From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V3 #305 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, August 29 1998 Volume 03 : Number 305 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Talula Question [that girl ] GOING TO NORMAN OKLAHOMA? (oh, and STL) [orange cloud ] sirens [pauly on the shore ] Re: Talula Question [JiVaDiVa@aol.com] Re: Tori- VH1 ["Jamie Hall" ] newbie paige ["paige e. schector" ] poughkeepsie show?? [Ellen Morris ] Good trader report :) [HaughtyGrl@aol.com] just a thought [JiVaDiVa@aol.com] Atlanta picture from 8/17-18 / Jackie's Strength single [agentorange2@jun] DESPERATELY SEEKING HOUSTON TICKETS [forsythia_in_the_spam@juno.com (Dust] Siren [Skylar2@aol.com] New Tori Article on CNN website ["Nephilim" ] Boots [Ashley Blaize ] re: Talula question [Danielle Ringrose ] Re: Tori shirt [Charlie Poole ] Re: Talula Question [VeganCat7@aol.com] CNN Article in full [Beth Coulter ] [none] [shirleeh@juno.com (Miss Taci)] Denver!! [cmckinley@earthling.net] The Siren Theory [Cindy2Love@aol.com] Re: Talula Question [recovering christian ] Re : Courtney Love the Professional Widow (again :-)) [Cindy2Love@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:02:13 -0500 From: that girl Subject: Re: Talula Question there are two album versions, one is the tornado mix and one is the original. the original intro is congratulate you said you had a double tongue balancing cake and bread say goodbye to a glitter girl and the tornado one (the mix your'e talking about) is he's chasing tornadoes i'm just waiting calmly chasing her, hey > to me, the intro to Talula on the BFP album always sounds like this: > > he's chasing down night owls > I'm just waiting calmly > chasing hell, hey > > i'm destructive. some women find that seductive. http://www.overlap.org http://www.overlap.org/tori/bootlegs.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:35:08 -0500 From: orange cloud Subject: GOING TO NORMAN OKLAHOMA? (oh, and STL) ok guys, i really need help right now :) kip and i were going to norman, ok - only we have a problem. kip can get to columbia, missouri but we need a ride from MO to Norman. we are not freaky people, we're really nice! we will pay you for gas and everything (we need a ride back to MO as well). so, please, if you can find it in your heart to help two nice tori addicts out, we will be so greatful. seriously, we will take anything we can get. if you can help us out, reply to me asap (cos kip will have to leave in the morning). ally ps: did anyone get last night's show at riverport in STL? erf. please, check out my list - i *need* :) ..........drank your poison .....didn't taste too sweet http://altern.org/notsosoft :bootlegs:................................ http://members.xoom.com/notsosoft/bootlegs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:07:59 -0700 From: The Good Faerie Subject: Re: Talula Question hes chasing tornadoes and just waiting calmly chasing her, hey hope that helped im ok when everythings not ok ____________________________________________________ Visit XOOM for FREE home pages, email, web software, clip art and MORE! http://www.xoom.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:38:09 -0400 From: pauly on the shore Subject: sirens also sprach Delirum5@aol.com: >i agree with you. but also a siren is a group of"goddessess"(?)in greek >mythology........they stand of certain cliffs to tempt sailors to they're >deaths on the rocks. not as much goddesses as mythical creatures. here is some information about sirens from the encyclopedia mythica : >Sirens (Seirenes) > >In Greek mythology, the Sirens are creatures with the head of a female and the >body of a bird. They lived on an island (Sirenum scopuli; three small rocky >islands) and with the irresistible charm of their song they lured mariners to >their destruction on the rocks surrounding their island. > >The Argonauts escaped them because when he heard their song, Orpheus >immediately realized the peril they were in. He took out his lyre and sang a >song so clear and ringing that drowned the sound of those lovely fatal voices. >When on another journey the Argonauts passed the island again, Odysseus >had the sailors stuff their ears with wax. He had himself tied to the mast for he >wanted to hear their beautiful voices. The Sirens sang when they approached, >their words even more enticing than the melody. They would give knowledge >to every man who came to them, they said, ripe wisdom and a quickening of >the spirit. Odysseys' heart ran with longing but the ropes held him and the >ship quickly sailed to safer waters. > >Homer mentions only two sirens, but later authors mention three or four. They >were regarded as the daughters of Phorcys, or the storm god Achelous. >According to Ovid, they were nymphs and the play-mates of Persephone. >They were present when she was abducted and, because they did not >interfere, Demeter changed them into birds with female faces. