From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V3 #150 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, April 25 1998 Volume 03 : Number 150 Today's Subjects: ----------------- atlanta show [Rain tori ] Tickets [Lavina Elaine Lee ] MP3 hosts [Agent Askew ] EQS Question [Agent Askew ] online music store list ["K. Fischer" ] Re: DC SHOW - Did anyone tape? [Hippie3080 ] Re: Capturing Tori Real Audio ["Tori's new album debut's May 5th!!!" ] Re: Plugged '98 Video - I believe in nothing else... [Stephanie Handley <] Re: May RAINN Benefit ["Cassandra" ] Where to get Tori recordings [Richard Handal ] Tori in Boston Globe, 24 April 1998 [Tickle-Me-Marlys Subject: atlanta show do you know how i could possibly get on the bootleg list or find someone with a copy of the atlanta show? kimmie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 22:15:58 -0700 From: Lavina Elaine Lee Subject: Tickets Would it be earthly possible for anyone to help me with a pair of tickets to the fillmore show in san francisco? this might get a chuckle, but i thought it'd be worth a shot...thanks... Lavina ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:16:37 -0400 From: Agent Askew Subject: MP3 hosts Dear Tori Fans, Let's say someone might be making mp3's of the spark single b-sides as we speak. Hypothetically speaking, would anyone be able to put them on their site for those that aren't able to buy the single? Roger Branstetter "I'm a clinically-depressed fecalphiliac on prozac." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:32:04 -0400 From: Agent Askew Subject: EQS Question Eeek, I forgot my question So it's this. For any of you who also ordered from EQS, are your CD's NOT shrinkwrapped like mine? Also it seems someone has checked off my postcards with Pen check marks on each one as if checking inventory. I'm pretty sure they weren't intended to be sold with check marks on them. Maybe if you ordered from another source you could also post in what condition your shipment came in. Thanks Roger Branstetter "I'm a clinically-depressed fecalphiliac on prozac." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:13:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Fischer" Subject: online music store list I found this webpage that has a huge list of online music stores. The list is pretty long, and only the addresses and a brief comment on them are given. I have found this page to be extremely helpful in finding new places to get Tori stuff. The address for it is http://www.intercenter.net/~jnu/music/stores.html Hope this helps people who are looking for new places to order Tori stuff from. Karin fischera@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:06:33 EDT From: Hippie3080 Subject: Re: DC SHOW - Did anyone tape? hello! we were at the 930 show AND somehow managed to bootleg it! *we were very proud of that*. we don't know what DAT is, so i highly doubt that it is. it's on a micro cassette. we have to transfer it to a normal sized cassette though. this is also our 1st time using one of these fun toys, so we also have to buy one of those normal sized tapes to put the micro one in. the quality is ok. it's obviously not soundboard quality, but it's really not bad. let us know if you want a copy of it! :) BTW, we're only on the tori-boot list, not the other 2. does anyone have any reviews of the 930 show? ~~*~Candace & Stefanie~*~ Raisingrrrls' Homepage http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/1982/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:33:10 -0400 From: "Tori's new album debut's May 5th!!!" Subject: Re: Capturing Tori Real Audio OH OH! Me too! I was on the DC Ears with Feet, and would love to be able to keep it on disk ... so if any of ya'll have the capability to do this, please let me know!!! Tori hugs, Phyllis Aaron R West wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone knows how to capture streaming Real Video onto > disk as a normal non-streaming file. I met Tori, and saw myself on the > 'Ears with Feet in the Street in Atlanta' on www.tori.com. I don't have > the bandwidth to see it well enough, and I would also like to have a > copy for sentimental value. I also am not sure how long they'll keep it > on the site. If anyone can help or capture it for me, it would be much > appreciated. > > The URL is: > > http://www.tori.com/content/interviews-atlanta.ram > > I'm the first guy she talks to. I'm the guy on the far left, with the > long hair and go-tee in case anyone is wondering. > > Thanks, > > Aaron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:14:09 -0400 From: Agent Askew Subject: EQS Spark single Delivered and a question Hi people, I am very happy to say I've received my UK Spark singles from EQS today and love them. I'm pleased that they arrived promptly because this was my first time ordering from them and they came through. Let