MoonSongs said:

it was great to see you again as well! i had a fantastic weekend, really...in no small part due to you and gangsta (and seeing ian and meeting your sister who is oh so fabulous)!

i just read the setlist and it looks as if gangsta got his "cooling" at last! she also did liquid diamonds, goodbye pisces...well...let me just post the set!

30 August, Cleveland, OH

Original Sinsuality
Space Dog
Ribbons Undone
Mr. Zebra
Horses
Spark
Winter
Playboy Mommy

My Favorite Things (Rodgers & Hammerstein / Sound of Music cover)
Rocket Man (Elton John cover)

Jamaica Inn
Cooling
Cars And Guitars
Cool On Your Island
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Icicle
Goodbye Pisces

2nd Encore

Liquid Diamonds
Hey Jupiter

SassyBritches said:

How incredible! I can't wait to talk with him ~ I can only imagine the state he is in. Thanks for posting the set list! Sister adores you as well.

SassyBritches said:

I am completely, utterly and earthshatteringly fucked! In the best possible way of course.

I just braved driving home through Katrina which was a superbitch, and now I'm going to bed. But I had to check the Tori download sites first!

Yes, I got my Cooling. I got Hey Jupiter. I got Liquid Diamonds. I got Playboy Mommy. These are all Top 10 Tori songs for me, and I've never seen any of them live. All of that in combination with a hurricane, Tash's birthday and it being my last show made it special beyond belief. I'll post a more complete review once I've figured out how I'm going to resume my normal life.

Oh and guys, there are uber highlights from the last several shows. And they really did get the highlights.

Check out turbid blue, toriphoria and hereinmyhead for these:

Toronto ON 8/27/05
Putting The Damage On
If You Could/Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell Cover)
Cloud On My Tongue


Cary NC 8/13/05
Toast/Baker Baker
Gold Dust


Detroit MI 8/28/05
Karma Police (Radiohead Cover)
Vincent/Starry Starry Night (Don Mclean Cover)
God/Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush Cover)


Montreal 8/26/05
Amber Waves
Live To Tell (Madonna Cover)
Past The Mission
Marys Of The Sea
Alamo
Do It Again
God

SassyBritches said:

Are these gonna be available in stores?

i don't think the "bootlegs" are going to be available in stores. i think its only through the site.

tonight is my final night of this tour. i'm so excited! i was thinking the other night (at the detroit show) that it could never be as good as that show. now i'm wondering. since the beginning of the tour i've been hoping to hear marys of the sea, toast, little earthquakes, and yes, anastasia. well, i got the last two already...and its been quite a while since she performed toast (16 august, to be precise) and she hasn't done marys since friday in montreal. i'm hoping i'm due.

good to see you got a bunch of your faves, gangsta! i'm more than a little salty that i wasn't there but starting to build that house was worth it. i'm also salty that you can't be here tonight (though i understand the 1st row priority!). we'll have to make the next tour, in 2007, another "world tour" again!

SassyBritches said:

I'm saving as we speak.

I wish I could be there too. I wish I could go to like 17 shows!

I'm a bit sad that this tour is over for me also. This tour. I feel like she's made it the most special tour of her career. At least for me anyway. This is the essence of why I love Tori, and I'm absolutely transfixed when I watch her do her thing. It's hard to describe really. With the past 2 years I've been through, it's been exactly what I want and need. Plus, her singing and playing are better than ever.

GangstaFam said:

All the better that we are getting CDs of six different shows this year. I was watching the Sunny Florida DVD the other day and while that tour was very cool, I felt this one was really special and I'm grateful that we get to hear it six different ways after it's over.

Loved her dig at Sarah McLachlan from the April Chicago show. I'll probably listen to the L.A. show tonight.

