The Savage Gardener #106
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> YAY! Christmas is just 2 days away! I love
> Christmas! Anyhoo, I forgot to
> mention this last week, but you all know Sarah, the
> lovely girl who does the
> Savage Gardener's website, right (of COURSE you
> do!). She's coming to visit
> me next week, and I'm going to put the SGer out next
> Wednesday instead of
> Thursday. She arrives in Los Angeles on Wednesday,
> and I know I can't wait a
> full day before telling everybody what it was like!
> Plus, I'd like to spend
> that weekend with Sarah, so don't be surprised if I
> don't get to my email
> right away like I usually do! For those subscribed
> for a long time, Sarah's
> pretty famous so I know you'll love seeing the
> pictures of our adventures at
> Disneyland on New Year's Eve!
>
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SaVaGe
> NeWs
>
> **Congratulations, Savage Garden!! "Affirmation" has
> been certified
> PLATINUM!! That means 100,000 albums have been
> shipped out around the country.
>
> **More awesome awesome news!!! "I Knew I Loved You"
> is #2 on the Billboard
> charts (effective the week the single is released, I
> believe - for this week,
> the song is at #5) based on ADVANCE ORDERS alone!!!!
> Billboard is saying that
> "I Knew..." will very likely be the very first #1
> single of the new
> millennium! Congrats again, Darren and Daniel! I'm
> so so proud of you!
>
> **"Affirmation" is at #22 on the Billboard charts
> for the 3rd week straight.
>
> **On Rick Dees's Top 80 (part 40-80) of the 1990s,
> "Truly Madly Deeply" came
> in at #47 (should have been #1 in all seriousness.
> It had the most phenomenal
> charting run I've ever seen).
>
> **The video for "I Knew..." is up to #2 on VH1's Top
> 10 Countdown. Thanks to
> [email protected] for the info!
>
> **Darren's remake of George Michaels's "Last
> Christmas" is having pretty nice
> airplay in many areas around the country! Thanks to
> [email protected] for the
> info!
>
> **Darren is in the new issue of YM (February).
> Thanks to [email protected]
> for the info!
>
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SaVaGe CoMmEnTs
>
> It is not in when you love it, why you love it,
> where you love it or who you
> love. Its simply how you go about it. There will
> always be the teenyboppers
> who go for the looks and flit constantly from the
> hottest picks of the
> litter. There will always be the lunatics who just
> seem to want to complain
> and oppose everything, and there will always be the
> people who simply love
> what they love and don't care what others think. I
> believe as long as you
> love whatever it is you find, that you should simply
> enjoy it! You shouldn't
> worry about wether or not they hear your words, or
> wether or not they
> disagree with you on some points. I have personally
> loved Savage Garden
> since the moment I heard 'I Want You' when it was
> released. I slowly grew in
> my love until I was completely immersed in it. It
> was part of my own
> identity. I would stand up for it, could justify it
> and knew how real it
> was. I still do, every time I sit and listen to any
> of their CD's. And when
> I hear all the noise and bickering that people go
> through (especially on the
> BBS) I want to scream. What happened to the simple
> pleasures of just plain
> loving their music, regardless of wether they hear
> you. Then I go and press
> play on my CD players and all that 'noise'
> dissapaits and I can feel that the
> simplicity is still there, only hidden from those
> times when its afraid of
> all that constant bickering. What I'm really trying
> to say is, a fan is a
> fan whatever way you look at it. But where have
> those people who really are
> fans, gone?
>
> I guess the BBS really does taint the fanbase which
> I really have respected
> for being the way it was. Its changed a lot with
> the new album, and I'm
> happy for them in a way. I do want them to be
> succesful, but I wish the fans
> would respect it the way we do. I wish they could
> accept our negative
> opinions and our positive. Being a fan doesnt mean
> agreeing with what they
> say. Now they just can't let it be as simple as it
> should. I wanna help and
> get us heard, try and bring redemption to Savage
> Garden fans. Also I just
> wanted to get my opinion out...sorry I had to dump
> it on you. You don't have
> to post it in the news letter unless you really want
> to. I'm kinda late for
> it anyway. Well thanks for listening if you did
> Lauren. Cause your totally
> awesome, and your newsletter is about the only safe
> place where we can
> express ourselves and love SG as much as we do
> (which is a lot!) at the same
> time! :) Thanks again, and keep up the good work!!!
