From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V7 #261 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, November 5 2002 Volume 07 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Your Cloud Guitar Chords [Cyndi S Crawford ] 70s sound ["Captain Scarlet" ] Anybody Need 2 Camden Tix? [eresos@monmouth.com] Re: least fave ["Tom xxxxx" ] 2 tampa tickets? [VioletLilith@aol.com] my 2 cents on SW [Jennifer Mitts Cypres ] wednesday ["Aileen Sharkie" ] Fwd: Acoustic Lunch with tori! [dances with virgos ] Re: wednesday ["Michel" ] boston globe article [dances with virgos ] sf examiner article [dances with virgos ] Favorite Song Poll on The Dent [Brian K Tanaka ] globe and mail articles [dances with virgos ] Re: Your Cloud Guitar Chords [Brian K Tanaka ] tori at cmj [dances with virgos ] FOR SALE: CAMDEN, NJ TICKET!!! ["Peter Zimmerman" ] question about Scarlet Stories [myth@31flavours.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 01:05:21 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re: Your Cloud Guitar Chords >Are there any guitar players on this list? Here's my take on how to play Your Cloud on the guitar. I welcome suggestions and corrections! Enjoy!< I wish I could say "me!" as I have guitars but.. I can't learn worth a damn via tablature.. chord tablature is easier but.. well.. *shrug* thanks! now.. give us a drum tab and bass tab! :D Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.platinumcomplication.com/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/ -- http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=kittitude Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:54:36 -0000 From: "Captain Scarlet" Subject: 70s sound I'll post a proper review in a bit, but just had a thought re some people saying they're unhappy with the sound of this album - as it was recorded and mixed at home by the usual crew I can't see it being a technical issue - maybe the differences you're noticing are a deliberate part of the 70s feel Tori's said she's aiming for on this album? I don't know the technical stuff, but to me the sound has a kind of fuzzily rich analogue feel to it, especially at the low end of the synth, which I really like. The opposite of Venus, where it felt like the sound waves had been cut with a diamond. I can't believe I just paid #15.99 at play.com for a 1 inch pewter starfish. And I enjoyed doing so. Ah well, I'm worh it :o) (perhaps the 'UK street team' should launch spot raids on supermarkets and music stores, stealing little plastic things out of packets of frosties and putting them in SW Ltd Eds?) Happy walking, Pete - - if you're bi, and you have the time....... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:19:10 EST From: eresos@monmouth.com Subject: Anybody Need 2 Camden Tix? my sister 99.9% cannot make the show (med student) so i have 2 extras now: sec 202 row H seats 53/54 the are pretty good seats, center second section back... i am sure the accoustics will be very good from this section. i just want to break even (me poor) so i am offering them for what i paid plus shipping (that depends on you--since i am going we can exchange money and tix at the venue and save mail costs if you'd like) please let me know... thanks, ellen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:23:38 +0000 From: "Tom xxxxx" Subject: Re: least fave Ohmygod! I can't believe so many of you dislike "Amber Waves." It's one of my favorites on the album. I just love the sound of it. "I Can't See New York" and "A Sorta Fairytale" also stand out.I think my least fave thus far is "Wednesday." However, I've only heard the whole CD once. I've been too busy to give it a careful listen. That's happening tonight! Maybe my opinions will change. OH! Get this! I heard "A Sorta Fairytale" on the NYC classic rock station! When did Tori become classic rock? I think it's very cool that a classic rock station is expanding its boundaries to include artists like Tori. toodles, Tom ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:36:51 EST From: VioletLilith@aol.com Subject: 2 tampa tickets? well, it seems that i may have two extra tickets for this thursday's show in tampa. the people who i got them for have pretty much bailed on me. *not bitter, not bitter*. everyone i know who would want them are already going, so, i am stuck. they are in the balcony, which might not be the greatest, visually speaking, but are the best for sound quality. i saw bauhaus in this venue, too, and all the seats are pretty good seats. so, if anyone knows anyone who still needs tickets, please email me.... *jennifer* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:16:57 -0800 (PST) From: Jennifer Mitts Cypres Subject: my 2 cents on SW Woj made a comment earlier that a few of the songs on SW are reminiscent of other artists. I agree. I am constantly reminded of Chris Isaak when I hear "Don't Make Me Come to Vegas." It