Wild Heart - Dressing Room Demo/Outtake

[Thrown_Down]

Does anyone have this amazing version in higher quality than youtube video? Did she ever record it this way as a proper demo or outtake? I'd love to have a better copy.

This is the performance I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZbjlKIXY8k

[bombaysaffires]

Thought I'd seen most of the youtube clips but somehow had missed this one til now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPv2nnj3UQI&NR=1

[AnthonyMI]

Thought I'd seen most of the youtube clips but somehow had missed this one til now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPv2nnj3UQI&NR=1



Can i axe jist one question? Is Stevie Nicks Bootylicious? I don't think she was ever known for her butt...

[WildHearted]

Can i axe jist one question? Is Stevie Nicks Bootylicious? I don't think she was ever known for her butt...

Well, she mostly wears skirts/dresses or nowadays long shirts that cover her booty... so you can't really see!

[sorcerer999]

What sucks is that she's in the actual music video for a split second. Blink and you miss her. Both the director and DC say they're huge Stevie fans and WANTED her in the video...yet they give her 2 seconds, if that.

[Musicman408]

This has always been my favorite video, since like... EVER!

[TakenByTheSky23]

Thought I'd seen most of the youtube clips but somehow had missed this one til now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPv2nnj3UQI&NR=1

What is this from? Of course we've all seen the actual video, but this is great! Why oh why didn't they manage to squeeze in the part at 1:05 when she's flailing around and getting down? Sinful!

Back to the original topic of this thread (NO IDEA how the Bootylicious thing appeared in here, though I welcome it!), I can't help. I'm sure we would have heard a better quality version of the wild heart dressing room demo if it did exist.

[SuiteShangriLa]

What is this from? Of course we've all seen the actual video, but this is great! Why oh why didn't they manage to squeeze in the part at 1:05 when she's flailing around and getting down? Sinful!


its from the making of the Bootylicious video that aired on MTV. the original upload is mine... i edited out all the other stuff and just posted the Stevie part...someone keeps stealing my videos!:(
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WXDqjlDp--U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[chele_belle]

its from the making of the Bootylicious video that aired on MTV. the original upload is mine... i edited out all the other stuff and just posted the Stevie part...someone keeps stealing my videos!:(

Well, that first video posted here is on my channel, but I didn't steal it from your channel. I bought a load of compilation DVDs from iOffer a while back and have been slowly uploading... everything on my channel is off those dvds, other dvds I've bought or stuff people have given me. If you're saying that you originally made the video, then I'll gladly take it down. I just grabbed the stuff off the dvds I bought and didn't think where they had originated from. :distress:

[SuiteShangriLa]

Well, that first video posted here is on my channel, but I didn't steal it from your channel. I bought a load of compilation DVDs from iOffer a while back and have been slowly uploading... everything on my channel is off those dvds, other dvds I've bought or stuff people have given me. If you're saying that you originally made the video, then I'll gladly take it down. I just grabbed the stuff off the dvds I bought and didn't think where they had originated from. :distress:

no you dont have to take it down...i just keep seeing my videos pop up on other peoples youtube pages. its not just that one on yours. i just assumed people were re-uploading them? i didnt know anything about a dvd from ioffer. so someone is ripping youtube videos and burning them to dvd and selling them on ioffer???? wtf?
but that is def. the video i made from a vhs tape that i filmed with my ipod, thats why the quality is so crappy. :nod:

[SuiteShangriLa]

sorry if i came across the wrong way...but when i first uploaded my Secret Love video

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="250" height="250" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x-ErMsMOLWA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


that i worked so hard on making...within the first week it was posted, it showed up on 3 other pages. not as a link or a favorite, but posted as the users own video. i had to ask them to please remove my video. so now maybe you can understand where im coming from?

