What is Stevie's best concert performance ever?...
 

HI all - wanted to try a poll - what is Stevie's best CONCERT PERFORMANCE ever??? ( Either a specific one at a time and place, or just the song itself. ) If you have a different one than the songs I mentioned, please add it below. :D

Uh, hello, Sisters of the Moon. BRUTHA! SISTA!

10 Billion Karma points, sent over from sevenwondersonline.net , if you can tell me what she says at the end during the "speaking in tongues part" . . . :shocked:

( when she's going kinda "wild" etc., and right before Lindsey's guitar solo, in the "Mirage" concert - the video is floating around, for example on youtube.com )

it's GOING to be
MELBOURNE...the whole show
in 15 days


YEAH BABY :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :lol: :lol:

:shocked: :p :) :]

But - whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-HOOO-hooo how could I have forgotten to mention "Rhiannon" - Mirage tour, 1982??? :shocked:

Easy...it's not all that good. :shrug:

Rhiannon...Rosebud

Sisters of the Moon...Mirage '82

Silver Springs...The Dance '97

Really? I loved it! OH well! :shrug:
Do you have the same opinion of "Rhiannon: Rosebud?"

I forgot to vote first time
but im going with SOTM..............Mirage tour definitely
Rhiannon doesnt stand out to me on that tour
not the DVD anyway!

i know im in the majority but i really like the Dance version of it :sorry:

now THAT rocks!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I LOVE the Rosebud performance of Rhiannon!!! LOVE!!!

you forgot B&tB in Vegas

some of y'all will probably argue for RAL
and I agree they both rock!

Melbourne aside [for it will be awesome]

Stand Back on Live in Boston. Wow wow wow.

Edit: Or on the Tango tour DVD? I can't decide!

I've never seen that...but I don't like that song though...:sorry:

"NONE OF THE ABOVE".

ANY "Rhiannon" before Sept 1977 (after that, they start losing something...and then REALLY lose quite a bit each subsequent tour. The Mirage tour being the worst performances; after that the performances are ok, the arrangement just is boring)...but the one at the GW Forum in LA on August 28,1977, to me, is the best of them all.

do you have this to share? I don't think I've heard it.

Is this the version where Rhiannon sounds totally diffferent from it's released and subsequent live versions? Kind of has a very hard rock edge to it? If it is, I have this and Jason, I will send it to you tonight. It is on a CD, which I guess I would somehow have to load onto my computer and then send to you? (Very unsaavy on the computer- sorry)

Sounds interesting. If it's not too much trouble I'd love to hear it too. :thumbsup:

If I can figure it all out, I'll post it tonight for all. :xoxo:

[QUOTE=chiliD ...but the one at the GW Forum in LA on August 28,1977, to me, is the best of them all.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for this. :thumbsup: I was at that LA Forum concert. I couldn't remember the year...I thought it was '78. I tried looking it up but couldn't find it. So is that really the date..August 28, 1977? I'm going to figure out what day of the week that was...I'm thinking it was Sunday.

Anyway, IMO, that was just about the peak of FM's popularity.

Thank ye. :nod:

YES...I was right. I just did a calendar search and this concert was on a Sunday night at the Forum. I just wish I had bought and saved the program.:(
Side note: The Fabulous Forum is now used as a bible church! The Lakers and Kings moved to Staples.

I thought the vote was for SOTM on the Tusk Tour Documentary video, but now you guys are talking about the In Concert vid from the Mirage tour. :shrug:

I voted for Edge, but if it's the Mirage vid version of SOTM rather than the Tusk vid version, then I'm chaning my vote. :cool:

They did a four night run at the Forum during that stretch (I believe it was August 26, 28-30...I recall how weird it was that they didn't just play four nights in a row there). I went to three of them. The 28th "Rhiannon" was magical.

Which still leases the building out for concerts.

Oh..four nights. Well that changes things. I might have gone on Friday the 26th. Oh well...doesn't matter much now.

I can't imagine going to three concerts like you did...but good for you. Did the song list change? Why go to three? (got to be expensive for one thing...I didn't have much money in 1977)

Nope, the set list didn't change. I went to three because my previous experience of going to Fleetwood Mac concerts on consecutive nights were that they'd play a different set list night to night. This set of shows was the last time I did that...I learned quickly that I could cut back to ONE or TWO out of a string of shows. And, as time went along, the combination of the escalating concert ticket prices and their downright refusal to alter their set, I could easily just go to ONE show per tour.

My total ticket cost for those three 1977 shows....$24. ($8 per show...which was the highest face valued ticket price)

Eight dollars!!! :eek: Unbelievable. (Today it would cost that much just for the beer.) I was sitting way back so I guess I paid even less. I believe I was in the first row or so of the colonade...the 2nd level. I remember a ticket to a Laker game in that same location was over $20

I find it astounding that anyone was able to make any money at those prices - maybe as a solo artist.. But a band:shocked:

You have to look at the overall economy then. This was before the big inflationary spiral of the late 70's and into the mid 90's. Consider these prices from 1977. I bought a 1977 Nissan 280Z (new) for about $6,000. You could buy a home in Encino for about $50,000. That home today would be more than $600,000...even some condos are going for more than that.

Anyway...that $8 ticket is comparable to about $75 today.

And, LPs were selling for $2.99. Tusk, brand new, was $5.99...an OUTRAGEOUS price for a double album!

In 1977, minimum wage was $2.30 an hour.

Sisters of the Moon - Tusk tour. :nod:

I had a minimum wage job once, at Woolworth's, (does that store still exist anywhere) and was paid about $1.80 per hour. Of course, gasoline was only about 30 cents/gal.

A good rule of thumb. What ever the prices were in 1977, they have increased by a factor of 10, with a few exceptions, like electronics. My father paid around $1,000 for a 1970 color TV. Today, you could buy a set bigger and better than that one for a few hundred dollars.

we have Woolies here in several states
it's a supermarket ;)

grrrrrr!

"Those were the days, my friends, we thought they'd NE-ver end!" :) :laugh:


( OH to have been BORN ten years EARLIER! ) :shocked: :blob1: :laugh:

Well, consider that a cup of coffee was 20 cents back then, and a gallon of gas was - - 67 cents? Actually I guess the oil crisis happened in 1976 or so but still -
an "average" house was maybe $30,000, tops. Eating out at Red Lobster was maybe $32 for a family of 4. Movie was - I dunno - $3.00 ?

Always.....Gold and Braid 81