From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #327 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 31 1999 Volume 04 : Number 327 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Corton Charlemagne [XXXPandora@aol.com] Live tracks from Glory of 80's [Ali ] Rosie O [Lisa071573@aol.com] London Boot [Tripp Gwyn ] Re: tori's aol chat - and 9 other [HyJptrCrsh@aol.com] To London and Back... ["Mike Gray" ] Tori on Radio 2 (Billy Bragg Show) UK ["Mike Gray" > actually its a white wine and its not that expensive at all - I have seen it many times for around $50 a bottle. kisses, joanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:36 -0700 From: Ali Subject: Live tracks from Glory of 80's Does anyone know where and when these two tracks were recorded? I know I have heard her comments about doing for the first time during this tour and needing bigger hands, but for the life of me I can't figure out where? Thanks, Ali "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." I don't know who ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 04:32:24 EDT From: Lisa071573@aol.com Subject: Rosie O since I'm feeling generous...I've Rosie O'Donnell too if anyone needs it...now I'm just hoping that I don't catch the goofball disease...oh I got a question too...what happened to the 100 oceans video?? I thought there were two versions cause one had lesbians kissing so MTV wouldn't show it...you know, cause MTV likes to promote quality programming and all...but then someone on the dent forum had mentioned that they thought the two people kissing in the video were both girls (I can't tell...) hence, the lesbians... but I've still only seen the one version of the video so I'm thoroughly confused..... just spaghetti for thought Lisa "Mary, you were so real to me, Mr. Grant had nothing on you. You could speak your mind yet be polite...you were a pardox in a pantsuit." Barbara Kessler ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 09:32:31 -0400 From: Tripp Gwyn Subject: London Boot I'd just like to say to anyone who booted the London show... You have my soul. If ANYONE has ANY quality boot of this show on CD my soul....well, it belongs to you now....... I'm thinking maybe we should start a tree or something with this one because obviously everyone will be dying for a copy. Tripp Gwyn tgwyn@infoave.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:53:54 EDT From: HyJptrCrsh@aol.com Subject: Re: tori's aol chat - and 9 other hi, for the chat trascript, and 9 other radio/tv transcripts, go to http://hello.t o/lipgloss.boost/ they were all done recently. I shamelessly steal the transcripts from the dent, but i figure them all in one place would be handy. there is a total of 10 transcripts, including: music365 chat aol chat with steve maddan rosie o'donnel transcript kfog apperance first aol chat radio interview transcript mp3.com chat chat at gay.com radio apperance with 101.9 yahoo chat about shoes just click on "Enter" then "Tori Amos" then "Chat Transcripts" Chrissy "always been an introvert, happily bleeding" ~Placebo ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 12:38:50 +0100 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: To London and Back... Hi Guys, Well, here's my (bound to be long, I'm afraid) account of last night's show. Tori took us on a journey which seemed to lead down a number of darkened back streets, and quite often there was more than a whiff of danger in the air, especially on Juarez - but I get ahead of myself... here's the complete set list (100% certain as I'm listening to it now!) Tori Soundchecked: (definitely - she probably soundchecked more but these are the ones that I heard) Cloud On My Tongue Yes, Anastasia Spring Haze Suede Playboy Mommy Seeing as I haven't seen anything on the list yet... I saw Tori's own set list (which was marked out with a number of different keys that she was planning to play more 'difficult' songs in) and it was not deviated from at all, although I must note that it was changed at the eleventh hour (there was some rushing about on stage to change it) Me And A Gun Bliss Take To The Sky (story about how she played the Royal Festival Hall as someone else before as part of a backing band) Cloud On My Tongue Concertina Not The Red Baron Cooling Father Lucifer Merman Beauty Queen / Horses Winter Professional Widow Leather Lust (story about Playboy Mommy - horrible to hear the audience laughing when it was so clearly about this...) Playboy Mommy 1,000 Oceans Yes, Anastasia Juarez (with a little tiny keyboard that most people wouldn't have seen hidden to the far left of the piano) - ---- Suede Purple People Smells Like Teen Spirit - -- Silent All These Years [interrupted] Silent All These Years [restart] Upside Down Pandora's Aquarium - --- But rewind some nine hours to my arrival at the Royal Festival Hall - because I have a bone to pick with some people regarding their behaviour yesterday. On arrival I was informed that we were to be using the "American" meet 'n' greet system today - a decision that had, apparently been arrived at by a group of Americans - and I don't recall anyone giving their consent. To those of you who've never been to a UK Tori show, meet 'n' greets are generally relatively stress-free, fun events. People sit around chatting to their friends, then when Tori arrives they amble slowly up and everything gets sorted out. Not so yesterday... and it wasn't because of sheer volume of people - there were approximately as many at the Plugged '98 show in Wolverhampton. It was quite simply because these people had appointed themselves judge, jury and grand high executioners, a decision which ended in a meet 'n' greet which left many who were near the front in a good deal of pain (the girl in front of me, in fact, couldn't breathe and ended up having to take her inhaler...) so to those people, I offer a hearty "Fuck off!" for ruining what should have been a pleasant meet 'n' greet. What it was, in fact, was a bitchy, pushy nightmare which I don't think was condusive for a good atmosphere for anyone - Tori *or* the fans. Which was a real, real, shame. Flash forward now some three hours to inside the Royal Festival Hall - the merchandise stand... it was basically the complete range from the US tour : Purple Shirt White Shirt Black Shirt (w/piano) Black Shirt (w/Bliss picture) Lilac Skinny Necklace Tour Programme Keyring