Evening: Tori Amos, solo at Benaroya Hall. I've been playing so much piano over the past six months that this show feels like a sort of homecoming. I first saw Tori back on April 28, 1992 in Cambridge, at a tiny little jazz club called Nightstage - this was her first US tour, just before "Little Earthquakes" exploded. Saw that small, intimate 1992 show w/ Karen Thomas, Lauren Passarelli and Cindy Brown (met Lauren and Cindy at a Music Biz seminar earlier that spring.) Tori was about 10 feet away writhing and chanting and singing up a beautifully intricate pianostorm. Even back then, it was clear that Tori was going to change the female singer/songwriter 'category' forever.
Almost exacly 13 years and many many amazing CDs later, Tori is still writing and performing exceptional and challenging music that both wires and inspires me to keep going.
In a month of major coincidences, before the Friday April 22, 2005 show, Regina and I ran into Artis the Spoonman talking to a friend outside the Benaroya Hall main entrance. Great to catch up briefly having not seen him for a long, long time. He mentioned he was headed over to play w/ Steve Vai at a show that was happening at the Showbox, just down the street? Smallish world in Seattle, non?
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