Stevie's Most Emotional Performances/Moments on Stage
 

I was listening to an old boot of Beauty and the Beast from a show in 89' today and I could swear she was crying at certain points so I started to think of other emotional moments from our girl.

I think the best known one is Silver Springs during The Dance when Lindsey had to finish the song for her because she was too emotional. Here's the audio but to my knowledge no video exists :(.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yxd43kojo2v55qd

Here are some videos of emotional performances of BATB and HEAWAFY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqmobReWhRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrj-keRqPY

So please post your audio or video of Stevie's most emotional moments. I would love to hear and/or see!

The "Landslide" video actually linked to "Has Anyone Every Written Anything For You.

But thank you for the mp3! I would adore seeing a video if anybody could find it. Even just to see how Lindsey reacted to that situation.

Thanks! I changed it.

Don't worry about it. They were both beautiful videos. And bless her heart! Did you want to cuddle her during her tearful moments too? I did. I would adore just having some time with this classy and graceful lady to sit and talk about everything and nothing. Just unburden ourselves guilt free. It would be beautiful.

I just want her to hold me and tell me everything's going to be o.k.. :o

Why the blush, honey? That's nothing to be embarassed about. It's one of my wishes too *hugs*.

The 1981 Rhiannon seems to be very special to Stevie:



As well as the woodstock 1998 HAEWAFY.
Its ony Youtube, but it wont let me embed.

Yes, I am familiar with this one and it is epic! And can I just add that this is the period (WH era) when Stevie was the most beautiful she's ever been in my eyes. There's just something about that time - she wasn't so innocent and hippie/girly like the 70's and not yet showing the effects of her drug use. Not that I don't love her during all eras but this one is to me the most alluring and truly angelic (with just a hint of devil). Sexy, sassy, classy as I like to say. I guess your definition of beauty changes with age and experience but I don't think it's a coincidence that I'm just about the same age as she was here.

does sisters of the moon count?

Of course! Everything counts. There's no right or wrong here.

I am sitting here with tear streaks down my face. These performances were so beautiful, on a deep level.
I just felt like grabbing her up and hugging her (I think someone else said that as well).
Does anyone know if there is audio available of the entire Symphony concert? I would love to have it in it's entirety, so I could obsess over it for several years!!

Does anybody know of a video of Goodbye Baby performed on the SYW tour that is particulary emotional? I saw the show 5 times and know she was particularly sad during one of them but can't remember which. :shrug:

One more for now. A little background first - Storms has always been a particularly special song to me as I'm sure it has been to many of you. In the years leading up to 2009 FM hadn't done Storms live and it was the song that was at the top of my list to hear Stevie sing. Well in anticipation of the Unleashed tour I refused to look at the set list or reviews because I wanted to be completely surprised (as usual) so when I went to my first Unleashed show in Anaheim and she came out in red I almost died and knew somehow she was going to sing Storms to me and I was right ~and therein my life changed ~

This is one of the best performances of the tour from NYC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpOmxUtdhDY

Reno or Vegas '03 ... I always get confused. I think it was during Goodbye Baby
I only have the audio not the video...

Reno is the one where she asked Lindsey to take over the song.

For most emotional, I liked the BTM where she says she hopes Lindsey can find it in his heart to make music with her again. Of course, she might not have been that emotional in that one. Maybe it was my most emotional!

Michele

can someone please repost the mp3 ... i've lost mine :( (the Nevada show, not the BTM lol)

The Red Rocks version of BATB is particularly emotional to me. It's also my fav version of the song. It's not on YouTube, but you can watch it here. The wails are beautiful, and the "tell her now" at about 6:03 kills me every time.

Oh - and now that I'm thinking about it, her performance of "Insider" with Tom Petty on the Gatorville DVD is really moving:



And we can't forget "Say Goodbye" on Lindsey's Soundstage DVD:



OMG WAHHHHHH. Haha.

I've got it :wavey: It's a rip from the DVD, I'll try to upload it today for you.

A particularly emotional performance that comes to mind is Landslide, from Irvine in 1982...

It was at a City Of Hope benefit, just after Robin died. :(

At the end she says "I know she's here" and you can tell she's crying.

So sad :(

HBO White wing dove concert, Stevie looked to be struggling to hold back the tears [quivering], while singing Rhiannon. She ended up bursting into tears at the end of that performance. Actually her emotions were all over the place at her final show, excited & happy one minute, then sad the next. BTW thanks again Sahara:wavey::thumbsup:

She showed some very endearing emotion on the opening night of the 'Enchanted' tour in Hartford in '98. I believe she had just turned 50 the same week, but I may be off a little on the date. She had some nerves, a little stagefright that night and talked about it, and it was sweet. She looked especially beautiful that night. Edit: 2 hours later- oddly, unpacking a box, mispacked, I found the ticket-stub, May 27, 1998- so it was one day after she turned 50.
I do think most of her 'emotional' performances were back in the '80s, I think for the majority of the 90s and since, her stage presence has been a lot more 'in control' and she doesn't often let herself go with her emotions the way she did early in her career.

She actually LAUGHED at herself once. Sorry, I don't have the audio - It was definitely on Youtube though. It was the late 70s, I think, and they were doing Landslide and she starts losing it, starting to cry - and she laughs at herself at the same time like, "OH geez I'm losing it again this is SO ridiculous! :( :laugh: "

My personal opinion is that her most emotionally intense performance, both for her and the audience, was Beauty and the Beast in Las Vegas, August, 2005.
"One for the record books."

