Hip To The Wind

The celebrated pianist Glenn Gould did a radio essay on Petula Clark for the CBC in 1967. It's 23 minutes long and wonderful. He talks super fast for some of it and it briefly gets technical with music terms, so make sure you can hear him well. (Aka: Better crank it. Warning: He's all tonality, all the time, and didn't like The Beatles. No one's perfect.)

Gould Glenn: The Search For Petula Clark (1967)

An audience recording of Tori Amos in Philadelphia on 10 Aug 2014 in Verizon Hall.Extremely present. Sounds as if the fellow was under the piano and near a P.A. stack at the same time.

12 - Purple People

01 - Parasol

This concert was held in a huge tent on the harbor near Boston Logan International Airport. We could look through the openings between where the canvas was pulled near the tent poles and watch her play on and on with her personal security guy Joel (aka Agent Orange) sitting, legs spread open, with his jeans shorts, and combat style boots planted flat on the stage behind her. I will never forget watching and listening to her. She seemed to just go on and on. I told her several days later how great it all was, “You were floating, you were SOARING,” swooping my arms around to demonstrate. Then I added, “If that’s the new stuff, I can tell why you would be sick to death of some of the old stuff.” I always told her the truth. “I’m sorry, I’m sure no one else can tell. After 25 shows on this tour, *I* can tell.”

messing around

Cruel (early version)

iieee (early version)

Apollo's Frock (early version)

Live audience recording from 12 July 1996 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California.

This was from the late show of two that night, the third of a three-show stand at the Paramount. Tori was moved to perform this song which her beloved grandfather used to sing to her.
[ Ref: www.thedent.com/amylame.html ]

Tori Amos - A Balm In Gilead (Negro spiritual)

1998-11-16 Burlington, Amazing Grace, Tori Amos

1996-11-11 Boulder, Tori Amos: God > Amazing Grace > God

Tori ended all but a couple of her 1996 concerts on a refurbished, foot-pumped harmonium from the early 1900s. She performed “Purple Rain” on it more than 20 times. With Steve Caton playing atmospheric guitar.

Purple Rain performed by Tori Amos on the harmonium in Phoenix, 2 July 1996

Tori tells the story of writing the b-side “Sugar” for the Little Earthquakes album in December 1991, then plays it. The spoken intro has been brought to a more useful level.

1994-07-04 Detroit: Sugar with spoken intro

These are the two cover songs from the first encore set of a solo Tori Amos concert in Oakland, California, at the historic Paramount Theatre, on 11 Nov 2001.

2001-11-11 Oakland, Cal., Paramount Theatre

Boys In the Trees (Carly Simon), Landslide (Stevie Nicks)

Request of Laguna Di.

http://thedent.com/tourjune.html#la2

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