From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V3 #372 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 Sunday, October 25 1998 Volume 03 : Number 372 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Tori's all over the place!!! ["Jennifer Dean" ] Liquid Diamonds T-shirt? [tarot@pon.net] Re: merman lyrics. ["jupiter spazzz" ] Re: sheet music site? ["Sonya Harway" ] Re: merman lyrics. [Choirgrl@aol.com] Re: banana king [Kate Findlay ] Re: Tori's all over the place!!! [Tubby Toast ] new to the list [Ninfan15@aol.com] Re: merman lyrics. (if I may) [Beth Coulter ] someone asked about this, but i forgot who and the subject line [Everybod] Re: merman Lyrics [Heidi Spitzig ] Question about Tori - Doing School Project ["*january grrl*" ] Storytellers Review [Beth Coulter ] tori's songs [Ninfan15@aol.com] Re: merman lyrics. [Darren Linder ] Re: Silent all these years [iiiieee@juno.com (brandy schaefer)] halloween bash vii [Bobdel123@aol.com] Re: Storytellers Review [bachelorette ] Re: merman Lyrics [Cdfreke@aol.com] anyway i could hear merman..? ["strange as angels" ] numbers at the meet and greets. ["turbid blue" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:58:18 -0500 From: "Jennifer Dean" Subject: Re: Tori's all over the place!!! Tori just seems to pop up everywhere, huh? I was on my way home from the Tori show in nashville this past Wednesday, and there's this store called HIT OR MISS, and most of the lights are out except for T O R I She's everywhere. Jen "I can scream as loud as your last one, but I can't claim innocence." - ---------- >From: RSwirl658@aol.com >To: precious-things@smoe.org >Subject: Tori's all over the place!!! >Date: Sat, Oct 24, 1998, 2:18 PM > > >Today's been a very torish day... > >I saw/heard her TWICE today. The first time you're gonna think I'm sick for >even catching it, but on MTV 1515, they had an interview with poor Matthew >Shepherd's friends, and there was this one day in the corner who didn't say a >word, and he was wearing the Liquid Diamonds t-shirt. I don't know why I feel >like a bad person for noticing that. But it makes Tori playing Merman for Matt >seem so much more powerful now... > >The second time was during the VH1 Fashion Awards 97 rerun. For the nominees >for best female model, the song they played for the first nominee was Blue >Skies... I was bobbing upa nd down until the next girl came on, and then i >turned it off... > >Any other sightings recently? > >Love always, >Melissa L. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:58:05 -0800 From: tarot@pon.net Subject: Liquid Diamonds T-shirt? Someone mentioned a Liquid Diamonds t-shirt, what does this look like, or does someone have a scan of it? nick - -- "It is better to have loved and lost / then to put linoleum in your living room?" -- Amiri Baraka AOL IM: Tarot1234 http://listen.to/loricarson ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:27:44 PST From: "jupiter spazzz" Subject: Re: merman lyrics. hmm.... i think a lot of that seems to make more sense. thanks for the input. gumdrops and saturdays (or sundays as the case may be ;), e.liz.a.beth. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:44:39 EST From: "Sonya Harway" Subject: Re: sheet music site? http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/8482/sheet.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:11:55 EDT From: Choirgrl@aol.com Subject: Re: merman lyrics. <> it's "go to bed/the priests are dead" <> "now no one can call you back" <> finally you're pepperminted land <> doesn't need your voice to cross his lands or mine <> harm you <> girl <> two can play :P ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: Kate Findlay Subject: Re: banana king Ode To The Banana King (part One) was DEFINATLEY written by Tori...pt 2 is Pretty Good Year, and she has said a few times that she will eventually right a part 3... toodles! Kate == http://members.tripod.com/~kates_page/index.html My lame attempt at a homepage!! "Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again" -Tori Amos "Find your self esteem and be forever free to dream" -Shania Twain _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:26:43 -0800 (PST) From: Tubby Toast Subject: Re: Tori's all over the place!!! okay, so.. last night, at almost 2am, i walked into the living room to tell someone they had a phone call, and what do i see, but a familiar form on the tv, straddling a piano. i rush over to the tv, and there she is -- tori on a stage, playing Raspberry Swirl. i cursed myself for not having a vcr hooked up, and sat down as she played Crucify for a croud of thousands and thousands of people. I waited until the commercial, and it turned out to be something called Halloween Jam VII on ABC. I don't know where the concert clips were from, but it was really cool, and I haven't heard any mention of it here, or anywhere else.. am I behind the times, or what? :) amy ami@blue.netnation.com - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.transport.com/~hegemon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:52:39 EST From: Ninfan15@aol.com Subject: new to the list hi, im new to the list and im a new tori fan. my g/f just got me into her and im now looking for some of her rare stuff. like bootlegs. i only want to trade, not buy or sell. i have some good Depeche mode bootlegs for trade if anyone wants to talk about a trade. also, can someone help me find a place to get bootlegs? i really want to get some of the newer ones w/ stuff off of the new album. i love the song "iiiiiiiiieeeeee" (i think thats it=).) so yeah, if anyone can help, pleasse do! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 02:21:43 -0400 From: Beth Coulter Subject: Re: merman lyrics. (if I may) I've eliminated the wrong lyrics and replaced with the correct ones (as far as I know that is) At 04:52 PM 10/24/98 PDT, jupiter spazzz wrote: >go to bed, Priests are dead. >now no one can call you back. >go to bed, priests are dead. >finally you're in Peppermint Land. > >he's a merman. >he doesn't need your voice, >he's a merman. > >go to bed, and dream instead. >and you, will find him. > >he's a merman, terminally. >doesn't need something you're not willing to give. >he's a merman, >doesn't need your voice to cross his land now. > >go to bed, priests are dead. >now no one can call you back. >go to bed, priests are dead. >finally, you found her. > >who could ever say you're not simply wonderful? >who could ever doubt you? >sleep now, you're my little girl/gold (?). (I think it is "ghost") > >go to bed, priests are dead. >And you will find him. >go to bed, past the apple orchard and you'll feel nice. > >two can play. >yes, two can play. > Fairy Blessings, Bethey I'm OK when everything's not OK cause it's the Fairies Revenge they say and I have always been a Fairy *************************************************************** *~**Fairy Blessings**~* ~~ tori trades and really deep thoughts~ a proud member of the Tori Traders Ring updated at least monthly http://www.angelfire.com/pa/bethey/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:36:08 -0800 (PST) From: EverybodyElses Grrrl Subject: someone asked about this, but i forgot who and the subject line they asked "any tori sightings recently" or something along those lines. well, i dont know if this was brought up the first time it aired, but MTV is re-running the MTV preview thing, and i have *yet* to site tori (with 27 minutes to go) but i did notice Dave Matthews said something about tori, um, someone said "hey, i saw that tori thing in time" and dave said: "uh, yeah" g:hope to see her tonight? d: she is here tonight? g:yeah. you really blew her off the piano bench with that one. d: um, did i really? that is very much not exact quotes and as a little note to cure lovers gwen stefani said that they were a big influence for a record they are recording.. Chrissy (formerly HyJptrCrsh@aol.com) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:54:25 -0800 (PST) From: Heidi Spitzig Subject: Re: merman Lyrics Here's my interpretation of the lyrics(from the official recording and several boots)...I think this is absolutley one of my favs...this song means more to me than any other, I think, cause Tori has played it for me twice....and when I heard she played it for Matthew Shephard, all I could do was cry cause this is the most beautiful song I have ever heard, I think... go to bed the priests are dead now no one can call you back go to bed priests are dead finally you're on peppermint land (?at last?) hes a merman he doesnt need your voice hes a merman go to bed dream instead and you will find him hes a merman eternally doesnt need something your not willing to give hes a merman doesnt need your voice to cross his life away go to bed priests are dead now one can call you back go to bed priests are dead finally you found him aaa la la la who could ever say you're not simply wonderful? who could ever harm you? sleep now you're my little good go to bed priests are dead im going to see you again go to bed past the apple orchard and you'll feel nice two can play i said two can play... == "...by the woods, by the woods, by the woods..." ~Tori Amos~ "...and the forest will echo with laughter..." ~Jimmy Page and Robert Plant~ _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:58:48 -0700 From: "*january grrl*" Subject: Question about Tori - Doing School Project So, of course, in my music appreciation class we have to do a report on a favorite artist or along those lines. Who do you think I chose? So it just occured to me that i know all the basic stuff about tori. that is, everything that shows up on EVERY website, and what ive learned on VH1 and MTV my project is basicly a timeline of her albums, and i want to focus on HER during each of the albums. What was she doing before/during the writing/producing of Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink? I know she suffered a rape and it shows in little earthquakes, but what else inspired