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:14:19 EDT From: JiVaDiVa@aol.com Subject: Re: Talula Question Hey everyone... Just to clarify, since I began this whole thing, I was talking about the intro she's doing in concert. It's not the original intro or the tornado intro... thanks to jamie, the one I was asking about is Maybe I'm a happy girl maybe I'm a honeydew maybe it's a bad job maybe it's what you are Just in case you'd like to hear it, it's the backing lyrics to the line "he said 1+1 is 2 but henry said...." Thanks everyone for your help J ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:12:03 PDT From: "Jamie Hall" Subject: Re: Tori- VH1 I was also wondering if anyone had the tape of this. I would be willing to trade for something of mine. My cable company doesn't offer VH1, or else I would've taped it. So if anyone is willing to trade, please e-mail me. Thanks, Jamie >From owner-precious-things@smoe.org Wed Aug 26 14:44:42 1998 >Received: from smoe.org [204.167.97.154] > by siren.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) > id 0zBmzH-0002Ck-00; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:20:16 -0400 >Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) > by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) with SMTP id RAA04737; > Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:18:19 -0400 (EDT) >Received: by smoe.org (bulk_mailer v1.10); Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:18:16 - -0400 >Received: (from majordom@localhost) > by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) id RAA04653 > for precious-things-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:17:34 -0400 (EDT) >Received: from dillinger.io.com (mcurry@dillinger.io.com [199.170.88.11]) > by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/daemon-mode-relay2) with ESMTP id RAA04641 > for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:17:28 -0400 (EDT) >Received: (from mcurry@localhost) > by dillinger.io.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA26432 > for precious-things@smoe.org; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:17:28 -0500 (CDT) >Received: from hotmail.com (f30.hotmail.com [207.82.250.41]) > by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/daemon-mode-relay2) with SMTP id BAA16277 > for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:07:20 -0400 (EDT) >Received: (qmail 21889 invoked by uid 0); 26 Aug 1998 05:06:41 -0000 >Message-ID: <19980826050641.21888.qmail@hotmail.com> >Received: from 209.30.91.55 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:06:41 PDT >X-Originating-IP: [209.30.91.55] >From: "shyrrl *" >To: precious-things@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Tori- VH1 >Content-Type: text/plain >Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:06:41 PDT >Sender: owner-precious-things@smoe.org >Reply-To: "shyrrl *" >X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-request@smoe.org" >X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. >Precedence: bulk > > >Okay, I missed this show and i am DYING to see it..it's midnight now and >I just realized i missed it and i went insane or somethign *sigh* >Could anyone possibly help me out on this? I'll do a trade for it or >supply the tape and S&H money.... >my list is at: >http://www.angelfire.com/tx/shyrrl/collec.html > >Thanks so much.. >Yours in Tori, >Jenn > >> >> >>Okay, all I can say is WOW. That was freaky. If anybody just >witnessed Tori >>on VH1's, "Before They Were Rock Stars", I have a question. Where does >that >>footage come from? Did Tori's parents give the footage from the school >plays? >>What about the others? Man, that freaked me out. How about Tori as a >>murderess? Does anybody remember that show? C'mon people, help me >out!! >> >>-K. >> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:19:46 PDT From: "paige e. schector" Subject: newbie paige Hi everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself to the list. I'm a longtime fan/newbie Toriadore Paige and have quickly found out how precious Tori fans can be. I saw Tori in person for the first time ever last Friday at Sunrise Musical Theatre and was knocked out - even though i was in the last bloody row of the theater. luckily a very nice man next to me let me and others around me use his binoculars. Being at the show made me wonder whether in the next century the name Amos will rank alongside the Beethovens, Rachmaninoffs and the like as a classical wizard. It certainly should. Tori is Goddess!! thanks for listening. i'm excited about hearing more about and from all of you... paige ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Ellen Morris Subject: poughkeepsie show?? hi tori people :) i just got back on the lists after 6 weeks outa the country. i am sooo sad to read all the concert reports , happy for how great the toru is, sad that i have missed it... i am in NJ & dont see myself getting out to the west coast, but that Nov 13 date sounds