Anyone else going to the Phoenix show?

[Phoenix]

I didnt think i was going to be able to go but a miracle chance has come up and I may:blob2::blob2::blob2: Anyone else going?

[Tusk!]

Yes, also going to the Fantasy Springs show in Indio next month.

[ikelos7]

I'm going, nosebleed seats in section 204 row 10.

[FM77]

I pulled 2 in section 124 right next to the stage yesterday and threw them back... You can probably pull great tickets today if you keep trying.

[Phoenix]

Just 4 ledge people? I KNOW there's more here in Arizona. I will be in the front row in a blue shirt I will be wearing the crescent moon tonight for sure if you see me say hello ledge people! SOOOO. EXCITED

[Amlyn]

Just 4 ledge people? I KNOW there's more here in Arizona. I will be in the front row in a blue shirt I will be wearing the crescent moon tonight for sure if you see me say hello ledge people! SOOOO. EXCITED

Have a wonderful time! Can't wait to hear all about it. :cool:

[UnwindedDreams]

How was the show?

[Phoenix]

OUTSIDE THE RAIN (one of my favorites. And it sounds great live ) was played!! :thumbsup: I spotted Stevie's mom, who rod ( uh. Freekin rod. ) during his set said that Stevie's mom came, heard her daughters set, then went home .:lol: (smart woman) he said " I just told Stevie I'm gonna single out your mum and shout to her" ... and Stevie said, you can't, she went home. Hahaha The combination of the 2 of them is just bizarre (Stevie and rod) she's intense and poetic, and he just couldn't. Stop. Hamming. It up. Cheezy. For example, on the screen behind her when she sings are horses running through the forest, fire dancers extra. Meanwhile he has pictures up of himself in drag, then sihows home movies of his dog on the floor. Just a weird. Combination. Anyhow, she sang great and was really into it. You could tell she's still got some love in her heart for "her desert" when she was talking about getting the demos together and mentioned Lori I shouted Lori rocks! And she smiled and waved at me it was really sweet. I also saw chris nicks take some random blonde lady backstage

[Tusk!]

Great show last night, although I don't care for Love Is as a closer. All the energy and momentum of Stevie's set is brought to a screeching halt with that song. Rod was a great entertainer. The set is colorful, as is the backup singers and musicians in their red dresses. Easy on the eyes.

[michelej1]

Arizona Central, April 16, 2011
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/2011/04/16/20110416rod-stewart-stevie-nicks-phoenix-concert-review.html#ixzz1Jkh3v6Dg

Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks bring Heart and Soul to Phoenix


They say the only predictable things are death and taxes and concerts by veteran rock acts teaming up to fill arenas during a recession.


But this neither deadly nor taxing Heart and Soul Tour pairing Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks which arrived here on tax return weekend, playing US Airways Center Friday, raised lots of preliminary questions.


Which one would be the soul? Sure, Rod has covered a lot of Sam Cooke over the centuries, but Stevie has an equal number of songs about leaving her body. Metaphysically speaking, the soul should be her.

How much time would they actually spend onstage together?

Would they only sing songs they've recorded as duets with other veteran rock acts? They could do a whole set of those alone!

Who would sport more scarves?

And would they sit together on a piano bench and bang out "Heart and Soul," the song most amateur pianists insist on playing?

You say no, but if Rod is serious about this American Songbook thing, he's gotta get around to even that chestnut eventually.

Surprise No. 1: Who's On First?

If we went with age before beauty, Rod's got a few years on Stevie, who also had home-court advantage, right? No, it turned out to be lady's first but to put STEVIE NICKS!!!! on stage at the dues-paying hour of 7:30, a time when you would stick on some ungodly local act no one but the promoter has ever heard of, made it seem less like a gentlemanly gesture and more like the outcome of a lost coin toss. So you get to the arena and it's suddenly not a co-headliner tour anymore.

Surprise No. 2

Stevie revealed her favorite rock and roller and it isn't Rod Stewart. It's Tom Petty. And she did one of his not-"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" numbers - "You Wreck Me." And a damn good version it was. It helps that her bandleader was Waddy Wachtel, one of the tastiest guitarists this side of the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell. Stevie danced around him with outstretched shawl, occasionally totally obscuring his guitar solo from the concert cam lens. If that was Lindsay Buckingham, this would've resulted in a heated argument backstage.

