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gypsy4life

12-19-2009, 11:01 AM

It's no secret, I want these guys to tour together, but, I'm starting this thread because I read on the HeartMonger blog that Stevie sang What About Love with them on stage in the 80s!!

Have any of you heard or seen this performance. I think Grace Slick was in on the performance also. I'd LOVE to hear it or see it.

Sanne2

12-19-2009, 05:51 PM

I've heard that too, but if there was a recording it had popped up by now. But the strange thing is there aren't even pictures, you think somebody would photograph that, Heart, Stevie Nicks and Grace Slick all on the same stage!
Almost as frustrating as the fact that there are a lot of pics of Stevie on stage with Kenny Loggins, but not one recording of them performing "Whenever I Call You Friend".

Haunted_Song

12-19-2009, 05:54 PM

I have the recording on cassette tape, but the quality is horrible. You can make out Stevie's vocals though!!! :nod: If no one else posts it, I will try to get it transferred.

GoldDustBoy

12-20-2009, 02:16 AM

Here you go. The quality is BAD, but I don't think there is a better recording:

http://rapidshare.com/files/323359058/Stevie_Nicks___Heart___Grace_Slick_-_What_About_Love__live15.12._86_.mp3.html

Dodfather

12-20-2009, 04:54 AM

GoldDustBoy

12-20-2009, 06:06 AM

Oh my God! This makes me so happy. I love Heart and had no idea that they had ever performed with Stevie. A tour with both of them would be incredible. I'd HAVE to travel over to the US to see it, I couldn't miss it!

I did hear that These Dreams was originally written for Stevie. That and the romantic mess that was Heart were, I thought, the only connections between them.

These Dreams was written originally for Stevie, as was Call Me which ended up being a Blondie song. Ann and Nancy spoke of Stevie as a really nice person in an interview I read a long time ago.

AgeOldDesire

12-20-2009, 08:09 AM

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z184/dexterdee2000/027-4.jpg

:)

Dodfather

12-20-2009, 08:59 AM

These Dreams was written originally for Stevie, as was Call Me which ended up being a Blondie song. Ann and Nancy spoke of Stevie as a really nice person in an interview I read a long time ago.

Yeah, I'd heard that Call Me was written for her. I dunno how that would have worked. I can hear her doing the verses but not the chorus so much. Man, Debbie Harry...so damn HOT!

vivfox

12-20-2009, 09:28 AM

Here you go. The quality is BAD, but I don't think there is a better recording:

http://rapidshare.com/files/323359058/Stevie_Nicks___Heart___Grace_Slick_-_What_About_Love__live15.12._86_.mp3.html

This link doesn't work. :sorry:

AgeOldDesire

12-20-2009, 09:31 AM

Yeah, I'd heard that Call Me was written for her. I dunno how that would have worked. I can hear her doing the verses but not the chorus so much. Man, Debbie Harry...so damn HOT!

Agreed. From what I remember, Giorgio Moroder wrote the music and submitted a demo version of it to Stevie so she could write lyrics to it. For whatever reason Stevie couldn't do it. So the demo was then sent to Debbie Harry who then came up with the lyrics that we all know and love today.

GoldDustBoy

12-20-2009, 05:45 PM

Sorry if the link was broken. Here is a link from megaupload. Hope it works...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LMUBU6R3

gypsy4life

12-20-2009, 06:33 PM

Thanks for the song! I wish they'd do an album together. I mean, they all have plenty of money, maybe they should do some fun stuff at this point in the game. A Stevie/Heart album would be priceless!!!

grace_face

12-22-2009, 03:03 AM

WOW! HOW COOL!!! I've seen a bit of the studio outtake clip with Ann and Grace, but had NO idea Stevie had done this too! YAY!

ragrsrocalot

12-22-2009, 09:15 AM

Thanx for posting this. I never heard it before. Now I want more, more, more.:laugh:

