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walbournHad a good time at the Tori Amos concert this evening. I originally had purchased a general admission ticket, but yesterday a slew of "For Sale" notices for extra tickets kept appearing on the MS concert ticket exchange lists. So I sprung for a third row reserved seat, which was quite cool overall for double what I paid for my original ticket--which I was able to sell to another Microserft for face value. I wonder if there was an option to pay double again and sit in Tori's lap? :>
The last time I went to the Chateau Ste Michelle for a concert was Melissa Etheridge a few years back. The last time it was overcast with light rain, and the lawn was covered with lesbians in Gortex, sitting on/under tarps, and sipping wine and eating cheese. Very laid back, and definitely the 'core' Melissa audience.
Today was sunny, and the place was crawling with people who clearly don't know Tori from a hole in the ground. My seat was great, but I was surrounded by non-fans who probably had season tickets for the Winery who managed to get pretty drunk on wine even before the opening acts finished. At a Tori show, there are moments where even us hardcore fans think, "OK, honey, obviously you just want to play this weird shit for a while so let us know when you come back from Planet Tori." I'm just glad the drunk-tards got bored and left halfway through so I didn't have to hear them giggling and talking. Meant by the time of the encores, it was pure fandom.
I was damn close to the stage. Perhaps a little too close. This is the first time I've seen Tori without magnification or glasses and she was more than a slightly fuzzy redhead on stage. It was great to have that eye-contact interaction, but at the same time a little of the magic of her presence was lost. I mean, who knew she drooled so much during a show? I suppose it could be cool in a festishy kind of way, but I was never close enough before to even notice.
Not as many whacko covers this time as compared to her Beneroya Concert Hall gig a while back, which personally I find fun. She did do "A Case of You", which was freaky fun. Lots of stuff off The Beekeeper and Scarlet's Walk, as well as a number of classics from Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink. Tori is a bit uneven in her concerts. Sometimes they are meka-cool and rockin', sometimes they are the kind of thing only a hardcore fan could love. This was was defintely more the former than the latter.
There were two opening acts. An all girl band from LA by the name The Like. The lyrics were too muddled to really catch me, but the drummer was damn good. Cute girls. Bass player was frighteningly young. The other act, The Ditty Bops were just plain fun. Lots of crazy folk-tunes with crazy folk instruments, including a song with the washboard. What's not to love? Sadly lacking in cow bell!
I sspotted a co-worker or two at the concert. I did to visit a bit with Chelsea--one of the cities many stunningly hot and stunningly unavailable baristas--who indeed had cute friends in accompaniment. I'm all about trying to expand my social circle, although the Tori fan base probably has a far higher-than-average attraction to the crazy girls. If only I didn't find them so intoxicatingly attractive.
All in all, good times and good fun for my entertainment dollar.
The last time I went to the Chateau Ste Michelle for a concert was Melissa Etheridge a few years back. The last time it was overcast with light rain, and the lawn was covered with lesbians in Gortex, sitting on/under tarps, and sipping wine and eating cheese. Very laid back, and definitely the 'core' Melissa audience.
Today was sunny, and the place was crawling with people who clearly don't know Tori from a hole in the ground. My seat was great, but I was surrounded by non-fans who probably had season tickets for the Winery who managed to get pretty drunk on wine even before the opening acts finished. At a Tori show, there are moments where even us hardcore fans think, "OK, honey, obviously you just want to play this weird shit for a while so let us know when you come back from Planet Tori." I'm just glad the drunk-tards got bored and left halfway through so I didn't have to hear them giggling and talking. Meant by the time of the encores, it was pure fandom.
I was damn close to the stage. Perhaps a little too close. This is the first time I've seen Tori without magnification or glasses and she was more than a slightly fuzzy redhead on stage. It was great to have that eye-contact interaction, but at the same time a little of the magic of her presence was lost. I mean, who knew she drooled so much during a show? I suppose it could be cool in a festishy kind of way, but I was never close enough before to even notice.
Not as many whacko covers this time as compared to her Beneroya Concert Hall gig a while back, which personally I find fun. She did do "A Case of You", which was freaky fun. Lots of stuff off The Beekeeper and Scarlet's Walk, as well as a number of classics from Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink. Tori is a bit uneven in her concerts. Sometimes they are meka-cool and rockin', sometimes they are the kind of thing only a hardcore fan could love. This was was defintely more the former than the latter.
There were two opening acts. An all girl band from LA by the name The Like. The lyrics were too muddled to really catch me, but the drummer was damn good. Cute girls. Bass player was frighteningly young. The other act, The Ditty Bops were just plain fun. Lots of crazy folk-tunes with crazy folk instruments, including a song with the washboard. What's not to love? Sadly lacking in cow bell!
I sspotted a co-worker or two at the concert. I did to visit a bit with Chelsea--one of the cities many stunningly hot and stunningly unavailable baristas--who indeed had cute friends in accompaniment. I'm all about trying to expand my social circle, although the Tori fan base probably has a far higher-than-average attraction to the crazy girls. If only I didn't find them so intoxicatingly attractive.
All in all, good times and good fun for my entertainment dollar.
