From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #86 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 Friday, April 4 2003 Volume 08 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 2 tickets in Boise Id, row C ["Lucas Kaserman" ] Re: small tori sighting on ABC soap ["Becka" ] boise arbiter concert preview [noam tchotchke ] rapid city journal article about tash [noam tchotchke ] Re: boise arbiter concert preview [David Mobley ] Re: boise arbiter concert preview [e m ] since we're writing to journalists... [e m ] OT: legal advice [Violet ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:20:56 -0800 From: "Lucas Kaserman" Subject: 2 tickets in Boise Id, row C Hi, I have 2 extra tickets to the show at the Morrison center on April 6..Row C, seats 14 and 15. Bought for a friend, but he can't make it. Please reply if anyone is interested. Would like to recover cost. Lucas ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:09:37 -0800 (PST) From: e m Subject: small tori sighting on ABC soap Okay, someone on that ABC soap (one life to live?) really likes tori. b.c i just had abc on (hearing the new war developments) & then they went back to the show & "scarlet's walk" was playing in the background. i dont watch the show but they were talking about finding out that the person that killed your father was your mother--so soap opera cliche--its great!! but just thought i would share that. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:46:04 -0500 From: "Becka" Subject: Re: small tori sighting on ABC soap there has actually been quite a lot of tori sightings on that show since SW came out.. there was recently a Tori poster spotted on days of our lives as well.. > Okay, someone on that ABC soap (one life to live?) really likes tori. > > b.c i just had abc on (hearing the new war developments) & then they went back to the show & "scarlet's walk" was playing in the background. i dont watch the show but they were talking about finding out that the person that killed your father was your mother--so soap opera cliche--its great!! > > but just thought i would share that. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:59:45 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: boise arbiter concert preview Tori Amos comes to Boise James Patrick Kelly, The Arbiter April 03, 2003 Tumultuous songstress Tori Amos is bringing her Steinway piano and company of musicians to the Morrison Center Sunday night. Amos, who is currently on her Scarlets Walk tour, recently released her Epic Records debut and seventh studio effort after a reported fallout with Atlantic Records. Over the last decade, Amos unique music styling has garnered her an ardent following of fans, called Toriphiles. Her piano-based sound seems to constantly evolve  always changing from album to album. She has two platinum recordings, 1994s Under The Pink and 1996s Boys For Pele. In 2001, Amos released Strange Little Girls, an eclectic album of covers, including The Boomtown Rats I Dont Like Mondays and Neal Youngs Heart Of Gold. Amos, originally from Newton, N.C., first hit the scene in 1988 after her hard rock band, Y Kant Tory Read, released their ill-fated self-titled album, which sold a dismal 7,000 copies. She admits that her earlier work was an Atlantic Records studio concoction. Amos described the album as Madonna and Kate Bush in a head-on collision after eating bad mushrooms. Her 1991 debut as Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes, was widely accepted by American listeners after receiving rave reviews in England, where it was first released. In 1992, she recorded Crucify, a five-song album that showed her diverse nature as a musician. The album included a haunting cover of Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit and an ethereal version of Led Zeppelins Thank You. In the new millennium, Amos is just as prolific as she was in the 90s, and her sound matures with each new release  proving that she can stand the test of time in Americas fickle music industry. Tori Amos is coming to the Morrison Center on Sunday, April 6 with special guest Rhett Miller. Tickets are available at all Select-a-Seat locations or online at www.idahotickets.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:02:57 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: rapid city journal article about tash Amos' daughter stands in for mom at Bear Country By Kevin Woster, Journal Staff Writer RAPID CITY -- It turned out that Tori Amos couldn't make it to Bear Country U.S.A. on Wednesday to see this year's crop of black bear cubs. But she sent a perfectly qualified stand-in - her 2-1/2-year-old daughter, Natashya. Amos, a pop singer, pianist and songwriter, performed Wednesday night at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Earlier in the day, she accepted an invitation by Sean Casey, one of the owners of Bear Country, to come see the cubs. But Amos changed her plans when she got an invitation to visit the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the Wounded Knee site, which is prominent in Amos' latest album. The cubs at Bear Country still got plenty of attention from Natashya, a chatty child with a fetching British accent and an obvious passion for Bear Country creatures great and small. "I want the red one," she said, peering down into a box at a cub with a red ribbon around its neck. Natashya got to pet several of the 16 cubs born last January at Bear Country. She also got a close-up gander at a bobcat and several raccoons kept in cages