Little-Known Christine Facts About THE DANCE TOUR
 

1. Christine didn't play the piano onstage for OH DADDY. Brett did (even though he doesn't appear to remember that he did).

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Christine's hair got longer as the tour went on..... Her hair was very short during the rehearsals...

She was seen shopping at Lenox Mall (Neiman Marcus I believe) with Stevie for scarves for the early Nov. concert here in Atlanta as it is unusualy cold and the area was an outdoor ampitheatre. They both looked esp. Dickensian for the concert.

Oh my god! I love it!

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It was. I attended the concert as the companion of a handicap friend of mine. Sadly, the arena (Lakewood) failed to give me my folding chair, oversold the handicap area, and I had to sit on the freezing concrete ground (it was like 30 or so degrees) :laugh:

As for the scarves, they were fabulous. I believe La Nicks referenced them in the concert, which, BTW, got started like an hour late because of some tech difficulty. I remember watching the concert and thinking how truly great they were together. That concert also was a blistering version of SS, wherein during the angry "NEVER GET AWAY" part, La Nicks turned her back on the audience to face LB who was standing behind her and she kept pointing at him in time and from up in the air (three times) --

That also is the best Oh Daddy I heard on that tour. CM was great at that show.

It sounds as if the scarves inspired them. :laugh:

At the beginning of the tour, Christine would stay for NTF until just before Mick's guitar solo. Towards the end, she left at the beginning of the song.

At the beginning of the tour, after Songbird, Christine would go around and kiss Mick, John and Lindsey much like she did on the Dance dvd, but towards the end of the tour, all kisses stopped. Well, kisses at the end of the show stopped. She and Lindsey might still play around during Stand Back and GYOW.

Michele

You mean she used to play on it & then stopped playing on it?

No, she continued to play on it, but she didn't play on it as long. Towards the end of the tour, it became a three-piece song (well, 3 pieces if you don't count the backing people) early on.


Michele

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"Christine's hair got longer as the tour went on..... Her hair was very short during the rehearsals..."

Didn't she wear a wig at this time? She certainly looks to be during the Dance concert and also in the Rumours Classic Albums documentary.

I never thought she was wearing a wig during The Dance. I don't remember what her hair looked like in the Classic Albums documentary though.

Michele

Yes if you look closely, you'll notice that Christine has worn wigs fairly consistently since about 1987 (it's quite obvious in the Tango live dvd and the As Long As You Follow clip). Maybe this was Stevie's influence?

Thank you for the facts, they are so so cool. Sadly I don't have any to contribute, but I thank you guys. Definately learned some things. :nod:

Too bad about that. When the Fleetwoods did it in --what was it? 1980? Christine's contribution grew over time rather than diminished.

I have the source CD of the Mountain View 1997 show. Are you saying I'll hear less Chris on this than I will on a show from earlier in tour?

It is a little known fact that Christine is, in fact, completely bald.












Actually I just made that up because I have nothing to add to this discussion :lol: :lol:

Gail

Well haha you certainly almost had me....but seriously my siter always said it looked like a wig on the Dance tour since when she would bob over playing her piano, her hair wouldn't move. WHY in the world is she wearing a wig??

I'm not sure. I can tell you once you get into November 1997, you will definitely hear less of her on Not That Funny than you did in the New York, Pennysylvania and New Jersey shows that took place that first month.

Michele

At the Starlake Amphitheater in Pennyslyvania, everyone was freezing and Christine wore gloves, with just the finger tips out.

Michele

Hmmmm...I saw two of The Dance shows, in neither one did Mick play guitar at ALL. So those shows must've been REALLY special.

Well, it was still percussion, because he slung the guitar around his neck and beat the strings -- which Lindsey has also done, as a matter of fact.

I meant drum.

Michele

Christine had a green cup near the keyboard set up..

Remember how the old ledgies here used to love talking about the GREEN liquid? the mysterious green liquid? Remember how Hayley used to laugh & laugh about the mysterious green liquid? How Ava would emphasize the mystery? and how Lauren would ask for explanations?

(For a hint about what it was, see the Peter Weir film THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY.)

Timothy Leary's dead

This remains one of my favorite films.

At the first concert in Mansfield, MA I saw Christine smoking a cigarette before she came back on stage for NTF.

Wow, interesting! She'd claimed in a 1997 interview that she'd quit smoking some years earlier. Guess it didn't last.

She said she started again when her marriage broke up. I think it lasted for some years but then I suppose with the stress and everything she started again.

I saw her smoking on stage once in Manchester during one song! It was (I think) Never going back again. Stevie was sitting with her on the piano stool and she took a drag of the cigarette, blew out the smoke, leaned in to microphone and did her backing vocal. I remember thinking at the time that it was very cool (not the smoking you understand - filthy habit - but it looked cool)

Gail

If stress caused by the end of her marriage to Eddie led to Christine taking up smoking again, maybe her current low-stress lifestyle has led to her quitting again. I certainly hope so, for her sake.

that's a cool story gail....

when i saw joni mitchell she was with the london phil orchestra... she lit up a smoke in the middle of the song... dressed in a beautiful flowing dress, she smoked and sang and it was so cool.... the smoking and the song was kool......

i have no problem with people smoking as long as i don't smell it.... but to me it's your body and it's up to you to treat it accordingly...

I'm sorry, but I don't agree. I don't think there is anything remotely cool about smoking, under any circumstances whatsoever.

As I understand it, smoking has ruined Joni Mitchell's voice.

We're fortunate that the same didn't happen with Christine.