me add that before this I ordered my pre-ordered my Tori stuff through either IGG or Alta Mira and they never did a bad job either for me. The b-sides are very different. My impressions after 2 listens are this Do it again - It's alarming in it's presentation at first but it's growing on me very quickly. She once again takes the song and makes it her own just like her other covers. Cooling - is very much like the live version she played in miami last tour but I enjoy being able to tell what she's saying now, there's a layering of her voice on the chorus also that I like which she couldn't do live of course. (well not last tour, perhaps this one though) Purple People - This one is great, slow, kind of bluesy with a swinging beat. it remind me of the beatles for some reason, probably because of the keyboard samples she's using on this song and the slight echo. Bachelorette - Very off the wall beat, someone I know calls it Funky. Not my fav so far. And it's not the bjork song, it's totally a Tori original. Have Yourself a merry little christmas - This has a quirky tori intro but ends up being very traditional in arrangement. Also I live in Florida so I think everyone else who preordered from EQS should be getting their copies soon if they have not already. Roger Branstetter "I'm a clinically-depressed fecalphiliac on prozac." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:30:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rebecca N Zellar" Subject: The Mereman's Spark You know - I hate writing e-mail from my school's pilot system. It doesn't allow me to delete errors in the message box so instead of writing "Merman" - I wrote Mereman. Anyway - I was able to get "Merman" plugged into my computer and I absolutely loved it. It was so tender and sweet. The words touched me so much and her vocals were gorgeous. I just sat in silence and let what she was trying to get across in. Now - I came up with a funny little scenario - let me know if this has anything to do with anything. "Little Mermaid" came out in the late eighties sometime. Now, Ariel is this lovely ethereal creature with a gorgeous voice and bright red hair who falls in love with a prince named Eric. Hmmmm. She gave up a lot of what she held dear to be with this man who loved her for her voice. In the original fairytale she eventually returned to her roots and self leaving her love behind. In "Merman", she mentions that her current love, which I'm assuming is Mark, doesn't need her for her voice or anything other than herself. He's her merman so I'm figuring she's his mermaid. The Little Mermaid could have left Eric and returned to the people that love her for herself. This just struck me as funny because she mentions that maybe she's a mermaid in "Silent All These Years". I don't know. Let me know what you think. I also saw the "Spark" video and loved it. She's so beautiful. Oh, and to connect the whole thing to mermaids - how does she swim in the river? Yup, that's what I thought. The meaning of the video is a little hard to figure out but I thought it was great. She's my favorite girl. Oh, and this goes to the girl who said she was going to send me her RAINN video to borrow - could you let me go what's going on with that? Thank you. Rebecca - -- - -- zellarre@pilot.msu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:05:01 -0400 From: Stephanie Handley Subject: Re: Plugged '98 Video - I believe in nothing else... Nick J. Mattos Jr. wrote: > Hello Everyone! > (before anything, did anyone else catch the Jai reference in the > subject?) > This is an e-mail about a sincere belief I have. I believe with my heart > that there is going to be a Plugged '98 video, not unlike "Little > Earthquakes". To see the main reason, look at the video clips they have > at tori.com. They are ALL produced, with several cameras and camera > tricks. I think it would be kind of odd to go through all that for a > RealVideo broadcast that is usually up for like three days, especially > when RealVideo works better when the cameras don't change. The logical > explaination is that these are sneak peeks from a Plugged '98 video. I > HOPE AND PRAY THIS IS TRUE!!!!! > NOTE: I DON'T KNOW FOR CERTAIN. DON'T BOMBARD ME WITH E-MAILS. THIS IS > JUST MY HYPOTHESIS. > I'd like some discussion on this - for example, I think they should only > have live stuff from Plugged '98 on it (ONE SONG FROM EACH SHOW!!!!!!! I was thinking this myself. Photographers and vidiographers are never allow to shoot during a Tori concert before. They were only allowed to shoot the sound check. I'm also hoping they'll release a live CD from the shows, so we can hear the new versions of the old songs over and over. The show was fantastic (in DC). The new girls are weary new dresses now, and they look beautiful. Stephanie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:15:19 -0400 