nearby. Her comfort around animals comes from living with her mom and dad on a country place in southern England, her nanny, Rose Walker, said. "She lives on a farm, so she knows animals," Walker said. Walker kept track of Natashya as she joined Sean Casey's 3-year-old son, Grant, in the Bear Country frolic. They then went on to see Mount Rushmore with Karim Merali, general manager of Radisson Hotel. Tori Amos and her family arrived at the Radisson on Wednesday morning and were scheduled to spend the night there after her performance. Shortly after their arrival, they met Sean Casey, who issued the invitation for the cub visit. At 16, this year's batch of cubs is down significantly from last year's total of 25 and especially from previous annual production that had soared to as high as 80. Bear Country could barely handle that many cubs, so the attraction began a system of birth-control techniques to curb reproduction. "We were having way too many for a while there," Sean said. "The birth-control plan is working." Still, there are plenty of cubs to maintain the Bear Country population - and to entertain a little girl with a big-name mom. Contact Kevin Woster at 394-8413 or kevin.woster@rapidcityjournal.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:14:30 -0500 From: David Mobley Subject: Re: boise arbiter concert preview hmmmm perhaps someone should tell mister Kelly that if he's going to act like he knows something about an artist before he writes them up, he should at least know the right brand of piano! Thursday, April 3, 2003, 2:59:45 PM, you wrote: nt> James Patrick Kelly, The Arbiter nt> April 03, 2003 nt> Tumultuous songstress Tori Amos is bringing her Steinway piano and company nt> of musicians to the Morrison Center Sunday night. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:08:36 -0800 (PST) From: e m Subject: Re: boise arbiter concert preview I just did!! Date:Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:06:44 -0800 (PST)From:"e m" | This is spam | Add to Address BookSubject:RE: Tori Amos comes to BoiseTo:editor@arbiteronline.com Dear Mr. Kelly, I just wanted to bring to your attention a slight misinformation error in your article, "Tori Amos Comes to Boise". Tori has been playing Bosendorfer pianos for years, and she is quite passionate about it. This is quite minor misrepresentation compared to other things I have read about Ms. Amos, but still wanted to keep the record straight. Sincerely, E M TORI AMOS These creatures are not just pianos  They are alive. I talk with them. I've curled up under them. I hide my lip gloss in them , and my secrets A Bvse is a friend. Tori Amos http://www.boesendorfer.com/_english_version/index.html David Mobley wrote: hmmmm perhaps someone should tell mister Kelly that if he's going to act like he knows something about an artist before he writes them up, he should at least know the right brand of piano! Thursday, April 3, 2003, 2:59:45 PM, you wrote: nt> James Patrick Kelly, The Arbiter nt> April 03, 2003 nt> Tumultuous songstress Tori Amos is bringing her Steinway piano and company nt> of musicians to the Morrison Center Sunday night. Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:17:30 -0800 (PST) From: e m Subject: since we're writing to journalists... this review of syracuse show was posted on the tori message board earlier today. i thought it was a be misrepresentative of both the album and the show. if you disagree with her negative tori comments, go & post so on the website! thanks, ellen http://www.kludgemagazine.com/concert.php?id=305&PHPSESSID=36363afedc1602f5046b71a610e42d5c Tori Amos - Syracuse Location: Landmark Theatre Syracuse, NY Author: Marisa Bardach Photography: N/A Tori Amos delivered little more than just mediocrity at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, NY. The concert marked her eighth stop along the Scarlet's Walk tour. Fans can only hope that she was saving her energy for the coming 40-plus U.S. concerts. The lackluster concert was due, in part, to Amos' most recent album, Scarlet's Walk, which lacks her shock-and-tell songwriting. The Boys For Pele sleeve revealed a photograph of Amos breast-feeding a pig. Little Earthquakes' "Crucify" discussed sex and religion while "Me and a GQun" shared Amos' rape trauma. Enter Scarlet's Walk, an album Amos wrote while traveling through the U.S.; a reflection on her Native American roots. The album's content is inherently passive. Amos' voice was as grand and beautiful as ever: at times, it was difficult to believe that a human could emit such gorgeous sounds. Although she handpicked some dominant tunes from albums past, her two-hour set focused on songs from Scarlet's Walk, and our once-vivacious shrew had, sadly, been tamed. The set began with an a capella Amos singing SW's "Wampum Prayer." Her lush voice traveled toward the audience from behind a nearly opaque red curtain. The short tune ended. The crowd wrestled their anticipation with neck-craning optimism. The curtain rose. Tori was nowhere to be found. Her band mates, however, had manned their positions on stage. They began to play "A Sorta Fairytale," hitting up the SW single surprisingly early in the set. Jon Evans on bass guitar stage left; drummer Matt Chamberlain stage right, placed on a platform. The platform was suitable for Chamberlain, a musician worthy of worship. Although he's played with Fiona Apple and Pearl Jam, Chamberlain is extra-cozy with Amos' work. He drummed on SW as well as Amos albums From The Choirgirl Hotel (1998), To Venus