From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V7 #265 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, November 9 2002 Volume 07 : Number 265 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori tour Tampa report [Richard Handal ] Locked out of Scarlet's Web [Mariana Furtado ] Re: E! Online mentions SW #7 on charts! [Richard Handal ] AUUUGH!!!! [Cyndi S Crawford ] Re: Tori tour Tampa report [Brian K Tanaka ] Announce: Setlist Database Updated for Scarlet's Walk! [Sped Erstad ] Scarlet's Walk opinions? ["Jeffrey Clark" ] [none] [dances with virgos ] atlanta journal-constitution article [dances with virgos ] Tori Interview in Friday's AJC for Atlanta Toriphiles [Beth Winegarner ] RE: E! Online mentions SW #7 on charts! ["Captain Scarlet" Subject: Tori tour Tampa report Hi, All: I just spoke with Michael (Mikewhy) and Amanda who attended the first show of the tour in Tampa. Tori performed for a completely unprecedented two hours and twenty-three minutes. Off the top of my head the longest concert I can recall previously was the concert in D.C.--the third of three nights in a row--on 28 April 1996 which included three encore sets and lasted two hours and two minutes. I want to get this out quickly so I won't research that point. The following setlist was confirmed by Amanda and Michael, and the comments are paraphrased from Michael. He okayed them when I read them back. A reversed situation from the usual. :-) He hopes to be online during Friday and post more comments on the Dent. Looks like we'll need to fasten our seat belts on this tour. Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center--Carol Morsani Hall, 7:30PM Times of concert: 8:44-11:07, first set ended at 10:43 Wampum Prayer A Sorta Fairytale In The Springtime of His Voodoo Bliss Crazy Take To The Sky Pancake Caught A Lite Sneeze Mrs. Jesus Crucify Wednesday Improv/Cloud On My Tongue (solo) Cool On Your Island (solo) Cooling (solo) Strange Concertina Sweet Sangria Lust Amber Waves Don't Make Me Come To Vegas Hotel I Can't See New York Spring Haze Encore 1 Virginia Past The Mission Encore 2 Tear In Your Hand Jupiter (Dakota version) Tori played both the Boesendorfer and Rhodes on many songs. A Wurlitzer which was painted red was situated on top of the Rhodes, and she played the Wurlitzer on three or four songs. On one song [Hotel?] Tori played all three keyboards. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: Mariana Furtado Subject: Locked out of Scarlet's Web Hi guys, This is a cry for tech assistance. It's not a ConnectD issue it's just my glitch-filled computer. If anyone can help me you can just respond to me personally so as not to clog up everyone's inboxes. And, yes, I do have the CD in my CD-rom tray :) Here is the problem: At www.toriamos.com/scarletsweb/ there is a link that says CLICK HERE TO BEGIN. Well, I can't click on it. I put the pointer on it and click and nothing happens. You know how you can see destination address of a link at the bottom of your browser when you place your pointer on the link? When I do that I don't get a proper address, it just says: javascript:PopUp('bonus.html') I'm assuming that my computer is having a problem with java. I checked the browser configuration and java is enabled so I don't know. Can someone tell me what the proper address for the link is? Maybe I can try typing it in directly or something? Or perhaps a direct link? Help me! Any help, suggestions, anything would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! ~~Mariana~ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:51:19 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: E! Online mentions SW #7 on charts! Pete said: > > 7. Scarlet's Walk, Tori Amos > > 8. The Eminem Show, Eminem > > Bwwaaahahahahahaaaa! }:-) Yeah, well, the number 1 album of the week was the soundtrack with Eminem and it broke all records for the debut sales week for any soundtrack. As my Epic friend put it on Wednesday morning last week, "The Eminem soundtrack is killing us." The Eminem Show has been out for a long time. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 01:37:29 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: AUUUGH!!!! TORI KICKED HER TOUR OFF TODAY!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GET TO SEE HER IN CONCERT ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO FUCKING HYPED AND ITS ONLY THURSDAY!!!! (well.. technically speaking, it's friday now but who gives a shit? :D) AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *passes out* Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.platinumcomplication.com/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/ -- http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=kittitude Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 02:48:39 -0800 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: Re: Tori tour Tampa report On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:31:44AM -0500, Richard Handal boldly wrote: > Hi, All: > > I just spoke with Michael (Mikewhy) and Amanda who attended the first show > of the tour in Tampa. Tori performed for a completely unprecedented two > hours and twenty-three minutes. Off the top of my head the longest concert .. Twenty seven songs!?!? My word! I wonder if (read: hope