Inauguration 30th Anniversary
 

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Somehow, we all missed this yesterday.

I watched it. But, instead of talking about it, I'd rather read everyone's incessant take on Stevie and/or Lindsey post 2018..
....... in the Christine Tribute thread .. no less!! :laugh:

Well, if we want drama…

Is it that Stevie was so heavy or do Lindsey and Christine look unhealthy thin?

I’ll bite!

I think the three songwriters all look…not great…at this time period. Lindsey seems terribly thin and he looks like he aged 15 years since Tango. His clothing and hairstyle are disheveled messes. Chris in the late 80’s looked amazing but by this time she also looks like she’s aged a lot in just a couple years. Stevie looks terrible, constantly appearing very bloated. The ultra blond hair is rough and her clothing choices do not complement her shape at all.

For maybe the only time - Mick and John actually look the best!

I agree LB does look a bit too thin, yes. but still a hottie.

to me, stevie by far looks the worst...just bloated. and as a short person myself, i know just a few extra pounds make a big difference. but i recall watching that performance w marty and we were both stunned at how bad she looked.

chris looked older (she would turn 50 that year) but still great IMO. such legs! they never disappoint lol. and mick and john are terrific.

it is crazy to realize that i am older now than any of them were there!!

--Lis

Stevie looks like she's had her eyes done here... she was prone to puffiness under her eyes which always bothered her, and her eyes here look far more pronounced like she got an eye lift. the weight gain shows in the overall bloat of her face and the total disappearance of her cheekbones .... of course, she could have still been all puffy from plastic surgery, that can take quite a while to go down..... who knows. Though her hands are definitely bloated too. But yeah, Lindsey looks.. a bit haggard (and yet still f*(*(ing gorgeous). Mick looks far better here than he had previously.... his druggy days he was just greasy. He's actually improved in looks with age.

Just noticed Stevie's got ahold of Lindsey's one hand, but his other one is clenched in a sort of fist....

My husband, always referred to Stevie….at this period, as
The blonde with the weight problem.

I remember watching it and recording it on my VCR. It was great to see them all back together. I heard someone on the radio say something like if that is how they sound for not performing live in 15 years, they can stay away. It irked me when they kept saying the first time together in 15 years. It was like the band did not exist in the BTM era. Stevie's weight gain was shocking. The comedian on MTV during the inaugural said "who took the air hose to Stevie Nicks.' That stuff had to hurt. This was right before she hit rock bottom and fell into her fireplace and got off tranquilizers. Her dead stare in this photo is hard to look at and I am being serious. Totally dead eyes.
Also the band said several times around this show that this was not a sign the band was getting back together and would not happen.
I know its live TV but think its weird they pretended to play with a pre-recorded track. Stevie's tambourine was even just a prop. The microphones were the only thing that was real. I just remember thinking when I saw them live in 1990 that the piano shuffle and the entire band made Dont Stop an anthem and the arena was stomping. This version is one of my least favorite live versions of the song.
Gosh remember Michael Jackson came on stage singing with them. Really a fun time.

I think Stevie's face was actually the fullest in 2004 on the Summer Say You Will Tour. I believe she said after that tour she started WeightWatchers.

Amen! I was thinking the same thing—and getting REALLY annoyed.

Ironically, Mick cones off the best here. (!)

Christine and John look good, like they always look, thin Lindsey is swimming in that suit, and Stevie never looked worse, imo…

yes, Lindsey had said in every damn interview how he barely wanted to even do this. he was incessantly trying to distance himself from the band at that time.

john, of course, was a republican and was no fan of clinton. but i think he enjoyed it in the end. ( still had his ring from chris on...prob about a year before it disappeared. ) but mick and chris said they would have voted for clinton, and Lindsey said he had. i think stevie did as well..?

I recall Ken Caillat saying that he thought they sounded terrible at the inauguration. but it was still a thrill for us fans. i recorded it too, and watched the sh*t out of that tape for like a week afterward lol.

--Lis

Other people on this board have said Christine didn’t vote for Clinton, based on comments she had made at the time.

I also remember an interview where the band said they practiced for several days leading up to the inauguration, which I always thought was insane, all that rehearsal for just one song! But I’m sure they were nervous because of the scope of the performance and because they hadn’t performed live since what, 1982? Well, they did in 1990, I guess.

Christine wasn’t a US citizen.

That was FAKEWOOD Mac Version 1 in 1990 :lol:

In 1995 she was asked about Bill Clinton. He exact words were: "I would have never voted for him but I was honored he picked our song".
Thats a class act!

