Thoughts on music

[forgotten_aria]

I saw my first live concert in a LONG time (thank you SO much for the invite, you know who you are.)

I think one of the things it has shown me is how much I've changed as a musician (which I am sadly still struggling to call myself that especially now that taiko is actually coming to an end, no really, why are you looking at me like that?) Because it was Tori Amos, it sparked some memories from college. About someone (who also knows who they are) encouraging me to sing, which is still a rare thing. (And voice, control and ear-wise I have come SO FAR since then.) But is was more my memories of how I used to not like live shows because the differences from the album would annoy me unless it was ENOUGH different (like a completely different style or a like.) But now I think I have much more diverse musical pallet such that I loved it when it was a lot different or when it was a little different. I could hear textures that I don't think I could hear before. I was also understanding her stage presences and how she interacted with the audience.

I was also intrigued that she looped herself for the first song, since I want to get more into looping.

As a side note, I don't quite know what I was expecting, but the crowd was different than I had expected. As it was pointed out, most of the differences were that people were just older, but there was this kind of calmness and observantness that I usually don't get, that was until people got IN the theater and had their brains sucked out by their BRIGHT phones and had a bit of standing inappropriately.

I had also hoped for Happy Workers just for the obscurity of it, not that it's that great a song, but it would have amused me just like "Welcome to my Fog" did when I watched the BOBs in concert WAY back in the day.