those beautiful songs? I dont know anything about tori's mental health (for lack of a better term) or current events during the writing/producing of under the pink.. maybe somebody could fill me on this?? what inpired the songs for this? how was she feeling? For Boys For Pele, I know that it was about her breakup with eric.. (0r some of the songs anyways), but what else was her inspiration for this cd?? choirgirl hotel is taken care of, unless you have some non- miscarraige information about the inspiration for this cd and what had happened before/during the writing and producing period. im also doing a little section on her b-side collection.. if there is anything special for this that you know, or any quotes from tori about her b-sides and why its such a big area for her, please tell me. ANY help is completly welcome. i really want to get a good grade!! email me instead of replying to the list. glittah@bigfoot.com http://www.eccentrica.org/toriphile - -courtney ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 11:59:47 -0500 (EST) From: Ellen Morris Subject: Re: re.'the man w/ the golden gunn.' MY two drachmas (much less in value than two cents :) my take on the golden gun has always been in keeping with its context...the song is about girls that stab one another in the back...the line about the guys meant either, guys had no clue about how women opperate but think they do, or that guys think they know how to fight when its the women that are doing the most harm to one another or both... and in reference to 007, he was always a lady's man and a spy. he thinks he knows how to get the bad guys and to seduce a woman, but really he dont know nothing!!! i hope that is clear, i am on a bit of medication :)))) my brain is a bit cluttered... toodles, ellen _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~| the stars around the lovey moon _______ hide their brightness ((_______)) when it is full | | | | and shines the clearest | | | | over all of Earth | | | | | | | | - -sappho | | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~| ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:52:56 -0400 From: *Blue~Faerie* Subject: Re: merman lyrics. here's what i thought for merman: btw, this song is so precious.. go to bed, the priests are dead now no one can call you bad go to bed, the priests are dead finally you're on pepperminted land(??) he's a merman he doesnt' need your voice he's a merman go to bed dream instead and you will find out he's a merman eternally(??) doessnt need something you're not willing to give he's a merman, doesnt need your voice to cross his land go to bed the priests are dead now no one can call you bad go to bed, the priests are dead finally you'll find out who could ever say you're not simply wonderful who could ever harm, sleep now you're my little ghost go to bed, the priestts are dead i'm going to see you again go to bed past the apple orcahrd and you'll feel nice two can play i said, two can play hugs and kisses, jenn jupiter spazzz wrote: > so heres what i can decipher of merman and id like to know what you guys > think the lyrics are. this is only off the "offical recording" and not > from any boots. bwt, hows that bmore boot coming? heres what i have: > > go to bed, pray it's all dead. > now no one can call you a red. > go to bed, pray it's all dead. > finally you run to the moon landing (landing). > > he's a merman. > he doesn't need your voice, > he's a merman. > > go to bed, and dream instead. > and you, we'll find it/her/out (?). > > he's a merman to the knee. > doesn't need something you're not willing to give. > he's a merman, > doesn't need your voice to cross his legs. > > go to bed, pray it's all dead. > now no one can call you red. > go to bed, pray it's all dead. > finally, you found it/her/out (?). > > who could ever say you're not something wonderful? > who could ever hound you? > sleep now, you're my little girl/gold (?). > > go to bed, pray it's all dead. > and/i'm going to see him now again. > go to bed, past the apple orchard and you'll feel nice. > > took him playing. > yes, took him playing. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -- ************************************************* Rivers of milk are running dry, Can't you hear the dolphins crying? What'll we do when our babies scream? Fill their mouths with some acid rain? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:30:25 -0500 From: Beth Coulter Subject: Storytellers Review Oh wow! This was such an experience and you all have a treat in store when Tori Amos: Storytellers is shown (in maybe 6 weeks?). There were two lines, one near the wall for those of us on "Tori's List", and a line near the street for the radio winners. John Witherspoon finally came up to the ToriList line (really true Toriphiles like Dor and William Fuentes, Matt Page, Mike Solomon; the new editor of RDT fanzine, and Kate who flew standby from Texas, and of course my daughter, my friend Anthony and myself, amongst others) and had about 15 of us enter the studio first. After the director and Johnny W. shuffled folks around in the first and second rows, we had our seats. Front and center, 7 feet from Tori! Mike Flattery of VH1 talked to us about being really supportive of Tori, that this could be a real nerve-wracking experience and he needed us to laugh when she was funny, and to move when she played and rock out when she rocked. He told a funny story about during the John Melloncamp taping, one guy in the front just sat while those around him were rocking out, arms crossed, looking like he was constipated. Then he said he had chosen 6 questions submitted by audience members and if your name was called, you were to stand. The first question was by two girls who were seated in the very back who were given space in the front. The next two were people who near the front. The fourth name called was mine. I couldn't believe it and my daughter had to nudge me to stand up. It was time. Mike said, "let's welcome Tori Amos to Storytellers." Cheers and applauding as the boys took the stage and Tori came up. She was dressed in black cargo pants, black waist tied sweater over a white T. Looking much thinner than she has of late. Great high heeled leather boots! She immediately went into "Cornflake Girl" and really rocked on. Then she said, "Hi, Welcome to Storytellers. When they asked me to do this, I was really excited but now I'm like pissing my pants." She started talking about her grandmother, that she was an ordained minister which was a big deal for a woman in the Appalachians, and then she fucked up. She stuttered a couple of times, laughed and said, "Can I start again, can we do this over?" She started playing a few bars of "As Time Goes By" and sang the last line and restated the welcome. She told another story about her Grandmother, how she thought that little Tori was a demon. She expected her to give her mind to God and her body to a man in marrige. At age 5, Tori knew they were mortal enemies. That led into the rockin' version of Precious Things that concert goers have become accustomed to. She began talking about how "we" like wine, real fine red wine. The hangovers are something else, but she had begun to have visions. It could have been the wine, but no wine was *that* good. "I had a bad pregnacy, lost the baby and started seeing this little boy, like age 7, Zuni or Pueblo Indian, with these great black bat wings. Now this sounds like a bad Dustin Hoffman Virus movie, but I had these dreams. I'd go from town to town to play, but everyone was dead before I got there. Every town. I had this great '57 convertible with a matching dress and he would sit in the back with his wings out. This boy said that I had to build fires, which got me excited cause I'm an arsonist, and he would chant to me. He'd go E-E-E I-I-I E-E-E" and with a push of a key, the backup vocals for iieee came on. She went into the song full force, gripping her stomach during the "sacrifice" part. It was so beautiful, she sounded so great. She introduced her "brothers" at this point and said she was talking to them about telling what they do before shows. "I've got tigerbalm being rubbed on me and sage burning and cleansing. I don't know what Caton does in his dressing room but it sure is busy." A wink and Steve shrugged and blushed a bit. "I've got all these teletubbies in my dressing room, like Dipsy has all these peace ritual symbols on him. But before a show, we all get together and do 'doinged de de doing'; come on guys, let's show 'em." The guys joined her in the center of the stage and Tori laughed. "I spent 7 hours writing stuff for this and I'm reduced to Doinged dee doinged." This was they all said it while pounding fists together. Then someone stops and says something silly and they pick a song. They continue doing it till they are up for the show. The boys went back to their places (all looking slightly embarressed) and Tori started storytelling again. About how she hides behind her piano since she was 2 1/2 and how she felt like Mary Magdelene. "You guys know how *evil* she was. Well, at the piano, Dad couldn't figure out what all the wiggling was about." giggle. "There was one year, Thanksgiving. Well, I think it was Thanksgiving, there was a bird and forks going down. Well my Dad tells me he is really hurt by one of the songs about him. I asked him what was wrong and he tells me, 'You call me Satan'. I told him, 'No Dad, it's not about you. See, I took this really wacky drug with this South American Shaman and like had visions and met the devil. That's what it's about. And my Dad says, 'Praise Jesus!'". She played father lucifer, singing the "steve mcqueen" vocals for once. After that, it was a tape change and Kevin, Tori's make-up artist, was introduced as he was reapplying her lip gloss and getting her water, Evian. She called it "Product Placement" and asked someone to get her some more "product placement". She had spilled part of her bottle. One of the crew came up to