From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #195 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 Saturday, August 23 2003 Volume 08 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- rock(tori) on tv.com/soundstage airdate for NYC area [e m ] Re: Tori and MLK [Richard Handal ] tori article in today's Asbury Park Press [e m ] Asbury Park Press article [e m ] Tori article in the Baltimore Sun August 21 ["Nancy or William Cristiano"] It's a happy day!!! [=?iso-8859-1?q?Fabio=20Nunes?= ] Re: Tori's birthday ["RasinGirrl" ] Re: Tori's birthday [Cyndi S Crawford ] "Strange" Single Petition [Cyndi S Crawford ] Re: Tori's birthday ["Conny Tear in your hand" Subject: rock(tori) on tv.com/soundstage airdate for NYC area i can't sleep so i did a rockontv search for tori i know most of these are on the dent already but just a reminder to all: 08/23/03 08:00 am ET COM Saturday Night Live on Comedy Central 08/25/03 02:00 pm ET VH1 Rock Bodies III Tori Amos, Beyonce Knowles, Bret Michaels 08/27/03 10:30 pm ET OXY The Isaac Mizrahi Show Tori Amos 08/28/03 10:00 pm ET PBS Soundstage Tori Amos PLUS, i still didn't know when soundstage was going to air in my area and wanted all the NYC are folk to know that it will be on (according to the website) August 30th (not the 28th) at 12:30 AM on PBS channel 13. and oh yeah, Happy Birthday, TORI! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:43:56 +0000 From: "Tom xxxxx" Subject: Tori and MLK Happy Birthday Tori! I just heard on NPR that today is the 40th anniversary of the march on Washington at which Martin Luther King, Jr gave his "I have a dream" speech. So, Tori was born on the exact day that speech was given. I just wanted to point out the odd coincidence of this. Everyone have fun at your shows. I'm going tonight and hoping for "Upside Down." Cheers, Tom M. "I will climb the ridge at daybreak, I will kiss the sky at noon, Raise my yearning voice at midnight to my mother in the moon." Dave Carter, "When I Go" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:19:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: Tori and MLK Tom said: > I just heard on NPR that today is the 40th anniversary of the march on > Washington at which Martin Luther King, Jr gave his "I have a dream" > speech. So, Tori was born on the exact day that speech was given. Just a bit of minor confusion, here. So as to align with the weekend, celebrations are being held for this anniversary earlier than its actual date. The speech was given on 28 August 1963, the day after my *seventh* birthday. Sorry to have to correct this. http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/part1.html The speech is not often seen in its entirety, but news anchor Aaron Brown seems determined to play it annually on his program Newsnight at 10pm EDT on CNN if the King family keeps giving him permission to show it. I saw it last year. It's some eleven minutes, and it's quite amazing. A must-see for those who never have. Last year it was on at forty minutes past the hour. And happy birthday to Ms. Amos up there in northern New Jersey. Easy on the celebratory wine this afternoon, I suggest. ;-) Perhaps some low-alcohol sangria would be most appropriate this year. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: e m Subject: tori article in today's Asbury Park Press Hi everyone, there is a 12 paragraph article in today's 'jersey alive' section of the asbury park press. i couldn't find it online & i will do my best to transcribe the article today but since i am going to the show i've 101 things to do. - -ellen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:10:39 -0700 (PDT) From: e m Subject: Asbury Park Press article now that didn't take too long , thankfully no interruptions :) This article appears in the Aug. 22, 2003 edition of the Asbury Park Press in the "Jersey Alive" section, the cover of which reads "Music; The torrid Tori Amos turns 40 (page) 7" . A DARKER SHAD OF 'PINK' Tori Amos takes her listeners on a personal journey with 'Scarlet's Walk' (Large photo of her in Native American like top & slacks with her left leg up, caption reading "The passionate pianist/songwriter Tori Amos will celebrate her 40th birthday with an appearance at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel tonight.") By Ed Condran It was evident after the release of Tori Amos' third album, 1996's "Boys for Pele", that the quirky flame-haired recording artist was shifting gears. It was the start of a 10-year period in which Amos experimented with abstract arrangements, double albums and obscure covers. Some of Amos' rabid fan base abandoned the challenging vocalist-pianist, longing for the classic song structure she delivered on her first two albums, 1992's "Little Earthquakes" and 1994's "Under the Pink." Well, Amos's latest album, "Scarlet's Walk" feels like a follow-up to "Pink." The disc is a warm melodic work that follows a woman's personal journey while traveling throughout America. "Scarlet's Walk" comes off like a sonic novel, as Scarlet floats from city to city meeting new lovers and dealing with a variety of experiences. "Scarlet sometimes has everything to do with me and sometimes she has nothing to do with me," Amos said while calling from Boca Raton, Fla. "She's just an interesting character. A character who grabbed me not long after I had my daughter (three years ago)." The songs that are the most vivid and