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...Fleet Center, the massive new home to most of Boston's major league sports teams, hardly seems like the appropriate forum in which to showcase Tori Amos and her piano-playing skills. Her intense performances and haunting, almost ethereal songs would surely get lost in the monstrosity of a sports arena that resembles the interior cargo area of a spaceship more closely than it does a concert hall. Besides, if the area itself didn't drown Amos and her talents, surely the throngs of screaming goth-clad alternateens would...
...previous albums have? Or is it precisely because Amos now wants to play in arenas like the Fleet Center, with its copious quantities of seats and t-shirt sales and the opportunity to play on an enormous stage with a huge light show going on behind her? Has Tori Amos--gasp--sold...
...Devlins, the opening band, played a decent but unimpressive set. They received enthusiastic applause after every number, but when the lead singer thanked Tori for asking them to play, the roars were almost deafening, signifying who everyone was really there to see. Although it took over half an hour to set up the stage after the Devlins left, in only a matter of seconds the lights dimmed, the black curtain at the front of the stage was ripped down, the band started up and Tori Amos--clad in a dazzling blue sequined dress and black leggings--waved hello...
...bass lines sounded familiar, but not until Amos began the piercing piano riff was it clear that the first song was "Precious Things," a gut-wrenching number from Little Earthquakes, her first album. While the opening notes brought tears to the eyes of many Tori devotees, the volume of the guitars and drums seriously muffled Amos' passion-filled voice. The speakers sounded filled to capacity, and unfortunately, with only a few exceptions, they remained maxed out for the remainder of the evening...
While it would be easy to hold the evening's shortcomings against Tori Amos and believe that she is beginning to sell out, this is an accusation that many of her more long-time and devoted fans don't want to make quite yet. Perhaps she is only steering slightly in an unexplored direction rather than taking the plunge full-force into the mainstream. The concert was disappointing in many ways, but the sheer volume of the songs still felt like a nice energy release for music that has so much emotion swirling inside of it. In addition, the gargantuousness...