Music365 Chat
October 28, 1999
Added October 28, 1999
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Music365 Chat
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 While she was in the U.K. preparing for her solo show in London, Tori did a web chat for the U.K. web site Music365 on Thursday, October 28 at 3:00PM British time. (Which was 10:00AM ET in the U.S.) Read a transcript of the chat below. There were a couple of really good answers in this one. I also want to say that despite the fact that Tori said there could be a tour of Europe in the Spring, at this time there are no definite plans to do that. It is only a possibility... You can find a cleaned up, edited version of the transcript at the Music365 web site. The complete one is below. Chat TranscriptThanks to Kristen (TwinkleGrrl) for her assistance. Moderator: Okay, here's the scoop
M: Tori is about to call
M: Oh, here she is, i think
M: Oh, false alarm. But anyway, they will be here soon. That's what the PR
officers tell me.
(a few minutes later)
M: here is she!
Tori: Hi
Question: You know how much we *love* you solo with a piano. Why don't you
treat us to it very much on recent albums? *snuggling tori to bits*
T: Sometimes as a musician, you're at different places creating and as a
composer. The show tomorrow at the festival hall is all piano. Sometimes it
feels right and sometimes i feel more collaborative.
Q: Are you actually a keen gardener, or more a gardener of the soul? Any
handy tips?
T: I'm somebody who believes in hiring a good gardener. I have a good
gardener in the tropics but she tells me Hurricane Irene knocked out my
garden. Datura contains all the flowers in my garden, and I don't know which
ones survive, so I have to go salvage them.
Q: Tori, you've been experiementing with a lot of electronics on the last two
albums, any places on following in that direction or something completely new?
T: Electronics are the instrument of the last 15 years, so they're part of
your repetoire, and I feel like it's better to know what they do rather than
be ignorant of what they do, so you can choose whether to use them or not.
Q: Do you like Indian food?
T: Umm umm umm, depends if i'm seeing my husband that night
Q: Since the plan for releasing a live/bsides album was changed when the new
work unraveled itself, are there any plans in the future to ever release a
bside record?
T: When we approached the bside project, we had to approach it
holistically...there are over 50 bsides. To start choosing which ones gets
into pissing a lot of people off. We have to put a whole bside box set,
that's a big undertaking and not something I'm going to do until I'm by the
pool for a while. Hold on to your rarities.
Q: Are you on MP3.com?
T: Not anymore...only streaming when Alanis and I were on the double show.
Q: Why do you reckon mermaids so fascinating to you, and (have always been) to "us" in general?
T: Let me think...many years ago I was reading this book about La Muria (bear
with me on the spelling) and supposedly this was pre-Atlantis if you're
talking to the medicine women. This one medicine woman in the states believed
that there were so many stories about mer people associated with this place,
whether it was associated with mythology or whether it existed, she didn't
know, but the myth has existed for thousands of years.
Q: If you could describe your musical universe with five words, what would
they be?
T: The bose is nine feet.
Q: I heard you are giving the Venus unreleased songs to a soundtrack
maybe...is that true?
T: Not necessarily, I'm quite protective of them right now
Q: From all your fans all over the world: Where will you be going on tour
next?
T: Touring...maybe Europe in March. You have to serve the Christians over the
new year first.
Q: I know this is kind of personal, but I noticed you thanked Eric Rosse on
your last CD, although he was kind of absent on the last two. How much a part
of the new work is he?
T: He hasn't been a part. I haven't worked with him on the records since UTP,
but he's such...let's put it this way, when you live with somebody for almost
eight years, they show up "in these lines form time to time".
Q: Tell us about your new look.
T: Do I have a new look? Suzanne Deeken, who designs for Ghost, created a lot
of my clothes for what I'm doing right now.
Q: What do you do with all the many gifts you get from fans at your concerts?
T: The gifts....this is why we have so many buses and trucks. Usually, they
end up in this special place in my parents' house because they have the
space. They have a lot of space. I think it makes them happy. They're
retired, they're packrats.
Q: When it boils down to just you and your faeries as companions, what kind
of company do you feel you keep in the empty moments?
T: It's never empty because the faeries make sure....they're really their
when the chips are down. That doesn't suck.
Q: Do you ever get the urge to play something other than a keyboard?
(she never answered that question =) )
Q: What advice could you give to young people writing their own music today?
T: Hmmm...well, you have to clear on your intentions as a musician, and if
it's to get played on the radio all the time, don't feel guilty about that,
but it's a different skill than being a poet trying to follow in the
footsteps of Neil Young. Don't be upset if radio doesn't play you. sometimes
it crosses over, those crossroads meet, but not all the time. Be clear about
what you want to do. You don't have to explain it to everybody. No guilt.
Q: How was your tour with Alanis and do you hope to work on tour with anyone
in particular in the future?
T: I thought we had a good laugh she and i, we did 28 shows in the states,
and we had a lot of challenges on our plate. And I think we worked with them.
It's another to have worked with someone and still like them. I still like
her.
Q: We know you're a big lover of wine. Can you make any affordable wine
recommendations for your fans?
T: Wine...the good spanish reserves are really good now, the 95s. Really
great. Australian Clarendon Hill, 94 and 95, Silver Oak, Napa Valley, the 95
is gorgeous. Really rick. I'm a big lover of pomerol, snoop and you can find
pomerol deals. If you can get a 94, they're good drinking, if you can get an
89, treasure it. All of these are around $US40 out of a wine shop. The
spanish reserves should be cheaper. I recomment people ordering out of
Premier Cru from Oakland.
(the question was repeated here)
T: Read it and study the wines, order a case, mix it up and try things. Read
the descriptions and trust your instinct.
Q: The single for Glory of The 80s got cancelled again for the UK...what
gives?
T: All the recommendations are red
T: Les Pucelles Montrachay...these are $40 or so, but I'm really into white
burgany. Kissler's always gorgeous. Sonomoa Cutrer, special vintage.
Moderator: Tori, check out the Glory question
(repeats question)
T: I'm the typist and I recommend Jackson estate Sauvignon Blanc.
T: I've got to go...call Prima Cru...order a catalog...don't make wine inaccessible. Make your own experience, don't be scared. It's good for you. Jesus drank it! [Thanks to Ursula Kirkland for the web link!]
T: I'm saying goodbye....toodles...
M: Ok, Tori is logging off now
M: Thank you so much for coming to the chat everyone
Commentary About The Chat from Ken ToughThe chat seemed to go generally well, I thought. ... I might just be saying that because several of my questions got asked, although one of the most interesting (do you ever get the urge to play anything other than keyboards?") was unfortunately not answered. Towards the end Tori got asked a question on wine, and there was no stopping her from that point. Chat lasted about 1/2 hour, started about 10 minutes later than planned. Questions were posed by callers in a free-for-all chat, and selected ones were passed on and answered in a moderated no-post chat. Seems there were some technical hitches, as Tori was confused at times by questions that managed to sneak by the moderator somehow at times. Official transcript will appear on Music365 site. |
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