[chele_belle]

no you dont have to take it down...i just keep seeing my videos pop up on other peoples youtube pages. its not just that one on yours. i just assumed people were re-uploading them? i didnt know anything about a dvd from ioffer. so someone is ripping youtube videos and burning them to dvd and selling them on ioffer???? wtf?
but that is def. the video i made from a vhs tape that i filmed with my ipod, thats why the quality is so crappy. :nod:

Oh, I totally understand. I'd be really pissed if someone took the stuff I'd spent hours ripping and then editing - in fact there's one channel that really peaves me off because they grab stuff from other peoples channels and then plaster their channel name all over it and reupload. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people sharing stuff... the more Stevie stuff we can get uploaded, the more likely it is to get seen, plus I don't own any copyrights, so have no claim to it... but I really object to the watermarks all over the videos.

Anyway, rant over! :) Yeah, it looks like someone is ripping people off on iOffer... although being in the UK, we don't get that much promo stuff, so it was worth the cost to me. :)

Great video btw! :)

[randydesertrat]

Here are slightly higher quality versions of the Wild Heart Dressing Room Demo.

The "full" version begins with Stevie singing a line from "Love In Store" and then going into "Wild Heart" and there is a bit of talking at the end.

The "edit" version begins and ends with the music of just the "Wild Heart" portion.

Both are presented here in lossless WAV file format and 320kb mp3 format. Enjoy!


Wild Heart Dressing Room Demo [Full Version] Lossless WAV format:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zwc04ebb47q2vyz

Wild Heart Dressing Room Demo [Full Version] 320kb mp3 format:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?077wte0mc07zvve

Wild Heart Dressing Room Demo [Edit Version] Lossless WAV format:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ryf6s7oi6n2n03n

Wild Heart Dressing Room Demo [Edit Version] 320kb mp3 format:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n46rwghrtg6d4s8

[britt0308]

Thank you ^^^ for the great WAV files. SO unbelievably happy she spoke about this on GDNY..don't think she has ever done so publicly. It's a clip that deserves the attention.
:thumbsup:

[michelej1]

[Author Lindsay Hunter offers a music playlist for her short story collection]

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2013/07/book_notes_lind_2.html

"Wild Heart," Stevie Nicks (this version)

"Don't blame me / blame it on my wild heart" is just the kind of thing any of the characters in this collection could holler out the window of a speeding car. Where do these impulses come from? they might wonder. From me, or are they part of my DNA, are they the motor that keeps me alive? I specified this version as opposed to the album version of the song because it is raw and unpolished, and it's clear Stevie has forgotten the lyrics in one part, and all of this means it's imperfect and totally unique, a moment in time that can never be repeated. Which is how I like to approach storytelling. Get the story out and let it be done.

[michelej1]

Arkansas Times, August 26, 2014 by David Ramsey

http://www.arktimes.com/RockCandy/archives/2014/08/26/art-online-ilovemakkonnen-rosalias-sunset-tea-fleetwood-mac

I'm going to piggyback off of Benji's pick [which was Tusk] and highlight the best thing the Internet ever found, the five-minute grainy footage of Stevie Nicks getting makeup for a Rolling Stone photoshoot and working out how "Wild Heart" will go (see below). People, I have goose bumps on my goose bumps. I am alive, awash, rocked, renewed. Only 866,000 have viewed this on YouTube! That means literally billions of humans walking the earth have not seen this. Music is the stuff of angels and aliens. What I'm trying to say is that when Stevie sings, it is from another place. Like received wisdom. A reminder that physics is an insufficient explanation for our universe.

Here in this universe there are them that are suckers for Stevie Nicks and them that ain’t. Pity the latter. — David Ramsey

[PenguinHead]

Does anyone have this amazing version in higher quality than youtube video? Did she ever record it this way as a proper demo or outtake? I'd love to have a better copy.

This is the performance I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZbjlKIXY8k


It appears to me that she is singing to an early-stage track of the song, still in production. It's not so earth-shattering to me; it would be if she actually performed it on her Wild Heart tour.

