bluesman905 wrote:Pollyphoniac wrote:bluesman905 wrote:Hey PollyP how many shows did you make it to?
eleven shows in total, Tori shows that is, on this tour. which means Tori is still only in second place this year, Polly being in the lead (albeit by one show only).
I've seen the same band twice in one year but never seen back to back shows, let alone a whole string of them! Must have been an enjoyable journey.
when going to Tori shows, seeing (and hearing) them back to back is really the right way to catch the variations in her setlists. it's when you skip a couple of shows that you run the risk of getting more songs that she already played on the previous occasion that you went to see/hear her. (because some songs tend to rotate with a certain regularity, a song is more likely to be played again not in the very next show but in the third.)
the journey itself was rather like a knife cutting both ways: some hardships were involved which sort of kept a total balance with the joys of traveling. (some of these hardships were of a kind that can be blamed on other people, certain inconveniences imposed by the train companies, aggravations concerning certain hotels - some of these details make for an interesting story, but I feel reluctant to share them in a forum such as this.)