From: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org (sheryl-crew-digest) To: sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Subject: sheryl-crew-digest V3 #56 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, February 26 2000 Volume 03 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [sheryl-crew] Wallmart boycots another album [Brigitte and/or Michael ] [sheryl-crew] Rock & Roll chefs ["maybe some faith would do me good" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Wallmart boycots another album I think Wal-Mart should just stop selling cd's. Wal-Mart boycots Oasis One of the songs on the new Oasis album was judged 'politically incorrect' by the American Wal-mart bosses. The album will therefore not be distributed in any of the outlets of the biggest American supermarket chain. The decision is all the more remarkable since the song in question, "F***in' In The Bushes", is an instrumental piece. It seems then that the sensitive wimps of the censorship commission have only been offended by the song's title. It isn't clear yet if the new album, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants", will get the 'Parental Warning'-treatment also outside the US. May we suggest to those who have tendencies to get on their moral high horse to let themselves be inspired by the song's title. [ 2/5/00 - bron: Jam! Showbiz] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:42:31 EST From: DParr122@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Happy Birthday Sheryl Crew! Crew: I concur with Larry. DaveP ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:50:40 -0500 From: "vig" Subject: [sheryl-crew] FA: RARE PROMO CD ENDS SUNDAY - Leaving Las Vegas - Incl. Live Acoustic Version I have the following item available for auction on eBay ending this Sunday: LEAVING LAS VEGAS PROMO CD - Includes Live Acoustic Version http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=265559669 This auction ends this Sunday, Feb. 27 Picture and description on eBay. Thanks for looking David ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:24:29 EST From: HILARYL123@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Sheryl For President In a message dated 2/26/00 10:07:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, KSGymnast4 writes: << Oh my god, thank you soo much Hilary for letting us know about that. lol, I'm still laughing. I never knew she was so funny. :) Hey, if she decides to run for president, she'd get my vote!! >> Not a problem , I watched it again this morning and laughed just as hard. It airs for the last time tomorrow @ 7 a.m. I believe for those of you who still haven't seen it . Also, the Food Network show about the rock n' roll chefs airs again this weekend. Not sure on the times though. ;-) hilary ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:37:15 EST From: KSGymnast4@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Sheryl For President I think it airs at 7am and 12pm on Monday, and 8:30am tomorrow (Sunday). Trust us, it's funny. :) Kate ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:14:41 -0500 From: "Larry Blumenthal" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Acceptance speech I know she said "I want to thank Carlos Santana for not being in this category" but check out www.grammy.com for a transcript- there may be something there, I'm not sure. - -Larr __________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:09:40 -0800 (PST) From: Easter Subject: [sheryl-crew] Send those great vibes Hello Crew, I have no idea what the purpose of this email is, but it is nice to come to the computer after feeling like I've been to hell and back for the past few days since I'm sick. =\ Certainly all of these good vibes I get from reading the digests are doing me good if I've been having these Sheryl dreams lately. Anyhoo, who was it that posted a while ago about Sheryl changing the lyric on AIWD with "I like a good milk buzz early in the morning?" I don't know why, I had this dream where I was at this concert and this lyric kept repeating itself like a broken record. Ugh. Oh well, a big wave to Kim, a fellow Crew member I met at the Paula Cole concert last nite! I hope you're enjoying your goodies. ;) Cheers to all, Katie ();) ===== ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "You waste your time with hate and regret," - Madonna __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:11:27 -0600 From: "maybe some faith would do me good" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Rock & Roll chefs Sorry for the crosspost: But today at 4 pm Eastern (3 Central) Rock and Roll chefs is going to re-air on the Food Network. Since I know a lot of you missed it the other times it aired, I thought I'd let you know. anthony :) np: juarez by tori amos ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:32:48 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Laurence?