From: "Cassandra" Subject: Re: May RAINN Benefit Everyone who was waiting for my announcement, this was kind of it. Okay, here's the deal: Tori Amos was originally negotiating with Walter Johnson High School in Montgomery County, MD and Richard Montgomery High School in Montgomery County, MD. The concert will only be for students, a few special guests and press. RMHS, Tori's (and one of my) old schools was thinking about it. WJHS (where Tori's old music teacher now teaches, and in regards to her privacy no I *won't* tell you her name) turned her down. Tori then turned to RMHS. *However* RMHS is EXTREMELY not comfortable with the idea. They love Tori (as those of us in the drama club know, there is even a 'Tori Amos award') but they don't want to be the center of attention like that so close to finals. Also, they don't want to have to deal with the security that would be required, i.e., police, locker checks, metal detectors, etc. RMHS has enough problems as it is. But they haven't said no yet, they are still negotiating. Right now, if it happens, it will be either this summer or next year. The earliest possible time would be mid-May - after seniors have taken their finals and before prom. But keep in mind that while the music and art departments are all for it, the principal is on the verge of saying no. So keep your fingers crossed. stars&blessings, (a very upset due to the D.C. show) Cassandra Queen De La Queer's Queerness! http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/2766 "Unbought & Unbossed" ICQ# 7836394 AOL IM: BabyGrape3 D.C. Tori List > > The April issue of RAINNnews reads: > > "In early May, Tori Amos will interrupt her club tour for a special > > high school performance for RAINN. The performance, along with a > > question & answer session with students, will be sent out via > > satellite and will generate an increase in hotline calls. Date and > > details are still being finalized; check out www.rainn.org for the > > latest details. Thanks to Atlantic Records and On the Scene > > Productions for organizing and publicizing this 2nd annual RAINN Day > > event." > > Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, this performance > has been cancelled. They hope to reschedule sometime later > during the tour but they don't know if or when that will > happen. > > The April issue of RAINNews also mentions that the RAINN web > site will be updated in the coming weeks so everybody should > stop by (http://www.rainn.org) and check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 05:17:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Where to get Tori recordings Hi, Folks: Some people have been wondering if anyone could suggest places to buy Tori records from decent people, and I threw this little list together. I expect there to be a major web site about this kind of thing soon, which will be a better resource than this list. Anyhow... Lenny of bang! imports is a good guy. I've ordered from him before and he was always very nice on the phone, and in email. And now he even gives a 10% discount if you tell him you're a subscriber to the Precious Things mailing list. http://www.cybercom.net/~lennys/ bang! 156 Grant Aveenue Medford, MA 02155 (617) 391-0904. e.mail: LennyS@cybercom.net ___________________________________________________________________ I also bought once from the place Nadyne always suggests, Rainy Day Records. I even called them about a bootleg CD that they hadn't heard of and they found it and called me back within a few days. They did, like, major legwork on my behalf! *That's* service. Here's some info on them. http://www.rainy.com rainy@rainy.com (800) 636-6166 Music Machine is probably *the* first place ever suggested on a Tori mailing list on the internet, as it was discussed in the very earliest days of RDT in 1992. I bought from the guy once at a record convention and he was pleasant, had some items $10 cheaper than another stand had them ($25 instead of $35), knew what fair prices were, how much other things he didn't have on hand should go for, etc. Music Machine http://www.musicmachine.com/ Below are some other places folks have suggested over the last while on Precious Things and ToriNews. I've had no experience with any of them, but some of them are clearly major, reputable places. http://www.southlandcd.com/ http://www.eqsmusic.com http://eil.com http://www.cdconnection.com http://www.musicblvd.com http://www.cdbargains.com I find it astonishing that anyone would give money to a company where they find one of the owners to be not a nice person. There are lots of good, decent people out there who deserve to be supported instead. I say, buy from the good guys, and let the overdrive hucksters and squeezing-every- drop-they-can-from-people vendors dry on the vine. Those kinds of people really make me steamed. I prefer to give my money to someone who, when I get off the phone with them, I don't feel like I need to take a shower to get the slime off of me. If anyone wants to encourage people to be rude and abrasive then give *those* kinds of people your money, and you'll be doing your part to add to all the ugliness that seems to be overtaking the world. I won't be lining up behind you to do so. