone voice called out, prompting a laughing Jewel to exclaim, ``Shut the ... up!'' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 08:22:42 EDT From: SullMa84@aol.com Subject: [EDA] St. Petersberg Times Review A Jewel that shines By JEFFREY S. SOLOCHEK, Times Staff Writer ) St. Petersburg Times published June 15, 2002 TAMPA - -- Alaskan folk star Jewel kicked off the American leg of her This Way tour Friday at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, thrilling a near sellout crowd of 2,500 with more than 90 minutes of her intensely personal, poetic reflections on life. Having broken her collarbone and a rib in April, Jewel relied on her backing band to provide the music for most of her set, focusing her energy on soaring vocals that entranced the audience. She played several songs from her latest CD, including the hit Standing Still and the skewering Jesus Loves Me. Jewel also reached back for the crowd pleasers Foolish Games and You Were Meant For Me, which became a sing-along, as well as more than a dozen other tunes. Band members Mark Oakley and Stuart Mathis on guitar, T-Bone Hannon on bass, Steve George on keyboards and Trey Gray on drums skillfully bolstered Jewel's performance, never getting in the way. Perhaps most pleasing, though, was when she shooed the band away for a 30-minute acoustic set for which Jewel slung a guitar around her neck and played. When she could remember the songs, that is. She trotted out one number, only to toss it aside remarking that she did not recall how it went. "Okay, we're not doing that one," Jewel said with a laugh, quickly moving on. Out came a silly polka in which she sang, "When your nose is running, it's a perfect time for kissing and hugging. Do you want to catch a cold with me?" Next was the gorgeous ballad Grey Matter, followed by a remembrance of a friend she said had died of cancer. The band returned to close out the show with Jewel, whose voice was in fine form. She ranged from coquettish, getting guys to scream as she sang, "Do you want to play?" to a belt in several songs that would have made Janis Joplin proud. She only looked uncomfortable in that she seemed not to know what to do with her hands when she did not have a guitar in them. But Jewel bantered with the crowd, and they loved her back. A couple of fans shouted so much that at one point she urged them to shut up so she could play. The rest of the audience burst into applause. Jewel released This Way in late 2001, and then toured Asia and Europe before heading back to the states. She plays Fort Lauderdale tonight and Orlando on Sunday, with her 40-date tour ending in September in California. The Norwegian teen duo M2M opened with a 25-minute set of mainstream pop about absent boyfriends and bad days. Impressively, the girls, Marit Larsen and Marion Ravn, wrote many of their lyrics. At first clearly apprehensive, they seemed to warm to the crowd toward the end of the performance. Larsen, the primary singer of the two, had a powerful if sometimes breathy voice that could take her places. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 11:54:38 -0400 From: "Stacy" Subject: [EDA] ludlow show does anyone have the shows ludlow st cafe 2-28-95, border's cafe or humphreys by the bay on cdr that they would trade with me. i have quite a few shows to pick from and would trade 2 for 1. email me for my list, thanks. stacy the connecticut angel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:13:22 EDT From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Update on Sellouts Hey Guys Just a quick update on the Tour situation: - -Tonight's show in Fort Lauderdale is SOLD OUT - -Monday night's show in Atlanta is SOLD OUT (that's a 7000 seat venue) - -Wednesday night's show in Vienna, Virginia is SOLD OUT (another 7000 seater) - -Lawn tickets at the Pittsburg show (June 29) are SOLD OUT, although there's still quite a few actual seats at the back - -Only obstructed view box seats and single ticket balcony seats are left for the Chicago show July 14th - -The Houston show July 20th is SOLD OUT Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:21:26 EDT From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Jewel Interview Here's an interview from a Fort Lauderdale newspaper: Love Jewel. Hate Jewel. Fear her manipulative mom. Laugh at her poetry. Give her props for not fixing that snaggletooth. Marvel at her staying power. Almost seven years ago, I interviewed the fresh-from-Alaska Jewel Kilcher, before she'd sold many copies of her first album. At the time, she'd just parked the van she lived in prior to her fabled rags-to-riches saga, was happy not to be a waitress anymore, and promised herself and her growing public a long career. Two albums and a book of poetry later, Jewel is still Jewel. Emerging from a hiatus with a bull-ridin' boyfriend (rodeo champ Ty Murray), a new Nashville-tooled record (This Way) recorded with producer Dann Huff (Celine Dion, Reba McEntire, Shania Twain), Jewel seems back in the saddle. Until, literally, she was thrown from a horse during an April riding mishap. While recuperating, Jewel again answered a barrage of probing questions. Q: How bad was your accident? What happened, exactly? A: We had a branding in Texas (at Murray's ranch). I have a colt that a cowboy gave me, and he bucks with you a little bit when you first saddle him. So my boyfriend got on him and rode that out of him. But it wasn't out of him. As soon as I got on him, he bucked me off. Pretty wicked. I broke my collarbone and a rib. Q: What's changed since 1995? A: Everything has changed, and nothing's changed. Whatever ghosts you have in your head follow you anywhere, which I knew before I got into this. So far, I've been able to stay true to my goals, which were to try and create a career that would give me longevity and artistic freedom. And somehow in the meantime, I sold a shitload of records! Q: Did that success take something away from you? A: If you stop ringing true, then