somewhat plausible...is there anyone in the area that mite know of more details or might even want to go to the show????? anybody going to the show???? know how and if i can still get tix???? HELP!!! luv, a little lost greek girl who missed out on the tour :( _______________________________________--------------_____________________ As for me-listen well- my delight is the exquisite; yes, for me glitter and sunlight and love are one society. -sappho _______________----------_________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:20:57 EDT From: HaughtyGrl@aol.com Subject: Good trader report :) Hi, I just wanted to mention that I recieved my Jackie's Stregnth promo single from Christiaan (s007jpg@desire.wright.edu I believe) and it came promptly and in nice packaging and, oh yes, with a cute little note too :) I would also like to say that I now have the JS promo before Jason does. This is the first and probably last time ever I will be able to say that. I'll go away and gloat now... heeheehee... Thanks again Christiaan :) HaughtyGrl...... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:57:35 EDT From: JiVaDiVa@aol.com Subject: just a thought Ok guys, I was driving down the road tonight, and the radio station was going through this 80's rock splurge. The thought hit me during a Guns N Roses triple play that it would be so awesome if Tori covered "Welcome To The Jungle" and "Sweet Child of Mine". I don't like GNR or any of that stuff, but I could just hear Tori singing it in her own way... just pumpin it all up. I got so excited that I had to share it with you guys, just to see if I'm absolutely nutso for thinking something so absurd as Tori covering GNR. thoughts? joanie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:39:28 -0400 From: agentorange2@juno.com (Rusty M Shelby) Subject: Atlanta picture from 8/17-18 / Jackie's Strength single hello... well.. the jackie's strength single for the US seems to be "up in the air". well.. not really, i mean... it will come out... but this is what we are seeing... so, just check these tuesdays... blockbuster music stores say september 1 atlantic records web site says september 8 cd now & cd universe say september 15 there is a picture in this weeks atlanta's "creative loafing" newspaper of tori from one of her 2 shows here last week. for those of you who don't live in atlanta.. there picture and short article are on line... for a short time... until september 2 only. http://www.creativeloafing.com/newsstand/current/e_tott.htm _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:33:46 -0500 From: forsythia_in_the_spam@juno.com (Dust A Bunny) Subject: DESPERATELY SEEKING HOUSTON TICKETS Hello Lovely Luff Muffins, Okay well, I have a ticket for 5th row. And I could have had FUCKING PIT TICKETS (still very bitter about it), but that is not what this post is about. My friend, let's call him Eric, is a doo doo and called Ticketbastard at noon to get tickets. Dur, they had already sold out. But anyhoo, he visited at lunchtime yesterday, for he is soon off to college, and would not leave me alone for the whole half hour of lunch, begging for me to find someone with an extra ticket. I dunno if he will be willing to pay for more than it's worth, but he's one of the nicest guys I've ever known and he has never seen Tori and such. He is a weenie and cannot handle lawn seats because he does not want to be subjected to grass and uncoverness. Anyhoo, if anyone has an extra ticket for Tori's Houston show or finds out they cannot make it. Email me and I'll give you Eric's email and maybe some magic can happen or something. Have a nice day. Take care. Bi bis. Me, the Flea "I'm a winter girl; I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists." - -Tori Amos _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:38:40 EDT From: Skylar2@aol.com Subject: Siren Hi... i've noticed the discussion of Siren lyrics..i figure everyone has them, but i thought i'd send them exactly the way they are printed in the cd book for the Great Expectations soundtrack. and you know you're gonna lie to you in your own way know know to well know the chill know she breaks my Siren NEVER was one for a prissy girl coquette Call in For an ambulance Reach high doesn't mean SHE'S holy just means She's got a Cellular handy almost Brave almost pregnant almost in love "VANILLA" and you know you're gonna lie to you in your own way ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:06:35 -0400 From: "Nephilim" Subject: New Tori Article on CNN website There is a new Tori article on the CNN web site. It also has some nice pictures. Go check it out. The url is ... http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9808/27/tori.amos/index.html Take care Alex - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----- The Tori Amos Corner ( http://come.to/tori.corner ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:34:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ashley Blaize