From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #141 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, August 17 2001 Volume 06 : Number 141 Today's Subjects: ----------------- montreal ["aleksandra bida" ] I'm so excited!!! ["Wendi Smith" ] Re: nyc pre-sale [Thlayli ] Confusion on Internet Pre-sale ["Andrew Johnson" ] Re: Confusion on Internet Pre-sale [strange little woj ] Re: Teen Spirit on MTV 2 [Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com] Meanwhile, back in 1991 London . . . [Richard Handal ] Re: nyc pre-sale [LizzyFW@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:19:47 -0400 From: "aleksandra bida" Subject: montreal so i had no hope at all but since another new york show has been added i have a glimmer of it. why isn't tori coming to montreal? and is there a chance she would come on this tour? if there's no info on this...even insights will help... a. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:17:32 -0400 From: "Wendi Smith" Subject: I'm so excited!!! I got tickets to the show in Charoltte today!! I'm in Row D in the Orchestra. I was just so excited to be four rows back. Those are good seats right?? I have Seats 7 to 9. I'm so excited. I've only seen Tori one other time and that was on the Plugged Tour at Virginia Tech and I was soo far back!! OMG!! I'm so excited I can't stand it!! *grin*Wendi - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:27:25 -0400 From: Thlayli Subject: Re: nyc pre-sale strange little woj wrote: >for the first show, i'm in the upper balcony, row h. for the second show, >i'm in the loge's center section, row d. "Second"? They added a show already? Guess the pre-sale was big. >how'd everybody else do? Orchestra U, seat 36. That was about noon yesterday (I got up late because I had gotten in late from seeing Melissa Etheridge the night before). It's not the greatest location in the world, but I'm not expecting any major visual experience on this tour and I was mainly concerned with just not getting sold out. - -- Thlayli thlayli23x@att.net http://www.geocities.com/~thlayli23x/home.html "Excuse me, but can I be you for a while?" - T. Amos "You be me for a while, and I'll be you." - P. Westerberg "Why can't I be you?" - R. Smith "You're just jealous 'cause you can't be me." - M. Ciccone ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:55:55 -0500 From: "Andrew Johnson" Subject: Confusion on Internet Pre-sale Hi everyone. I am kind of confused about this ticket pre-sale thing. I plan on getting tickets to either the Chicago show or the St. Louis show. Are they selling all of the tickets on the pre-sale or will there still be tickets available afterward the pre-sale. If I were to wait until after the pre-sale would there be any tickets left-and would they be good seats? Any info is appreciated. Thanks! Andrew _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:00:53 -0500 From: "Andrew Johnson" Subject: Teen Spirit on MTV 2 On Tuesday night at around 11:30 I was flipping through channels and turned it to MTV 2 and caught the very end of a live Tori performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit. It looked like it was from the same concert footage as the Little Earthquakes video from the Bottom Line in NY. I know I have seen the same video probably about two years ago. Has anyone else seen this? I was very surprised. I know M2 plays all different kinds of videos but they hardly ever play Tori. Just wanted everyone to know that. Andrew _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:26:56 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: Confusion on Internet Pre-sale when we last left our heroes, Andrew Johnson exclaimed: >Are they selling all of the tickets on the pre-sale or will there still be >tickets available afterward the pre-sale. If I were to wait until after the >pre-sale would there be any tickets left-and would they be good seats? ticketmaster can only sell some tickets during the pre-sale since there are separate allotments for box office and general sales. it appears that there are some good and some not-so-good seats available during the pre-sale, so there is a chance that you can get good seats during the general sale. in fact, some venues will hold the best seats until the general sale or make them available only to premium customers. so, the answer to your question is partly venue-specific. unfortunately, i'm not familiar with either the chicago or st. louis theaters. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:53:18 EDT From: Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com Subject: Re: Teen Spirit on MTV 2 I saw the video as well....I was soooo excited! the show was about cover songs so that was why the video was played, coincidentally right after Nirvana's cover of David Bowie's "The man who sold the world" (great song) ...He was a lite sneeze, and not the flu. Guys would like to think they're the flu, but sometimes they're just a 'h'achoo'... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:06:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Meanwhile, back in 1991 London . . . Hello: I realize this is a time when folks' minds are on the here and now, but I just dug out this article from the 12 October 1991 Melody Maker (page 29) and I may as well share it today. (see below) Frankly, I feel like a moron for not getting this thing much sooner. After all it *is* quoted in the official bio on page 51. It's only due to Beth Winegarner's having mentioned me in her post the other day which led me to that page of the bio to try to answer Matt's question about the Leather dedication that I ended up scratching my head wondering why I'd never gotten this from the library before. Duh. Anyhow, it's a real MUSIC review, which is rare, and I found it to be quite wonderful. Oh, to have been there in those pre-Little Earthquake days. If anyone out there has or knows of other pre-LE club reviews or may even have been there, please let me know. I'd love to hear all about it. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. _____________________________________________________________________ Melody Maker, 12 October 1991 (page 29) TORI AMOS CANAL BRASSERIE, LONDON TORI Amos is a Californian expatriate with an explosion of ginger hair and a tendency to seem not quite there then right up in your face. A pianist singer-songwriter, her spare, intimate songs are deceptively seductive, chiming in with the polite clank of cutlery at the Canal Brasserie. Then, a scabrous note, a jarring chord, and suddenly, it's like Beverly Craven has been swallowed alive by Lydia Lunch. Actually, comparisons with this pair, or more pertinently, the likes of Mary Margaret O'Hara or Kate Bush aren't really valid. Tori isn't daffy or flaky and eschews whimsy in favour of the bleak irony of "Silent All These Years". These are hard, bony songs, as evinced by the sharp clusters of piano of "Precious Things". On her upcoming album, "Little Earthquakes", they are fleshed out with synth and orchestral embellishments. Live, Tori makes for absolutely compelling, but uncomfortable listening. "Crucify", with Tori's voice swelling up from a trembling, measured anger too controlled shriek is like a slop on the face -- I feel like I've cheated on my wife, though I haven't. Honestly. None of this is to suggest that Tori Amos is an hysterical, feminist, psychotic babbler a la Diamanda Galas. Her songs though bathed in the cold sweat of domestic rows, the traumas of pregnancy, the fragility, of childhood dreams, etc, are beautifully, classically constructed, recoiling and attacking with feline grace. A joy to behold, in spite of the pain. Tori Amos is a new name, but no greenhorn. DAVID STUBBS ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:42:49 EDT From: LizzyFW@aol.com Subject: Re: nyc pre-sale Can someone who has been to the theater in new york explain what it looks like? Is it better to be in th balconies than far back in the orchestra? Like, does the balcony hang over the orchestra? I'm confused as to what to buy. I currently have tickets in the balcony but I want to know if I should try again when they go onsale tomorrow. Does more expensive definitely mean better tickets? Thanks, Elizabeth ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #141 *************************************