"Mirror Ball"?
 

I was just going through a Stevie Box of mine I hadn't looked in since 2005. Along with finding every single fanzine ever published about Stevie up to 1998, as well as some AMAZING 8 x 10 photos of Stevie performing live in Germany in 1989 (given to me by the girl who took the pics), I found an email I had printed up from a friend, alerting me to a new bootleg Stevie CD.

The email is dated 01/26/1999, and my friend describes "Mirror Ball" as "A beautiful Stevie piano ballad not heard by many, a great song, very moving."

Okay, my friend has not responded today when I FaceBooked him about it, so I was wondering if anyone here knew what this song is. I know I definitely had the song in 1999, but it's not in my Stevie collection now.

Was it known by another title?

The contents on the Mirror Ball CD my friend lists as:

Mirror Ball
Nothing Ever Changes - demo
Dial The Number - very different early version (I can't find this either)
One More Tomorrow - The Wild Heart outtake
Violet and Blue - outtake
If Anyone Falls In Love - outtake
Julia - "rare outtake"
Joan of Arc - Tango in The Night outtake

and several more, mostly rarer outtake versions from Bella Donna.

Does anyone have "Mirror Ball" on mp3 or know if it's just an alternate title for another song?

I believe Mirror Ball, is aka Spinning Wheels or Christian depending on how the bootleg is labeled. I have a bootleg CD compilation named Mirror Ball by the bootlegger, that start offs with Spinning Wheels/Christian preceeding that exact song sequence you listed.
It is a beautiful piano ballad...in which the chorus she sings..."Oh Christian, what about your sad wild dreams. What kind of feelings, do you feel for me"....Great stuff. She should have completed this song, along with so many others...I believe it is a Bella Donna era demo.

Thank you, Christopher!

I suspected "Mirror Ball" was another song. However, my old friend already had "Christian" and gave it to me in 1994. Odd that he would blank out like that. He must've had a Stevie Moment! ;)

Oh well, mystery solved! Thanks again!

Can someone post it?

And can your Germany pics be scanned? :o

Can I post photos here?

They are wonderful 1989 shots from the German OSOTM Tour.

YES YES YES! I didn't think she played in Germany on OSOTM...Paris, Ireland, Birmingham, London, Rotterdam? Maybe I'm just bad at geography.

I know that when she was doing press, she did a live performance of ROF in a black outfit with just Sharon and Lori on the stage. PriestofNothing posted the video a long time ago on VEOH, but it is now taken down. Does anyone know what i'm talking about?

Correction: The show we all know as Rotterdam, Holland actually is mislabelled and was in Sweden.

No, but we must have it.

I have this on VHS.

possible for you to convert and upload? or is that too much to ask?

That live black "Rooms on Fire" has Stevie looking very differently than her lip-synched red "Rooms on Fire" on Top of The Pops.

Mine's on VHS, too...

I just looked at a collection I have of Stevie demos that I got back in the '90's called "Mirror Ball" and the song is listed on the disc as "Mirror Ball (Spinning Wheels)". It looks like it might be the same collection of songs you listed.

Ok, so does anybody know where the name "Mirror Ball" came from? Is this the "official" name? Is this the title listed on that publishing website (I lost the link to that site a long time ago!)

I had that song on cassette tapes prior to Maureen's putting out that "Mirror Ball" cd that everyone's talking about on this thread. But before that cd, I had only seen the name "Spinning Wheels" or "Christian" for that song.

(Same thing with "No Light" vs "Planets Of The Universe" and "The Tower" vs "Goodbye Baby"... I had never seen "No Light" or "The Tower" ever until Maureen started putting out her cds. Even the labels on the actual reel-to-reel tapes list "Planets Of The Universe" and "Goodbye Baby".)

Maureen, or whoever started circulating this CD in the 90's named this collection "Mirror Ball" , to my knowledge Stevie has never written a song by that title.

That's what I suspected. Thanks!

I have a suspicion that Maureen may have retitled some of the tracks to make it appear that she had stuff that no one else had. Then once you got the disc you found out it was the same song you already had. She wasn't the easiest person to deal with if you had a problem. I got a disc from her once that was blank and she wouldn't send me a replacement until I had returned the defective disc. Her fear was that I was trying to get a free disc from her.
For those that didn't deal with her I'm not alone in being one of the people that paid $35 for one of her discs. The price she said wasn't for the music, it was for "the artwork and supplies". The artwork certainly wasn't worth $35
Of course this is back before sharing over the internet made this process so much easier (and way cheaper!!!)

Maureen's "artwork" for the China Doll CD ~ Eeeeekkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!

For some reason, Maureen gave me everything; I didn't have to pay for anything. But she turned on me in Late 1998/Early 1999. But I think her Well of Stevie had run dry by then anyway.

She did distribute some amazing Stevie songs that none of us had ever heard before!

Yes, please. I know I have it on CD but this will be easier.

Speaking of this and sorry it may be a dumb question (anyone can answer) but do people still trade Stevie CD's? Back in my day we all had trade lists and burned CD's for each other. Is everything done with MP3's nowadays? I don't have most of my live/demo/outtake collection in iTunes. Would have to spend a lot of time uploading which I wouldn't mind.

MIRROR BALL (SPINNING WHEELS, CHRISTIAN):

http://www.mediafire.com/?nyvylmnj0mg

and this is where i got the majority of my mp3's of some bootlegs...it belongs to a Ledgie, but i forgot who :sorry:!

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5...ba5514922538b#

I wish! The sound quality on many demos and shows is bad enough as ".wav" files, never mind once they are converted into mp3s.

For example, "My Heart" and "Chanel"... those were leaked as mp3s and they have such a high-ended and "metallic" sound, and the bass is so distorted. I wish they had originally been "distributed" as .wav files so we could hear what they really supposed to sound like.

Thank you!

That is exactly why I bought so much from her. She had stuff that was for the most part decent to near perfect quality (compared to much of what had been out there) and she had stuff that no one else had. I looked forward to hearing from her every week to see when new stuff was available.

And does anyone know who "Christian" is? I have a friend name Christian and I played it for him, forgetting what the lyrics said. He looked at me and said "so... you don't want to be friends anymore?". Ooops!