Subject: Boots Hey there all.... First off, I'll take this spot to say a special hi to J'ason Stephanie Richard and Mike and anyone else from this list that I met in Nashville. I'm the guy with the tattooed signature on my shoulder. Yep, dat's me! :) Now for the point.... I was wondering if anyone knew of any way I could my happy lil hands on boots for the following shows: Cincinnati - 7/21 Sunrise - 8/22 Nashville - 8/25 and St. Louis - 8/26 I do'nt have a lot to trade, but if you have these boots or know of someone I can contact about getting these, then please drop me a line and I can prolly work osmething out with you! THanks so much and you people are great. I really loved meeting people from this list at the Meet and Greet...... I'll be in San Antonio, Austin and Houston although I do'nt know how many meet and greets we're going to there. I want to go to as many as possible, but it depends on the #tori on the undernet clan that is meeting down there... anyways..... here's the URL to my picture incase anyone's gonna be there and wants to say hi.... http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/russell/242/bluryash.jpg Take care all! Ash- ICQ# - 9168811 == 'If you love enough, you'll lie a lot....' - Tori Amos 'Stare but I can taste you're still alive below the waste' - Tori Amos 'Keep the boy spinning in their own little world' - Tori Amos 'You got your nine iron in the backseat, just in case...' - Tori Amos _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:50:25 +1000 From: Danielle Ringrose Subject: re: Talula question Lorelei wrote: >to me, the intro to Talula on the BFP album always sounds like this: > he's chasing down night owls > I'm just waiting calmly > chasing hell, hey > > I know I'm probably wrong and if anyone out there can help us out, >it would be appreciated. The correct lyrics are: "He's chasing tornadoes I'm just waiting calmly chasing, hey" I suspect you purchased a later edition of the BfP CD. You managed to score the later single version of Talula, which is the Tornado Mix (hence the tornado in the lyrics). If you'd gotten the original, you would've heard something along the lines of: "congratulate you said you had a double tongue..." etc etc (since I don't have the lyric book nearby). Check what other tracks are on that CD. If you're missing "In the Springtime of his Voodoo", or you've got "Professional Widow" remixed by Armand van Helden, then you've definitely scored a later CD. Dani. == danielle "you make fun of my last name I'll fuck your shit up" ringrose fadagurl@torithoughts.org http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/1529 "The human astronaut is not able to look for the Great Wall on Earth. He's not able to philosophize on the meaning of life. He's focused on his job in front of him, which is not tripping over the television cable." - -- Buzz Aldrin. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:21:43 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie Poole Subject: Re: Tori shirt Hi manda and all, On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 PoetGrrlAC@aol.com wrote: > i am looking for a ddi shirt. i do not want any shirt with the cover > pic of bfp, mummy photo, or pig photo. i saw one in annapolis maryland last > week, with teh half pic of Tori's face with 1996 tour under it, same pic on > the back, and under it Tori Amos. that one would be great. I just ordered and received the black half-face Tori shirt from Star 500. I was very impressed with the quality and speed of their service and I highly recommend them. Order online at http://www.star500.com Tell Ralph I sent you. :-) Be good to yourself, Charlie - -- Subscribe to the Tori and Everything Else mailing list. Send an e-mail message to toriandmore-subscribe@makelist.com or subscribe from http://www.findmail.com/list/toriandmore/ Tori Amos tour info at: http://php.indiana.edu/~cpoole/toritour.html +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | C.W. Poole | "Charlie" | cpoole@indiana.edu | +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance | | with sad. --Tori Amos | | I have spent a lifetime learning how to cry. --Janis Ian | *----------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:34:32 EDT From: VeganCat7@aol.com Subject: Re: Talula Question In a message dated 98-08-27 21:01:00 EDT, ladygodiva13@hotmail.com writes: << he's chasing down night owls I'm just waiting calmly chasing hell, hey >> in the intro to the Tornado Remix of Talula, i believe it says: he's chasing tornadoes and just waiting calmly chasing, hey (or heh...) but it's funny because my mom and i joke that it says: he's chasing tomatoes and waiting calmly chasing ham, hey now tell me you don't think that's funny.... :) having thoughts, leyna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:03:16 -0400 From: Beth Coulter Subject: CNN Article in full >From CNN web page @ http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9808/27/tori.amos/index.html Tori