fantastic also possess the best melodies. The catchy "Amber Waves," which kicks off the album, was inspired by one of the characters of the bleak but brilliant film "Boogie Nights," as well as an actual porn star whom Amos met. "I'm exploring the world people think they know about but that's usually far from the truth," Amos said. "Sweet Sangria" finds Scarlet in Austin, Texas, where the curious protagonist briefly falls for a Latin revolutionary. "She can't do his battle," Amos said. "She believes in his cause but can't load the gun. She doesn't believe in death of innocents, which mirrors how I feel about what may happen (in Iraq)". In "I can't see New York," the most eerie and poignant tract on the disc, Scarlet witnesses a plane crash in mid-air. Many scribes and fans believe the song was written after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 but in fact, Amos penned the number a few months prior to that tragic day. "That song flashed in my mind as soon as disaster struck New York on Sept. 11," Amos said. "I was in New York that day. I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I could see and smell what was happening downtown. I couldn't shake my song from my head." Count on Amos to air out plenty of tracks from "Scarlet's Walk," as well as the rest of her rich canon when she performs tonight - her 40th birthday - at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. "I don't really have a choice do I?" Amos said with a laugh. "You want to please those who come out to see you. I do the best I can with the time allotted." It wouldn't be surprising to hear quite a bit of the sensual, passionate, and spiritual "Under the Pink" and the provocative, intimate and intense "Little Earthquakes" tossed into Amos' set. "There is definitely a thread that links those albums to 'Scarlet's Walk,' Amos said. "I can't deny the connection." TORI AMOS The Lottapianos tour With Ben Folds 7 PM today PNC Bank Arts Center Garden State Parkway Exit 116 Holmdel $45 and $25 (732) 335-0400 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:23:42 -0400 From: "Nancy or William Cristiano" Subject: Tori article in the Baltimore Sun August 21 Hi Folks, A short, rather nice article appeared in The Sun yesterday: http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/bal-li.music21aug21.story All the best on Tori's 40th, Nancy Music Some singers write their music; Amos researches hers 'Scarlet's Walk' is about America after 9/11 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- By Rashod D. Ollison Sun Pop Music Critic Originally published August 21, 2003 She's beautifully complex, her sound haunting and ethereal, a little meditative. But as you enter the musical world of Tori Amos, beware of the pits. As you're drifting on her gossamer voice and sparkling piano, relishing the texture, digging the ride, you may plummet all of a sudden. Her stories - at times, dark and deep - are like open elevator shafts. "It's like the sound of the Sirens leading Odysseus to his death," she says jokingly. "But I like to think that I'm leading people to honey after the bees have left." The artist, who plays Merriweather Wednesday, is on the phone, stuck in Detroit. The blackout hit the city the night before, so there is no power in her hotel. It's hot, sweltering, Amos says. She and Natashya, her 2-year-old daughter, slept on her tour bus last night because it's air-conditioned. The singer-songwriter doesn't know whether she will have to postpone her show later in the evening. But she's not fretting over what she can't control. Amos is calm as she discusses the fluidity of her art and Scarlet's Walk, her latest CD and one of her most ambitious works. A "sonic novel," the 18-track album follows Scarlet, a fictional character who represents "the voices of many people," as she travels the 50 states in search of America's soul after the 9/11 attacks. To give the heavy, literate observations a certain lightness, Amos, during the recording, studied the art of Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. "I was working with a Native American undertone with this project," she says, "and I wanted to capture a natural light from the sun and shadow. I wanted to achieve that sonically. I wanted to go after what comes from the organic, natural world. Once I knew the elements - this woman getting to know the soul of America - I had a research team to pull everything together to make it air-tight. It's probably the most time I've spent writing and researching a record." For Scarlet's Walk, which hit the streets in October, Amos received a wave of critical praise. And the album, her first for Epic, went gold. It is her most accessible work in some time, perhaps her most consistent effort since 1994's Under the Pink. But it still requires repeated listens to fully grasp the tale - if you can get past the floating sonic beauty of the record. The North Carolina-born, Maryland-raised artist was inspired by the stories passed down by her mother, who's part Cherokee. Amos was also deeply moved by the Native Americans' spiritual connection to the Earth. She says, "What I needed to achieve was to get people to develop a relationship with the land separate from those who were using the land. It's what I saw in people's eyes on Sept. 11. Scarlet went on this search to discover who this creature America is." Although Amos owns several platinum plaques, she has never