From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #81 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 30 2003 Volume 08 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Oxygen Taxi Ride performance [Cyndi S Crawford ] Tori in WI State Journal - 27 March 03 [Ryan Engel ] Tori sighting ["Melissa Olges" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:07:19 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re: Oxygen Taxi Ride performance I thought I'd kinda clarify just what I mean by how Tori seemed stiff during Taxi Ride on the Oxygen concert--Tori seemed a little stiff while she was playing. She sang and played it just fine, but I thought that perhaps she had Kevyn on her mind or something since she DID write Taxi Ride for him after he died. Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.icenine.org/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/clique.html "I know we're dying / and there's no sign of a parachute / we scream in cathedrals / why can't it be beautiful / why does there gotta be a sacrifice?" -- Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 06:42:31 -0800 (PST) From: e m Subject: small tori sighting in NYT there is a small tori/eric mention in the article on Lisa Marie's new album in the New York Times. I only skimmed through it but i will include all the tori related info. "Lisa Marie Enters the Building" by Anthony DeCurtis on the front page of section 2 (Arts & Leisure) in the second paragraph (on the front page) "...Produced by Eric Rosse, who has previously worked with Tori Amos, the album is a surprisingly stronge statement about all that her life has been and all she would like it to become..." continued on page 32... "Amoung her favorites she includes Aretha Franklin, Pat Benatar, Heart, and Ms. Amos - "all those strong women," as she puts it." (10th paragraph) "But when he (Andrew Slater, Java Records) learned of Ms. Presley's admiration for Ms. Amos, he recommended that Mr. Rosse produce her album" (14th paragraph) "Initially, Mr. Rosse was, well, skeptical. 'It was a surprising call to get, just because of who she is,' Mr. Rosse said. 'But I was struck when I heard her voice. It's got this deep, low, husky quality - I got a cool vibe from it. I thought if we started over and stripped the songs down, I could create the right musical framework for her.' In the end, Mr. Rosse honored the rock, folk, and country sources of Ms. Presley's sound, but complicated them with smart guitar treatments and alluring keyboard adnd rhythmic effects..." (15th P) "Mr. Rosse decribes himself as 'obscure' and 'underground' and the decision to have him produce Ms. Presley was part of a strategy to keep down the volume of hype on 'To Whom It May Concern' - relatively speaking of course..." (16th P) not very directly Tori , but still interesting. - -ellen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:08:57 -0600 From: Ryan Engel Subject: Tori in WI State Journal - 27 March 03 Tori Amos Takes New RoadMadison Holds Special Place In Her Life's Journey Wisconsin State Journal :: RHYTHM :: 3 Thursday, March 27, 2003 By Rob Thomas [WSJ:] Tori Amos describes her seventh album, "Scarlet's Walk," as sort of a sonic road novel, following the footsteps of a fictional character named Scarlet as she travels post-Sept. 11 America.In the CD packaging, there's a map of the United States, and each song is visually represented by a leg on Scarlet's journey. Madison turns out to be the point at which the fourth song ("Strange") ends and the fifth song ("Carbon") begins. [WSJ:] Amos, who is playing a sold-out show Friday at the Madison Civic Center, talked with Rhythm about the new album, touring with her 2-year-old daughter, Natashya Lorien, and just what place Madison holds on her personal map: [WSJ:] We're on the cusp of "Strange" and "Carbon" on your map. What does that mean exactly? Personally, Madison has been a place where things changed in my life. We won't go into details, but on my personal map, I made a different life choice in Madison many years ago. It wasn't small. A certain kind of pattern in my life that I had with relationships, I just wasn't going to have anymore. As long as we've gone this far -- a boy said to me at a mixing desk: "So I just want to know one thing. Why do women continually go to the same guy, who's going to taste them, eat them, spit them out, leave them by the side of the road, move on, and then back the car up and then say Get in'? Why?" It was a good question, and I thought "I have to mill about this." So I walked the streets. It changed my life. And I married him eventually. [WSJ:] Can you really travel while you're touring, or is it more like a business-trip environment? Sometimes you have to pick your moments. Like today, we went to Niagara Falls. It was blizzardy here, but Tash just decided she wanted to see the falls, so a few of us went. Being out there in the snow, it was exhilarating. But you have to make the trek, and you don't always feel like making the trek when you're doing three shows. Having a little kid on the road -- she's 2 1/2 -- forces me to do stuff I didn't have to do when I didn't. I would stay up later, I would hang out with the band. Now they're on a different time frame than me. I'm up at 6:30 in the morning being a mommy. My day starts early. I end at 1 o'clock; once the show's done I have my after-show snack and then wind down about 1, and then I'm up at 6:30. Sometimes you want to get out, and she wants to see what's going on. It's a very different life than when you're on your own. [WSJ:] Is this a mother's album, do you think? Or an album to a mother, to a real mother who is in big trouble. I think in a weird way, in order to be a mother to the next generation, Scarlet had to mother the spiritual mother, or there would be nothing left for the next generation. And the next generation would say: "Where were you? What did you do when America was at its crossroads? What did you do? Did you question? Did you stop being so selfish?" That's what this generation is saying. When will we stop being so arrogant? We're not above questioning. None of us are. So, it's that moment that all of us have to question. Or by not questioning, we've made a choice, and there'll be consequences to that. I think Scarlet realizes that this is the turn in the road they talk about in the ancient mysteries. I go across the country and I see people asking questions like I've never seen, seeing the torch being lit, seeing people being pushed too far, with the letters I get and what I see, a pain of "Don't you drag my country through this belligerent hell." That's what I'm seeing, a shaking, a waking up. [WSJ:] Is that what kind of inspired you to look at America that way, as sort of a living being? I was pregnant at the time, and I didn't realize it, but the seeds were coming. America was showing herself as a soul and in trouble, as I was getting ready to give birth to a little girl. So an ancient woman in trouble is coming to visit me as I was pregnant, while I was being visited by a little girl. I'm just the librarian mother, kind of dealing with these two forces, the birth of the young potential feminine, and the feminine that has been pummeled and misrepresented. You can hold those two in either hand, and those were the threads that were weaving the story, and they're interdependent on each other. And Scarlet became any woman in my position, who bleeds and tries to ask the question. All the women on the record are America personified, or this child, in the end. The idea is that her perspective changes because of the people in her life, and makes her look at things that she didn't want to look at, or wasn't ready to. But that's why we bring people into our lives. So the personal and the political are inseparable with Scarlet, because her beliefs are not separate from her love. [WSJ:] And I've heard people say that you're moving away from the personal stuff of your earlier albums to political stuff. But really, it's all on the same continuum. It has more world issues involved. At 26, I was writing a diary. I wasn't writing about world issues. But once you've written your diary, then you've worked it out. You can look outside. And the narcissism goes, hopefully, as you approach 40. Or, God, you've not done something right. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:15:32 -0600 From: "Melissa Olges" Subject: Tori sighting I've signed up for a music advisory panel for a local radio station, and I just took their newest survey. Not only was "A Sorta Fairytale" on it, but "Taxi Ride" was as well. Out of the maybe 30 or so songs that they asked me about, Tori was the only artist listed twice. Yippee! Maybe this means she's going to get more airplay. So this makes me wonder... Is "Taxi Ride" officially the new single? ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #81 ************************************