Musicman408

12-22-2009, 09:38 AM

See, a tour with Stevie and Heart I could get more excited over than a Mac tour with the Eagles!!!

kak125

12-22-2009, 11:03 AM

omg i would die if stevie and heart ever performed together. heart is one of the few bands on my list that i have really been wanting to see for years and years. for some reason they never come to pittsburgh so i guess if i ever want to see them i gotta leave the city to do it - ha! heart and stevie have so many good songs that they could perform and then they could do a few songs together as well.

badanimals87

02-16-2010, 08:45 PM

gypsy4life

02-16-2010, 10:32 PM

Here's a slightly better version of What About Love with Nicks & Slick. The original recording was playing waaaaaay slow so I tried to correct that so it's a little more listenable.

What About Love (w/ Stevie Nicks & Grace Slick) (http://www.mediafire.com/?yzymnnizmnm)

OMG!!! tahnk you a thousand times!! I have been listening to the old one, and this is SOOOOO much better! You have made my whole week with this!

ButterCookie

02-17-2010, 12:03 PM

Yeah, I'd heard that Call Me was written for her. I dunno how that would have worked. I can hear her doing the verses but not the chorus so much. Man, Debbie Harry...so damn HOT!

Oh yeah!

as was Call Me which ended up being a Blondie song.

Wait... What?! Tell me more! I love Blondie more than I love FM (That's a LOT) And I'd not heard about Call Me being written for Stevie?

AgeOldDesire

02-17-2010, 12:57 PM

Oh yeah!
Wait... What?! Tell me more! I love Blondie more than I love FM (That's a LOT) And I'd not heard about Call Me being written for Stevie?

Giorgio Moroder made a demo of the music only. He wanted Stevie to write the lyrics for it and then record it for the soundtrack. For whatever reasons, Stevie couldn't commit to it. The demo was then handed over to Debbie who wrote the lyrics we all know and love.

ButterCookie

02-17-2010, 01:00 PM

Ohh,

I was gunna say 'I really can't imagine Stevie singing it' Then realised she wouldn't be singing 'Roll me in desginer sheets, I'll never get enough' she'd be singing her own lyrics :o

vermicious knid

02-21-2010, 04:56 PM

Supposedly Stevie's new solo record deal prevented her from doing a song on another record label and that's why she couldn't do it. The American Gigolo soundtrack was released by Polydor, by the way. The label that dropped Buckingham Nicks. Maybe Stevie didn't want to deal with them anyway.

baboles

02-21-2010, 10:21 PM

Agreed. From what I remember, Giorgio Moroder wrote the music and submitted a demo version of it to Stevie so she could write lyrics to it. For whatever reason Stevie couldn't do it. So the demo was then sent to Debbie Harry who then came up with the lyrics that we all know and love today.

Yes. You're correct. I can't even imagine Stevie singing the lyrics of Call Me. I'm not saying it's a bad song, but it's just not for Stevie. Debbie Harry did a brilliant job with the lyrics for Call Me. I freakin' love Blondie!

I like the idea of a Heart/Nicks tour too! You never know what may happen!

michelej1

02-22-2010, 02:13 AM

[Here's a New York Time article discussing Stevie and Blondie, with a little Heart talk as well.]

New York Times (NY), September 20, 1981

Section: 2

SOLO DEBUTS FOR ROCK STARS

JOHN ROCKWELL

A solo album by a member of a rock band is always fraught with a certain danger. The very act of deciding to make such a disk can put a strain on the band's sense of itself as a communal enterprise. If the record proves successful, the harmony may be further disrupted. If it fails, the individual loses credibility both within the group and with the public.

The reasons for making such records are many. An artist can feel constrained by the chosen style of her group (since the individuals to be discussed here are women, we might as well use the feminine possessive pronoun) and wish to explore some different idiom. Or she may be tired of the group, and have every intention of going out on her own if enough people buy her solo album. Or she may simply be restless.

