From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #123 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 Sunday, 7 July 1996 Volume 01 : Number 123 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Entertainment Weekly, July 12, 1996 - CHECK IT OUT!!! tori on tv, transcriptions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Miguel A. Gonzalez" Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 20:25:45 -0500 Subject: Entertainment Weekly, July 12, 1996 - CHECK IT OUT!!! A small cover story of note... Tori Amos Why Can't Her Fans Get Enough? Great article. Look for it in your mailbox now, or newsstands this week. ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 22:29:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: tori on tv, transcriptions Hi! Way back when, Chris Blunck inquired: >I'm curious how many people caught Tori singing Hey Jupiter last night on >The Tonight Show with Jay Leno? We caught it on videotape. :) >She looked really great! Not as good as during the Unplugged show, but light-years better than on Crossroads... >1.) What was the writing on her hand for? I remember in concert in >Washington DC she messed up the lyrics to this song and was kinda >embarassed by it. It didn't look like lyrics... maybe shorthand notes to remind herself of how she was going to chop up the song? >2.) Did she sing all the lyrics? I listen to that song a lot and it >seemed like she skipped the part where she says "thought I knew myself so >well, all the dolls I had ... Took my leather off the shelf, your >apocalypse was fab..." Yep, she did a nice little slash job on it. Interestingly enough, she cut it differently than she did on Regis & Kathie Lee, but it ended up to be a similar length. Amazing. Suzanne inquired: > does anyone else actually PLAY tori's songs on the piano? i have all >her albums' songbooks, and i want the bee sides. but some of the >arrangements in the book are pretty questionable, i.e. they made happy >phantom repeat and fade, precious things has a weird arrangement after >"tucked inside the heart of every nice girl," and they left out a billion >chords and notes in cloud on my tongue. That's interesting, because back when the _LE_ songbook came out, there was a lot of talk about how Tori worked very hard doing everything herself, to make sure that it all came out as close as possible without being too horribly difficult. > out of the three, though, the boys for pele book has the best >arrangements, although there are some hard ones. That really surprises me, since the rest of the book seems so rushed (the pictures et al. are only reproductions of the liner notes, for example), I would have expected the arrangements to be relatively poor. Just goes to show that you never know. > this is on topic. yes, it is. don't try to tell me that it >isn't...:) oh, well... It's exceptionally on topic! Thanks for your insightful comments -- I can't recall seeing anything so thorough about the transcriptions anywhere. If I still played and had a piano nearby, I would find your comments even more valuable. woj reposted: >>On Monday July 8, 19:30 CET, the dutch TV channel NEDERLAND 3 will air >>an OLD 15 minute documentary (Lola looks back) about Tori Amos. >> >>This was recorded near the end of 1992. It contains fragments of a concert >>in Rotterdam and a visit to a piano shop in London. I strongly encourage all with access to this channel to check this out. The interview in the piano shop is one of the best I've ever seen with Tori, even now. As you can imagine, piano shops are special places to her, and the location makes the interview downright magical. Finally, anyone who missed Tori's introduction to the Neil Gaiman compliation DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING can see it at the end of an anthology edited by Neil and Ed Kramer called _The Sandman: Book of Dreams_, which is just out from Harper Prism. The anthology is a collection of stories by the likes of John M. Ford, Barbara Hambly, Will Shetterly, Steven Brust, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, and many others. Be warned, though: due to the weird vagaries of the comics business the authors of these stories were forced to give up their rights to their stories when they sold them to the anthology, which means that D.C. Comics holds the copyright and not the individual authors. Had I been aware of this beforehand, I would not have bought the book. But if you don't care about copyright and simply must have this book, it's available at comics shops and bookstores everywhere, I should think. Meredith meth@delphi.com "I know that mess spelled backwards in ssem, and I felt much better armed with that information." -- Tori Amos in the introduction to DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #123 *************************************