[vivfox]

It appears to me that she is singing to an early-stage track of the song, still in production.

She's singing to an early track of Lindsey's Can't Go Back.

[MoonSister75]

I like this >>>

Arkansas Times, August 26, 2014 by David Ramsey

What I'm trying to say is that when Stevie sings, it is from another place. Like received wisdom. A reminder that physics is an insufficient explanation for our universe.

Here in this universe there are them that are suckers for Stevie Nicks and them that ain’t. Pity the latter. — David Ramsey :nod: :laugh:

[secondhandchain]

I have a question about this video. It was filmed about sept 81. Stevie claims the Belladonna tour ended (and that she was in tears during the last song) because she had to join FM in france to start recording Mirage. But the sessions in France were done months prior to that. Plus she had the unfinished Can't Go back track to sing along to, and also was singing Love in Store. So I am assuming the Bella Donna tour was so short because she had to go back to doing overdubs? Her sense of history sure is off.

[PenguinHead]

sorry if i came across the wrong way...but when i first uploaded my Secret Love video

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="250" height="250" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x-ErMsMOLWA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


that i worked so hard on making...within the first week it was posted, it showed up on 3 other pages. not as a link or a favorite, but posted as the users own video. i had to ask them to please remove my video. so now maybe you can understand where im coming from?

I appreciate the work you did. It's well edited, and more appealing and creative than some of the videos from which you sourced.

[Macfanforever]

I love the dressing room version better with Lindsey's Can't Go Back backing then the studio cut .Even with the smoke alarm chirp and the telephone ring in it.LOL.............

[starshine]

I have a question about this video. It was filmed about sept 81. Stevie claims the Belladonna tour ended (and that she was in tears during the last song) because she had to join FM in france to start recording Mirage. But the sessions in France were done months prior to that. Plus she had the unfinished Can't Go back track to sing along to, and also was singing Love in Store. So I am assuming the Bella Donna tour was so short because she had to go back to doing overdubs? Her sense of history sure is off.I think this was filmed in NY when Stevie was doing the cover shoot for the Rolling Stone issue of her for Sept in 81 issue but I'm thinking it was done in July of 81 not sure but I'm sure it was a couple of months before it was released. I do love the RS video shoot, it makes me wish we could see all her video shoots that were filmed. Like for her LP's covers. Kinda like what we got on Crystal Visions from the Bella Donna LP. She made video's of all her solo LP recordings that I know of. Its surprising with the demos' and outtakes of songs that have gotten out that more rare video hasn't though. I do like this version but the song is in its raw state and well I do love the LP version much more. Its just wild and great. :D:shrug:

[michelej1]

By Michael Andor Brodeur Boston Globe Correspondent January 27, 2015

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/01/27/stevie-nicks-wild-heart/BN4pm1UKjhcbGHeIuJPOSL/story.html

Stevie Nicks, wild at heart

Rare is the casual Fleetwood Mac fan. It’s not unusual for devotees of the seminal rock band — responsible for such hits as “Landslide,” “Gold Dust Woman,” “Don’t Stop,” and “Gypsy” — to tend toward completism, gobbling up everything from Lindsey and Stevie’s 1973 pre-Mac “Buckingham Nicks” album to the members’ various solo albums and the promising 2013 comeback EP “Extended Play.”

So for those already twirling in anticipation for the band’s Wednesday night appearance at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, this candid five-minute clip of raw Stevie power will be of special interest.


Shot backstage in 1981 at a photo shoot for Rolling Stone, it captures a young Stevie Nicks unable to sit still while getting her makeup done, and lapsing instead into a rapturous take of “Wild Heart” — a song that would find its way onto her second solo album, “The Wild Heart.” But attentive ears will hear a discrepancy: The music she’s singing over is actually a demo of a song that would become “Can’t Go Back” on Fleetwood Mac’s 1982 album, “Mirage.” Are you dorking out yet? Because we are fully dorking out.

