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Amos Goes Ape****!

Posted Dec 14th 2007 3:52PM by TMZ Staff

A word of advice: don't disturb Tori Amos while she's working.


Two fans learned that lesson the hard way and ended up with a verbal smack down from the crotchety singer before they were unceremoniously booted from her Wednesday night concert in San Diego. Code Red!

The piano playin' mama was in mid song when she suddenly began lashing out at the girls: "It's a privilege to sit in the front row. I reserve those seats for people who appreciate music. Get the f--- out!"

So much for being silent all these years.

UPDATE: A rep for Tori's record label just contacted TMZ with the following statement: "Tori doesn't sell front row seats to her shows. She'll pick fans that are in the back row and she will upgrade them. It is a privilege to get picked. Apparently these two girls were on their cell phones all night... It was her sticking up for her other fans that missed out on the opportunity."



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1. OUCH!!

Posted at 1:28PM on Dec 14th 2007 by sheila

2. No one buy her CD! She's a bitch!!!

Posted at 1:29PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Jennifer

3. The RIAA extorts money from people

Posted at 11:01PM on Dec 15th 2007 by Evil music companies.

4. That was great!

Posted at 1:31PM on Dec 14th 2007 by auramac

5. Our Tori has finally grown up and gotten on TMZ! Anyone who's been a fan of hers knows that she expects her fans to be respectful during her shows. She's not a 20-something pop-star. She gives her dedicated fan-base an awsome show. Part of that comes from her audience (devoted fans). Both aspects have to align. Btw, TMZ, this is hardly the first time this has happened. Try and keep up!

Oh, and Jennifer, you say "bitch" like it's a bad thing.

Posted at 1:34PM on Dec 14th 2007 by kerry

6. Tori Amos is so ugly

Posted at 1:38PM on Dec 14th 2007 by rrscott

7. What did they do to get booted?

Posted at 1:38PM on Dec 14th 2007 by curious

8. Good for Tori! I'm tired of going to concerts and having imbeciles around me talking the whole time! Hello, you paid to watch someone perform, can't you shut the f*#k up for a couple hours? If people want to talk, stay home, turn up the stereo real loud and do it so I don't have to hear you. Show some respect to the performers and everyone else who really comes to listen to them live. Idiots!

Posted at 1:45PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Jennifer

9. What an angry way to deal with this. I would have bent down and had a quiet chat with the offenders between numbers, and given a civil warning of the impending boot first, and let them realize their rudeness and settle down. How very ungracious of Amos, plus she managed to make other audience members an ugly kind of uncomfortable with her aggression. Amos was ungracious, and has a lot to learn. Not impressed. Very diva-ish. Pffft.

Posted at 1:41PM on Dec 14th 2007 by FVocalist

10. Tori is awesome and I think it's a good thing she made an example out of those a-holes. Think about how rude it is when you are at the movies and someone won't shut the hell up! Multiply that by 100, and that's probably how Tori was feeling--and the fans around who paid good money to sit up front. People need to understand how they can't get away with being obnoxious--that it will eventually catch up to them...

Posted at 1:44PM on Dec 14th 2007 by tori fan

11. Good for Tori. If those two "ladies" and I use the term loosely wanted to talk and interrupt everyone else's enjoyment of the concert they should have never went. Apparently, those two were really annoying for Tori to have noticed while doing a concert. Go Tori!!

Posted at 1:47PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Sweetie

12. There are ALWAYS venue employees there who are trained to deal with this sort of thing in a diplomatic fashion.
Amos could have given one of them the heads up, and professionally continued on with good feeling.

Posted at 1:52PM on Dec 14th 2007 by FVocalist

13. Tori's fans appreciate intimate concerts, and are genuinely fans of her music. Tori was totally justified kicking their asses out.

Posted at 1:54PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Recovering Toriphile

14. Well, I'm bloody glad I don't live in the States with all you posters cheering on this public slapdown. Perhaps your audiences are really that rude there, considering how rude most of you are. Good Manners must be going the way of the dinosaur where you all live, replaced by bullying aggression. Ugh.

Posted at 1:56PM on Dec 14th 2007 by Ugh.

15. Excellent!! Nothing worse than paying to see one of your favorite performers and have it ruined by some idiots talking during the show. Especially when they have to almost yell at each other to be heard over the music. It's disrespectful to the artist as well as annoying to other audience members. Tori only said with others in the crowd were thinking. If other audience members had acted, then there probably would've have been some sort of altercation that would've been more disruptive. I've seen other artists actually end the show early because of loudmouths in the audience. I've never heard much of her music but I would certainly give her a standing ovation for being so protective of her audience

Posted at 10:19PM on Dec 15th 2007 by dragn

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