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:10:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Tickle-Me-Marlys Subject: Tori in Boston Globe, 24 April 1998 ROCK NOTES Once again, Tori Amos finds healing through music By Steve Morse, Globe Staff, 04/24/98 Tori Amos is as unorthodox a singer as one can find. She recorded her last album in a church in Ireland, and the new one in a barn in Cornwall. She doesn't do things the traditional way, yet when she married last month, her role model was none other than Jackie Kennedy Onassis, a ''Getting married was not something in my line of vision,'' says Amos, a minister's daughter who has challenged many conventions in the past. ''But then I was in an airport, contemplating all these things in my head and I saw this little paperback book about Jackie. I picked it up and got on the plane and I turned to the picture section and it was her wedding day and she was in her bridal dress. ... And I wondered if I could have just one second of her elegance.'' Right then and there on the plane, Amos started writing ''Jackie's Strength,'' a cornerstone tune on her new album, ''From the Choirgirl Hotel,'' which comes out May 8 and will be preceded by a club tour that visits Avalon tomorrow. In the song, Amos declares, ''I pray for Jackie's strength.'' She also recalls being only 3 months old when Jackie's husband, President John F. Kennedy, was killed in Dallas. She sings: ''Shots rang out/The police came/Mama layed me on the front lawn and prayed for Jackie's strength.'' Amos recently married her sound engineer, an Englishman named Mark Hawley. It was a bold new step for Amos, but illustrates a search for stability and strength that is also the theme of the new album. It's a search that has been played out publicly since the release of her first CD, ''Little Earthquakes,'' six years ago. On that disc, she discussed being raped, and on the new album she's trying to make sense of another tragic event - a miscarriage suffered after a recent three-month pregnancy. On ''Playboy Mommy,'' a mid-tempo tune with jazz sax and pedal steel guitar, she sings in an almost primal voice: ''In my platforms I fell face down/Didn't help my brain out/Then the baby came before I found the magic how to keep her happy ... Don't judge me so harsh little girl.'' ''It's so hard to talk about that experience,'' says Amos. ''And people don't know what to say to you. They say things like `I guess it's God's will' or `It's all for the best, something was wrong.' Those things just don't make it OK. ... But that's how the music started to be created. I guess the seed from the miscarriage became the seed for the record.'' In another song, ''Spark,'' the album's first single, Amos addresses the issue again: ''She's convinced she could hold back a glacier/But she couldn't keep Baby alive.'' The song is typically autobiographical, despite the third-person reference, and prompts Amos to say of the character: ''She's very close to the edge, but she's not over the edge yet.'' The new ''Choirgirl Hotel'' album is fraught with the doubts that accompany such self-examination, but ultimately, one senses that Amos will find the strength she's praying for. It's not a depressing record. Rather, she's moved from her onetime sparse piano pop to a fuller band sound and a richer spirituality than before. ''I felt a love I hadn't felt before for another being and that didn't go away. It's changed me. It's made me different,'' she says. ''There's a real sense of strength and sensuality and magic and passion and a love for the life force on this record.'' To experience that life force, Amos, a prodigy who first attended Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore at age 5 (nearly 30 years ago) moved to Florida to be by the ocean and rediscover the healing effect of the sea. ''I was trying to find strength as a woman somewhere - and it became this primal call, if you will, to the water. And to rhythm. It started to give the woman in me some kind of confidence, some kind of reason for being. ''I couldn't be a woman who was a mother,'' she adds. ''But I could be a woman who could hold a space for the songs. So that's what I chose to do at this time. '' - ---- Chelsea, the mod pixie tugboat@channel1.com "It's easier to fall in love when there's distance between hearts. Thank you for once loving me and letting me once love you." -- Thomas Lomaccio ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V3 #150 *************************************