From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #187 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 Thursday, October 4 2001 Volume 06 : Number 187 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: SLG: One question [Shaman ] Darn Tickets [Shaman ] Re: Darn Tickets ["K. Fischer" ] rant fest ["Sarah Bowman" ] Re: rant fest [strange little woj ] need Houston tickets? [orgiastic rebirth ] second san diego show ["Missy" ] Searching [AnotherPilot@aol.com] sonicnet west palm beach concert review [strange little woj Subject: Re: SLG: One question Stephen wrote: > At 12:00 AM 9/25/2001 -0500, Sarah wrote: > >I have been diligently searching for the lyrics to Lou Reed's "New Age"... > >the only ones I can find are an extremely harsh, misogynist version of the > >song that degrade an aging film actress. My question is: are the Tori > >lyrics "altered" vesions of the original, or is there a Lou Reed version > >on that has the "diamonds/shoulder" bit? The version I've seen/heard would > >be great for her to redo... the one on SLG is much more mild and > >sympathetic, methinks. > The lyrics to the song as officially released on the VU "Loaded" album > are here: > http://lenny.dyadel.net/velvet.htm#32 > You are correct that Tori's lyrics have very little relation to the > officially released song. About all that matches is the chorus. The > September 2001 issue of ICE Magazine has the following in an article > about Tori's interpretations of the songs: > She continues, "I wanted to have this balmy, undulating rhythm going > on...sort of stripped. And that's where the passion was coming from." > Amos actually used an early and subsequently altered version of the > song's lyrics, which she heard on a Velvet Underground bootleg from > the late 60's. That explains the extra lines that aren't in the official live version released in 1968. P.S. - Strange Little Girls itself was written several years before it was officially released in a live album eight years later in 1982 but it was written back in 1974 when Hans Warmling was still in the group. He left them after being in the group for only a year. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 01:54:23 -0700 From: Shaman Subject: Darn Tickets It seems that TM doesn't send out tickets until they sell out or some crap because I got San Diego weeks ago and Seattle came last week but the Vancouver ones from several weeks aren't here yet. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:53:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Fischer" Subject: Re: Darn Tickets That is not true because I received my Vancouver tickets over a week ago, but my Seattle tickets didn't arrive until Monday of this week. I think TM just sends out the tickets as soon as your payment has gone through and they have had a chance to print them. You can always call them with your confirmation number to check on their status. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Shaman wrote: > > It seems that TM doesn't send out tickets until they sell out > or some crap because I got San Diego weeks ago and Seattle came > last week but the Vancouver ones from several weeks aren't here > yet. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:55:16 -0500 From: "Sarah Bowman" Subject: rant fest getting..... very....very...angry.... I bought plane tickets to go to he San Deigo show weeks ago and could not find good seats, so I wait for the second show to open up. My boyfriend _turns off the alarm_, so I wake up thfree hours late anyway. Then I try to put in the godforsaken password on Ticketmaster (They force you to put in a password under the Xylo.com discount space) and of course, none of them work... I am sure there is some trick to it, but I don't know it. So I will be stuck with scalpers I guess. *SCREAM* ok I will stop complaining now freshlittlepuddles _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:07:23 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: rant fest when we last left our heroes, Sarah Bowman exclaimed: >_turns off the alarm_, so I wake up thfree hours late anyway. Then I try to >put in the godforsaken password on Ticketmaster (They force you to put in a >password under the Xylo.com discount space) and of course, none of them >work... someone said that entering "xylo" as the password worked. i tried it and was able to find tickets (which i promptly returned to the pool since i live in the northeast and am not going to san diego). so, try that one and it should (hopefully) work for you. woj, wondering why toriamos.com and such never bothered to tell anyone about this weird password... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:37:21 -0500 (CDT) From: orgiastic rebirth Subject: need Houston tickets? I have two extra tickets fairly close (on the main floor of Aerial Theatre) which I need to sell, and I'll sell it at the original place (I think 40 or 43 each). Please write back if you want them. - -Anita ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:22:29 -0700 From: "Missy" Subject: second san diego show Hey, everyone. Thank you to the person who posted the password! There are still good tix left, if you hurry. I got main floor, center tickets, so I am sure there are some more left! Just make sure you choose that, and not the "best available" because it gave me worse seats when I chose the best thing. I just hope my friend wants to go to both shows! hehe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:50:18 EDT From: AnotherPilot@aol.com