been a commercial artist. You either feel Tori Amos or you don't. She makes no concessions, and what she does flows directly from the soul. So as you enter her lush musical maze, you will, at times, find yourself hopelessly lost or just freaked out. Well, that's Tori Amos: a pure, dramatic artist in the Joni Mitchell-Kate Bush mold who always stretches her music to reflect her most authentic self. Her artistic journey started in Baltimore, where Amos, who's 40, spent part of her childhood. By age 4, she was playing piano and singing in the church choir. (Her pops is a Methodist preacher.) As a child, Amos also studied at the Peabody Conservatory but was booted out at age 11. "I was supposed to be a concert pianist," she says, "but I was more interested in what Stevie Wonder was doing." She isn't bitter about the dismissal, though. She "learned discipline from Peabody, which prepared me for the tours I do today," Amos says. "I should have been rejected. It wasn't the right thing for me at the time." At 14, she was playing in clubs. Around this time, she was also a pianist at a hotel bar in D.C., where she tickled the ivories for "Congressmen and their call girls. You learn a lot from the call girls," Amos quips. "You just sit there, play and listen. You have to crawl inside the political underbelly to see how things are really made." At 21, Amos moved to Los Angeles, trying to make it as a recording artist. After three years of toiling in the City of Angels, she signed with Atlantic Records in 1987. Initially, her sound was an awkward fusion of pop and metal. And nobody dug it. So in 1992, she stripped, so to speak, and dropped a masterwork. Little Earthquakes - which contained "Me and a Gun," a poetic, autobiographical song about her experience with rape - sold more than a million copies and established Amos as one of the most arresting artists of her generation. Other albums - Under the Pink, Boys for Pele, From the Choirgirl Hotel - explored her emotions through ambitious, sometimes difficult, arrangements. And Amos' fearless explorations continue on Scarlet's Walk. As long as she's breathing, she's evolving, Amos says. And her revelations, big and small, will shape her art. She says, "It's a very humbling experience. I can't possess a song. The songs are like live entities for me. I have to put them out in the world, and it's none of my business what relationships the songs form. As an artist, I have to make peace with that." Copyright ) 2003, The Baltimore Sun ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:29:19 -0300 (ART) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fabio=20Nunes?= Subject: It's a happy day!!! It's a happy day!!! Tori, i hope your inspiration comes true our dreams always, like it has happend in my life... Lights into your life!!! Wishes from a huge ear with feet and dreamer, on behalf of everybody... fabio @ rio de janeiro - brasil - IcQ 15272841 ::: Tori Fans On Board ::: http://www.torifansonboard.hpg.com.br i'll"> i'll be wearing your tattoo - cloud on my tongue - Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:43:53 GMT From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Tori's birthday Everybody going to the concert tonight, burst into Happy Birthday when the band leaves! I bet Tori would really love that, I really do. :) Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford "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: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:59:14 -0400 From: "RasinGirrl" Subject: Re: Tori's birthday :) so far the plan is when she asks us how we are we're all going to sing :) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyndi S Crawford" To: Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:43 PM Subject: Tori's birthday > > Everybody going to the concert tonight, burst into Happy Birthday when the band leaves! I bet Tori would really love that, I really do. :) > > Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford > "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: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:23:51 GMT From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re: Tori's birthday >:) so far the plan is when she asks us how we are we're all going to sing :)< haaaa! you guys gotta tell us her reaction when you do that! :D Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford "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: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:01:18 GMT From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: "Strange" Single Petition a friend of mine saw this at The Dent.. so I thought I'd call everyone's attention to it (thank you for posting it, Mike.).. this is a petition to Epic to try and get Strange released commercially instead of for radio play only. ---> http://www.petitiononline.com/stra2003/petition.html Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford "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: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:16:58 +0200 From: "Conny Tear in your hand" Subject: Re: Tori's birthday wuahhh..........I really hope u all will do that! tell us than!!! I really want to be there too :-(( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "You can only be you but a lot of times it's not enough for people." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #195 *************************************