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annuinSo we just got back from seeing Tori Amos play... it kicked so much ass!
We had tickets for the 3rd mezzanine, almost the back row... then part way through the opening act some of the staff with a handful of tickets came handing out other tickets for downstairs. Apparantly they had a bunch of unsold or unclaimed tickets or something... we ended up in the Orchestra sections, 11 rows from the stage in the center... wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
Tori is a goddess. She's absolutely incredible live, and it was well worth it. The better seats already made the night several degrees better, watching her perform was just amazing.
She played for well over 1 1/2 hours and among others played Wampun Prayer, A Sorta Fairytale, Strange, Pancake, Sweet Sangria, Cornflake Girl, Winter, Icicle (both apt considering it started snowing again today), Taxi Ride, Talula, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Black Dove (January), Wednesday, Tear in Your Hand, Rattlesnakes and a cover of the song Landslide by the Dixie Chicks... and a bunch more that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Watching her play is incredible, especially the songs that have more keyboard instruments than just the piano, where she'll switch from one to the other without missing a beat, or play two at the same time one-handed.
If she tours for Scarlet's Walk near you, SEE IT!!
Radio City Music Hall is an awesome venue too... excellent sound system, lovely Deco design with amazing curtains surrounding the stage (I can't even begin to imagine how many yards went into it). A beautiful venue indeed.
I only picked up a tour programme. I would have liked a shirt, but the booth was overpacked with people, and the t-shirts were $33-38+, so a tad extortionate. Granted, so was the programme at $20, but it contains writing in it by Neil Gaiman too, which is a nice bonus.
A very good night indeed...
We had tickets for the 3rd mezzanine, almost the back row... then part way through the opening act some of the staff with a handful of tickets came handing out other tickets for downstairs. Apparantly they had a bunch of unsold or unclaimed tickets or something... we ended up in the Orchestra sections, 11 rows from the stage in the center... wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
Tori is a goddess. She's absolutely incredible live, and it was well worth it. The better seats already made the night several degrees better, watching her perform was just amazing.
She played for well over 1 1/2 hours and among others played Wampun Prayer, A Sorta Fairytale, Strange, Pancake, Sweet Sangria, Cornflake Girl, Winter, Icicle (both apt considering it started snowing again today), Taxi Ride, Talula, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Black Dove (January), Wednesday, Tear in Your Hand, Rattlesnakes and a cover of the song Landslide by the Dixie Chicks... and a bunch more that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Watching her play is incredible, especially the songs that have more keyboard instruments than just the piano, where she'll switch from one to the other without missing a beat, or play two at the same time one-handed.
If she tours for Scarlet's Walk near you, SEE IT!!
Radio City Music Hall is an awesome venue too... excellent sound system, lovely Deco design with amazing curtains surrounding the stage (I can't even begin to imagine how many yards went into it). A beautiful venue indeed.
I only picked up a tour programme. I would have liked a shirt, but the booth was overpacked with people, and the t-shirts were $33-38+, so a tad extortionate. Granted, so was the programme at $20, but it contains writing in it by Neil Gaiman too, which is a nice bonus.
A very good night indeed...
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Date: 2003-03-06 11:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-03-07 08:22 am (UTC)11th row?!
let me repeat that again...
11TH ROW?!!
I was going to swing tickets to see her in Kansas City, but since I'm going to Chicago, that's not going to work. I saw her last year in St. Louis and sat in second mezz, but she was the fantastic goddess she always is even from up there.
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Date: 2003-03-07 01:12 pm (UTC)We were already ecstatic that we were going to be put in the Orchestra section, and then when we gave our tickets at the entrance doors for the Orchestra the woman started walking, and kept walking... further and further forward. We were completely amazed as we'd expected to be stuck in the back of Orchestra or something.
The show was so great, I wish we could go again and again.
landslide
Date: 2003-03-10 06:20 am (UTC)Landslide is actually by Fleetwood Mac and was covered by Smashing Pumpkins on Pisces Iscariot before Dixie Chicks did it (a far superior version imo) ;)
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