31 August, Chicago, IL

Original Sinsuality
Crucify
Sugar
Sleeps With Butterflies
Spring Haze
Silent All These Years
God/Running Up That Hill

The Blower's Daughter (Damien Rice cover)
The Rose (Bette Midler cover)

Past The Mission
Barons Of Suburbia
Putting The Damage On
Carbon
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Bells For Her
Black-Dove (January)

2nd Encore

Amber Waves
Tear In Your Hand

ahhhh. and the last tori show comes...and it goes. i love her. really, i do. not in the crazed, stalker kinda way but in an admiring sorta way. some people hate her, some people love her, some just don't care one way or the other...i think, though, that she's a very special person with a very unique ability to tap into others' emotions...or at least fake it very well.

the show was very nice. it wasn't great but it was better than good. the acoustics in the place are completely amazing. the best i've ever heard. those who designed it really knew how to create the best possible environment for live music...which makes sense since the place is typically used for symphony. tori was incredibly playful tonight...definitely happy that her daughter was away for the night. she was also a little naughty...touching and grabbing herself more than i've seen in a long, long time. and is she preggers again? looked that way tonight. every time she grabbed herself, her dress showed a bit of a belly...not the belly of a person who's missed a few workouts but the belly of a person who may be eating for two.

the setlist had a few firsts for me (for this tour, that is). sleeps with butterflies and sugar were two songs i'd been waiting for. january (black dove) was also premiered tonight which was a great bonus. the rest of the set, however, were songs i'd seen already (at one of the other 5 shows i was lucky enough to attend!) though they were performed with much more intensity tonight (except for god/running up that hill which was better, i thought, in detroit). all in all it was a good way for me to end the tour...kind of like a recap on all the great songs i'd heard.

ok, i have to go to bed. i have a 9am flight to san fran in the morning. i won't be around the org until wednesday so hopefully gangsta will keep updating the setlists for you while i'm gone.

ugh...i'm gonna go through some serious withdrawal over the next few weeks. addictions are a bitch. thank god for those live discs ol' girl is hooking us up with!

SassyBritches said:

Jealous! I think that set looks great!

GangstaFam said:

It is a beautiful set list! We'll go through the withdrawl together! Be safe and have great success on your trip.

Can't wait to post my show reviews for the 14th and 17th!

VinaBlue said:

I'm still workin' on mine. I'm so sleep deprived and sore, that I need a couple days to get myself together.

Some cute photos from the Cleveland birthday party show for Tash.

Interesting show in Austin tonight, especially the covers.

Original Sinsuality
Little Earthquakes
Parasol
Siren
Marianne
Jamaica Inn
Bells For Her

When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin cover)
Mad World (Tears For Fears cover)

Cars And Guitars
Jackie's Strength
Frog On My Toe
Silent All These Years
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Garlands
Pretty Good Year

2nd Encore

Space Dog
Your Cloud

GangstaFam said:

Set list from September 3rd, Houston:

Original Sinsuality
Beauty Queen
Horses
Caught A Lite Sneeze
Mother Revolution
Winter
Father Lucifer
Taxi Ride

House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover)
Daniel (Elton John cover)

Blood Roses
Martha's Foolish Ginger
Happy Phantom
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Putting The Damage On
Toast

2nd Encore

Winding Road (Bonnie Somerville cover)
Baker Baker


All in all, a good show, but not as great as I was hoping for.

After Beauty Queen/Horses, she greated the audience and said what a priveledge it was to be playing for a city that had opened its hearts and homes to the victims of Katrina. This was nice, since I live in a state that is so frequently attacked for the vocal morons that live here. It was a wonderful change of pace to have the good people of Texas get their due.

During the "Piano Bar" segment, she started to play "Winding Road", but then realised that she really didn't know the song well enough. Instead, she launched into an inpromptu silly song about how she would have to save the song for her encore, wishing she could get the make-up girl to sing it for her, but she's tone deaf. She then played John's "Daniel". All in all, I felt the covers were rather pedestrian, considering some of the cool stuff she's sprung on fans at these shows.

