From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #329 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 Tuesday, November 2 1999 Volume 04 : Number 329 Today's Subjects: ----------------- London tree [myth ] East West have done it again, haven't they? ["Mike Gray" ] Glory Of The 80s... the story so far... ["Mike Gray" ] Re: winamp skins and starfuckers [Thlayli ] london tree ["Emily W. Rigdon" ] Review of the London gig from "The Independent" ["Mike Gray" ] tori on jools holland ["Danny.Weddup" ] mp3 of rosie ["trent, asserting my wicked ways" ] Glory Of The 80s to be pulled from shelves in the UK. ["Mike Gray" ] Re: Tori in CT [Valerie Garlick ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:10:23 -0500 From: myth Subject: London tree I have a cd burner and would love to participate in anything that would get me a copy of this. What a set list. You lucky Londoners! No Alanis and two hours of Tori. What say thee, Mike? *myth* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:36:26 -0000 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: East West have done it again, haven't they? Hi Guys, I've just bought the UK Glory Of The 80s singles, only to find that both the copies I bought of the CD with "Winter" on them have in fact, got "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "Twinkle" on them, the same as the other CD... I thought it was odd when Deluxe CD Player claimed it was CD 1 when I'd inserted CD 2... So are they all mis-pressed or am I (un)lucky? Mike (who is now seriously amazed at East/West) (and you know everyone knows I'm gonna wax lyrical on this one for weeks...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:00:29 -0000 From: "Paul" Subject: London tree... I would dearly love to start a tree for the London show. This show should be heard. It should have been the live album in my opinion. It was a fabulous culmination of 10 years of work and a fitting final show of the decade, century, millennium! I'm collaborating with two or three others who have the show recorded as well to see if we can put together the best possible copy onto CD-R. It will take time but when we do I'll be sure to post. Please, please *DON'T* e-mail now. If you do don't be surprised if you don't get an answer. There is a list of e-mail address being compiled on the Dent forum under the trading and selling section if you want to register your interest now otherwise just hold tight and copies will start to filter out. If not from me there will be others with copies but don't go paying silly prices on e-bay please. Patience. I definitely want to spoil any commercial attempt to boot. this show :) Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ View my Tori collection: http://www.ljwren.demon.co.uk/paul/ToriCD2.html Bubble Gum Trade: http://www.ljwren.demon.co.uk/paul/BOOTS.htm e-mail: paul@ljwren.demon.co.uk Homepage: http://www.ljwren.demon.co.uk ICQ: 23734436 "You can sell millions and millions of records but that does not make you a musician." ...Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:48:45 -0000 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: Glory Of The 80s... the story so far... Hi Guys, Further to my original mail... It is now definite that at least a batch (if not all, as my copies bought in Leicester and friend's copies bought in London both exhibit the same problem) of 7567 84527 2 (LCQQ121) have been mis-pressed. (This is the one in the same cover as the US "Bliss" single) The cover and the CD itself are correctly labelled as "Baker Baker" and "Winter "(both live) but the CD plays as CD 1 (Raincoat and Twinkle) It now appears that as of around mid-day a number of stores (including Virgin Megastore in London) were withdrawing the mis-pressed CD, although it is currently unclear whether there has been an order to withdraw *BOTH* CDs (possibly because it will be re-released at a later date with a correct pressing, or simply scrapped for something else?) or simply just the one - or *even* if Atlantic know there is a problem. All I currently know is this : there have been 'bad' copies found in at least three cities - Leicester, Manchester and London. My girlfriend e-mailed me to say that she can't find a single copy in the town where she is currently (Leigh) so I currently have no idea what's going on. All I can say is that East/West have once again monumentally f***** up. Again. Another nail in their coffin once this contract is up? I think so. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 20:16:11 +0000 From: "squidgy" Subject: Glory of the cock-ups Well I bought the "glory of the 80's" CD singles and apparently, as it says on CD1 Tori Amos wrote 'Blue Raincoat' and Leonard Cohen wrote 'Twinkle'..hmmm. Squidgy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:21:59 -0500 From: Thlayli Subject: Re: winamp skins and starfuckers the wrote: >...i am a rather uneducated person i suppose...is starfuckers a tori >word?...in my head it always will be...but can anyone tell me anything more >about it? It's the title of a Rolling Stones song from 1973 (aka "Star Star"). - -- Thlayli Namer of the Seasons * BMF * Your Tax Dollars At Work thlayli23x@worldnet.att.net http://www.geocities.com/~thlayli23x/home.html Whore Code 2.0:WhBu6G3 LJ hBrs--|++|g b77/!! B3ZZ a30 sM1M! K8+ v52 oZ X44 w4Tr5|3|c E++ p6f6v{76}#g5s7C D2z6|8|! Ham+usNY5 *** Rest In Peace, Xander *** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 13:12:19 -0500 From: "Emily W. Rigdon" Subject: london tree I would LOVE, just die, to be a part of any kind of London tree. Unfortunately, I am not CDR-able, so I may have to be leaf. If this falls through I also would not mind buying a copy off anyone willing to sell one (or trade of course)! thanks! - love - emily ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:47:37 -0000 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: Review of the London gig from "The Independent" "Lust For Married Life" Rock - Tori Amos, Royal Festival Hall, London Now five albums into her career, Tori Amos has never had any qualms about matting her personal life in her work. When 1998 From The Choirgirl [sic] was largely informed by her miscarraige, parts of her latest album To Venus and Back find Amos reassessing her sex life as a married woman. Can lust survive the nupitals? Can a wife be both Madonna and whore? Amos answers "yes" to both questions. Privy to such knowledge, one feels a little voyeuristic when considering her relationship with Mark Hawley, the Englishman who is her husband and sound-engineer. US-born Amos now lives in Cornwall, but tonight's performance was the first on British soil in support of her new album. When she co-headlined a recent US tour with Alanis Morissette, she was accompanied by a three-piece band. In stark contrast, this was stripped down affair with Tori performing solo at the piano. Successful as many of her more avant-garde excursions are, this undoubtedly the context in which she flourshes and her fans enjoy her most. Her hair freshly crimped, she took to the stage wearing a loose-fitting purple smock, then stood atht emike for an a-capella version of "Me and a Gun". Confidence wise it was a real show of strenght, and the audience were immediately in her thrall. Next came Bliss, the first single to be taken from the new album. Paradoxically, Bliss sounded twice as powerful when it was stripped to its bare bones; the voal urgent and passionate, the piano playing fluid and agile. What was striking was just how relaxed Amos seems to be on stage these days. If she splits the critics the ones who continue to cast her as a manquee Kate Bush don't seem to be getting her down. At one point in her performance she related the story about how she's once deputised for Al Stewart's piano player and this venue, and unsure of the year, she asked her mum - who was sitting a few rows in - to confirm the dates. Tori's father, the Reverend Amos, was also in attendance, and as far as I could make out, neither parent flinched when their daughter peppered her introductions with the f-word. Ecumenicalism begins at home. Set highlights included Professional Widow, still surprisingly powerful minus its four-on-the-floor drum loop, and her cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which transformed *the* grunge anthem of the early Nineties into a beautiful threnody for Kurt Cobain himself. As a critic, I'll confess that sometimes I'm tempted to tone down my enthusiasm for an artist after reading negative reviews elsewhere. I came her tonight to be a little tougher on Tori Amos, but once again, she won me over. Put simply, you can't stop a diamond from sparkling. James McNair, The Independent, Monday 1st November 1999. - ---- All inaccurate comments and glaring omissions are entirely the critic's own, I just didn't think I could put [sic] after virtually every sentence... Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:16:55 -0400 From: Heather Cook Subject: wines stuff. Wow...Don't I feel the popular girl today! ;) Thanks to everyone interested in the wines! I got several responses to my proposed listings of good wines for reasonable prices (and I'm a college student so if I think its pretty reasonable then everyone should). I WILL DO IT! however it might take a day or two. I'm studying for an exam in the class so it will be present in my mind....I won't forget. SO keep watching precious things everybody.... heather ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:35:01 -0000 From: "Danny.Weddup" Subject: tori on jools holland Hi all, Wasn't Tori just absolutely brilliant on later with jools holland last night? She did Suede and Concertina. Suede was to a backing track, with her playing the synth, but it seemed to me to be even better than on the album. Everything was just right- the lighting, her clothes, the music.... Concertina was good, but just the same as she did on the billy bragg show earllier on. At one point someone must have been doing something funny over the other side of the studio, cuz Tori was looking over, then she started smiling the she nearly laughed. Bye, Danny ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 18:07:25 -0800 From: "trent, asserting my wicked ways" Subject: mp3 of rosie does anyone have an mp3 of tori's performance on rosie incl. interview? thank u muchly (hahahh that is alanis humor ;) trent. "you gotta be a bad girl in this world and you've got to make waves gotta be a bad girl to be heard assert your wicked ways" --DJ Rap ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 19:34:17 -0000 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: Glory Of The 80s to be pulled from shelves in the UK. Hi guys... A friend has spoken to Atlantic and East/West who confirmed that they knew about the problem and were about to pull it from shelves, and that at present time there was no plan to re-issue it or replace it with anything else. If you haven't got it, rush out and get it. The mis-press might be worth something soon... and if they pull both, so might the normal version. Fantastic, huh? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:53:59 EST From: KAPS72@aol.com Subject: Tori in CT I live in SW CT and I just heard a local radio station announce that Tori will be here in CT at the Oakdale Theater on Dec. 3. The tickets go on sale this Friday, Nov. 5. It is sponsered by Strawberries. I don't know if this is part of a tour or what. Anyone who lives in New England hear about this? The tickets are only $35. They mention Tori first, then Marcy's Playground (the group who sings "Sex & Candy") and someone else, but in all my excitement about Tori I didn't hear the rest. They also have this short thing of Tori saying happy holidays. They even played the live version of "Cornflake Girl" on the radio. They rarely play her at all so I was quite excited to hear even her name mentioned, let alone everything else. - - Kim "...an angel's face is tricky to wear constantly..." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:45:16 EST From: SYNCJ05@aol.com Subject: Tori in "Piano Lessons" Hi ewf~ I'm so excited!!! I've had this book "Piano Lessons" by Noah Adams (from NPR's all things considered) for a while.... Its a great story about his journey in learning how to play the piano- I reccommend it to all piano players and all who are just starting out! Anyway, It has a pretty generous reference to tori inside- (which i just remembered, since i've had this book before I even knew who she was).... anyway here it is!! :) ((Sorry about any type-o's)) ..................................... "Then there's Tori Amos, a much younger piano star with an entirely different audience. She's a pop singer who's sold a million copies of one CD; she's a constant video presence on MTV and is taken seriously as a pianist, appearing on the cover of Piano & Keyboard magazine. I heard she was coming to town. I went to a record store at lunchtime one day and bought a copy of her new CD, Under the Pink. At my next stop, an espresso place, the fellow behind the counter saw me reading the back cover of the CD adn said, 'Oh, Tori Amos, huh? Her concert just sold out; somebody here was there at noon and got a couple of tickets.' The Warner Theatre seats ninteen hundred; all the tickets went in an hour. They announced two additional concert nights, and those sold out quickly. Atlantic Records managed to find me a press ticket for the first night, a good seat about one-third of the way up in the middle front section. If the Tori Amos audience was one person, it would be a seventeen-year-old girl, with well-faded torn jeans and boots and a tight shirt, curly hair, and a certain moist expression. When Tori Amos came out onstage, her fans in the audience saw themselves. But certainly a hotter version. She strides out though the crossed purple spotlight beams. An intense, smoky red light pours down on the piano. There are six sound monitors facing her. She sits in a secure envelope of streaming light, her technical crew in the darkness behind her, the peple who know all of her songs waiting in front. And Tori Amos touches the piano lightly; it's a Bosendorfer, beautifully miked. Big crunchy sounds from the bass; the nine-foot Bosendorfer grand has four extra bass keys. This will be all the music onstage tonight. By itself her piano can be a rock and roll band. And her voice: whispering and keening in your ear, songs of protest ("God-Sometimes You Just Don't Come Through") and confession and rapture. Tori Amos sits at the end of the piano bench, her left foot is on the sustain pedal, her right leg opens to the audience, she moves with her playing. One reviewer said, "It's like she's fucking the piano bench." She was only slightly less intense in person the next morning when she came to our studio to talk and to play some. She bounced in happily, dusted her hands with face powder, and then splashed down the piano keys to make sure the sound was okay (after many years of having no piano, then later a small Baldwin, NPR now has two Schimmel grands). Tori Amos is in her early thirties, and she's had a long career already, beginning in piano bars early in her teens. She was born in North Carolina, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Her parents soon moved to Baltimore so she could attend the Peabody Conservatory. It was clear almost from the time she was walking that she'd be a pianist. Ms. Amos: Two and a half. NDA: Two and a half? Ms. Amos: That's what my mama says. NDA: How were you abel to just get up on a stool and play? Do you understand how that is? Ms. Amos: I understand that this is like SpaghettiOs. I understand that it was a yummy feeling, that you crawl up and make friends with the sound. NDA: And when you went tot eh conservatory, then, did that interfere with the way you heard music? Ms. Amos: I was accepted at Peabody when I was five, and the whole idea was to get me to read. The problem with getting me to read was- it was so frustrating, because they started me on "Hot Cross Buns" and I could play scores of musicals by then. So, when you can play, you know, Rodgers and Hart, or Gershwin by ear, maybe