By the end all but the black shirt with the piano had sold out entirely. A this point, the little group I was with wandered upstairs to the bar and had a listen to the soundcheck through the wall - the songs she played are above. Amusingly, one of the (probably fifty-something) stewardesses turned round to us and said "Is that Kate Bush in there?!" .... :) Now ffwd to the show... Tori came on at around 21:05 and finally left at around 23:00-23:05. The stage set up was somewhat peculiar to us as we sat waiting, and the presence of a solo microphone at the left of the stage seemed somewhat odd. I think we all knew what was coming, but everyone was speculating "Guest vocalist" or some such ... while at the back of their minds, they knew it was going to be Gun. When Mark (who was wearing a "Northern Scum" T-Shirt) was asked at around 8 whether he would give someone his set-list, he said that he was unsure whether there was even going to be one... Tori's parents were in the auditorium, and I'm sad to note that once this was realised, they were somewhat mobbed. The show was due to start at 8:45, but in fact only began at 9:00 - Tori soundchecked late and this pushed the performance back some... so down go the lights, the crowd go wild, Tori walks on the stage... wanders up to the small microphone on the right, closes her eyes and... "5 a.m..." - you could hear a pin drop. She was visibly shaking and kept moving her hands uncomfortably around the microphone stand, and was just... I don't know - I wondered if it was the right thing to do to put herself through it, honestly. Just another point (I'm not anti-American, I'm just anti-Idiot, BTW) a further "Fuck Off!" to the American girl who shouted something to Tori after every other song. It was incredibly annoying - after Me And A Gun, for goodness sake, you do *not* shout out to Tori! It seemed a very emotionally charged show, almost deliberately obtuse choices of songs in places which left a few furrowed brows. That shouldn't really have been the case considering there were no adverts, and it was basically a show sold by word of mouth. I don't think anyone expected anything like a 'straight' show and we expected the unexpected and got it, really... The songs all worked well with the piano, especially Juarez which was insanely frightening, actually, where at the end, Tori was pounding at the piano, yelling "No angel came for my little girl.", "No angel came for my little love" repeatedly... Tori seemed to be crying during Smells Like Teen Spirit too. There were a lot of audience interruptions, I thought - far too many smart-mouthed little comments... notably during Silent All These Years when a French guy yelled out "I love you Tori" and she had to stop and start again because everyone was laughing. Talking of laughter, Tori told the tragic story of Playboy Mommy - of how she was drinking champagne in France and fell down a spiral staircase, and people were laughing... at least until she started playing the song and they realised... there were a few looks of "this is *so* inappropriate" between those of us on the front row! She also told a story about a place in America that she can't stand - I've forgotten where - I'll e-mail it in when I listen to the tape again... Anyway, that's all for me, for now... I'll probably think of more later. Comments or questions to the usual address.... Mike Mike Gray mike.gray@zetnet.co.uk / ICQ 6200976 /http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mikegray/ Also mgg2@le.ac.uk (autoforwarded to above address) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:42:01 +0100 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: Tori on Radio 2 (Billy Bragg Show) UK Hi Guys, Tori was on the "Billy Bragg" show on Radio 2 in the UK today... There was a brief interview which roughly went like this... (I couldn't record it, so...) B : My first guest of the day is Tori Amos. Welcome T : Hey Billy. B : What are you going to play for us? A : Lust B : On a Saturday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, Tori Amos, live. [plays "Lust" - no changes from the album version whatsoever] B: Tori Amos. Live, here in session from the new album, "To Venus And Back" - -- B: I'm joined again now by Tori Amos who is here with her baby grand piano looking beautiful T: You're so funny. B: I try. T: Tell them the truth, I look like... y'know.... like crap. B: It's a rainy day here at Mada Vale. You know... T: I look like a rugby football. But that's OK. [plays "Winter" with a little intro that I've never heard before] - -- B: Tori amos with "winter" there live. Tori it doesn't matter what you look like, it's radio. T: Hooray! B: You're very busy at the moment aren't you? T: Yes B:These are rather hard times for singer songwriters - the medium has moved away from lyrical context to beats and belly-buttons. T:What troubles me is not that that exists, because it always has. Entertainers have always... god, vegas wouldn't do very well, we all wrote a bit of that. What's scary is when you never hear the poets any more because the poets tell us our devils and if we don't hear what our devils are, that's scary because they're that voice that whispers in your ear. B: That seems to have disappeared under post-ironic irony. T: That's good. [laughing] B: Sorry, it's live radio. Do you eat pizza crusts? T: I give them away. B: You give them away? T: People will take them. ... missed a bit. [phone interrupted me, dammit!] B: Are you going to be free by December 31st or are you touring? T: We go back to the US during Christmas. They do all those radio Xmases and those things. Basically blackmail, that's what it is. B:Social blackmail? T: I'm talking about radio blackmail. You have to do this. I say it over there... "I'm playing and it's blackmail... Hi!" that's how it works so we're going and doing that, so by the 31st hopefully I'll be done and be with my husband and y'know... B: It's all in the mind on radio. T: Sometimes it's all in the mind when you're there. B:Speaking of which, would you like to play another song? T: Well, that's what I'm supposed to do. This is called Concertina. [Plays Concertina] - -- B: Tori Amos live "Concertina" from TVAB. Thanks for taking time from your busy schedule to come in. A: Thanks. - --- That's all, folks... Mike ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #327 *************************************