From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V12 #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 Monday, October 15 2007 Volume 12 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [pt] Tori live ["Karen Hester" ] [pt] Questions, because you're interesting people ["Karen Hester" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:54:03 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: [pt] Tori live > From: handal@r2d2.reverse.net (Richard Handal) > thinking of skipping concerts for all those years > after attending one or more in 1992 is enough to make me dizzy! Entirely due to living in New Zealand, dude, not due to disinterest :) It's fine that she didn't come to our little islands, but skipping Aussie for so long was weird. I checked plane prices at the time of her Australian beekeeper dates and it would have been about $500 for one concert, so, nah. THANK YOU Thank you thank you thank you to all you tapers and traders - - sharing the concerts with us who couldn't go is such a gift. There are songs I would have never loved without hearing the live versions and coming to a new understanding (eg BfP ramblers). Hearing songs solo that had a full band on the album, or Tori's new arrangements (my God - first hearing those recordings of Horses! Precious things! Waitress! the harpsichord days!) As much as I love the albums, those live recordings give such richness to her body of work, they're what keeps me immersed in her world. (Even though my fav concerts are full of early cd-writer pops!) > I'm interested in the times you refer to when you say she came out > earlier than expected. Over the past several tours, let's say the posted > curtain was 8pm: The opener would come out and do around 35 minutes, and > then she would hit the stage near 9:15, maybe ten minutes either way. > Did she come out earlier than one hour after curtain as printed on the > ticket? Yes - the tickets said 8pm, which I guess meant 'curtain'. She came on at 8.45. When a ticket says 8pm I assume that's the door - 8.30 opener, 9.30 main act. The timing was such a surprise to me, I'll have to remember MSG differs from most venues. So nice to not have to wait until 11.30pm for the headliner - damn pubs :) I don't know how long the concerts were. Was too high (on the music) to look at my watch. 11pm sounds right, based on me getting home around 11.45. I have to avoid looking at set-lists now, or I'll get set-list envy. Anyone else get that? The pang of "if only I had been at that show instead", which is both true and nonsense since we have so much fun with what we get, but yes, would have loved to have heard x and y and z and a 100 others. K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:06:34 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: [pt] Questions, because you're interesting people *What do you think are the songs that Tori's changed the most when playing live? *Are there any you feel have been altered enough to become new songs? (methinks Horses) *Are there any that you think have become substantially better or worse? (I much prefer the rocking live Sugar) Lucinda Williams just did a NY residency playing all her albums in their entirety. If Tori were to perform an entire album live, which would you pick? (solo, band?) *What do you think of Tori's audience? (I didn't find them much different from other 'mainstream' concert audiences - screams, flashing cameras, txting, talking. Perhaps the difference is sometimes she's quiet, whereas yer average rock band doesn't do many piano solos. I'd prefer it if she had the quiet listeners of the Cowboy Junkies or similar - it's not like she's big among teenagers. But, oh well.) K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:18:15 -0400 From: "Jennifer Mitts" Subject: Re: [pt] Ooh, second night MSG great! Carbon? She sang Carbon? Wow!!! I've always wanted to hear that live... On 10/13/07, Karen Hester wrote: > After Tori's post-dress-up opening number, the obligatory 'Big wheel' > (which is so fun live), she ignored the new album for an hour. She > played long gorgeous introductions to many of the songs, and all were > worth their extended lead-ins - a beautiful 'Doughnut song', wonderful > 'Spark', rocking 'Space dog', stunning 'Spring haze' (hey, I usually > don't have any time for that song, but wow). T & Bo was 'Winter', > 'Carbon' (oooooh, gorgeous) and 'Baker Baker'. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:24:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Amanda Bradley Subject: [pt] Burning Bush Improv (2nd NYC show) It was found on youtube. Thought I'd share. And it is *gorgeous*!! Burning Bush improv Peace Out, Amanda "You and me will all go down in History. With a sad statue of Liberty and a Generation that didn't agree." - --------------------------------- Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:35:40 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: [pt] Burning Bush Improv (2nd NYC show) one time at band camp, Amanda Bradley (teawithtori@yahoo.com) said: >It was found on youtube. Thought I'd share. And it is *gorgeous*!! > Burning Bush improv whoops! meant to include the link (which must have been stripped out by the de-htmlification) in the post before sending it through to the list. the improv is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hu8s36YgNU woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V12 #86 *************************************