From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #51 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 Saturday, February 20 1999 Volume 04 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: tori boots [ToriBoi@aol.com] Thoughts...of Tori covering Led Zep ["sex monkey...that funky monkey!" ] Re: happy little Northern Lad [Beth Coulter ] Re: technical elements of Tori's music? [Richard Handal ] Re: covers [cypresj@compsys.com] Rasberry Swirl Necklace [Bob Moyer ] Re: RE: 1)anastasia 2)tori's height [Summer Smith ] Tori on HT Radio? [JiVaDiVa@aol.com] Storytellers [The Mermaid ] Tori Handwritten Booklet...help? ["trent." ] Songs that Tori could cover [Kiss of Death ] Fwd: My Tori Dream. PT 7. Nov.14 New York City [lauraguay ] My Tori trip.. addendum [lauraguay ] braindead. [lauraguay ] Tori on FANatic 03/24! ["Julia K." ] Re: Thoughts...of Tori covering Led Zep [Dangalee@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:37:16 EST From: ToriBoi@aol.com Subject: Re: tori boots Tori Amos - Bootleg Discography- April 9, 1998 http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4370/tabdnew.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:52:14 -0500 From: "sex monkey...that funky monkey!" Subject: Thoughts...of Tori covering Led Zep >I don't know about anyone else, but I would love to hear Tori cover Led Zep's >"Going to California". It's my favorite song of theirs, and only Tori could do >it as well as Robert. That's my two cents! > >Amy I agree. Going to Cali is one of the greatest, and yet saddest, songs of all time. Someone once told me that the lines: "someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair" is his image of his perfect woman. I never forgot that. It's such a moving song. My favorite, which I rarely (and purposely) listen to is "I'm Gonna Crawl." love, Vicki ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:53:52 -0500 From: "sex monkey...that funky monkey!" Subject: Re: Thoughts right now. >ok ive stated this before. >and ill say it again >but i think that if tori covered Lou Reeds >Perfect Day then my life would be complete. >ahhh....dreaming..... >blue skies >rachel my god, i never thought of that song before...that would be lovely, absolutely lovely. I like Lou Reeds version very much, it's absolutely beautiful...let the goddess cover it, and it's heavenly. love, Vicki ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:36:44 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: My Tori trip/dream pt.8 Amherst, MA Laura was talking about after the November 15, 1998 Amherst concert: > When she got on the bus, MR.Puppethead made an appearance. He came out > from the window and I got the chance to take a picture. At the same very > moment I heard Linda's lungs at maximum power screaming "MISTER FUCKIN' > PUPPETHEAD, MISTER FUCKIN' PUPPETHEAD, MISTER FUCKIN'PUPPETHEAD" That > cracked me up, I couldn't see her as she was all the way to the right > and I was still at the barricades... But I saw that at that time > MR.Puppethead gave room for Joel to try see who was screaming that. > > Hilarious. And, Laura, you may not know this. I think Linda may have found this out after you left the tour, and I don't remember telling you, but at some point later on the tour, Linda was talking to Joel about that incident, and told him it had been her screaming that then, during which time, as you said, Joel was trying to figure out who it was doing the screaming. He hadn't been able to see that it was Linda screaming, but he told her the entire bus was roaring with laughter when she did that. I was sorry I had missed all that. Mr. Puppethead turned into a regular source of surreal entertainment toward the end of the tour. :-) Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:59:03 -0500 From: Beth Coulter Subject: Re: happy little Northern Lad At 04:35 PM 2/18/99 -0700, Holly Rae Bemis wrote: >Whenever it was that I read that Tori suggested that Northern Lad was about >Mark, in the Storytellers review by Bethey, she said something like "and >I'm not supposed to say this, we had this deal,....but then I married >him..." but I remember thinking, "hmm, that's interesting," because I had >always thought of that song as kind of sad, like a relationship >ending.....and here she was inferring it was about her now husband..... If I may, from my Storyteller's review: >More Stories. Tori said there was one thing that has been kept out of the media, and she can only thank her girlfriends (and some boy-friends) that have been loyal to her. In between her Sylvia Plath and heavy classics and non-fiction, she used to have books like The Flames of Love, etc. Trashy romance novels. She felt ashamed, but was so hooked on them. But one day she was talking to Beene and was reminded how she used to always read them but not anymore, and why was that? "Because I met this guy, he's no white