14 August, Portsmouth, VA

Original Sinsuality
Space Dog
Beauty Queen
Horses
Virginia
Martha's Foolish Ginger
Spark
Taxi Ride

YMCA (Village People cover)
Desperado (Eagles cover)

Mother
Upside Down
The Power Of Orange Knickers
Spring Haze
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Liquid Diamonds
Doughnut Song

2nd Encore

Merman
Silent All These Years

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the concept of Tori doing a cover of YMCA! Just the concept makes me giggle!

YES!!!

i just got 5th row tickets for jones beach...15 dollars below cost, even! today is my lucky day!

SassyBritches said:

COOL!

JediMaster said:

I can just imagine that...

VinaBlue said:

and its in two days! i may just implode if i don't take deep breaths!

SassyBritches said:

Sue Wheat!

16 August, Wallingford, CT

Original Sinsuality
Crucify
Caught A Lite Sneeze
Winter
Icicle
Goodbye Pisces
Bells For Her

So Far Away (Carole King cover)
By My Side (cover from the musical Godspell)

Mary
Take To The Sky
Mother Revolution
Yes, Anastasia
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Cars and Guitars
Crazy

2nd Encore

Landslide
Toast

damn. that whole middle section looks amazing! i'm really glad she's continued to include original sinsuality and the beekeeper in the 2nd US leg of the tour! i'm kinda buggin' about the show tonight!
[Edited 8/23/05 21:38pm]

SassyBritches said:

I'm so jonesing to see this one.

GangstaFam said:

At least I can hear it.

Last night's show at Jones Beach was better than the NYC Hammerstein Ballroom show earlier this year. "The Beekeeper" sounded positively eerie. Even songs I don't care for like "Liquid Diamonds" sounded good last night. Loved her cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends" even though she did fuck it up at one point. Amazing.

The full setlist thanks to The Dent

Original Sinsuality
Little Earthquakes
Amber Waves
Pretty Good Year
Marianne
Jamaica Inn
Cool On Your Island

With A Little Help From My Friends (Beatles cover)
Imagine (John Lennon cover)

Barons Of Suburbia
Jackie's Strength
Liquid Diamonds
Carbon
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Cloud On My Tongue
Silent All These Years

2nd Encore

Never Seen Blue
Hey Jupiter


Two problems, however with the show overall.

1. Jones Beach is a little too big for a stripped down, intimate Tori show like this one I feel. A slightly smaller venue would have been better.

2. Why was Tori so far back on the stage? The big distance between her and the audience also took away from the closeness that I thought this type of show was supposed to generate.

sextonseven said:

I'm glad it was good for you this time.

i will be back with a better post in a few hours but i just walked in the door and need to take care of a few things. let's just say that i'm dying to know if she actually does do "my request" for total eclipse of the heart! (actually i asked for condition of the heart but she misheard me.)

the show was great!

after spending the day with my family (yikes!) and looking at prospective law schools, the show provided a much needed chance to relax, celebrate, and catch up with an old friend!

i met up with my old pal, Dana, and we had a great dinner at Pigou, a french restaurant in the city. after eating we headed to the train station to begin what would become the hour long trek to jones beach. the trip required a subway, the LIR, and a bus! this is how you know i'm a tori fan...a bus! sassy don't do the bus very often, let alone a bus that gets on a highway.

we get to the venue and make our way to our 5th row seats. as perfect as that sounds, the tech people decided to put a camera man between the stage and the first row...directly in my line of vision. i could not see the piano or organs at all. very salty. as usual, however, i handled my business and arranged for different seats. (translation: we jumped up into the 4th row and moved slightly to our left in order to be in better eyesight.) Dana tends to be a nervous person by nature so for the first few songs she was clearly concerned about us losing our seats. i had to reassure her several times and i think somewhere around amber waves it began to work.

the show was great! i kind of expected to hear more from the beekeeper but nonetheless, the setlist was great and, once again, different from the others i've been lucky enough to catch. liquid diamonds and little earthquakes were the gems of the night for me! it was also nice getting to hear hey jupiter as the last song of the evening. that song just fits so well as a farewell for the evening.

