From: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org (sheryl-crew-digest) To: sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Subject: sheryl-crew-digest V2 #212 Reply-To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Sender: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sheryl-crew-digest Saturday, June 19 1999 Volume 02 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Sheryl on Entertainment Tonight [Brooke James ] Re: i looked at it ["Christina Clark" ] Re: Sheryl on 98FM (Singapore) - WEBCAST!!! [Mike Connell ] howard stern ["PoGo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:36:20 -0400 From: Brooke James Subject: Sheryl on Entertainment Tonight THose of you who live on the west coast..........or if you're like me and live on the east coast...........SHeryl was just on Entertainment Tonight!!!! It was at the VERY end, they showed her while she was making her SCOM video. Not much, but who cares!!! It's SHeryl for god's sake!!! :0) So, if it hasn't aired in your area yet, make sure you CATCH IT!!!!! Brooke " Love might be great, but why lose your head?" --Words of wisdom by Sheryl ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:51:47 -0400 From: "Christina Clark" Subject: Re: i looked at it >i saw that new thing of her on the road > >Hey as much as i love Sheryl her photgrapy skills are crap to say the least. I doubt all of these were taken by her, if any. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:52:10 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: Sheryl on 98FM (Singapore) - WEBCAST!!! Harin wrote: >The last time I posted somthing like this to the Jewel list, Mike, you managed >to follow it up with the URL of the station. I dont know the URL of this >station either - do you? :) shorty after he wrote this: >This is for the benefit of the handful Singaporean & Malaysian listers - >just heard on the radio (Power 98) that Saturdays 1-2pm there's a show which >features new singles. >Tomorrow's show will feature SCOM (there is a long clip >in the ad :), and Sheryl is the featured artiste of the day, they'll be >tracking her career. Shoud be an interesting piece, if only I wasnt workign >then. My radio reception at work is horrible. Of course I have it :-) Easily enough, the stations URL is http://power98.com.sg but better yet is a webcast of the station you can listen to at http://www.swiftech.net.sg/power98.ram You'll need Real Audio or Real Player to listen in. It's a mono feed....not one of the better connections I've heard....quite tinny, but what the heck, it's from half way around the globe for me. SO it will do fine :-) I didn't do a time difference calculation, but if memory serves, I believe Singapore is 14 hours ahead of the eastern USA....you can all take it from there. Mike :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:58:12 EDT From: AngelLieb@aol.com Subject: Re: additon to Sheryl Crow site As for the theme park pictures: Spiderman ride can be found at Six Flags I think. There's another roller coaster ride shown (http://www.sherylcrow.com/batch4/images/4th_pic09.jpg) and the only thing I can think of is it might be at Islands of Adventure, a new park in Orlando. I wouldn't be surprised if it is cuz it does look like the Dual Dragons ride they have. Katie ();) << >they added something new to Her offical sit its called on the road i havent >looked through it all yet. I looked at it earlier today, and it's really cool! It shows pictures from her on tour, including pictures of the band, and pictures inside the bus, of scout and a lot of pics at some theme park, there's a cool pic of Sheryl when she got wet by some ride. Christina >> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:22:50 +0800 From: Harinder_GREWAL@MCD.gov.sg Subject: Re: Sheryl on 98FM (Singapore) - WEBCAST!!! Thanks Mike, knew I could count on you :) Now I can logon to it at work. Just a couple of things though - I'm a she :) And I'm not exactly sure of the time difference between spore and the eastern us (with daylight saving, central, pacific, etc, etc, it gets confusing), but it is +0800GMT. I doubt any european or american listers will hear it, though, cos it'll be rather early in the morning for you'll, and I dont think its gonna be an interview, they may just run through some major events, and perhaps play a few songs? Thats what I think anyway... YK, the mention in the Daily Mail about it being released as a single in autumn, and also it being featured on this new singles programme here - I think it will be released, and not just be on the soundtrack and furture pressings. YAY! :) Cant wait to hear SCOM in full! harin owner-sheryl-crew@smoe.org on 19/06/99 09:47:28 Please respond to sheryl-crew@smoe.org @ SMTP To: Harinder GREWAL/MCD/SINGOV@SINGOV, sheryl-crew@smoe.org @ SMTP cc: Subject: Re: Sheryl on 98FM (Singapore) - WEBCAST!!! Harin wrote: >The last time I posted somthing like this to the Jewel list, Mike, you managed >to follow it up with the URL of the station. I dont know the URL of this >station either - do you? :) shorty after he wrote this: >This is for the benefit of the handful Singaporean & Malaysian listers - >just heard on the radio (Power 98) that Saturdays 1-2pm there's a show which >features new singles. >Tomorrow's show will feature SCOM (there is a long clip >in the ad :), and Sheryl is the featured artiste of the day, they'll be >tracking her career. Shoud be an interesting piece, if only I wasnt workign >then. My radio reception at work is horrible. Of course I have it :-) Easily enough, the stations URL is http://power98.com.sg but better yet is a webcast of the station you can listen to at http://www.swiftech.net.sg/power98.ram You'll need Real Audio or Real Player to listen in. It's a mono feed....not one of the better