knight, but I wrote this for him." and went into Northern Lad. After she finished, she told us, "I'm really not supposed to talk about him, see we made a deal; I married him." > >At this point, there was a problem with one of the lights, so everything stopped while Kevin gave Tori a "Lip Gloss Boost" and then asked if the person with the last question wanted to ask it now during the break. Chris stood up and told her back in '96, he was one of about 8 people at this radio station and she had played a new song, that is now "Never Seen Blue". He wanted to know where it had come from. Tori was a bit surprised; "I did? I sang that? Oh shit. See, it's about the same guy that I'm not supposed to talk about about and I lied about Northern Lad and I don't have another lie." And she played it. So beautiful. >From what I've been told, both of these stories have been cut. But always, always keep in mind, Tori Amos is the Queen of Misleading Statements. She doesn't *always* say what she means, nor means what she says. I kinda like that quirk myself. Makes her much more interesting. Besides, she gives so much of herself in song, she's allowed to small deceptions. Fairy Blessings, Bethey I'm OK when everything's not OK cause it's the Fairies Revenge they say and I have always been a Fairy *************************************************************** *~**Fairy Blessings**~* ~~ tori trades and really deep thoughts~ a proud member of the Tori Traders Ring updated at least monthly http://www.angelfire.com/pa/bethey/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: technical elements of Tori's music? Jake (in the guise of David Morley) asked: > Richard's post from several days ago regarding the level of music > education in the music industry caused me to wonder if any of you > know of articles or interviews where the technical aspects of Tori's > music actually are discussed, i.e. tonal structure, harmonies, > dynamics, etc. The most technical writing *I've* seen which discusses Tori's music is a concert review by the Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic of the Boston Phoenix, which I've included below. If other folks have good technical articles, please send them in. I'm convinced that Tori is doing a large number of musically revolutionary things, but that most of them are wildly underappreciated by serious students of music--either because some of those things are over the heads of many, or simply due to a lack of exposure to them. Would that I had the knowledge to discuss these things with authority and credibility... All I know is I've heard lots of many far-flung types of music from around the world (South African Township Jive of the 1950s or Polynesian choral polyphony, anyone?), and no one else's music comes close to moving me deep inside with such reliable consistency as Tori's work. Do I love every note she ever played? No. Am I head-over-heels for every song she ever composed? No. I've never been afraid to let my feelings be known when I've been underwhelmed, although it has been rare, I admit. I truly believe that Tori's music is on the genius level of, say, Duke Ellington; and if she ever gets the respect she deserves, she will eventually be taught in music schools as an important composer and performer of popular music who, by then, will have majorly influenced at least one generation of musicians. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ___________________________________________________________________________ http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/music/reviews/09-19-96/TORI_AMOS.html September 19 - 26, 1 9 9 6 Vic-TORI-ous Ms. Amos at Harborlights by Lloyd Schwartz Last spring I ran into a former student of mine on his way to Tori Amos's concert at the Wang Center. Tori Amos. I'd seen the art-rock phenom on Letterman and liked her, but my student's passion was another matter. Some friends played me her impressive debut album, Little Earthquakes; then I heard "Horses" on her recent Boys for Pele, and I was hooked. Her riveting Harborlights concert last week was my first live experience with her, and I'm even more impressed. Amos was a classical child prodigy. She's now 32 and her musicianship is stunning. She writes her own songs, and whether hard-rocking or languorous, they have a rhythmic punch -- and lilt -- that never lets you off the hook. She's also one of the few rock composers I've heard who has a gift for melody. Her best tunes have a surprising little bump in the melodic line, an intervallic leap -- suddenly there, not led up to -- that takes your breath away, then lodges in your mind and keeps you awake nights. Like Schubert or Brahms. The songs are ambitious -- often five or six minutes long, with complex musical structures more like opera arias than pop songs. There's also her voice -- it's one of the rangiest in pop music. The Globe's Steve Morse