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Old 08-16-2017, 11:16 PM
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Iowa '86 is a personal favorite. It has it all. She definitely looked her barfly best (and hottest) on this tour. Plus - that twirl!!

I like when she gets down low to have a little chat with Waddy. Looks kind of dirty.

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17 Reasons This 'Rhiannon' Clip Is the Coolest Thing in the Universe


1) This Rhiannon is performed on the 19 April 1986 in Iowa City at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena. It is just around the 5th date so Stevie is still at the beginning of the Rock a Little Tour, the peak of her self-indulgent lifestyle (it is at the end of this tour that she got into the Betty Ford Clinique). Other videos of this tour can be found on Mistralwindbebe’s youtube channel, that features performances from Ames, Cuyahoga Falls, Jones Beach, Lincoln and Dallas (which includes a rare Sara performance, since the song was dropped after just four dates): https://www.youtube.com/user/mistralwindbebe/videos

2) It is during the Rock a Little era that Stevie’s voice shows the greatest change and damage, so this tour marks a relative point of no return for her career as a singer. This early performance however is particularly noteworthy because it shows a very energetic but still present Stevie, with shrill but powerful vocals. At the time she had already lost most of her higher range and her voice sounds uncomfortable to the point of losing some of her signature emotional expressiveness. However she makes up with an even more overdramatic and histrionic stage behavior and a desperate, bleating singing. The Philadelphia Inquirer says, in a review of the 6 May concert: “Stevie Nicks...possesses a first-rate rock-music voice - throaty and intimate, pitched low and just a little bit ragged around the edges. It is an alluring, confiding voice, yet Nicks often uses it to belt out loud, fast songs. Therein lies the central aspect of her appeal: she sounds like a delicate waif who has decided to get tough - sheer heaven for listeners who like to think of themselves as sensitive, but not suckers…Nicks inspires devoted fans who adore her loopiest apostrophes to gypsies and wood nymphs. But the most skeptical observer would be very hard pressed to deny that she is a very good rock vocalist, and occasionally an inspired one…Nicks sang with the delicate balance of passion and befuddlement that this marvelous work deserves.”

3) On this tour Stevie truly experimented with the 80s fashion, sporting big back-combed hair, fluo streaks, ruffles, lace corsets and all-eyelid makeup. On stage she brought out all her different outfits from the previous years; to quote her about her style, she doesn’t really change, she just keeps “adding layers”. For this Rhiannon performance, she wears the same black velvet cloak of her Wild Heart album cover:

4) The song starts with its usual slow intro featuring the amazing sound of flutes before Stevie’s voice kicks in.

5) She switches some lyrics but doesn’t even blink an eye.

6) Stevie’s voice is throaty but powerful. She interposes parts in which she belts out the lyrics to parts in spoken verses. During this parts Stevie, enveloped in her cape, resembles a renaissance poet or a priestess that recites a mystical poem.

7) When the second part of the song begins, the lights switch on and we can get a glimpse of Stevie’s sparkling black dress under the cape while she starts singing out with her signature trilling voice.

8) Stevie’s voice sounds uncertain and she herself seems nervous fumbling her arms about the stand. However she recovers herself during the chorus when the audience starts singing along, gaining her confidence back with her vocalisms and clapping her hands.

9) During the second chorus she takes down her hood and lets loose with her improvisation, her voice now a plaintive warble: “Oh she rules her life like a fine skylark babe…” flapping then the hems of her cape like wings before closing them tight around her body and starting to growl low.

10) After the mid-song pause, Stevie begins her Rhiannon chant, with a spin that opens her cloak wide after each verse “Dreams unwind love’s a state of mind yeah…” then also flipping her hair “I know you know that your dreams unwind and love is hard to find…”

11) After that the lyrics starts to grow more and more unrecognizable as Stevie takes the microphone in her hands, bends down and slowly steps back. Soon her vocals turn into a simple wavering lament. This is the closest, and also the last, that we see her signature “Rhiannon rage” solo.

12) After the end of the Rhiannon coda, Stevie can’t help herself to return screaming at the microphone twice.

13) Stevie twists and turns her arms and hands daintily while pacing around the stage, slowly walking towards her fans.

14) When she gets to the stage boarder she has the crowd in her hands. During this Rhiannon edge-walk we can see that she’s still totally capable of doing it, just like the Tusk documentary performance of Sisters of the moon.

15) When Stevie reaches the end of the stage she bursts into a frantic spinning string, her arms spreading out her cloak and revealing the brilliant mass of her black silk gowns that now billows in the motion.

16) She finishes in a shrill cry barely distinguishable: “Oh, take me to the sky, dreamer!”

17) Spreading out her imaginary velvet wings Stevie turns her back and crouches on the floor with her head down in a worshiping manner until the last note fades.
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