From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #40 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 Tuesday, February 9 1999 Volume 04 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- davids interview [PWOBWEMOUS@aol.com] If you didn't see Tori this weekend.... [cypresj@compsys.com] (no subject) [OranjeDove@aol.com] sessions help [woj sven-woj ] Re: repost...maybe, CDRs [Freque79@aol.com] Not the Red Baron [DALV2@aol.com] Re: (Tori-boot) Sessions/Storytellers tape [Freque79@aol.com] tidbits and details on Sessions [Abbe J Cohen ] Re: CALS, NtRB [Sarah ] caught a lite sneeze interp and some questions ["*january grrl*" ] Re: (Tori-boot) Sessions/Storytellers tape [XXXPandora@aol.com] Re: CALS, NtRB [ToriGalore@aol.com] Re: ftch box thingy question [Nadyne Mielke ] Re: tidbits and details on Sessions [Michael Curry ] past the mission vid ["carmen riojas" ] CDR tree for Sessions [gina ] akron 98 [Sarah ] NtRB addition [Space Dog ] tori and trent. [Talulagrl1@aol.com] Tori in Suzanne Vega book [Mystyglass@webtv.net (Cynthia Glass)] Re: tidbits and details on Sessions [cinders blue ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:31:06 EST From: PWOBWEMOUS@aol.com Subject: davids interview does anyone agree that davids not the BEST interviewer?? i thought you could kind of tell that he really didnt know too much about tori or her music and he was struggling for responses to anything she said i kind of felt bad for him ya know? i think tori did too she was really trying hard to work with him eh just a thought maybe he was just nervous bethany ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:43:41 -0500 From: cypresj@compsys.com Subject: If you didn't see Tori this weekend.... Note to all: If your local PBS station didn't air Tori this weekend, just give the programming director for your local PBS station a call. Just look 'em up in the Yellow Pages. Because in my town, the airings don't coincide with the website. Sometimes your local station has a different agenda, so just ask. They won't get mad or anything. K? K. - -jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 03:28:57 EST From: OranjeDove@aol.com Subject: (no subject) *~Hello~* For everyone who lives in Houston and is wondering when the Sessions w/ Tori is going to come on pbs here, according to the KUHT webpage she's not going to be on anytime this month. and i also checked last month's program calendar to make sure it hasn't been aired yet. If you would like to go to the website yourself here is a link to it. http://kuht.uh.edu/kuht.html *~~*~*dove*~*~~* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:44:03 -0500 From: woj sven-woj Subject: sessions help a lot of people have posted to precious-things asking for help with when sessions might be repeated or when the tori episode will actually air in their area. there is a most useful website which can help you answer these questions: http://www.clicktv.com. go there, click on the standard listings icon, enter your zip code (yes, this is only of use to folks in the united states), select your broadcast/cable line-up and search for "sessions". if it airs on your local pulic tv station, you'll get a listing of when it is on and who will be appearing. hope this helps... woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 22:47:32 EST From: Freque79@aol.com Subject: Re: repost...maybe, CDRs In a message dated 2/7/99 9:21:44 PM Central Standard Time, Dink6@aol.com writes: > hey guys, okay, not to sound dumb, but what is a CDR as opposed to a > pressed CD. i have no idea what so ever and im curious as to what the > difference is. i've gathered that a CDR is some sort of recording of an > origonal bootleg, but if they didnt make recordings there would only be one > copy of a bootleg. that is...if i am understanding that correctly which i > dont think i am, so feedback woudl be really nice. CDR stands for CD Recordable. That means someone like you or me recorded the CD his/herself on a CD Writer. The difference between them is that a CDR, like a tape copy, is a copy. And could even be a copy of a copy. And copies are never as good in quality as the original. Of course there will be recordings of an original bootleg, but when they are made on the silver pressed CD's, they are done with a special machine that makes a superior quality of recording. Personally, I think CDR's are fine. Physically, you can tell them apart because CDR's are usually gold colored on top and greenish/bluish on the bottom. I hope I helped you out. :] Mairie http://members.tripod.com/~raspberryswirl/ Ode to the Piano Queen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 22:47:35 EST From: DALV2@aol.com Subject: Not the Red Baron In a message dated 2/7/99 7:22:05 PM Pacific Standard Time, pigs@swva.net writes: << On a sadder note, has anyone thought that "Not the Red Baron" is about AIDS? >> ***That's an interesting take on the