From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #201 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 30 2003 Volume 08 : Number 201 Today's Subjects: ----------------- fayetteville observer concert preview [ein kleines kinnemuzik ] fort pierce tribune article [ein kleines kinnemuzik ] Drooling in Concert ["erinita@excite.com" ] Re: Drooling in Concert [copperbeech@nc.rr.com] Re: Drooling in Concert ["Cyndi S. Crawford" ] Re: Drooling in Concert ["Johnny Endicott" ] OT: tori on PBS soundstage--length and setlist??? ["Armani Boy" ] Re: Drooling in Concert [MaynardsSpiral@aol.com] Fw: Drooling in Concert ["Tony Fernandes" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:22:04 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik Subject: fayetteville observer concert preview Power pianists playing at Walnut Creek By Jim Washington Staff writer It's not easy launching a tour with not one but two 600-pound instruments. But Tori Amos and Ben Folds aren't always easy artists. The two ivory-pounders have teamed up for the "Lottapianos tour,'' which lands at the Walnut Creek Amphitheater in Raleigh on Saturday, Aug. 30. It's the only tour stop in the players' native North Carolina. Think of it as a younger, more hip version of the Billy Joel and Elton John "Face to Face'' tour, except they won't perform together. Folds will play an hourlong solo opening set, and Amos will perform with a band including old friends Jon Evans on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums. The artists share an affinity for the baby grand piano, a tendency to write personal lyrics and a Tarheel heritage. Amos wrings a lot of pain from her Bosendorfer, singing aching ballads and soaring anthems based on her most intimate thoughts. Folds may mine the same psychological fields, but he's more likely to wrap the products in a bow of humor and singalong power pop. Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos in 1963 in Newton. She was raised in Maryland by her mother and father, a Methodist preacher. The family moved to Maryland, where the young Tori played in Washington, D.C., clubs and studied at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. Following a foray into pop metal, Amos looked into herself and released "Little Earthquakes'' in 1992. Her bare-bones style and soul-baring lyrics drew comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush while creating a legion of adoring fans. Amos' career continued upward with "Under the Pink,'' which featured the college radio hits "God'' and "Cornflake Girl.'' The singer and songwriter has continued to follow her own path, releasing an album of cover songs, a half-live, half-new double disc, dabbling in electronic sounds and most recently putting out "Scarlet's Walk,'' a CD based on a road trip across America. Born in Winston-Salem, Ben Folds tested the musical waters by playing bass in a local band, becoming session drummer in Nashville and spending time in New York and Miami before coming back to Carolina. In Chapel Hill, he, along with Darren Jesse and Robert Sledge, he broke out of the fold by forming a piano, bass and drums trio dubbed the Ben Folds Five. The band played fun and funny songs about girls, breaking up, losing friends and other college angst. After three critically embraced albums and a huge hit with "Brick,'' the Five went their separate ways. Folds' first solo album, "Rockin' the Suburbs,'' came out in 2001. In an interesting move the singer, currently recording another album set to come out early next year, will release several EPs during the recording process. The first, "Speed Graphic,'' is available at www.benfolds.com. Staff writer Jim Washington can be reached at washingtonj@fayettevillenc.com or 323-4848, extension 384. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:24:08 -0400 From: "Cyndi S. Crawford" Subject: webpage about Datura (Tori-related) I'd say this is definitely Tori related because she's got that song of the same title.. ;) but.. check it out, it's a VERY interesting read about the drug itself. VERY interesting indeed. ---> http://www.erowid.org/plants/datura/datura_faq.shtml 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, 29 Aug 2003 09:34:08 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik Subject: interlochen sues tori! Aug 29, 8:17 AM EDT Arts School Sues Tori Amos Over Concert TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Interlochen Center for the Arts has filed a lawsuit against Tori Amos and her California-based manager, seeking to recoup a $40,000 deposit for a concert that never took place. Interlochen officials canceled the Aug. 19 performance because of unresolved concerns over the terms of the singer's contract, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Thursday. The lawsuit