The Best of the Rock A Little Tour 1986
 

No, I have none to post at the moment, but let's start a companion to the thread Alex started for the 1983 The Wild Heart Tour.

I'm most interested in "Rhiannon" from Dallas, Houston & Austin ~ since I was there! Front row centre in Austin!

Post your favourite 1986 live versions!

Could anyone post the show that's on Cloaks & Daggers? Illinois? I lost my CD of it.

Small request: individual links and not torrents? Pretty please? :)

All the best shows were the early ones!
 

Texas, especially..

Oooh you tease. I thought you had made one already. I never got along to making one. I have a lot of RAL boots, and just don't have the time right now to listen to them all and note my favorite tracks, like I did for my Wild Heart shows.

YES!!!!!!

My old cassette bootleg of the Houston show (opening night!) cut off right after "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?", but at the concert, Stevie stuck around, even as the lights were coming on, babbling away. She started talking about her love for Texas, and how she had once written a song, "Texas Girls Are the Best" and she started singing a bit of it, before she finally left the stage.

I wish someone had that to post!!! :)

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

Here is "Gypsy" from Opening Night in Houston, as posted by Lisa in the "Demos/Live Requests" thread.

Here's Cloaks and Daggers. For some reason I think the first track (Outside the Rain) is missing and I'm not sure if they are in the right order but all theses songs are from that show.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4...b5ba589d1986ba

Was that in '86 or '83?

"We are the girls from Texas -- Texas, the lone star state!" :D

Here's that from 1983. Also, notable is the goooood daaaaaamn chaaaaain.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/emzujixyew2/01 Outside The Rain.mp3

I downloaded this before. And it's just fabulous.

'Weeelll, and you see your gypsy'. She just rips into every part in a way you don't normally hear on Gypsy.

Nathan, thanks for posting that!

Yes, Stevie also talked about that song in 1986 in Houston on the first night of the Rock A Little Tour. After "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?", the lights were coming on and Stevie just would not shut up! ;)

I have all this documented because I brought along my journal and wrote down (in the darkness!) as many of Stevie's lyrics changes as I could catch. Most of the changes were in "Gypsy", "How Still My Love" and "Rhiannon".

"Rhiannon" was especially different that night in Houston because Stevie sang some very different lyrics I've never heard before or since, not even on the Westwood One concert.

"Once in a million years
A lady like her
Well, she gets up
And she rises!"

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jmzvvmo5jmj/16

And she would repeat that "She gets up!" line several times throughout the song. But I've never heard it on any other 1986 concerts.

P.S. Thanks, Lindsay, for Cloaks & Daggers!

Austin, TX 4-12-86
 

Here is Austin...I will upload Houston later today.

intro
http://www.mediafire.com/?5mnydzezwoj

Gold Dust Woman
http://www.mediafire.com/?n1ol4q2w2ng

Outside The Rain/Dreams
http://www.mediafire.com/?bygzomzdjgm

Talk To Me
http://www.mediafire.com/?v3nizqmejdz

I Need To Know
http://www.mediafire.com/?mme1izmtmgj

No Sp0ken Word
http://www.mediafire.com/?qk2fqykzumj

Sara
http://www.mediafire.com/?eunzgj5njzz

Beauty & The Beast
http://www.mediafire.com/?jdjzwww1mwk

I Can't Wait
http://www.mediafire.com/?w133ztowgm5

Gypsy
http://www.mediafire.com/?id2mmzedezk

Leather & Lace
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzocqnn0hgj

Stand Back
http://www.mediafire.com/?k0niqm2ejmt

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
http://www.mediafire.com/?iy0ltyyzkzm

How Still My Love
http://www.mediafire.com/?wqjzhgn254w

Edge Of Seventeen
http://www.mediafire.com/?nyzyy2ljnnq

Rhiannon
http://www.mediafire.com/?nzwtwm5mefy

Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
http://www.mediafire.com/?yznwe4ylwmw

