From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V7 #271 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 Thursday, November 14 2002 Volume 07 : Number 271 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 ["Danny.Weddup" ] meet & greet times ["Jodi Eisenberg" ] Riverside Church concert ["Lisa Zwick" ] Re: precious-things-digest V7 #243 [JNe9027355@aol.com] Ticket available for Radio City on 3/06/03 [SameOldAstronaut@aol.com] Re: Riverside Church concert ["RasinGirrl" ] i still have xtra tickets for tomoro night [eresos@monmouth.com] Re:SW [VioletLilith@aol.com] *first tori concert experience* [VioletLilith@aol.com] FOR SALE: CAMDEN, NJ SEATS!!!!!! ["Peter Zimmerman" ] Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 [Talula1982@aol.com] Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 ["Becka" ] RE: precious-things-digest V7 #269 ["Thomson, Kathleen" ] carpool NJ to CT on saturday ["Thomson, Kathleen" ] Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 ["Lisa Zwick" ] RE: merch/howie/fairfax show [ekrone1 ] howie day ["Thomson, Kathleen" ] ap article on scarlet's walk [dances with virgos ] Re: howie day ["Lisa Zwick" ] sw tour [Ange816@aol.com] Re:Re: howie day [Cyndi S Crawford ] Re: sw tour ["Lisa Zwick" ] tori on wtic's acoustic cafe [dances with virgos ] Ticket for Radio City IS still available ORCH 3, ROW FF [SameOldAstronaut] Re: merch/howie/fairfax show [Finney2567@aol.com] falling in love again ["Captain Scarlet" ] Re: sw tour ["Becka" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:51:50 -0000 From: "Danny.Weddup" Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 Cyndi S Crawford wrote: > in light of all this touring going on and Tori's Atlanta show > being my very very first concert experience ever.. I wanna ask.. > > What was YOUR first concert experience of Tori like? What > happened? Mine was last year on the very first show of the Strange Little Tour in London at the Union Chapel, an extremely special concert. The venue is a beautiful church (it was SO good to see Tori sitting up their at the piano, in front of the pulpit!) so instead of seats there were pews. It was a very unusual show - quite short but with a really special atmosphere. The place only holds a thousand people and it was totally packed, and there was a real air of expectancy before Tori came on, serious electricity in the room. When Tori came on everyone gave her a standing ovation, practically raised the roof with all the cheering, and she went into Raining Blood which was seriously eerie. The song was leant a lot by the atmosphere and the surroundings in the church, and if I remember correctly Tori remarked upon it afterward in an interview, saying that she felt like she "was channelling something, a force from another place" or something to that effect, when she was singing the song. She performed a really powerful version of Icicle too, on the 'Feel the word' and 'I could have' parts she was literally shaking as she belted out the words. My other favourite moment was when she forgot the words during Crucify, and just stopped in the middle of the song and burst out laughing :o). It was a very special night. Danny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:54:13 -0800 From: "Missy" Subject: Re: somethin'.. > Oh, and by the way...I hear all these concert posts about people "almost" > crying and I think either I'm a big emotional wuss, or maybe her concerts > are losing their emotional appear." I don't think her concerts are losing their emotional appeal... But I never saw her before last year live. My friend and I both cried..her at Winter, I at Cooling, and the guy next to me was crying during the second San Diego show... I mean, we are only three people out of the huge crowd present.. but still. I expect to be crying during this time I see her... I was in pure and absolute awe of the whole concert at the second san Diego show...It was such an amazing experience. I hope this show is the same for me...as far as emotionally. I had a great time. =] *~*~* Melissa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:32:39 -0500 From: "Jodi Eisenberg" Subject: meet & greet times i've been to a bunch of meet and greets (never fully met tori though...sigh...) and i can't remember what time they start! please email me offlist if possible.... my roomates and i are going to the camden show and aren't sure we can make the m&g, but wondering if we should even try if the earliest we can get there is 3....or should we just wait til the after show one? dunno. ARG!!! THANKS! : ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:25:11 -0500 From: "Lisa Zwick" Subject: Riverside Church concert I just got back from seeing tori at the riverside church. I really wish I could say it was the most incredible experience ever, etc. But I just couldn't really get into it. There were some good songs, mainly the ones of just tori and her piano...or rather pianoS. The instruments