song. And it makes a lot of sense. Esspecially if you consider "and are their devils with halos..." "Not Judy G..." "not anyone I really know/Just another pilot down." I think these lyrics really hit it on the head because they identify strongly with the gay community, which is stilll very strongly associated with AIDS (even though straight women are now in the highest bracket of succesptability). Tori has always been close to gay men esspecially. She could be reffering to the Christian Right stereotype that Gay men (or anybody with the virus) are bad (devils of a sort) but really they are as innocent as anybody else. "Judy G." I assume to be Judy Garland, another long time friend of the Gay community. And the last line I quoted pretty much speaks for itself. Another point is that after Mattew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming for being Gay, Tori played NtRB at a lot of her concerts and dedicated it to him. Matthew Shepard didn't have AIDS, but he did end up being a martyr of sorts. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. ~~Jolie ~~Jolie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 22:40:57 EST From: Freque79@aol.com Subject: Re: (Tori-boot) Sessions/Storytellers tape In a message dated 2/7/99 9:20:48 PM Central Standard Time, sherilyn@delanet.com writes: > David Bryne did suck as an interviewer, but he didn't ask the same old > questions. It thought it was a good interview on Tori's end. Yeah.. David Byrne definitely does not have the diction skills to do an interview on TV. It would have been better maybe if it was for an article, and you didn't actually have to hear him speak. But David Byrne is a really amazing person. For those of you who don't know, he was the lead singer of the Talking Heads. And besides that, he has produced many an album by a lot of awesome bands/musicians. There is a series of Brazilian compilation albums that he produced that are just so absolutely brilliant. He didn't make the music of course, but he went and found the talent for it. So he may need to take a speech class, but I definitely appreciate his integrity as a person. By the way, I didn't actually see the whole show, due to the fact that PBS isn't supported by my satellite and has to be ordered from my local cable company, which I didn't know until 15 minutes before the show was supposed to be on. I was lucky enough to catch the Sessions Preview, which was cool. But I really wish I could have seen the whole show... Mairie http://members.tripod.com/~raspberryswirl/ Ode to the Piano Queen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:35:29 -0500 (EST) From: Abbe J Cohen Subject: tidbits and details on Sessions for those who successfully got to see it (can we maybe now that it's actually aired in many parts of the US talk about the show rather than how to find everyone's local PBS stations and their schedules, cable tv difficulties, why PJ harvey was on instead of tori, etc? please? :) anyone know what was going on with the end of waitress? It seemed like she changed the lyrics around, replacing "i believe in peace, bitch" with "i believe in her" and maybe some other stuff too. i'd chalk it off to having to meet obscenity standards for tv, except that somewhere else in the broadcast they simply filtered out her voice as she swore, same as (i guess) they filtered out the audience if there was any cheering during songs... for that matter, I thought it was kind of cute that during the interview when talking about rhythm and integrating her songs with a drummer real-time when recording instead of later, she said "I've always said, you don't fuck to a metronome." then paused and said "you can bleep that". They left the "you can bleep that", which was the only think that caused me to mentally rewind, fill in the blanks, and laugh at the image of Tori doing *anything* to a metronome. :) I don't think David Byrne was such a bad interviewer, he was just a little slow to get Tori a few times, and she was being a little spacier than usual in answering the questions. It was nice to be able to see Tori's face while performing, a privilege that's pretty much been lost over the plugged tour and DDI tour. on a technical note, I taped this on a normal, fairly new, tv-vcr combo unit, and was fairly disappointed while watching at how much worse the tv sound was than even my old dying mini-boombox stereo. Do vcrs tape all the spiffy stereo data whether or not your tv has stereo speakers, or will the sound quality still be lame if I bring my videotape over to a friend who has an expensive home stereo integrated in with their TV etc? - --Abbe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:01:36 -0800 (PST) From: Sarah Subject: Re: CALS, NtRB i always thought red baron was about aids or a disease. it's like people are dying of these things everyday and b/c they aren't important people (charlie brown, judy g just a pilot) no