called her "Edith Piaf on acid." If she didn't sound so much like herself, you could mistake her at times for anyone from Bonnie Raitt to Barbara Streisand. Amos's "Somewhere over the Rainbow," on her latest extended-play CD, Hey Jupiter, wouldn't have been possible without Streisand's famously slow "Happy Days Are Here Again." In "Little Amsterdam," a sultry number about murder and miscegenation, she reminds me of Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit." She's got a scratchy sexual rasp that she "plays" the way a flute player plays Berio's flutter-tonguing, and an erotic little-girl breathiness that makes me think of Marilyn Monroe. In "Sugar," she actually sang away from the mike, her voice eerily disembodied. But she also has a firm classical soprano that has more body than Linda Ronstadt's. Amos must also be one of the most dextrous and inventive keyboard players in the business. At Harborlights, she straddled one or another corner of a square piano bench, which allowed her to turn to the huge amplified Bosendorfer on her left or to the facing harpsichord on her right, which she played with either mock-Baroque delicacy or pounding percussiveness. She actually seemed to be riding the "Horses" that would take her to a place where her demons can't go. In "Caught a Lite Sneeze," she switched back and forth between both instruments, rhythmically slapping the side of the amplified piano and even her amplified self. Part of the terror of "Little Amsterdam" was her left-hand boogie-woogie piano. "Horses" was something of a surprise on another front. On Boys for Pele, it's a haunting, even teasing folk song with a simple but exquisite tune -- a poignant, dreamlike escape from personal nightmare and search for a sexual Eden ("You showed me the meadow/And Milkwood/And Silkwood/And you would if I would/But you never would"). The live version was different. The amplified piano sound was overwhelming, and Amos's improvisations -- more like jazz than rock, especially the keyboard work -- gave the song quite a different spin. It was bigger, harsher, as if coming from within the nightmare itself. People familiar with the songs were getting not mere live re-creations or imitations of what's on the albums but entirely new versions (you can hear similar live concert material on her EPs), some with radical rhythmic syncopations and changes of tempo and texture. These changes underlined how powerfully this concert -- like the albums -- was put together to show off Amos's range as singer, player, and songwriter. A very uptempo "Talula" (with Steve Caton's powerful guitar and the colored lights swooping and weaving -- you might recognize the song from the soundtrack of Twister) was followed by "Me and a Gun," Amos's autobiographical ballad about a rape from Little Earthquakes, which she sang quietly, without any instrumental accompaniment, and sitting on the edge of her piano bench, leaning in toward the audience with her legs tightly crossed. This live version was even more up-close and intensely personal than the recording, and all the more dramatic coming after the driving "Talula." She followed it with the children's song "This Old Man" ("He plays two, he plays nick-nack on my shoe"). I never thought that song had any suggestive content before, but I sure do now. Many of Amos's fans -- and I count myself among them -- have trouble with the obscurity and private references in her lyrics. Only after I read several articles did I learn that the "Neil" she mentions in "Horses" ("But will you find me if Neil/Makes me a tree an afro a pharaoh?/I can't go/You said so") is the cartoonist Neil Gaiman, who based his character Delirium on her. I'm daunted by some of the disjointed surrealism. Is Talula a "her," "him," or "it"? What's the execution of Anne Boleyn doing in that song? Some of the words seem chosen more for sound than for meaning. Since these are songs, not poems, the music mainly transcends the knottiest lyrics. But many of the lyrics have real literary merit. Amos is a ventriloquist, often speaking in more than one voice in a single song. In "Mother," she's both the nurturing life force ("Go go go go now out of the nest") and the tentative young bird flying off ("Mother the car is here, somebody leave the light on"). Even when I can't follow the narrative, there are at least such evocative lines as "These little earthquakes -- doesn't take much to rip us into pieces" or "So you can make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus" ("Precious Things"). And there are trenchant psychological insights. "Boy you still look pretty/When you're putting the damage on," she sings ("Putting the Damage On") in one of the best it's-over-but-you-still-turn-me-on songs I know. In "Me and a Gun" what goes through the rape victim's head is: "I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of this." The