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From:
Scotch <scotch@torithoughts.org>
Date:
Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:25:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
RDT Right Now #1847
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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 03 : Issue #1847
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o What will become of me, o
o Become of her, become of we?" o
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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Extra pair of orchestra seats for Jo [ Michael Kleinert <mrk@optonline.net ]
outed! [ "..jes'ca.." <keeton@betawolf.com> ]
clarification [ "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlif ]
It's all about me [ "Lavenda" <earth@comcen.com.au> ]
cleveland plain dealer concert revie [ broadway jack <woj@smoe.org> ]
rochester democrat and chronicle con [ broadway jack <woj@smoe.org> ]
traverse city record-eagle article [ broadway jack <woj@smoe.org> ]
wooo! birthday bash! [ Linda <lindagyne@yahoo.com> ]
Your Jacob Marley Heart [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ]
chart attack concert review [ broadway jack <woj@smoe.org> ]
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:55:54 -0400
From: Michael Kleinert <mrk@optonline.net>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: Extra pair of orchestra seats for Jones Beach, NY show
Hello everyone -
I have a great pair of tickets for Tori at Jones Beach, NY for Saturday,
August 23 (next weekend), but unfortunately my girlfriend and I are no
longer able to go :(
So, perhaps you are somebody you know might be interested in them. I am
selling them for face value, plus whatever it might cost to ship them if I
have to send them overnight.
The details are below straight out of the ticketmaster confirmation email
below:
Tori Amos with Ben Folds
Tommy Hilfiger At Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Saturday August 23, 2003 7:00 pm
Seat location: section ORCH G, row AA, seats 19-20
Total Charge: $111.70
Please contact me directly at mike@centralstation.com if you are interested
in the tix and we can work out a way to get them to you.
Thanks.
Mike
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:40:42 -0700
From: "..jes'ca.." <keeton@betawolf.com>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: outed!
> From: Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net.au>
> BTW, is there anyone new dying to introduce themselves around here? Don't
> be shy, we don't bite, just nibble at the edges a little.
*peeks out from corner*
Hi. I'm in California. *wave* I, uh... have no idea what to say.
-jae
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:54:36 -0700
From: "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: clarification
let me just say that in my bitch email last digest, i was irritated at the
media...not anyone on here because i love you all. *ultra-cheesy moment*
ok....you guys can now go to the next email...
-jessica
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:42:45 +1000
From: "Lavenda" <earth@comcen.com.au>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: It's all about me
Coops replied to my comments about high school reunions. As far as Shaelea's
birthday goes, it was more about being away from others (inlaw family),
which at times I think 'screw them' and other times I keep thinking about
what that family has been through recently and I feel caught between a rock
and a hard place. I think all that is a shock to me because my family never
had upheavals like they have. But anyway, money could easily curtail any
trip north (if you could just convince the NSW govt to buy more Millenium
trains, things would be ok ;)
> Even more interesting is the technology. In the original Star Trek, you
saw
> lots of flashing lights on computers and reel-to-reel tape drives in the
> background. On something like Enterprise, you see flat panel displays.
It's
> nothing more than the latest in current technology you're seeing. At least
> the holodecks are something that can be considered futuristic. I can't
even
> watch the original now without laughing.
I think its a compromise of what they project technology to look like and be
capable of in the future (of course, the further into the future, the harder
it'd be) and how well today's technology is capable of achieving that. Same
for alien technology that is supposed to be more advanced. TOS (Original
Series Trek) of course is also at a disadvantage of not being able to
predict Trek technology (fictional technology of course) becoming real - a
couple of hundred years before they said it would exist (in the Trek
universe). Enterprise has the advantage of not projecting as far into the
future (as well as the advances of the last 30 odd years). Pity there isn't
a similar situation with the storylines.
On the other hand there's the holographic controls on Earth: Final Conflict.
> encore and I found myself clearly during Wild Child, head banging away and
> doing the devil's horns thing.
Man, if someone has this shot, I want it.
John B, had to smile at your list.
X
Lavs
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:05:50 -0400
From: broadway jack <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: cleveland plain dealer concert review
<url: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1061199138175861.xml >
Blackout is partners' inspiration for song
08/18/03
Robert Cherry
Special to The Plain Dealer
The big blackout was still on everyone's lips Saturday as Tori Amos
fans filed into Tower City Amphitheater in downtown Cleveland's Flats.
