From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #55 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, March 2 2003 Volume 08 : Number 055 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori in SPIN Magazine . ["cdrv" ] albany [noam tchotchke ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:34:10 -0300 From: "cdrv" Subject: Tori in SPIN Magazine . I got this from a mailing list, I KNOW IS NOT MUSIC RELATED, but... Is still About Tori. Here it is, like SPIN MAGAZINE made a Ranking on Female Musicians or something. Later :) Daniel Old Ladies Who Are Still Sexy To Rock Boys 9. Patti Smith 8. Tina Turner 7. Stevie Nicks 6. Courtney Love 5. Chrissie Hynde 4. TORI AMOS 3. Marianne Faithful 2. Deborah Harry 1. Madonna ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:57:19 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: albany just a quick review of albany from the road... meredith and i left new haven just after 5pm and pulled into albany spot on 7:30. take that mapquest! ;) while it would have been nice to get there early enough to hang out before the show, it's kinda tough when you have a working stiff in the family... anyway, we toodled over to the palace from the really cheap (by nyc metro standards) parking garage and went into the theatre. the frisking was the most in-depth so far on the tour (even more so that providence last year). the palace has one of those halls across the back of the theatre which opens onto the orchestra so we stood there and watched the second half of jeffery gaines' set. not really my thing but the crowd which had taken their seats seemed to enjoy his moody solo acoustic guitar act quite a bit. after he finished, we took our seats which were way left in the third row of the orchestra. we were apprehensive about the view but it turned out to be really good: we were left but the front rows of the far left and right orchestra angle in towards the stage rather nicely. so, we could see tori play the middle to high-end of the piano and, when she was playing the wurlitzer or rhodes, she was more-or-less looking right in our direction. since the piano's lid was removed (or down) for the sampler, we had a great view of matt across the stage but jon was partially blocked by the lighting rig. ah well. oh, the other neat thing about the seats over there was that there were only two seats in our entire row! so, no beer drinkers were getting up every few songs to replenish their supply or depenish their bladders. there was only one row ahead of our seats and the folks who bought them never showed up so we basically had a great view of the stage from a seat that a lot of people would generally think isn't that great. at this point, you're probably thinking, "enough pre-ramble, woj, what about the show?" (so am i! so am i!) the palace blinked the lights in the theatre twice (a nice touch) so we were ready when "wampum prayer" started wafting through the skim (no sage -- did anyone else notice any?). then the skim came down and matt and jon started grooving "a sorta fairytale". tori came out to the usual applause and ovation. she was wearing the brown boots, the jeans and a shimmery shawl thing which looked like it had a tigerskin pattern on it -- though it was colored a light brown stripes on the white/beige-ish base. did i mention it was shimmery? ;) oh, she was also wearing a black choker which looked like it had some small jewels on its fringe. she also had on a locket pendant of some sort. the setlist: wampum prayer / a sorta fairytale / caught a lite sneeze / pancake / cornflake girl / pandora's aquarium / glory of the 80s / black dove / wednesday / roadside cafe: mr. zebra / doughnut song / silent all these years / enjoy the silence / band returns: lust / sweet sangria / space dog / rattlesnakes / hotel / i can't see new york / iieee / first encore: god / tear in your hand / etienne (solo) / second encore: taxi ride / hey jupiter it was really nice to hear rattlesnakes and pandora's aquarium. glory of the 80s and cornflake girl were well done even though neither are a favorite of mine. space dog made meredith very happy. i can't see new york lacked oomph - i really want to be slammed back against my seat during that one and it didn't happen last night. etienne was a nice extra treat (it wasn't on the printed setlist) though i have to say that picking between a solo and band version is a really tough call. the roadside cafe was kinda a lull in the show for me -- neither silent all these years nor doughnut song do much for me. enjoy the silence was nice but again not too thrilling. i was also disappointed to hear, yet again, the same set of songs from _scarlet's walk_. it's not that i'm sick of them, it's that it would be nice to mix in more songs from the new record other than the upbeat ones. finally, iieee and god were way cool -- highlights for me -- i wasn't expecting iieee to be a really good closer for the main set but it seems to fit pretty good there. so, on the whole, this was a good show but not one that had a lot of transcedent, "holy shit!" points. here's hoping for talula and spark and strange little girl in syracuse! ;) woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #55 ************************************