Surprise No. 3

Stevie smiles like a schoolgirl whenever she's singing any number that she didn't write. While Rod encroaches ever further into Tony Bennett's turf, Stevie wants to rock more than a little. Clearly she's happiest banging a tambourine. It must really be a relief for her to sing ANY song that doesn't require her weaving around like a fortune teller to put across.

Surprise No. 4

Her mike stand has more scarves than Rod but less than Steven Tyler.

Surprise No. 5

I missed those high notes on "Rhiannon" a lot less than I thought I would.

But I gotta fess up that without that peak to differentiate the verses and choruses, I didn't know where she was in the song. It's like hearing Dylan do Dylan sometimes.

Surprise No. 6

The love she took down on "Landslide" is now back up. After the 2005 death of her father Jess Nicks, who was the inspiration of the song, she stopped using the video backdrop that included many pictures of him. Now it's been restored and it was not surprisingly the most moving song in the set. Later Rod relates asking Stevie if he could mention that her mom was in the audience tonight but was told mom went home after Stevie's set. Maybe that had something to do with the early start time. After a hard rocking "Edge of Seventeen" and an unreleased voice and piano composition called "Love Is," Stevie departed and a curtain came over the stage bearing a cartoon Rod Stewart riding the a replication of the cartoon Soul Train, prepping us for the cartoon soul that lay just ahead, when Rod opened the set with an animated but less than true to life reading of The O'Jays' "Love Train."

Surprise No. 7

Rod's diminished vocal range hasn't diminished his entertainment value. He's still a charmer, the rock equivalent of a Cary Grant telling us what lucky people we are and making us feel that too. That's really what you're paying for when you buy a ticket these days, a chance to hang with Rod the Mod.

Once you jettison expectations of witnessing anything as soulful as his 1972 rendition of "I Would Rather Go Blind" or anything as hard-rocking as his original rendition of "Twisting the Night Away" (presented here in much more Vegas-y fashion), you begin to enjoy yourself. Unlike Ronnie Wood's new boss, Stewart doesn't have to front The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band night after night. He can get by with whatever version of growing old gracefully Rod feels like serving up. Tonally his voice was actually better sounding than it has been in years and yet you wish whoever was doing the sound would just push the faders up because unless Rod pushes the notes out, which he is still occasionally capable of, it's hard to hear him over the band, even on a ballad like "Downtown Train."

His best vocal moments were the most quiet, "The First Cut Is the Deepest," "You Wear It Well" (still sounding good nearly 40 years later and yes, it hurts to actually say that) and Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You." Like Van the Man, Rod occasionally turns vocal duties over to his band, leaving the stage so they can do an American Idol cover of Anita Ward's cover of "Knock On Wood." Rod gives each backup singer a spot to shine at the end of "Rhythm of My Heart," adding, "I used to be able to sing like that until I had sex."

Surprises No. 8, 9 and 10

His band contained sexy female sax, trumpet and fiddle/mandolin players. Hot legs? They had 'em. So did all three female backup singers. Even the piano had hot legs. During his rendition of "Some Guys Have All the Luck," the video screen showed a cartoon slot machine ringing up three images of the late Robert Palmer, who had an earlier hit with this song. But it is Rod who had all the luck since he not only hasn't died but was able to take Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video and make that dream of a girl band his reality.

Surprise No. 11

The Rod song Stevie picked to duet on was "Young Turks."

Even a few keys lower than the original recording, both singers seemed ill-at ease with this one, as if you were watching your neighbors at a karaoke bar trying it on for the first time. And yet, it was a more endearing performance than this lousy song ever deserved.

Surprise No. 12

The Stevie song Rod picked to duet on was "Leather and Lace" - a more suitable fit, sounding like it could've slotted on one of Rod's early Mercury albums. Rod, ever the joker, simulated pulling down panties during the "You give me your lace" bit.

