Today
 

Lindsey sounded pretty bad singing Go Your Own Way.

This was actually my first time hearing peacekeeper, and i must say i like it. (except for that "this is not a drill").

Stevie still sounds great

They were great :) Hell,for being their age,getting up this early,in that cold..yea...they rock :)

GYOW was preeeeeeetty bad........

I am hoping it was the cold!

PK was really good as was Rhiannon, but I wanted to hear Destiny Rules and Say You Will...

I think SAY is coming up soon, but I have to leave for work! Doggone it!

-Sharon

My cable was out (of course) so I couldn't see it. How big was the crowd?

they started kinda off key, but warmed up fast. the crowd was pretty good size. lots of poeple with Stevie pics and FM banners.
lucky dogs.

Nae

Stevie's pretty bundled up, isn't she? LOL
I did see Mindy & Sharon, but Sharon's still so thin that Lindsey's head kept blocking almost every camera shot of her!
John was his usual uncomfortable-in-front-of-the-mike self when Matt cornered him with a question.
I think the cold affected their voices. Stevie sounded great on Rhiannon except for that last word, "HER," when her voiced cracked a bit. I'm sure it's the cold - she's hit that note a thousand times before.
I hope it was Today show time constraints that made them eliminate the guitar solos on Peacekeeper & Rhiannon. I hope the guitar parts aren't omitted during the tour.

Waiting now for the 4th song...

- Jake

hehe
 

Yeah it was pretty offkey but look at that wind... geez... I can imagine the cold would mess up the tuning of the guitars. and they looked bored in GYOW/Rhiannon (besides Mick but when does he ever) but I don't blame them playing the same songs 10 million times.

Stevie's huge scarf was cute, lol.

Yeah.. GYOW wasn't good. I'm sure it was the cold.

He even screwed up a little with the guitar intro.. cold weather does *INTERESTING* things to instruments, for sure.

Is it just me.. or did he say:

"If I could, maybe I'd give you my world
Open I if you won't take it from me.."

I swear he did. I SWEAR it. Like he was going to the -open up everything's waiting for you- and then thought, "DOH! Wrong part!"

Say You Will, Peacekeeper, and Rhiannon sounded pretty damn good though.

Sarah

That's what I heard, too. Wouldn't be the first time they did the old accidental verse switcheroo on a song. lol

there's no way you'd be referring to the fact that it is *impossible* to sing along with Rhiannon when it's done live.. would you???

"once in a blackcat a moon like stars rises from the sky.. oh no he you cry cries but shes gone a moon from stars in the night..."

lol...

Sarah

They did Say You Will at the end of the show. It was about an hour after they finished Rhiannon. It sounded great.I was so glad they did a second song off of the new album.I got it on tape. They also showed the 4 of them signing some autograghs after Rhiannon and S&L getting a picture taken together with a fan.I am so ready to see them live this summer!!!

Yeah, I enjoyed SYW, love the live ending.
I know Today is targeting the mainstream & not necessarily Ledgie fanatics, but I hope the backstage glimpses part of the program is not an indication of the tour. The featured songs they practiced were Landslide, GYOW, Tusk, The Chain (did I also hear acoustic Big love?).....recognizable, for sure, but not the most exciting set list for those of us who have seen them before. I hope the rumors of Beautiful Child and Storms are true.

Hey, I wish I would have thought to tell Livia to ask LB which Christine songs they'd be doing on this tour --- now THOSE would have been a real backstage peek for the Today Show to broadcast!

- Jake

1st half of Go Your Own Way was not good. Think of an athlete having to perform without much warm up in 30 degree weather. Voice was off and hands were cold making those fine motor skills a little less fine. From half way through Go Your Way to the end they sounded good.

Lindsey and Mick stunk it up, but Stevie and John held their own.
:shrug:

Today Show
 

Well it started a little bit shaky with GYOW. Lindsey definitely sang off key and overall I thought it was pretty wretched. He sounded much better on "Peacekeeper". I don't know, I think maybe he calmed down some or "warmed up" once he got the first one done.

Stevie looked great(like a million bucks) :) and sounded even better. From "Rhiannon" to "Say You Will" the woman is still cranking out stellar songs and performing them well too.



Joe

Yep...
 

GYOW started off a lil bad, but it got better. I was surprised to see Stevie bundled like it was snowing and Lindsey wearing his thin nothing leather jacket!! LOL He must like the cold. :shrug:

I was bored during Rhiannon and GYOW tho...I liked PK and SYW tho!! I'm SOOOOOOOO sick of the oldies!! This new album is so funky and fresh, it ROCKS and I'm praying to GOD they TEAR IT UP in concert!! They HAVE to do Everybody Finds Out..or I'll DIE, this is BEGGING to be done in concert!! KICK IT STEVIE!!

Rhiannon needs to fly away to the sky and GYOW needs to Go his Own Way. LMAO!! *yawn* Sorry, folks, but I'm excited about this new album!!!!!! EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

"Rhiannon" was just AWFUL!!!! Did anyone notice that Stevie is now singing an even LOWER note on the chorus?!?! They really need to stop playing this song, as she obviously cannot do it justice.

