A question for Australian fans
 

Ok, I've read where Stevie fell off the stage in Australia in '86 on tour for RAL. SO was anyone there and did you see it. Where did it happen?

Sadly two years before I graced the worl with my presence, I think it may have been Australia but I am pretty sure she fell of a stage more than once didn't she?

Oh and if anywhere I am guessing it was probably Melbourne where the incident occured, I know someone mentioned it on the Ledge a few days ago.

That may be, but I just remember the one in Australia.

IT WAS AUSTRALIA IT WAS HER SYDNEY CONCERT I WAS THERE SHE WAS TWIRLING AND FEEL AND SHE WAS OFF HER FACE IT WAS A BAD EXPERIENCE I HATE THAT MEMORY

Sounds funny to me. :lol:

you've got a weird sense of humor, my friend

I AGREE THERE WAS NOTHING FUNNY AT ALL ABOUT THAT ITS VERY SAD I HATED SEEING HER LIKE THAT ...............................HEART BREAKING

I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY HER BACK UP SINGERS, LORI AND HER MANAGER FOR THAT MATTER LET HER GO ON TOUR IT WAS SO OBVIOUS SHE WAS NOT HER SELF AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE :confused:

I NEED THIS BOOTLEG.

What year was this?? Was she drunk?

I know! I'm dying to know what song it was.


Stand Back...In the middle of my....::thud::

IT WAS MONDAY OCTOBER 6TH 1986 RAL TOUR I DONT KNOW WHAT SHE WAS ON SORRY I JUST KNOW SHE FELL OVER AND SHE COULDNT REMEMBER LYRICS AND SHE WAS NOT LOOKING HER BEST I HAVE PICS FROM THE CONCERT I WENT TO ALL THE CONCERTS IN SYDNEY THAT TOUR (SEPT/OCT) I MUST SAY ITWAS'T STEVIE AT HER BEST I DONT REMEMBER THE SONG SORRY I THINK IT WAS STAND BACK BUT I DONT WANNA GIVE WRONG INFORMATION SHE ALSO DID TALK 2 ME TWICE AND ANOTHER SONG AS SHE SAID SHE WAS TAPING THE SHOW AND SHE WASNT HAPPY WITH THE FIRST ATTEMPTS ......... SHE RE DID THIS AT THE END OF THE CONCERT

THERE WAS ALSO BAD REVIEWS AND LOTS OF RUMOURS ABOUT HER BEHAVIOUR WHILE SHE WAS HERE I SHOULD OF KEPT THE ARTICLES :-(

I HAVE SOME AUDIO FROM THE CONCERT & BUT NOT VIDEO I WISH I DID

HOW DO I POST THE AUDIO?

IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO NOW I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE GOLD DUST TOUR DOWN UNDER ROCK ON STEVIE

She fell off more than one stage on that tour. Clayre saw her take more than one dive.

I second that.

See, I think looking back on it now it can seem funny.

Conversely,

thinking about it in the context of the exact time it happened, the situation was not funny - it probably wasn't funny if you were there.

So it's just a matter of perspective.

Anyway, let me know if you find that. :p

Maybe she will twirl off the stage again down under again for old times sake :laugh: !!!!!!!

Ive said it before, in Birmigham AL USA 89 during the Edge of 17 cackle she bent down. All the way down, her big klonapined out ass could not get back up. The 2 gutiar players had to stop and help her up!

:laugh:

What a priceless moment.

She was the rock star and did what she wanted to..... she thought she was fine... and the record exec's for their own selfish purposes would of told her she was fine

LOL! :lol: At work! :lol: Really loud! :lol: Too funny!

Ah come on now. That's not nice. Seriously.

I bet that since it was "fat cheesy 80's" Stevie...she mad a really LOUD "thud"!


:lol: :angel: :p

That reminds me of something I heard on the radio a couple of years back.
The radio station was having a phone-in about 'Worst Concerts You've Ever Seen' and this lady called up immediately to say that Fleetwood Mac in Dublin 1988 was absolutely the worst because of Stevie. The way she worded it was something like :''This woman that I had adored for years and there she was ,completely out of it on stage in front of me''. She went on to say that the worst of all was at the end of the concert when Stevie bent to bow to the audience she couldn't get up..and Mick Fleetwood had to actually walk across the stage and pick her up from her bow pose to bring her off stage!