just sounds like one of his croons. Other songs remind me of Fleetwood Mac (can't remember exactly which ones). "Crazy" is such an excellent song. I honestly don't agree with the Spin reporter who says there are no hooks on this album. In my opinion, this album is full of hooks, almost as many as "To Venus and Back." I was pleasantly surprised that Tori's gone back to her roots with the style of this album. And while I love it when she doing her improv thing, I can certainly say that I appreciate her hard work in making these songs so... accessible (?). Nice change of pace. - -jen ===== "I, I am YHWH, and besides Me there is no saviour." -Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 43:11 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:45:54 +0000 From: "Aileen Sharkie" Subject: wednesday I love the song Wednesday, but it reminds me of a particular Beatles song..but I just CANNOT place the song. Has anyone else noticed a distinct similarity between this song and some Beatles' one? aileen _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:47:33 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: Fwd: Acoustic Lunch with tori! thanks to ty for this item! >From: ty barrett >To: >Subject: Acoustic Lunch with tori! >Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:44:50 -0500 > >the columbus radio station 97.1 is hosting an acoustic lunch with tori on >november 24th. you can enter to win an invitation on their website here: >http://www.wbnsfm.com/971.php?radio=p_toriamos >they're only going to have 15 winners (and i think you'll get to bring a >guest) so it is going to be incredibly intimate! >-ty ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:38:39 +0100 From: "Michel" Subject: Re: wednesday Aileen wrote > I love the song Wednesday, but it reminds me of a particular Beatles > song..but I just CANNOT place the song. Has anyone else noticed a distinct > similarity between this song and some Beatles' one? Try "Martha My Dear" from The White Album Regards Michel Kempes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:52:02 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: boston globe article ROCK NOTES 'Walk' is a special journey for Amos By Steve Morse, Globe Staff, 11/1/2002 A ''sonic novel'' - that's what Tori Amos calls her new album, ''Scarlet's Walk.'' It's a challenging, often brilliant concept record that follows a woman's travels across America. It's a chance for Amos to encounter everything from the porn industry to Native Americans, Boston intellectuals, a Southern manic-depressive, a Latin revolutionary, a Messiah figure, and a wild romantic named Crazy. It's an entertaining, informative story framed by Amos's theatrical vocals and jazzy, pop-rock piano melodies. And there will be more to come in a secret code provided on each CD that will be updated during Amos's national tour, which includes a stop at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell on Nov. 19 with her three-piece band. ''The secret code will take you here and there during the whole tour, so the record will continue to live,'' says Amos. It uses a Web site that will allow fans to visit ''Scarlet's Web,'' featuring a map of Scarlet's journey, as well as a map tracing Native American historical sites (from Hopi Nation to Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears) and a map of Amos's new tour itself. Amos, who is part Cherokee, got the idea for the album after listening to Americans talk about the aftermath of 9/11, which reminded her of the poignant stories that her grandfather would tell about how his mother left the Trail of Tears and fled into the Smokey Mountains. The name Scarlet not only references Scarlet O'Hara from ''Gone with the Wind,'' but applies to how Native Americans call their spiritual path the ''red road.'' ''I love how the word Scarlet weaves together with so many things,'' says Amos. ''It's a thread.'' The new album climaxes with the song ''Scarlet's Walk,'' where Scarlet is ''at a point where she has gone deep enough to realize that America has a shadow ... but until we see a shadow, we're not who we want to be.'' One song is particularly striking: ''I Can't See New York,'' which was written before 9/11 but is an eerie foreshadowing of it: ''I can't see New York as I'm circling down through white clouds ... I can't seem to find my way out of this hunting ground.'' The songs just come to her, says Amos: ''All I'm trying to do is be a good secretary. ... I just take them down by dictation.'' The album subtly cites a lot of parallels between how Americans felt after last year's terrorist attacks and how Native Americans felt after their land was invaded. ''Being on tour at the time, I was going from state to state and I really began to see what it was stirring up in people,'' Amos says. ''America became personified when people saw her wounded and burning. That's much more of a Native American concept, of looking at America as a being and as a soul that we need to take care of, rather than just taking a narcissistic viewpoint. I was really impressed with how people were looking into each other's eyes and really relating.'' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:59:37 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: sf examiner article Publication date: 10/30/2002 Going on 'Scarlet's Walk' BY TOM LANHAM Special to The Examiner All heads in the Nob Hill restaurant turn when Tori Amos strolls in, wearing stiletto heels, flared jeans and chiffon blouse, her long locks tumbling past her shoulders. But the singer is oblivious to the stares. She's on a mission, possibly the most important of her decade-plus career (except for the rape-victim helpline/counseling service she launched several years ago.) Speaking in a whisper so soft it's often inaudible, she outlines the message she's trying to convey on "Scarlet's Walk," her 17-trackCD on Epic that hits stores this week. It begins with great news. After three miscarriages, Amos gave birth to a daughter, Natashya, two years ago. And with her new role as mom, she says, "I think I left that place by the fire, the place of womanhood as 'me first, my needs, my sexuality' to begin to give back ... That's what I got out of nurturing her, realizing that you must pass the torch. What kind of world is she going to be living in if I keep my eyes closed?" Today, the North Carolina-born, Cherokee-blooded pianist lives in Cornwall, England. But on a bus tour of the States last year backing her all-covers album "Strange Little Girls," she started taking the pulse of her old homeland. She began researching how post-9/11 America was feeling, from state to state, city to city. On the basis of dialogue heard in roadside diners, casual conversations with strangers and old friends, and interaction with spiritual elders from disparate Native American tribes, Amos drew up maps of a crippled country, and an imaginary -- yet semi-autobiographical -- character named Scarlet to traverse it. It's quite a journey, from the opening chat with an aging porn star, "Amber Waves," to religious, mythological themes in "Pancake," "Mrs. Jesus" and "Wampum Prayer," to the self-explanatory "I can't see New York" and "Don't Make Me Come To Vegas." Amos' glissando operatic trill makes it all sound like gospel. The singer's' keen eyes and ears paid off. She says, "I listened while I was on tour, and I spent a lot of time observing. ... Before I realized it, the record was writing itself, the songs were coming, and the characters are based on real people, the events are based on actual events." The tour starts on the West Coast with the character Scarlet, who meanders and doubles back on herself sometimes. "She's propelled to find this being that we call America -- what her soul is -- not how she's been pimped out by her leaders over the last several years," Amos says. Amos, 39, says she knew she was on the right track when an older Native American woman came to see her -- not her concert. Amost says, "She made her way backstage and said, 'I have a message for you. You're going to tell America's history, but not his-tory, you must tell her-story. Because it's time for the people who hold the land and the people who own the land to come together for her survival.' " Amos wonders, "Are we, as a whole, as Americans, realizing the crossroads that we're at? ... We've been attacked. What is it going take for us to see that we have to take action and see what our leaders are doing in our name?" She says what she found on her travels, and what she addresses on "Wampum Prayer," is that to find America's soul, you have to go back to the Native American idea of being a caretaker of the spirit of the land. Amos took Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" to the next level. Through Scarlet, she visited places where the events actually occurred and learned about them, and about all the treaties that were broken. She says, "My great, great grandmother escaped the Trail Of Tears and hid out in the Smoky Mountains, and the stories came down to me through her. And that really propelled me into asking questions. I needed to know what it is that I believe." Amos fans who haven't gotten enough of their idol in "Scarlet's Walk" will get a nice CD-ROM bonus with the disc: a way to access "Scarlet's Web," a cornucopia of photos, lyrics, videos and secret songs. A limited edition of the album will include maps, Polaroids, a special DVD and a bracelet charm. Today, Amos can't help but see the United States from an overseas viewpoint. When she returned to Cornwall, she says, she was stunned by how the world looks at America. While there was a lot of empathy after 9/11, today, she says, "America is viewed as the bully on the playground. .... it's painful to behold if you love the soul of the place, the roots of her and her essence." And especially if you feel like a caretaker for her. But Amos adds, "This is the time for the torch to be lit in the ones who are going be left with this place in 20 years. They're in universities now, but this is the time for them to ask their questions, to take their own road to see what they believe in. And Scarlet is merely a thread for them to follow. That's all she is." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:17:11 -0800 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: Favorite Song Poll on The Dent Apropos to all the discussion about favorite/least-favorite songs on the new album, did y'all notice that the current poll on The Dent is "What is your current favorite song from Scarlet's Walk?" Vote and/or view results so far here: http://thedent.com/torimain.html#webpoll - -- - - Brian Tanaka - - - contact info (im etc.): http://www.well.com/~btanaka/info - - tori web site: http://www.well.com/~btanaka/tori - - random tori quote: http://btanaka.freeshell.org/toriquotes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:34:46 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: globe and mail articles Amos charts a soulful map By ANGELA PACIENZA Canadian Press Tuesday, October 29, 2002  Page R2 TORONTO -- Tori Amos is consumed with other people's stories. Volumes of intimate tales are stored inside her head. The singer-songwriter, who startled audiences with her 1992 debut by casting the sordid tale of her real-life rape to the soothing sounds of a Bosendorfer piano, collected the stories while touring in a post-Sept. 11 America. After shows, fans waited by stage doors to tell her deeply personal narratives about loved ones. Others sent letters recounting anecdotes and memories "that you don't say when tomorrow's coming," Amos, 39, recalled during a recent stopover in Toronto. "It was a time in America where the masks were down, the makeup was off, the risumis were blown away." Amos says their stories were spawned from a spiritual source rudely awakened by the terrorist attacks. "America itself came back to the round table with all the other countries and realized that it was part of the world instead of this isolated bubble," she said, gesticulating wildly. Her response was to walk in another's shoes. Scarlet's Walk, the singer's latest album, is a sonic novel that takes listeners through an introspective road trip across the United States in the aftershock of the attacks. Amos was in New York that fateful morning, away from her two-year-old daughter. The event caused the singer to pause and reflect on her life, especially her new role as a mother. A few months later she lost a close friend, famed makeup artist Kevin Aucoin. "From a national world event to a personal event to just maybe as a writer realizing that America is at a crossroads on every level, whether it knows it or not," she said. The concept for the album was inspired by aboriginal stories sung by Amos's mother about her Cherokee ancestry. Scarlet's Walk probes westward expansion, porn culture and America's concept of democracy, through the eyes of a woman trying to find herself. "Scarlet's my character in this. I get to hide behind her, I guess," Amos said. "She's busy in this . . . but there's a place of reality where she begins to see within her travels that her fantasy of what a good day was, or a strong relationship was, is changing. There is an impact that this has on her, it does define certain parts of her. It's written on her body, it's a body map." While the album is rich with symbolism, Scarlet's trip can be actualized with any Perley's road map of the United States. Travelling coast to coast, some 4,800 kilometres, the album records Scarlet's many stirring, romanticized encounters: the Mississippi River site of a massacre of Apache people; Austin, Tex., where a Latino revolutionary is fighting U.S. intervention in Central America; and New York, where a woman tries to cope with a plane crash. "The soul of America and the native Americans made it very clear to me while I was on the road that the time has come [for change]; she's tired of being misrepresented instead of Miss America." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:44:51 -0800 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: Re: Your Cloud Guitar Chords On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:05:21AM -0500, Cyndi S Crawford boldly wrote: > > >Are there any guitar players on this list? Here's my take on how to > play Your Cloud on the guitar. I welcome suggestions and corrections! > Enjoy!