One crafty young woman even sported a homemade "BLAME CANADA" T-shirt,
cheekily volleying suspicion away from Ohio and that mysterious
nine-second surge that plunged us into human contact.
Amos shared her story as well, and in her own inimitable fashion.
Early in her set, the ivory-tickling chanteuse revealed that she had
waited out the crisis in a Birmingham, Mich., hotel. She then detailed
her adventure in song.
Apparently Amos and her 3-year-old daughter, Natashya, shared a
candlelit lobby with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and KISS' Gene Simmons,
both of whom were also scheduled to rock Detroit the following
evening.
According to the brief, jaunty number, Amos' daughter liked Tyler
because "he sings in nursery rhymes." But Tyler's avowed
serial-womanizing co-headliner fared less well: "That man is scarier to
the little girls than a blackout," sang Amos, smiling.
It was no "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia," but the song
established the evening's intimate, impromptu mood, and received
generous applause from an audience that most likely had passed on the
God Of Thunder's latest farewell tour.
Dressed in a flowing powder-blue tunic, faded blue jeans and burgundy
Manolo Blahniks, Amos conjured the spirit of performers like the
perpetually wind-blown Stevie Nicks, Led Zeppelin's Rhodes-tinkling
John Paul Jones and ELP's twin-keyboard-straddling Keith Emerson.
Backed by ace session cats Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans on drums and
bass, respectively, Amos toured her deep catalog, mixing early abstract
confessionals like "Silent All These Years" with material from her
excellent year-old concept album, "Scarlet's Walk."
On the new disc's Led Zeppelin-channeling "Pancake," she even slipped
in verse from Neil Young's "Ohio," offering a still timely reminder of
another dark event from our past.
Opener Ben Folds, fully shed of his backing "Five," provided the
perfect foil for Amos, blending genuinely funny social satire with
poignant ballads like his 1997 hit, "Brick."
Especially winning was the recently recorded "They Give No [Expletive
Deleted]," in which Folds hilariously vented on America's expanding
waistline, terminal self-absorption and imperial over-reach.
Cherry is a free-lance writer in Cleveland.
To reach Robert Cherry:
entertainment@plaind.com
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:10:54 -0400
From: broadway jack <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: rochester democrat and chronicle concert review
<url: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/08188P1HSUR_18review_news.shtml >
Amos, Folds offer piano aplenty
By Jeff Spevak
Staff Music Critic
(August 18, 2003) -- Tori Amos is the Grateful Dead for the Angry Young
Woman Screaming To Get Out Of Everyone's Body. Her fans follow like
pilot fish snapping up chum in the wake of a shark. A check of ticket
sales by promoters of Sunday night's show at Finger Lakes Performing
Arts Center revealed purchases made in 20 New York counties and 22
states.
But it's not so much a school these days following Amos as it is a
Scooby-Doo lunch box. Unable to compete with the corporate weight of
the ClearChannel Entertainment-controlled Darien Lake Performing Arts
Center, the crowd was a slim 3,000 for the only real pop show of the
season at the once-busy venue (Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge
doesn't qualify). If Ben Folds hadn.t drawn his own cadre of
enthusiasts, Amos could have taken the crowd on a tour of the wine
country in her bus.
Of course, they make up for that with the ethereal intensity of New Age
warlocks. Rather than settling down, Amos appears to be uncovering new
belts of intoxicating stratospheric gasses with each passing year. All
feathered up in a pink Nora Desmond eveningwear shawl, Amos even has a
spunky side: Describing how she.d encountered Kiss and Aerosmith in her
hotel lobby, Amos offered a close approximation of Gene Simmons.
tongue.
Alongside just a bass player and drummer, Amos accompanied her swooping
voice with a delicate piano style. Her main keyboard inspiration
appears to be rain falling on George Winston. With both electric piano
and grand piano at her fingertips, her playing dominated the night,
even swiveling between the two on songs such as "Sweet Sangria".
Folds performed unadorned: Just his stool, a bench and no band in
sight. But with the sun setting over Canandaigua Lake, the lawn dotted
with people on blankets and just that grand piano, Folds. music was
like cocktail hour for an audience of Young Twenties who recently
landed their first real jobs as he opened with "Best Imitation of
Myself."