Surprise No. 13

Rod can still kick a soccer ball. He reached the back of the hall and as high as the corporate boxes of US Airways. I thought we'd never see that again when he took up with Cole Porter.

Surprise No. 14

Nothing at all from any of the American Songbooks. Unless you want to count his lone dip into Still the Same: Great Rock Classics of Our Time. And what does he pick? "It's a Heartache," a cover of a Bonnie Tyler imitation of early Rod Stewart. And he has to stop and restart the song. "I forgot to come in because I was too busy pulling up me trousers." Or maybe he was too busy watching irony boot him in the backside.

[michelej1]

Story by Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
SoundSpike Contributor
Published April 18, 2011 02:30 PM, Soundspike
http://www.soundspike.com/reviews/tour/1971-rod_stewart_stevie_nicks_concert_news_tour_dates/

Two of pop music's most iconic voices -- Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks -- delivered a nonstop barrage of hits over the course of three-and-a-half hours during their co-headlining show, "Heart and Soul," at Phoenix's USAirways Center last Friday (4/15).

Nicks made a triumphant return to her hometown stage promptly at 7:30 p.m. after an introduction by Stewart, which thrilled the sold-out crowd. Dressed in a black lace dress and a scarf around her shoulders, the former Fleetwood Mac songstress kicked off the show with an energized "Stand Back."

In songs like "Stand Back," as well as "Rhiannon" and "Edge of Seventeen," her vocals were perfect, harking back to her heyday. But don't write Nicks off yet. She debuted a fantastic new song, "Secret Love," which will appear on her next album, "In Your Dreams," set to drop May 3. The background video for the song featured the collection's producer, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, playing guitar.

For her set, she stuck mostly to her own material as well as Fleetwood Mac's, but made a quick diversion after saying her favorite rocker is Tom Petty. She covered his "You Wreck Me," featuring a guitar solo by Waddy Wachtel, who instrumentally resembles Petty's Mike Campbell.

As she made her way through the 11-song set, Nicks repeatedly stated how happy she was to be back in Phoenix, somewhere she hadn't visited since Christmas. She said that once she stepped off the plane from Kansas City, she thrived on the warmth of the sun, which hit near 90 degrees on show day. She received a rousing ovation when she announced that her family, including her mother, was in the audience. Her father, Jess Nicks, who died in 2005, made a pivotal appearance on video during the song "Landslide," a tune which he inspired.

She closed her set, as she usually does, with a ballad. "Love Is," she said, was a song that was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but she rediscovered the piano demos in her home.

Unlike Nicks, Stewart tackled classic covers during his portion of the "Heart and Soul" tour stop. While Nicks kept the set simple, Stewart's massive bright white stage was reminiscent of Las Vegas, with women dressed in red fringe mini-dresses and the men dressed in suits, all backed by a giant video screen that showed clips of Stewart's beloved "football" team, Celtic Football Club, Stewart dancing and downtown cityscapes.

Clad in black pants, a white button-down shirt and a bright yellow jacket, "Rod the Mod" began his show with a fun version of the O'Jays' "Love Train," but he didn't leave the hits for the encore, as some acts do. He immediately went into "Tonight's the Night" and then returned to party mode with "Having A Party."

"What a great show you're going to see," Stewart said coyly. "You lucky people." He then reintroduced Nicks into the show so they could duet on his "Young Turks" and her "Leather and Lace," a song she originally performed with Don Henley. Stewart seemed to suffer a bit through "Leather and Lace," words for which he appeared to read from a Teleprompter. But he saved face when, during the line "You give me your lace," he acted like he was removing knickers.

The show was a family affair for Stewart as well, as his children Sean and Liam were in the venue. On the video screens, he proudly displayed a photo of young Aiden Stewart, who was born Feb. 16. He dedicated "Forever Young" to the youngsters in his family.

Stewart treated his bandmates as family as well, not being shy about letting them take center stage during solos.

Stewart didn't tap into his "American Songbooks" era, but instead pleased the audience with a slew of hits like Nicks did.

[Phoenix]

So glad to see that the phoenix reviews are all positive I'm still very surprised that no 1 has commented on the fact that outside the rain:thumbsup:. Was back in the set I was thrilled:thumbsup: