In the same spiral bound notebook that had the first 2 set list, I found this one, from a couple of months later. Shag came in town for it, and Jake, and 4 of his friends were with us. Somehow all 6 of us got in Row 3 with a perfect angle to watch Tori play piano. I got to hear China and Honey and she relented to a peristent fan that kept screaming ‘Song For Eric’. She opened with a cover of Bad Company (which was strange) and had started the tradition of opening each show with a cover of some sort. A lot of those covers made it onto a well circulated tape called Under The Covers. I taped the show with my little Panasonic recording device but it came out not to good as you imagine. I actually found Honey on a tape and ripped it to the hard drive for nostalgia.
The show was grand, but I think I remember the tour of the American Theater more than the show.
Like I said, we were in the 3rd row (heh heh heh) and Shag and I were standing up getting our stretch on before the opener (Peter Stuart, later of Dog’s Eye View) when we had a Rollins-like conversation:
Me: Hey Shag
Shag: Yeah
Me: You see that light right under the stage (there was a thin rail of light indicating space under the stage)
Shag: Yeah
Me: What do you think that is
Shag: That looks like backstage or something Nick.
Me: Do you remember that door in the bathroom.
Shag: The one that looked like a closet door but had a desk in it (we had investigated already)
Me: Yep.
Shag: I bet that door goes to that light
Me: Let’s go check it out.
So we head back to the men’s room for what we expected to be a trip through the looking glass, Jake and his friend’s Andy and Don (the other 2 of his friends were girls and couldn’t partake, na na nana na) joined.
I opened the door, poked my head in to scope the scene, and there was a guy behind the desk who grandly stated. “Welcome to the bowels of the American Theater!” That sounded pretty welcoming so I took a step in and everyone else followed suit.
Turns out he was the maintenance manager and was very gracious about showing us around not backstage, but understage. He did point out a door that went backstage but did so by saying, “I don’t really talk those folks too much.” There was all kinds of stuff scattered about from all of the old seats, the receipt books back to 1910 (which was the earliest I can remember), and as he was talking about the states of repair of different stuff Jake and Andy and I were trying to find small things to steal that wouldn’t be noticed. Since taking a 75 year old folding leather seat was out of the question we grabbed a 1/4″ reel promoting a production of Oklahoma and a stack of business card sized tickets to a Charlie Brown play of some sort. While we were down there when Peter Stuart started his set, and we made it back to our seats in time for the last couple of songs. Then Tori took the stage and performed this set:
American Theater 9-24-94
1. Bad Company
2. Crucify
3. Waitress
4. Icicle
5. Precious Things
6. God
7. Angie
8. Happy Phantom
9. Me & A Gun
10. Bells For Her
11. Cornflake Girl
12. China
13. Honey
14. Silent All These Years
15. Song For Eric
Here’s a detail I almost forgot, and am kind of sorry I remembered it. Tori was doing 2 shows that night and we were at the early one and I remember that she did Purple Rain and Pretty Good Year and I think Past The Mission in the second set. Dammit dammit dammit.
Also, a fun website to browse is Toriset. It has an exhaustive data base of Tori shows and what songs she played where, how often, all that stuff.
