From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V9 #15 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, January 25 2004 Volume 09 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Pool [Richard Handal ] Re: precious-things-digest V9 #13 [Richard Handal ] the pool [Lisa071573@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:17:29 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: The Pool woj said: > heck, we should have a pool for when the videos dvd is going to be > released! ;) I was in a swell record store in East Stroudsburg, Pa., in the fall of 2001, and couldn't resist asking them if they had any news of when it was coming out. (I just had to find out what they'd say.) The guy checked their info and said they didn't know, then he called their DVD supplier who told him it had been released eleven months earlier; they still had the scheduled release date in their computer and no sense that the release had been canceled. Very funny. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:40:37 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V9 #13 AJ said: > so tori doesn't get to choose her opening act? some of you are saying > she does, cuz she wants that energy, and now you're saying her label > does regardless of her choice. I think it's clear that on any given tour Tori would be given the power to veto any opening act for any reason, but to say that she would have a "choice" is to imply that she took an active role in finding and suggesting an act to open for her. I'm sure if she were to go to whoever was putting a tour together for her and suggest a specific act as an opener that she would at least be allowed to press her case and likely get her wish; but if anyone thinks she's going to concerts or clubs and/or soliciting recordings of acts, weeding through all of them and picking out her favorite, then I say that demonstrates a lack of understanding about her priority at all times being her music and its presentation during her own set. My strong feeling is that this scenario doesn't happen. In 1999 I once asked her about a rumor I'd heard from the bowels of Atlantic Records that they were formulating plans to "send her out" on her next tour as a co-headliner with another specific name act, as they'd been quite pleased that so many tickets had been quickly sold for the then current 5 1/2 Weeks Tour with Alanis. She replied to me that she'd heard nothing of it, then sternly added: "They don't have anything to do with it." My guess is that the label might suggest a few names to John Witherspoon and he would then check them out, possibly with a few ideas of his own, and then he would make a suggestion to her of one or two names of whom she would then be given recordings and bios to see if they met with her approval. There are probably half a dozen people who know for certain how this works in detail including her, Johnny, and a few other people in her management and label. I can't think any of them are on this list, so in that sense, we're all speculating. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:02:42 EST From: Lisa071573@aol.com Subject: the pool woj so brazenly declared: >anyone want to organize a pool for when toriamos.com will be updated next? >i'll take december 2004. speaking of which, what the hell ever happened to scarlet's web? last I checked, scarlet's "journal" and the map hadn't been posted for anything past carbon... I was really enjoying the journal - I thought it added to the whole "sonic novel" concept. (Btw, does anyone know if Tori was writing those?) female artists on Tori tours: um... there was that whole co-headline tour with Alanis... or was that all in my imagination? Tori and David Lee Roth: anyone have a boot of that? ;) Lisa ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V9 #15 ************************************