her and told her they needed to wipe it up, because of all the cords and stuff and she said, "Oh, like we are all going to light up if it doesnt' get wiped up." She grabbed some tissues from William, and when that didn't work, acted as if she were going to remove her pants to mop with. Thankfully for her, a crew member brought out a couple of fluffy blue towels and the spill was all taken care of. She started talking about the time after "Y Kan't Tori Read", it was in the toilet and she was writing songs for people like Cher and Tina Turner. She sang part of one for Cher called "But I'm Experienced Babe" and did a passable imitation of both Cher and Tina. But nothing sold. She said that during that time she had "like really big hair. Touching the ceiling, you guys know about AquaNet?" During this time, she became aquainted with Al Stewart who told her that it was obvious she had never had really good red wine. So he took her out and introduced her to really fine red wine. She decided to write him a song to thank him, but when she played it for a friend, the friend said, "Tori, that's fucked up. That's your life story." "So Al didn't get it." She started playing Silent All These Years. Her voice was so sweet, she was in top form. She was really getting into playing for us and talking to us. A whole lot of friends in a living room was the feeling that pervaded the studio. She asked if we could do the questions at this point. The first girl asked about the meaning of Hey Jupiter, where it really came from. "Well, I was doing some really bad things, I was involved in this love triangle and it wasn't good. One night this strange englishman sat on the edge of my bed and sang me this song. He was definately dead, and this is definately his song. Now I thought about turning over the copyright to his widow, but I decided that she is a bitch so I didn't. ha." And she started singing "Hey Jupiter". Second question: "When you are performing, what do you think about?" "Food." Tori smiled, then said, "Not really. The songs are always changing meaning for me, they always have a new face on them, so that's what I think about. Third question: "I really notice your stream of consciousness in your lyrics and was wondering if that's how it really is for you?" "No, I am just hearing out sounds most of the time." She begins playing "Icicle" and improvising words: "Dunno what you're gonna say, but you're playing every day..." for about 8 bars, then stopped like the phone rang. "Hi Beene. what's up? Did he ask you out? Oh, cool. Well, miss you, kiss you, bye", then back to the improv on Icicle for 8 more bars. "And that's the way it happens." And she sang Icicle. Now here was my turn, but they had to do another tape change. It was decided only one more question and they wanted number 5 to ask cause she would play Winter because of his question. Mike F. told me I wrote a really good question and to keep writing. *giggle* But somehow, Joey the stage manager decided I was to ask my question. He told the crew where I would stand (the complete opposite from where the others stood), handed me the mic and I waited a moment for the tape to roll. I seemed to have cut Tori off after I said hi. My daughter is conviced that Tori was going to tell me my name, but I said it myself. "Hi Tori, I'm Beth and my question is, well, I write better than I speak, so I'm going to read it." Mandy held my card for me while I read out the question. "What inspiration or situation contributed to the writing of 'take to the sky'?" She smiled at me and said, "It was the first song that began Little Earthquakes. After Y Kan't Tori Read was deep in the toilet, I was living behind this church. I started to really get into the rhythms of it all, the catholism, but being protestent I must have been Catholic Channeling." She began to beat out the rhythm of it and said, "I'll play a little for you." and began to sing "Take to the Sky". I felt a bit foolish standing there with the mic in my hands, just me alone in the aisle, but I knew I couldn't move until she was done. As soon as she finished, I turned and gave the damn mic back to Joey and took my seat, very glad my moment in the lights was over. Turns out that there was time for the fifth question. He asked about the significance of horses, that they are present in some of her songs, like Horses and Winter. "Well, Horses is part two of Winter. I was leeching off the men in my life; don't get me wrong, they were leeching off me, but I didn't like who I was. So my Dad and I were walking out in the old farm, my grandmother's farm, she really wasn't a nice person. Now my Dad, he's like James Dean or Billy Graham, though there's no real difference there. I was telling him how bad I felt cause of the first album being so bad and Dad said to me (he'd never said it before), 'Tori Ellen, When are you going to accept you are good enough for you?'" And she began Winter. Half way through she was crying a bit and had tears at the end of it. I even