Neither Stevie Nicks nor Debbie Harry has announced any intention of breaking up their respective groups, Fleetwood Mac and Blondie. Actually, it seems unlikely that there will ever not be some sort of "Fleetwood Mac"; the band has gone through so many shifts of personnel and survived that Mick Fleetwood and John McVie could probably carry on by themselves if they had to. Blondie without Miss Harry, however, who is Blondie, would be unthinkable.

Both women have come forth with their first solo albums recently, and neither represents all that striking a departure from the styles of their parent bands. But both seem commercially successful, with Miss Nicks's "Bella Donna" (Modern Records MR 38-139) at or near the No. 1 spot on the charts and Miss Harry's "KooKoo" (Chrysalis CHR 1347) lower down but climbing sturdily.

Miss Nicks's album is essentially an extension of the slightly posey, little-girl-playing-dress-up-witch dramatic and musical image she has propagated in her songs on Fleetwood Mac's recent albums. But it is also the most appealing of the albums under consideration here. Miss Nicks's voice, which grows periodically frayed and unsteady under the pressure of touring, sounds solid enough, although it has hardened in timbre, too, and lost some of its reedy fragility. Her backup bands from track to track consist mostly of Los Angeles session men, with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on some cuts and the whole brew seasoned by miscellaneous Eagles and Roy Bittan of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. They all provide good, tough, inventive rock arrangements that complement Miss Nicks's songs and singing.

The songs themselves, composed between 1973 and 1980, range attractively in mood, but the themes are a little hackneyed. Like too many rock stars, Miss Nicks writes directly f rom her own experience. The trouble is that her current experience is that of being a rock star, which is a theme handled with greater poetic insight by other writers. She also is fascinated by the occult and by love, but once again her treatment of these ideas is not striking from a strictly verbal standpoint.

Still, rock songs, like all songs, work from a blend of music and words, not by words alone. Miss Nicks's songs, especially when sung by her, attain an individuality that is both seductive and undeniable. "Bella Donna" may not signify the liberation of a talent heretofore curtailed by membership in a band. But it is a nice record.

Miss Harry's "KooKoo" is more striking as a concept, for the alliance of potentially synergistic talent, than as actual sound. On its recent albums Blondie has used Mike Chapman as its producer, although Giorgio Moroder contributed a fascinating arrangement and production for the single "Call Me." At one point Mr. Moroder was going to be used for the last Blondie album , but for various reasons the collabora tion collapsed. Miss Harry and her boyfriend, Blondie's guitarist Chr is Stein, then turned to Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards to pr oduce Miss Harry's solo debut.

Both Mr. Moroder and the Rodgers-Edwards team are known for their work in disco, the latter with Chic. But in the past few years Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Edwards have branched out to produce records in varied styles by other artists. Now that disco is "dead," they have given Miss Harry what amounts to a dance-rock record with snippets of other idioms.

The trouble is that the songs are neither so wide-ranging as those on recent Blondie albums nor are they illuminated with Mr. Chapman's gift for the clever pop hook. Miss Harry has long epitomized the minimalist-robotic school of singing. If Miss Nicks is full of eccentric personality, Miss Harry is the dispassionate, witty but cool chronicler of sexual and societal mores. That puts all the more emphasis on the arrangements, and on "KooKoo" the arrangements just don't seem that special.

Miss Nicks and Miss Harry, on their own or with their bands, are two of the most popular female pop singers on today's market. Another is Pat Benatar, whose third album, "Precious Time" (Chrysalis CHR 1346) has already streaked to the top of the charts and fallen back a bit.

Miss Benatar has incurred considerable disparagement from the rock press. She is not this writer's favorite, either, but many of the complaints about her seem undisguisedly sexist. Miss Benatar's chosen idiom is male-strutting, macho-aggressive heavy-metal rock. People find her assumption of that stance to be calculating and false, but it is tempting to see their complaints as a simple unwillingness to accept any woman on what has conventionally been male turf.