production itself, full of geometrical, Kandinsky-like light patterns, was slickly, even elegantly atmospheric. Amos herself seemed to change color with the gels. She flung her head back; she danced; then she reached a sudden stillness. At the end of this generous two-hour set, a harmonium was wheeled out to replace the harpsichord. She launched into her final encore, a positively apocalyptic version of Prince's "Purple Rain": "I don't do this very often," she said. And she seemed on intimate terms with her 5000 fans in the audience. When a woman yelled out, "I saw Trainspotting in Hebrew," Amos responded, "I've done all sorts of things in Hebrew. Hey, I'm a minister's daughter, I'll try almost anything." Copyright (c) 1996 The Phoenix Media/Communications Group. All rights reserved. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:15:47 -0500 From: cypresj@compsys.com Subject: Re: covers How about a slow version of Bjork's "Enjoy"? - -jen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:01:17 -0500 From: Bob Moyer Subject: Rasberry Swirl Necklace Hey, has anyone seen any of the Rasberry Swirl necklaces being sold anyplace? I've looked at Here and eBay. -Bob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:18:49 -0400 From: Summer Smith Subject: Re: RE: 1)anastasia 2)tori's height oh wow, i'm eye level to tori also. I was so surprised when she was standing in front of me that we were eye level. On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:53:00 -0500 Jenelle Campion wrote: > > she's 5'2", i remember her saying it somewhere and being impressed that we were the same height > > On Wednesday, February 17, 1999 4:59 PM, the [SMTP:promisebreaker@usa.net] wrote: > > > > > > i was looking at a sountrack for anastasia (the fox animated movie) and > > noticed the little atlantic square on it...and...it would've been wonderful > > had tori done a version of "once upon a december"... > > > > also...always seems like she's wearing platforms and heels...can anyone > > estimate tori's height for me? i was just wondering... > > > > happy thoughts, > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:04:23 PST From: "Kenneth Lassiter" Subject: Re: Songs for Tori to cover I think Tori could do a whole album of Doors covers. C'mon, who wouldn't want to hear her do "Riders on the Storm," "The End," "Indian Summer," "Light My Fire," or "L.A. Woman"? All those songs had organ parts and deep content that Tori could work wonders with. Zeppelin songs like "Going to California" (which was previously mentioned), "D'yer Mak'er" and "Ramble On" would also be cool Tori covers. There are many many other songs it would be cool to hear Tori's take on, but we'll have to wait and see which covers she unveils next, I guess. Thanks, Kenneth >From: intella-ed@juno.com >To: precious-things@smoe.org >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:20:57 -0600 >Subject: Songs for Tori to cover >Reply-To: intella-ed@juno.com > > >Personally I would love to see Tori cover these songs: > >Burn- The Cure >How can I be sure- The Rascals >A Day In the life- The Beatles >Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite- The Beatles >In Your Eyes- Peter Gabriel >If I ever lose my Faith in you- Sting >99.9- Suzanne Vega >Fly Away- Poe >People are Strange- The Doors >Manic Depression- Jimi Hendrix > > >Just my two cents... >Yahoo Chat: Still_Chasing_Tornadoes >ICQ# 28978941 > > ===================================================== Check out all my trading pages at.... http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1522/index.html "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. 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When did that happen?!) that I've really started thinking about WHY I love Tori so much, music-wise. And Richard, you're right, as always -- I think people today are more concerned with the "statement" that a musician makes, which is why Tori's music takes a backseat to her lyrics. People are too busy trying to dissect what she's trying to say ("Now...'trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin'...was Tori almost hit by an ice cream truck when she was little?") -- which is FINE, because god knows, I've obsessed over her lyrics and still do -- that they're ignoring the simple fact that it's really the MUSIC that's grabbing hold. I mean, seriously -- if Tori was still punching out the Y Kant Tori Read bit...and we've got our electric guitars and generic rock riffs thrown in, but the lyrics to "Cloud On My Tongue" -- ?????? Right? It's not going to make much sense, and no one would CARE, frankly. I was thinking about the first time I ever heard "Crucify", nestled between Color Me Badd and Tara Kemp, if I remember correctly -- I mean, talk about finding the diamond in the rough. I wasn't listening to her lyrics that first time -- I was completely and utterly blown away by