"Say You Will" was great! The ending was very cool. I wish they would have used all of the Today show for all new stuff. Lindsey could have picked ANY of his SYW songs (even "Murrow...") and it would have been better than "Go Your Own Way". Ditto with Stevie. I would have rather heard "Silver Girl" than that stinky performance of "Rhiannon" any day...

From all the publicity they've done so far it looks like the following oldies will be on the tour:

Tusk
Rhiannon
Go Your Own Way
Landslide
The Chain

UGH! Too bad. "The Chain" without Christine?!?!?!?! Oh well.....

They showed Big Love too,and Dreams from the website.

I *SO* agree with you. This new album ROCKS. They best be playin' some Everybody Finds Out and Smile At You or i'm gonna like, die, which would mean that two people will die at their concerts....lol. As much as I love the old stuff I'd much rather hear some stuff they usually don't do live and the material from the new album. I do hope Lindsey rocks out with some Big Love and Go Insane. That will make me happy :-) However, I think the reason why they do the old stuff is to please those fans who grew up listening to it. I just hope they do a nice mix of songs and include a lot of this new album.....things off this album i'm really not interested in hearing live....Silver Girl and Running Through the Garden (i only like the ending of RTTG). Anyway, i'm w/ya Wonder!!!

"DREAMS"?!?!?!? Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Another phoned in song......

I wish we could somehow get the word to them that we want to hear the NEW stuff!

I didn't get to see SYW this morning because I had to leave, but I did see GYOW and PK and Rhiannon. I don't expect much from Rhiannon anymore. That song has been a shell of it's former self for quite a long time.
They sounded so much better on the two new songs than the two old ones, so that really tells them something.

I liked that some people there had posters there with "Peacekeeper" on it and stuff, not just old stuff.

We want the new stuff!

-Sharon

Speaking of new stuff....I wonder if we'll get to see Stevie in pants this tour...lol...I actually dig the black pants with the shoes she has on in The Making of SYW. New album...new look? Glad she lost the frizzy hair this morning. Combined with the wind and the general cold that was happening this morning up here, she could have housed some birds in that. I wonder if her hair dresser read these boards?!? LOL

Marissa

:distress: :distress:

I wish Stevie would rock out on "Rhiannon"...jeeze it is so boring now!!! C'mon Stevie, we know you can do it!!!
She might as well not sing it anymore b/c it is quite...bad now.:distress:

The Today Show Performance
 

Hi All,

I would like to add that if any of you here who are performers have ever played outside when it's freezing cold (I have) it really does do some weird things to guitars, vocal chords, drum heads, basses, etc. and, just tweaks with the general sound of things. When it's warmer, soundwaves move through the air differently than cold weather - it can be a bit disorienting to settle in to.

I think the clam at the beginning of GYOW was due to Lindsey's fingers not doing what his brain was telling them to as quickly as they normally would have because of the cold.

There are streamable clips of each song on www.msnbc.com . . .

Also LOVED the live ending of SYW.

For you guitar players out there, I thought SYW would have been even better if Lindsey had capo'd on the first fret, and used the suspended "e" string on top to ring through the entire chorus as the chords continue up that scale. Makes it even "chimeier" - try it!

CZ

I saw it on the internet. Well yes the sound quality of internet video files is of course not good and it was cold and all- but whatever the reason was: Lindsey sounded awful imo. He even did not try to do GYOW in the high chorus notes. But even the lowdown version did not fit. His harmonies on SYW dito and Peacekeeper... Well I would say that was not his day. Stevies singing was fine imo, I liked her performance.
I hope they do better on the tour and we get to see a video from that too! But from this one I am disappointed.

P.S. Hey CZ just read your post. Hope you're right and it was just the cold weather!

I really hope so too...they didn't sound too good. And Stevie sounded very flat on the chorus of "Say You Will"... :distress:

Speaking of Stevie, why was she pulling a Michael Jackson with the one glove deal?:D And she was really bundled up eh?! She must have been wearing quite a lot under that coat because it mader her look a bit..big:laugh: I loved it though, Stevie always puts a smile on my face.

Ah, I love these people.

Dan

Sorry, but Lindsey not doing Go Your Own Way at concerts would be like Clapton not doing Layla. Has to be done.

Oh, God, I hope not! Jake, are you talking about the Dateline interview and the clips from earlier this week? I don't remember seeing or hearing Big Love, but they better leave that out this time. With Red Rover and Say Goodbye and possibly Love Minus Zero, hes' got no reason to do the same tired retread of Big Love/Go Insane. Ugh. I'll be really disappointed if he does that again.

As for the Today show - they seemed to enjoy playing the newer songs better than the old ones. I think SYW was the best song they performed today. I agree that they seemed very bored with Rhiannon. They need to liven it up or drop it. I'd rather see something with some energy behind it. GYOW wasn't great, but I agree that the unexpected cold was a factor. The wind looked to be blowing straight at them when they started singing.