that) this bodes well for long shows in general this tour. - -- - - Brian Tanaka - - - contact info (im etc.): http://www.well.com/~btanaka/info - - tori web site: http://www.well.com/~btanaka/tori - - random tori quote: http://btanaka.freeshell.org/toriquotes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 07:04:12 -0600 From: Sped Erstad Subject: Announce: Setlist Database Updated for Scarlet's Walk! Torifans, http://toriset.dyndns.org (hittin' a few groups with this announcement -- sorry if you get it more than once....) I just wanted to send out an update to the Tori Amos community and let everyone know that the Setlist Database is indeed updated and ready for the Walk of Scarlet. Even though Tori is touring with a band again this time around, I'm sure she'll make enough setlist changes every night to still make the database relevant. What is the database? Quite simply, it is a site that has all setlists from all concerts that Tori has performed from 1996 through the present ('92 and '94 data is almost ready -- I promise!). You can view and sort information such as the number of times a song has been played along with the debut dates and date each song was most recently played. Sorting options include alphabetically by song, numerically by number of times played, and by album and date. Additionally, you can use the site as a quick link to all reviews and setlists from the The Dent (http://www.thedent.com). I find the site quite useful for answering questions like: "Has Tori played Song X on this tour yet??" So please check out the site and print out some stats before your next Tori show -- thanks for listening! http://toriset.dyndns.org Sped (Sped@erstads.com) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:25:43 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: Tori tour Tampa report Brian said: > Twenty seven songs!?!? My word! I wonder if (read: hope that) this > bodes well for long shows in general this tour. I have to think the intention was for the concert last night to have ended at 11pm, so with a 7:30 start time for the opener and an 8:45 start time for Tori it seems they are allowing two hours and fifteen minutes for Tori to perform. I can't even believe I just typed that but that's what it looks like to *me*. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:15:59 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Clark" Subject: Scarlet's Walk opinions? *sigh* something apparantly happened with my email where it stopped working and I was removed from this list just in time for the new album to come out, so I missed getting everybody's opinions on it. What's the general concensus on this list? For anybody interested, here's mine: A lot of tracks on the album seem to have these low-pitched piano parts which I absolutely love. Sweet Sangria, Another Girl's Paradise, and Pancake are all examples. I'm not a huge fan of Gold Dust or Your Cloud, mainly because I don't really care too much for the mellowness of them :) I must say though, that I Can't See New York is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I have to admit that I don't personally think the album is up to par with Tori's first four albums (excluding YKTR), but I'm sure that opinion isn't shared with a lot of people. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:05:31 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: [none] Whispers to wails, Amos dazzles By GINA VIVINETTO, Times Pop Music Critic (c) St. Petersburg Times published November 8, 2002 TAMPA -- Watching Tori Amos perform Thursday, it wasn't difficult imagining her as the prodigy piano player she was growing up in Maryland. The 39-year-old walked onstage at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in a light blue chiffon kimono over jeans and black boots, looking like a child playing dress-up. A matching bow barrette held back one side of her hair. It was the first stop of Amos' North American tour, and the house, which holds almost 2,500, was nearly sold out. Amos's fans are die-hards, applauding her before she sat at her grand piano. Amos began with an a capella Wampum Prayer from Scarlet's Walk, her remarkable new concept album. The disc is the narrative of the fictitious Scarlet trekking like a modern day Jack Kerouac across America. Along the way, Scarlet re-examines her faith -- in her country, herself and those around her. The singer deals with the events of Sept. 11 on I Can't See New York, narrated by a passenger on one of the fated planes that crashed into the twin towers. Other tunes such as A Sorta Fairytale, which Amos performed near her set's beginning, are less grim, though the song's needling, loopy piano hints of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells -- better known as The Exorcist theme. Amos was accompanied by her long time bandmates -- "my brothers" -- bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain. The three play precisely together, the men following Amos' leads and forays into dynamic vocal shenanigans, not singing so much as simply making her voice heard. Amos is gifted with the ability to convey candid emotions, through whispers, nuanced ahems and cooing. Likely, Amos will follow those with gigantic vocal sweeps, gusts of grandiose, sometimes guttural wails. Amos' gyrations