>
> [email protected]
>
> I put this in here because I love what she said
> about why the new wave of
> fans are making being a Savage Garden fan much more
> complicated than it
> should be. Will it ever be the way it once was?
> ~Lauren
>
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> as some of you know I'm working on a savage garden
> tribute to give to the
> guys...but I'm also tying it in with a
> charity*shriners hospitals for
> children* but all the charity details haven't been
> worked out yet, anyway on
> with the point...I need more contributions to the
> tribute*artwork,poetry,whatever*so if anyone is
> interested in contributing to
> either email me
> ( [email protected] ) and I'll send
> you the information as
> soon as I get it. :)
>
> [email protected]
>
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> ok, <A
>
HREF="http://www.ecrush.com/celebs.phtml?start=10&end=35">Crush
> on
> eCRUSH - Find out if your crush likes you - without
> the risk of rejection -
> free. Got a crush? Want to know if it's</A> or
> http://www.erush.com has this
> survey type thing that has a place for the top 200
> celebrity fantasy crushes.
>
> the current places are.... *drum roll
> pppllleeeeeeaaassseee*
> 12. DARREN HAYES
> 13. DANIEL JONES
> go to http://www.ecrush.com and go down to the
> bottom in the orange on the
> right is the top 10 celebrities.
>
PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE
> VOTE for DARREN AND
> DANIEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go here to
> vote....<A
>
HREF="http://www.ecrush.com/celebs_vote.phtml">Vote</A>
> or
> http://www.ecrush.com/celebs_vote.phtml. i would
> really like to get them to
> NUMBER 1!!!!!! so please vote for darren and daniel
> once or twice at least!
> one vote helps! :o)
>
> [email protected]
>
>
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Savage Classifieds
>
> I'm interested in getting "A Very Rosie Christmas,"
> Rosie O'Donnell's
> Christmas album, with Darren's version of "Last
> Christmas." But I will have
> to buy it because I don't think I have anything
> SG-related to trade, as SG
> stuff here in the Philippines are scarce (aside from
> the usual albums).
> Unless someone wants something from here in the
> Philippines. If anyone is
> interested in dreamy-type music, I could trade the
> album for one of a local
> band's (Sugar Hiccup), which is my favourite local
> band. (I might be able to
> send .ra sample files.) I know it's not related,
> but oh well, I don't know
> what else I can give, and I can't find Rosie's album
> here!!
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> [email protected]
>
>
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> Are you looking for a tape of a performance, a CD,
> posters, or anything else
> Savage-related? If so, put an ad in the new section
> - Savage Classifieds.
> This is for any kind of merchandise for Savage
> Garden that you're looking for
> or selling. You can put an ad in if you're looking
> for something, selling
> something, or looking to trade something.
>
> Remember, if you want to respond to an ad, email the
> person who placed it
> (their email address will always be included), not
> me.
>
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> **Alrighty, here's the story I've been promising you
> for 2 weeks! To recap
> what happened, the story I'm about to post was put
> on the BBS (Sony's Savage
> Garden message board). This girl wanted to share her
> (not so good) experience
> meeting Savage Garden, and when she did, a good
> majority of the group jumped
> on her back and told her "respect Darren and Daniel
> as human beings" and to
> not post things like that here. As you'll read in a
> minute, she was NOTHING
> but polite and completely respectful. She understood
> Darren's behavior and
> restated that many times. Yet the BBS people still
> treated her like dirt. I
> was furious at the responses I read to her story, so
> I messaged her privately
> and it broke my heart to read her response - that
> she was so grateful for my
> message because the people on the BBS were treating
> her horribly and made her
> feel bad for speaking about her experience. She told
> me that one girl said
> that the last time a girl posted about a negative
> meeting, Darren left a
> message for her (which was very kind of him, I
> think). This girl went on to
> say that since she's a "superfan", SHE should get
> the message from Darren.
