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Originally Posted by secret love
Hi everybody,
Have a listen to this:
I think that's Stevie playing piano. Doesn't it sound just gorgeous?
Don't know about anybody else, but I would LOVE to see Stevie play her own stuff more often. Obviously with Christine and Brett Tuggle, it's never going to happen in Fleetwood Mac. But why not at a solo show? She has done Rhiannon this way for VHS Storytellers.
I think she could nail Planets of the Universe live on piano, especially if she included the "defamatory" verse about Lindsey Buckingham.
Thoughts? Is she a closet pianist?
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This isn't even the best version of this song. This is her standard plunking.
She doesn't play as well now as she used to. If you really want to hear her at her best playing piano, listen to the Sisters of the Moon demo. i think early on in FM, maybe because there were now more people around her (besides just Lindsey) who played instruments and played really well, she tried harder to be a better player. There was a time when she was attempting to play guitar onstage maybe for one song as well, but nothing seemed to come of it. Christine was quoted in a magazine saying that while Stevie wasn't a great player, she gave Chris a solid basis for understanding what she wanted on a song which helped Chris. She even said she was encouraging Stevie to play onstage even one song, and then Stevie could be known as a musician as well as a singer. But on the one hand Stevie is too aware of her limitations as a player and on the other hand, honestly, she's not dedicated enough to practice and do the hard (dull) repetitious work to hone her skill. She'd rather have fun. And then, in my opinion, she went into a phase of thinking everything she did was instant magic (a lot of drugs in those days) and being a bit to cocky about it. And now the time really has passed; she's not going to put the effort in now. It's sad, because honestly she could not play the song now the way she plays it on that recording. She can't play Sisters the same as on the demo either. She tried it once back during the Tusk tour and it was not good (in an interview). She plays a song over and over while writing it and gets a certain momentum and skill to it, and then it goes to the band and she never really plays it much again and loses what skill on it she had.
And now she writes to other people's tracks, so I honestly wonder how much music writing she's even doing anymore. You can only stretch those three chords so far. (She admits to this).