Tori concert, etc.
Dec. 12th, 2002 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfOkay, I've got exactly half an hour before I have to run and catch the streetcar to work (I love my new manager, scheduling me to work on the same day as the most asskicking final, which thankfully was not as bad as I expected, although I do not expect to pass). Let's see if I can pound out a review in this time.
Setlist
Howie Day was the opening act, and he was good (normally all the opening acts I see kinda, well, suck). with the magic of technology, it is indeed possible to be your own one-man band. It was really cool, because he had this tricked-out guitar that looked like an acoustic, but it was solid (you couldn't see the back through the sound hole) and it had all sorts of knobs that allowed him to record and layer bits of sound and percussion as well as vocals (there is nothing weirder than seeing somebody be their own background singer). Get his new CD. You won't regret it.
Annnnd, then Tori came out. She was wearing this really cute little zebra striped dress, these really high animal skin boots, and a flower clip in her hair. She is so TINY! she really does look like she's got a bit of fey in her. And she's so cute! She came out and had this big smile on her face and waved at everybody before she sat down and played a sorta fairytale.
Then she played Bliss, and she just pounded the shit out of the Bosey at the chorus, and when she just hit "hot kachina," I just got goosebumps. Black Dove (on the keyboard)is beautiful live, and even with the band, it just seemed so close, so stripped down from what it is on the CD.
Pretty much every song off Scarlet's Walk benefits from the backing of the band (well, John the Bass and Matt Chamberlain [who is adorably cute] the drummer), and Sweet Sangria is really, totally hot performed live. Tori has this incredible energy, sometimes it's transcendent, sometimes it is incredibly sexy. Space Dog is really bitchin' with the backing of a full band, which is how I think it was meant to be played.
Crucify--ohmygod, this was absolutely beautiful. The song was completely and totally transfigured, and I started crying when she sang "Looking for a savior on these dirty streets/Looking for a savior between these dirty sheets." It's really interesting seeing how songs from her early career are transmuted, ten, fifteen years later, and I think they benefit a lot from having a mommy that's matured so much since then.
Wednesday was all bouncy and jazzy, and Tori was dancing between the pianos when the band was doing the intro. The band left after that, and she said "Hey everybody" and smiled and said something about how she loves the Northwest and how she wishes she could just fly everywhere and stay in the Northwest. Cheers abounded. She wondered aloud what to play, and everybody started yelling out requests. Then she was like, "Hmm," and I think she was pointing out songs on the setlist and going "Nope, nope, nope, nope." She got this little smile on her face and started playing (I think) the music to Alamo and sang "Dan the mike man is going to kill me..." (cheers) "You won't know what you're missing/Unless you steal the setlist from my husband/At the end of the show." Hee! It was so cute. And then she went into Alamo.
Mother was absolutely beautiful, very intimate, very close. I was really surprised that she performed Mary, but I was really glad she did. I started crying (I did a lot of crying at this show) and it was amazing and wonderful and just wow.
The band came back, and she did 1000 Oceans, which has always been kind of bleh for me. It's a pretty song, but there's not really much to it. Pancake was really cool, and Girl was beautiful. Playboy Mommy was absolutely heart-wrenching, and a lot of people around me were crying, especially around "Gloria, talkin' bout Hosannah." Take To The Sky was audience participation time, and clapping abounded and such.
I Can't See New York was really quiet, chilly. It took on the tone of a requiem, almost. It was like she was singing for all those people that died, and that one particular person, all at the same time.
After Spring Haze, everybody rushed towards the stage and I was absolutely amazed that nobody went all psychotic and tried to jump up or anything. I am even more surprised that nobody got beaten down by security, which I suppose says something about Tori Amos fans, even though some of them are still dumb enough to scream in the middle of songs (STOP THAT!).
Springtime of His Voodoo and Virginia were done with the band, and she played Here. In My Head solo. When she was going off stage, she waved at me! I went all teenyboppery and said to Angie (who went with me) "She waved at me!" (After the concert, she said she wanted a camcorder because I guess I was all star-struck and teeny-ish. Bleh.)
Taxi Ride was beautiful, and I think Pandora's Aquarium is going to be her closing song from now on, because it was when I saw her in Seattle.