the fact this woman was playing a PIANO, fer chrissakes. Pianos were the things of LESSONS and CLASSICAL MUSIC and ELEVATOR MUSIC...Billy Joel? What? And even more amazing -- she was doing things with this piano I would have never thought possible. This woman was making the piano her VOICE. Every single note spoke volumes, accentuating her words and voice, but SURPASSING these as well. The best way I can find to describe hearing the music itself of that song is that it was rather like when you see a play -- how when the lights first come up on a darkened stage, and there's that moment where everything is frozen, before the play itself starts, but the set, the scenery, the lights...you immediately know how the play is going to run its course in those first few seconds. You can FEEL it in your gut. That's how I feel about the music, sans words, itself. Even if Tori did not sing, did not have the words, I'm convinced I would love her just as much as I do now. It's not the words "Caught a ride with the moon" in "Tear In Your Hand" that make my stomach clench, and my chest swell with air, and tears flood my eyes, but it's that sweeping of the music -- where's it building up, and then you feel as if you're positively soaring...listen to the piano when she sings "And your baby baby babies" and you'll know what I mean. The piano SINGS, I swear. I feel exactly the same about the chorus of "Flying Dutchman" or the bridge of "Spark"...it's like the piano has centered itself right in your belly, and the notes are pouring out into your veins and your skin... Anyway, I don't think I've explained myself very well, but that's okay. I've got "Yes, Anastasia" on, and now I want to eat me some violins. =) Night. Heather "The Lord of Hell will do what he damn likes." "All right. I admit it. He's got a point. The sunsets are bloody marvelous, you old bastard. Satisfied?" - -- Lucifer in Season of Mists (Neil Gaiman) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:03:57 EST From: JiVaDiVa@aol.com Subject: Tori on HT Radio? Hey guys, Just thought I'd share something of little or no interest to you. Heehee I work at an upperclass (if there is a such thing) grocery store... Harris Teeter. Our cheesy store radio station generally entertains us with typical muzak and opera. For the past two nights, it's played Raspberry Swirl and Cruel. Terrifically shocking. Not as shocking as the fact that they were followed by Marilyn Manson's Dope Show, but shocking enough. Just a quick musing, Jiva ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:24:39 -0600 (CST) From: The Mermaid Subject: Storytellers I don't know if this has gone through yet or not, so apologies if it's duplicate info, but VH-1 will be re-airing their Storytellers with Tori Amos this Sunday (21 Feb 99) at 10 eastern/9 central (that's after the X Files, for those who're worried 'bout a confict of interest). -- The Mermaid ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:41:10 -0500 From: "trent." Subject: Tori Handwritten Booklet...help? hey, i remember reading a post on one of these lists (sorry for the cross-posting btw) that there is a website where you can order the Complete Video Collection and get that promo handwritten booklet with the order for free. does anyone know if this offer is still valid and/or they still have the promo booklets to give out? thanks trent. 'why i feel so threatened, like somebody else will take what's mine? babe, it's only rented; no one really owns the merchandise' --Y Kant Tori Read ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 05:51:10 +0000 From: Kiss of Death Subject: Songs that Tori could cover IThis was on another list a while back and I know I dont post much .. but thought of another sing since then as well ... so here are a few would lvoe to hear her cover .. Alannah Myles - Song Instead of a Kiss Hazel O'Connor - Will You? All About Eve - Martha's Harbour John Wayne's War of the Worlds (also done by I think The Moody Blues?!?!?)- Forever Autumn am sure there are others but cannot thing of them ... been awake far too long (26 hours and counting to dropping ... very soon ).... would still love more than anything to hear her cover Will You... that song is undescribable ... so emotional ... and has extra meaning to me since a year or so ago and still tears and rips my heart .. oh well ... my less than nothing thoughts ..... Aidan - -- ICQ:204280 kissof.death@btinternet.com http://members.xoom.com/KissofDeath - -----------------------------------{@ Darkness embraces the soul, Emptiness is all that is felt, The cold, the loneliness, The tears, the pain, >From what once was love. İAidan Thomson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:25:27 -0300 From: lauraguay Subject: Fwd: My Tori Dream. PT 7. Nov.14 New York City So we drove from Poughkeepsie to Shulamis' house in NJ and stayed there for a couple hours