From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #216 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 Wednesday, July 21 1999 Volume 04 : Number 216 Today's Subjects: ----------------- rockrgrl. [Talulagrl1@aol.com] Contest to win Tori tickets!!!! [jade.s.long@att.net] Has everyone seen this? [Khloegirl@aol.com] indivuality ["Black Dove" ] Re: Tori Story in Billboard magazine [four episode lesbian ] SONICNET ARTICLE! I'M SO EXCITED [Tripp Gwyn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:39:05 EDT From: Talulagrl1@aol.com Subject: rockrgrl. i am looking for the back issue of rockrgrl magazine with tori on the cover. i dont know how much this is worth but i am willing to trade one or two tapes for it if anyone is interested email me thanks rachel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 06:12:39 +0000 From: jade.s.long@att.net Subject: Contest to win Tori tickets!!!! Chickclick is running a contest where "you and three friends could win tickets from Chickclick to see Tori and Alanis." What to do: "Grab your 3 best gal pals, cause you could be on your way to the 51/2 weeks tour featuring Tori Amos and Alanis Morisette. All you gotta do is sign up for a free Chickmail account. (and what good cornflake girl wouldn't want to?)" The address is: chickclick.com. Jade - -- Come away o human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. "Stolen Child," W.B. Yeats ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:39:23 EDT From: Khloegirl@aol.com Subject: Has everyone seen this? BPI Entertainment News Wire Feature 1,100) release at will By CHUCK TAYLOR Billboard NEW YORK - When singer/songwriter Tori Amos went into the studio several months ago to record a few new tracks for a planned collection of B-sides and oddities, little did she know she'd step out not only with a full album's worth of new material but with a second set packed with live performances. The resulting double album, ``to venus and back,'' is set for worldwide release Sept. 21. It features live renditions from the recent tour supporting her ``from the choirgirl hotel'' album and 12 new self-penned/produced tracks, which are tagged with the intense, soul-searching lyrics and complex melodies that the artist's steadfast base of fans has come to expect. For the unexpected studio album, Amos says that she found herself confronted with a free flow of inspiration and decided to run with it. ``I had originally thought we were tracking stuff for the B-sides album, and all of these songs kept coming,'' she says. ``The writing gods decided to stop by, and you try and be there when the muse decides she wants to hang out with you.'' Amos will also kick off a 25-date, co-headlining tour with Alanis Morissette Aug. 18 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., wrapping up Sept. 25 in Los Angeles. Fans of the artist have long held her live gigs to be the benchmark of Amos' full creative sense of expression, particularly given her signature rhythm-and-writhe performance style, which must be seen to be fully appreciated. ``To capture the true essence of Tori Amos, you have to see her live,'' acknowledges Val Azzoli, co-chairman/co-CEO of the Atlantic Group, parent to her label, Atlantic Records. ``The real Tori is the one onstage, and this (album) is as close as we can get to being there. Her fans have been asking for this for years, and I think it's her way of listening to them and rewarding her audience.'' Arthur Spivak, Amos' manager, believes that the live experience allows an artist to capture the raw energy being directed by her audience. ``The spontaneity is so refreshing and exciting; you really can't capture that in the studio,'' he says. ``Most good musicians find their own space with the adrenaline rush that audiences and musicians give, the extended breakdowns you're able to do in a live setting, the tempo: It just allows for that extra 20 percent,'' Spivak says. ``With this, Tori can touch a real honest emotional core in her listeners, male and female.'' The new studio album marks the first time Amos has recorded with her road band, in this case a team of four musicians she shared a bus with for nine months. The five play on the live album as well. ``You get to know who likes the pizza crust and which one likes Teletubbies at that point,'' Amos says. ``Something happens when you spend that much time with people. ``It became quite exciting because we had no idea we were cutting a new record. It just grabbed me by the throat, really,'' she adds. ``We ended up working around the clock and putting it together pretty quickly.'' Themes on ``venus'' range from a troubling anthem about unavoidable father-and-daughter ties on ``Bliss'' to a whirlwind Los Angeles-based fantasy about the decade past in ``Glory of the '80s,'' from which the album title is derived. ``Looking back, I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else in the '80s than as a working musician in L.A.,'' Amos notes. ``You just can't match that kind of decadence.'' ``No one event shaped this record,'' she says of the full body of the project. ``I sort of just let my observations take over. I realized that as a songwriter, you're not always going to have those moments where you're flying over Afghanistan and seeing fires and being told it's a war. You have to keep taking adventures and exposing yourself, but there are things in daily living that hide behind everybody's heart, and that's always fascinated me.'' Instrumental sounds are even more experimental than with previous efforts, bordering on industrial in some cases, alongside the traditional mass of sometimes joyous, often deliberately chaotic, vocal layers that define Amos. That stamp is all the stronger with her behind the boards as producer of the