Full Version: Solo 1995 Tour
I really dont know if any of this has been mentioned before but i keep asking myslef why the hell would Liz tour alone when she a had massive amount of stage fright. wouldnt it be better to tour with other people if you had stage fright. also i was reading a lot of reviews from the tour and some people said she only used her red fender musicmaster and an extra acoustic guitar for emergences. does anyone else understand why she toured all alone ??
from this article:
bW: Why did you decide to tour solo?
Liz: Because I want to do something different. I don't want to do the same thing with the same guys anymore. I didn't want to throw together some kind of pro lineup, and do the pro slick tour. Also, if you are going to build another band -- if you're going to create a different sound on your next album, it's a good idea to go back and figure out what you sound like, by yourself, because you forget. It's like anything. If you start creative writing and then you goto school for ten years and then you go back and read something that you wrote ten years before, you think, "Wow there was something here that was really me, and now I just sound like everybody else." I'm trying to come back to terms with what I am musically, before I add other people on again.
bW: Why did you stop touring last fall?
Liz: The reason I canceled the tour in the fall was because I had done a shitload of press in the summer for the release of the album and I felt incredibly, emotionally fragile. People were picking at me, poking at me, manipulating me, and I was fighting with photographers who were trying to put me in skimpy outfits and shit. I got so overwhelmed by the end of the summer. I just kept thinking, "What the fuck am I doing? I could go back to grad school and do something. I don't want to hate my job." I felt that if I went out with the guys and did the band thihg, that it would be forever known as me and these guys and that it would be impossible to get away from them at that point. I'd either have to fish or cut bait. I'd either have to go out with my band, do the rock thing and be a road rock-n-roll act or I'd have to make a change so that I could try and love my job again.
bW: How do you feel about touring now?
Liz: I'd love to not have to tour. There are a lot of reasons why I do it, and it's not because anyone forces me to. It's because all those things in your life that you're scared to do, that you feel inadequate at doing, that you avoid, and that change your life, well, this is one of those things. I was so terrified of performing that no one knew I wrote songs until I was 25 or 26, because I didn't want to have to get up there and show them. I was so scared. It's just facing your fears. It's something that makes me feel better about myself the more I conquer that feeling.
bW: Why did you decide to tour solo?
Liz: Because I want to do something different. I don't want to do the same thing with the same guys anymore. I didn't want to throw together some kind of pro lineup, and do the pro slick tour. Also, if you are going to build another band -- if you're going to create a different sound on your next album, it's a good idea to go back and figure out what you sound like, by yourself, because you forget. It's like anything. If you start creative writing and then you goto school for ten years and then you go back and read something that you wrote ten years before, you think, "Wow there was something here that was really me, and now I just sound like everybody else." I'm trying to come back to terms with what I am musically, before I add other people on again.
bW: Why did you stop touring last fall?
Liz: The reason I canceled the tour in the fall was because I had done a shitload of press in the summer for the release of the album and I felt incredibly, emotionally fragile. People were picking at me, poking at me, manipulating me, and I was fighting with photographers who were trying to put me in skimpy outfits and shit. I got so overwhelmed by the end of the summer. I just kept thinking, "What the fuck am I doing? I could go back to grad school and do something. I don't want to hate my job." I felt that if I went out with the guys and did the band thihg, that it would be forever known as me and these guys and that it would be impossible to get away from them at that point. I'd either have to fish or cut bait. I'd either have to go out with my band, do the rock thing and be a road rock-n-roll act or I'd have to make a change so that I could try and love my job again.
bW: How do you feel about touring now?
Liz: I'd love to not have to tour. There are a lot of reasons why I do it, and it's not because anyone forces me to. It's because all those things in your life that you're scared to do, that you feel inadequate at doing, that you avoid, and that change your life, well, this is one of those things. I was so terrified of performing that no one knew I wrote songs until I was 25 or 26, because I didn't want to have to get up there and show them. I was so scared. It's just facing your fears. It's something that makes me feel better about myself the more I conquer that feeling.
contrary to what she said above, liz later divluged that she received a letter from Atlantic's legal department stating that she was expected to tour. If was probably do that tour, or fork back over some of her advance. Left to her own devices i don't think she would have done that 95 tour.
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