wondering around her marvellous place. After dropping Jeremy off at the station, we went with Shulamis, Dani, Lisa and Richard to meet two of Richard's friends, Ruth and Elyse. I had lunch with this wonderful people at "Olie's noodles" (a place that had been mentioned every time we had to go to Denny's to get some food after the concerts :-) ) and there it was when we found out that Tori was in NYC that afternoon and that she would be taping something for TV. They mentioned something about if we wanted to go there and try to get in... I was like "can we pleaseee?" After having lunch we walked all the way there.. through Times square and all those places I've seen on TV :-) I heard that we were looking for some bus.. and thought it was a bus we had to catch to get us "there".. instead we were actually looking for a very specific bus.. Tori's bus :-) We got there at around 5 and there was *nobody* there but us. So we waited and waited and waited until Joel came out and talked to Elyse and Ruth. He said that he only had a few tickets but he would see what he could do. At about 8 some other people arrived and they also talked to Joel .. and got "our" tickets...oops. But we didn't loose our hopes, so we stood on a "line for the rejected and ticketless people" with some other guys.. there I met Kim with whom I corresponded a cuople times two years ago, and to whom I swore back then that "I will see Tori next tour even if I have to hitch-hike all the way from Uruguay to the USA. "The girl from Argentina" was there too and yes, Richard introduced me to the almighty Woj!!! Hi Woj :-) It was a pretty cold night so a couple of people decided that Tori wasn't worth the wait and they came and gave their tickets to the first 2 people in line. By that time a security guy had come and told us that there was no way we could all fit in there, but said he would try to get us to a room where there are big TV monitors. Later on, another "elder" couple decided they didn't want to freeze and they came up to the line and gave their tickets to the girl in front of me and to Linda... who understood what they said :-) I was like.. "I must have got that wrong.. they just told me they didn't wanna go in??? my english brain must be malfunctioning. I flew 12 hours to get here and they are an hour away and they are leaving??? this can't be what they mean.. " :-) But I wasn't wrong. So the girl went in and Linda gave me her ticket. I really don't know why people were *so* nice to me. I mean she had the ticket and she must've gone in, but she said she has more opprtuinties of seeing her than I so she made me go in. EWF's are some of the best people around :-) I don't have enough words to thank Linda. I went in but I wasn't really comfortable leaving Richard and Linda there, all the other people were there in the front row. It was funny it looked like Tori was playing for her friends in the livingroom. I guess I have to agree that she needs familiar faces around her... especially on the TV presentations. And she got all the familiar faces she needed :-) All those wonderful seats were taken so I kept walking and found *one* empty seat right at the end of the piano on the 4th and last row. but it was a great place still... she was going to be facing us!! Then the cameraman took his place and him and his camera were completely obstructing my view. Woj was to my right and a camera on rails was behind me. It was great that when they started filming, there were some cables on the floor right behind me so I moved a little to the left to get out of their way...*and* to get a clear view of Tori... I thought they were going to tell me to go back to my place, but instead they thanked me, so there I was, just 3 people separating me from the piano and Tori right there... heaven must be a Tori concert. The show was very very good, and she played "a whole concert" except for the last encore. She told some funny stories about how she is not a very good cook and Caton said that she was, she made good sandwiches. Then someone asked "Tori how's married life?" and she said that He didn't want her to talk about that... but whispered "it's fantastic" -big smile- There were a lot of cuts in between songs and she got her make up retouched and she was talking while they did that.. I wish I could remember each word she said... well someone must've made a boot of off it. I had my camera with me, nobody searched me for anything. No, I didn't use it. I didn't want to get thrown out of the place. Even after the show was over I was afraid to take a pic of the Bösendorfer. I had other pics in that film that I didn't want to lose..so I missed a great picture opportunity. She played Take to the Sky that night, that was another of the songs I really wanted to hear. I really wish this one makes it to the broadcast. On waitress no one made the hang ten sign, but I saw Tori smiling on