Not sure this was the same show or not but it was mid 80's in Irvine Calif. During the edge walk someone took one her rings off her finger. (accidental?) After the song she came back on stage nearly in tears and said one of her rings came off. She said, it is very dear to me as it was my grandmothers/grandfathers (?) if you have it please give it back! My mouth dropped, I felt soooo bad for her! She then completes the setlist! At the end of the show, with a huge smile on her face says, Thank You, thank you! I'll be dammed, someone did give it back!!!! Anyone else there?

This is SO sweet :o :)

That was a good show!
I was real close at that show (and on crutches). Toward the end of the show she was getting angry because the sound on stage had changed and she did not like it. Lots of side glances to the technician and to Frank (isn't that his name...guitar player) with a 'WTF' expression on her face. At one point, as she was walking from the wings to take the stage for Edge, before the stage lights hit her, she was muttering to herself and wouldn't look at the tech. You could see that she was pissed off.

AGREED. This is my favourite version of BATB too, although the bit that kills me each time is the note she sings at 5:44. Gorgeous.

This video was the first that sprang to mind for me! And I totally agree with what you're saying.'The Wild Heart' is such a fitting phrase for this period in her life/career. There are moments during this time where you can just hear her heart break while she's singing. It just makes her performances all the more alluring and amazing.

I agree! I cannot hear it without tearing up.

You two are cracking me up. I was kind of obsessed with this version for a long time and listened to it quite often when alone in the car. Both the "tell her now" and the 5:44 wail still choke me up. I used to actually anticipate both those moments in the song. Hee- dork.

I do miss seeing that much emotion in Stevie. Drugs or no drugs, it could not be possible to sing the same songs over and over and bring forth such unrestrained expressiveness. Frankly, I can't imagine how she does it after all these years. But back in the day, she meant that **** when she was singing it.

I think that it's really important for an artist to be able to slice open old wounds and not destroy themselves. I know that as a writer, I'm constantly forcing myself to be a little more honest with myself than I want to be... and that often means that I have to "talk" about something that I don't want to. Every time I read over something I've written, it all happens again. So if Stevie feels the same way that I do about writing, I'm guessing that she used to allow herself to be susceptible to her music, to be in its grasp when she performed, not the other way around.... I think she's lost that.

Reading some of these posts is making me a little sad guys...
I didn't really think of it when I started this thread but the bottom line is that I have never and will never see that emotional side of Stevie that she put forth throughout most of the 80's (not live anyways). Her most memorable moments on stage seem to be from the BD, WH, and RAL periods (with the exception of a few crazy Rhiannons in the late 70's) and it's just a shame that I was too young at that point to be going to concerts (and the ones I did go to were my mom's choice) but also too young to have appreciated the Goddess-like creature that is Stevie Nicks. The Stevie I have seen this decade is a far cry from the past :(. I'm sure age and repetition has a lot to do with it but do you guys think she's still capable of giving an emotionally charged performance these days or is that just too much to ask for? I'm not complaining about her performances by any means or expecting her to dance across the stage or scream like she's possessed, I'm just wondering what you guys think about the topic of robot Stevie...

So for any of you that did see Stevie live in the 80's please feel free to share some stories so we can live vicariously through you! If only I could go back in time I would have chosen to see Stevie's RAL tour over Michael Jackson's Thriller tour!

Don't know if it's a good idea, but this thread gave me an idea for another one:
"Stevie's Worst, Not-There Performances" but I don't think I can think of any! She always has been someone you just love to watch on stage, I think.

Well that could be interpreted in 2 different ways - "not there" meaning high as a kite on coke and booze or "not there" in terms of being a zombie/robot.

My dream - a clear, high quality, close-up video of the entire Red Rocks 86' show UNCUT. Does such a thing exisit? If you know, tell her now!

Here's a link to one of my favorite HAEWAFY...this is my video. I love the nod she gave to Woodstock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOBPu2Yq6M

I have seen moments (very brief and only visible to the trained eye-lol) where it seems as though she is somewhat taken over with emotion. I think that Stevie at some point, felt as though she needed and wanted to be taken seriously as a performer and a song writer. She gained control of herself, worked very hard, and had high standards for herself. In all of this (I believe) that she lost much of her spontaneity. I also believe that the way *I* dance and carry myself is much more restrained vs. my younger days. Maybe her changing appearance has made her feel more self conscious about how she looks when she's performing. If you watch the way she danced in the early days (70s and 80s) she was very unrestrained in her movements. As she got older (and a bit larger) her dancing took on a more controlled, almost awkward, vibe.

Do I think that Stevie is capable of a emotional and passionate live performance of Rhiannon? I'm sure she is, but I would imagine there would have to be some behind the scene, out of the norm, circumstance going on.

Anything from US festival. Amazing, but soooooo not there.

^Wrong! I was there, and she was completely invested and very aware of and almost in love with the audience! Sure, she had a good buzz going on, but her performance was filled with prescence and being in the moment. It's actually one of her best filmed concert performances. That night, was the best 'How Still My Love' she ever did. I have (albeit on old vhs) her entire US Festival performance, and she is 'so there' it's chilling!
Sure, some of her between songs comments are spacey, but they're coherent. On the RAL tour she at times lapsed into incoherence- At the US Festival and for the Wild Heart tour, she may have been flying, but she was still giving great performances and wasn't obliterated.