June 9, 2024 Mohegan Sun
 

Going tonight to see Stevie in concert and very excited. I last saw her in September opening for Billy Joel in an outdoor venue and her voice was the best I have heard this entire century. Looking forward to her 13 minute stories because she is so much fun to listen to and very funny with her comments. Hoping vocally she tops the September performance. This show is indoors inside a casino. I am not a gambler.

I hope you had a great time! Jealous here, I'll see her again if she comes to Australia this tour. Hope she hit some high notes for you.

I hope you had a great time and looking forward to your review

It was another great show on Sunday night. I went with three other people and also met up with some friends at the box office before the show. Stevie sounds really good. No amount of cell phone footage can relate to us how good she sounds on this tour. And she is full of energy and gusto. I'm one of those fans who love her stories and if she ever wants to ditch the music and just spend 2 hours talking, I'm game. All my life I have been irritated with hearing the same song set in basically the same order until recently when I finally admitted to myself that when I go to see any other artist perform I only want to hear their hits. With that in mind I realized that Stevie delivers the majority of the hits of which the public knows and on this tour you can hear how much she really loves her own songs because there is so much life in them still. So I really enjoyed myself. The highlight of the show was the Gypsy intro which I posted for you that I found on youtube and Gold Dust Woman. In GDW there were two times where the volume was cranked up higher and I loved that. At 76 years old she continues to prove she is in a rock band because they play loudly and I love that she sings everything live. There are no backing tracks that I am aware of. I would say the show I saw last September was better than this night and I wonder if that was because she was using Billy Joel's sound system. Some of the mixes at this show did have spots where her voice sounded muffled. Because I know all the words to every song I was ok but I wondered about the people who didn't. But I have always loved Stevie Nicks so I left very satisfied. The only complaint I have is that I am fairly short so even with great seats(14th row center) I had to struggle to see through most of the show, because everyone else is so tall. I so wish floor seating could be like a movie theatre with each row being one foot lower than the row behind it. I literally have to stand up for the whole show in order to see.

It was a sold out show and this is the cake they presented to Stevie backstage

Glad you enjoyed! Did everyone in the arena stand for the show?
Did she sing Fall From Grace, I Sing For the Things, Free Fallin, and Rock and Roll? I bet she's still not playing Sara. Marilyn said Stevie didn't want to play it anymore but I hope it will come back.

Most of the people in front of me stood for the whole show except during Soldier's Angel but the song got a much louder applause than I was expecting. She did not sing any of the songs you mentioned. She did perform For What It's Worth and that also got a better response than I thought it would.

That is great to hear about the reaction to Soldier's Angel. The video she had during that song was incredible.

That's right, she does The Buffalo Springfield song. I think that's a pretty well known tune. She really loves singing it.

Too bad that she's dropped songs. I guess she's singing about 14 songs now?

Glad you had a great time. Is this the latest Gypsy story?
Now she says she misses being a cleaning lady? I thought she hated it :eek:

She did hate being a cleaning lady. What she missed was the early days of struggling to become famous. Most likely she missed the simplicity of not being famous but they were probably just feelings she had here and there. Clearly she loves her fame and money.

It’s still amazing when she sells out a big show. She’s a commercial powerhouse after decades.

A long time ago, she said that she was at her happiest on a stage. She wasn’t kidding.

Get back out on the road again for a million reasons — but there’s only one reason: she loves it!

I think she is sounding better than she has for quite awhile…
Not so flat and shrill…quite melodic.

Being on the road obviously suits her.
She looks great (apart from the hair)…sounds much lighter somehow.
And is happy.

Its funny because she never was a cleaning lady. She says it though. The guy who yanked Lindsey and Stevie from Fritz because he saw their talent saw how hard they were struggling. Even Stevie has said she started to regret leaving Fritz because at least that was a gig and the band was good. Keith paid her to clean and upkeep his house. He probably did that to keep her motivated and give her some earned money. Its almost she got an allowance from a producer for cleaning his house. Is not a cleaning lady definition someone that cleans houses for a living with multiple clients. If she only cleaned Keith Olson's house then that's hardly a cleaning lady. But I know its the rags from riches story she likes to tell. The truth is both Stevie and Lindsey came from very well off families. Stevie did not need to work or clean houses.

Yes somewhere I have read she worked cleaning Keith's house. Though in his book Mick mentions "houses", but probably they were occasional jobs. He also mention in his 1992 book, what Stevie also remembered in a 1994 interview, that she worked as a waitress in Copper Penny, Clementine’s, and Bob’s Big Boy.

It would be funny to see picture from her waitress days, wearing the uniform. And what I wouldn't give to have seen her working at Monica Geller's 50s-themed restaurant.

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There is a photo of her in the Big Boys or another restaurant T shirt on.
You find everything else on the net so this is your test.
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Was this her setlist at this show?
Outside The Rain
Dreams
If Anyone Falls
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
For What It's Worth
Enchanted
Wild Heart and Bella Donna
Gypsy
Soldier's Angel
Stand Back
Gold Dust Woman
Edge of Seventeen
Rhiannon
Landslide

Oh yes I've tried! I guess I'm not writing the appropiate words in Google. The closest thing I found was this, but I think she's not Stevie Nicks. :laugh:

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The little coke treats he left for her when she was coming over to clean were probably sweetened the deal for her too.