Katrina seemed to really be on her mind quite a bit, as "Winding Road" & "House of the Rising Sun" were definitely done in reference to it. She also played several tunes from Pele, with imagery that recalled New Orleans (she repeated the line from "Blood Roses" about "the Belle of New Orleans" several times).

"Father Lucifer" and "Taxi Ride" were nice surprises that I didn't expect. Most of her arrangements of the evening were quite nice, and I truly enjoyed them. The song that just fell flat to me was "The Beekeeper" which seemed to go on forever. The song was just boring live, and didn't work for me at all. There are so many other songs from that album I would have preferred (and she could have played about three of them in the time it took her to do this one).

Having checked out the Austin setlist, I do wish I had been at that show, since it had way more of what I was hoping for. Still, this was a decent show.

her show from Salt Lake City tonight...

Original Sinsuality
Space Dog
Little Earthquakes
Virginia
Take To The Sky
Mother Revolution
Rattlesnakes

Hyperballad (Bjork cover)
Time (Tom Waits cover)

Barons Of Suburbia
Cloud On My Tongue
Winter
Your Cloud
The Beekeeper

1st Encore

Sweet The Sting
Cooling

2nd Encore

Not The Red Baron
Twinkle

JediMaster said:

I've heard a lot of folks who aren't fond of the live performances of "The Beekeeper". I LOVE it! I get so tranced out and I feel like it's a really important song for her. Plus, it sounds a lot like one of my favorite Bjork songs, "Sweet Sweet Intuition". You can practically sing them on top of eachother. I wish there was an official studio version that sounds like the solo organ performance. I think it's the perfect way for her to close out the main set.

That being said, I know what you mean about getting bummer covers. It does make a big difference to the overall effect of her shows. In Detroit back in April, I wasn't fond of either song she did and it kinda tainted the night for me. Don't know why. But since then, I've seen Both Sides Now, The Circle Game, Karma Police, Running Up That Hill and some other great covers. When she's on, she's really on, ya know? It can be among the most impressive moments of the night when she really nails a cover. I wish I could've seen her do Hyperballad tonight.

GangstaFam said:

I totally agree. The first time I experienced her live version of "The Beekeeper", it totally didn't register, but the second time at Jones Beach, I was entranced. I found it absolutely haunting and thought that must be a totally new rendition because no way would I have forgotten a performance like that from her show earlier that year in New York. Well, I listened to both live CDs that were recently released and to my surprise she had been performing "The Beekeeper" that way for the entire tour. Why it didn't click with me the first time, I have no idea.

And as for the covers, the Don McLean and Springsteen covers I heard the first time definitely added to my not entirely overwhelming review of the first show and the Beatles' covers in her second show really added to that overall performance. The piano bar is the centerpiece of each show and the covers chosen each night can significantly alter someone's perception of the entire night (like mine).

sextonseven said:

Yup yup.

I guess she did a radically different version of "The Beekeeper" in Boston, but I haven't found that circulating yet. Hopefully, it's one of the live albums released cuz she debuted 6 songs that night.

GangstaFam said:

Her cover of Moonshadow in San Francisco last spring was my favorite part of the show.

Where's Sassy lately?

GangstaFam said:

He posted yesterday in the P&R forum. Other than that, he must be spent from all the Tori shows he went to. She probably pumped his pussy until it was sore to use his words.

Tori Amos is just garbage; I'm sorry, but it is true.

GangstaFam said:

i've been popping in and out. just got back from san francisco and my (last quarter!) of classes just started plus i'm trying to adjust my schedule so i can keep doing habitat (and i wanna start doing something with heartland alliance) plus i have my internship this quarter (probably at naacp) so i'm going to be here on a minimal basis. i will try to make a point of popping in and saying hi, though!

2freaky4church1 said:

Clearly we all agree!

SassyBritches said:

Hi!

2freaky4church1 said:

No, that is Shirley Manson.