> Disgusting! Anyhoo, after getting permission from
> Tina to post her story
> here, I finally have it for you!
>
> "I´m one of the lucky ones who have met Savage
> Garden. I have never met them
> before, because it is seldom that a big band like
> them are going to a small
> country like Denmark. But this time, they did, and
> as the BIG fan I am, I
> just HAD to go see them. (I need to mention that I
> had to travel 300 km and
> spend about 100$ before I could see them perform TWO
> live numbers in a tv
> show) Well that point didn´t matter!
>
> I was very exited to meet the guys in real life as
> you may could imagine! As
> the show went by, Savage Garden went on stage and
> smiled & Later they went on
> stage again and performed The animal song.......It
> was very great, and
> everybody in the studio was with them, probably
> because almost everyone in
> the show was SG fan. Even the host of the show.
>
> BUT then it went wrong.......there were problems
> with the cameras, and when
> they were done with TAS, somebody told Darren that
> they had to take it one
> more time. Then Darren went mad, he didn´t want to
> sing again, he yelled at
> his manager and so on, probably because he wasn´t
> feeling very well. I talked
> to some other girls, and we agreed that we would
> “run†down to the guys
> after their last performance, and so we did. But
> then Darren made a
> behaviour that I would never have dreamed of, he ran
> out on us, and refused
> to give autographs. He took Leonie in his hand and
> ran away. And YES, he
> realy did RUN away.
>
> While Dazza disappointed us so much, Daniel was kind
> enough to give us his
> autograph before his waved at us fans who was just
> DYING by looking at them!
> Darren was pretty sick that day, so he wasn´t in a
> very good mood. Before
> they went on stage they stod about 1 meter from us,
> preparing to do their
> show. WAUW! I must say, THAT was killing me……to
> look at Daz soooo close, and
> not being able to actually speak to him.
>
> Then they went on stage and sang IKILY and Dazza was
> terrific! JUST GREAT! I
> any of you guys have ever thought about the feelings
> he puts in the words of
> the songs, then you should see him sing in real
> life…….THAT makes it all
> worth living.
>
> After the show we saw Darren and Leonie walking in
> front of us, so we asked
> him kindly to give us his autograph, but then again
> he ran away. I think that
> Leonie is a bit over protecting about Darren. We
> were told by a another
> manager, that he would come out later to talk to us
> so we waited. Then SG´s
> manager came out and told us to split, because the
> guys weren´t coming out. I
> went away from the studio feeling a SO sad....I was
> told that SG was so fan
> friendly???? I have been a fan for 3 years, and I
> had waited for this moment
> for a long, long time! I felt that they just didn´t
> want to talk to us, and
> that made me sad.
>
> Ok, I totally respect that Darren was sick, but then
> at least Dan and the
> rest of the band could have comed out to talk a bit
> to us fans, who was
> really SCREAMING to them.
>
> I´m still a fan, but I´m VERY disappointed
that it
> turned out that way,
> meeting the guys i love so deeply much!
>
> It really was a great show, and i´m proud to say
> that i have met them in real
> life, i´m just VERY disappointed that the camera
> – thing made Daz mad.
>
> Hugs
> Tina"
>
> That's it for this week! As I said, the SGer will be
> out a day early due to
> the arrival of my dear dear friend, Sarah, from
> Australia! Let's all wish
> Sarah and her brother a safe flight! Because Sarah
> will be gone a few weeks,
> the SGer's site won't be updated, so you're
> forewarned! In the meantime,
> catch ya next week (talk to you next week LITERALLY,
> Sarah!)! Also, Merry
> Christmas!
>
> Peace, love, and Savage Garden!
> Lauren ( <A HREF="mailto:
> [email protected]">[email protected]</A> )
>
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> Jones. I wish I did, but
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