were too overpowering, and they drowned out her voice. Seemed to hyped up. It did get better as the concert progressed, though. I got more used to it. And the Venus songs worked very nicely with the sound they had going. China also made an impression on me. I never used to listen to it much on the cd, I always found it to sound too...boring. This was the first time I really listened to the words. So there definitely were some good moments, and I'm glad i went. I guess my expectations were just a little too high, this being my first time seeing her. The church, tho, was really great for the concert. Very intimate, and the highest price range got to sit in the pews, so we were pretty close to the stage. I don't understand the whole point of blinding the audience with the lights, tho. I was also hoping for tori to speak more, tell some stories...she only said like two sentences tho. But it was a solid 2-hr show, nice and long, even tho it seemed to end too soon. Anyways, I'm gonna go to bed. I don't mean to complain about the show, I was just expecting more from it. I wanted to walk away from it with my mouth hanging open, but it just didn't have a strong effect on me. Oh btw...were there keychains at the other concerts? i really wanted to get a keychain, and they said there weren't any. Was it just this show or are there no keychains this year? - -Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 03:54:18 EST From: JNe9027355@aol.com Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V7 #243 In a message dated 10/17/02 9:20:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: > well, you can't beat Glory Of The 80's or Hey Jupiter (for me.. > HJ because it's the video that got me hooked, GOTE because it's just.. > AWESOME.) BUT.. this video was sweeeeeet. I liked the theme, and I really > liked the part at the end.. well if you're hopeless romantics like me and > you've seen the video.. you'll know what I'm talking about.. :D the part > at the end made my heart flutter and made me grin like a fool. *sighhh..* what about the end happened? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:00:55 EST From: SameOldAstronaut@aol.com Subject: Ticket available for Radio City on 3/06/03 I have, up for auction, one ticket for Tori's performance at Radio City Music Hall on 3/06/03. The seat is located in ORCH 3, ROW FF (fifth row). For those familiar with the seating layout, this is the closest to center orchestra as possible, aside from ORCH 5, in which you'd be facing her back all night long. If you're interested in placing a bid on this ticket, or buying this ticket from me privately, then please send me an email (privately), and I will answer any questions you have regarding the ticket. The eBay link is: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=922222020 If you're interested in purchasing this ticket privately, the options of payment will be the same as listed in the auction. Thank you ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:35:38 -0500 From: "RasinGirrl" Subject: Re: Riverside Church concert I agree that the show was a good show, just not may favorite. It seemed rushed to me. Tori didn't talk, she didn't even introduce the band. I had a horrible time with seats because the venue screwed up with all of us so I ended up in the back of the floor. I guess the atmosphere and acoustics are just different back there. It was nice to see Tori again but the sound just wasn't good. It was a pretty setting but it wasn't the greatest concert ever. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:51:19 EST From: eresos@monmouth.com Subject: i still have xtra tickets for tomoro night just wanted to see if anyone is in need of tix SEC 202 ROW H seats 53/54 let me know... - -ellen This message was sent using MI-Webmail provided by Monmouth Internet ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:35:02 EST From: VioletLilith@aol.com Subject: Re:SW <> i would say "crazy" and "wednesday", at this time, are the ones i listen to the most. *jennifer* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:50:13 EST From: VioletLilith@aol.com Subject: *first tori concert experience* <> my first tori concert was on the dew drop inn tour. i went with my friend, shane, who, at the time, wasn't a huge fan like myself. so, i think he got a little overwhelmed by my excitement. anyway, it was amazing. she was wearing jeans and a red body suit. it was at the ruth eckerd hall in clearwater, florida (which is also where i saw here for the SLG tour). i remember being ultra-happy because she played "tear in your hand" and "little earthquakes" back-to-back. at that time they were my favorites. that is also the night that i fell in love with "caught a lite sneeze", and, to this day, it is my favorite song performed live by tori. her final encore was prince's "purple rain" on the organ. also, she did the same "dance" to "cornflake girl" as she does on the "NYC/RAINN" concert. and, i