From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V10 #144 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, August 5 2005 Volume 10 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- music today tickets [ToridRoses@aol.com] Howie Day mentions Tori on HOB website. [GigDESIREE@aol.com] Mea culpa [handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal)] Re: music today tickets [wojizzle forizzle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:35:51 EDT From: ToridRoses@aol.com Subject: music today tickets Hi... Did anyone get their Music Today tickets yet? I'm still waiting... Lauren ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:37:26 EDT From: GigDESIREE@aol.com Subject: Howie Day mentions Tori on HOB website. Hey Everyone, There is a little blurb that Howie Day mentioned about Tori. He is the featured artist from the House of Blues. This talks a little about the advice she gave to him while touring a few years back. _http://www.hob.com/artistfeatures/artistofmonth/0508howieday/_ (http://www.hob.com/artistfeatures/artistofmonth/0508howieday/) There it is... if you're interested. Desiree ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 05:19:09 -0400 (EDT) From: handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal) Subject: Mea culpa Hello, Folks: I was sloppy and I screwed up. I'm sorry. If six of you care about this one way or the other I'd be surprised, but here goes anyway. In early June I posted about the onstage keyboards during the 2005 tours and I got the organs wrong. I said Tori had a Hammond B3 and a Hammond chord organ of some type onstage with her, but they are in fact a pair of Hammond A-100s. I don't feel so bad about saying she played a B3 as the A-100 is essentially a B3 dressed in different furniture, but the A-100 is a far cry from the chord organ that was used on the album The Beekeeper. Recent interviews and the album credits talk about a B3 and a chord organ, which surely are the models she used on the album, but I had no experience identifying organ models from seeing them while seated in a concert hall and didn't realize they weren't the same ones. I bought the July 2005 Keyboard magazine and saw that their graphic of the stage setup showed two A-100s, but by virtue of that alone I wasn't convinced: as I mentioned in an earlier post, Keyboard magazine claimed in their December 2003 article that her piano was a Boesendorfer model which hadn't been produced since 1902, even though from the photo they included it was easily identifiable by anyone who knows what to look for as a recent-vintage model 275. Also, while it does mention the B3, nowhere in this current Keyboard article does it mention an A-100 except in the graphic of the stage setup. (The graphic correctly shows the Fender Rhodes Suitcase model, and, not attempting to identify the model of the piano this time, it says simply "Bosendorfer." [*sic*]) As to why she has two organs of the same model onstage, it seems that she uses bass pedals only on the song The Beekeeper (which she plays on the organ at the Rhodes keyboard station), and surely on the organ at her piano station their bass pedals would be more encumbrance than benefit. (On the album the only song where bass pedals can be heard is The Beekeeper, and Jon Evans was credited with having played them!) She had only one organ onstage with her in Australia. A Dent report from the first Aussie concert indicates there were no bass pedal sounds as on the prior U.S. leg of the tour, and it was also mentioned that she was messing with the organ a lot during The Beekeeper; so when she had both organs with her, surely she was glad to leave all the settings on the Rhodes-station organ in their Beekeeper positions rather than need to change many settings on the fly each night for the one song. Oddly, the day after I figured out all of this, I saw the interview where she addressed it in this spring's issue of Little Blue World. I can't really sit at the piano, play one hand on one and one hand on another and play the pedal on my piano stool. But we can bring the Rhodes up--we can make it taller. Again, there was no mention of the models of her touring organs in this interview. I think she would *like* us to believe she plays a B3 onstage because there's some cachet, even a mythic aura that's been built up around the B3. Similarly, she seems to want us also to believe that she plays an Imperial Grand Boesendorfer--with its nine extra keys, the most famous and the ultimate model of Boesendorfer--as she almost never mentions its model in interviews. She often talks about extra keys, but her 275 has four of them. One must be careful when listening to her! According to the Hammond-Leslie FAQ found here , the B3 was made from January 1955 to 1974 and the A-100 was made from 1959 to 1965. Both of these are classic instruments which weigh hundreds of pounds, even if her A-100s have had their speakers removed (which surely they have). This site claims to have sold Tori the organs for her "2005 USA Tour." http://vintageorgans.com/openscreen.htm *They* make no mention of which models, either. I attended just two concerts earlier this year and heard recordings of only a few more so I can't say she has *never* played the A-100 with the pedals on a song other than The Beekeeper, but she seems only to play it on the one song. The pedals are easily heard when she plays them, and it would be simple to determine if she's playing them on a live concert recording. If anyone has specific reports of her playing the organ at the Rhodes keyboard station on a song other than The Beekeeper, please share. I'd be interested to know about that. All apologies again. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:22:54 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: music today tickets one time at band camp, ToridRoses@aol.com (ToridRoses@aol.com) said: >Did anyone get their Music Today tickets yet? I'm still waiting... i got an e-mail notice yesterday that they were mailing out my wallingford tickets. +w ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V10 #144 **************************************