describes deadlocked negotiations over the amount to have been spent on catering, the number of "comp" tickets requested by Amos and her demand that up to three "awareness groups" be allowed to set up on the Interlochen campus during her concert. Amos, 40, has been touring with Ben Folds on her "Lottapianos Tour." Her albums include "Little Earthquakes," "Under the Pink" and "Scarlet's Walk." Interlochen called off the concert just days before it was to have taken place because Creative Artists Agency of Beverly Hills, Calif., didn't respond to an amended contract, said Ronald Sondee, the arts center's lawyer. A representative for Amos at CAA didn't return a message from the Record-Eagle seeking comment. - --- On the Net: http://www.toriamos.com/ Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:47:49 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik Subject: fort pierce tribune article [note the mention that the last show of the tour is being recorded for a live dvd release.] Tori Amos: 'An angry 40-year-old is a scary thing' By Bill DeYoung Entertainment editor August 29, 2003 Tori Amos recently celebrated her 40th birthday, and the singer/songwriter says it was no big deal. She'd already had her rites of passage. "Thirty-five was really hard for me," Amos says. "Because I wasn't a mom, I'd had two miscarriages, and in the end I had three, and I wanted to be a mom. I was ready." Known for her sometimes painfully intimate songs that combine elliptical poetry with bold expressions of sensuality, Amos -- the daughter of a Methodist minister -- had been one of the fearless "angry young women" of the musical '90s. She was a piano-pounding bundle of steely nerves. Today she's married to sound engineer Mark Hawley, and daughter Natasha is nearly 3 years old. They share a nice, quiet home, with garden, in Martin County. Tori Amos has grown up. "Thank God," she says. "Let's be honest with each other, an angry 40-year-old is really, really a scary thing. I've been able to stay in this business, and I've walked through raving and ranting at the church, and the patriarchy, and the guys who are getting 15,000 boys to chant 'Die, B---- Die' at their concerts. I've gone after them. "And now I'm going after it in a way that isn't with anger, but hopefully with a sense of humor. I don't have the knives out, I've got the pen out. And that's different." Her "Lottapianos" tour winds down Thursday at the Sound Advice Amphitheatre. The show is being filmed for a live DVD. Amos considers "Scarlet's Walk," her 2002 release, to be the opening chapter in the second book of her life chronicle. It's a musically challenging work, less starkly confessional than vintage Tori; her lyrics are framed by lush aural landscapes. "Scarlet" is the work of an artist who's come a long way from the bristling canvas of the early days. "When I was writing (the albums) 'Little Earthquakes' and 'Under the Pink,' I liked being in that place," Amos says. "I had embraced the piano again. "And then, after those two records, relationships were unraveling, I was in a different world. I had moved from the south on the Native American medicine wheel to the west. I was finding out what kind of woman I wanted to be. I got involved in all sorts of relationships with people where I realized I didn't want to be treated like that, but sometimes it's a very harsh teaching. And that's what 'Boys For Pele' was about. "And then I fell in love with this engineer, and it turned my life upside down. I didn't expect it would be that way. Then I got pregnant by surprise and we miscarried, and that was the beginning of that dark walk. "So I think now at 40 I kind of see myself more as a lighthouse than one of these ships on the wild ocean. I've done that, and it's better to be a nurturing force." Amos' legions of fiercely faithful fans know her as a woman unafraid to discuss anything in her lyrics, and for her histrionic, sexually charged live performances. She says she's comfortable with the changes in her life. "It's about power, it's not about passion. You've been in that place and you've played 'Coquette,' and you've done all that. Now it's time to move. And some women get stuck in that place. Especially in the entertainment industry, and you try and hold onto that place. "Because I physically wasn't becoming a mother, the process kept dying. I was in a dark place, and I think that writing the records 'From the Choirgirl Hotel' and 'To Venus and Back' helped me to move. And then I, surprisingly, got the stomach flu and that became Natasha. "For me, there's life B.T. and A.T. Before Tash and After Tash." Amos and her family live for part of each year in the Sewall's Point home they bought in 1995. "I come to write there, and I come to get away from it all," she explains. "But the husband won't