From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #80 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 Tuesday, 14 May 1996 Volume 01 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More Tori in New Haven thoughts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Curry Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:44:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: More Tori in New Haven thoughts Hi all, Thank you, thank you, thank you Meredith for posting such a long and detailed review of Tori's two shows. :) I was planning on writing something, but seeing Tori tends to drive things like set lists and other details right out of my head. In case any of you were wondering, I attended both shows with Meredith, my fellow list-owner woj, and several other pretty cool people (including list member Don Keller). Were there any other people from the list there? My opinions pretty much match Meredith's about both shows. I thought the first show was an "average" Tori performance... which means it was pretty damn amazing. In fact, if the second show had simply been as good as the first I would have been very happy. Instead the second show was absolutely brilliant! The song selection, the music, the between song banter... all fuckin' brilliant. Ahhhhh.... bliss. :) Even though I had read other people's favorable comments about Steve Caton I wasn't sure how I would react to having another musician playing along with Tori, but I thought he fit in perfectly and really added to some of the songs (especially Honey). I agree with Meredith that perhaps adding other musicians might be a good thing. *Not* a band, but just other musicians who would join Tori on stage one or two at a time for certain songs. Maybe a cellist? I saw the perfect candidate Friday night at the Tin Angel in Philly. :) Of course no performance is without it's minor flaws. I know its possible to come up with a great light show that doesn't involve blinding the audience (for example, the various light shows on Sarah McLachlan's FTE tour). And the long "girrrrrrrrlll" in Precious Things feels so contrived that its no longer the joy it was the first time I heard it. I'm the one who first referred to it as a "stunt", because to me the atmosphere as the moment approached was like waiting for Evil Kinevil to jump over a row of cars. But those are just very minor quibbles. :) Though I plan to avoid seeing Tori in the huge venues she's playing this summer I certainly hope that she'll be by again in theatre-sized settings later on this tour. Mike | Michael Curry / mcurry@world.std.com / mcurry@io.com | | Reaching-From-Nowhere -- The Milla Mailing List | | reaching-from-nowhere-request@ecto.org | | Precious-Things -- The Other Tori Amos Discussion List | | precious-things-request@smoe.org | ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #80 ************************************