Yet the Wilson sisters of Heart were not dismissed with such scorn when they imitated the sound of Led Zeppelin. There is something calculated about Miss Benatar's little growls and the gritty guitar chording of her otherwise neatly controlled band. On the other hand, many of the most popular male soloists and male bands today are similarly calculated. And Miss Benatar does have a fine, strong voice. If one's idea of rock-and-roll is still of burning, personal expression, then she will not seem very interesting or important. But on the level of the workaday entertainment that epitomizes mainstream popular music today, all honorable craft with few aspirations to anything higher, she fulfills a function that is not so despicable as some of her detractors seem to think.

Musicman408

02-22-2010, 03:22 PM

That song was dopeness!!!

Fannymac

02-26-2010, 03:00 PM

I was at that show....it was at the Universal Amphitheatre! It was Stevie, Grace and one other:p person (I forget who!).
Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli were sitting right behind us.
Went to the after party, and I hate to say it, but both Ann and Nancy were two of the biggest be-otches I've ever met!:p

Fannymac

02-26-2010, 03:03 PM

Giorgio Moroder made a demo of the music only. He wanted Stevie to write the lyrics for it and then record it for the soundtrack. For whatever reasons, Stevie couldn't commit to it. The demo was then handed over to Debbie who wrote the lyrics we all know and love.

Interesting......I'd heard the song was already completed, and Stevie just didn't like the lyrics (sort of like with "Owner Of A Lonely Heart").

SapphireSister

03-05-2010, 03:48 PM

Here's a slightly better version of What About Love with Nicks & Slick. The original recording was playing waaaaaay slow so I tried to correct that so it's a little more listenable.

What About Love (w/ Stevie Nicks & Grace Slick) (http://www.mediafire.com/?yzymnnizmnm)
Is Stevie singing alone in any part of this song or just in the choruses?

Madelow

03-11-2010, 04:23 PM

Hello all: I haven't seen Heart live since the mid-80s, but a concert with Stevie would be sensatonal! Probably only happening in our dreams, but, it's great to be able to dream! Best regards, Madelow.

RockAlot

03-11-2010, 04:35 PM

Is Stevie singing alone in any part of this song or just in the choruses?

I've only heard this maybe twice and I dont hear Stevie at all? Maybe its just me?

SapphireSister

03-11-2010, 04:55 PM

I've only heard this maybe twice and I dont hear Stevie at all? Maybe its just me?
Nope, I don't hear her either. :shrug:

StandbackStevie

03-11-2010, 07:03 PM

I don't hear her either i did her ann wilson say here are some our good friends Grace Slick and Stevie Nicks I did hear that i am guessing they sang the background vocal difficult recording to hear everything. wish i was there at that show. And Yes Totally would love to see This Tour Happen Stevie Nicks and Heart would be awesome to see on the road together would love it for years maybe down the road it would happen doing two headlining shows so we get at least 90 minutes from each like she did with Don Henley that was awesome loved that show when the played at Mohegan Sun had front row right in front of Stevie on the Gold Dust Tour in 2005. Awesome Show.

gypsy4life

03-11-2010, 09:51 PM

If you listen closely, you can hear Stevie on the choruses, and toward the end, I believe, she does some of her signature wailing...it's just not as prominent as usual.

I only know this because I became addicted to it slightly, and listened an embarrasing amount of times..lol!

StreetAngel95

03-13-2010, 04:44 PM

nailatixela

03-13-2010, 04:48 PM

well apparently, according to this ebay post, it was performed in Kansas City, in '87 and it was tagged on to this bootleg...description says the quality is good.......
ebay - Sometimes it rages (http://cgi.ebay.com/Stevie-Nicks-SOMETIMES-IT-RAGES-fleetwood-mac-RARE-cd86_W0QQitemZ110503942033QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19ba8c5791)

That picture says it's a show from 87, but the actual discription is offering her 86 Weedsport show. This user doesn't even have any feedback, so I don't think we can trust her auction in this situation.