From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #70 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 Sunday, 28 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 070 Today's Subjects: ----------------- concerts so far Re: tori (fwd) Re: concerts so far BfP review in May 1996 STEREOPHILE Er, Girl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lucy M Carey" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 11:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: concerts so far No one has mentioned, if you've already seen Tori live on this tour, how the cround has been. I mean, since she's playing slightly larger venues this time, and in my area, at least, the teeny boppers "cool" radio station plays Tori now, and all the teeny-boppers want to go see her. THey yell and scream in concerts, and that would really bug me if they don't know how to show Tori respect when she plays for us, by listening. Just wondering how my show will be in a month! Lucy ------------------------------ From: Michael Curry Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:11:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: tori (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 11:32:36 -0400 (EDT) From: ! To: FTE , ecto@ecto.org Subject: Re: tori On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Take to the Sky wrote: > one word for tori's friday night dc show: > > AMAZING!!!! > > erin ...here's a _few_ more words... thanks to the extraordinarily good graces of the thoroughly swell Red Jeffers, i was unexpectedly able to seize an opportunity to see this show (also in the very good company of expatriate fumbler Liane and Maggie). i didn't write down an ordered set list, but she played: precious things, china, leather, pretty good year, icicle, horses, blood roses, marianne, caught a lite sneeze, hey jupiter, little amsterdam, not the red baron, doughnut song, in the springtime of his voodoo, take to the sky, losing my religion, somewhere over the rainbow and one or two that i didn't know. (but i can see i'm going to have to get more obsessive about the b-sides, 'cause one of them was *great*) she mostly stuck to piano, using the harpsichord only for 'blood roses' and 'sneeze,' and using some sort of organ with a weird squishy tone for 'hey jupiter' although this was my first time seeing tori live, i've heard some live recordings, and i always felt that the least succesful songs are the ones like 'sneeze' that she uses a backing track on, because it's stiff and restricts her too much. so it was a pleasant surprise to me that last night's set was "backing track free" -- having guitarist steve caton along (on maybe a third of the tunes) gives her the ability to get enough of the 'noise' that she doesn't need any synths on tape. his guitar was pretty heavily treated most of the time -- he had it sounding like a cello about half of the time. (and does anyone know if she has the floor of the stage miked? she uses her right heel like a bass drum!) although she has been showing up in some pretty outrageous garb in promo activities for BfP she was dressed very conservatively -- black pants, black shirt with an olive vest over it. red shoes. dunno if this had anything to do with the 'rents being in the crowd, but we think we did spot them. ;-) she didn't talk a whole lot, introducing 'religion' with a joke about how she hoped a movie soundtrack tune would 'pay for a kitchen' but that the producers apparently thought she going to give them something more along the lines of bryan adams (!) and before marianne she said that she had gotten a letter from a local high school with a thousand signatures about a girl named mary who had killed herself. the stage set was pretty effective. caton sat off to stage right. above tori was a triangular rear projection screen which showed assorted images - -- clouds, flickering flames, swirling snow, etc -- with an arial view of tori's hands on the piano keyboard in the bottom corner. however, we did *not* like the lighting effect for 'rainbow' which involved twirling painful beams of blue light stabbing into everyone's eyes. i was having flashbacks of being arrested. ;-) i've probably rambled on enough, but i'll mention just a couple highlights: on the word "girl" in precious things ('fascist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl') she made her voice sound absolutley *inhuman* holding a long growling sound that was not quite a note forever before it spiraled up in the stratosphere to resolve the chord. 'hey jupiter' was fab: the squishy organ thing (which was very small, btw, it certainly wasn't a real pipe organ or anything) put enough tremolo on the notes that it always sounded a tad out of tune. the contrast between this and her voice and caton's shimmering arpeggios on the choruses (which made the song sound even *more* like 'purple rain') was just exquisite. i also really liked the arrangement of 'caught a lite sneeze' which was slower and more brooding than the album version. ah, heck, if i keep on with this i'll just wind up trying to write about every song. ;-) all in all, an outstanding show. (like that was a surprise or anything) - -- but i think my expectations were actually exceeded. doug ------------------------------ From: ykant@digital.net Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:48:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: concerts so far Hi everybody, Lucy asks what the concerts will be like. Well they will be great shows. I saw her first four US shows in FL and Tori was awesome. There will be some of the unnecessary screaming present. Thats fine as long as they don't interrupt Tori when she sings. Tori stopped a song in Tampa when she couldn't concentrate due to shouting. She appreciates applause but she asked the crowd to "let me sing for you". Ft. Lauderdale was irritating beacuse many people were singing along with her loudly. Boy did I appreciate it when she sang old b-sides that those people didn't know the words to. All in all the shows ruled and hopefully people will make a lot of noise between songs and not while she performs. I can't wait till she returns! Charles Knight check out my Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan page http://ddi.digital.net/~ykant/tor_sar.html http://ddi.digital.net/~ykant/ykant.html "...time, thought I'd made friends with time..." Tori Amos "...Well hey fool, that's your deception..." Sarah McLachlan ------------------------------ From: Miguel Antonio Gonzalez Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 14:33:00 -0500 Subject: BfP review in May 1996 STEREOPHILE Where reviewer Beth Jacques savages the recording. NOTE: She also reviews the sonics of the 2 LP-Limited Edition which apparently is preferable to the CD version. Dad #2 ------------------------------ From: joshu@umr.edu Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:41:14 -0600 (CDT) Subject: Er, Girl Er, minor correction. Someone mentioned the "fascist panties tucked.." line, in their concert review, that's from Precious Things, not Girl, which is what I believe was said. Heh I thought I'd mention that, cause I had put in L.E. to listen to the line, to imagine what her growl must have sounded like, and eventually figured out it was in precious things. Thanks for the review, whoever it was (i deleted the mail) btw. - -- 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 #70 ************************************