one hears about it. cals and pt are definitely linked cuz it seems tori (alter characters whatever) was having guy probs again. i kinda disagree a lil though. in cals the guy thinks he's the shit and tori doesn't. you know he's not that important. ok theres the "so you can make me cum..." part in pt that is saying basically the same thing but pt is more about her trying to make this guy less important to her. make him a smaller less important thing in her life so he doesn't hurt her so much. in cals he already isn't all that important. oh wait maybe that could be why oh duh. she maybe succeeded in making him a non precious thing and now she's tellin him bout it. or us that she succeeded. hmm. just having thoughts.... sarah - ---Erin Martin wrote: > > > Hi! I've had a couple thoughts on 2 Tori songs recently... > > Well, you know how Tori often says that a certain song is a sequel to > another? I think CALS could be a sequal to Precious Things. Superficially, > they both have the Trent Reznor references. But more than that, I think the > link is here: in PT, she's holding on to his picture, she wants to smash his > face and run faster. In CALS, she's got the same type of guy who thinks > making her cum makes him Jesus, that he's the flu when he's really just a > lite sneeze. But in CALS she...hmm...she wants to have the power to not be > sucked in by him, while wanting him to love her. I think a little bit of her > wants to play temptress with him too. > > On a sadder note, has anyone thought that "Not the Red Baron" is about AIDS? > I had that thought today when I heard that a friend of mine is sick with > AIDS. In the song, she mentions the "prettiest red ribbons," as in the AIDS > ribbons people wear. And I think a lot of it is not believing that this > creature you love who is so powerful, so full of life, has been destroyed by > something where he couldn't even really fight back. I know that story about > the sound people speaking Dutch and testing the microphone, but I feel like > this is part of it too. > > If there are any other thoughts on any of this, I'd be happy to hear them. > Thank you! > > Erin > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:25:24 PST From: "*january grrl*" Subject: caught a lite sneeze interp and some questions toriphiles, okay okay i know we shouldn't be gossiping about tori's love life, but i have reason to belive that trent reznor was more than just tori's "friend". i was watching sessions at 54th, and she was playing "caught a lite sneeze" and she improved (a BEAUTIFUl improv might i add) near the end of the song "i hurt myself today" (from trent's "hurt") and then started going off about "no you didnt you lying blah blah blah) and it was sooo powerful.. then i had an epiphamy (hahah look at me, i cant spell!) and it was like this... i always thought that caught a lite sneeze was about eric being not-so-good of a lover. on the interview cd, tori says it's about "wanting the flu" in a lover and instead "getting a lite sneeze or a little cough maybe". in other words - whoever shes singing about wasnt too great in bed. then i thought - well Courtney Love said in an interview that trent reznor (who she had an affair with) had this little itty bitty penis and how bad he was sexually, and i think that's why tori and courtney don't get along. i definatly think that it has something to do with tori and trent having an affair or something, and then courtney destroying that relationship. anyways i have to go to class now, but i wanted to bring this up. does anybody have any insight to this or any actual statements by tori that may agree/disagree with this idea? its all kindof jumbled in my head - a big mystery you know... by the way, sessions was AWESOME and if anybody out there wants an - -audio- recording of it on a cassette tape, email me about it. i dont need trades - just a tape and a buck or two for postage. the show made me feel like it was sept. 12th again and i was right there with her in concert in portland, OR.... beautiful... and the first time i had heard "take to the sky"... its my news favorite song!!! :) peace! courtney - -------------------------------- http://www.eccentrica.org/toriphile/index.html Courtney's Little Plastic Castle http://fly.to/januarygirl Butterflies Don't Belong In Nets (another tori amos website) http://www.angelfire.com/wa/fadedglitter/ssalad.html seizure.salad - a collection of me. "Growing up isn't always fun They tore your dress and stole your ribbons They see you cry, they lick their lips But butterflies don't belong in nets" -tori, "mary" *blah* ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:16:38 -0500 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: 1994 necklaces At 04:12 PM 2/7/99 -0600, righteous wrote: > >my friend from germany sent me a letter telling me she found a "baker baker >triangle necklace" in a music store. is she talking about the