From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V2 #65 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, March 8 1997 Volume 02 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- THANK YOU! [Doron ] Can this ever happen? [twinsen ] another dumb question ["Ellis, Melanie S" ] Re: Live To Tell [Richard Handal ] Any Ideas? [Laura Damico Holzmann ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:57:46 BST From: Doron Subject: THANK YOU! I would just like to say thanks to all the good people out there who offered to help with the American singles I required. Problem solved. Thanks anyway. doron, Manchester. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 07:28:30 +0300 From: twinsen Subject: Can this ever happen? Greetings from Moscow,RF. I want to know if Tori is going to visit Moscow and to give concerts here during her next albums' promo tour? If somebody has got any information,i would be forewer grateful. It seems to me,Moscow is now a pretty good place to give concerts at with a pack of a toriphiles ready to listen to their Goddess VERY CAREFULLY :) BTW: Try CAST's FINETIME(or any thing by BLUR) just after MARIANNE or HEY,JUPITER - it's a thunderstormlike combination!!! :) sorry for a bad English, Eugene ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:49:57 -0600 From: "Ellis, Melanie S" Subject: another dumb question Hello Another dumb question: In the "spiral" picture in the UtP cover booklet ( you know, the one with the glass ware and shells and feathers and an itty bitty Tori lying down) is that one contraption a crack pipe????? I have a t shirt with that picture and i wore it to work and my coworker just about freaked because i had a crack pipe on my shirt--is it? Also, Can anyone clarify the lyrics for Agent Orange? Its on my (still under contruction) web page and i dont thinks its right--everywhere you look someone says the words are something different... Thank you! Daisy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:07:59 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: Live To Tell Hi, All: Recently on the ToriNews mailing list, someone (hi, Misty!) asked the following questions. > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:34:42 -0500 > Sender: DewDropIn2@aol.com > To: torinews@chihuly.com > Subject: Live To Tell > > I have heard that Tori did a version of Madonna's "Live To Tell"... > someone else asked me if i had a copy of this.. does anyone know anything > about that?...does anyone have a copy? ....let me know....thanks ..Misty This thread crossed over to the Precious Things mailing list briefly, but no one posted much background to answer it. I'd known a lot of the details about it since it happened, partly because Patrick Varker posted about it to ToriNews in August soon after the fact, and then a bit later I came to know Michelle from western North Carolina who accompanied the fellow who'd requested the song of Tori, (Jason, also from western North Carolina), to a number of shows--including the two involved in this scenario; Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 21, 1996, and Greensboro, North Carolina the next day, when Tori played Live to Tell, which was on her birthday. About two weeks ago, I got a lovely handwritten postal letter from Jason. I'd only spoken briefly with him at one or two shows, but had been in regular contact with Michelle on the telephone for a number of months. Neither of them have had regular internet access. When the question came in about the background of Tori playing Live to Tell on her birthday--and never before nor since--I contacted Jason by phone and we had a nice long chat. I told him I wanted to somehow get the story of this out to folks, but wanted his permission before I might paraphrase his letter and post it to the lists. He said I could type the whole thing in word for word if I wanted to, and that's what I've done. (Actually, a wonderful woman I work with typed it in for me, or you people would not be seeing this until April.) Just in the last few weeks Jason has gotten an AOL account, and he wanted me to send him information as to how he could subscribe to some of the Tori lists, so perhaps soon he may join us here in one or more of these fora. (For you RDT people who get this with the headers pared down, I'm posting this to Precious Things and ToriNews, as well as to RDT.) I find the amount of work Tori put into fulfilling the request of Jason, a 19-year-old boy who she'd known only from seeing him at some concerts, to be quite astonishing. If anyone knows of another musician of Tori's stature who ever did such a thing as this, I want you to please write and tell me. I'll be shocked if someone does. Oh--umm, I understand that a WAV file of the entire performance of Live to Tell that night will soon be publicly available. Stay tuned for an announcement about that within a few weeks. I hope everyone's as touched by this story as I am. Take care, Richard Handal, H.G. _The "Live to Tell" Tori Story_ In 1991, I was a HUGE Madonna fan. I mean obsessed, really. It was scary. Then, I saw Tori's "Silent All These Years" video on MTV and was captured. I immediately bought _Little Earthquakes_ and my life was changed. But I still loved Madonna. I read an interview with Tori in _Glamour_ magazine in which Tori said she liked Madonna and would cook her a plate of spaghetti anytime. Cute. I had this fantasy of Tori singing certain Madonna songs... namely "Live to Tell" and "Like a Prayer." As time went on, I stopped being a big Madonna fan and switched to Tori. I'm not as weird about Tori as I was about Madonna. Probably because Tori effects me on a deeper level...anyway... After seeing Tori in Atlanta at the Fox theatre, I realized that if I asked Tori to sing a song...she might actually sing it! I asked her to sing "Space Dog" in Atlanta, and she did. I asked for "Father Lucifer" in Raleigh...and got it. However, I was VERY nervous and shaky when asking for those songs. Before the Charlotte show, I got the idea to ask her to sing "Live to Tell." I thought out how I'd ask and everything. And when I met Tori before the show, I inhaled deeply...and it all came out smoothly...I told Tori that I used to be a BIG Madonna fan, but that when I heard Tori, Madonna got put back. Tori smiled. Then I said that I read the _Glamour_ interview in which she said she too liked Madonna. Tori nodded (though she made an expression like she wasn't really a fan--oh well). Then, I told Tori that it had always been a fantasy of mine to hear her sing a Madonna song. So I asked her to sing her favorite...then I suggested "Live to Tell." Tori then began to very quietly sing a few words of it under her breath. I asked her if she knew the song. She said yes, but she'd have to try it out first. (I was getting hopeful!) She asked me if I'd be at the show in Greensboro the next day. I said yes. She said, "Well, if I don't do it tonight, I'll do it tomorrow." I was ecstatic and said thanks, etc... The next day, before the show, I gave Tori her B-day gift and said "Did you remember my request?" She just grinned and said, "You just wait and see..." OK, we hugged and I waited.... Of course, she sang it that night. I was floating... It was the 1st encore. She even brought out the sheet music. After the show I told her thank you, and she said "No, Thank _You_, for opening my eyes to the song." Wow. Caton told me that after soundcheck the previous day, she got a CD w/ "Live to Tell" on it so she'd know the words/music. They wrote stuff out and Caton was gonna play in the song, but Tori decided to do it solo... Months later, in Roanoke, VA, Tori told me she'd received many requests for "Live to Tell," but she'd only sing it for me. It was a one-time thing. _The End_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:02:16 -0300 From: Laura Damico Holzmann Subject: Any Ideas? Does anyone want Tori in Uruguay for her next tour?!?! Yes, me desperately. If anyone has ideas on what should I do to make her come down to South America please let me know. During the Dew Drop Inn I tried ... praying, meditating about it, "r.a.i.n.n" dance, voodoo, making smoke signals ...but none of this worked out. Maybe she would think about it if she knew that... - - in the land of Tango she would find better teachers than "the belle of New Orleans" - - the amazon it's just a couple thousand kmts from here. And it's on her "way down" to Uruguay, so she could make a stop over there if she wanted to...enjoy the Brazilian Jungle. Un beso para todos. Laura ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V2 #65 ************************************