connections I've heard....quite tinny, but what the heck, it's from half way around the globe for me. SO it will do fine :-) I didn't do a time difference calculation, but if memory serves, I believe Singapore is 14 hours ahead of the eastern USA....you can all take it from there. Mike :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:14:27 EDT From: DeeofOz@aol.com Subject: Daily Telegraph article 'I wanted to be great at something' Sheryl Crow is the world's most successful woman rock artist - but only now, she tells Mick Brown, is she learning to enjoy the role THE SORT of person who, by her own definition, has always looked at everything "from the perspective of the glass being half empty", Sheryl Crow says she is finally learning to come to terms with her own success. The days when she would read a magazine article that acclaimed her as a peerless performer and an incredible songwriter, and be mortified by the single line criticising her hairstyle, have happily passed. She has stopped reading magazines. This has also assuaged the feelings of rising panic that would come from turning the pages and feeling that "my star was falling" when she failed to find pictures of herself. Crow says she has always had a tendency to "embrace the bad things" - which must be hard to do when you've sold 14 million albums over the past five years. But then, she is nothing if not a mass of contradictions: a woman who, at the age of 37, professes a nostalgia for the shambolic camaraderie of the Sixties - an era she wasn't old enough to experience - and distaste for the "corporatisation" of rock, yet has become the most successful woman rock artist of the day. She has also been quick to condemn the sexism of the music business, yet is to be found on the cover of this month's issue of the lads' magazine Maxim, stripped down to a boob tube and panties. "Oh, but that was just fun." Crow's eyes widen. "I think people have got so used to seeing me in a certain light, it's sometimes good just to mix it up a little bit. And for me, it was almost emancipating, in a funny way." She pauses. "And it's not like I took off all my clothes . . ." Crow seems to have undergone a peculiar transformation in the five years since the release of her first album, Tuesday Night Music Club. The picture that appeared on the cover showed a wholesome denim-clad girl - "I'm here to sing!" - with a starburst smile and auburn hair foaming like root-beer. Call it fame, call it corporatisation, but in the intervening years, she has been Versace'd out - now she is all designer threads and tough-girl, predatory scowls. Image-mongering, of course. Mere camouflage. The Sheryl Crow who sits in the lounge of her small Covent Garden hotel looks as if she wouldn't say boo to a goose: a petite, slender figure, dressed down in jeans and T-shirt, with newly cut hair that is frazzled and untidy. She has just flown in from Portugal - a single date in a mini-trek around Europe, which will culminate the following day at Wembley Stadium, where she is supporting the Rolling Stones (and where she will effortlessly out-sing Mick Jagger on Honky Tonk Women - for, whatever is happening with her image, Crow is a prodigious belter). She grew up in the town of Kennett, Missouri (population, 10,000). Her mother was a music teacher; her father, a sometime trumpet player and lawyer who once faced death threats for fighting a case against the Ku Klux Klan. Crow talks of him warmly as an "altruistic, stand-up, put-his-money-where-his-mouth-is kind of person" and, more cautiously, of feeling a pressure to live up to his example, which she could never quite fulfil. "He definitely set up a lot of the patterns that I have now - got to be great, got to be the best, to a fault really, in not being able to sit back and embrace your own achievement." She pauses. "I think a lot of people define themselves through their productivity. Like, when I was a kid, I wanted to be an Olympic ice-skater, but the best ice-skater. It was that kind of drive to be good. I didn't get into music to be famous and have people look at me. I got into it because I wanted to be great at something." After graduating from the University of Missouri, she worked as a music teacher, playing with local bands at night. At the age of 24, she left for Los Angeles, determined to break into the music industry. "I went out there feeling so optimistic, it never really occurred to me I wouldn't succeed. I was really naive, and that naivety kept me from getting shot down." Initially, she worked as a session singer for Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart and toured with Michael Jackson as a backing singer, duetting with him each night on I Just Can't Stop Loving You, dressed in a black mini-skirt and huge blonde wig. Gossip columns speculated that they might be lovers - the truth, she would later recall, is that she barely spoke to Jackson and got the distinct impression he didn't even know her name. She also wrote songs for Eric Clapton and Don Henley, but nobody would put any faith in her attempts to be accepted as a solo performer - the music industry was afraid to take chances with anything it couldn't categorise, she believes. "The women stars of that time were Madonna and Paula Abdul - dance stuff. So much of their thing was visual. I was being told: 'We have no idea how to market you; we could never get you played on the radio'." It was not, she reflects, a good time. A "late developer", she was going through what she describes as her "angry young woman" phase. "I was hanging out with conspiracy theorists and spending too much time in bars. It was the kindred misfit spirit: too good to make it, bitterly misunderstood. . . But that can only go so far, until you get sober. Then you wake up and