Isn't Stevie too fat to be on stage?

[Wldhrt315]

Please just let this thread die. I don't want to see this on the top of the Rumours forum anymore. A few of us tried to bury it at 1st but that didn't work. Lets just change the topic. Thank you.

[jwd]

They said Stevie walked over to the wings of the stage between songs, and some audience member (idiot) in the front row yelled "throw a twinkie on the stage, maybe she'll come back out!"

I'd say maybe a side of beef would have done the trick!

Like someone already said so accurately...Stevie has always been and always will be pretty...fat or thin....she's got the mojo going on...and hey she really does write some beautiful songs and that voice.......AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!


Joe

[David]

Originally posted by EnchantedSLN
I imagine Stevie was already kind of disheartened at that time because of the "failure" of Street Angel (I know it's not her best, but hey... I really like it!), and I can see how that, coupled with some cruel concert reviews tearing her down because of her appearance (and jeez, sit's not like she really even looked that bad!) might take the magic out of doing what she loved. Pretty sad. Especially since she gave some killer performances during the SA tour! Her voice was stronger than it had been for a long time.

Yeah, I thought she was super that year. I was so glad to see her out of that Timespace zonked-out funk. Early on in 1994, Stevie seemed so thrilled to be going out on the road & she wanted to plan a world tour. The next thing you know, you hear Stevie tell radio people that the tour is over & she's ashamed of something-or-other & she's going into virtual hiding.

It was all very bizarre. I don't think it was the concert reviews so much (you can read several of them in BLA & they're unusually positive) as the gossip column type of stuff. In other words, it wasn't the reviewers; it was the Patrick Goldstein "Pop Eye" type of stuff that frequently cracked weight jokes about her. She must have spotted (or been told about) a couple of those, & that planted the unhappiness & the unwillingness to continue the tour in her.

[chiliD]

I saw her at the Greek Theatre (in L.A.) on the Street Angel tour. It was one of the best I'd seen by her solo. She didn't LOOK all that great, but she SOUNDED wonderful. (it was also one of the best bands she'd assembled, too...Rick Vito, Russ Kunkel, Sara Fleetwood...just great!) My only complaint about that show was that it was too short (damned curfew at the Greek cut the show short)

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

What a crap thread! I'm sorry...don't mean to offend anyone but really!!! I have been fat and thin....i have recently lost close to 75lbs.....for me though and not for anyone else. I hate that there is such issue's about what people weigh. It is so unfair and so personal. I am still the same person I was when I was 75lbs heavier....my friends loved me then and love me now. I do have to admit my confidence was at rock bottom when I was big and I can imagine how it must have been for Stevie to walk out on stage not feeling comfortable with how she looked.

Pip

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally posted by jwd

Like someone already said so accurately...Stevie has always been and always will be pretty...fat or thin....she's got the mojo going on...and hey she really does write some beautiful songs and that voice.......AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!


Joe

Amen to that. It isn't just what someone looks like on the outside either....true beauty comes from within and I feel sorry for people who are too blind to see that

Pip

[wondergirl9847]

Originally posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon
true beauty comes from within and I feel sorry for people who are too blind to see thatPip

Blind people are the TRUE SEERS in this world...for they see a person's soul....

[Vianna]

I had the privilege of seeing Cass Elliott once or twice on tv, and weight or no weight, she was an awesome singer.

Stevie may not be a young as she once was or as slender, but she is still an awesome performer.

Since I did not have the opportunity to see Stevie on stage before her involvement with drugs, I see a great difference in her today as opposed to when I first saw her on stage which was 1987. She is so much more "present" now than when I first saw her.