am pretty sure she told us she was pregnant. she mentioned something about pregnancy, and not long after that is when she miscarried! it was amazing. i actually didn't cry at that performance. i was too excited. i saw here next on the "plugged" tour, here in jax., which is probably the best performance i have ever seen of her's. then, i saw her with alanis. but, it wasn't until the SLG tour, when i finally met her, that i cried. i cried through *almost* the entire show. and this tour(SW), too, i cried. again, almost through the entire show! i guess i am finally mature enough to reflect myself in the music, and i think that is why i cry now.... *jennifer* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:02:27 -0500 From: "Peter Zimmerman" Subject: FOR SALE: CAMDEN, NJ SEATS!!!!!! Hey everyone, sorry to bother you with this, but.... I have 2 AWESOME seats for the Camden Show- Here is the info Camden, NJ November 15, 2002 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront SECTION 202 ROW G SEATS 56-57 These seats are awesome! They are right in the center- a little to the left which is good so you can see tori as opposed to being on the right and seeing the bosendorfer. They are smack in the center and great seats. I was invited to go with a friend who happens to have better seats, so i need to get rid of these. If you are interested, PLEASE EMAIL ME! I would like to sell these tickets before its too late- i am asking the price i payed for them from ticketmaster-$87.90. Email me at pzimmerman@standrews-de.org if interested. I am from the USA, Not Germany- as the "-de" would imply (it actually means delaware.) Thanks everyone!!! - -Peter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:03:12 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: providence journal article Music scene by Vaughn Watson: Scarlet's Walk: Songs as road signs for America 11/14/2002 In the most striking musical responses to Sept. 11, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle dwelled on human interactions in a changed America after the terror attacks. Add Tori Amos to that list. Amos's expression of patriotism in her latest, Scarlet's Walk, doesn't break down to boisterous flag waving or zealous namecalling. Rampant patriotism, Amos said in a phone interview -- "that comes from a political agenda, and it also comes from a different place than knowledge." Amos is one of our most sterling songwriters. She has courageously written about her own rape. She's tackled domestic abuse in songs. In Scarlet's Walk, she portrays the America she loves with nuance and grace, urging listeners -- inside and outside the United States -- to not see America as a monolithic body. Her storytelling is, as always, reflective and confrontational when she needs it to be. Amos titles one song "Amber Waves." It is about a porn star who goes by that name, but it's also a commentary on America's obsession with celebrity and media culture. "Into every young man's bedroom, you gave it up on DVD and magazine," Amos sings. Elsewhere on the album, a wanderer named Scarlet travels America, reflecting on its heartbeat. Scarlet "meets people from all different cultures and walks of life -- Native Americans, right-wing truck drivers, cowboys, porn stars, librarians," says Amos, who performs a sold-out show on Sunday at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Scarlet, Amos said, is "developing a relationship with America, with her soul, not with the people who pimp her out or misrepresent this America." Hints of songs Like Scarlet, who travels from Las Vegas to Fairbanks, Ala., to Montana and Tennessee, crisscrossing the 50 states like a stump-speech politician (or a nationally touring musician), the songwriting "didn't all happen in a linear fashion," Amos says. "Segments of the songs were only coming in snippets. I was getting maybe hints of what [a song] was about. I didn't understand that it was going to be a sonic narrative. I had no idea that Scarlet was going to become my alter ego." Amos began writing the songs after Sept. 11, during her tour for her last album (Strange Little Girls), which tackled social issues through the eyes of several women. "This story came quite rapidly. People were coming to the shows. These were troubling times. People were writing letters and talking about, 'If tomorrow doesn't come, what will I do today?' They were questioning what they believe in, what they stood for. As you know, certain leaders were trying to dampen these questions and make people feel like they aren't behind the country if they are questioning policy on anything. "I feel like our leaders have hijacked [America's] personality, and taken her to personality plastic surgery school. And they decided this is who she is. "But this is a minority of people who don't represent the collective of this country. We are made up of every culture that exists on the globe now, and our roots are the Native American