waitress >pendant or is this a bootlegged necklace? Sounds like a bootleg. The waitress necklace from UtP is a pewter pyramid-shaped bit. On the front, it says "but I believe in peace bitch", and the back says "Tori Amos". There's nothing on there about Baker Baker. I'd confirm with your friend what the necklace says {she could've just forgotten what it said}. The necklace was only available at concerts {well, and recently the US fanclub released a number of them}. /nad ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:10:56 EST From: XXXPandora@aol.com Subject: Re: (Tori-boot) Sessions/Storytellers tape In a message dated 2/7/1999 12:20:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, Talulagrl1@aol.com writes: << Whoever allowed David Byrne to speak on public television should be fired - - I've never seen a more incompetent interviewer in my entire life!! >> >> David Byrne is an extremely intelligent man and is by no means incompetant. It seemed to me like the awkwardness was caused by him not being "in tune" with tori-speak - after you have heard or read more than a few interviews with her you should come to understand that she does whatever she wants, talks about whatever she wants and many times will completely ignore or get sidetracked and not answer the question she is asked. Tori has a very unique way of speaking and I can imaging that for many people it is quite hard to deal with. If you saw her on the Roseanne show - there is an incompetant interviewer - she went so far as to insult Tori and make her look more weird and crazy than she really is. That show is horrible ... ~~* pandora ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:54:07 EST From: ToriGalore@aol.com Subject: Re: CALS, NtRB In a message dated 2/7/99 10:22:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, pigs@swva.net writes: << On a sadder note, has anyone thought that "Not the Red Baron" is about AIDS? I had that thought today when I heard that a friend of mine is sick with AIDS. In the song, she mentions the "prettiest red ribbons," as in the AIDS ribbons people wear. And I think a lot of it is not believing that this creature you love who is so powerful, so full of life, has been destroyed by something where he couldn't even really fight back. I know that story about the sound people speaking Dutch and testing the microphone, but I feel like this is part of it too. >> This is my first post here in a while... some of you might remember me as RSwirl658@aol.com or SalrMoonS@aol.com. I didn't do a lot of posting though, so... I can totally relate. Whenever I hear that song, it brings such tears to my eyes. I've always thought it was about AIDS too, and my best online guy friend has AIDS as well (BTW, did anyone manage to get Tori any of those letters about Josh?). I totally agree with your interpetation. Back when the TITALsQ was up, there was a wonderful interp that went into detail about the song, I wish I had saved it on a floppy disc (my PC likes to eat things). On an unrelated note, does anyone think that the beginning to the Cure's song "Sinking" sounds a LOT like the drums in "Liquid Diamonds"? Just a thought. Love Always, Lissa "I guess I'm way beyond the pale." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:12:32 -0500 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: ftch box thingy question At 12:36 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Sid Kossowsky wrote: > I've never posted to this list before, but I have a really important >question. Yesterday, I was shopping and I saw this Tori thing that I had >never seen before. I picked it up, and it's like a black plastic box in the >shape of a CD. It says "Tori Amos from the choirgirl >hotel" with some hands on the front. On the back, it has the names of all >the songs and also it says "unauchorised product". The wrapper was sort of >coming off, so I helped it and opened it all the way. Inside is a Tori >sticker of ftch and a certificate of authenticity along with the CD. I >don't totally remember what the certificate says because the cashier sealed >the box in plastic for me again, but I do remember something about limited >edition maybe and I think mine is like 0354 of 2000. Well, the thing costed >me like $91, so I'd like to know if I just basically wasted my money or not. >If not, will it go up in value? Does it matter if I take the wrapper off or >not? Just wondering.... The wrapper means nothing here. It didn't come wrapped from the manufacturer. The store you bought it at just wrapped it themselves -- as is obvious, given that the cashier wrapped it up for you again. :) The box set you're referring to should have the following items in it: a black tee-shirt that has an small embroidered piano on the front, a silver-colored pin of the same piano, a certificate of authenticity {yes, you just bought yourself an authentic bootleg}, and a sticker. The store could add a