= Subject: [sheryl-crew] sheryl on santana hi just read somewhere that sheryl was very happy for santana and the grammies we got... she said she wanted to be like him later, still being so energic and so on... hey sheryl, sure you'll stay great for all of us!!! apart from that, remember the winamp skins? i made one and others woke up to say they had a few too... well i have another one, but this time it's complete, with the main window, playlist editor, equalizer and minibrowser in case anyone wants it :) later, laurence ===== sometimes when it's quiet, i'm an angel in white -- sheryl crow sheryl crow's neighborhood http://www.multimania.com/rocksheryl rocksheryl@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 01:31:34 +0100 From: Brigitte and/or Michael Subject: [sheryl-crew] Sarah bracelet same as Sheryl's? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20000224/en/mdf51770.html Is this the same bracelet Sheryl wore this summer, remember it was mentioned here too? Does anybody know where I can get one? Or has any info on it? Brigitte ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:26:27 PST From: "innocent denial" Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Sheryl For President Is there anyone who can record this "sheryl for president" interview for me? I'd be willing to pay for the cost of shipping and the video, ect!! Thanks and get back to me!! katie grace From: HILARYL123@aol.com To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Sheryl For President Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:24:29 EST In a message dated 2/26/00 10:07:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, KSGymnast4 writes: << Oh my god, thank you soo much Hilary for letting us know about that. lol, I'm still laughing. I never knew she was so funny. :) Hey, if she decides to run for president, she'd get my vote!! >> Not a problem , I watched it again this morning and laughed just as hard. It airs for the last time tomorrow @ 7 a.m. I believe for those of you who still haven't seen it . Also, the Food Network show about the rock n' roll chefs airs again this weekend. Not sure on the times though. ;-) hilary ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:24:16 -0500 From: "Christina Clark" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Toronto Lilith Interview Part 2 EZ Rock: When you do go to write, do the lyrics come first, or is it musical for you? Sheryl: Just both ways, either way, it's weird what will start you writing songs. Sometimes it's one line, sometimes it's tuning on a guitar, sometimes it's a groove....just works all different ways. EZ Rock: A lot of performers, I think their songs are autobiographical, and you can listen to them and it's like listening to little snatches of their own lives, for others they don't really go that route, but with this last album, it seems to be such a personal album, it seems that it is reflective of your life and it is somewhat autobiographical if not, you know, literal. Sheryl: Well, I don't think anything is really literal because I think basically you are speaking from emotion. Everybody experiences the same emotions, I mean nothing I have ever written was soley mine, uh, soley my own experience, when you consider that relationships..uh, are, you know, we all have relationships that's one thing that's really common whether you are involved or not involved, you've either just been in a relationship or are looking for a relationship, I mean the world sort of...people need to be loved and need to love, and so it's a really common topic to write about, but I do think it would be really impossible to write anything that did not have your own perspective in it. And so for that reason, everything I've written has had at least an autobiographical tinge, whether it was narrative or 1st person. EZ Rock: It's such a big leap though from "all I wanna do is have some fun.." Sheryl: mmmm EZ Rock: which is a great tune, to something like "My Favorite Mistake" or any of the others on the new album, there's a defineable difference there? Sheryl: Well, um...well you know that could always be debated cause I could always go back and write the TNMC record again, now, it wouldn't be the same songs or same feeling, but writing narratively is something I love, I love creating alter egos. This record just happened to be much more introspective because that's what I was going through in my life, and that is what you write about. Your art really stems your life experiences, and if you're really being true, your albums just become little calanders that mark time. -Strong Enough- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:24:04 -0500 From: "Christina Clark" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Toronto Lilith Interview Part 1 Ok, this is a LONG one hehe, I am soo sorry, but I did promise (a long time ago) that I would write out the Sheryl interview that was on the radio here in Toronto from backstage at Lilith Fair. But I lost the tape..and just recently found it, so I finished writing it out and here it is! I was told I could try to put it in one e-mail but I had already typed out a few separate ones so I jut continued that way! Sheryl At Toronto