And I agree, Stevie looked great! Much better than she did on the earlier interviews this week. And she looked so happy!

Mike B.

wow,lol, GYOW was awful!! lindsey wasn't really sounding his best today....i'm hoping it's because of the early morning/cold combo. i liked Peacekeeper, and Rhiannon was ok. i just wish she would get a little more into it! and of course, i had to leave before SYW, so i didn't get to hear it!and i just *knew* that's the song they were going to play; i really wanted to hear it!! lmao, Stevie's huge scarf was funny!! she always makes me laugh. :laugh:

Well the performances could have been better, BUT....

how cute was Stevie in pants and a full length fur coat?!?!? Oh, and ONE glove?

And I love the no bangs thing. Way sexy!:nod:

Well hearing what they sounded like this morning...maybe that's why Lindsey was saying she was upset about the band not being ready to tour?

Nae

Just seen the performances... Go Your Own Way got good in the second half, they seemed more into it than they did Rhiannon. Unless they're going to tear Rhiannon up like back in the old days, I see no reason for it sticking around.

Say You Will was the best, definitely... Peacekeeper just seems dead to me. Not a great live song.

The weather, the crowd noise, adjustments needing to be made no doubt contributed to the slight hiccups, but the energy seemed there in the latter part of Go Your Own Way and Say You Will. The ending of Say You Will was nice.

Speaking as someone who was actually there this morning, the sound quality was much better in person. When I got home and watched the tape of it.. the sound was definitely off. Maybe it was the way it transfered or something. GYOW was definitely off key, but the rest of the songs sounded great! Stevie looked bundled up like there was a snow storm because it was freezing here this morning. The temp was like 36 degrees. Watching Lindsey just in that little leather jacket and Mick with absolutely no coat or jacket made me freeze my butt off more...lol. I think they did a great job. The soundcheck was awesome too! I also think that they should definitely do a few more newer songs on this tour.

:) Michelle

:laugh: I love you, Sarah.

I'll be completely honest. i was actually there in person this morning and I am shocked about what you are all saying about Lindsey. He didn't sound like he was off a lick to me. Same with Stevie, but Lindsey was better. And the crowd was certainly loving it. We actually saw them perform the songs twice (three times for Peacekeeper) and they sounded great in person. I haven't seen any recording of it yet though. So I'm really at a loss to explain why it sounded bad on television :shrug:

Re: The Today Show Performance
 

Yep, yep, yep.......

I played a Halloween show a couple of years ago (outdoors at night) and it was about 20 degrees F outside.... UGH!!!!! The guitars kept going out of tune and the shivering totally affects your vocal chords.

I originally thought FM was gonna play in the studio. I was really surprised to see them out in the freezing cold. I was in New York a coupla weeks ago and it was COLD!!! This coming from a SoCal baby.

Even though "Rhiannon" and "GYW" were not that great, you've gotta give 'em credit for continuing to produce music, support it, and do all the promotional **** (like "Today") that comes along. I would have to guess that this type of performance is EXACTLY why Christine said "Forget it, man!!".

:laugh: :laugh:

They can scrap Dreams and Rhiannon for this tour, but I will NOT be a happy camper if I don't get to see FM do GYOW live this time.

I'm sorry, but that is a STAPLE. FM without GYOW is like.. tea without sugar.. it simply must NOT be done!

Sarah

p.s. GYOW is my favorite song *of all time* .. so i might be a bit biased.

About the glove
 

I think Stevie has one glove off may be because that's the hand she uses to adjust that electronic earpiece thing you guys were talking about earlier.

It probably has just a little dial kind of thing and that would be pretty hard to operate with leather gloves on.

Maybe? :shrug:

susieq :wavey:

Michelle is right
 

You have NO IDEA just how cold it was this morning. It was only in the 30s and the wind was nasty.
They rehearsed at 6:30 EST and only came out before the performance that was televised to do one last soundcheck about 5 minutes before you saw them.
I was standing to the side of the stage behind them and Lindsey knew they started GYOW off wrong but he sort of made a cute little "what the hell was that?" type of face and went on with it and I think it was just fine after that.
The fact that this was supposed to kick off a "summer" concert series--which is a dopey premise since April in NYC is a total crapshoot weather wise (it was 80 degrees on Wednesday and in the low 30s today)--and FM had to come out in their woolies (or not, in Lindsey's case) was pretty brave.
And I like the fact that they all were smiling and looking happy.

I just got back from Holland and my timing is off. I totally missed TODAY and I want to shoot myself in the head.

Anyone have pics of it or anything??

Someone should make a tape of all the performances and interviews and sell them for like $5 a pop, I'd buy it. I'm missing alot. I caught Dateline totally by accident but I can't work my stupid VCR.

I live like an hour away from NYC but it was FREEZING here in NJ, I can imagine how cold they were.

I wish I just went up there ...

Oh well, thanks for the reviews and again, I'll pay $5 and postage if anyone is willing!

;)