copy of the album, but most didn't. If you didn't get everything in the box set, you -really- paid too much. Even if you did get all the stuff that's supposed to be in there, you still paid too much. I purchased mine for around US$40, including shipping. There's no way to know whether or not something will go up in value. My crystal ball refuses to answer questions like that for me. Whether or not it will depends on: (1) how many were actually released {since it's an unauthorized product, there's absolutely nothing keeping the company that made it from making way more than the number they said they did, and there's no way for us to know}, (2) how many people want one at some point in the future and can't find it. I'll say that I doubt the box set will -ever- be worth what you paid for it. Right now, you can still find it for $50 or so. Similar box sets, made by the same company, haven't increased in value that much -- I think the BfP one is worth at most $75 right now, and the HJ one is worth around $60. I wouldn't count on this one, especially since IMHO it's of -much- inferior quality than the earlier ones, to increase in value. /nad {hey, Sid, I'm in Atlanta too :) } ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:55:37 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: tidbits and details on Sessions At 11:35 AM 2/8/99 -0500, Abbe J Cohen wrote: >anyone know what was going on with the end of waitress? It seemed >like she changed the lyrics around, replacing "i believe in peace, >bitch" with "i believe in her" and maybe some other stuff too. i'd >chalk it off to having to meet obscenity standards for tv, except >that somewhere else in the broadcast they simply filtered out her voice >as she swore, same as (i guess) they filtered out the audience if there >was any cheering during songs... Just for the record, there wasn't any cheering during the songs for them to filter out (at least I don't remember any). The crowd was amazingly polite and well-behaved, which was especially impressive since they did it on their own and not because someone lectured us on proper behaviour before the taping started. Mike | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter? -- Veda Hille | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:12:39 PST From: "carmen riojas" Subject: past the mission vid i wanted to know other people's thoughts on the Past the Mission video. it struck me the first time i saw it, i understood immediatly what the song was saying, you know the "that's it!" moment. at first i didn't like the women and Tori laying down for the priest, it struck me as wrong, but i eventually realized what it meant. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 14:22:34 -0800 From: gina Subject: CDR tree for Sessions hi, i recorded the Sessions at West 54th on DAT and will be transferring the audio to CDR. i was hoping to tree this out to make it available to as many fans as possible, but someone needs to administer the tree. the main responsibility of the administrator will be to organize the tree structure--that is, enlist persons capable of making CDRs (branches) and assigning an equitable number of leaves (recipients of the cds) and/or sub-branches (if the tree is large enough) to each. the requirement is that you must have CDR capability, and each person who volunteers to be a branch must be willing to make at least 5 copies for other people. i will give the master CD to the tree administrator, and s/he will distribute copies to the branches, who will in turn make copies for their leaves or sub-branches. Branches and leaves can either send one blank CDR plus return postage or $5 cash. this is a not-for-profit tree. if you're interested in administering the tree, would like to participate as a branch, or have any suggestions for the tree, please e-mail me at softplaces@softhome.net. thanks, gina ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:47:50 -0800 (PST) From: Sarah Subject: akron 98 does anyone have a cd boot of the akron 98 show? someone that is willing to make me a cd copy of it? or cleveland 98? i was at those shows and i'd like to find cd copies of them. sarah _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:14:44 -0500 From: Space Dog Subject: NtRB addition I don't know if I think this is necessarily about AIDS--remember, Tori wrote this on the spot so I don't know how deep the meaning goes. I think it is more along the lines of losing a man, watching him, just another anonymity to her at that point, go down in the flames. But that's not why i posted. I think you're on to something because in some DDI shows she performed NtRB over a track of the "Dutch Pilots". Have you guys ever heard this? She's playing and there's a dub of tinny, dutch voices talking over a headset playing throughout in the background. Interesting how she saw something in that and thought it was significant enough to use on