people who welcomed people to come, then were taken from, taken from, taken from, and circumcised out of the history books. We are going back, [traveling] the world to find out where our roots are from, but we don't know our American roots. "Our mythology is made up of immigrants, but that is not our land's mythology. We don't know the song lines of our own land. We don't know the stories that were told here for hundreds and hundreds of years. How can you be caretakers of a land if you don't even know?" Voices of dissent Amos says that after Sept. 11, in a rising voice of dissent, "I began to see a fire take hold of people. "I saw it in their hearts. I saw it as the only way you could really go forward, and not have this happen again, is to not let people be emotionally blackmailed, so that we can have these questions. "I saw the generation coming out of the universities now, they took a step [back] and said, 'We are a part of this country. We won't be marginalized anymore.' This generation has chosen to harness the power and make a difference. All they have to do is vote." A final point: Even if Scarlet's Walk is a record to get you thinking, "this is not a teaching record," Amos says. "I am a student." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:39:55 -0500 From: Talula1982@aol.com Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 Who is the opening act for this year's tour? I've been going crazy trying to figure it out. ~~Julie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:59:09 -0500 From: "Becka" Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 howie day is the opening act on this tour.. fellow Epic Records artist http://www.howieday.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:54:51 -0500 From: "Thomson, Kathleen" Subject: RE: precious-things-digest V7 #269 Who is the opening act for this year's tour? I've been going crazy trying to figure it out. ~~~Julie Howie Day. I just saw him last night at Riverside - he's pretty good, plays guitar. also - i remember someone asking about merchandise, and never saw a reply on the list... here's a brief (not complete) listing hat (knit cap) poster program book t-shirts: - -grey hooded long sleeve "jacket" - -long sleeve zip up white top - -green T with sketch of Tori with the hair becoming leaves (found on the limited edition jacket) - -same in baby T - -baseball shirt w/ navy long sleeves, with images that are found in the stickers with the limited edition - -light blue shirt that says "scarlets bar and grill" - -same in baby T - -white T with photos - -black T - couldn't see whats on it there may be a few more. i didn't notice any jewelry... sorry that my descriptions aren't more, but it gets crowded and i wanted to get out of there! just a reminder - they only accept CASH. NO credit cards or checks. katie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:12:07 -0500 From: "Becka" Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 there ARE two necklaces this year.. one is a road sign the other is a rather cheap and ugly dreamcatcher i saved the images that were taken off the @forumz.. you can find them here http://www.dreaminginreality.com/images/necklacefront.jpg http://www.dreaminginreality.com/images/necklaceback.jpg i for one would have been happier with some sort of "real" dreamcatcher necklace.. that copper thing is just oogly.. i'll be getting the roadsign i do believe they said that the necklaces were $15 a piece too ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:12:15 -0500 From: "Thomson, Kathleen" Subject: carpool NJ to CT on saturday me again... i am driving alone up to CT, and would really like someone just to keep me company on the drive!!! anyone want to carpool?? i want to leave morristown NJ between 9 and 10 am to try to make the meet n greet. email me or call me - cell phone is 201-317-9732 FYI - in case you're young or have concerned parents (or both....) i am almost 27, responsible, good job, good car, no police records ;) katie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:25:43 -0500 From: "Lisa Zwick" Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V7 #269 I found it very odd that he was singing along to his own cd. He didn't even try very hard to cover it up. In the first song, I kept looking around the stage, trying to find the other person who was playing with him, and then I realized it was the cd. Very strange. But entertaining... - -Lisa - ----- > Howie Day. I just saw him last night at Riverside - he's pretty good, plays > guitar. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:50:14 -0500 From: ekrone1 Subject: RE: merch/howie/fairfax show Comments Howie Day is the best opening act Tori has had since before '98, IMO. The merch isnt that great.. I wanted to get a shirt, but they wernt that good looking, except the grey short sleeve t that looks exactly like the black one last year, with a rectrangular picture of her eyes, only this time it is her eyes from a scarlets walk photo. and its $35. BRW fairfax show was good, there were way too many freaks screaming, but the show came out ok. And the improv Tori did when there was some stage-russhing going on was cute. I will have "transcript" of what she said when i listen to it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:48:10 -0500 From: "Thomson, Kathleen" Subject: howie day hmm... i'm not up on musical technical stuff - i thought he kept recording either guitar chords or voice lines and then played them back - by stepping on controls on the floor - maybe someone who knows more about equipment can tell me whether i'm right or not... katie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:59:55 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: ap article on scarlet's walk Tori Amos Traces a Journey 2 hours, 7 minutes ago FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Tori Amos (news)' new album, "Scarlet's Walk," traces the journey of a woman across the country. A journey she literally made. Amos said she had to want to not be recognized, which some entertainers just can't bear. The pianist said the songs are based on real people and events, but it took her a long time to do it. "... And spending time in these places, sometimes I spent more time in certain ones, longer than others," Amos told The Associated Press. "I was able to do research without knowing I was doing the research." Amos also embraces her Cherokee heritage in the album and on her current tour. She said her grandfather passed stories on to her in the oral tradition the way Cherokees have been doing for hundreds of years. "It really was like a metaphorical campfire," she said. "You sit down. He would light his pipe. That smell that permeates to this day. And it was like a ceremony every night. And the story would just change, slightly, sometimes every night. You can give him the subject matter and he would just go." The songstress, who wrote "Silent All These Years," said she's become more aware of her grandfather's intentions when he told her stories, now that she's got a child of her own. "I believe that my grandfather really did put this chip under my skin," Amos explained. "And so that when I became a mom, and I would be telling my little girl stories to try and get her to sleep, his stories would kick in." ___ On the Net: Tori Amos: http://www.toriamos.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:00:22 -0500 From: "Lisa Zwick" Subject: Re: howie day I don't think that was the case, becuse he'd just stand there for a few minutes, doing nothing, and yet you'd continue to hear music, along with him singing. He also was only playing that one guitar, and there were a lot more sounds than he could play on it...especially if he's not playing at all! - -Lisa - ----- Original Message ----- > hmm... i'm not up on musical technical stuff - i thought he kept recording > either guitar chords or voice lines and then played them back - by stepping > on controls on the floor - maybe someone who knows more about equipment can > tell me whether i'm right or not... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:39:17 EST From: Ange816@aol.com Subject: sw tour Does it seem weird to anyone else that Tori is playing so many songs from her new album on the tour? I realized that at the Melbourne concert (the one I went to) she played 10 new songs including Operation Peter Pan. All the other concerts I've been to, she's played about 3 or 4. It seems like in the past few years she's only played a few songs since the Plugged '98 tour, even then she didn't play close to this many. Just wondering if anyone else noticed that. Angela ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:31:11 GMT From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re:Re: howie day >I don't think that was the case, becuse he'd just stand there for a few minutes, doing nothing, and yet you'd continue to hear music, along with him singing. He also was only playing that one guitar, and there were a lot more sounds than he could play on it...especially if he's not playing at all!< that's because of the pedal thingies he was stepping on.. he had it set to where it'd repeat until he actually hit a button to make it finally stop, THAT'S the deal. I love technology. :D I want that system!! Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:18:30 -0500 From: "Lisa Zwick" Subject: Re: sw tour Yeah, she did play a lot of songs from SW. And although it's my favorite album so far, I didn't like them as much live. Again, mostly becuase of the noise. On the cd, IMO, the music blends in perfectly with her voice, which was not the case at the concert. I think the other songs sounded a lot better. (Now i really have to stop thinking of all the bad things about the concert and start remembering the good parts) - -Lisa - ----- Original Message ----- > > Does it seem weird to anyone else that Tori is playing so many songs from her > new album on the tour? I realized that at the Melbourne concert (the one I > went to) she played 10 new songs including Operation Peter Pan. All the > other concerts I've been to, she's played about 3 or 4. It seems like in the > past few years she's only played a few songs since the Plugged '98 tour, even > then she didn't play close to this many. Just wondering if anyone else > noticed that. > Angela ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:03:43 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: tori on wtic's acoustic cafe something for the southern new england crowd! 