Videos: Opening Night *spoilers*
 

Thanks to Sandor on "the other board!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wfL...layer_embedded

Holy **** thats fast! Im going to see it in person in 2 weeks so Im gonna hold off on watching, my will power is at least good for two weeks.

:shocked::shocked::shocked:

thankyou.thankyou.

*thud* I'm verklempt. Goosebumps on the "did I EVAAAAAAH really care that much..." at 1:05-1:06. Wow. That plunky guitar sounds overbearing in some spots, but I think it's just the recording.

OMFG. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ****, everyone else in the house is asleep. I think I'd be murdered if I turned my sound on, so I'll just listen. Thanks Liam!

Thank you for posting this!

Beautiful. I knew it would be filmed eventually, but I didn't know someone would get the opening night.

Thanks for this.

Michele

Liam you have defined new technology..... thank you!

Wow Liam...I was coming over to post my video and you already did it! Thanx! I took others and will be posting over on Seven Wonders and then here too! It was a GRRREAT show!!!

Thanks for posting this! What a great concert tonight!

thank you so much for posting this song. It was nice to watch it again and it was so beautiful. Now I just need an mp3 of this. HA!
the show was so good though and I am sad its over already. I really need to hit Cleveland or something to see them again. I never though I would say this but I think they can drop Dreams now. Its just boring to me now.

I know...Dreams is a good song but I was sitting there thinking, "okay, great, so um, can we move along?" while they were playing it. I guess being that it's their only #1 single, we can rest assured, it is never going anywhere as long as Stevie is there.

Yikes... it went over like a lead balloon. My guess is it'll be dropped before too long. Stevie didn't even look very confident singing it, and even seemed apologetic when it was over. I wanted to like it, and kept pinching myself that I was finally seeing a live rendition of one of my all time favs... but it's just TOO SLOW for the stage. :sorry:

Stand Back- "AGAIN 1,2,3,4"

Wow the energy level on Stand Back is about 1/4 of what it was at every single SYW show. 1,2,3,4 oooh yeah ending is awseome though.

THAT was like oxygen.:angel: thank you.

The Stand Back twirl...OMG, I laughed like a psycho. She looked like she was going in slow motion. Sorry, it was funny.

Storms was beautiful.

Thanks for posting the videos!! I won't be going to see FM this go-round.

Yeah Stevie did seem to be in slow motion or something. I thought she sounded really good but she didnt move around much at all. I havent seen her since 05 but after watching her Soundstage dvd multiple times I guess I just kinda expected to come out all amped up and stuff. It could have nerves or something but I hope she loosens up a bit for the rest of the tour. I find myself now focued on Lindsey when I go to the FM shows now. He just has so much darn energy.

Stevie had tons of energy for almost all of her solo shows from 2005-2008. And while she wasnt always at the top of her game for the Say You Will Tour I have yet to see one Stand Back that wasn't absolutely BLAZING from that tour. In fact if someone could post Madison Square Garden from September 03, its on Youtube but I couldn't post it here, It's like watching an exercise video, even more energetic then LIB.

I don't understand why Stevie always sings so darned loud. In every quiet song, she's basically belting the whole time. Storms is awfully good here but it would take it to a whole new level if Stevie would put some subtlety and feeling into the vocal. I would think lightening up on the volume once in a while would help her vocal stamina too.

Oh Well is awesome. Lindsey doesn't play much lead stuff anymore that is quite that technical. He mostly just tears at his guitar during solos now. It's great to hear him doing speedy technical stuff just like he used to.

thank you so much for posting Oh well. I have to say for me it was the best song of the night next to Storms.
anybody got silver springs? I thought Stevie did a great job on it and I think she sang the Still I am a fool part as well. I like when she does that.

Awesome to hear others with Oh Well love. I absolutely thought it, along with Storms, were the highlights of the night!