I heard that was dreadful too but I didn't know the details. Poor Stevie. Some very, very bad times.

Stevie was off cocaine in 1988. It's my understanding she completed her Betty Ford's treatment by late 1986 or early 1987. She must have been drunk.

Well, she almost fell on top of me in the concert I saw :eek:

Harriet, I don't know if you are familiar with the Nicks Fix or not, but someone asked Lori the very question you mentioned in your post. You can see the whole on going Q&A here:

http://www.nicksfix.com/SingerPage/s.../ask_lori.html

The question and answer you seek is probably this one:

from Greg in San Francisco
Since you and Sharon are so close to Stevie, how come you were unable to prevent her addition to pain killers and cocoaine? How could you NOT notice she was taking drugs?! I haven't heard any statements from you or Sharon taking any responsibility for taking care of someone thousands of people love and care about.

Lori's answer:

Hello Greg...
This is an interesting question, and a very heavy one. It’s also rather personal, and not one that I feel is really any body’s business but mine, Sharon’s, and Stevie’s. However, I will say that when one decides to get into drugs, whether their friends try to stop them or not, if they don’t want to stop, there’s not much anyone can do.... even those who have had interventions. Often times if you push an addict too hard, they cut you out of their life, then making it impossible to help them at all. Ultimately, it is the addict’s choice to stop. I could tell you of many addicts who went to rehab, and overdosed after they came out. Stevie is an extremely strong and determined woman, and no one has ever been able to tell her what to do. She is a woman who makes her own choices, and she is the one who made the choice to stop doing drugs (and smoking, by the way)!

What year was that? Hopefully not 1987-1994 or SYW 2nd leg....

:shocked:

ok, B...come on. get off that already.

I would imagine that she was a booze bag during Aussie shows of the RAL tour cos procuring drugs out of the country is always tricky, especially without the global resources of FM on your side. Also, she had gotten herself in a bit of trouble with Aussie authorities earlier that year so she may have "kept her nose clean".

I do hope all the people who want to find the bootlegs of her falling 4.5 feet off the stage find their copy and play it in their homes over and over and over and over and over and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Why would you say that?! That's dreadful!! :(

I say that in the hopes that those people who would be inclined to relish that kind of entertainment would stay in their dreary houses and never ever darken my path with their bones and fat.

You make a very good point I didn't consider. Trying to smuggle drugs into Australia, past customs would be an extremely risky venture. I can picture the headlines.."Stevie Nicks arrested with drugs at airport...tour in doubt"

:lol:

Maybe in Ausie she will perform Fall From Grace with rewritten:

"Fall From The Stage":
Not all the king's horses, not all the king's men
Could put my drunk ass back on the stage again...........

:lol:

I just hate to hear these stories about performers falling down or off the stage, drunk or otherwise under the influence. We've heard the past "episodes" of others besides Steve...Morrison, Joplin. It's an almost endless list over the years and it's not limited to just rockers either. It's bad enough to be a total wreck in private, but in the middle of a public concert (a concert that people paid a lot of money to see)...it's really sad. Kinda like they're thumbing their nose at the fans.

Stevie will never live down these incidents and I believe she feels sorry about it now looking back.

NOTHING will ever beat Ms. Judy Garland falling ASLEEP on stage, with A MIC in her hand, IN THE MIDDLE OF A SONG in 1968....God bless her, the last two years of her life were not kind to her! :distress:


But still, looking back now....:lol:

What's worse? Ronald Reagan routinely fell asleep during cabinet meetings!

:lol: AN HONEST LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!

And it took my by surprise, i was just scrolling down quickly and it slowed for the briefest moment and i caught this and burst out laughing!! BRILLIANT THANKYOU!!!! :lol:

p.s- i needed that coz im supposed to be doing stocktake for my works financials that WERE due.... 9.30pm...

This was in '86 right?

YES LATE 86 SHE WAS FINE IN FEB 86 WITH BOB DYLAN AND TOM PETTY

Did she literally fall off the stage?

I WAS AT ALL THE SYDNEY CONCERTS SHE DID TWIRL AND FALL BUT I NEVER SAW HER FALL COMPETELY OFF THE STAGE SHE DID COME CLOSE TO IT