Best version of Rhiannon
 

What's the best live version of Rhiannon that you know of? Where Stevie's vocals and Lindsey's guitar solo are just perfection for you?

Pretty much any performance from 1975/76 is excellent, IMO. I'm also a huge fan of the version on the Mirage Concert Video from 1982. As far as this tour goes, some shows seemed better than others; I like the Buffalo show & the Hershey shows best, I think, along with LIB.

Paula

My favorite is form the Live album. I loooooooooooooooover that one.

I really don't like the early versions very much, it's more screaming than singing.

And I really love the Live In Boston one, too. :nod:

I never got why so many people like the Mirage video one. Her voice just sounds AWFUL! And the way she turns around at the end and just wraps herself in her shawl always makes me think that she knows it!

Ironically, I love what Lindsey's doing on that version, though...

Right now I'm really digging the version from LA Aug 29-30 (at least that's how I have it marked :laugh: ) 1977. I guess she was turning it on for LA! I love at the end when she just screams, "DREAMER...DREAMER...DREAMER"

:nod: She sounds terrible on EVERY song. Gypsy is mind-boggling bad.

VERY true. But I like what she does on "The Chain" and GYOW and EOTW. And I have to admit that it IS my favorite version of SOTM. But yeah...that's about it... :laugh:

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Hartford 87- She belts Nothing Ever Changes at the end and it one of my favorites.

Oakland 90- Last show of BTM tour so she was really on this night especially with lindsey making an appearance

Worcester 03- Excellent, excellent performance. "You still cry out for her, you still cry out for her, yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
(one of the best!)


Jimmy

That's my favorite version of The Chain, it's awesome. The band was really raw and wasn't as glossy as they are now; I loved it.

And of course I love SOTM. It's the definitive version. ;)

I think that's my favorite version of "The Chain", too. Then again that video was my introduction to FM, so there's a lot of love there! :)

And you're right about SOTM...the Tusk tour versions just lack the energy and electricity of the Mirage one (I'm listening to Melbourne right now :) ) and I think they ALL blow the album version out of the water! I can't wait to gun for that in the Survivor thread. I NEVER really dug the album version of that. Her vocals are too faint, and it never really goes anywhere. But that is (and I'm sure it is :laugh: ) JMO!

Wow. I agree 100%. :)


-Curt

...and I totally agree again.....must be a blue moon or something tonight :]



One thing about the Mirage Chain is that it seems like Chris is not even there. The Stevie and Lindsey interaction is so thick you could cut it with a knife. I dunno if that is my favorite banter between them or Silver Springs.


-Curt

The Chain...
 

I think I like that Rosebud version better, where she could go crazy with the vocals and always get those notes right.

But I'm a big fan of the studio version anyway. I love it! I think those triple part harmonies in the chorus are just perfection, Lindsey's guitar is in perfect synch with Christine's electric piano (?) and Stevie's vocals are gorgeous as they were at that time.

Oh my gawd. That monotonal, droning first verse is absolutely dreadful. What was she thinking?

Tough question, but I usually think of a show in Irvine CA back in 1982 as being a genuine favorite of mine. I also love the spacy, languid Rhiannons of the 1978 tour, & the stretched-out forays into the Amerindian nether from the late Tusk Tour.

Someone else in the thread mentioned a December 1990 performance, & I nearly swallowed my tongue. To me, that must rank with the rankest of all time. If that aural & visual image were all I knew of Stevie Nicks, she'd be one of my most hated pop singers of all time.