Tori’s opening message from the Plugged ‘98 tour book...

Hi.

I am aware more of clocks now that we’re on the road. When we’re not on the road I meander and curve around till I figure out where I want to go sometimes just curving around is the funnest it gets.

At about 4.00 PM, when we’re touring, another sensation makes herself slowly known. The sensation is without question a presence that I cannot put a name to. What I do know is that she tries to give me and the crew clues to where the current in tonight’s “show” is.

At soundcheck, for me anyway, I haven’t found my emotional way “in”. It usually isn’t until I go sit backstage and just allow myself to travel with a Jaguar Eye.

Sometimes I sense one of the band or one of the crew has found an ethenic way “in” to that particular town’s current - so they become a window in order for the rest of us to prepare the magic carpet ride.

Obviously everybody that shows up brings a different set of maps and codes and decoding devices that decide our course.

As always, I never know where we’re going but I know we’re going.

See you there.

Tori.