Street Angel Tour Stories
 

Street Angels aren't like anyone you know...

If you went to see Stevie during the Street Angel tour, post here! Where did you see her? Let us know anything you remember from the night. What did you think of that hair? And that voice which IMO got much better during this tour.

They do what they want and they go where they go....

SA is a tour that I wish I could remember more about. Because I did go to see her when she made her usual stop at The Jones Beach Theatre here in NY. Yet somehow, I can't remember much about the show in terms of the little things I usually notice: clothing, accessories, band quality, voice quality, the weather, boots or 'boks, etc. I remember the songs on the set list but not their order. I remember some stranger sitting behind me asking if his girlfriend could borrow my binoculars during 'Destiny' because he said it was her favorite song. I can't remember her vocals though, which is a shame because when I hear SA live performances now I think they sound great compared to some of the snoozers she did on TITN, Timespace and OSOTM tours. I think I remember the show opening with 'Blue Denim' though I might be wrong.
It's possible I had a bad day or something that day, and it carried over to the evening and that's why it didn't click into my mind as much as some other shows did.

I saw her at the Greek theater in L.A. Lori was not on the tour, but she joined them for "I Need to Know" at the end, and meybe another song. She did a dance during "Stand Back" with a male dancer, maybe the same guy from the video and "Live at Red Rocks".

She had a cape for "Gold Dust Woman" that was orange and yellow shredded chiffon and looked like flame. I hadn't seen that cape before and haven't seen it since.

She also took the mic off the stand and walked around a little during the bridge of "Edge of 17".

She told a backstory for "Detiny" about how, right before the Fleetwood Mac offer, she had to decide whether to stay in L.A. with Lindsey and pursue music, or become a secratary and move to the Bay Area with another guy!

Well...I've posted about this many of times & many a threads.....This was my first time to see Stevie solo. I did see her with Fmac for Mask in '90. I missed the Mirror tour .....I couldn't go that night. I had just started collecting Stevie/Mac stuff. I saw her at Pine Knob, in Clarkston, MI .....now called DTE. I really enjoyed myself. Me & my friend , Pattie went & we'd dressed up Stevie like. I wore a black top hat....and a skirt with scarfs.....I don't recall all the colors. No platforms though...didn't have those. I don't recall all that Pattie wore. Its been too long ago. We didn't take pics either. I know it was a Friday night. It was very humid & it did end of raining really hard that night. This was later in the tour....Aug I think so the set list had already been changed. No Docklands...taken out already. But we still got Destiny/& TTM/ROF/and a shortend Blue Denim cause the power went out during that song. No longer version. Or start over. I don't care what others say.....Stevie DID play 'The Chain' at PK/DTE that night. I couldn't tell at first the song....so when it was 'The Chain' I was shocked cause it wasn't anything I'd ever expected. Now I have no 'tape' of the concert. No way of proving it other than memory. I know she didn't perform it everywhere just certain cities. I think it wasn't planned cause...well I think she did it cause of the storm that night. It was one of my most favorite concerts ever of hers. Her voice was awesome. I don't care how she looked. She wore her blue lamp/BD shawl that night......so that made it special. It was great that Rick Vito was up there with her as well. I do recall being sad that the merchandise booth there really wasn't alot to buy. Not like at the Enchanted tour show. This show & Enchanted and the 2 Voices tour those were my favorite of the 6 solo shows that I've seen her. CV was ok...........I loved Enchanted cause of all the extra songs that she sang & the merchandise was great---really the best of all the tours to me IMO that is. Shangri-la was ok but Sheryl was there.....anyway, sorry I got off track but I loved the SA tour....it'll always hold that 'special' place in my heart because it was my first time seeing Stevie solo ......I won't ever forget it.......:thumbsup::nod:

I was at this show also! I remember the power going out--I thought it was during Dreams though..... or maybe she sang it that after?? I just remember her singing about the rain after it happened-- maybe it was-- and the rain came down........ cause she usually does Dreams at the beginning--did she for this tour also?? How I wish I would have wrote down the setlists back in the day! LOL!! Obviously I don't remember!! I do remember she sang Destiny though because I LOVE that song and was so thrilled when she sang it :D

Nice to hear from someone else at this show. I know for sure it was BDenim that the power went out on. I was bummed cause I really love that song from SA. I recall someone saying when it went out Stevie did like a rain dance or something? I know it was already after 10:00 that night...cause I could see the clock. There is a cut off of what at least 11:00 or something. I was afraid that night that the power wouldn't come back on at all. I think Dreams was much earlier in the concert that night. You can look on Stevie's web site for setlists but there not always accurate. Since the beginning of the SA tour the set list was different to the later setlist. I didn't even know about this stuff back in the 'day' not until much later. I didn't write down the setlist either. I so wish I'd had all of the Michigan Stevie solo shows on cd. (like WH too....but I know of know one that has that show same with this one or the 2 Voices show with Don.....bummer!!!!).....anyway. It was a magical night wasn't it......:]