Houston, TX 4-11-86
 

intro
http://www.mediafire.com/?zgnro1vqdyx

Gold Dust Woman
http://www.mediafire.com/?y4mdifyyifh

Outside The Rain/Dreams
http://www.mediafire.com/?zjn1yz1dm0m

Talk To Me
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytm2z2qjn4w

I Need To Know
http://www.mediafire.com/?yygqtmz1zuq

No Spoken Word
http://www.mediafire.com/?wzn2kjqhymx

Sara
http://www.mediafire.com/?gdew3nnmkzm

Beauty & The Beast
http://www.mediafire.com/?5gdtheujcoz

I Can't Wait
http://www.mediafire.com/?jcfzvzyxiiz

Gypsy
http://www.mediafire.com/?yinl2hmraym

Leather & Lace
http://www.mediafire.com/?qehnue0llyz

Stand Back
http://www.mediafire.com/?evjkymzqmuw

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
http://www.mediafire.com/?0nc3iedhjbk

How Still My Love
http://www.mediafire.com/?qzn0orqzzq3

Edge Of Seventeen
http://www.mediafire.com/?tgmoznyqtdv

Rhiannon
http://www.mediafire.com/?jjmu1zojjzn

Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
http://www.mediafire.com/?yd0jz13gemd

band intros
http://www.mediafire.com/?zznmdmoemmz

Thank you!!!! How exciting!!!!!!

As George Takei would say: "Oh my!"

The Austin labeled "Gypsy" is really the ending of "I Can't Wait" from the instrumental break. "Gypsy" was only done opening night in Houston (Viv says more and I'd LOVE to hear them!!!!).

Viv says Philly. That's all.

Thanks Mike...I'll correct my file!

BTW, on the Austin "I Can't Wait" ~

I was there on front row, right at Stevie's mic (we bought the tickets from a scalper right there before the show right in front of the Irwin Center!). On the second verse, you'll notice Stevie isn't singing. Well, she was just standing there, completely lost after the first chorus. Waddy had to come up to her and yell the lyrics in her ear to get her singing on the "Well, she dances around in a circle" bridge.

Also, right next to Stevie's mic was a huge bottle of Jack Daniel's. She had a red plastic cup she sipped from, but then later on she was just swigging the bottle when the lights were dark.

Just reporting, not hating or judging! I drank plenty of beer that night myself! :)

Dang, Nicksie.

Bahaha that is freaking great! Was this the last time she came to Austin, because she never comes here anymore. Any ideas as to why that is?

Stevie was supposed to play in Austin in October 1987 the night after the Houston show on the Tango In The Night Tour, but she had "bronchitis which made her performance less than she wanted it to be". Which was crazy, 'cause the Houston show was awesome! So, the Austin show was made up some time around Thanksgiving 1987.

Stevie's last solo concert in Austin at the Irwin Center was in October 1989 on The Other Side of The Mirror Tour. I also had front row seats for this show (not for Houston or Dallas on this tour). During the "Edge of Seventeen" walk (which she did not do in Houston because of this bizarre barrier at the stage), Stevie took both of my hands as I was screaming: "We LOVE you, STEVIE!!!!!!!!" She smiled and said, "I love you, too!"

I'm allergic to all metal, but, for some unmemorable reason, I was actually wearing a ring that night. When Stevie took my hands, a few strands of her purple extensions got caught in my ring and were yanked out! (NOT on purpose!! Stevie never noticed!) I treasured those purple strands for years, until they were lost in a move in 1998 in Dallas. :(

I don't remember if Stevie went to the Irwin Center for the Behind The Mask Tour in 1990, 'cause I only went to the Houston show for that tour. (I went back to school at Texas A&M in 1990 to get my degree and was SO poor!!!! However, I could afford to spend $250 easily for the Westwood One radio concert on vinyl for the Houston 1989 concert for The Other Side of The Mirror ~ priorities!) ;)

Ahh I see! I'm hoping she comes here sometime while I am still here, but I doubt she will :distress: Atleast Dallas and Houston aren't too far!

was it really necessary to have the entire bottle on stage w/her? Couldn't she just have brought out the cup and left a little mystery as to what was in it? I know Stevie was pretty messed up in those days but it seems hard to believe that she would be so indiscreet as to bring out the bar on stage with her! I believe you, since you were there, but it does seem somewhat incredible. I'm glad our girl lived through those days...

I once heard a story about her knocking back the Jack Daniels before a show. Never gave it much weight, but maybe it was true.