Amos: Clearly in the right band Web posted on: Thursday, August 27, 1998 9:48:47 AM From Donna Freydkin Special to CNN Interactive ATLANTA (CNN) -- 1998 is a year of musical firsts for Tori Amos. After more than seven years as an accomplished solo artist, she is playing with a full stage band for the first time during her inaugural arena tour, Plugged '98. "There's something about the first time for anything," says Amos as she relaxes in her dressing room a few hours before the Atlanta show. "The newness of being with the band -- now is the time to put it out there." Journeying across the country in support of her fourth album, "From the Choir Girl Hotel," Amos is focused on fusing her vocals and piano-playing with the rest of the band. Amos and her piano are inseparable. Imagining her without it would be tantamount to picturing Steven Tyler without those lips or Wynton Marsalis minus the trumpet. But the girl and her piano are ready for bigger and better. Adding a new vigor to Amos' wrenchingly emotional and tight performance, the band rounds it out for the larger venues of her North American tour. When seeing Amos in smaller venues or clubs, alone with her piano, you felt privy to an intrinsically visceral performance. Inevitably, in a stadium-like setting, her set loses some of the intimacy, but the accompanying band adds a new dimension to her music. On stage, Amos is electric. Exhilaratingly passionate, she pounds on her piano, arching her back, hugging herself and alternately howling and crooning hymns crammed with cryptically religious and vividly sexual imagery. She is uninhibited, loose and supple. Who else could dub the Supreme Being the "Ice Cream Man" *bethey note: ???* or make "Father Lucifer" tingle with emotion? The Methodist minister's daughter demonstrated her musical talent at an early age. Born Myra Ellen Amos, she began playing piano at two-and-a-half. At four she was singing and performing in the church choir, and by the ripe age of five she was invited to study piano at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Expelled from the conservatory at the age of 11, Amos left classical music for the world of rock, moving to Los Angeles as a teen-ager in search of musical success. The singer released her disappointing first album "Y Kan't Tori Read," in 1988, but emerged as a solo artist in 1991 with the acclaimed "Little Earthquakes." Two celebrated albums -- "Under the Pink" and "Boys for Pele" - -- later, Amos is hitting the road in her most ambitious tour to date. Several weeks into it, Amos compares playing with a band to being part of a "relay team, switching a baton." "I was used to holding down the rhythm section with the piano," says Amos. "This time there is a rhythm section so you don't have to try to be George Clinton and everybody else. You have to approach your instrument differently when other people are taking their space." "If you're going to play with other musicians, it can't be a gratuitous studio thing," she adds. "It has to really about where the players are up in the mix." Transition not always seamless Amos has had a smooth adjustment to be being one of the band, but is the first to admit that not every night is seamless. Few performers who remain in their seats throughout their entire show could sway throngs of people with their voices alone, but Amos manages just fine. She eschews aimless crowd chatter for pounding songs that left many of her most devout fans in tears. Indeed, Amos' fan base is almost frightening in its ardor and devotion to her. Perhaps that's because when it comes to her music, it's no-holds-barred. Amos takes all those ugly, messy thoughts spinning around in our heads and transforms them into disconcertingly candid songs packed with abstract sexual and religious imagery. After covering both her rape and miscarriage in her songs, Amos says she does not regret baring so much of herself through her music. "I talk to a lot of strangers through my music," says Amos, "But it's not like I sit down with everybody and have spaghetti afterwards." Much has been written of Amos' 1996 miscarriage and how the anguish and guilt surrounding it fed the songs that ultimately appeared on "From the Choir Girl Hotel." Lyrics such as "she's convinced she could hold back a glacier/ but she couldn't keep Baby alive" speak to her emotional duress, but it seems to have taken a creative toll. Amos describes herself as drained. "I think I'm going to do a live record next," she says. "After 'From the Choir Girl Hotel' I'm not really in a place to pillage myself again. I've done that now and you just can't keep doing that without the circumstances to do that. I'm sort of a dry well right now." Religious imagery dominates Amos' music If you had to pinpoint the one prevailing theme in her music, it would be religion. Amos is unafraid of challenging entrenched beliefs, wondering whether God might need a woman to look after him, questioning why we crucify ourselves