Folds is an interesting character of a pianist, his thunderous chords
on Liz Phair's "Chopsticks" melting away to the more-traditional
version of "Chopsticks". He's often been compared to Elton John, since
both appear to write pop music, but John never slammed his forearm down
on the keyboard to produce a multi-octave crescendo. That's something
that Folds often did with his former rock trio, the Ben Folds Five, but
was no less amusing in the solo format.
Alternating between standing and sitting at the piano throughout the
hourlong set, he delivered a solemn "Brick," a familiar hit
spotlighting a teenage abortion, and arranged an audience-participation
harmony on "Not the Same".
Folds seemed a little nervous, with wandering dialogues between songs.
Despite the personal nature of some of his songs, Folds said he never
actually had a mullet as described in "Army". It's the style of a guy
making his first-time appearance at a comedy open mike. "If you've
ever wondered what it's like to be one of those comedians in a tie
standing against a brick backdrop," Folds confessed, "it's lonely."
But it's not difficult to be charmed by a guy who notes that a recent
publishing contract required him to write 4.6 songs, then plays one
with a chorus of "3.6 to go."
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:13:56 -0400
From: broadway jack <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: traverse city record-eagle article
<url: http://www.record-eagle.com/2003/aug/15amos.htm >
August 15, 2003
Tori Amos concert called off
Official says there were just too many 'unresolved issues'
INTERLOCHEN - Interlochen Arts Festival has canceled Tuesday's Tori
Amos concert.
It's the first time in the festival's approximately 20-year
history that Interlochen initiated a cancellation of a major
show, said Thom Paulson, vice president for radio and
presentations.
"We have had shows where an agent or artist pulled out at the
last minute," Paulson said, "but we've never been in the position
where we had to do that."
Interlochen found itself in that position with Amos, Paulson
said, because there were too many "unresolved backstage issues"
that meant it wasn't clear "who was going to do what" to make
Tuesday's show come together.
"Some artists' contracts are pretty over the top in terms of what
they expect in terms of support for the artist, and that's not
unusual," Paulson said. "Tori Amos's expectations weren't
unusual, but we amended the contract quite a while ago, and we
haven't had any conversations since.
"There were too many unresolved issues regarding the show and we
felt it was the only thing we could do at this point. We've never
done anything like this before. It's pretty irregular."
More than half of the tickets available for the show had been
sold as of Thursday's cancellation announcement. For information
on how Interlochen is handling refunds, see today's Entertainment
cover.
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:59:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linda <lindagyne@yahoo.com>
To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: wooo! birthday bash!
Heh, Simon welcomed me back and I've since been MIA.
*waves to Simon in the future* :)
I've been bad at posting because somehow this summer
managed to be even busier than the schoolyear. I
never thought I'd be wishing for a summer to end. I
spend just about every day (including weekends)
working in a basement, and meanwhile, the beach is
calling to me from less than 15 minutes away. I
generally manage to make it there by nightfall,
allowing me to retain my ghastly pale complexion.
Bleh.
Good news is, though, that I've decided to go see Tori
on *gasp* her 40th birthday!!! I wasn't going to go
because I just saw her in March and I'm a little short
on cash these days (had to buy a new car because I
flipped mine over in an accident, and now I'm
attempting to buy a condo). BUT, a friend of mine
from a non-Tori messageboard (I've hung out with him
in real life already) talked me into going. Damn peer
pressure. I'll also be bringing my boyfriend along
for his first Tori experience, so it'll be fun going
with someone else who's seen her 3 times in the past
and also with a Tori-concert-virgin.
I guess she's hit the NYC area too hard in the past
year, because I just bought the tickets last week, and
I have pretty great seats. Row R, center section.
Usually those tickets would have disappeared as soon
as the show went on sale.
I think I need to make a huge Happy Birthday banner :)
I'm getting so psyched for this show.
And, jeez... on something totally unrelated, Jessica's
post reminded me why I still haven't worked up the
nerve to get a professional wax job. It's really odd
because I have no shyness at the gynecologist and
certainly not in front of guys, but something about
going to a salon and getting waxed freaks me out a
little. Like, someone down there staring at my vag
while they gingerly rip my hair out? Eek! I keep
thinking that I'd like to go sometime, because the
at-home kits that I use don't really give the greatest
results, but.... yeah... maybe once I get a little
more brave.
