From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V2 #64 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org 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 Friday, March 7 1997 Volume 02 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- delirium [agentorange2@juno.com] "Covering 'Em" [Bob Moyer ] Re: Judy G., Tori, and fandom [Richard Handal ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 12:08:11 EST From: agentorange2@juno.com Subject: delirium would deliruim please contact me... some of my mail got lost this morning and i have a message from you... thanks. - -rusty ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:09:08 -0500 From: Bob Moyer Subject: "Covering 'Em" Through a friend, I bought a copy of the Tori copy of the "Covering 'Em" bootleg series. Is good. Is live. Is pure love. For those of you desperately curious: 1) Whole lotta love 2) Thank you 3) Lovesong 4) Little drummer boy 5) Angie 6) Wrapped around your finger 7) Famous blue raincoat 8) A case of you 9) Ain't no sunshine 10) Imagine 11) American pie 12) Smells like teen spirit. - -- -Bob rahvin@wam.umd.edu http://horatio.dorm.umd.edu *)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*) "I can't go you said so and threads that are golden don't break easily" -Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:44:11 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: Judy G., Tori, and fandom Chelsea of Traumachikness said: > Tori burn out as quickly as Judy Garland? I'd like to think not! Bear in > mind the condition Judy was in at the time of her death, as a > speed-freak trapped in an unhappy marriage (if I remember correctly). > Tori seems to have a handle on who she is and where she's going in a way > Judy didn't. So I don't think that's as much of an issue. You're right that Judy was way messed up in a lot of ways. I'm not nearly as concerned about this turning into a real possibility with Tori as I was in recent times, although I do see a number of similarities between the two of them in some ways. (Not all of them sinister.) I *did* say I *had* "been somewhat concerned from time to time." I'm not entirely comfortable with the direction of this thread, but here we are and I'll go on a bit. Tori's arthritic wrist problem *could* *possibly* end up with her turning to chemical pain relief. I do hope she knows better than that, but it's something that has happened before with people who have chronic pain. Seeing a report from late in the tour that her breath smelled of tequila in the afternoon wasn't exactly confidence inspiring for me. Especially on the heels of reading that just a week or so before she'd left the stage in tears near the beginning of her October 23 Miami show, and had to have Beenie come back with her onstage to manage to get through Me and a Gun. And I was at the Richmond show on Saturday, August 17 and *watched* her wrist go south during the show. I was in the nosebleed section of the balcony, but I was TOTALLY screaming inside. I was scared silly for her after that until four days later, when I went up to Joel in Charlotte right before the show and asked him "How is her *wrist*?" He told me the day after Richmond they did nothing but hang out, and it was fine in time for Monday's Norfolk show. Certainly the Wednesday Charlotte show proved she was more than fine that night--she was transcendental. With the *current* state of Tori's wrist, Beenie can work wonders by massaging it. Will it get worse? Will Beenie always be there and able to help her? I hate to contemplate what Tori's state of mind might become were she suddenly unable to play piano--no matter *how* much she's been saying that she doesn't feel that it's like attached to her body anymore, the way she used to feel. Having said all that, I understand that she's in a good, relaxed, balanced place these days. I was told that fairly recently, and I must say that, along with the unparalleled forcefulness and balance with which she performed the last two shows of the tour in Boulder, along with the way she pulled off the RAINN concert, I definitely feel much better about the chances of her being able to remain healthy than I did not too long ago. Let us keep our fingers crossed that her wrist doesn't dramatically deteriorate anytime soon, and that having a band with her for the next tour takes much of the strain off of it and her. I have to consider that my main concern about her at this point. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V2 #64 ************************************