96.5 TICs Acoustic Cafe featuring Tori Amos 96.5 TIC has your chance to see Tori Amos in an exclusive performance for 96.5 TIC listeners! Listen to Damon Scott and Mike Kelley this week for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Tori Amos this Saturday afternoon at 1pm. The 96.5 TIC Acoustic Cafi is brought to you in part by Tapeworks in Hartford and only on 96.5 TIC! * From 96.5 TIC. i think the tapeworks website is , though i'm not entirely sure. i also dunno if this will be broadcast live, taped for later broadcast or not broadcast at all -- hey, just cos i live in connecticut doesn't mean that i listen to the radio! ;) however, i do have wtic tuned in now and hope to get some more details. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:43:44 EST From: SameOldAstronaut@aol.com Subject: Ticket for Radio City IS still available ORCH 3, ROW FF Hello If you follow the link that I previously posted, you will come to a page that says the item is no longer available. This is because I was asked to end the auction earlier by an interested buyer, but this fell through as the potential buyer did not read the terms and conditions before proposing a deal, and I now have to relist the item. The ticket, however is still available for sale. Here is the new link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=922390728 Here is the description again: I have, up for auction, one ticket for Tori's performance at Radio City Music Hall on 3/06/03. The seat is located in ORCH 3, ROW FF (fifth row). For those familiar with the seating layout, this is the closest to center orchestra as possible, aside from ORCH 5, in which you'd be facing her back all night long. If you're interested in placing a bid on this ticket, or buying this ticket from me privately, then please send me an email (privately, at SameOldAstronaut@aol.com), and I will answer any questions you have regarding the ticket. The eBay link is: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=922390728 If you're interested in purchasing this ticket privately, the options of payment will be the same as listed in the auction. Thank you ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:26:36 EST From: Finney2567@aol.com Subject: Re: merch/howie/fairfax show In a message dated 11/14/2002 2:46:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, ekrone1@towson.edu writes: << Comments Howie Day is the best opening act Tori has had since before '98, IMO. >> I seriously thought I was going to die of boredom from his setlist. Actually for a somewhat plugged concert she needs a band...Unbelievable Truth was my favorite opener. Howie was like a boy band without the backup singers. Yuck. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:15:39 -0000 From: "Captain Scarlet" Subject: falling in love again Was just telling my flatmate that yes, i do now totally love Scarlet's Walk (it wasn't Love At First Sight, but then slow fires always do burn longer). Gold Dust happened to be playing, and I said I really loved it, despite the fact it had a hint of Barbra Striesand about it that I couldn't quite pin down. And now I've just looked up Laura Mars on the web to see what's so special about her eyes, and it turns out there's a bloomin Striesand song about her (Glory-from-Buffy moment: "Did everybody else *know* that it was a Striesand song?"). Almost as weird as my Father Lucifer Easter-Egg-Dyeing coincidence a few years ago, that one. Anyway, I'm really falling for this album as the weeks start to mount up. I'm not sure why there are so many comparisons to LE & UTP though - LE in particular was probably more of an immediately emotional rush of an album, whereas I think this one is much much richer and murkier. The main thing I've not got to grips with yet is the pacing - by the time Taxi Ride comes along I'd been gagging for some acceleration for ages. I just wish Scarlet would put her foot down a bit there - but then I always was a terrible back seat driver :-) (It's heresy I know, but how on earth does Your Cloud get her from Houston to Philadelphia without falling asleep at the wheel?) Anyone had any luck getting Scarlet Stories off of Kazaa or similar places? I don't see the point of lining someone's pockets on ebay and since it isn't available to buy it's not like it's depriving Tori of a pair of Pradas (god knows we've