each day or asking her friend Muhammad to teach her "how to love my brothers." If she wasn't a singer, she says, she would study the mythologies of various cultures. "I am fascinated by belief systems and separating how the institutions have manipulated these theologies," says Amos. "I find that being a minister's daughter was a great gift because I saw the dark side of Christianity." "Sexuality and spirituality were so severed that it comes out strange ways and ways that are incredibly damaging. I find that when people are so sexually repressed you can't talk about boundaries because they pretend that it doesn't exist anyway," Amos adds. She attributes her artistic independence and the longevity of her career to the loyalty of her fans. Her listeners, she says, give her artistic freedom. "Not loads of artists find that each time you put out a work do you have this 'fan base' that will say we can't promise to stay with you, but we'll give it a go," says Amos. "You can't really ask for more than that, in that way I'm fortunate because I don't have to bend to the will of what the fad is. If radio doesn't play me, I still have a career." Internet is the 'final frontier' Nowhere is the enormity of her fan base more evident than on the Internet. Literally thousands of sites claim to be definitive sources on everything Amos. The diminutive singer is aware of her following, but stays away from the Web. "I don't have a computer," she says. "I stay away [from the Internet] mainly because I don't want to know what color underwear I was wearing during sound-check. I just don't want to know." Comparing the Internet to the bygone, more radical days of FM radio, she says it's more dangerous, more risky and less beholden to advertisers than other forms of media. "The Internet, as of now, is your final frontier into all sorts of stuff you're not going to get where you have a sponsor saying I won't support your station if you play this kind of crap," she says. "The Internet is not based on ratings and advertisers, as of yet." Amos may not know a computer mouse from a rodent, but she certainly recognizes the commercial and artistic potential of the Internet. Her own official home page features a selection of video and sound clips, a daily photo of her from her tour, chat rooms and newsgroups. She also recently participated in much-touted deal with Tower Records that enabled fans who pre-ordered her latest CD from the store to receive an access code they could use to download a song from her official web site. Amos also previewed material from her album during a live Webcast in April, and is releasing an enhanced (CD-ROM) single for "Jackie's Strength, featuring two new B-sides, "Never Seen Blue" and "Beulah Land." Longevity through fan relationships And Amos joined Best Buy Online for an upcoming action of a pair of tickets for three shows to raise money for organization RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), which she cofounded in 1994 to help survivors of sexual assault. In an industry glutted with new artists and record labels, Amos understands that relationships with her fans will mean her own longevity. "It's really tough to stay around right now. If you notice, a lot of people you hear them for one album and then they're gone. It's not because they're not creating anymore, it's because there is no loyalty with radio, like there used to be," she says. But for now, Amos is focused on getting this tour right. You can only truly be a bride once, she says, and this is her turn to stroll down the figurative aisle, except that her red carpet is a concert stage, and her organ the piano. "This time will never exist again as far as our little tiny world because this is the first time I've ever toured live with a band," she says. The woman who once sang about clearly being in the wrong band seems to finally have found the right one. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:37:33 PDT From: shirleeh@juno.com (Miss Taci) Subject: [none] Greetings... I am looking for the setlist to the DDI 7/21/96 show in Portland, OR. ~~taci~ The Introverted Candlewoman http://members.xoom.com/Candlewoman ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ "I lost my head, it wasn't in its basket" -Lisa Germano ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:39:22 -0600 From: cmckinley@earthling.net Subject: Denver!! Anyone coming to Denver for the red rocks show? I'm planning on showing up for the meet 'n greet around 10:00 or 11:00, probably alone. Thought it'd be really cool to meet some other EWF and maybe hang out while we wait! Christi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:14:04 EDT From: Cindy2Love@aol.com Subject: The Siren Theory Is the song "Siren" really that personal for Tori because I thought that she wrote it with someone else? Does anyone know if that's true? I would check my CD but I'm missing the booklet to it :-( Thanks in advance, Cindy In a message dated 8/27/98 