From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #64 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest 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 Monday, 22 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori Amos Tour Stories? Tori in the UK? SEATTLE TICKET NEEDED tori's energy RAINN and HBO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mfgr@bart.nl (Marcel F G Rijs) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 16:18:32 -0100 Subject: Tori Amos Tour Stories? Hi, I am kinda surprised that there's no news at all about Tori's live concerts on this list. I have almost no data on setlists & such, whereas I am more than moderately interested in that kind of information. What is happening? People no longer go to Tori live? Also, I am hoping that people will post some articles to the list - I haven't read any article in a long time; and I get the feeling my translation efforts aren't rewarded that way. As a whole, this list is kinda silent and I hope that'll change... BTW does anyone know how I can get subscribed to rdt? I have tried so many times, but I keep getting no reply whatsoever. Lotsa questions, I know.... Regards, ** Marcel F G Rijs - "Conan the librarian" ** Internet: mfgr@bart.nl CIS: 100276,2176 ** WWW: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/marcel ** Protect Free Speech Online -- http://www.cdt.org/ciec/ ------------------------------ From: Grendel The Nonplussed Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 11:43:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tori in the UK? As we all know that Tori is coming back to Europe after the swing in the Sates, does this mean that she could come back to the UK or will it be a mainland jaunt? Any ideas of her plans? I'd kill to see her again, twice on a tour! Grendel ------------------------------ From: beninten@ix.netcom.com (Tori Lover) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 12:38:22 -0700 Subject: SEATTLE TICKET NEEDED Hey, I NEED at least one ticket to the show on the 17th of July. I have a GREAT ticket for the 16th to trade or can pay cash. 2 would be preferrable, but mail me if you have any you can spare. ~Angie ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:54:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: tori's energy Hi! Word is that Tori's on the schedule for the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ and at Jones Beach on Long Island this summer. Not sure when the Jones Beach date is, but the GSAC show is purportedly Monday, August 26. They are both HUGE outdoor venues, and tickets for the entire summer season at the GSAC go on sale May 18. I'll pass on more info as I get it. So has *no one* on this list gone to one of her American shows yet? Come on people, 'fess up! We want stories, set lists, recolletions of between-song banter! We want to be positively slavering for live Tori by the time she comes to our towns!!! :) Grendel wondered: >There's a definite tone of concern from a lot of people, and I think it's >time we voiced it - is Tori going to far? From the reports of concerts >and the MTV Unplugged thing, it seems she's having problems somewhere in >her life - I don't recall her being like this at the start of the other >tours. I know she's never been adverse to the odd bum note (like all >truly great musicians) but with all these tales of her rushing off and >recomposing herself I'm getting a little worried that she's prehaps >pushing herself (or being pushed) a little too far, mentally or >physically. Anyone share these feelings? Am I missing something here? The only incident I've seen so far involving Tori leaving the stage this tour was the Unplugged thing. And you have to understand that those TV taping things are far from ideal conditions in which to present your art. You've got cameras swarming all over the place, and you know that at any moment the director might yell, "Stop! There's a shadow on your left pinky finger -- we've gotta do that again!" Plus, I'm sure the MTV people aren't the most pleasant bunch to have to work with, especially when you're still getting over jet lag from a transcontinental flight. I'm surprised she even came back onstage at all. If she has had similar problems in regular performances besides this, please enlighten me... abbe posted: >No, I don't want to keep going on about whether we should yell things >out during concerts or about whether Tori is going to hear the psychic >messages we send her during the concert. But I thought maybe we could >try turning this into an actual relevant interesting discussion. Thank you, thank you! :) >I've gone through different phases of looking at the world in terms of >magic, psychic energy, fantasy creatures, and other such perspectives, >and when I was first introduced to Tori's music one of the first >things I noticed was that it just *felt* magical. You could actually >soak up Tori's emotions just hearing it in her voice, in the