had tears. She looked so beautiful at that moment, transended. Like she had reached a point where she was finally no longer nervous and the groove was starting. She started talking about the covers she has done, that when she covers a song it's not because she just likes it, but she needs to put a charecter to it. Like with Teen Spirit, she had always wanted to be a cheerleader, but was told she didn't have enough rhythm! And one day she was driving a truck--"I love Trucks"--and heard this song and loved it. But she had to have a charecter, so she decided she was Jane and has stolen this letter that has been written and is reading it aloud. "Famous Blue Raincoat". The closeness we all felt in the audience was evident on Tori's face. So understandably she was upset when she was told the boys had to come out again to redo some songs where the audio fucked up. Tori whined a little and said, "But we're becoming so intimate." *pout* Because they had to redo Cornflake Girl, Tori turned to the boys and told them they would do it "regular", meaning she started with the a cappela intro. When they got into it, Caton showed off the dancing skills that have given him the nickname "Crazy Legs". They were all really rocking out and it was so much better than the first time around. Then there was some discussion going on between Tori, Johnny and Mike F, so Jon started playing this jazzy rhythm, Matt picking up the backbeat and Steve dancing like a slow Flamingo dancer. We cheered them on and it looked like they were having a blast. Tori sat down and they redid Precious Things, complete with Crotch grab (editing will have fun with that shot!). More Stories. Tori said there was one thing that has been kept out of the media, and she can only thank her girlfriends (and some boy-friends) that have been loyal to her. In between her Sylvia Plath and heavy classics and non-fiction, she used to have books like The Flames of Love, etc. Trashy romance novels. She felt ashamed, but was so hooked on them. But one day she was talking to Beene and was reminded how she used to always read them but not anymore, and why was that? "Because I met this guy, he's no white knight, but I wrote this for him." and went into Northern Lad. After she finished, she told us, "I'm really not supposed to talk about him, see we made a deal; I married him." At this point, there was a problem with one of the lights, so everything stopped while Kevin gave Tori a "Lip Gloss Boost" and then asked if the person with the last question wanted to ask it now during the break. Chris stood up and told her back in '96, he was one of about 8 people at this radio station and she had played a new song, that is now "Never Seen Blue". He wanted to know where it had come from. Tori was a bit surprised; "I did? I sang that? Oh shit. See, it's about the same guy that I'm not supposed to talk about about and I lied about Northern Lad and I don't have another lie." And she played it. So beautiful. They wanted her to redo "Hey Jupiter" but Tori was adament. "It got messed up the last 8 bars. I'll give you the last of it and you can cut it in. I can't do it again, I can't get there again.", meaning that she couldn't recapture the moment and didn't want to lose the specialness that it had the first time. So she sang the last verse. "Now, I work with an all english crew and they are always telling me that I speak American and therefore am not always clear. But I wanted to write this person a song to tell him that he was just ... jellybeans to me." And she replayed Northern Lad. "OK, Now I don't do hairpie. Oh god, I hope my Dad doesn't watch this, he can't deal with this stuff, but I tell him he should cause one of these days one of the nieces or nephews are going to 'come out', but anyway, my husband and I are "Married" but my friend Beene is, we are married. Now she has had some real bad relationships, there is this one, if I ever see him I'm gonna kick his ass and well" straight into the camera, "I'm gonna kick his ass right now. This is for Beene." Matt starts banging with all 6 hands on the oil drum and Raspberry Swirl started to rock. We had been told not to stand, to rock in our seats. But Tori stopped in the middle of the song. "I know what I'm doing, I'm saving your show and a lot of embarressment. Everyone on your feet and shake your asses." The techno squeal started again and it was, "Let's Go!" Everyone was dancing and rockin' and having a general good ol' time till we were all so exhausted. Tori stood and we all remained standing, giving her the standing ovation she deserved. She hugged Kevin next to me and hugged a few other people down the row and left. We all took a deep breath in and it was over. We gathered outside to wait for her, but Joel came out and said, "Look, this is the thing. Tori is really tired and just wants to eat and get back to the hotel. So like you guys know, you can go anywhere you like, but you can't stay here." So the three of us left. A group seemed to stay