realise: well, that's just a load of bunk." In 1992, she started spending time with a group of musicians who would gather informally each week in the Los Angeles studio of a producer named Bill Bottrell. The sessions resulted in The Tuesday Night Music Club, which went on to sell some 7 million copies worldwide. Its enormous success spawned an ugly aftermath. There were accusations that the other musicians involved had not been given proper song-writing credits, that Crow had used the project to further her ends at the expense of the others. "Driven" was among the more polite adjectives used to describe her. She bridles visibly when the subject is raised. She was always careful to acknowledge the contribution the other musicians made, she says, and the publishing royalties were divided equally. "Everybody made a lot of money out of it, but I was the only one who was out there peddling the product." The accusations and back-biting dented what one senses was always a fragile emotional constitution. She has always been susceptible to "mood swings" - a trait she shares with her father - and bouts of deep depression which, at their worst, have left her feeling suicidal. This has been exacerbated, she says, by having suffered all her life from "sleep paralysis", a condition where you get caught in the twilight state between wakefulness and deep sleep and have the sense that you can see what's going on around you, but are unable to wake up and control it. "Your heart is going at such a rapid rate that you think you're going to have a heart attack and die. And by the time you do wake up, you're so afraid to go back to sleep that you can't. You're constantly trying, all night long, to stay awake and keep yourself from falling back into that state of paralysis." She began to see a psychotherapist in the late Eighties, when she was working with Michael Jackson - a period, she says, when "I couldn't get up and look at my life as a gift" - and has continued seeing one on and off. Coming from a small, mid-Western town, she had an inbuilt resistance to the idea of therapy. "Therapists are for crazy people - at least that's the way I was raised. If you have problems, you solve them in the privacy of your family or in the church." But therapy has given her a template, and a vocabulary, for self-analysis: she realised, she says, that in the past, she would never "allow" herself to complete anything, "because then I would be able to celebrate the accomplishment". When I point out that she has managed to complete three albums which, between them, have sold some 14 million copies, she takes little consolation. "But I also have around 2,000 tapes of songs I've started and never finished. . . I've made everyone around me sign to say that if anything happens to me, they cannot be released. I can't even look at them." It is basic psychology, she says, to conclude that her relationships have suffered for the same reason, although she insists: "I haven't sabotaged all of them. They've not worked out for different reasons, and I can't say it's always been my fault". In the past, she has been linked with Eric Clapton and country singer Dwight Yoakam. The life of a touring musician, she says, is not conducive to stable relationships; but neither is success. "The fact that you're seemingly so large makes other people feel small. It can be very emasculating, at least in some of the relationships I've had. "I had a wonderful relationship for four years and almost got married, but at the end of the day, it can tear a man down. I think women are more equipped to be the caretaker and more able to sit back and let the man be everything." Her present boyfriend, Owen Wilson, is an actor and screenwriter, whose film appearances include a part in Armageddon - "which he'd actually hate me for telling you". She smiles. "But what's good is that he's as passionate about what he does as I am about what I do. It's difficult to be with someone who isn't loving what they're doing." If crow feels happier now - which she says she does - it is because she has learnt to strike a balance between her career and her life: "A month on, a month off - I schedule my life into the pockets of my career . . ." Being happy, she says, requires a decision to be so. "There's real fear of being happy as an artist, because you feel that you won't have anything to say. You can climb into this little burrow of self-pity, and you can get really accomplished at it. "And that's been the story my whole life - the tortured artist thing. But, after a while, you get to a point where that's unproductive." And you've eventually got to stop "beating yourself up", she says. She gets up to go: the interview is over. She has a dress fitting to attend, a performance to prepare for. And, one senses, more anxieties about whether this life is really quite enough. Sheryl Crow's album The Globe Sessions is available now. Her new single, Sweet Child of Mine, will be released in the autumn. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:06:18 -0400 From: "lisa" Subject: Re: Chevrolet ad i all, It's been a couple of years since my last post, and haven't been following mailings too closely so I don't know if this was covered but... I saw a Chevrolet Impala ad on NBC tonight and the soundtrack sounded so much like Sheryl. Anyone have any info? Also, can someone point me to some recent SC photos (within the last month or two). thanks, lisa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:27:20 -0800 From: "PoGo" Subject: howard stern hey, if anyone is planning to tape the howard stern show on cbs? tomorrow night please email me, i don't get this show and i have lots to trade!!!!! pogo@gci.net ------------------------------ End of sheryl-crew-digest V2 #212 *********************************