Oddly (and predictably), this impromptu mashup is pretty much perfect, a fleeting Fleetwood moment caught by kismet for the ages (and arguably better than either of the tracks she fused to conjure it). The clip provides a gripping glimpse of a legendary talent at full force, and proof that Nicks can summon the sublime from the ether of her everyday. There’s magic all around her, if I do say so myself.

[UndoingTheLaces]

[Author Lindsay Hunter offers a music playlist for her short story collection]

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2013/07/book_notes_lind_2.html

The version that's been linked to this blog is the cleanest I've seen. When I had an old copy of a copy of a copy of a bootleg vhs tape back in the day I always thought Stevie was backstage at a Mirage rehearsal and while she's vamping on Love In Store, Lindsey was on stage and decided to upstage her by starting to play his song. She says something like "this kills me" and I always thought that she meant he was always trying to upstage her. But now that I know the real story of this video I know none of that was true. In fact, I had forgotten all about her comments at the beginning. Then today, watching this very clear copy, I noticed that when Can't Go Back starts up she says "This is the one... that he wrote... it kills me... this is what kills me..." I'm wondering if she's talking about the lyrics (his take on how he's moved on with his life and will never go back to her). Which makes the fact that she then takes his piece of music and sings her own response all the more delicious.

[bombaysaffires]

The version that's been linked to this blog is the cleanest I've seen. When I had an old copy of a copy of a copy of a bootleg vhs tape back in the day I always thought Stevie was backstage at a Mirage rehearsal and while she's vamping on Love In Store, Lindsey was on stage and decided to upstage her by starting to play his song. She says something like "this kills me" and I always thought that she meant he was always trying to upstage her. But now that I know the real story of this video I know none of that was true. In fact, I had forgotten all about her comments at the beginning. Then today, watching this very clear copy, I noticed that when Can't Go Back starts up she says "This is the one... that he wrote... it kills me... this is what kills me..." I'm wondering if she's talking about the lyrics (his take on how he's moved on with his life and will never go back to her). Which makes the fact that she then takes his piece of music and sings her own response all the more delicious.

except it doesn't appear that he's got any lyrics for it yet… certainly none on the recording, so saying 'this is what kills me' wouldn't make any sense to the person she's talking to coz all they'd hear was the music. I think she's just saying, this is the one with the music that kills me coz it's so good or coz it lends itself to my song or whatever.

[teedeerocks]

I love the dressing room version better with Lindsey's Can't Go Back backing then the studio cut .Even with the smoke alarm chirp and the telephone ring in it.LOL.............

What version is this? I thought there was only one version.Can you post recent links b/c when I clicked on it,it said not available(or something to that effect).Thanks!

[Dreamz19]

its from the making of the Bootylicious video that aired on MTV. the original upload is mine... i edited out all the other stuff and just posted the Stevie part...someone keeps stealing my videos!:(
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WXDqjlDp--U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Wow, this takes me back to being 14 years old again. I watched that when it originally aired. I became a huge Stevie fan around this time and was so excited to see that she was going to be in a DC video. I was a fan of them as well.

[UndoingTheLaces]

What version is this? I thought there was only one version.Can you post recent links b/c when I clicked on it,it said not available(or something to that effect).Thanks!

It's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEhIoKeTg0

[PenguinHead]

What version is this? I thought there was only one version.Can you post recent links b/c when I clicked on it,it said not available(or something to that effect).Thanks!

What song are you referencing? Can't Go Back? If so, this isn't so much a version; it's an early instrumental template of the song. I first saw this clip on a bootleg VCR tape I obtained decades ago from a bootleg trade -- a seemingly primitive era, long before the internet existed. I never made the correlation between the two songs at the time.

Fleetwood Mac was in the early stages of recording Mirage, while Stevie was developing material for her second album. It appears that she used Lindsey's early instrumental track as a guideline for the gestation of Wild Heart. They released the album, and embarked a short tour. Then Stevie went to work on her second solo album. The song evolved into an epic saga with very little relation to the song that became Can't Go Back.