behind, but my personal feelings are if Tori can't deal with it, then I honor her wishes. Period. So folks, that is the Storytellers experience. She started at 8:10 and finished at 10:50. It was quite a trip indeed. It'll be interesting to see what made it into the final cut. As for me, well, I'm the chick with the long red hair, green and tied-dyed indian shirt and black leather pants. Yes, for Tori I wore my leather. I hope to write down my very personal experiences today or tomorrow and I'll post that on my web page. I wish you all could have been there, but then I guess it wouldn't have been the nice intimate setting if you had been. ;) I want to thank Anthony for taking notes for me and my daughter for filling in what I had forgotten. Fairy Blessings, Bethey I'm OK when everything's not OK cause it's the Fairies Revenge they say and I have always been a Fairy *************************************************************** *~**Fairy Blessings**~* ~~ tori trades and really deep thoughts~ a proud member of the Tori Traders Ring updated at least monthly http://www.angelfire.com/pa/bethey/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:50:46 EST From: Ninfan15@aol.com Subject: tori's songs when i got ahold of tori's new album, i was totally blown away. her songs are so great and they really relax me. im so glad that my g/f got me into her. wel, i just wanted to share that w/ you guys! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 11:02:45 -0800 From: Darren Linder Subject: Re: merman lyrics. I think its: Go to bed, the priests are dead Darren ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:48:55 -0600 From: iiiieee@juno.com (brandy schaefer) Subject: Re: Silent all these years I beleive that would be Led Zeps Going to California brandy ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:42:41 EST From: Bobdel123@aol.com Subject: halloween bash vii so when was this on. i was ta homecoming last night for my high school and came home and saw some guy playiong the drums and some guy signing and i thought it was the independe day thing so i went to bed. does anyone know when it'll be on again. Or does anyone have a tape of it i really would love to see it. thanks all bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:45:33 -0600 From: bachelorette Subject: Re: Storytellers Review what is this? Bethey wrote: [snip] >she played father lucifer, singing the "steve mcqueen" >vocals for once. [rest snipped] . . . somethings only she knows http://altern.org/icicle {some choirgirls http://altern.org/icicle/bootlegs} ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:40:46 EST From: Cdfreke@aol.com Subject: Re: merman Lyrics go to Search for lyrics they have the lyrics to almost all tori songs including Y Kant Tori Read ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:42:53 -0500 From: "strange as angels" Subject: anyway i could hear merman..? this may have be covered before (and it it has i apologize), but hearing you all rave about how much a precious of a song "merman" is, i just *need* to hear it.. [and what a wonderful gesture the writing of it was..wow..] so.. are their any realaudio or mp3's about? anything i could get access too..? thanks so much :rachael: ¸.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·÷× ×÷·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.¸ "you know your gonna lie to you.. (in your own way)" -tori `·.,¸.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.¸.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.¸.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.¸¸¸,.·´¯`·.¸.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.¸¸,.· ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:05:57 CST From: "turbid blue" Subject: numbers at the meet and greets. oh yes, i am a bitter young lady. and i have a few things to say about the number system at the meet and greets, since it was brought up. (= i was recently at a few tori shows, and i was able to attend 4 meet and greets. the first one was after the show, and i was probably like 4 rows of people back. it really sucked, and there was a lot of people pushing. i didn't hardly get to see her at all, and i didn't even try to pass anything up to get signed. that was fine--i was perfectly okay with that. at the next meet and greet, i arrived at the venue at around 1pm. and this girl, who i had noticed was in the front row of the first meet and greet i was at, had the number 1 written on her hand, and she marked my hand with the number 35 or so. i noticed she was with a group of people.. there were probably about 6 or 7 of them. so the meet and greet takes place, i'm in, oh, the 2nd or 3rd row of people, i don't remember. i didn't get to meet tori, but it was okay. i knew i'd have other chances. i was happy to get to see her, at least. so the next meet and greet i was at was after a show. there were no numbers, of course. i was in the second row of people and i got my ticket signed. i was happy about that, but i really really