From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #165 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 Tuesday, 3 September 1996 Volume 01 : Number 165 Today's Subjects: ----------------- tori at oakdale Re: tori at oakdale concert question tori in wallingford addendum Re: concert question Re: Rochester Review Re: concert question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck and joe Date: Mon, 2 Sep 96 14:13:49 +0100 Subject: tori at oakdale hey folks! saw tori in wallingford ct last nite at the oakdale theatre. great show! certainly better than i was expecting considering the size of the place. of course, the rush to the stage at the end of the show was uncalled for... as she started singing her second encore and the hundreds of alternateens surged down the aisles, her highness coyly quipped "they think i'm metallica!". highlights: "father lucifer" (first time hearing her do this live- phenomenal!), "little earthquakes" (a pleasant surprise), "flying dutchman" (my fave tori b-side), "purple rain" on the harmonium. strange phenomena: tori's bobby mcferrin impression during "caught a lite sneeze" (after hearing that she's been playing "do re mi" from the sound of music, i wouldn't be surprised if "don't worry, be happy" was up next...), the even-more-bizarre-than-before "cornflake girl" dance (what does she think she's kate bush or something????), and "london girls" as an encore, with her crotch-grabbing antics :-} also the sound at oakdale theatre, while clear, was disconcerting. as mike curry mentioned to me, it was all far left and far right with no center at all. overall impression was that her voice is getting weary...she deliberately skipped a lot of the higher notes, and was certainly more throaty and guttural than usual. maybe all that low pressure from hurricane eduardo is affecting her sinuses...she did note that the harpsichord LOVED the atmospheric conditions. overall impression: 8 on a scale of 10 chuck p.s. sorry there's no set list but i left my pen in the car (along with meredith's birthday card...;-) maybe someone else will post it? woj? mike? jeff? ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 19:03:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: tori at oakdale Hi! Allow me to annotate Chuck's comments a bit... :) I thought the mini-stage rush at the end was quite amusing, actually. With the exception of the bozon who trampled us in his rush to vault over seats to get to the aisle (and end up standing a mere three or four feet ahead of where his seat with the unimpeded view was anyway), everyone was quite well behaved, and left in a very orderly fashion after the show as over. I'm sure the security people were getting nervous, though. But, since everyone was cool about it, I don't see anything wrong with getting to finally see the expression on Tori's face after spending the entire show way in the back. Did you notice Caton? He wasn't paying any attention to what was going on, and when he finally looked up and saw the sea of faces staring back at him where there had been none before, he just cracked up and totally lost it. It was really funny. :) Set list, as far as I can recall, was: Beauty Queen/Horses Yes, Anastasia (final third of it, anyway) Blood Roses Father Lucifer Cornflake Girl Donut Song Little Earthquakes Leather Flying Dutchman Crucify Caught A Lite Sneeze Talula Me And A Gun Twinkle Cloud on my Tongue Pretty Good Year London Girls Purple Rain She was in a really good mood, and it showed. She also figured (rightly) that most of the people in the audience had already seen one or both New Haven shows last May, and said she intended to mix it up a bit and give us a few surprises along the way. "Little Earthquakes" was a treat, and Caton really added to the intensity with his atmospheric background noodling. I gladly traded sitting through "Leather" and "Crucify" *one*more*time* for not having to endure "Precious Things" again (I'm sorry, but that 30+-second growl in the middle and the orgasmic screams it induces from the teenies in the audience just makes me want to retch all over). The highlight of the show was definitely "Father Lucifer", though. The three bridges in sequence instead of on top of one another, the lights, the music, the Bronski Beat snuck in at the end... sigh. "Flying Dutchman", my second favorite b-side (next to "Honey", which is one of my all-time favorite songs by anyone, anywhere) was really neat to hear, too. Tori prefaced it by explaining that she wrote it for a friend of hers who taught her many things, among them the Sandman comics (which means Rantz, right?), and he got married this week but she couldn't be there for him, so she was going to play this song for him. It was gorgeous. I agree that Tori needs this week off that she's got, though. She should spend it asleep and not talking. I greatly envy those of you who are going to see her at Harborlights in Boston on the 9th, the day after her little vacation ends -- I'm sure she's going to really put on a great show