The clip is interesting from a historical standpoint. It' shows the song in primitive form, lacking the arrangement (and probably the lyrics that became the end result.
It's insightful for several reasons. It reveals one of the techniques Stevie uses to develop her songs. It's also the precursor of Sharon's and Laurie's assimilation into the Fleetwood Mac camp, after as Stevie formed life-long, sisters of the moon bonds with them in her Bella Donna phase.

[michelej1]

[Mark Duplass finds the video a surefire pick me up] 2/25/2015

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/mark-duplass-on-cassavetes-kale-smoothies-and-stevie-nicks/?_r=0

Stevie Nicks, backstage on an early ’80s Rolling Stone shoot, singing “Wild Heart” on a bad VHS recording

“When I’m feeling a little depressed, a little anxious, a little depleted, I lean on that clip. And it works about 100 percent of the time! It’s about the magic of a weird little moment that you can’t plan. I’ve built my whole creative process around that. You can feel lightning in the video — she’s making up harmonies as she goes, on a warbled VHS that should put her out of tune but somehow doesn’t. The recording of ‘Wild Heart’ that she professionally made and meticulously crafted six months later, it pales in comparison to that moment.” Ebet Roberts/The New York Times

[michelej1]

Stereo Gum, 9/5/2016

http://www.stereogum.com/1897218/justin-vernon-explains-uncredited-sample-of-viral-stevie-nicks-video-on-new-bon-iver-single/news/

Justin Vernon Explains Uncredited Sample Of Viral Stevie Nicks Video On New Bon Iver Single by Peter Helman

Bon Iver performed their upcoming album 22, A Million in its entirety at Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires Festival last month. Last night, Vernon held a press conference to debut the official studio version of the LP, inviting journalists to Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s unopened Oxbow Hotel to hear it and participate in a 90-minute Q&A session.
When Bon Iver’s new single “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠” arrived a few weeks ago, many recognized a sample from a popular YouTube video of Stevie Nicks singing “Wild Heart” backstage. And at the press conference last night, as Pitchfork reports, Vernon explained why he used it and why it’s not officially credited:

She requested that we not talk about it in the liner notes. I respected her wishes. Mostly didn’t want to get asked about working together when we didn’t work together. And I totally get that. It’s from my favorite YouTube video of all time. It’s just her warming up in 1981 getting her hair did and singing her song “Wild Heart,” which in my opinion was never properly recorded. There’s this beautiful YouTube of her singing and someone offstage singing harmony. It’s just the best piece of music. That little bit “wild wild wild heart,” that’s that sample.

In addition, Vernon discussed the album’s departure in sound:

I think it’s that thing of wanting to bash things apart a little bit and break through some stuff. And I needed it to sound a little radical to feel good about putting something out in the world. For me, it’s not embarrassing, but the old records are of this kind of sad nature — I was healing myself through that stuff. Being sad about something is okay. And then wallowing in it, circling though the same cycles emotionally just feels boring. For this one, there’s still some dark stuff and whatever, but I think cracking things, making things that are bombastic and exciting and also new, and mashing things together, and explosiveness and shouting more, I think that was the zone. I think shouting. Whispering was maybe the thing before. But this time –[hits his keyboard and makes a loud robot sound]

According to Vernon, the album is dedicated to singer/songwriter Richard Buckner and Bernice Johnson Reagon, who founded the a cappella group Sweet Honey In The Rock.

[gldstwmn]

It's odd that she specifically asked not to be credited.

