Amos and Brandy
Shoot...if I only drank, this could've conceivably happened. I could've been drinking some brandy while reading Tori Amos' book. Then, the title of this post would've been brilliant.
As it stands, it's just sad.
In an earlier post, I mentioned how I'd bought Tom Green's book and how interesting and enjoyable I've found other memoir/autobiographies.
It seemed pretty fortuitous when I found out that Tori Amos had a book coming out, too. It's a kind of biography AND autobiography at the same time, called 'Piece By Piece'.
I'm definitely nowhere NEAR the kind of fan that makes up her die-hard legion, but the songs that I do like, I love. The times I've seen her on TV have usually been quite memorable. Some people don't understand her, which always seems to indicate for an artist how deeply he/she connects with something resonant and meaningful, because the people that DO understand and love Tori Amos do for some of the very same reasons others don't. [I've had this experience myself when interacting with others about my music...several times, actually.]
I got the book in the mail a couple days ago and started it on Friday. An incredibly educational read for me already. Of what I've read so far, she goes into composing, touring, spirituality, finding some kind of normalcy, and I've really just started flipping through the book. It's quite interesting timing for me to stumble on this, b/c, if nothing else, the book is a testament to the kind of character and conviction an artist needs to have...and it is, indeed, much more.
A a couple interesting tid-bits:
She says she'd save hundreds of thousands of dollars if she put the band and crew in lesser accomodations than herself over the course of a tour, but to her that's just not right, so, everybody gets the same accomodations. [the tours are very long, and she tours with over a hundred people, so, that much money? Pretty conceivable.]
She writes about bringing her daughter along with her on tour [a small child], and how she usually doesn't have anyone her age to play with. So, it was great to have Ben Folds join the tour one summer, b/c he has two small children, and she writes that those three kinds raised 'stupendous, ludricrous, hilarious hell' backstage for the whole summer.
As it stands, it's just sad.
In an earlier post, I mentioned how I'd bought Tom Green's book and how interesting and enjoyable I've found other memoir/autobiographies.
It seemed pretty fortuitous when I found out that Tori Amos had a book coming out, too. It's a kind of biography AND autobiography at the same time, called 'Piece By Piece'.
I'm definitely nowhere NEAR the kind of fan that makes up her die-hard legion, but the songs that I do like, I love. The times I've seen her on TV have usually been quite memorable. Some people don't understand her, which always seems to indicate for an artist how deeply he/she connects with something resonant and meaningful, because the people that DO understand and love Tori Amos do for some of the very same reasons others don't. [I've had this experience myself when interacting with others about my music...several times, actually.]
I got the book in the mail a couple days ago and started it on Friday. An incredibly educational read for me already. Of what I've read so far, she goes into composing, touring, spirituality, finding some kind of normalcy, and I've really just started flipping through the book. It's quite interesting timing for me to stumble on this, b/c, if nothing else, the book is a testament to the kind of character and conviction an artist needs to have...and it is, indeed, much more.
A a couple interesting tid-bits:
She says she'd save hundreds of thousands of dollars if she put the band and crew in lesser accomodations than herself over the course of a tour, but to her that's just not right, so, everybody gets the same accomodations. [the tours are very long, and she tours with over a hundred people, so, that much money? Pretty conceivable.]
She writes about bringing her daughter along with her on tour [a small child], and how she usually doesn't have anyone her age to play with. So, it was great to have Ben Folds join the tour one summer, b/c he has two small children, and she writes that those three kinds raised 'stupendous, ludricrous, hilarious hell' backstage for the whole summer.
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