bought her enough over the years!). Drive safe, Pete x "the landscape assembles itself about her, she informs it with her presence. She is its significance." - Angela Carter, Wolf-Alice ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:31:34 EST From: Finney2567@aol.com Subject: Re: sw tour In a message dated 11/14/2002 4:21:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, Ange816@aol.com writes: << Does it seem weird to anyone else that Tori is playing so many songs from her new album on the tour? I realized that at the Melbourne concert (the one I went to) she played 10 new songs including Operation Peter Pan >> I actually don't mind it at all. Since I like her new album I want to hear those songs live...I imagine she wants to do something different then play the same songs like she played on the plugged tour. When she did the plugged tour EVerything was new....now she probably wants to do take her Scarlet album and put it to the test. I would get kind of bored if I had to relieve the same tour. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:10:12 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: boston phoenix article Journey woman Tori Amos and her Scarlet's Walk BY ANNIE ZALESKI photo PERSONAL TOUCH: Amos's candor about her domestic life and her ability to bring that candor to bear on her songwriting have always been strengths. "I've got so many errands to run," explained Tori Amos at the start of a phone call from New York City in August, when she was setting the groundwork for the release of her seventh album, Scarlet's Walk (Epic). Still a resident of sleepy Cornwall, Amos continued, "I have to pick up a costume for Tash [her daughter, Natashya] -- they're doing a nautical weekend in Cornwall, so I'm flying back for the weekend to England with a costume for her. If you were with me right now, we could go to FAO Schwarz and get Hello Kitty stickers. That was her one request. 'Stickers from 'merica, Mommy!' " Amos says this in her best little-girl voice. Amos's candor about her domestic life and her ability to bring that candor to bear on her songwriting have always been strengths. Her casual complaints about the service at a restaurant in "The Waitress" and her siren call to women to assert their voices in "Girl" are equally part of what has made her songs so compelling. For all her vocal quirks, she's always been accessible -- the kind of songwriter who's able to share her workaday frustrations and more exotic longings. Her brute honesty has also had its downside. She's been criticized by some for exploiting her own misfortunes, most controversially in 1992's "Me and a Gun," with its graphic depiction of her own rape. But to social misfits and sensitive souls, Amos -- who comes to the Providence Performing Arts Center this Sunday and to the Tsongas Arena in Lowell this Tuesday -- is a comforting friend and oracle, someone capable of articulating hidden insecurities, pains, and emotions. When she deviated from that path on last year's Strange Little Girls (Atlantic), a concept album that had her playing the role of a different fictional character on each track, her songwriting seemed to be missing something crucial. At the same time, she's run the risk of revealing too much of herself in her songs, of becoming a caricature of the Tori that her fans demand. It's a problem she's acutely aware of. "There are things we hide. People may think they really know me simply by hearing my songs and knowing my history, but that's not enough. There are other things we keep to ourselves - -- sometimes even people that you marry and fully open up to don't know everything." On Scarlet's Walk, she balances her need to personalize with her desire to protect herself by inventing a persona named Scarlet whose trip across the United States parallels Amos's own American journey in the fall of 2001, when she was touring in support of Strange Little Girls. As a bereft Scarlet says in "Wednesday," "Can someone help me . . . I think that I'm lost here/Lost in a place called America." Scarlet's Walk is a musical journey as well. Resembling at times the rich, velvety productions of 1998's From the Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic) and at others the stark simplicity of 1994's Under the Pink (Atlantic), the disc consolidates Amos's musical past. "I Can't See New York" and "Carbon" float with airy keyboards; "Strange" uses mournful Fender Rhodes electric-piano tones, sweeping strings, and effects-laden guitar textures; "Harmonica" helps reinforce the yearning of "Sweet Sangria" and "Taxi Ride." "A Sorta Fairytale" is a vintage Tori single, exploding with glittering piano chords and a cooing chorus tinged with sadness. The waltz and wicked cowboy-funk bass sections that alternate in "Wednesday" bring to mind the rockist leanings of 1996's Boys for Pele (Atlantic). At times stripped down to little more than piano and voice, at others lushly orchestrated, Scarlet's