piano, >etc. Whether or not you want to call this "psychic energy" in the >music or just say it's very intensely emotional music or what, it's >there. That's really funny. When I first got _Little Earthquakes_ it was on a tape someone made for me (I was a starving college student at the time and couldn't afford to buy it for myself yet -- don't worry, I've more than made up for it now! :). I wasn't even sure if I liked it for the first few weeks I had it, but no matter how hard I tried, I could *not* take it out of my tape player. I just had to keep on listening to it, over and over, even when I was leaning toward the not liking it side of the Force. I was even prompted to post to rec.music.gaffa (where, believe it or not, the bulk of the Tori discussion was in those days) that I was convinced she was some sort of a witch who had put a spell in her music to prevent anyone from listening to anything else once they had bought her album. :) When the album finally clicked for me once and for all, it was truly a magical moment. Driving home from seeing Happy Rhodes perform live for the very first time, we'd been up all night and were driving through a blinding snowstorm as dawn was breaking, and "Winter" came on and someone was singing along with it in the back seat, and all of a sudden I realized just what the song was about, and like dominoes I realized what the entire album was about, and it was one of the most intense experiences of my entire life. If that's not magic, friends, nothing is. >But listening to a bunch of tidbits of things in Tori's interviews, >I've started to notice just how much Tori seems to view the world in >terms of this stuff too There's no doubt at all about that. She's been branded "loopy" and worse because of it, but if that's how she sees the world, how can anyone find fault with her for it? (I can't, certainly, but admittedly I tend to see the world in a similar light as Tori does, so... :) >Personally, I find it really amazing how much of the energy and the >emotion you can feel just listening to Tori in recording. It's more >intense in concert, sure, but even listening to a CD I feel it. I >haven't yet heard any of the BfP songs live (can't wait till May 21 =) >but just in the album I feel all this anger that works amazingly well >when you're angry at something and you just want to let it slip >away... you let Tori be angry instead of yourself and vent through the >album somehow.. To think about this in a more scientific light, maybe part of it is because she records her vocals with the microphone practically on top of her larynx. You can hear every intake of breath, every catch as she reacts to a line (or composes a line :). It's like you're there. in her head, feeling what she's feeling as whatever it is that prompted her to write that particular line in that particular way goes through her mind once again. In "Bells For Her", you can hear her voice almost break more than once, and that's just one example of many. And the way she sings is expressive in and of itself, regardless of how close to the microphone she's singing. I really don't know exactly what it is, but there is *something* that makes Tori one of the most expressive singers and musicians out there today. >Do other people notice all of this as well? How about in her lyrics >themselves? I've begun noticing a trend of various B-sides being >interpretable as being about this sort of thing---it's only one >interpretation, but it's definitely there. Flying Dutchman says a lot >of it to me, so does Sister Janet, and of course Take to the Sky. Hmmm. I've always thought "Take To The Sky" is a pretty straight song about her career up to that point: "and here I stand with this sword in my hand" is a pretty naked reference to the Y Kant Tori Read album cover. "Flying Dutchman" has always eluded me entirely, I'm afraid... I'll have to listen to it again with this interpretation in mind. +===========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/meth/| +===========================================================================+ |"I used to be hard as candy, but I've been sucked on too long" - The Nields| +===========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: joshu@umr.edu Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:17:57 -0600 (CDT) Subject: RAINN and HBO On the modern rock live interview, tori was talking about some kind of benefit concert for R.A.I.N.N (or is it only one n?) and .. something about a bunch of people getting together, and doing this on HBO... is there anything happening with that, does anyone know if that's gonna happen? -- du ub pq qjT " u_ u " Tjp pq du ub dM~W~Mb .d b. qT N^8_N Tp .d b. dM~W~Mb qM Mp dBbdBb TI T ^T IT dBbdBb qM Mp q p P T JBb _. ._ dBL P T q p . . . . ~TBbodBT TBbodBT~ . . . . `~` `~` MaLjaMiN Josh Sutterfield joshu@umr.edu http://www.umr.edu/~joshu ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #64 ************************************