Welcome to Sunny Florida

Interview with Tori | Interview with Tori's mom

Welcome

Directed by Loren Haynes.
Filmed on September 4, 2003
at Sound Advice Amphitheatre
in West Palm Beach, Florida.



"Eighty-something..."


"Uh, my first one was in 1998."


"I only went to ten, so I'm kinda new."


"I'm guessing somewhere around twenty-two, now."


"Um, how many Tori Amos shows I've been to..."


"Today's my fifty-seventh show."


"This is my ninety-fifth show."


"This is somewhere around my seventy-fifth show."


"I've been to a hundred and twenty-five shows total. A lot, [laughing] that's a lot of shows!"




"I started touring in '98, on the club tour."


"1992."


"Uh, my first one was in 1998, when I was fourteen. Yep." [laughs]


"Yeah, I started in April, so it's all kinda been a whirlwind."


"It's just been fun more traveling around the shows and meeting everyone. I mean, it's been who I've made friends with over the years. It's really been who part of who I am."


"I really like Merman, but my favorite cover that she's ever done is Do It Again, and I wish to god she would play it, if she please would. [laughs] I know she can." [laughs]


"I do have a favorite song, but I don't think she's gonna play it tonight. Uh, Liquid Diamonds. So if you're there, play some Liquid Diamonds. She could throw it down, I'll be happy with that."


Clip from Precious Things


"It's funny because, you know, when people ask me about touring and they say, 'Well, when are you, you know, gonna get back to your real life?' I said, 'This is my real life.' So, yeah, tonight is bittersweet."


What do you think about this rain?
"This isn't gonna keep us down, Loren."


"Yeah, I've never seen this much rain before." "Downpour."


"Welcome to sunny Florida."


Later that day... | Tuning the piano.


Matt Chamberlain (drums) | Jon Evans (bass)
"We started, what, last September, rehearsing. What is it, September 3rd, now?" "Yeah, so it's the better part of a year, and uh..." "It feels like we went on a serious journey." "You look at pictures and beginning of the year you're a lot younger-looking than you are now." "Yeah. I'm working on a tour baby, actually. What, it's been about eight months? Yeah." "I've got back bellies, and you know, all that stuff."


Soundcheck.


Tash wanders down the hall, then finds her mother.


"There is a place you go when you play, like no other place I've ever been. And maybe being a mom has made the music kind of come together, in a way. I sort of think so because by putting another person first, I think I also was able to put Scarlet first."


Tori says to Tash, "You know, this is the last concert, huh?"


Tori, Tash, and some crew members sing "Ring a ring of roses" before the show.


"I felt like this tour needed to be a metaphorical fire, like a fire ceremony for the Native people."


Tori, Matt and Jon put scented oils on her arms.


"We begin every night with Wampum Prayer because I felt like we really needed the old Apache woman on Scarlet's Walk. And it's sort of her bleessing, or curse, to the settlers who have to come to America who have taken and taken and taken. And so she bestows, "Greed is the gift for the sons of the sons, hear this prayer of the wampum. This is the tie that will bind us." And then the music comes. The drums begin."







a sorta fairytale
Sugar
Crucify
Cornflake Girl
Bells for Her
Concertina
Take to the Sky
Leather
Cloud On My Tongue
Cooling
Your Cloud
Father Lucifer
Professional Widow
I can't see New York
Precious Things

Encore:

Tombigbee
Amber Waves
Hey Jupiter


[transcribed by jason/yessaid]