Lilith Fair Aug.21/99 Interviewed by Yolan ? McLean for EZRock 97.3 (crappy station) Yolan speaks about how much fun Sheryl has been having at Lilith: Sheryl: Uh, it's been a lot of fun, actually it's been a lot more fun then I even thought because um..the way it's run, the way it's set up, it's so easy that the last thing I ever think about is anything that has to do with anything other than having fun, so it's been great, it's just been so..uh, carefree and easy going! EZ Rock: Why do you think it got such a rap in the press about women getting together? It was like this outrageous notion that women could tour, and get along and have a good time. Sheryl: I think it got a bad rap in the beginning because every promoter is male, and I mean...honestly, I don't know of any female promoters and I think typically promoters have now shied away from having women...all women bills because they don't think that men will buy tickets, and so when Sarah made her statement by putting together an all female bill and it became the biggest touring...uh biggest tour of the summer, it kinda defied all that, now there are all kinds of people who have kind of jumped on the bandwagon, I think the timliness of it has been real important, even more so than the fact that... um, it's all women. EZ Rock: Ya, I can see why though after 3 seasons, she would've had enough, it must be very...as positive as it is....it must be a very intense experience, your personal life kind of gets shifted to the side? Sheryl: Well they do, they work all year round on this thing, and the other thing that she's been really smart about is that these kinds of things, only have a certain amount of shelf life before it becomes so easially picked on...so, I think she's been really smart. (on writing songs) Sheryl: I think having all this freedom sometimes can be very intimidating, for me I just do what comes naturally, and generally that is when I write a song, I sit down with a bass, and a drummer and a guitar player, and I track it with the live vocal, and then I work from there, and if the vocals good enough to keep, I keep it, if the performance is good enough to keep, I keep it, if that leads into something else like a drum loop, or replacing everything, or slowing the tempo down or changing the groove, or whatever, you just basically go..you walk down the paths that you're led to, and when you hit a fork you choose one or the other, nothing's life or death, you have all the time in the world to finish it, you just have to continue to breathe through the process. EZ Rock: And you've got all the time in the world to finish it when you own your own studio, I mean, you made a fiscal and creative decision to create a space for yourself where you can just experiment as much as you want and not worry about anyone else spending money Sheryl: Well to me it just seems crazy how much money you spend making albums and.. (cut off by interviewer) EZ Rock: How much does it cost to make an album? Sheryl: Well, my first album cost like $230,000 and it takes a long time to pay that off, a lot of touring to pay that off, and so, um, and every album, I mean, generally, albums are like between $100,000 and $200,000 to make (EZ Rock: YIKES!), because you consider that when you are in a public studio you are paying, probably $1500 a day and it creates this wild, zaney energy that you must accomplish something everyday, if I'm paying this kind of money, I must get something on tape, and that doesn't really, to me, that doesn't really nurture your best work. So it just made more sense for me to take that $200,000 and buy a studio, that way I'll never have to pay again. So I put myself in debt, but once it's paid off, it's mine so, it makes more sense. -Leaving Las Vegas- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:24:46 -0500 From: "Christina Clark" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Toronto Lilith Interview Part 3 EZ Rock: When you look back, you were talking about older songs being snapshots, something like AIWD, which is really what kick started you into the scene, did you have any idea while you were making the song? Sheryl: No actually that song was uh, barely made the record, it was the last thing to make the record. And, I remember playing a cassette of my album to my little brother and he kept saying "that's going to be the big song" and I just was like ,he doesn't know, and he was totally right. He's like " me and my friends love that song, that's going to be the big song!", I kept saying "that song wasn't going to be on the album", so go figure. EZ Rock: Does that mean you don't like all your songs equally? Sheryl: I liked that song, and I still like that song, it still holds a lot of memory for me. The 90's in LA, Bush in office, Clinton getting ready to be elected, grunge music, apathy, people being sour, that's really what it was like, and that's what the song is really about. It's about people just saying I just want to get out of my head or I just want to have fun, I don't want to think about anything else, or see