the only real problem i had was with the crowd. i'm sorry...i hate to be the pot calling the kettle black...but tori amos fans get on my nerves. i don't want to hear you talking (during the show) about the difference between her performance of marianne in florida with the one she is CURRENTLY singing. nor do you need to prove to the venue that you know all the words by way of singing them along...loudly. and for the love of god, people, stop harrassing the security guards and techies when they are working. they don't know you and they probably don't like you when you bug the piss out of them.

one of the highlights for me was during the piano bar segment. tori announceed the procedures and we began shouting our requests. being as close as i was, i was able to shout out "condition of the heart" quite audibly. unfortunately it was not quite audible enough because tori thought i asked for "total eclipse of the heart." she pointed over at me saying "hey! that's a good one, that's not a bad choice at all. unfortunately for you, you're fucked, because i've already decided what i'm playing." it was too funny. she began singing "turn around bright eyes..." and playing a bit but she didn't quite have it. she then went on to say that she would practice and do it in new jersey. it doesn't matter that i won't be there. it doesn't even matter that she misheard me. it was just a cool experience and fun 30 seconds!

having woken up at 4:30am on wedneday morning (in order to get to nyc in time to be at my first school appointment), i was horrified at the clock when i got back to Dana's - 1:45am. the show - and the ocmpany i was with - was so much fun i had no idea i'd almost been awake for 24 hours! i had a blast. i can't wait to see her in a week in toronto. it sounds crazy but i just don't ever getr tired of seeing this woman perform; i could watch her fingers and face all night long, working that piano.

SassyBritches said:

Awesome account of your experience. That bit reminds me of the Detroit show when you shouted out your request and she said "Forget it! You're never gonna get it." And when she mentioned playing something from a hometown hero someone yelled for Madonna. Her response was, "Fuck her. I already did her." So are you gonna try to make it to Detroit? How are your Toronto seats?

GangstaFam said:

I had a good time at the last show. I just wished the setlist was better.

SassyBritches said:

Man, I could never imagine taking mass transit to Jones Beach. It's such a trek out there (as you now know).

sextonseven said:

Well then I'm glad there was more pussy pumping involved.

GangstaFam said:

Tori only does that to Sassy.

19 August, Holmdel, NJ

Original Sinsuality
Father Lucifer (about a minute or so)

** short delay because of loss of power to monitors **

Little Earthquakes
Blood Roses
Yes, Anastasia
Northern Lad
Parasol
Rattlesnakes

Lovesong (Cure cover)
Purple Rain (Prince cover)

Cars And Guitars
Cooling
Jamaica Inn
Taxi Ride
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

China
Here. In My Head

2nd Encore

1000 Oceans
Sweet The Sting

20 August, Camden, NJ

Original Sinsuality
Crucify
Icicle
Goodbye Pisces
Mother
Ruby Through The Looking Glass
Crazy

Tiny Dancer (Elton John cover)
Over The Rainbow (The Wizard Of Oz cover)

Leather
General Joy
Mr. Zebra
Horses
Bells For Her
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Cloud On My Tongue
Your Cloud

2nd Encore

Liquid Diamonds
Ribbons Undone

Holy crap Sassy, she did it. What a show!



Original Sinsuality
Caught A Lite Sneeze
Amber Waves
Martha's Foolish Ginger
Winter
Pancake
Cool On Your Island

Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler cover)
Angie (Rolling Stones cover)

Barons Of Suburbia
Garlands
Tear In Your Hand
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Dream On (Aerosmith cover)
Pretty Good Year

2nd Encore

Playboy Mommy
1000 Oceans

GangstaFam said:

Damn! I hate that song!

Cheek said:

I love it and I bet she rocked it!

GangstaFam said:

I believe you! Tori can make magic from crap!

GangstaFam said:

i never doubted her! its too funny that she took the time to figure it out and went ahead and performed it. honestly, it doesn't even matter that it was the "wrong" song...the fact that she actually learned it and played it, thinking it was what somebody wanted to hear, is the coolest bit!

SassyBritches said:

I know, right? Maybe if we mention "Condition" at the Toronto meet n greet, we've got a chance of seeing it at upcoming shows.

GangstaFam said:

deal! we may just need to ask for something popular, though, like when doves cry. she seems to be all over the hits of the 80's!

Has anyone seen opening band The Like? That's the group Wendy Melvoin is producing. I wanted to see their set, but couldn't get out of work early enough.

sextonseven said:

i've heard they are good but i got there at the end of the ditty bops's show.