and hip swivels on the piano bench accompanied In the Springtime of His Voodoo, which found the singer turning back and forth between her grand piano and an electronic keyboard behind her. Evans' pummeling bass line beefed up that number, which ended in Amos' crescendo of bluesy growls. Bliss began woozily enough, with programmed trip hop beats and gurgly electronica noise. That song's bright chorus makes it a seesaw of emotion. Amos finished the number with her eyes closed, fidgeting and shaking her head, nearly barking the lyrics. Hard core fans relished the obscure Take to the Sky on which Amos slapped her piano for percussion and a deconstructed trip-hoppy version of Amos' early hit Crucify. The vaudevillian sass of new tune Wednesday, with Chamberlain rat-tat-tatting a two-step beat with brushes on his snare, showed Amos' playful side. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:42:35 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: atlanta journal-constitution article [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11/08/02 ] As alter ego Scarlet, singer holds mirror to America on tour By NICK TATE Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer [Photo] Kurt Markus / Special Caption: Singer-songwriter Tori Amos says the birth of her daughter helped inform the raw sound and emotionality of her new album, "Scarlet's Walk." CONCERT PREVIEW Tori Amos. 7:30 p.m. Sunday. $38. Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave. 404-658-7159, www.ticketmaster.com. "I think it's changed me in ways that sometimes I don't even know," says Tori Amos. She's talking by phone about the impact of her daughter's birth on her life and art. It's an uncharacteristically direct statement from Amos, the reigning queen of art-rock weirdness. Now 2 years old, Natashya Lsrien -- named after Lothlsrien, the kingdom of the elves in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" -- is more than just a physical presence on her famous mother's current tour, which pulls into Atlanta on Sunday. Amos says Natashya's arrival helped inform the raw sound and emotionality of her new album, "Scarlet's Walk," released last week. The concept album - -- built around Amos' alter ego, "Scarlet," as she treks across America in search of its soul, and her own -- isn't a dramatic departure from such arty platinum-selling releases as 1992's "Little Earthquakes" and 1994's "Under the Pink." But it's mellower, with more songs about love and resolve than the rage and pain that have earned her a cult following. Amos' first album of original songs since 1999's "To Venus and Back" -- and since she left Atlantic for Epic Records -- "Scarlet's Walk" is a "sonic novel" (Amos' description) partly inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, which the North Carolina native witnessed firsthand in New York. The music marks a return to the spare piano-and-voice style that first made her famous. In a typically baroque chat from New York -- where she spends much of her time when not in the studio or at home in Cornwall, England, with her husband, British sound engineer Mark Hawley -- Amos discussed the impact of 9/11, Natashya's birth and the new album. AJC: Congrats on the birth of your daughter. How old is she now? Amos: Thank you. She's 2 and she'll be touring with us. AJC: How do you manage time with her on the road? Amos: We have story time, it's really the center of our relationship. We sit down together and make up things. Like we'll put our hands on a radiator when we're in a cold room. And she'll say, 'Play a song for me, Mommy.' So I put on the radio. AJC: "Scarlet's Walk" seems a bit of a departure from the last few albums you've made with a full band. Amos: I was listening to the album last night at 3 in the morning. Scarlet's Web [Amos' Web site, www.toriamos.com/scarletsweb] goes up today. The CD becomes a key to get to the site, like the key in "The [Lion, the] Witch and the Wardrobe." And the Web site opens up, like in Tolkien, with maps and all the different writing forms I'm applying to it. So the journey continues online. The theme that I have for the tour is threads; that's my subtext. That's what I'm working with the musicians. And each stop on the tour is different, as I travel from Melbourne to Atlanta. AJC: "Scarlet's Walk" has very little of the rage and anger in so many of your other songs. Is that a conscious thing? Amos: That's a conscious thing, yes. Scarlet's not angry, not in that way. I think that she realizes there's a sinister force and power working through the country, as every country has. Angry is a fascinating term, because you're not really in a powerful position when you're too angry, are you? You can't play chess when you're really angry. But Scarlet's angry because of what she sees happening to [America]. Maybe when we smelled her burning that day in New York and the death of so many people, we saw her in a new way. And are our leaders really protecting our true mother, now? This is the question she's asking. AJC: You were in New York on Sept. 11? Amos: Yes. I was in Midtown. AJC: Was that a catalyst for "Scarlet's Walk"? Amos: It was already in the works before that because Scarlet was in trouble before this day, clearly. But maybe by being [there]. . . . You don't get