allow a studio system in the house -- he said 'We have to have a break from the records.' So I have a piano there, but there's no work done there. Writing, but it's more of a creating space and a rejuvenating space." Amos records at her other residence, in Cornwall, England. "My husband is British, and he's difficult," she laughs. "So we have to be there for football season. My daughter could practically say 'Arsenal' before she could say 'Mom.' Which I've had to come to terms with." Her parents, originally from North Carolina, live in Port St. Lucie. "My mother picked the house out for me," Amos says. "I wanted her to. I was in Europe at the time, touring. "I've always loved my mother's taste. I just said pick something with a view, and don't worry about the house because I'm gonna gut it anyway. It doesn't matter, because I'm gonna make it my own." The house, Amos explains, doesn't exactly have a living room. "I built a treehouse in the middle, which is our entertainment center. It's a mixture of Alice in Wonderland and Paul Bowles' 'Tea in the Sahara.' "I just had this picture of a treehouse with a white canvas tent and wood, and stone steps. One of the architects in town came and helped design everything." She says the treehouse had to be large enough to contain her grand piano. Thursday's concert in West Palm Beach will be her last for a while, Amos says. "It's not that I'm tired of touring," she explains. "What's got to happen, as a mom -- she starts school in September. They start them young over there. She's starting ballet, and she's starting piano lessons, and she wants to learn the drums. She wants to dance. And she wants to go to school and learn to read. So this is what we have to do this fall. "We can't go out on the road for a while, so there's no touring even being considered until possibly 2005." What's next is a "Best of Tori Amos" CD, with the most popular tracks from life B.T., plus two newly recorded songs. "That's kind of chronicling how I saw things from 1990 to 2003," she says. "And I'm interested in scoring some music for the visual arts side. I won't say films, because it's hard to know what that's going to be yet." - - bill.deyoung@scripps.com If You Go What: Tori Amos with Ben Folds When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Sound Advice Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach Cost: $35-$45 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:59:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "erinita@excite.com" Subject: Drooling in Concert I was at the Virginia Beach show last night and noticed Tori doing something I've never seen her do before in concert. Long strands of drool were coming out of her mouth! I noticed this about 8 different times. 4 times during one song, my boyfriend confirmed he saw it, too. I just thought this was really odd and was wondering if anyone else has ever noticed the same thing. Never before have I seen her do this. It's amazing how unfazed she was by it, never going to wipe her mouth or stopping to swallow. I'm thinking that's why she was drooling in the first place, because you can't always stop and swallow when you're busy with singing a lot of lyrics. I just find it odd that I've never seen this happen with her, or any other musician I've seen in concert before. I know it's an odd topic, but I was wondering what anyone else had to say about it.Thanks,Erin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:16:41 -0400 From: copperbeech@nc.rr.com Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert - ----- Original Message ----- From: "erinita@excite.com" Date: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:59 am Subject: Drooling in Concert > > I was at the Virginia Beach show last night and noticed Tori > doing something I've never seen her do before in concert. Long > strands of drool were coming out of her mouth! that's nothing new at all. she's been immortalized in video not only drooling, but at a nice interlude in the show, leaning over and just BLEH letting it all come out. she was not conscieitious of being taped while doing this, and seemed to be trying to deter attention from it. it was quite humbling to witness, and somehow very affirming of her showmanship. ;) spit happens. ~kelley ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:12:48 -0400 From: "Cyndi S. Crawford" Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert >I was at the Virginia Beach show last night and noticed Tori doing something I've never seen her do before in concert. Long strands of drool were coming out of her mouth!< I dunno about you guys, but to me, her drooling in concert (something I believe she's done since she's had a band) is just taking "Liquid Diamonds" to another level. ;) 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, 29 Aug 2003 19:03:29 +0000 From: "Johnny Endicott" Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert Ah, how long will it be before we see Tori Amos Drool on eBay? http://www.ebay.com/itsajokeyousicklittlefucks/ Fun Friday to everyone! :) Johnny >From: "Cyndi S. Crawford" >To: precious-things@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert >Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:12:48 -0400 > > > >I was at the Virginia Beach show last night and noticed Tori doing >something I've never seen her do before in concert. Long strands of drool >were coming out of her mouth!< > I dunno about you guys, but to me, her drooling in concert >(something I believe she's done since she's had a band) is just taking >"Liquid Diamonds" to another level. ;) > >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, 29 Aug 2003 12:37:14 -0700 From: Violet Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert erinita@excite.com wrote: >I just thought this was really odd and was wondering if anyone else has >ever noticed the same thing. Never before have I seen her do this. It's >amazing how unfazed she was by it, never going to wipe her mouth or stopping >to swallow. She seemed to start drooling around the time of Choirgirl. There are some TV appearances from around this time where you can clearly see it. (Once was on Regis & Kathie Lee, and I think it really freaked them out). Sometimes you can see big ropey threads of it trailing almost to the floor. Tori often keeps a piece of ginger in her mouth while she sings (keeping it in her cheek during songs like you would if you were singing and chewing gum), and this could partly be what exacerbates it. There was one TV appearance not so long ago (though I can't recall which one it was) where I could see the ginger in her mouth as she sang. It doesn't seem to happen as often when she keeps the mug of hot ginger throat drink on stage with her and takes sips between songs. Just as a matter of note, Tori used to keep a large bottle of Evian on stage at her feet at every show and she would take a big mouthful and spit it out (just on the floor by the piano) between songs. She stopped doing that around the same time the drooling became noticed, so the swishing of the Evian had probably helped prevent the excess saliva from accumulating prior to that. Anyways, she's just extra-juicy. Yum. Violet xoxox ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:17:48 -0400 From: "Armani Boy" Subject: OT: tori on PBS soundstage--length and setlist??? hey guys just wondering if anyone saw tori on pbs...if so, how long was it and what was the broadcast setlist? thanks for the help!! christiaan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:04:24 -0400 From: "Lisa Zwick" Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert kinda makes one a little less jealous of those of you who get to sit so close ;) - -Lisa - ---- - ----- Original Message ----- > I was at the Virginia Beach show last night and noticed Tori doing >something I've never seen her do before in concert. Long strands of >drool were coming out of her mouth! I noticed this about 8 different >times. 4 times during one song, my boyfriend confirmed he saw it, too. >I just thought this was really odd and was wondering if anyone else has >ever noticed the same thing. Never before have I seen her do this. It's >amazing how unfazed she was by it, never going to wipe her mouth or >stopping to swallow. I'm thinking that's why she was drooling in the >first place, because you can't always stop and swallow when you're busy >with singing a lot of lyrics. I just find it odd that I've never seen >this happen with her, or any other musician I've seen in concert >before. I know it's an odd topic, but I was wondering what anyone else >had to say about it.Thanks,Erin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:40:42 EDT From: MaynardsSpiral@aol.com Subject: Re: Drooling in Concert I know this has nothing to do with Tori but if you wanna see a singer drool a lot it would have to be Thom Yorke of Radiohead, just saw them up really close last night (closer than any tori show ive been to!!!) and man you could see loads of drool!!! haha....its kinda sick but at the same time its like 'Woah! did you see that?' Shana ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:27:14 -0700 From: "Tony Fernandes" Subject: Fw: Drooling in Concert ..too much Datura!!! :-) Tony What's more likely? That an all-powerful mysterious god created the universe and then decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that he simply doesn't exist at all? And that we created him so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone. -Eleanor Arroway, Contact ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #201 *************************************