From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #396 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, August 28 2002 Volume 07 : Number 396 * 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] Re: Rollingstones 50 Greatest Meltdowns [DPS8315@aol.com] RE: [EDA] Recording at a Concert... (HELP) NJC ["Brock Heinzeroth" Subject: RE: [EDA] Recording at a Concert... (HELP) NJC >>Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:13:05 EDT >>From: DPS8315@aol.com >>Subject: [EDA] Recording at a Concert... (HELP) >>I haven't recorded a concert, ever, but I figure I'm going to be going >>to quite a few in my lifetime, so I'm looking for recommendations on what >>y'all are using as recorders... I've noticed digital voice recorders run >>$200-300 online.... with sufficient record time for a concert, but I didn't >>know if that would yield the high-quality I'm looking for. >>I'm going to see Aerosmith (with Kid Rock) at Tinley Park, IL this Sunday... >>I'd love to see some responses pretty quick so that I might be able to get >>out and purchase the right equipment for what is likely my last concert for >>the season... >>James Hi James, I have not actually recorded any live shows, mainly because I can't be bothered with the expense and most times the hassle to get the equipment into the shows. I have been a long time collector of live shows and have traded live shows for almost 10 years now. All I can say is with the technology we have toady it is much easier than in the 70's and 80's. You would not believe the lengths people went to back then to record a live show of their favorite artist. I remember hearing one story about a guy taping a Led Zeppelin concert using a portable 25 lb. battery operated reel to reel. He borrowed a wheel chair and pretended to be handicapped. He put the recorder across his legs and put a thick blanket on top. He not only got in without being checked but he got much better seating as well. The best thing you can do is a search on the web about live recording. I've seen many web pages dedicated to this hobby and they will give a load of info about it. Unfortunately a digital voice recorder isn't going to cut it. It is just for recording voice, not music, and your recording will sound like it's been recorded inside a tin can. Even gear that will give average sounding recordings is relatively expensive. And unless you are going to be half way out on the main floor or closer the recording will suffer and sound distant and unclear. I know because I have an angel food video recorded from the lower balcony and the video is clear but the sound although average sounds very distant due the acoustics in a large open space of a theater. Most people use Digital Audio Tape recorders (DAT) and have purchased separate fairly expensive stereo mics to get a clear dynamic recording. I cannot stress this enough !!!your recording will only be as good as the microphones you are using!!!! The second most important thing is location, location, location. Even the best equipment recording towards the back of an indoor venue will suffer, even more at an outdoor venue. I would guess most people who record shows do it from the first 20 rows or so. Some artists have special tapers sections. That's what we need to convince Jewel to do at her concerts, have a tapers section. Better yet let us patch into the soundboard and get a recording. Well anyways this a short overview and I really suggest you visit some sites dedicated to this hobby. I really think you can get equipment for around $300-$400 and still make a decent recording. Hope this helps Brock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:08:19 -0700 From: "Allison Crowe Band Management" Subject: [EDA] Jewel purpose - article from today's Vancouver Sun newspaper Jewel purpose: Her best musical gems are yet to come Kerry Gold Vancouver Sun Tuesday, August 27, 2002 Jewel brings her sophisticated sounds to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sunday. Once the dust cleared on the short period in music history when it seemed female singer-songwriters dominated the industry, Jewel took the opportunity to do a little soul searching. She had released two multi-platinum selling hit albums, 1995's Pieces of You (10 million units), and 1998's Spirit (six million). She was nominated for Grammys, she joined forces with the travelling girl-power festival that was Lilith Fair, and she co-starred with Tobey Maguire in Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil. She even released a collection of her poetry, called A Night Without Armor in 1998, which sold more than a million copies and earned a long-standing spot on the New York Times best-seller list. In 2000, she followed with another, autobiographical book, called Chasing Down the Dawn, which also became a best-seller. Her pretty, open face was plastered all over the celebrity pages, and she sold more than 23 million albums worldwide. And she was burned out. For two years, Jewel Kilcher retreated, and when she re-emerged with her third album, This Way, the female singer-songwriter glory days had become a footnote in the rock annals. Jewel responded with an album that is her most sophisticated yet, a collection of soulful, country-flecked rock and pop songs that channels contemporaries like Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt. In her time off, Jewel has learned to push herself vocally, and the album beautifully exploits her ability to dip into raspy blues mode and soar into ethereal power ballad territory. But sophisticated doesn't usually translate into multi-platinum figures. The new album, which brings her to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sunday, has sold a respectable but comparatively modest 1.5 million copies. "It's very hard for women to get on the radio now," says Jewel. "It was nice not to have that for awhile, during the '90s, when you could have rock credibility without being a sex kitten," she says. "It's reverted back, I think, some. But it's never really affected me. I've never thought like, God, now I have to do the cover of Maxim,' or whatever. And I've been asked to do the cover of Maxim tons of times." "Right now there are female pop stars, but God, name a singer songwriter girl that's still around now. Not many. And no new ones." She says all this with a shrug, however. Jewel is in the relatively unique position of having a large, solid fanbase (they call themselves EveryDay Angels) to compensate for any lack of radio and video airplay. It means she's able to sell out venues with capacities of 2,000 to 5,000, filled with audiences so loyal they know the words to even the obscure songs. Jewel says she's consciously chosen to scale down, having moved into the decidedly un-Hollywood atmosphere of small-town Texas with 32-year-old rodeo champion boyfriend Ty Murray. She continues to pursue acting roles, but she's choosy: she recently formed a production company and the first project is a small, independent drama called Wave. When she's not touring, Jewel plays nursemaid to cows on Murray's 1,800-acre cattle ranch (Murray played her love interest in her Standing Still video. Likewise, when she was dating Sean Penn, he directed her You Were Meant for Me video). She broke a rib and her collar bone when she was thrown by a bad-tempered colt at Murray's ranch last spring, just prior to her world tour. She's healed now. And she has every intention of getting back on the horse, and out to the ranch once the tour ends. She has called it "her church." "It's sort of like going from being an amphibian to learning to breathe air, or vice versa," Jewel says of fame. "Everything about your life changes. I really can't think of a way that it doesn't, and it's a steep learning curve. And one that's worth doing carefully, because a lot is at stake -- your growth as a person and your decency and your creativity are all affected. "It's like high school," says Jewel. "Some people are your friend and they might kiss your ass, other people are real friends, other people hate you. Same shit, it's all played up on a bigger stage. And Madonna is the prom queen." She speaks from the position of an artist who's been as celebrated as she has been dumped on. Jewel's book of poetry was widely panned by critics, and her film roles all but ignored. Although she says she's politically incorrect in her writing, and her nature is to be acerbic and facetious, she's acquired an innocent, modern-day flower girl image. "That's where it goes back to high school," she says. "You know, it would be naive and delusional to want hundreds of journalists to understand who I am. None of them know me, so of course you're going to be misunderstood. You're also only 21 years old on your first record or 28 years old on your third record. And I don't think anybody will know what I'm capable of until I do it. "That'll just take years, so I'm not terribly impatient about it. I feel like I haven't done my best work yet -- and it's my job to do my best work." kgold@pacpress.southam.ca ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #396 ***************************