I so agree with you. Storms and Oh well were the highlights of the show for me. I also enjoyed Monday Morning as the opener. I was expecting The Chain so I was pleasantly surprised. I really thought Beautiful Child would be in the setlist as well. I really missed hearing that song.

Yeah she definitely has a problem with projecting too much. You can totally see she realized that while singing the first few lines of Sara for her Soundstage. She took it down a few notches, and sang beautifully. Storms was good when she wasn't belting. But it wasn't too pretty when she did :sorry: .

I knew as soon as the entire band was on stage before any drumming occurred that they had to be doing something else. Plus, I could hear Mick start doing a little tapping count and there was no way it would be The Chain. What a pleasant surprise. Plus, I just really think there is something awesome about the lights coming up and the song just blasting off. The Chain has that nice little burning intro that boils over with John's solo and kicks off the show, but I think it works just as well in the second slot.

I'll bet that with Storms, Beautiful Child was put to rest. I couldn't see Stevie doing two relatively unknowns from Tusk in one set. If they decide to drop Silver Springs as the encore (which I thought worked beautifully) they could replace it with Beautiful Child (or replace it with Storms and replace that slot with BC).

Yup she sang that line to perfection. Glad to see she still has it.

Or maybe she had the audience in the palm of her hands, which is where she had me.

This was BEYOND exceptional! I went apesh*t apparently. :blob2: My b/f says I lost it and was "a whirling dervish."
Thanks soooooooo much for posting. I'm thrilled to be able to relive it again whenever I want to.

jmn3, yeah that makes sense now and it was worth it to be able to see Storms on this tour. I heard Beautiful Child 3 times on last tour so I guess I was just getting a little greedy, HA!

No problem getting greedy. Hell, in my happy world, they would have played about 35 songs tonight including both Storms and BC!

I hear ya! When they did Silver Springs and left the stage I was like No, No this cant be it. My hubby told me to get my jacket and we both looked at each other like hmm maybe there is going to be another song and then the lights came on. For some reason I just expected something else to end the show. I just need to hear Sisters of the Moon live just once. Somebody needs to find Lindsey and tell him we want that song! I still cant believe he came out in red though. I was like yes no white shirt!
I am so tired right now and should go to sleep but i cant stop writing about this show. Dammit, why does it have to be over already?!

"No one looked as I TURNED by" ??? What the ???

Ha, I thought the same thing. When they came out after GYOW and before WT I was thinking..man, I would friggin die right now if I hear the opening chords of Sisters...I can't impart upon anyone how much of a letdown it was when I heard World Turning start. Honestly, I've posted this a few times tonight already, but where did they get the idea that World Turning makes a good encore?

Not nearly as WTFable as "If your life is good to you then look what tomorrow will bring" or whatever the hell she does to Don't Stop. When Chris went to the show in 2003 she must have been sitting there thinking "what the hell did she just sing? Is this payback for my Rhiannon rehearsal, "dreams unwind, etcetera etcetera etcetera" shtick???"

Lol, I just realized, that's me in the lower right hand corner of the video still for Stand Back.

Yeah I knew right before the show started that they werent going to play Sisters of the Moon because the girls to the right of me said their friend saw the setlist. She was like yeah no sisters before I said anything about it. It really seems that a lot of FM fans want to hear this song. I really think Stevie could nail it, actually I know she could.
I enjoyed World Turning on the last FM tour but this time it wasnt the same. I think they can drop Dreams (even though they wont), Gypsy (am I the only one that doesnt think this song is that good live anymore?), Second Hand News and World Turning and throw in more stuff from Tango (besides Big Love) and Say You Will. I missed not hearing Come and I really wish they could have found a way to do Thrown Down or Everybody Finds Out just once. I know greedy greedy!

Although I know it's a song long since forgotten, I figured since it was the Hits Tour they would do Seven Wonders. I was waiting for it, but nope.

ha that was going to be my next post saying how i would love to hear seven wonders live. I absolutely love that song and it would have been an excellent choice to do live. I think your reading my mind tonight.