Correct order, minus Enchanted. But with her stories the show ran a full two hours and five minutes.

Wow! Enchanted has been a live favorite of Stevie's for years! It seems to be like you said in your review: Stevie is making her setlist for those who aren't interested in her extensive catalogue, as in songs they don't know.

Well yes and no because when you get right down to it, the casual fan does not know Outside the Rain, Bella Donna, Wild Heart & Soldier's Angel. And I'd venture to guess the current generation of young girls I saw in the thousands at that concert probably never heard If Anyone Falls also because really, how often does that song get played on the radio these days?

I hear If Anyone Falls on Sirius 80s on 8 all the time. But on regular radio, I don’t hear Stevie solo songs beyond Edge and Stop Draggin My Heart Around.

Outside The Rain and Bella Donna were on a #1 multiplatinum selling album and I’d gather even her younger fans would likely own that or stream it more than her other albums. Wild Heart is always on Andy’s Kiki Lounge station, there’s the viral video of her singing Wild Heart for the cover shoot, and recently a video of her singing it backstage with Harry Styles’ band.
The way Soldier’s Angel is performed is without presumption because Stevie sets it up with the story as if the audience member has never heard it before and with the video accompaniment they love the song like it’s one of her best.
What else is there: Leather and Lace, Gold Dust Woman, Dreams, Landslide, Stand Back, Gypsy, Edge of Seventeen, and the cover of a huge hit For What It’s Worth. I’d still say it’s a setlist for those who want to hear what they know. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a fantastic performance and concert!

I don't know. It never ceases to amaze me, the number of people who don't like Bella Donna. It is very country tinged in places, and that's why I love it.

I get the reason you love it. It sounds like a true classic rock record as well. To me it has the Eagles sound, Heartbreakers sound, and E Street sounds on it too (and I know you got the two Dons on it and Roy Bittan). I think my issue with the album is the length. Too short for me.

I really only like Think About It, How Still My Love, and Outside The Rain. But I'd gladly accept Kind of Woman, Glitter, or The Highwayman in her setlist.

It's amazing how much her setlist has regressed since the 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault Tour in 2016. So many forgotten songs.

Thank you. That IS the reason I love it. It IS the Eagles and the Heartbreakers.

And I never even realized, until a couple of years ago, that Don Felder was the guitar player on The Highwayman(probably back when I read all liner notes, I didn't realize the name was from the Eagles- HEY, I WAS 5 WHEN BD CAME OUT) :rolleyes:

But I digress- Bella Donna is her OPUS. Anyone who doesn't worship it is dumb af.

And anyone who doesn't think Stevie's Gold Dust Woman dance in place from Live In Boston is a better dance move than the mashed potato should be sentenced to life behind bars!

Well I don't know in which tour she did the mashed potato, but I loved her GDW dance in the NJ gig OWTS tour. She really rocked and by the screams, thousands of souls agreed with me.

I don't necessarily disagree with you because I respect your opinion but there were many times in my life when I used to buy record albums or CD's and still only want to listen to the songs I had heard on the radio. With the exception of FM or Stevie of whose songs I'd listen to every one of them.

I respect yours too. But given The TikTok age and the enduring popularity of the BD album, I’m going to stick to my belief that Outside The Rain, Bella Donna, and Wild Heart aren’t deep cuts. I’d say Nothing Ever Changes and Soldier’s Angel are. But again, the way she sets up Soldier’s Angel before she sings it is done so well that people are so moved and engaged that they emotionally feel like they know it while listening to her lyrics and watching the video.
She has so many Top 40 songs she could put in her setlist however.

are you thinking of the Obie's Lighting Productions tee? That's the only one I can recall off the top of my head....:shrug:

yes I thought it was looking rather tatty.....:sorry:

Stevie performed at a sold out Soldier Field in Chicago on Friday June 21, 2024 with Billy Joel as her co-headliner. Stevie played 14 songs, including Wild Heart and Bella Donna, her rendition of Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth, Gypsy, and Leather and Lace.
Billy Joel played 27 songs.

I guess this setlist is Stevie "doing whatever I want to do now."

If she did 14, and he did 27, I'd definitely say that she's OPENING for him.

I'm not a big fan of his, but he definitely has more clout.

She could easily do 20+ songs if she wanted to. She’s spending 11-13 minutes telling her Gypsy story alone. She’s probably got close to a half hour tied up in gabbing to the audience.

How could any SANE person think people would rather hear you blathering on and on, instead of playing more songs?

She can’t do 20+ songs anymore that’s the issue. The new shows are replaced with stories to “save” her voice.

That's why she's the OPENER.:laugh:

At the Billy Joel shows she should sing more and talk less because it's essentially his audience but at her solo shows she always did say when she was younger that someday she'd want to sit on the edge of the stage and explain her songs to people. I love her stories. For me she could ditch all the songs and just spend 2 hours talking to me. You can talk to me, talk to me. Sing it girrl:laugh:

I think so too. She said for the 24 Karat Gold Tour that she sang for two hours and spoke for 45 minutes. She might be talking for 40 minutes now.

I think that's the reason. But whether what she tells interesting or not, I wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars for a concert where ~40 minutes are just speeches that I can hear in any interview. Either Stevie Nicks or any artist or band.