6:01:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mguru@revolutionist.com writes: > Or maybe it refers to the movie? Since it was written (as far as i know) > specifically for it, not being released anywhere else. And Siren is > capitalized in the lyric sheet, maybe meaning Siren is a person, and not an > ambulance. Or maybe she uses the ambulance to symbolize not a rush to a > hospital, but for the lead female characters (i'm REAL bad with names) use > of the male character? As her personal ambulance, to pull her up and help > her when she's down and needs it? It's used in the movie at a point where > he has pretty much given up on the girl completely, and maybe its his > *reality check* That he really didn't want a prissy girl that used him only > when it was convenient. And "You're gonna lie to you in your own way", > maybe its because he never realized all these truths before, seeing only > what he wanted to see in her, because he loved her. > > Just my .02 :) > Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:09:28 -0500 From: recovering christian Subject: Re: Talula Question the UK/French/German singles (imports for those of us in the US) list the tornado mix beginning :) he's chasing tornados i'm just waiting calmly chasing her in 96 my friend Jack asked her what she was singing around the time of "he did it right quickly a merciful man" and she sung for us "maybe i'm a happy girl, maybe i'm a honey dew, maybe its a bad thing, maybe its what you are" - - she sung it really quietly and i wrote it down as soon as she left the meet and greet, so it might not be correct, but its pretty close - on my stereo the begining of the layer is hard to hear. i was pretty bummed because we were going to ask her about the third layer of father lucifer (something about "maybe she's hiding in a high door, catch a peek hiding in her truffles, wearing those purple garders, and girl i got a condo in hoboken" - if someone knows the real words, let me know) at the davenport show and we didn't get a chance to speak with her much. hope this helps ally At 01:03 PM 8/27/98 PDT, you wrote: > > to me, the intro to Talula on the BFP album always sounds like this: > > he's chasing down night owls > I'm just waiting calmly > chasing hell, hey ..........drank your poison .....didn't taste too sweet http://altern.org/notsosoft :bootlegs:................................ http://members.xoom.com/notsosoft/bootlegs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:20:49 EDT From: Cindy2Love@aol.com Subject: Re : Courtney Love the Professional Widow (again :-)) Okay I know the subject is old, but I ran across some quotes about Professional Widow that I wanted to share..... And I know it's a no no to not site, so disregard all information below if the fact that I didn't site everything bothers you :-) And if I took this from your webpage and you're understandably upset you didn't get credit for looking this stuff up I'm sincerely sorry. I save all kinds of stuff and I forget where I got it from. So feel free to email me and yell at me. Professional Widow "I wrote it about my own experience. I got all that nastiness out. The truth is, if there's a part of you, of Polly [Jean Harvey], of Bjork, or of Courtney Love, which is the black widow, then you will relate to the song. If people don't feel that way, they won't resonate with it." >From an interview with Tori from Singapore, January 23, 1996. "I was going, 'Oh, I wanna see him crawl.' And letting that be there. Wearing a really cute fuzzy pink shoe. And having no limitation of exploring certain facets of the personality. And being shocked and horrified about Professional Widow, and then loving her - just loving the fact that she's convincing him to kill himself, guaranteeing that Mother Mary will supply. And I said, you really can't get any lower than that. I love the fact that she said, 'This is how far I've gone - this is where I am at this moment. Are you willing to see that part of yourself? The part that wants his energy, that wants his fame, that wants his light - not recognizing your own.' It gets to the point where you don't even have to push him over the edge - you're just reading him poetry, and that's enough to make him want to kill himself." Do you realize you're seen as good copy by journalists? "Courtney Love gives good copy." Seeing as you um, mentioned Courtney Love, there's talk that you wrote Professional Widow about her. Is that true? "There's a lot of talk about her. One of my best friends is close with her. I would never dishonor that." >From "Shock and bull TORI", Herald Sun newspaper (Australia), July 9, 1998, by Cameron Adams. "That's my cornerstone song, my Lady Macbeth. It's my desire to be king, to have what the big boys have, and giving up my femininity and vulnerability to taste it." >From "Pianosexual", Diva, February-March 1996, by Lucy O'Brien. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V3 #305 *************************************