Subject: Searching Hello Everyone! I know this is probably pointless but I figure I'd try. I had a ticket for the 6th but the evil ticket agency people screwed me over and now I don't have any tickets. If anyone has a ticket for the 6th, just one ticket, please contact me. Also, if anyone has *one* ticket left over for *any* of the New York shows please write me. Thanks for your time. :-) Til the Chicken..., Michael *~I'm Much Stronger Than You Know...Sometimes I'm Not Afraid To Let It Show*~ - --Tori Amos - Cool On Your Island-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 18:02:31 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: sonicnet west palm beach concert review Shape-Shifting Tori Amos Plays Goddess, Mommy, Victim At Tour Opener Singer delivers few new songs, plays many old favorites at Florida show. WEST PALM BEACH, Florida  Tori Amos kicked off her cross-country Strange Little Girls tour here Friday night in a most incongruous way. The gentle-voiced ethereal queen of the ivories delivered a riveting interpretation of Eminem's violent wife-butchering fantasy, " '97 Bonnie and Clyde," while bathed in soft pink, purple and blue lights on a sparse stage. Without changing the lyrics, Amos managed to deconstruct the song and retell it from the perspective of the song's dying woman in the trunk of the car. After an opening that captivated the Kravis Center audience, Amos spent the rest of the night treating her appreciative fans to an intimate evening swaddled in the familiar as she delivered a mix of songs dominated by older works. Amos performed without the band she has been touring with in recent years. The stark stage held only her piano and keyboards. Of the 22 songs played over the course of just more than two hours, only four came from Strange Little Girls, her gender-bending studio album of cover songs written and originally performed by men, including Slayer, Neil Young, Tom Waits and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (see "Tori Amos Says Eminem's Fictional Dead Wife Spoke To Her"). Amos released the collection in September and will tour through November, wrapping up in San Francisco (see "Tori Amos Lines Up Strange North American Tour"). The audience didn't seem to mind the lack of material from the new album. And many said they were enthralled to see Amos back onstage with just her grand piano and two electric keyboards. On several songs she straddled her bench, left hand tickling the grand, right working the Rhodes. "It was just an amazing show," said 22-year-old Kim Maguire of nearby Coral Springs, who had seen Amos play live four other times. "This is just totally Tori and so much more personal. I love that she did so much of her older stuff." Amos reached back to her 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, for five of the evening's songs, including a moving version of "China" and the always transfixing "Me and a Gun," Amos' chillingly detached a cappella story of her rape by an armed male "fan." Amos played her expansive voice with as much nuance, touch and passion as she played her piano. Without competition from drums and guitars, her voice almost served the role of a delicate but powerful wind instrument accompanying her turns on the keyboards. Other highlights of the evening included an inspired "Crucify," and strong versions of "Hey Jupiter" and "Horses," both from her 1996 album, Boys for Pele. The other selections from Strange Little Girls  Lloyd Cole's "Rattlesnakes," Tom Waits' "Time" and Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence"  meshed seamlessly with Amos' own compositions. "Time," in particular, was transformed into something that sounded as if Amos could have penned it herself. Amos easily slipped in and out of the roles of performance artist, Tin Pan Alley vamp and gauzy queen during the two hours, as she played with the devoted crowd, chatting with them occasionally and always acknowledging those who felt compelled to yell out to her. "You're a goddess, Tori!" one woman screamed. Amos waved and then hunched up her shoulders. "I'm a mommy," Amos, 38, said with a mixture of sarcasm and wonderment in her voice. She recently had her first child, a girl (see "Tori Amos Gives Birth To Daughter"). "You go, girl," yelled out another.  Lisa Arthur ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:08:29 EDT From: PiXiELuSt411@aol.com Subject: Hi EWF Hi EWF-- I just wanted to write you all and say Hello. I'm exicited because im going to the Tori concert on Nov 6 here in Salt Lake City. I got fantastic seats and a few days ago I offered my other ticket to my good friend for $50......just yesterday a friend of mine told me some chic i dont know wants to buy my ticket for $200....... my friend told me today she will buy it on the 15th......friends are more important so.... im selling it to my friend for $50....is this a mistake cause....I don't think it is......anyway im just exicited to go to the show I have only seen her once in MaSS and she looked like a sparkle with red hair and red shoes.....these seats were bad!!! So forgive my bragging! I really owe it to the digest because without it I would've never gotten the password and I would have never gotten 10th row.....i probably could've kept trying and got closer seats but the 3rd time i tried it pushed me back 15 rows!!! So I got what I could!!!! Thanx guys! You all Rock!!! Shana ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #187 *************************************