Umm, so, yeah. It's all disjointed and stuff, but that was my evening. I think this was much better than the concert in Seattle, if only because I got fourth row seats. (I started hyperventilating when I saw how close I was to the stage.) But it was just so much better than the last one, and I feel absolutely thankful that I was able to see Tori like that.
Setlist
Howie Day was the opening act, and he was good (normally all the opening acts I see kinda, well, suck). with the magic of technology, it is indeed possible to be your own one-man band. It was really cool, because he had this tricked-out guitar that looked like an acoustic, but it was solid (you couldn't see the back through the sound hole) and it had all sorts of knobs that allowed him to record and layer bits of sound and percussion as well as vocals (there is nothing weirder than seeing somebody be their own background singer). Get his new CD. You won't regret it.
Annnnd, then Tori came out. She was wearing this really cute little zebra striped dress, these really high animal skin boots, and a flower clip in her hair. She is so TINY! she really does look like she's got a bit of fey in her. And she's so cute! She came out and had this big smile on her face and waved at everybody before she sat down and played a sorta fairytale.
Then she played Bliss, and she just pounded the shit out of the Bosey at the chorus, and when she just hit "hot kachina," I just got goosebumps. Black Dove (on the keyboard)is beautiful live, and even with the band, it just seemed so close, so stripped down from what it is on the CD.
Pretty much every song off Scarlet's Walk benefits from the backing of the band (well, John the Bass and Matt Chamberlain [who is adorably cute] the drummer), and Sweet Sangria is really, totally hot performed live. Tori has this incredible energy, sometimes it's transcendent, sometimes it is incredibly sexy. Space Dog is really bitchin' with the backing of a full band, which is how I think it was meant to be played.
Crucify--ohmygod, this was absolutely beautiful. The song was completely and totally transfigured, and I started crying when she sang "Looking for a savior on these dirty streets/Looking for a savior between these dirty sheets." It's really interesting seeing how songs from her early career are transmuted, ten, fifteen years later, and I think they benefit a lot from having a mommy that's matured so much since then.
Wednesday was all bouncy and jazzy, and Tori was dancing between the pianos when the band was doing the intro. The band left after that, and she said "Hey everybody" and smiled and said something about how she loves the Northwest and how she wishes she could just fly everywhere and stay in the Northwest. Cheers abounded. She wondered aloud what to play, and everybody started yelling out requests. Then she was like, "Hmm," and I think she was pointing out songs on the setlist and going "Nope, nope, nope, nope." She got this little smile on her face and started playing (I think) the music to Alamo and sang "Dan the mike man is going to kill me..." (cheers) "You won't know what you're missing/Unless you steal the setlist from my husband/At the end of the show." Hee! It was so cute. And then she went into Alamo.
Mother was absolutely beautiful, very intimate, very close. I was really surprised that she performed Mary, but I was really glad she did. I started crying (I did a lot of crying at this show) and it was amazing and wonderful and just wow.
The band came back, and she did 1000 Oceans, which has always been kind of bleh for me. It's a pretty song, but there's not really much to it. Pancake was really cool, and Girl was beautiful. Playboy Mommy was absolutely heart-wrenching, and a lot of people around me were crying, especially around "Gloria, talkin' bout Hosannah." Take To The Sky was audience participation time, and clapping abounded and such.
I Can't See New York was really quiet, chilly. It took on the tone of a requiem, almost. It was like she was singing for all those people that died, and that one particular person, all at the same time.
After Spring Haze, everybody rushed towards the stage and I was absolutely amazed that nobody went all psychotic and tried to jump up or anything. I am even more surprised that nobody got beaten down by security, which I suppose says something about Tori Amos fans, even though some of them are still dumb enough to scream in the middle of songs (STOP THAT!).
Springtime of His Voodoo and Virginia were done with the band, and she played Here. In My Head solo. When she was going off stage, she waved at me! I went all teenyboppery and said to Angie (who went with me) "She waved at me!" (After the concert, she said she wanted a camcorder because I guess I was all star-struck and teeny-ish. Bleh.)
Taxi Ride was beautiful, and I think Pandora's Aquarium is going to be her closing song from now on, because it was when I saw her in Seattle.
Umm, so, yeah. It's all disjointed and stuff, but that was my evening. I think this was much better than the concert in Seattle, if only because I got fourth row seats. (I started hyperventilating when I saw how close I was to the stage.) But it was just so much better than the last one, and I feel absolutely thankful that I was able to see Tori like that.