tour. Something that started out as an accident was really a good idea. Besides, if they really didn't want that noise in the final song that went on the record, they would have gotten rid of it in mastering. I'm sure it wouldn't be there unless they wanted it there. Thanks for bringing that up, though, it's a very interesting link to the AIDS thing. Slap my 'fro, JOE You wrote: On a sadder note, has anyone thought that "Not the Red Baron" is about AIDS? I had that thought today when I heard that a friend of mine is sick with AIDS. In the song, she mentions the "prettiest red ribbons," as in the AIDS ribbons people wear. And I think a lot of it is not believing that this creature you love who is so powerful, so full of life, has been destroyed by something where he couldn't even really fight back. I know that story about the sound people speaking Dutch and testing the microphone, but I feel like this is part of it too. If there are any other thoughts on any of this, I'd be happy to hear them. Thank you! Erin ***************************************************** "Hypocrisy is the inherent risk you take when you step out and try to become more than you are." -PWP ***************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:30:27 EST From: Talulagrl1@aol.com Subject: tori and trent. if you watched storytellers you heard tori cover hurt in caught a lite sneeze.... tori said... "you never hurt your full of shit. you never hurt, you never did" ummm i thought that tori and trent wernt friends anymore but they were ok with each other. so then why would she say that? rachel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:22:45 -0600 (CST) From: Mystyglass@webtv.net (Cynthia Glass) Subject: Tori in Suzanne Vega book I just ran across this article on the Wall of Sound website about Suzanne Vega's new book "The Passionate Eye: The Collective Writing of Suzanne Vega." And as if the book didn't sound interesting enough, there's a mention of Tori in it! Here's that part of the article: "Among the revelations in The Passionate Eye are Vega's short stories, which have a breezy and conversational style ^× along with a wit that makes them enormously entertaining. "On Being Photographed" relates her experiences at a photo session with the highly regarded David Bailey, where Vega also meets Tori Amos." To read the rest of the article, go here: http://wallofsound.go.com/news/stories/vega020599.html Should be interesting... Cynthia http://www.angelfire.com/il/glassasylum "Oh you never would believe where those Keebler Cookies come from..." - anonymous voice ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:49:26 -0500 From: cinders blue Subject: Re: tidbits and details on Sessions MC 900 Ft Abbe J Cohen rapped: >anyone know what was going on with the end of waitress? musical chaos. i wasn't paying much attention to the lyrics -- i was fascinated by the sheer cacophony of the end of the song. you can't really hear that in an arena or even the smaller halls she played last summer where the echoes and the audience dampen out the noise into a dullen roar. but it's clear as day on sessions. exquisite! ah joy! >I don't think David Byrne was such a bad interviewer, he was just a >little slow to get Tori a few times, and she was being a little >spacier than usual in answering the questions. the thing about david byrne that i think most people are missing is that he is just about as kooky as tori is. he's an artist. that may not make him the greatest interviewer, but i think he can relate to tori on some levels that most music critics and writers can't. unfortunately, i don't that showed in the interview segments, alas. >It was nice to be able to see Tori's face while performing, a >privilege that's pretty much been lost over the plugged tour and DDI >tour. and the under the pink tour too, for that matter. the halls she played during ddi weren't that much larger than the utp tour (in fact, many were the same ones -- at least in the southern new england neck of the woods). >on a technical note, I taped this on a normal, fairly new, tv-vcr >combo unit, and was fairly disappointed while watching at how much >worse the tv sound was than even my old dying mini-boombox stereo. Do >vcrs tape all the spiffy stereo data whether or not your tv has stereo >speakers, or will the sound quality still be lame if I bring my >videotape over to a friend who has an expensive home stereo integrated >in with their TV etc? if the vcr is a hi-fi system (and it will say so on the deck and in the manual), it'll tape in stereo. doesn't sound like yours is though -- many all-in-one units aren't (similar philosophy to dual cassette dubbing decks - -- the extra cost of putting a second well in the tape deck means that both wells are of lower quality than an equally-priced single-well deck). alas. woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #40 ************************************