From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #195 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, October 12 2001 Volume 06 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 1st Beacon Show (long!) [strange little woj ] extra 10/11 beacon tickets (tonight!) [strange little woj ] oakdale [strange little woj ] Re: extra 10/11 beacon tickets (tonight!) [strange little woj ] help buying a tour shirt ["Cynthia Lawson" ] toriamos.com newsletter #10 [strange little woj ] TOUR MERCH? [Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com] tori tv boston [strange little woj ] RE: TOUR MERCH? [ekrone1 ] Indy tix [Lmdelirium@aol.com] Re: help buying a tour shirt [YelloStarGlasses@aol.com] reviews [was: Re: 1st Beacon Show (long!)] [myth@31flavours.com] Friday webcast ? [myth@31flavours.com] Re: tour songs ["Kelly Stitzel" ] Re: tour songs [Shaman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:26:29 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: 1st Beacon Show (long!) when we last left our heroes, Tom xxxxx exclaimed: >I've noticed a few requests for concert reviews, so I thought I'd contribute >my $.02. thanks for saving me the trouble of writing a blow-by-blow review of the first beacon show, tom. ;) i thought the first night was a decent show, but i never really connected with her the whole night. i'm sure some of that was because we were sitting in the right upper balcony which is a significant distance from the stage - -- no chance of making out her facial expressions at all (no binoculars here, myst, and i really couldn't move my arms around much because, well, my microphones were attached to my shirt collar...but we don't need to start the bootlegging debate again). some of it was because driving down from connecticut can be a bear (the west side of manhattan was messed up so we had to come down the east side and cross town which is never fun) and, of course, there is no joy in parking on the upper westside. but some of it was tori too. judging from the other shows, the first night's setlist was pretty standard. she played several favorites (cooling, sweet dreams, rattlesnakes, spring haze, pandora's aquarium) and a couple nice reworks (cool on your island and crucify on the wurlitzer) but there just weren't a lot of spine-tingly moments for me. don't get me wrong: she didn't coast through the show, but i thought it was a flat performance. the show's flow was bad too. the few sound issues (which resulted in crucify being interrupted) and forgotten lyrics (which i normally find amusing but, for some reason, her recovery from the terribly-flubbed "horses" didn't work for me), the show felt fairly disjointed to me. on the other hand, the second beacon show was much better. on my part, the drive down was easier, we had enough time to get dinner before tori's set (sorry rufus) and i was also a lot more up for the show since i was expecting/counting on/hoping for a better performance. fortunately, tori delivered (and my spine was tingling like you wouldn't believe). a completely different setlist (featuring here. in my head, take to the sky, a staggering little earthquakes, etienne, josephine, sister janet) with only three overlapped songs (bonnie & clyde, me and a gun, enjoy the silence). her energy level was a lot higher (hell, she encouraged the audience to sing along to talula!). no sound problems and the muck-ups either worked (she repeated the "figure it out" bit from mr. zebra three times) or didn't matter (she repeated one verse in daniel). oh yeha, we had better seats too: fourth row center of the loge, which i think may be the best place to listen to a show at the beacon. i guess we'll find out tonight since we're taking beth's orchestra tickets which means we'll have sat in all sections for all the shows. one can only wonder what the third show will be like. i'm hoping for "god" (which, if you've heard the union chapel recording) is quite lovely on the piano and synth. >'97 B &C: disturbing, powerful, a creepy, fantastic opener. I love the torn >curtain and phantasmagoric lights. Can anyone confirm if Tori is actually >reciting this live, or is it a recording? It sounded live to me, but I >couldn't tell. i think it was live (well, i *hope* it was live). seemed to me there were a few lines which she didn't pronounce quite the same as on the album. i like this as an opener as well, but i think it would be a helluva lot more effective if she was *on stage* when the curtain falls and rips right into the second song before anyone has a chance to react. man, that would stop my heart. apparently there was supposed to be a picture of the b&c character visible during this song which wasn't there on the first night. it was there the second night though. >Tori comes out in this gray or green jacket and pants. The pants end up >being split, as later in the show I saw some definite leg. She had fishnets >underneath and wore black heels. She came out waved, did a little bow, and >went back to the piano. Then: >Baker Baker: cool. Kind of anticlimatic after Gun. i know what you mean, but think of it as a sort of sequel to gun and it fits better. where gun is a song of healing which confronts the source of the wound, baker is the flip-side of that: a song of healing which deals with the healed woman. personally, i think they really go good together (the fact that she followed gun with daniel on the second night may be my only quibble with the show). >After-show M&G was a mob scene. we walked by on our way to the parking garage and noticed the crowd. we wouldn't have stood there at all except that we ran into a couple friends and chatted with them for a bit, right at the back of the crowd. we left well before tori came out though. >Tori was generous with her time and talked to as many people and signed as >many things as she could. that's really cool. i'm glad she's still doing that. the horde outside the beacon is far cry from the doze or so of us who froze in the november night waiting outside town hall in '92 though. >Hope none of y'all were bored. not at all! thanks again! woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:32:16 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: extra 10/11 beacon tickets (tonight!) we've upgraded our seats for tonight (thanks beth!) and now have a pair of tickets that we'd like to unload. they are lower balcony, row b (second row), seats 106 and 107 (dead center). nice unobstructed view, if a little high up. i'd like to recoup face value ($35.00) plus ticketbastard charges ($7.90) for a total of $87.80, but am willing to negotiate. if interested, please e-mail me before 4:30pm. if i don't hear from anyone by then, i'll try to unload them outside the theater. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:33:54 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: oakdale who's going to the oakdale theater show in wallingford this weekend? if all goes as planned, meredith and i will be easy to find -- we'll be (wo)manning the rainn table in the lobby before the show and during rufus' set. come on over and say hi! woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:55:30 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: extra 10/11 beacon tickets (tonight!) when we last left our heroes, strange little woj exclaimed: >i'd like to recoup face value ($35.00) plus ticketbastard charges >($7.90) for a total of $87.80, but am willing to negotiate. er, $85.80, that is. yeesh. higher math is not my forte this morning... woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:49:07 -0400 From: ekrone1 Subject: tour songs I had searched past a few archives but didt see if anyone had decided to keep track of which songs she plays on all her dates. I know someone did this last tour..but havnt found it yet. It seems a very downtempo tour, well maybe just her two DC dates were. thanks ------------------------------ Date: 11 Oct 2001 17:45:26 +0100 From: "Cynthia Lawson" Subject: help buying a tour shirt Hello everyone, Last night - my 2nd tori experience! quite wonderful... anywhooo, they sold out of the baby tee i wanted, and was wondering if anyone from the list could buy one for me tonight in NY, or at any other show on this tour. it's the black with glittery "strangelittlegirl" on the front. anyone, anyone? i can pay ahead, or later, whatever. let me know! email...or (917)612-6628 love, and remember...when in doubt, just take to the sky. C.e ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:06:12 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: toriamos.com newsletter #10 - ----- Forwarded message from Tori Amos ----- From: "Tori Amos" Subject: Watch Tori - Webcast on Fri., Oct. 12 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:44:32 -0700 ToriAmos.com Oct. 11, 2001 - Issue #10 Strange Little Girls In stores now! Tori Amos Webcast This Friday Do you want a glimpse at Tori Amos live? Log on Friday, October 12 to http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/wblcs/aol/tori_amos/splash.jsp ____________________________________________ This week's exclusive track: "I'm Not In Love" Audio Real http://www2.fanscape.com/toriamos/downloads/notlinlove.asp I like to see you, but then again, That doesn't mean you mean that much to me I keep your picture upon the wall, It hides a nasty stain that's lying there Originally from The Original Soundtrack 10cc, 1975 ____________________________________________ LOVE And then there was the time that one of them simply wouldnt return her calls to his office. So she called the number he did not know that she had, and she said to the woman who answered that this was so embarrassing but as he was no longer talking to her, could he be told that she was still waiting for the return of her lacy black underthings, which he had taken because, he said, they smelled of her, of both of them. Oh, and that reminded her, she said, as the woman on the other end of the phone said nothing, could they be laundered first, and then simply posted back to her. He has her address. And then, her business joyfully concluded, she forgets him utterly and forever, and she turns her attention to the next. One day she wont love you too. It will break your heart. -Neil Gaiman's interpretation of "I'm Not In Love." ToriAmos.com - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:21:02 EDT From: Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com Subject: TOUR MERCH? I'm going to my first Tori concert this Saturday! I'm so excited! Can anybody clue me in on what types of merch she has! I'm wondering what's on the T-shirt! 