There is a funny political question in the Dance rehearsal interviews where the guy from Entertainment Tonight and brought up the inauguration. He asked if it was something they would consider doing in the UK. He threw out the example of Tony Blair who was a newly elected Labor Prime minister. You should have seen Chris and John's reaction. Even though it was casual in nature and Tony Blair was given as an example, Chris clapped back that they would never do anything for the Labor party. You would have thought the interviewer pointed a gun at them. Their reaction was very bold.

I dont know why they needed to practice to a recorded track. I remember Lindsey specifically saying they did not need to practice since they could play the song in their sleep. Maybe things were not right during practice and felt the need to pre-record the track.

Oh you! :laugh::laugh:

I wasn’t aware Christine wasn’t a US citizen at the time; maybe the comments she made suggested she wouldn’t have voted for Clinton.

i found the link to that...at 6:49...chris says 'ooo we'd have to think very carefully about that', and it was actually john that said ,'not labour.'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBji-8-3jo


and here's link to the interview where chris said she probably would have voted democrat, at 5:09... i guess later on she had a change of heart about that! (and of course john next to her then says 'I voted...for one of 'em' lol argh he's so adorable.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lc7hE9TIr0&t=940s



i wonder if the rehearsal was more to get an understanding of what else would be happening while they played...like when in the song chris had to invite clinton to join them, who would be coming up on the stage surrounding them etc..it does seem odd to have to rehearse don't stop for 3 days lol

--Lis

It. was probably a cue to cue type thing... because it was an event.. who knows..

Who's job was it to tape the tambourine?

"We cant have Stevie out there rattling that thing during a live bloody telecast" Who's gonna tell her? Do you think she will notice? She'll ruin the whole thing. "

Reminds me of Making Rumours when Ken said that they’d give Stevie a tambourine so she’d have something to do but not actually record it, and then have Mick record the real tambourine bits later.

I’m not sure if Lindsey actually looks unusually thin, or if he’s just his normal size but the suit is several sizes too big. He looks like a little kid playing dress up in his dad’s clothes. It’s kind of adorable.

*Whose*

I'll bet Lindsey was the tambourine taper!

I think you’re spot on about why he looks so thin here- the suit is too big.

Very Miami Vice… but a decade too late.

He looks like a teenager wearing his dad’s suit.

I doubt Stevie ever voted or even thought about such things until Karen, or whoever it is, started carefully curating her new, disingenuous, opportunistic, manufactured for social media image. I remember her telling David Letterman that she thought President Clinton was "too young." :rolleyes:

Dear Lord. Indiana schools are worse than I thought.

Who’s vs. whose
Both who’s and whose come from the pronoun who (shocking, right?).
Who’s is a contraction, meaning it’s two words stuck together. The formula: who + is, or who + has.
For example: who’s hungry?
Whose is a possessive pronoun. Use it when you’re asking (or telling) to whom something belongs.
For example: whose sandwich is this?

Who's going to tell her aka who is going to tell her

Got it?
And aren't you one of the ones attacking Chris for Skies The Limit?
Thats like Mike Pence living in a glass house throwing corn cobs.

Come in..........out of the cornfield

That was an odd answer she gave.

I think there was a post by The Nicks Fix years ago that said Stevie was a Republican. Or maybe it was her father.

WHO IS job was it to tape the tambourine?

Yeah, that makes sense.




:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Iowa Basic Skills test 3rd Grade, Gary Indiana 1973

Basic English and comprehension.
Question 4.

___________ going to tell her (about the taped tambourine)

A. Whose
B. Who's
C. Whom
D. Who dat

As a fan of Bengals QB Joe Burrow, there’s one more option:

E. Who dey

And to that, I say, GO BILLS!

Who dis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5BKrTrYBlU

Has anybody found a good video in the web of their performance that day? I remember I found one but very poor quality.

Well, I know the Bengals are playing the Bills today, but I don’t know which day you’re asking about. :lol::lol:

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WHO DEY!!!

Great job!!

Seems Buffalo couldn't play in the snow!

Isn’t that supposed to be their thing?!?

Pic brings back some memories, not all of them pleasant. I was milling about the newsroom at the paper I worked for when this aired (after everyone was already sick of the song in the week or two running up to the inauguration), and I got to enjoy my colleagues (including the TV critic) hooting and guffawing at the Mac in a rather sad state on TV. The band should have done whatever it took to pull it together. The whole experience was cringe.