people are going to stop being touched. You have to really, really fight in this business, and you have to keep writing true. You also have to take a lot of risks and not care about record sales and not care about radio hits yet really care about how you're evolving and maturing and how you're metamorphosing as an artist. I fight for that more than anything, and it's a hard thing to fight for. By the end of Spirit, my second record, I'd had it. For years, I quit. That was it: no more chick singer. I didn't know if I'd ever come back. I started feeling more like a pop star than something useful. It wasn't very fulfilling, and I had to do something that would make me happy. So I quit until I knew what it was. I think part of it was extreme fatigue -- I worked endlessly. Another part of it was, you know, your head gets too full with other people's voices -- statistics and things that are just garbage. As long as I can get away to the quiet and a place like I was raised with open space all around me, I can rejuvenate and feel pretty gregarious and forthcoming again. Q: Did you really think about quitting music for good, abandoning your childhood dream? A: When you're 18, you dream a dream, and when you're 25, it may not look like you anymore. And you've got to face that. I could have continued for quite a few more years, living on the vapors of something that truly wasn't me any longer. It would be like a tree that has died but is still standing. And unless I found something that made me burn again, that made me need it again, I just wasn't going to come back. It just makes me really unhappy to be that way. Fame was never enough to go, "Gee whiz, isn't this cool?" I've always been able to beat the system, whatever that means. I need to feel like I have integrity. But the game got boring -- constantly being on tour, never being home, never writing, always talking. But I do still enjoy it, and it's nice to know I'm still in love with this. I was definitely worried I wasn't. Q: Why did you make your new album in Nashville? A: I like it there because a lot of people just want to make a record. They don't care if your haircut's the coolest or what the Goo Goo Dolls' latest guitar tone was -- you know, all that shit that sort of insidiously creeps into a record. Or you suddenly have this producer trying to give you his idea of what radio sounds like. I wanted to get away from all of that and find a producer that would do nothing but, well, my bidding, really. And Dann was that guy. He has an ego that's really in check. He was there to make a record for me. That may sound strange to you, but I can't tell you how important that is. This is the first record that sounds like me. Q: Have writers asked you about some of your chores on Murray's ranch -- like castrating bulls? A: Yes, quite a few have asked. But I mean, I don't think it's a big deal. I mean, golly, it's just part of life. I got a letter from somebody saying, "Do you enjoy their pain?" Q: How did you and Moby become friends? A: He was playing a little show here in San Diego, no more than 200 people. A friend and I went backstage, and we just hit it off instantly. He's a fax friend: He draws cartoons and I draw cartoons, and so we send each other faxes. Q: Doesn't he give you shit about rodeo's treatment of animals? A: He's curious about it, but Moby's never given me shit. Moby's not didactic at all -- he does what he believes in, but he doesn't act like a Nazi. Plus, it isn't an issue because there isn't an unfair treatment of animals, in my opinion. A lot of that is mythology; I don't know how it got built up. I guess people just don't have any comprehension; they don't understand because they've never been around animals. They don't understand that people are managing animals in the most humane way possible. Those animals are -- those animals cost $50,000! That's like saying people are going to abuse a car that cost them $50,000. You have to take really good care of those animals, because if they don't perform, you don't get paid. So you can't starve an animal or hurt an animal. I think the funniest argument is that people think they always put something around the bull's testicles to make them buck. ( Laughs) But if you had anything around your testicles, would you buck? Q: I'm not sure -- would I? A: No. You'd be very still. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:21:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Lara Horn Subject: [EDA] Tampa Show Oh wow. Tampa's show last night was my very first Jewel concert ever! I had seats third row center, I could see the sweat dripping onto the stage floor I was so close! Jewel has the most amazing voice and it echoed around the theater and shook into your bones, it was that intense! There were a lot of rude individuals at the concert.... Women screaming "I love you" in the middle of soulful acoustic pieces, men screaming alll kinds of rude things, and everybody refusing to "shut the f.... up!" as Jewel put it. Oh, and she also said at one point, "Are your asses glued to the seats? Come on!" to get us to stand up... When her bassist did his solo, he sat down on the edge of the stage and she joined him, right there among the crowd, it was so cool! She tried to ask for request during her acoustic segment, but she couldn't hear anybody speaking... She said it was just one big roar. She tried to do the painter song from POY, but said she couldn't remember the middle part. And she used bad grammar at one point while bantering, caught herself, and joked about how it was a good thing she was back in America now. Sorry if I'm describing this in a very jumbly way, I'm just trying to say things the newspapers didn't. Anyway, it was easily the most fantastic concert I've ever been to, and I wish I were more travel prone (and rich)... I'd go see them all. Love, Luck, and Lollipops, Lara (the beachy-keen angel) Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #266 ***************************