wanted to meet her. she has been such an important part of her life--well, her music has, anyway. i wanted to meet the woman who had changed my life for the better, and who had opened my eyes to so many new things. "okay gina," i told myself. "next time, for sure. (:" i mean, i was determined. i bought her a gift that i wanted to give to her personally, i wrote her a letter. i had it all planned out. hell, i was nervous. (: we get to the venue at around 2pm, which was later than expected because of conditions beyond control, so i was really disappointed, and i'm given a number.. number 45. fuck. 45. i knew i wasn't going to get to meet her. i looked around.. and noticed the same person who wrote the number on my hand from the previous time. and the same people that were with her. and of course they had low numbers. the whole group of them got in the front row at the meet and greet. i was in the um, 3rd or 4th row of people again, and there was a girl a few rows behind me who was really bummed about being so far back, so i was able to pass up her cd for tori to sign and tori signed it, so that made me feel a little better about things. (= that was my tori meet and greet experience. i never got to meet her like i KNEW i would. but, hey. i got to see her in concert a few times. as if that weren't enough. of course it is. (: and hey, i did get something signed. so YAY! okay, now it's time for me to bitch about this. the number system seems like a good idea at first. until you realize that it is, in essence, being monopolized by the groupies that attend just about every show. until you realize that these people who have met tori dozens of times if not more, whom tori knows on a first-name basis, are the ones who are taking charge of the numbering system. and i think it's pretty damn selfish. because i like tori amos just as much as they do. and so does everyone else at the meet and greets, otherwise why would they be there? i know that not everyone is going to get to meet tori. i know tori can't get around to every single person. that's understood... it's common sense. but it seems to me that tori is seeing the same faces at a lot of the meet and greets. i'm not saying it's like this at every single one, because i wouldn't know. i'm just speaking from my own experience. and i've heard a lot of other people's stories.. which seem to be similar. yeah, i'm jealous that this group of people gets to see tori so much. i could never afford to do that. i was happy being able to see 6 shows this tour. but jealousy isn't where i'm coming from. i just think it's wrong to do that all the time, and not give those who haven't met her a chance. i mean, come on! this is the ultimate dream for a lot of tori fans! it pisses me off that there are about 5 or 10 OTHER people who could have met tori for the _first or second_ time if it weren't for the selfish ones. what's really sad about it, also, is that this may in fact be the last time tori will tour for quite a while... i mean, who knows. and.. what i think is even more wrong is this. we noticed that pictures were being taken of tori...from the front row of course... and being sold at the meet and greets.. maybe so these people can afford to eat between hogging tori? ergh. am i the only one irked by this? oh well. whatever. it's all over now. whether tori likes the number system or not, i dunno. it's pretty irrelevant, i think. personally, i don't think tori would do anything to stop it even if she did disagree with it. which is totally respectable of her. i don't think she really wants to upset her fans. but i can understand why she would roll her eyes and say it's interesting, because that's the exact attitude i have about it. i think the numbers would be a lot more satisfying to the majority of fans at the meet and greets, and that they would have a lot more meaning, if they weren't so.. monopolized by the same crowd of fans. it should be monitored in some way, and if there ARE gonna be numbers, i think they should be officially handled by tori's crew. but it's too late for that anyway. so hrmpf. "so, gina," you may ask. "are you bitter about this whole thing?" "yes," i reply smugly. "damn right." well besides that aspect of it, i think the numbers are o.k. in a way i kind of think that whoever is there first should be in front (with the exception of my previous rant), but whose to say that someone who couldn't get to the venue at 7a.m. shouldn't bother to come? i don't think that's very fair. (= that's all i have to say about that. and, um, don't get me wrong. i'm not looking to make any enemies here; i'm just voicing my opinion. i have nothing personal against the "groupies," or whatever, who i'm talking about. i'm sure they are lovely people. in fact, i have spoken with a couple of them before, and they are very nice. i just don't appreciate their inconsiderate ways. peace, gina p.s. hi, my name is gina, and i'm somewhat new to this list. 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