project. ``Being my own producer, no one can buy me to turn on my artist,'' she says wryly. ``I also understand how they work with budgets, so I realize how not to get ripped off that way.'' Amos contends that making a record is very much a group effort that for her is not a single-minded mode of thinking. ``It's not like I don't have a team of musicians and engineers around me that I respect,'' she says. When one of them has a suggestion, ``I will literally change my shoes and let the artist leave the room,'' she adds. ``There's the one side who writes songs and spills her guts out. Then she leaves, and we have to make it good on the other side.'' She will have the opportunity to present much of the new material during the upcoming tour with Morissette, which Amos finds an appropriate pairing - but for reasons that have little to do with musical matchmaking. ``I've never done a tour like this before - with somebody,'' Amos says. ``It was actually [Morissette's] idea. She had come to see me at Jones Beach [in Long Island, N.Y.], and we had a cup of tea and a giggle and got along really well. ``We share a lot of the same philosophies of putting on a show, which is important. I'm talking about the semantics of it, not just the music. Having all of these people on the road together is like a little town on the road, where you're all part of the same tribe. People do it differently, and it's difficult to pull it off with someone who doesn't hold the same priorities. ``I do think we're going to draw people that want an exciting evening,'' she says. With her work on the albums nearly done and a tour on the books, Amos says she's ready to present her new testaments to her public, hoping they'll enjoy it, but with no particular mandate. ``I have no idea what people think about when they listen to my work,'' she says. ``It's one of those things where if I was a fly, I probably wouldn't want to be in the room. I just put it out there, and people can think what they want.'' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:48:53 EDT From: "Black Dove" Subject: indivuality Hello my fellow friends of Tori: I am just so happy that I have to share this with you guys, b/c I feel there is a speical bond between extreme tori fans. I have been a fan of Tori since the first time that I heard the song Cornflake Girl. I just recently became a huge fan 2 years ago. But thanks to music of the wonderful goddess, I have been able to break away from the man that society wants me to grow to me, and instead become the person that I want to be. I feel so free. I feel like I have totally broken away from what everyone else thinks is right. I just feel so much at peace with myself, and it had a lot to do with Tori's music, that helped get me here. I would very much like to write her a letter and thank her for all that she has done for me. Does anyone know of an address that I should send a letter like that to? Well Thank you for taking time to read this. Peace and Love Terry _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:37:04 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: Re: Tori Story in Billboard magazine from chuck taylor's billboard article... >"The show that we did was about an hour and 40 minutes every night. >We're trying to get the people that have come to the show a semblance of >what they saw," Amos says of the album, though she acknowledges that it's >a tough task picking which performances best fit the project. > >"I hope to get 11 or 12 songs on the album, but 'Waitress' is 9&fraction; >minutes long, and 'Precious' is seven minutes long. We'll have to see which >ones make the semifinals." this comment of tori's makes me feel a bit ambivalent about this whole project. in all forms that this release has been reported to be (b-sides collection, live album, possible multimedia stuff, dvd, and now new material...nevermind the various combinations there of), it seems like she's trying to bite off more than she can chew. i know atlantic is not about to release a proper b-sides collection, a proper live album *and* a new album, but trying to be all or even some of the above makes me feel nervous. i'm sure the new material will be worth it, but i'd prefer her release _to venus and back_ separately. one disc of live material just won't be enough to be really representative of the plugged shows. aiming for a "semblance of what they saw" is aiming too low, imho. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:28:45 -0400 From: Tripp Gwyn Subject: SONICNET ARTICLE! I'M SO EXCITED Check out this article from Sonicnet! NEW REVELATION!! Piano diva Tori Amos will release her double CD to venus and back Sept. 21. It will comprise a 12-song studio LP of new material and a second disc recorded in concert during her 1998 Plugged world tour. The studio tracks "Bliss" and "1,000 Oceans" have been chosen as singles, with the former scheduled to hit radio Aug. 6. In related news, designer Steve Madden has created a shoe to benefit Amos' foundation, Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). The shoe debuted this month at the 40 Steve Madden outlets nationwide. Amos kicks off her 25-date co-headlining tour with singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette Aug. 18. [Tues., Jul 20, 1999 9:25 PM EDT] Frankly 1,000 Oceans is my favorite Tori song ever. I absolutely cannot wait for this album! And hey! New singles mean new B-sides! YES YES! I've also noticed that Tori said on the chat that the new disc had 11 songs specifically written for the album. I wonder if this means a B-side was re-recorded or maybe it is You and Me, or perhaps Snow Cherries from France. Tripp Gwyn tgwyn@infoave.net ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #216 *************************************