there. Meredith meth@delphi.com "They think I'm Metallica!" - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 19:06:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: concert question Hi again, Here's a question. woj remakrked to me that he'd like to see Tori just play all of the songs from _Boys for Pele_, in sequence, and forget about the b-sides and old songs and covers and stuff. I'd amend that to recommend that she do one set that consists of the album, then take a break and come back and do a shorter set/encore of older songs, covers, b-sides and stuff. I'd think that would definitely be worth the price of admission, and enhance the intensity of even the studio version of the album. Besides, she doesn't play enough songs from BfP in concert, imho. How about it? Would you go to a show like this, even if you don't particularly like BfP? (I would hope that people who don't like the album would go to a live performance of it -- I'm sure more than a few would finally see the light then. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 19:11:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: tori in wallingford addendum Hi yet again, I forgot to mention that I found the little interpretive dance Tori did at the beginning of "Cornflake Girl" to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. What is up with that??? More fodder for the "Tori Amos is just a cheap ripoff of Kate Bush" camp? What's next? A troupe of dancers to whirl across the stage during "Talula", further enhancing the feeling that you're at a Single Gun Theory show? :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ------------------------------ From: "Suzanne Yada (me)" Date: Mon, 2 Sep 96 20:51:41 EDT Subject: Re: concert question At 07:06 PM 9/2/96 -0500, you wrote: >Hi again, > >Here's a question. woj remakrked to me that he'd like to see Tori just play >all of the songs from _Boys for Pele_, in sequence, and forget about the >b-sides and old songs and covers and stuff. I'd amend that to recommend that >she do one set that consists of the album, then take a break and come back >and do a shorter set/encore of older songs, covers, b-sides and stuff. I'd >think that would definitely be worth the price of admission, and enhance >the intensity of even the studio version of the album. Besides, she doesn't >play enough songs from BfP in concert, imho. > >How about it? Would you go to a show like this, even if you don't particularly >like BfP? (I would hope that people who don't like the album would go to a >live performance of it -- I'm sure more than a few would finally see the light >then. :) > >Meredith >meth@delphi.com > > no. i absolutely LOVE the album, but i REALLY would not want tori to just play the album. the whole reason i would pay for a tori concert (and i'm one of the poor unfortunate ones who hasn't had the opportunity yet) is not to listen to an album. i can do that at home. i want to hear variety! :) ________________________________________________________________________ - -suzanne yada (me) aka xmuxa, hamdinger, feelyat!, happy phantom, |\/|ary |\/|elody (formerly of prodigy), really big idiot ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ |"sometimes i go into my own little world. but it's okay, they know me| | there." | | -joel hodgson | |_____________________________________________________________________| http://www.theworks.com/users/hamdingr ------------------------------ From: are you threatening me? Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:10:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Rochester Review also sprach Allyson : >While I'm writing to the list, does anyone know if Tori is coming back >to Upstate New York again? Maybe I can convince my parents to let me >go... there are tenative dates listed for vestal, ny (near binghamton) on sunday, october 6th and buffalo on the 7th. woj ------------------------------ From: are you threatening me? Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:29:13 -0400 Subject: Re: concert question >>Here's a question. woj remakrked to me that he'd like to see Tori just play >>all of the songs from _Boys for Pele_, in sequence, and forget about the >>b-sides and old songs and covers and stuff. >no. i absolutely LOVE the album, but i REALLY would not want tori to just >play the album. the whole reason i would pay for a tori concert (and i'm one >of the poor unfortunate ones who hasn't had the opportunity yet) is not to >listen to an album. i can do that at home. i want to hear variety! :) i would argue that _boys for pele_ is a conceptual piece that could stand on its own as a single performance. yes, it's not as cohesive as pink floyd's _the wall_ (to give an obvious example), but it *is* such a record. (to give some background, when i thought this up, i was lamenting that, imho, tori has been playing too many songs from the first record during this tour and not enough from the new record.) woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #165 *************************************