[Jondalar]

Stereo Gum, 9/5/2016

http://www.stereogum.com/1897218/justin-vernon-explains-uncredited-sample-of-viral-stevie-nicks-video-on-new-bon-iver-single/news/

Justin Vernon Explains Uncredited Sample Of Viral Stevie Nicks Video On New Bon Iver Single by Peter Helman

Bon Iver performed their upcoming album 22, A Million in its entirety at Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires Festival last month. Last night, Vernon held a press conference to debut the official studio version of the LP, inviting journalists to Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s unopened Oxbow Hotel to hear it and participate in a 90-minute Q&A session.
When Bon Iver’s new single “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠” arrived a few weeks ago, many recognized a sample from a popular YouTube video of Stevie Nicks singing “Wild Heart” backstage. And at the press conference last night, as Pitchfork reports, Vernon explained why he used it and why it’s not officially credited:

She requested that we not talk about it in the liner notes. I respected her wishes. Mostly didn’t want to get asked about working together when we didn’t work together. And I totally get that. It’s from my favorite YouTube video of all time. It’s just her warming up in 1981 getting her hair did and singing her song “Wild Heart,” which in my opinion was never properly recorded. There’s this beautiful YouTube of her singing and someone offstage singing harmony. It’s just the best piece of music. That little bit “wild wild wild heart,” that’s that sample.

In addition, Vernon discussed the album’s departure in sound:

I think it’s that thing of wanting to bash things apart a little bit and break through some stuff. And I needed it to sound a little radical to feel good about putting something out in the world. For me, it’s not embarrassing, but the old records are of this kind of sad nature — I was healing myself through that stuff. Being sad about something is okay. And then wallowing in it, circling though the same cycles emotionally just feels boring. For this one, there’s still some dark stuff and whatever, but I think cracking things, making things that are bombastic and exciting and also new, and mashing things together, and explosiveness and shouting more, I think that was the zone. I think shouting. Whispering was maybe the thing before. But this time –[hits his keyboard and makes a loud robot sound]

According to Vernon, the album is dedicated to singer/songwriter Richard Buckner and Bernice Johnson Reagon, who founded the a cappella group Sweet Honey In The Rock.

I listened to the single and can't even here the sample.

[Jondalar]

It's odd that she specifically asked not to be credited.

Well considering you can't even here the sample, no wonder. I think the story is bogus. You can't here the sample, so I'm sure people didn't wonder who it was.

[UndoingTheLaces]

I listened to the single and can't even here the sample.

The sample is sped up, like you put an album on the turntable and switched it from 33 1/3 to 45 rpms. It sounds a little like the old Alvin and the Chipmunk recordings.

[bombaysaffires]

What song are you referencing? Can't Go Back? If so, this isn't so much a version; it's an early instrumental template of the song. I first saw this clip on a bootleg VCR tape I obtained decades ago from a bootleg trade -- a seemingly primitive era, long before the internet existed. I never made the correlation between the two songs at the time.

Fleetwood Mac was in the early stages of recording Mirage, while Stevie was developing material for her second album. It appears that she used Lindsey's early instrumental track as a guideline for the gestation of Wild Heart. They released the album, and embarked a short tour. Then Stevie went to work on her second solo album. The song evolved into an epic saga with very little relation to the song that became Can't Go Back.

The clip is interesting from a historical standpoint. It' shows the song in primitive form, lacking the arrangement (and probably the lyrics that became the end result.
It's insightful for several reasons. It reveals one of the techniques Stevie uses to develop her songs. It's also the precursor of Sharon's and Laurie's assimilation into the Fleetwood Mac camp, after as Stevie formed life-long, sisters of the moon bonds with them in her Bella Donna phase.

I have a cassette recording from a radio interview she did back when she was on tour for the album in Boston where she talks about how the final WH song came from two different pieces that she wrote and ultimately put together. The "where is this reason" part that we hear in the video and the "something in my heart died last night" part. I'll have to see if I can dig it out.

[BlueDenimLamp]

I listened to the single and can't even here the sample.

Judging from the internet comments the sample has been sped up and the pitch changed...

[BlueDenimLamp]

It's odd that she specifically asked not to be credited.

Stevie didn't want a ton of press asking her about working together when they didn't...