Yes it was :thumbsup: I can't help ya on The Chain though--but I think you are right that she did sing it...... but I can't be 100% sure...... I know it totally SUCKS that no one used to tape the Michigan shows..... plus I remember that every show I went to in Michigan they were very strict about cameras--they always have been so I never even thought to try.... I'll have to dig through my stuff and see if I can come up with some newspaper articles or something--I used to always try and buy the newspaper whenever her or the Mac was in town--these days with the internet I forget to look!! ha ha

Here's the tour setlist that FM Legacy has on there site - some changes were made throughtout the tour and this refeclts some of them. She also did the chain a few times.

01. Outside the Rain
02. Dreams
03. Docklands*
04. Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind
05. Rhiannon
06. Stand Back
07. Destiny
08. Gold Dust Woman
09. Talk to Me
10. Blue Denim**
11. Edge of Seventeen

Encore:
12. I Need To Know
13. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

* "Rooms On Fire" replaced "Docklands" in the set at the Greek Theatre shows.
**"Blue Denim" was the opening song at the Jones Beach Show - -plus after "Talk To Me" she played "How Still My Love".

Thank you for your stories!

Why are Stevie's solo setlists always so short?!

Anyone else of her status, never mind someone with a solo (new album and older material) AND group ctatlogue to choose from would play for 2 hours or so. Usually gigs from very famous artists with such extensive catalogues are 20-22 tracks. Don't tell me Stevie can't manage that in terms of her voice, look at Say You Will and Unleashed tours, she's on for almost all of them and they're 2+ hours.

No Spoken Word was played for a few shows as well...

I saw the Houston and Dallas Street Angel shows at the end of the tour, and she did perform "The Chain". :nod:

You want Street Angel tour stories????

Well well well--I think I can deliver some for you. As I type this, I'm sitting in Sara Fleetwood's living room while she eats a banana, haha. I have stories and I have pictures and I have videos, some of which I will post when I get back to UT. But right now, we're about to go down to Hollywood Blvd.

Sara Fleetwood is a DOLL, you guys. Sweetest woman on this planet and funniest too. My fairy godmother she is and how thankful I am for her. I'll post some Street Angel stuff Tuesday afternoon when I get back to my apt.

Peace and love to you all,

Bryson

For the lack of videos (and by "lack of" I mean that they were nonexistant...!) on Facebook last night, you best have some awesomeness to share with us when you get back home.

:lol: Just kidding, I love you Bryson!!!

I'm sorry!!!! We are supposed to be videoing up Facebook right now, but Sara is lying in bed dying, basically. Poor girl. We ate some Korean bbq and she is like, deathly ill. I actually think she has the flu because her head feels awfully burning up hot. Not cool. Not cool at all, Sara Lynn, haha. So much for our fun in the jacuzzi and facebook videos tonight. Never fear...we still have most of the day tomorrow before I have to leave!

You never used to tease us before you got a job. :(

But seriously let's try to keep this thread to real SA stories and less clutter.

I have this show on VHS and it's an amazing performance from start to finish. It was the second show of the tour but you wouldn't know it. It was flawless, I wish I had been there. She did open with Blue Denim and then changed (which was awkard after the first song) and did went into Dreams. I don't think she opened with Blue Denim for any show after that but I could be wrong. She mentioned how hot it was and how she had to leave the stage to dry her hair. She seemed very relaxed and in a great mood, which is interesting because she seemed downright terrified in Boston for the tour's opener.

I remember buying my ticket for this show better than I remember the actual show. I was driving to work on a Saturday and heard on the radio that tickets went on sale at 10 am. I started freaking out. I don't know why I wasn't aware of this beforehand but this was pre internet (at least in my house).So on my lunch I raced over to a ticket place and got 15th row. The lady said I should have been there this morning, she had 2nd row. This, of course, completely bummed me out but I was still happy with 15th row.

The show was good but nothing too memorable. I didn't have a very good view of the stage even though I was fairly close. Stevie was not real energetic or animated but her voice sounded good. She was looking kinda large. She did wear a lot of white, as I recall. A fight broke out towards the end of the show in the row in front of me and the people fighting came careening over chairs right in my direction. I had the sense to move or I would have ended up on the ground. A little scary...

