Editor,
I wanted to write in response to the review by Libby Kelly about the Tori Amos concert.
Although she was disappointed in the crowd's response to Tori, please understand that it was a demonstration of incredible willpower and respect on the part of her fans.
During the last leg of the American tour, Tori made statements to the press indicating how she wanted her concerts to go.
The following is from the Dec. 4, 2002, edition of the Rocky Mountain News, a local Denver paper. It was written just before her show there.
"Fans will also find something different this time around. Amos has started a no-standing policy for most of the show."
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"People get really upset right now if they've got a ticket and can't see," she says. "You have a mutiny on your hands."
The fans who get those up-close tickets work hard for them, she says, and "you know me - I'm not gonna have one person hold 6,000 people hostage. That's not gonna happen at my show. It's crap."
Fans are to sit down and listen during the main part of the show, she says.
"People can stand once we hit encore time," she says. "The inmates can take over the asylum at the end."
Tori Amos has touched and inspired her fans all over the world and I think respecting her wishes is the least we can do.
Hope you enjoyed the show.
Becca Monta§o
UNM student