Elyse and Ruth's direction. Later that night I found out that they had been making the Hang Ten sign on their laps and Tori was smiling (almost laughed) because of that. After the show we all went to have dinner together... it was like 20 of us. awesome. All the Tori people and *me* a "foreigner Tori people" but I felt like with a group of friends. After dinner, what was left of Linda, Richard and me, went back to the "Carlton Arms Hotel" for a much needed rest. This one was some hotel. Richard knows about *everything* and restaurants and hotels weren't an unkown topic during our trip :-) I should show everybody the pics I took, this room was just awesome. Cartoons painted on the walls and an Maya inspired bathroom.... the place was unreal :-)                \\|//                (O-O) - ----------oOO--(_)--OOo------------------------------------------------- ldamico@adinet.com.uy (at home) laura@redfacil.com.uy (at work) http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/lot/3373/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:47:23 EST From: Erinita@aol.com Subject: Re: technical elements of Tori's music? In a message dated 2/18/99 8:15:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, David.J.Morley@wheaton.edu writes: << precious-things@smoe.org >> Musician Magazine's May 1996 issue has Tori looking very glamorous on the cover, and I believe that was a very technical article, they were discussing her studio recording techniques. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:27:29 PST From: "Eric Seymour" Subject: Re: 20/20 on RAINN >And Shannon, hope your page counter is up to the extra work from all the >hits you'll be getting. I was just wondering what the address for her site is. I'm pretty sure it was called "welcome to barbados". i'd appreciate any help. :o) Eric ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:30:33 -0300 From: lauraguay Subject: My Tori trip.. addendum In case anyone wants to see what the room actually looked like in that hotel... here's a pic I scanned :-) I *loved* that hotel. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/3373/shu.jpg besos laura                \\|//                (O-O) - ----------oOO--(_)--OOo------------------------------------------------- ldamico@adinet.com.uy (at home) laura@redfacil.com.uy (at work) http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/lot/3373/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:33:50 -0300 From: lauraguay Subject: braindead. I forgot to say for anyone that might wonder. I am the one to the right, on my beloved Asterix t-shirt :-) the girls to my left are Dabi and Shulamis that'd be all for me in a couple days. I promise!! besos laura                \\|//                (O-O) - ----------oOO--(_)--OOo------------------------------------------------- ldamico@adinet.com.uy (at home) laura@redfacil.com.uy (at work) http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/lot/3373/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 04:14:50 GMT From: "Julia K." Subject: Tori on FANatic 03/24! Hey everyone, the RockOnTV website (http://www.rockontv.com) states that Tori will be featured on MTV's FANatic on 03/24 along with Scott Wolfe. Woo-hoo! Julia :) blackdovegirl@hotmail.com ********************************************************** * "Just when you escape, you have yourself to fear" * * "Don't be afraid 'cuz even the wind cries your name" * * "Celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain" * * "Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again" * * "Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses?"* * ~Tori Amos~ * ********************************************************** ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 23:24:41 EST From: Dangalee@aol.com Subject: Re: Thoughts...of Tori covering Led Zep It's funny because Tori did borrow heavily from Going to California for the verse melody in Silent All These Years. j'ason ~~ Toriphoria - the Word of Tori Amos http://members.aol.com/dangalee/toriphoria.html In a message dated 2/19/99 11:21:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, motherlucifer@geocities.com writes: > >I don't know about anyone else, but I would love to hear Tori cover Led > Zep's > >"Going to California". It's my favorite song of theirs, and only Tori could > do > >it as well as Robert. That's my two cents! > > > >Amy > > > I agree. Going to Cali is one of the greatest, and yet saddest, songs of > all time. Someone once told me that the lines: > "someone told me there's a girl out there > with love in her eyes > and flowers in her hair" > is his image of his perfect woman. > > I never forgot that. It's such a moving song. > > My favorite, which I rarely (and purposely) listen to is "I'm Gonna Crawl." > > love, > Vicki > ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #51 ************************************