*Time to go to work, work all night, search for
underpants, hey... We won't stop till we have
underpants, yum-tum-tummy-tah-tey.*
~Linda~
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:49:51 -0400
From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Your Jacob Marley Heart
I ache for you means
I feel your pain
I feel your soul weeping
I have seen your Jacob Marley heart
Chained and locked in bonds forged over lifetimes
Welded tight with razor wire boundaries
And guards of gremlins who hold the keys
I reach out for you
Slicing my hands on your front lines
As I once sliced my arms
Reaching for the perfect darkness
But I now reach for
Your Jacob Marley heart
Tearing my fingers on chains and locks
Reaching for the perfect light.
I ache for you means
I feel your pain
I feel your soul weeping
You've owned your Jacob Marley
Heart for Eons now
Adding links and locks as
Life rolls you once again
Life rolls you like a
Drunk caught by rednecks
Outside your local bar
Adding Reason to your chains
Adding Logic to your locks
And I ache for you means
I feel your pain
I feel your soul weeping
Locked inside your Jacob Marley heart
I reach out to tear the chains away,
But you stop me.
Your Jacob Marley heart,
You say,
Is Dead---
Dead as a doornail
Is your Jacob Marley heart.
I say,
Your Jacob Marley heart is only numb
>From the ponderous burden of Chains,
Locks and Razor Wire boundaries.
I ache for you
Only Means
That I feel your pain
I feel your soul weeping
My hands, they know how to heal,
My heart may hold a cure
My soul is but a master key,
To Free
Your Jacob Marley heart.
You can't let me in right now,
But I'm not going anywhere
I have a lifetime to live
Made complete
By your Freed
Jacob Marley heart.
bc 8/17/03
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:07:54 -0400
From: broadway jack <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: chart attack concert review
<url: http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2003/08/1815.cfm >
LIVE: Tori Amos with Ben Folds
Monday August 18, 2003 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Molson Amphitheatre
Toronto, Ontario
August 13, 2003
by Heather Kearney
Tori Amos runs a tight ship. Ben Folds took the Molson Amphitheatre
stage at exactly 7:04 p.m. and Amos ran off it, following her second
encore, at 11 p.m. on the dot. The stuff in between was just really
great piano rock.
Billed as the "Lottapianos Tour," the nice thing about a Tori Amos/ Ben
Folds crowd is that they genuinely appreciate great musicianship. So
you don't stand for most of the show, so there.s not a lot of jumping
up and down and dancing . maybe the sitting helps you concentrate on
the true artistry possible on rock.s most overlooked instrument . the
piano.
Amos can take the piano from raucous and thunderous to sweet and music
box-like within a matter of bars. And there.s just something about
being able to play more than one keyboard simultaneously that seems
infinitely more impressive than some roadie appearing from the wings to
switch off guitars.
Emerging onstage in white flowing robes lit up by a bright white
spotlight, Amos achieved a fairly good mix of old and new to keep the
fans happy. She performed six tracks from 2002.s Scarlet.s Walk, the
album she was, of course, there to promote, and an array of vintage
Tori, opting to completely ignore 1998.s From The Choirgirl Hotel.
Crowd favourites included: "A Sorta Fairytale," "Little Earthquakes,"
"God," "Bells For Her," "Cornflake Girl," "I Can.t See New York,"
"Precious Things," and her grand finale, "Hey Jupiter."
Undoubtedly she put on a good show. She played for over two hours . a
half hour of that was her two encores, and the congregation still
wasn.t ready to let her go.
I was though. I don.t know what it was. Maybe it was the frustration of
trying to decode what she was saying; maybe it was that I.ve been out
of the Tori scene for too long, or maybe it was that the guy beside me
was SO into it that it was distracting, but there was something about
this performance that failed to engage.
Ben Folds, on the other hand, deserves an honourable mention for
engagement. Despite the fact that, due to the early hour, people took
their seats throughout his entire performance, Folds had the audience
absolutely involved. Performing completely solo, he commissioned the
audience to do call and response to fill in for the horn section on
"Army" and he taught the crowd the three-part harmony for "Not The
Same." The highlight of the show was most definitely during "Steven.s
Last Night In Town," where Folds performed an all-out drum solo while a
drum kit was built around him, only to be deconstructed again as soon
as the solo was over.
So while one cannot overlook Tori Amos. immense talent, when it came to
showmanship, Ben Folds stole the show.
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