"Musical insubordination" meant she refused to read sheet music & preferred playing Led Zeppelin over classical music. She recently delivered a graduation speech at Peabody, so they welcomed her back & acknowledged her accomplishments.
nice. i'd love to see tommy react to more tori - his comments were really thoughtful, and i like that he focuses a lot on the piano. the way she uses/features it in so many of her songs is genius! btw, she's still the youngest person ever accepted into johns hopkins' peabody institute at age 5.
About the instruments behind her - this was shot at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991 where she was opening for The Moody Blues, which is why there’s a bunch of instruments behind her and she’s playing an electric piano instead of a real piano. Her set was completely solo. It was before she released Little Earthquakes so she was pretty much completely unknown at the time. The next year, after LE was released, she came back to the festival and did her own headlining set (also solo), where she had upgraded to a real piano (a Steinway; she hadn’t yet started playing the Bösendorfer that she became quite known for later in her career). Both sets are available on DVD/Blu-ray as “Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 1991/1992”.
It was Johns Hopkins music conservatory, and back in those times it was a strict classical conservatory (in the late 60's/early 70's) . She was admitted at age 5, and kicked out at 11. She continued on to play gay bars with her minister father as chaperone, then in the 80's she fronted a glam-rock band, before in the early 90's taking the dive into what made her famous. She's literally been playing the piano for 60 years.
Incredible performance.
"Musical insubordination" meant she refused to read sheet music & preferred playing Led Zeppelin over classical music. She recently delivered a graduation speech at Peabody, so they welcomed her back & acknowledged her accomplishments.
nice. i'd love to see tommy react to more tori - his comments were really thoughtful, and i like that he focuses a lot on the piano. the way she uses/features it in so many of her songs is genius!
btw, she's still the youngest person ever accepted into johns hopkins' peabody institute at age 5.
Ive nwver seen this version of this song before, and i legit just cried.
Such an amazing performance and song.
About the instruments behind her - this was shot at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991 where she was opening for The Moody Blues, which is why there’s a bunch of instruments behind her and she’s playing an electric piano instead of a real piano. Her set was completely solo. It was before she released Little Earthquakes so she was pretty much completely unknown at the time.
The next year, after LE was released, she came back to the festival and did her own headlining set (also solo), where she had upgraded to a real piano (a Steinway; she hadn’t yet started playing the Bösendorfer that she became quite known for later in her career). Both sets are available on DVD/Blu-ray as “Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 1991/1992”.
thanks for that information!
It was Johns Hopkins music conservatory, and back in those times it was a strict classical conservatory (in the late 60's/early 70's) . She was admitted at age 5, and kicked out at 11. She continued on to play gay bars with her minister father as chaperone, then in the 80's she fronted a glam-rock band, before in the early 90's taking the dive into what made her famous. She's literally been playing the piano for 60 years.
Absolutely love Tori ❤
You should check out the version of this song with the full band (Matt Chamberlin on drums in 1998, I think)
thank you for the review :)
Bryan, you picked another banger!
Thanks Lakken!
React to Prog rock near metal version of this song with her full band! Sessions at West 54th is a good one 1998!
Ok, I get you guys might possibly be filming multiple videos in a day, but can we hold off on eating crunchy foods until between takes please?
Noted, good call.
You have to watch this live version with her band: czcams.com/video/Kpk_ZjdGPnE/video.html
put down the popcorn, Tommy... No one wants to hear that. (said like Valerie Cherish)
Lady Gaga stole all of Tori's piano playing style
she stole from Madonna, From Tori but all in cheap watered down version