So, this happened last night. Only Tori Amos show I could do this year wound up being the best one, according to the folks who have been to all of them. I wasn’t even going to go but my friend Karolyn was kind enough to offer me a ticket a few days ago. Tori played a boatload of requests, including mine above. Had waited 13 years to hear this song and it was worth it. Thank you to the brilliant YouTube person, OtterFreak, for videotaping this. Yay, technology. I have been so slammed with work lately and it was really awesome to be able to drop into this world for the first time in years and get a setlist like last night’s in my own backyard. So. Good.

(Tori Amos- “Ode to the Banana King” Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. December 18, 2011).

Update: “Ode to the Banana King” is a Little Earthquakes B-side. It was released on a rare limited edition UK single of “Silent All These Years” in August 1992. Not much is known about its origins or meaning, except that Amos has said that the outstanding “Pretty Good Year” was written as Part 2 to this track, and the Lucy character is the same in both. According to the esteemed Woj of ToriSet.Org, Amos played this song for just the fifth time in 20 years (about 900 shows), and for the first time in the United States since October 1998. Rock.