your information secondhand. When you walk down Fifth Avenue and smell the burning and you want to go to the wound and help. AJC: Do you think your fans expected you to respond in some way, since you were there? Amos: The thing about the art and music community, if they don't have their finger on the pulse, then you need to get rid of us. But this is not just 9/11-based. If you're talking about American history, you've got to include 9/11, but you've got to go further than that. It's about betrayal and that goes back hundreds of years. It's how we took the land. As this old Native American woman told me on tour, "Sadly enough, child, the white brother only took the land. It's time that he take more." AJC: Meaning? Amos: Listen to the album. AJC: The new music seems be more rounded. The songs are more about seeking solace or love than about expressing rage and hurt. Amos: I think maybe by being a mother, you begin to look at responsibility to your own mother. AJC: And by "your mother" you mean. . . . Amos: My physical mother, of course. But also, my spiritual mother, which is my country. But it's other things, too. AJC: You knew I'd have to ask this question, in a town like Atlanta: Why Scarlet? Amos: Of course, you do. I love the idea. Scarlet is a fabric before she was a color, which takes us to Scarlett O'Hara, and the immigrants. But just up the road you have the Native Americans. All women bleed; Scarlet can be any woman. AJC: Your concert draws lots of teen girls, wearing black eye makeup and T-shirts that say things like "Recovering Christian," who seem to be very affected by your music, who cry through your sets. Does that ever concern you; that all that might get in the way of the music? Amos: People have to have their own experience with the music. Once you put it out there, it's between them and the songs. AJC: I'd read that Atlantic dropped you because they wanted to focus on artists who were selling millions of records. Amos: That's not true. They didn't drop me. I asked to get off Atlantic years and years ago. It was a bad relationship, a bad marriage. And they wouldn't be gracious and let me go. So I maneuvered my way and found people that were of like mind [at Epic]. AJC: Do you have any special plans for Atlanta? Amos: I won't know until two hours before I go on. . . . Each stop on the tour is different. AJC: Some of the review copies of "Scarlet's Walk" were shipped inside glued-shut CD players to keep the album from being bootlegged. Why? Amos: Well, the album is out today and it wasn't bootlegged, right? AJC: Why is that a big concern for you? Loss of royalties? Not being able to control the release of the music? Amos: We know people have this consciousness that they think it's OK to take music for free. And I say if you really can't afford it, then you should be able to have it for free. But if all you're doing is taking and taking and not giving anything back, then all you are is a taker. I mean, you're not writing this story for free, are you, Nick? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:37:33 -0800 From: Beth Winegarner Subject: Tori Interview in Friday's AJC for Atlanta Toriphiles On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:33:32PM -0500, Kaatori wrote: > Dear All, > > For those of you who live in Atlanta and can get today's (Friday) > Atlanta-Journal Constitution, in the Weekend Preview section, there's a large > spread about Tori. The interviewer asks her questions about the albulm > pertaining to Atlanta as well as typical questions about her album's > meaning/concept, etc. > > The pic that they show very largely is the one of her in jeans with the > oversized-see-thru shirt that looks very native american. > > Here is a link to the article on the AJC website: > > > http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/preview_d3bc359a54cbc18 > > 60088.html > > --see you at the show on Sunday! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:06:38 -0800 (PST) From: "trent \[paper tigers scare me\]" Subject: merch any news on the merch? what of t-shirts? ..this tour's necklace? ..the tourbook??? I NEED DETAILS!!! ;) trent ===== - --- "This thing you call Love - she smiles way too much butI'm glad you're on my side" Tori Amos - Taxi Ride U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:24:33 -0000 From: "Captain Scarlet" Subject: RE: E! Online mentions SW #7 on charts! > Yeah, well, the number 1 album of the week was the soundtrack with Eminem > and it broke all records for the debut sales week for any soundtrack. As > my Epic friend put it on Wednesday morning last week, "The Eminem > soundtrack is killing us." The Eminem Show has been out for a long time. > > Be seeing you, > > Richard Handal, H.G. Yeah, shame... still looked nice on the chart listing though. And we aren't going to get hung up on chart places are we (note to self!) since the very reason we like Tori so much is that she's vintage wine, not Sunny D. Still, I'm pissed off that 2 weeks after the release Woolworths, the UK's biggest non-music-only seller of CDs (equivalent of walmart in the US I think) isn't stocking Scarlet at all, and she isn't in their in store top 100. Hmph. Pete x ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V7 #265 *************************************