6We're all faeries living underneath a leaf on a lily pad7 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:37:09 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: tori tv boston from toriamos.com : On Monday, Tori will be the morning guest on "WB In The Morning"/WLVI-TV, WB - in Boston" +w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:56:06 -0400 From: ekrone1 Subject: RE: TOUR MERCH? there are 2 t shirts with 4 strange little girl pictures on them, short sleve is 30, in white (maybe black too?) and long sleve baby blue, $45. Base ball t that says worship satan, 35$ i think, baby black t with strange little girl in red rhinstone, 35$ i think, a blue t with writing on front and back, black with toris eyes on the front, and tori amos 2001 tour on the back (i got that one), strange little girl shirt with tori in the black hair and smeared mascara with tour dates on the back, all $30, and a sweatshirt with a microphone and tori amos on the upper right front corner, $50. programms 20$, two pendent type neclaces, a key chain and something else, 10$. Tickets to both DC dates:$100.00 t shirt $30. camera 80$ film 6$ seeing Tori.....well, you know. Did i miss anything? >===== Original Message From Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com ===== >I'm going to my first Tori concert this Saturday! I'm so excited! Can anybody >clue me in on what types of merch she has! I'm wondering what's on the >T-shirt! > > > >6We're all faeries living underneath a leaf on a lily pad7 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:21:52 EDT From: Lmdelirium@aol.com Subject: Indy tix Does anyone have two good seats/tickets to the Oct. 25th Indianapolis show, I would appreciate it, reply to lmdelirium@aol.com Tori love and Lori love (that's me) - -Lori D ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:22:01 EDT From: YelloStarGlasses@aol.com Subject: Re: help buying a tour shirt aaack, they sold out of that baby t???? does anyone know how their shipments work with merchandise? i dont see tori for another month, any chance they will get more? ~*~Chrissie~*~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:56:56 -0400 From: myth@31flavours.com Subject: reviews [was: Re: 1st Beacon Show (long!)] On 11 Oct 01, at 22:26, strange little woj wrote: > but some of it was tori too. judging from the other shows, the first > night's setlist was pretty standard. she played several favorites (cooling, > sweet dreams, rattlesnakes, spring haze, pandora's aquarium) and a couple > nice reworks (cool on your island and crucify on the wurlitzer) but there > just weren't a lot of spine-tingly moments for me. don't get me wrong: she > didn't coast through the show, but i thought it was a flat performance. I'm thinking Tori's performances must not be very consistent on this tour. I saw the Atlanta show from first row balcony, just a hair right of center. The view was great and I thought it would turn out to be a fabulous show....but it wasn't. "Flat performance" about sums up my thoughts on it. And it wasn't just me...people with me who had seen her previously agreed that it was not one of her more captivating performances. One person I went with had been to all the shows thus far, and he said that so far he thought she had been the most "on" in Tampa [even taking into account that he had front row seats for the fabulous Orlando setlist], and that Atlanta was the worst of the bunch. I thought at Atlanta she seemed a bit....bland....based on the times I've seen her before. It lacked energy and that spark of passion and abandonment to the music that I think is one of the things that really sets her apart from other performers...as if instead of "channeling" the music that night she was performing by rote. I dunno. I was not moved, tingled, or anything else. I'd have preferred a setlist like Charlotte....and I hear she was "on" that night. So I was a bit disappointed in my concert experience this tour. ~julie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:00:32 -0400 From: myth@31flavours.com Subject: Friday webcast ? I can't help but notice that the email and link about the webcast tomorrow make absolutely no mention of what time, if any, we should tune in for it. Does anyone know or want to guess...will it be available all day, or only at a specific time? They could've been a little more informative on that point. ~julie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:21:23 -0400 From: "Kelly Stitzel" Subject: Re: tour songs I have been keeping track of all the setlists and which songs are played. I don't have a site, but if anyone wants some stats, let me know. Kelly If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:37:41 -0700 From: Shaman Subject: Re: tour songs ekrone1 wrote: > > I had searched past a few archives but didt see if anyone had decided to keep > track of which songs she plays on all her dates. I know someone did this last > tour..but havnt found it yet. It seems a very downtempo tour, well maybe just > her two DC dates were. > > thanks Try www.earswithfeet.ORG! ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #195 *************************************