I went to two shows this tour. The first one was at Jones Beach. Really liked this show. Rick Vito was playing with her. I remember she was dancing alot, her voice sounded good, but she forgot some the the lyrics to a few songs, Rhiannon, I remember sounded amazing in the begining, real real pretty, different, but towards the end she forgot to sing a whole verse, she said something to the effect after the song was over, that she wrote it one way, and performs it another way, so she said she decided to do both. Ha Ha, good save Stevie. That is what stands out from that show. The second show was at the Garden State Arts Center. This was also the second time that I got to shake Stevie's hand at a concert. After I shook her hand and kissed it, she reached over to the next person, and her white cape was out stretched, so I ran my fingers up and down the white fringes on her cape, and also touched her beautiful suede boots. Wow what a thrill, more than I could have ever dreamed of. I also remember being crushed up against the stage as the crowd behind me tried to get closer to the stage, I was thinking that I was in a bad situation, I was really just tring to breathe and stay calm, security had to intervene and move people back. I will always remember my Street Angel experiences. Thank you Stevie!:thumbsup:

I was at the Dallas show also... September 10th, 1994... Please tell me you have some audio bootlegs from this show... It's really Important to me... And yes, she changed the set list around, I guess with it being close to the end of this tour... "I Need To Know" was about the 4th or 5th song that she did... because it was still daylight when she sang it... in the old "Coca-Cola Star-Plex" Dallas...
I really need some audio boots for this show...
Thanks ~

Donnie Wayne ~

Was that the show in Holmdel? Her rendition of Destiny from Holmdel is one of the three best on the whole tour, to my ears.

Yes it is Holmdel. Now the venue is called PNC Arts Center.

Who all sang backup to Stevie other than the incomparable Sara Fleetwood. Was it Lori and Sharon?

Going off memory from the Blue Den video... I don't believe Lori was there. Sharon was, along with Liza Jane.

That's right, I forgot about her. So the two of them were with Sara- I gotcha now! :nod: Thank you!

I saw this tour in Mansfield, Mass., it was my first SN concert since I'd left LA for good, and now it's been 15+ years for me back 'home' in CT. So, the 'Street Angel' tour is a milestone in post LA Stevie concert-going for me.
It felt great, in the summer of 1994, to be seeing her after what seemed like- and was- quite a long dry spell, of no Stevie on tour at all. Highlights were a really spectacular 'How Still My Love'- the stage went totally black for 'this is me talkin to ya'-- eery, and effective. That night also was the last 'Rhiannon' performance, to date, that still had some exquisite magic in it, for me.
No solo version of 'The Chain'-- I would have loved that! How lucky anyone is who has ever heard perform that on a solo tour, it's a real rarity, almost of 'At Last' proportions :)
She was real heavy, definitely. None of the audience seemed to mind, really. The 'Edge' walk went on forever! The 'Rhiannon' ending was fierce..."and wouldn't you love, wouldn't you luh-huve, wouldn't you luhh-huh-huh-ve to-ooo luhhh- vvvve her"-- right into my eyes, I swear :)
The rest of the show, for me, was unremarkable.
No tourbooks at the venue!
I really was loving the 'Mirror Mirror' b-side to the Blue Denim single right around this time, love her vocals on it. 'Inspiration' was also a killer track, I would have loved to have heard either in concert- sorry, I always have really gagged at 'Destiny' -- still do-- and would have prefered 'Inspiration' and 'Mirror Mirror' to have made the cd and not 'Jane' or 'Destiny'.
Some good moments at the concert, though I did have a sad feeling at the end, like 'an era has really ended', and in a way, it had ended.
Thankfully, just 3 years later we had 'The Dance' reunion and an entire renaissance of Stevie-appreciation, culminating in the '98 Enchanted box set and her totally exceptional 'Enchanted' tour in '98, which she played in Hartford, the night she turned 50. She was at her best. The '94 Street Angel tour was, in a way, depressing, to see her in decline, which was my impression at the time, 'she's in decline'.
3 and 4 years later, seeing Stevie in peak form again, was just incredible.

IIRC, wasn't "No Spoken Word" on the early setlists?

This was a FUNNY band introduction from the SA tour. Backup singers were, Sharon, Liza, and Sara.

Thanks so much for posting that great band introduction video. Wow, I was shocked to hear Stevie admit Sharon's true place of birth! :D She seems so happy and silly here...it was different then I expected. Thanks again.

