Tori Amos 09.16.98 Arco Arena Sacto
09.17.98
11:14AM
I'm waiting for a phone call. Christa is calling to let me know when she's on her way to pick me up and drive us both to Arcata. HSUville USA...Two Tori concerts back to back--Cloud Nine. Night one was better because, if nothing else, the nearby crowd was more respectfull. Some songs I didn't expect, some songs I did expect, some songs I hoped for didn't happen, etc. etc. Same score there. Both shows seemed to end before I wanted...more more more give me more give me more... Sound was really good both nights, not too loud so the shitty accoustics of both venues didn't alter the mix.
Night one= no search *at all*. Easy in. Ran both the DAT and a backup analog rig just in case. Didn't need the analog afterall, good thing cuz a switch got switched and it went into pause half way through the show...
I have been truly gifted this summer with some absolutely unbelievable shows...Tori, Tool, PJ, Watt, Pumpkins, Tricky...on and on and on. How can people manage *not* to see great music as often as possible? It's lifeblood to me.
A little known fact (probably because never bother to notice it) is that tapes (of all sorts, DAT, analog, video) are *not* exact in their length markings...i.e. most 90min tapes actualy run 91-92 minutes...this is a good thing because sometimes analog tape flips *fuck* you over when transferring from DAT cuz if you don't cut a song you need a longer tape and that means extra blank space at the flip ends...right now checking to see if this 90min analog is 46:09 minutes to a side...only way I can do that is actually play the whole length...fast forwarding could work I suppose with the number counter, but i have no digital analog counter so the numbers aren't exact enough to be sure...nothign worse than having a song cut off at the end and having to start all over again cuz the rest of the show won't fit on the flip side...
Two calls so far this morning. Neither from Christa. One=newspaper guy informing me of the switch in service of the local paper from evening to morning..Two=justine's dental office ***still*** clueless about her change of address...I don't know *how* many times they've called here since she's moved...dumb fucks, get it on file already, would you?
11:27AM
Hmmm, clear something up here so as not to confuse myself
in later years...time markings don't indicate a break in writing unless
there is a horizontal rule there as well...OK, thatz good.
Walking outta the first night in oakland, I overhear this guy say to hs lady friend "Now I just gotta find a bootlegger". I raised my hand. :) He gave me two analogs and I'm making him copies of the two shows. Lucky guy, huh? The next day, in the parking lot, I was playing the bit of analog master I had and some girls walked up to me and asked me about it...so they too are getting analogs of both shows. I suppose that's a good way to get phone numbers and i guess dates, huh? Go around to concerts, make it known I have tapes, and find my new lady love...I hope those people weren't thinking I might try to scam them...how awfull that would be for someone to do that...and for such pitty things as a few blank tapes...
Speaking of lady loves...Saw Beth walking in the Mall yesterday. "Get to work" she said. That was it. Won't see her again for a few days, and then when I do I decided I'm gonna hafta come down on the "we can only be friends" bit. There's simply no time for a relationship. Of course, part of me is hoping she'll wait for me...any love sick fool would, but she's not the type I'm sure. It's better anyway. Right now what grinds is the fact that it's more being in love with the *idea* of being in love I think. It's not a two way relationship right now...she still knows next to nothing about my inner self, my journal, my hobby, my thoughts...barely knows *anything* about school.
But still, I close my eyes and I see her, clear as day. I lay myself down to sleep and my heart pounds thinking of her. I know this is special because I've never felt quite like this before...
I've been worrying about my line up inspection before shipping next month. The acne has definately been learing up, but there's still some cysts there on my back. Will they black flag me because of *that*? They did before, or tried to anyway. Of course, it would make people happy if they kept e from shipping. Mom and Dad would be glad I didn't go, Christa would be glad, Derek would be, Justine would, others would, and to various extents, I would be too. It would give me time to explore this relationship...I wouldn't miss these crucial years of Katrina's development...
The thing is, my mind has been so completely made up that I wouldn't really know what to do. I'd end up here, at home with mom and dad, for at least a few more months, i guess looking for a job...can't do delivery anymore...it's getting to me and my car as well.
Walking into the show last night, security caught me trying to smuggle my rig in...I went back to the car, sewed the pack back up, and tried the other doors...success! I was stunned to be actually caught. first time ever. Thank goodness the guard at the other entrance wasn't as thorough searching :) I'm sure there was at least one or two other tapers there at both shows, but I'm leaving and don't have time to track them down...I know that at least one schoeps man, bruce, wasn't there. Probably a minidisc->core sound omnis somewhere, maybe a schoeps. kurt might have gone, I dunno...but doesn't matter. Got my excellent tapes thankyouverymuch. This tape sounds better than I had though it would...there were these two people sitting near me completely unfamiliar with Tori and were talking back and forth at several points in the show...but it doesn't show up too much luckily...shudder to think what would have showed up on the omnis had I run them...
Christa was in shock. Tori played Mother, Spacedog, Siren, Purple People, the new Waitress...all kinds of songs she loved. Matt Chamberlain, of early PJ fame (worked with them on _Ten_ before Dave Krusen took over, to be later replaced by Dave A., then Jack Irons, and for this recent tour, Matt Cameron of Soundgarden....drummers are a dime a dozen it seems...) was awesome. Not just an incredible Tori, but a top notch band as well. Caton on guitar, John Evans on bass...
Down to the wire now, one last song to see if the 90min tape will work out...
Christa now, on the other hand, has *impeccable* timing. She called *just* as I was about to Zterm into sorrel to upload this...
And *damnit* but I need 32 more seconds...OK, try another
tape. this time thouhgh I can just use the counter first to see if mebe...fingers
crossed. i don't wanna hafta run out and get some 100's...
12:58PM
Of course I did hafta run out *looking* for 100's. I
hate that nowhere near here sells 4 packs on a regular basis...touch and
go so I looked and found none...hadda come home christa will be here soon...