anything else, it's about checking out mentally, and I think that's pretty true. EZ Rock: But on the other side, you're an artist with a social conscience, and you get involved in things you believe in, have you always been a politically active person? Or with the celebrity comes the ability to do something about it? Sheryl: No, I've always been politically active, and just..I think fortunately and unfortunately, people look to celebrities as having a beat on what's going on. And I think with the amount of information that's out there right now, we're not the only ones that have a beat or a pulse on the different movements, and um, but I still find that the things that I am interested in motivate me to be involved, like anybody else. -All I Wanna Do- EZ Rock: When you are not touring and when you're not writing and recording, which I guess leaves very little time these days, what do you do for balance in your life? Sheryl: I am just the most normal person I know! I go to movies, hang out with friends, I read, I go jogging or go to yoga, um, just normal stuff. I love to junk shop for antiques and stuff like that, just normal stuff. EZ Rock: Living in NYC coming from the Midwest, does that feel like a home to you? Sheryl: Um..Nothing really feels like hime to me particularly. What feels like home to me is the house I grew up in, and when I get homesick, that's where I wanna go. EZ Rock: Your parents are there. Sheryl: Yeah. EZ Rock: That makes all the difference doesn't it? Now, making videos, you were talking a little bit earlier about celebrity and image around women is something a lot of people pay attention to, have you had to come to terms yet with seeing yourself on screen, it's not about the music it's about looking this way or that way? How have you processed all that? Most women don't have to deal with that, only a handful of celebrities have to have that experience. Sheryl: Well, it's not something that I really actually enjoy, I don't enjoy that aspect of my life, making videos and having people analyze what I'm wearing and stuff. I think at the end of the day, the only comment I can make about it is that I'm a member or an industry that is called the Entertainment Industry, and if people get bogged down in what I'm wearing or what my hair looks like or whatever, all I can say is that it's entertainment, it's entertainment to me, it's entertainment to whoever else and it's not really up for debate or up for analysis cause it doesn't really hold weight, and um, the hardest thing about it is that when there is so much visibility to the artist then it weakens the art, and I've gotten to the point where I am really reticent in the public eye unless it has to do only with music and not with anything else. EZ Rock: Right, I think some artists would not need to make videos if they could help it. Sheryl: I wouldn't make videos. I think it's a colossal waste of money, I think it's very manipulative, it's a commercial basically, for a song. And what you don't want to have done to your song is for somebody to create an image for it, you want that person to listen to your song in their bedroom and think "how did she know how I was feeling?" , as opposed to thinking of the girl in the fancy car, driving down the street in the video, you know? -ACWDYG- EZ Rock: The Bob Dylan track on this album "Mississippi", I know that he has been described as a role model or yours and that you are passionate about his talent, how did the gift of his song come to you? Sheryl: His manager called and said "Bob has a song he thinks you might wasnt to look at", it was great cause it was really timely, it was at a time I was kind of debating about where the album was weak and why wasn't I feeling like putting it out, and uh, at that moment when he called it seemed to kind of clarify things for me. EZ Rock: I was reading in an article, I know you shouldn't quote articles because you never know, but it said that you'd trade all those Grammy's for a relationship with him, for that approval from him, that it meant that much to you, was that taken out of context? Sheryl: Oh, I would never have said that, that's rediculous *EZ Rock laughing*...........I'd keep my Grammy's! Hahaha (sarcastic laugh), no, I mean, that's not even a good quote for someone to write. Um, it's really wonderful for me to have the respect of people that I admire because I was not a kid who got into music because I wanted to be famous, I wanted to be respected, I wanted to be validated, you know, it wasn't about being noticed. And the being noticed thing has always been something that's been kind of tricky for me, it's something I battle with all the time. There are days that I don't mind being noticed as long as I can control the environment, but on the whole, it's always been about trying to be great at something, it's always been aobut trying to get better and to please myself, to see it grow, and to feel like I'm getting at something. -Mississippi- ------------------------------ End of sheryl-crew-digest V3 #56 ********************************