Ha Ha. Yes definitely in good spirits on that tour. I was surprised that she introduced Russ Kunkel as her musical director, I thought that role went to Carlos, in Waddy's absence.:shrug:

There's a detailed blog review of Street Angel on "Dan's Blog."

http://dancsblog.blogspot.com/2010/0...eet-angel.html

Here's an excerpt:

Much like I did with The Other Side of the Mirror, I tried to talk myself into liking it. It's not hard to do when it's a long-awaited release by a what amounts to a core artist in your listening habits, but there was something niggling at the back of my brain. "This isn't that good..." it seemed to say. "Stevie really doesn't sound like she's even there." And as it turns out, it was true. When the album was in production, Stevie was back in rehab, AGAIN, this time trying to kick the Klonopin habit that had started with her finally and completely kicking of the cocaine habit in the late 80s. Stevie's songs and voice are pretty much the only thing authentically Stevie on the album. The production, the album art, everything else has the feel of something cobbled together by committee. I swear that given the opportunity, even with the limited technology of the day, I could have come up with a better album cover than what the record company did! What's contained in the album is nearly as amateur. There's an ill-advised cover of Bob Dylan's "Just Like A Woman" and an obtuse song about Jane Goodall. The production is very generic and blah - living up to neither the acoustic greatness of Bella Donna or the synthy-goodness of Rock A Little. As an album, it fails, completely and utterly.

But all is not lost. I've been listening to this album while I write this post and there are several good songs. Not surprisingly, many of them are songs written by Stevie for the first three albums and ultimately rejected for whatever reason. The first time I listened to the song "Greta" I had what basically was a deja vu moment - it sounded just like classic Stevie, complete with the spoken "Oooh, she's got a movie star view..." moment. Well, "Greta" was originally recorded for The Wild Heart - no wonder it sounds like 80s Stevie! The "Greta" demo from that time period is circulating on the internet and is astounding for both its similarities and differences to the version that eventually ended up on Street Angel. Lyrically, it's pretty much identical, but the 80s version is faster and has an 80s groove that is notably absent on the Street Angel version.

Another standout is one of my favorite Stevie tracks, "Blue Denim." (embedding disabled? Seriously!?) A classic Stevie rocker co-written with Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, it kicks the album off in fine form and was even released as the second single. Even though Stevie does sound a bit bored through parts of it, singing the "blue grey eyes they change with the color" chorus in practically a monotone, there's a urgency in the song that even Stevie's Klonopin use couldn't douse. By the time we hit the last minute of the song and she wails "Yes I'm going away for a little while to remember how to feel!/And if I find the answer, I promise you/I'll come back and get you," you can just see Stevie on a concert stage, her chiffon dress billowing out as she twirls as only Stevie can. She hit the talk show circuit to promote "Blue Denim", appearing on David Letterman with a crimped hairdo and very overweight - so much so that upon viewing it, she vowed to retire unless she could lose weight.

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But back to the music. Even lesser songs like "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" and the title track have aged better than they should have. But most of the rest of it is a forgettable train wreck. It's a train wreck like only Stevie can do it and because it's Stevie, it's still moderately listenable for me. As I said earlier, I have been listening to it while I write this post and at several points, I've had to stop and ask myself if I'm being too hard on it. Well, as a friend of mine said to me once, "Don't kid yourself, Dan. That album is ASS!" And yeah, for the most part it is. It is on par with The Other Side of the Mirror and doesn't hold up even remotely when compared to Bella Donna, The Wild Heart and Rock A Little. Clearly, when given a choice between the two, the cocaine was a better muse for Stevie than the Klonopin, although I'd prefer she had neither.

saw the tour in houston
 

at the woodlands. if i remember correctly, she opened with The Chain and made a snarky remark about dedicating it to Mick Fleetwood, which i think was right after his ghastly tell-all book came out. also, she did a musical bit during an audience chat "you make me feel so young.... you make me feel there are songs to be sung" which was an exciting crowd pleaser. of course, long nets of white cloud my memory as well, so who knows.....

My friend Bob and I went to Cincinnati, and I had bought front row seats to the Kansas City show from someone on the Nicksfix (:eek:)... on the way, we stopped for the St. Louis show as well...

Kansas City was incredible... During Edge of 17, Bob gave Stevie the necklace he was wearing to her (was an Ankh)... she came back out on stage wearing it saying she had been talking about Ankhs all day.... launched into HAEWAFY, clutching the Ankh and while singing "I thought there was a connection"... We went to the Ritz Carlton after the show - got to meet her and the band in the bar!!! She was gracious and beautiful... and just talked & talked. AND! Even after changing her clothes, she still had Bob's necklace on! We were so fortunate.... was an experience I (we) will never forget. We opted not to get autographs, we felt like it would had ruined the moment.... we had met her back in 1991 and had already gotten autographs ( see my sig). There were a couple of other fans in the bar that night that approached her after we left... anyone reading this that might've been there?

I'm sure the days of Stevie hanging out in the bar after the show are long gone...