From: owner-precious-things-digest To: Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #115 Reply-To: Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Wednesday, 26 June 1996 Volume 01 : Number 115 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Unplugged - MTV europe?!?! Wolftrap Re: Wolftrap Tori on Unplugged. (Hint--wow.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Grendel The Farfetched Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:23:25 +0100 (BST) Subject: Unplugged - MTV europe?!?! Will the Unplugged be shown today on MTV Europe, i.e. in England?!? All this American talk makes me dizzy and wanting more! I need this show and I don't want to miss it!! Does ANYONE know?!?!? :( :( Paul ============================================================================ "When you say words a lot they don't mean anything... or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, we just think they do" - Delirium - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .. a cunning linguist O O St Aidan's College, University Of Durham, UK. | \___/ Official net.toriphile ' ============================================================================ ------------------------------ From: Bob Moyer Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:38:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Wolftrap Does anyone know if tickets to the Wolftrap performance are still being sold? -Bob *)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*)*) "So there's an end to that- it's commonplace. Light goes with life, and in the winter of your years the dark comes early" -Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ------------------------------ From: Surf the World Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:55:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Wolftrap On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Bob Moyer wrote: > Does anyone know if tickets to the Wolftrap performance are still being sold? No, but I'm looking for some also. PS - Don't I know you? [Chris Blunck] --> [] | [] [] && [Your fortune:] ["But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable] [computers?"] ------------------------------ From: Richard Handal Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tori on Unplugged. (Hint--wow.) Oh my god. Well, that was really intense. The best I'd ever seen Tori on TV before. And there was an hour of it. Wow. I hope this is telecast in other parts of the world, because it sure would be a shame for you non-U.S. types to be unable to see and experience this Unplugged program. The whole "different formats for broadcast standards around the world" thing is very frustrating for me, but such is life, I suppose. I wish it was easier (and cheaper), to get tapes transferred across formats. I know *I'd* like to be able to more easily see the Australian promo video I got from the UtP era, but I no longer work where I can just slap it into a VCR any old time when the mood strikes me, and it'll be $40 an hour to get it transferred to the American NTSC format. (Assuming they would even do it, what, with copyright considerations.) You Europe and Oz folks get stuff to which I'd dearly love to have access, so it cuts both ways, you know. ;-) I don't really have any great words of wisdom or enlightenment about the show, but appreciate being able to tell *someone* how much I was moved. I was near tears more than once, and had major chills much of the time. I think a lot of that is from the way she delays notes, both vocally as well as instrumentally, using lots of ritards. It tends to keep me in the moment. I like it there. She used to do that in a way that I found more annoying than expressive, as tapes from the '92 tour document. Someone I know who went to high school with her told me that because of that, she used to be embarrassed for her, but more than one person I know who went with her to junior high think that's crazy--that she was extremely talented, and that such embarrassment would be ridiculous. (One fellow in *that* camp is now a recording engineer, used to own his own studio, and went to the Berkelee School of Music, so I believe *him*.) She seemed to be more self-conscious than in a typical concert. But that was fine: it kept me on my toes, even having seen eight concerts so far this tour. She certainly does change her arrangements a lot, in some subtle, and some not so subtle ways. (One reason why I advocate seeing lots of shows.) And she did Hey Jupiter on the piano, so that was different than the tour version I'm used to. I know Shulamis was at the taping, but I forgot where behind Tori she told me she was sitting, and I couldn't positively identify her. She told me on the phone exactly where she was sitting, so I couldn't check my old mail to find out. :-) I'm sure she'll tell me soon enough. Remember, there's a second shot at this on Sunday at 9pm. Setlist below. What the heck. It was an awesome show. I feel blessed. Richard Handal <>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<>====<> Tori Amos on MTV's Unplugged, originally telecast June 25, 1996, 9 - 10pm - ---------------------------------------- Steve Caton on Guitar indicated by + Cornflake Girl + Blood Roses Silent All These Years Icicle (with an Onward Christian Soldiers intro) Caught a Lite Sneeze + Somewhere Over the Rainbow Hey Jupiter + In the Springtime of His Voodoo + ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #115 *************************************