And Back (1999), and Strange Little Girls (2001). The duo of Chamberlain and Evans added much needed ambience to Amos' performance, bringing life to SW tunes that rely heavily on instrumentation. Amos, dressed in a white and fuchsia flowered silk garment, practically flowed onto the stage dancing with vague arm gestures. "A Sorta Fairytale" temporarily soothed the crowd, but Amos' old hits were the true crowd-pleasers of the night. A revised version of Little Earthquakes' "Crucify," however, confounded the crowd. The verses bore no recognition to the album arrangement, puzzling the audience until Amos played the original chorus. Fans applauded half-heartedly; they want Tori via 1992. In fact, Amos may have had better luck had she bagged her set list and performed Earthquakes in its entirety, note for note. "Roadside Cafe" featured a more intimate Amos, who performed solo for this portion. Earthquakes' "Leather" enchanted the crowd, again reflecting their connection with her older works. She sang the tune both eloquently and intimately, bringing her voice to a throaty whisper at the line, "hand me my leather." Amos' improv about a ghost, Clara (an aspiring actress rumored to haunt Landmark Theatre), was chillingly gorgeous. Her cover of Stevie Nicks' "Landslide," though sung beautifully, seemed unoriginal and dated against the recent fame of the Dixie Chicks' version. Although this shrew was tamer than usual, Amos strutted traces of her old self. She rarely sat on the piano bench, her music-veined body preferring an impetus stance between sitting and standing. Amos was center stage, sandwiched between a Bosendorfer piano and a Rhodes with a red-painted Wurlitzer on top, fondling the instruments' keys as if engaging two lovers. She glared lustfully into the audience, forging a sensual and intimate bond as she seemingly looked each fan directly in the eyes. In a playful flirtation, Amos consciously crossed one knee-high booted leg over the other during a passionate performance of "Take to the Sky." She signaled drummer Chamberlain, with subtle eye contact and a glossy red, vivacious smile, as the song's illuminous, jammed out ending, marked the climax of an otherwise anti-climactic evening. Opener Jeffrey Gaines shared a talented Seal-like voice with mediocre guitar playing. Unfortunately, his talents were ruined by overly-depressing song themes. Best described by another critic as a "pity party," Gaines lamented getting older and losing lovers. He called himself a "slave for love" in one song, and while the "slave" theme gave Britney Spears another vote in Maxim, it plunged Gaines into the pathetic pit. In a second stab of ingenuity, he used Christopher Reeves' obstacles to contrast people who take life for granted, but the effort was awkward and forced. Although Gaines told the audience how happy he was to be performing at Syracuse, every party has a pooper... Set List: Wampum Prayer a sorta fairytale God Concertina Cornflake Girl Virginia Pancake Crucify Wednesday "Roadside Cafe" (band leaves) Leather (improv) Landslide Baker Baker (band returns) Honey Sweet Sangria Girl Take To The Sky I Can't See New York Iieee Encore #1 Taxi Ride Liquid Diamonds Encore #2 Riot Poof Playboy Mommy - --------------------------------- More Tori Amos content at Kludge.... - --------------------------------- Reader's Comments: ellen :: 10:36 Thursday 3 Apr Marisa Bardach, I was there that night, and I do not fully agree with your review of this performance. I am a long time fan of Ms. Amos' work, and I understand a bit more about what she is doing I think. This album sonically may be a bit more passive, but this new sound she was playing with was a conscious deision on her part. Unlike you, I do not want Ms. Amos to rewrite the same album twice. I expect that of lesser artist like the Sarah McLachlans or Jewels. Nor do I want Ms. Amos to play an old song in the same old arrangement. I enjoy when she plays with sound. Of course, I think she did "crucify" a bit better on the "venus"/5.5 week tour. But I still like that she did it different here. Landslide is a song, for some reason she ALWAYS plays at the landmark. I have seen her play there three times, and I guess the theatre just asks to hear it. She doesn't play it that much anymore; she was doing it a lot in 1994. I think what you took as tameness is actual Contentment and Fullfillment in her personal life (married with a 2 year old daughter) that is coming through sonically in this album. It's one of the most complex albums she has created to date, where the sound backs up the meanings behind the song. Its sound with a purpose. Like all of her previous albums, Amos confronts many complex themes and ideas through this piece. She asks many questions about what she believes in and who this soul America is. Not so tame if you ask me. I hope that you give Scarlet a deeper listen so you can have a deeper understanding of its multiple layers. Sincerely, ellen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 19:40:39 -0800 From: Violet Subject: OT: legal advice My apologies for posting this here, but I know there are a lot of UK Toriphiles and this was the only place I could think of to get in touch with folks in England who might be able to help... Do any of you know where someone [in England] can obtain some fast legal advice? Or are any of you attorneys who could advise someone? Please contact me privately. Thanks, Violet xoxox ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #86 ************************************