not perfect, but, you know, you get teh gest of "Summertime," then you're going, "Hang on a minute." From "summertime" to "Hot Cross Buns" is a far cry. You're not seeing SpaghettiOs anymore. It's not yummy anymore. You know, twelve people doing this [plays a scale] as I'm walking down the hall, why do I want to be the thirteenth? I want to create my own thing. NDA: You said in one interview, in Rolling Stone, I believe, that you are far more adventurous at the piano than you are in real life. What happens at the piano that doesn't happen to you out in the real world? Ms.Amos: I don't feel guilty when I'm at the piano. I do understand that when I'm back in my hotel room, when I'm writing certain things about people that I've just met or run into, that I'm not really having certian relationships with them that I'm having at the piano. But at the piano all this is existing, and she and I are totally cohorts. We know exactly when we're creating, and this world is very real to me except everybody. But it's just the oppositre to me. Rel life is really when I'm playing. Then it's off to the next gig. NDA: Could it be any other instrument? Ms. Amos: No. NDA: Why? Ms. Amos: The thing about this instrument is it's an orchestra, really. It's very much a warm, living, breathing woman to me. It's very female. She's my best friend. I sit and talk to her, curl up around her sometimes. It's a real being to me. NDA: Could you be happy with a digital piano in any way? Ms. Amos: No, no, of course not. There's no sustain. This is the biggest part of my sound, is that. NDA: The right pedal there? Ms. Amos: Yeah, this is the biggest part of everything I do. I play the sustain like it's a whole 'nother instrument [demonstrates]. Maybe I hold this for the entire tune. Electric pianos, also, they're not living, breathing things. I mean this is- it's all about the breath, the air. The Tori Amos Under the Pink World Tour rolls on out of town. She takes the Bosendorfer piano along in a truck, and there's also a tuner in the road crew. It's got to ease the anxieties a bit to have the same trusty piano waiting in every new concert hall. " ......................................... The rest of the chapter talks a little about the history of Bosendorfer pianos. Wasn't that great? Hope you all enjoyed-- Now go buy the book-- IMHO, It's wonderful! Megan SYNCJ05@aol.com *So sure we were on something your feet are just on the ground, girl* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 20:15:16 EST From: FireflyLG@aol.com Subject: Re: london tree Hey! I REALLY need this boot! (just thought that I'd make sure that you can tell how imperetive this is :) It sounds fantastic, and I just REALLY REALLY want it! I emailed Mike, who was VERY gracious, and told me that he would help me get one, but he's in London, and I'm in the US, and the fact is, in terms of postage... I'm broke. Quite broke. So, ANYWAYS, are there any Americans (preferable nice Americans) closer to home, that could help me out? I'll join the tree, but to be honest, I'm very very paranoid about the net, and would prefer to only give my street address to one person... no offense to you, I know that you're all lovely people, but what can I say... I am what I am. I will wait for as long as I need to, but just email me if you can tell me what's up. Thanks! Lov ya all! Liz And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, In the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls." And whisper'd in the sounds of silence ~Simon and Garfunkel The Sound of Silence ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 21:17:00 EST From: AngelChk21@aol.com Subject: sugar Hey everyone! I was listening to Venus. Live. Still Orbiting, as usual. And towards the end of "sugar" when she says... "when they find you out...when they find you out...find out..." and i was just wondering if what she says right after that part is "you're just a pussy" cause i've never heard a live version of sugar where she's said that...haha...so i was just wondering. thanks. andrea "just when you've escaped...you have yourself to fear" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:34:54 -0500 From: Valerie Garlick Subject: Re: Tori in CT Tori >will be here in CT at the Oakdale Theater on Dec. 3. The tickets go on sale >this Friday, Nov. 5. ok I'm a such a dingaling...sorry I missed that :) ~~val~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:33:32 -0500 From: Valerie Garlick Subject: Re: Tori in CT >> Anyone who lives in New England hear about this? I did! I'm definately going, I'm thinking the meet and greet (if there is one) will be much more quant...seeing as how all different fans will be there. I dunno, maybe more people though? > They mention Tori first, then Marcy's Playground >(the group who sings "Sex & Candy") and someone else, I believe it's Godsmack, and I'm sure they'll announce more bands as we get closer to it, that's what they did with 104fest and big day off. :) > They even played the live version of >"Cornflake Girl" on the radio. They rarely play her at all actually I'm hearing more and more Cornflake girl now on 104, like a promo type thing, that is the only song they ever do play of hers though :( one question, do you know where/when it is? that's my input :) ~~val~ ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #329 *************************************