Walk is held together by some of her hardest-hitting and most emotionally direct songwriting. Some of this emotional rawness -- and certainly the album's focus on America -- can be traced directly back to her state of mind during that 2001 tour, which took place in the wake of September 11. American history and landmarks are woven through the disc. "Fairytale" finds Scarlet speeding along Highway 101 in California; "Wampum Prayer," "Your Cloud," and "Virginia" allude to the plight of Native Americans. There are even references to September 11 in the frantic "New York." Amos was in New York on September 11, 2001, and she recalls the experience in typically impressionistic terms. "I remember in a weird way being in New York City . . . the smell of her [America], and her being attacked . . . being in the same city where she was attacked . . . I started to question, as did everybody else, is she being represented right? Because how does the world see her? I began to see that the world as I traveled sees her as a bully. And that's not who she is to me. And that really ripped my heart out." Scarlet eventually locates inner strength as she discovers her version of America. And on the disc's final track, "Gold Dust," she seems to find what she's been looking for by giving birth to a child, an experience that puts her in touch with the nostalgic longing adults have for childhood. "We are looking back/And then we'll understand/We held gold dust in our hands," she sings. But it's what Scarlet, and perhaps Amos too, learns from her travels - -- from recovering what the title track alludes to as "medicine now forgotten" -- that forms the real backbone of Scarlet's Walk. "We've been able to take America's resources and take what we wanted, without really taking her richest gift, and that is her medicine," Amos remarks. "She had great medicine, medicine of the soul, and it's very healing." The "medicine" metaphor appears to be Amos's way of accounting for how the United States pulled together in the wake of September 11. Of course, for a poetic writer, putting it in such simple, direct terms would be out of character. "It was a time, as you know, when people's masks were down," she recalls of her tour last fall. "There was very little make-up, if you remember. That's what I found with people coming to the shows. When I say that, I mean emotional make-up -- people were trying to express what they were feeling with the loss. Sometimes it was truly the loss of someone who had been in the twins, or on the planes. Sometimes it was the loss of feeling of safety. So many people were talking about their feelings for America, almost as if she were a friend. People would write letters like I had never gotten, just talking about what they believed in and asking questions and trying to find out about this place called America. Wanting to know more about it. They were expressing themselves." So, who is Scarlet meant to represent? Has the paint dried on Amos's own palette of personal anguish, forcing her to look to fictional roles? After all, the flame-haired patron saint of confessional angst is now happily married and immersed in motherhood. Or could it be that Scarlet's soul searching is a thinly veiled metaphor for Amos's own inner turmoil? "It's very handy that we wear the same shoes, Scarlet and I," Amos "explains." There certainly are plenty of parallels between Scarlet and Tori, not the least of which is motherhood. Then again, using a fictional character enables Amos to detach herself from the drama that unfolds on Scarlet's Walk, to separate herself from her lyrics. And that's what makes the album so compelling. Because though there's much to be read into the similarities between Tori and Scarlet, there's also plenty that Amos leaves to your imagination. Tori Amos performs this Sunday, November 17, at the Providence Performing Arts Center, and this Tuesday, November 19, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell. Call (617) 228-6000. Issue Date: November 14 - 21, 2002 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:51:49 -0500 From: "Becka" Subject: Re: sw tour << Does it seem weird to anyone else that Tori is playing so many songs from her new album on the tour? I realized that at the Melbourne concert (the one I went to) she played 10 new songs including Operation Peter Pan >> well being that it IS the scarlet's walk tour.. it's only obvious that she play the majority of songs from the new album.. we should feel good that she is incorperating songs from other albums as much as she does on each tour. i've certainly had my share of concerts that the artist plays NOTHING but new material.. David Bowie particularly springs to mind when he toured several years ago with NIN... all i wanted to hear was Space Oddity.. he didn't play ONE old song.. i was so digusted with the whole affair. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V7 #271 *************************************