Like I said, Stevie had the discreet red plastic cup full of whiskey. The bottle of Jack was hidden behind a speaker. A male roadie came over every now and then to fill up Stevie's cup in the darkness. I could see because I was right at her microphone.

It was later in the Austin concert that Stevie started grabbing the bottle and swigging, disregarding her discreet red cup.

I heard about some Wild Turkey during a Tusk show.

The Jack Daniels is cool though. Just straight whiskey? Yuck.

Oh OK well that makes it a little better. When you described the bottle of JD being next to her mic, I pictured it sitting all out in the open, not hidden behind a speaker. Thanks for clarifying.

Talk To Me - Live Sydney 1986 (I love the intro by Stevie on this)

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

this is soundboard quality.
i DO have the entire Sydney show but NOT of this quality, i only have this and Outside the Rain/Dreams . i can post those Sunday...if anyone else has the entire show that is the soundboard quality to share...PLEASE SHARE!

Oh my god, she is soooo ridiculous.

Thanks for posting - quality is great.

"So, let's rock!"

Soundboard from Sydney I have are:

"Outside the Rain"
"Dreams"
"Talk To Me"
"I Need To Know"
"Stand Back"

If no one else uploads I'll try to do it on Monday if it works for me.

BTW, can someone please post the Westwood One 1986 "Edge of Seventeen" from Weedsport, NY? I can't find it on my computer. Thanks.

There's also that whatchamacallit ... I Can't Wait.

I only have 1:30 of "I Can't Wait" from Sydney. Not sure why it's incomplete.

If you have the whole song, PLEASE post it, David! That would be so awesome!!!! :)

Rock A Little Tour was my first time seeing Stevie live I saw 2 shows on that tour she stopped twice thru connecticut on that tour once at the begining of the tour and torwards the end of the tour. I believe both were sold out shows

Hartford Civic Center on May 2, 1986 in Hartford,CT
New Haven Coliseum on July 29, 1986 in New Haven, CT

I have a cassette of the new haven show somewhere I bought it a local record store sound is pretty good I bought it back then in 1986.

I can't remember if she had alchol bottles out on front of stage i remember maybe plastic cups and she was awesome even though she was high as a kite on this tour this tour was probably her raspsiest vocally that was probably from the coke she was doing little each night to get thru the tour. I loved the shows

I wanted to thank Lindsay again for posting Cloaks and Daggers. I bought that CD back in 1994 and lost it in 2006 before uploading it to my computer. I completely forgot how, on the fifth verse, Stevie is singing/yelling: "And when I call will you walk gently through my shadow?!!!"

Wow!!! That still gives me chills to this day, and I remember clearly my apartment in Houston that I was in in Spring 1994 when I heard it the first time. Thanks again, Lindsay.



BTW, guys, I never said Stevie had a problem with alcohol. I just saw her drink some Jack Daniels from a bottle in April 1986 in Austin. Stevie herself says her problems were with Cocaine and Klonopin and has repeatedly said that she isn't an alcoholic. I didn't mean to start that tired old debate. Just sharing my experience.

It think it's time I dust off my Cloaks and Daggers CD and listen to it. It's been a while but I do remember that during one song she inserts the nightbird lyric. I wish she would do that random stuff these days...throw in lyrics and lines from other songs. Good stuff!!

Outside The Rain (Sydney 86) -soundboard quality
http://www.mediafire.com/?znojiw22ydh

Dreams (Sydney 86) -soundboard quality
http://www.mediafire.com/?zgywzwimtk2

No Spoken Word -this is pretty good quality, i have this listed as a 2nd alternate take from the Red Rocks recording
http://www.mediafire.com/?yfmb2qmgjyo

Australia soundboard!!
 

These are awesome to hear Please post Stand Back and if it exists
I Cant Wait !!! thank you so much!!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmyz5lcnmmz#2

"Talk To Me" from Sydney, 1986.

here is another soundboard quality live version of Talk To Me from the RAL tour that i came across. i dont know the date/city. anyone else know?

http://www.mediafire.com/?5md2zmyjodm

I'm uploading "Stand Back" from Sydney tomorrow morning if no one else does tonight (sorry, my connection takes forever).

THIS IS FROM HOUSE OF BLUES FROM STREET ANGEL TOUR 94:p