< > I wish I could say "me!" as I have guitars but.. I can't learn > worth a damn via tablature.. chord tablature is easier but.. well.. > *shrug* thanks! now.. give us a drum tab and bass tab! :D Funny you should mention bass tab. The guitar chord tab is sort of the lowest common denominator between Jon's bass line and Tori's piano. I didn't try to track the bass or the piano, I just found what sounds reasonably good with both (in my opinion anyway) and, hopefully, reasonably good on its own. So the bass tab is in the guitar chord tab somewhere but with more notes! And the piano part is in there too, but with more chords! ;-) - -- - - Brian Tanaka - - - contact info (im etc.): http://www.well.com/~btanaka/info ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:27:47 -0500 From: dances with virgos Subject: tori at cmj ori Amos Talks Weirdness, Stupid Musicians, & More At CMJ Q&A Nov 4, 2002, 10:25 am PT Tori Amos admitted that her new video from Scarlet's Walk, "A Sorta Fairytale," was the "weirdest thing I've ever done," at the CMJ 2002 Music Marathon in New York on Friday (Nov. 1). And, Amos has done a lot of weird things in her career. The eccentric singer was one of the featured panel events during the four-day confab: a Q&A with Rita Houston, music director of WFUV-FM. What was billed as a discussion about her critically acclaimed new album, the 18-track Scarlet's Walk, Amos described the themed CD, which is a narration by a person called Scarlet, who is actually Amos, who is also everywoman, and is about the personification of Americans who came together post-Sept. 11. After a few analytical questions from Houston, Amos shifted tracks and asked a young guy in the audience what he did. Immediately, people began asking questions, shutting Houston down. Amos, who is 39, talked about motherhood, gave advice to aspiring musicians, and showed a great sense of humor. When asked about her female role model, Amos immediately fawned upon artist Georgia O'Keefe. "She had beauty, was political and warm," she said. "She was her own person, and it did not matter if people liked her work. She is a benchmark of my life everyday." Amos does not worry what critics preach, but she warned aspiring musicians, "If you don't protect yourself with the right people, everyone will decide what you do. There is nothing good about a stupid musician ... just bigger lawyer fees." And when CMJ reps tried to shut down the hour session early, Amos refused, noting people waiting in line to ask questions. When someone asked why she threw water on Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show a few years ago, she begged, "Did I?" After stumbling for quite a long time, she quipped, "Maybe I didn't take my birth control pill that day." Priceless. - -- Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 17:06:17 -0500 From: "Peter Zimmerman" Subject: FOR SALE: CAMDEN, NJ TICKET!!! Hey Everyone, Hope all is well. I am currently selling one ticket to the Camden show. It is a great seat, right in the center. Here is the info: Tori Amos f/Howie Day Tweeter Center at the Waterfront Camden, NJ Section 202 Row G Seat 58 I am selling this at face value (including ticketmaster charges): $41.90 email me off-list at pzimmerman@standrews-de.org if you are interested. Thanks everyone!!!!!!! - -Peter "and if i hear one more time about a fools right to his tools of rage i'm gonna take all my friends and i'm going to move to canada and we're going to die of old age" - Ani Difranco "To the Teeth" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 01:46:58 +0000 From: "Aileen Sharkie" Subject: Re: wednesday Ohh..very nice. That's totally the song I was thinking of. Thanks for the reminder:) aileen >From: "Michel" >To: >CC: "Aileen Sharkie" >Subject: Re: wednesday >Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:38:39 +0100 > >Aileen wrote > > > I love the song Wednesday, but it reminds me of a particular Beatles > > song..but I just CANNOT place the song. Has anyone else noticed a >distinct > > similarity between this song and some Beatles' one? > > >Try "Martha My Dear" from The White Album ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:15:18 -0500 From: myth@31flavours.com Subject: question about Scarlet Stories I ordered my cds from hmv.com - the single, the ltd, and the regular cd which they were selling with the Scarlet Stories disc included. So it all showed up today, and there is a slimline black jewel case with the Scarlet Stories disc in it, shrinkwrapped, no insert. Then I notice the regular edition case says 2 CD, so I open it to see what the other disc was and find another Scarlet Stories cd in the back tray. So my question is, did all the regular editions come like this after all, with Scarlet Stories in the back, or was this how the promo was being given out? Are they also giving out separate discs of it? I'd not heard about them being doubled up with the regular edition. ~julie .................................................................... .: go then, there are other worlds than this :. http://glasseye.theultramind.com ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V7 #261 *************************************