From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #53 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Thursday, 11 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: the IRC fiasco Re: the IRC fiasco Re: tori on letterman symphonies Re: symphonies Re: tori on letterman Big Tori Web list Re: symphonies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: FroggyJen@aol.com Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:40:34 -0400 Subject: Re: the IRC fiasco Regarding this whole crazy thing, I've got a complete transcript of EVERYTHING that was on AOL, including a LITTLE bit of Tori before AOL crashed. I've also got the entire trivia thing, so, if it's OK with everyone, I'll go ahead and post those tonight. Jen ------------------------------ From: greybeard loon Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:13:35 -0400 Subject: Re: the IRC fiasco Also sprach abbe@MIT.EDU: >Tori did post once >through the MTV guy, MTVMattP; he asked a question about religion and >she answered for a bit. huh. i guess i must have been lucky then. i tried to connect once around 7:40 or so and actually got on and saw this answer. she was talking about "mohammed my friend" and explained that the song is about how the female aspects of spirituality have been stripped away from religion. after a short burst of quick text, it dried up, though i was still connected. i got tired of el screeno blanko and quit. tried to connect again later without luck. glad to know that i didn't miss anything else (unpleasant system crashers nonwithstanding). woj ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: tori on letterman On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, greybeard loon wrote: > i stayed up way past my bedtime to catch tori on letterman last night > and was a little disappointed. the choice of song was nice (i wonder if > she, as usual, had no idea what song she was playing before walking out > on stage or if the producers had her pick the song in advance), but the > performance was flat and didn't really impress me. Hmm. I finally had a chance to see my taped copy yesterday. It seemed like she was putting a lot into the performance, but I always feel as though tv performances are flat. Maybe because I just have a 13" tv. Anyway, I didn't find it particularly flat. I did like her beating again the piano for percussion and the movement of her hands in the middle. Seemed more expressive than she can usually be with a camera. I'm beginning to think that if I can't see her in a small club anymore I would like to see her out from behind the piano sometime with a band. I think she'd have fun--that's the one thing about "The Big PIcture" video--she really seems to be having a blast. Funny, I never thought this before but the girl-and-a-piano thing has to be intimate to work and it just isn't anymore. - --Neile ------------------------------ From: "Lucy M Carey" Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: symphonies I was thinking. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see Tori play her piano, along with a full orchestral accompanyment? So many of her songs have strings and horns and stuff in it, I think it would be great to hear that all put together live! Anyone agree? Lucy ------------------------------ From: Karen Hester Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:57:59 +0000 Subject: Re: symphonies On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Lucy M Carey wrote: > I was thinking. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see Tori play her piano, along > with a full orchestral accompanyment? So many of her songs have strings and > horns and stuff in it, I think it would be great to hear that all put together > live! > Anyone agree? Yes and no ;). That's an irritating answer so I'll explain: my problem is with full orchestral arrangements and how they become a syrupy background to a song. Soaring strings in tear-jerking movie music romantic mode would be lovely but a bit unfulfilling to me. Well, *very* lovely but unfulfilling. When pop/rock and classical meet it doesn't usually do so on challenging terrain, it's just 'let's slap a mass of shimmering violins behind the vocals.' There are so many scary and amazing sounds that can come out of all the instruments of an orchestra that get ignored, the screeching of bows above the bridge, growling of lower strings, all the whispers and shrieks and moo-ing of the woodwind and brass sections... imagine Professional Widow done with bombastic tubas and percussion... oooh, and a longer Mr Zebra. What I would really love to hear though would be smaller arrangements - chamber music. Kristin Hersh did some interesting stuff along those lines and it can lead to more of a reinterpretation of the songs rather than the vocal track plus orchestral backing thing. How about Blood Roses fleshed out with more baroque instruments... and something with Tori howling beside the haunting wail of the oboe? This is fun, Lucy. Which songs in particular would you like re-arranged? Karen.Hester@vuw.ac.nz ------------------------------ From: HppyPhntom@aol.com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:23:27 -0400 Subject: Re: tori on letterman In a message dated 96-04-09 19:05:18 EDT, woj@terrapin.rutgers.edu (greybeard loon) writes: >i stayed up way past my bedtime to catch tori on letterman last night >and was a little disappointed. the choice of song was nice (i wonder if >she, as usual, had no idea what song she was playing before walking out >on stage or if the producers had her pick the song in advance), but the >performance was flat and didn't really impress me. > >anyone else feel likewise? > > i'm glad someone brought it up...i was afraid that i was the only one that felt that way. i thought i lacked someof the *energy* that is usually there when tori plays live...i was also a little dissapointed about the song that she played...l do like *muhammad my friend*, but it's not one of my favorites....but she was great even if i was a little dissapointed. *the glitter girl* ------------------------------ From: joshu@umr.edu Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 23:15:52 -0600 (CDT) Subject: Big Tori Web list I thought maybe people might be interested in this site: http://american.recordings.com/WWWoM/ubl/A.shtml That's the A index for the Ultimate Band List. The direct link seems to be a numbered page that constantly changes when new artists are added, so just find Tori on the index; it's got a really nice listing, I especially like all the sound links. One of the pages (http://cust.iamerica.net/armyofme/toriwave.htm) had some really cool stuff, like an inpromptu tori version of "whoomp there it is" heheh. Bye bye. - -- du ub pq qjT " u_ u " Tjp pq du ub dM~W~Mb .d b. qT N^8_N Tp .d b. dM~W~Mb qM Mp dBbdBb TI T ^T IT dBbdBb qM Mp q p P T JBb _. ._ dBL P T q p . . . . ~TBbodBT TBbodBT~ . . . . `~` `~` MaLjaMiN Josh Sutterfield joshu@umr.edu http://www.umr.edu/~joshu ------------------------------ From: Adam Thomas Heath Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 23:48:48 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: symphonies On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Lucy M Carey wrote: > I was thinking. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see Tori play her piano, along > with a full orchestral accompanyment? So many of her songs have strings and > horns and stuff in it, I think it would be great to hear that all put together > live! > Anyone agree? > Lucy > That would be awesome!!! Adam ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #53 ************************************