From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #146 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, June 16 2003 Volume 08 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Freaky Friday the 13th Tori picture [Richard Handal ] Re: Freaky Friday the 13th Tori picture [Laura Damico ] Re: Freaky Friday the 13th Tori picture [Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re: Freaky Friday the 13th Tori picture Amanda posted: > I came upon this picture of Tori a while ago on HereInMyHead.com and was > so taken aback by what is reflected in the piano. Unless I'm mistaken about what you're referring to, it isn't a reflection. Here's the story. Grab a lovely beverage. This is perhaps not known widely but it certainly is no secret, either. On 6 Nov 1998 in Pittsburgh, the MIDI system on the Boesendorfer went away. The effect of this was that during the band portions of the concert the piano was well down in the mix. This was because for the band portions of each concert during the band tours, Tori's piano sound does not come from the microphones on the strings, but is produced by a MIDI system which is sensitive to her playing on the keys of the piano. The next day, for the concert a couple hours northeast of Pittsburgh at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Mark and the other techs had to work as best they could during the day to figure out how to get the microphone sound of the piano loud enough to be heard over the band. As Tori proudly explained during the concert, they'd brought with them three mattresses from their Pittsburgh hotel and placed them under the sound board of the Bosey, as well as placing some blankets inside it to dampen the strings. All this had been a gallant attempt to be able to mic the piano loud enough to compete with the drums, guitar, and bass, without first veering into screeching feedback. It wasn't all that successful. What piano there was sounded quite muffled. I was incredulous when I saw what was going on at that concert, and to verify what I'd seen I asked Mark after it if he had indeed been micing the piano sounds off the strings for the entire concert. He told me, "Yes, and it's been a very BAD day." Ouch. Well, this would not do again, so a Yamaha grand was trucked out from New York City for the concert the next evening, 8 Nov 1998, at Ithaca College. The Yamaha had a working MIDI system so there was no problem on that count, although I know Tori missed her Bosey. Tori is sponsored by Boesendorfer and can't be seen playing a Yamaha in concert, so to hide the Yamaha logo on the side of the piano the South Park dolls were hung from it. (The tour was rife with South Park at this point, but how that came to be is another tangent entirely.) Anyway, Tori's piano tech Trevor is a Bosey specialist but he was stumped with this MIDI problem, and Elton John's MIDI specialist piano tech was flown in from Europe to help get the Bosey back in order. After the Ithaca concert there was an off day before a concert in Binghamton on the 10th. The Bosey was still out, but instead of the dolls hiding the Yamaha logo, a couple strips of grey gaffer (lighting) tape was placed over it. Listen to the live Famous Blue Raincoat from one of the '99 singles and you can hear it isn't the Boesendorfer. The recording was made at that Binghamton concert on 10 Nov 1998. Just to complete the story, after Binghamton there was another off day, then Rochester. Mark and the other techs thought they may have had the Bosey working again, but after the opening number Marcel and someone else, probably Trevor, came out and tossed a bunch of blankets onto the strings of the Bosey, and they were back to using the microphones for the remainder of that concert. All this was around the time of the killing of a doctor in the Rochester area who performed abortions, and there were supposedly extra security concerns at the Rochester concert on top of everything else. The Bosey *was* back the following night--oddly, Friday, the 13th of November--for a concert in Poughkeepsie. My seat happened to be about eighteen inches to Mark's left, and after the concert was over I asked him if the piano was really fixed for good or was it just being held together with chewing gum and baling wire. Grinning, he admitted, "Chewing gum for the moment--but it's getting there." I always appreciated Mark's honesty. It was a good thing the Bosey was fixed, because the very next day they had the taping of Sessions at West 54th. Had the Boesendorfer not been working for that concert I can't even imagine the catastrophe. It may have even needed to be canceled. Once this sick piano crisis was resolved the rest of the tour was *astonishing*. She knew it, too, bless her. Anyhow, in this photo , the doll on the right is Kenny and the doll on the left is Cartman. (See here: .) Kenny always wears a hood up over his head, so I think that's what you're seeing that's akin to an apparition of a girl, Amanda. Perhaps oddly, that Ithaca concert was full of great joy and wackiness. Tori finally attempted Anastasia on the tour and murdered it in the process, and she fell twice on her butt; once during LE she missed the bench when she went to sit back down after standing, and the second time during taking bows with the band. I might have been concerned for her, but the second time Mark was smiling, and I heard Marcel and Witherspoon were holding up big pieces of paper with large numbers written on them as if they were scoring an Olympic skating event. Just another day on the road with the bottle redhead. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:37:45 -0300 From: Laura Damico Subject: Re: Freaky Friday the 13th Tori picture If I remember correctly these south park "dolls" appeared on serveral ocassions during the Plugged '98 tour on different places, like Mr.Puppethead did. This particular picture was taken during one of the concerts when the Bosey was "sick". I was at this show... don't remember wich one exactly Ithaca-Binghamton? (Richard Help!!) when they had a Yamaha piano on stage and they hung the dolls at the side of the piano to cover up the brand. (I remember I could see part of the brand... I guess I was using Richard's opera glasses so this must have been Ithaca!!!) If this pic was taken during the Ithaca show that was the show when she fell *twice*. Great show! yes anastasia showed up that night. I met Linda Nociforo that day and she joined us (Richard Jeremy and me) on our Tori road trip. Great memories....I could go on and on... good luck to those who are seeing some shows this tour and be sure to post some good reviews for those of us who cannot attend!!! Les pido un favor : si alguien se cruza con Richard y Linda durante este tour denles un abrazo de mi parte!. Saludos desde Uruguay laura At 23:42 13/06/03 -0400, you wrote: >Hey all you superstitious Toriphiles, >I came upon this picture of Tori a while ago on HereInMyHead.com and was so >taken aback by what is reflected in the piano. I forgot about it until today >when I was showing it to my husband. It looks like a girl holding a South >Park >stuffed doll (I'm not sure what character b/c I don't watch South Park). And >I seriously doubt that it is a reflection of anyone sitting in the first rows >of that particular concert. Anyway, I just wanted to share it with all of >you because it is bizarre. The address is: >HREF="http://www.hereinmyhead.com/bigpic/pian/conc4.jpg">http://www.hereinmyhead.com/bigpic/pian/conc4.jpg >Peace Out, >Amanda www.agrimensores.com.uy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:47:24 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kristilyn Robertson" Subject: My new Tori site Hello all! I'm inviting everyone to check out my newly revamped Tori Amos page, Fresh Little Puddles! I know, I know, it probably has everything that all other Tori pages has, but I'm damn proud of it! :) It's at: http://www.geocities.com/sweetsangria81/ :) Kristilyn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:32:54 -0400 From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re: Freaky Friday the 13th Tori picture >she fell twice on her butt; once during LE she missed the bench when she went to sit back down after standing, and the second time during taking bows with the band. I might have been concerned for her, but the second time Mark was smiling, and I heard Marcel and Witherspoon were holding up big pieces of paper with large numbers written on them as if they were scoring an Olympic skating event.< HA!! oh, that poor girl! hahahah! golly! sounds like that was one hell of a bad week or so of that tour.. *shakes head* but the scoring thing just cracks me up! hah! Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.icenine.org/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/clique.html "I know we're dying / and there's no sign of a parachute / we scream in cathedrals / why can't it be beautiful / why does there gotta be a sacrifice?" -- Tori Amos ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #146 *************************************