Blue Denim
 

The lovely and talented Nancy (Sodascouts) has posted the Blie Denim video on her site http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nkerns/Video/bluedenim.mpg

I think this video is great and it just reminds me how much that tour ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I LOVE the big dark blue lace floor length jacket.

Finally, I love the playing she does with the original lyrics:

Understanding me...understanding you
Is not an easy thing to do
Understanding me...and understanding you
Is not an easy thing to do

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Does she mean both understandings (me and you) separately are not the easy thing to do?

Or does she mean that understanding her understanding you is not the easy thing to do.

She changed this lyric several times live (and indeed I believe in hthis video) to understanding me and understanding you - but not consistently - so it is hard to tell.

Anyway - food for thought :cool:

I have a hard time watching this video not so much because of Stevie's weight but her hairdo and her outfit. I HATE that crimped hairdo she wore at the time. It's just dreadful. I remember the Jay Leno interview where she said she would spent a couple of hours braiding it and I would just cringe.

I don't like her big blue jacket thing or whatever it is either. There's just too much material and I think it makes her look even bigger. Uggh.

Wow. Two totally different takes on Street Angle era Stevie! I love the song Blue Denim, but I don't remember much of the video, I'll have to take another look.

I don't like live videos and Blue Denim is no excpetion. But she rocked on that tour, IMO.

I quite like the "Blue Denim" video... and, in my opinion, it's the only occasion that Stevie's crimped hair actually looked cool.

I didn't care for it on the Letterman and Leno appearances, or in various pics from the 'Street Angel' tour.

Well I love the song and love seeing Vito there.

She looks ok, not the best haircut but ok.
But.. her eyes still looked not completely healthy. Today she looks far better, and happier.

That blue lace floor length jacket is actually a shawl. The same one she wore on Leno in 94, and it's the same one on page one in the booklet in Enchanted... in the Blue Lamp Photo. Its also draped around Sara Fleetwood in the girls photo on about page 5 or six.

It's a beautiful colour.. blue or purple whatever it is.

I forget whether it was Letterman or Leno, but this pompous guitar player whose band I used to be in saw it, and the next time he saw me he mentioned it and he actually liked it! He's always been borderline negative about LaNicks so it surprised me...
I saw the Street Angel Tour. It's weird. I thought she was in FINE voice but her BAND didn't seem tight to me or that into it. I also vibed that Stevie was feeling the same way. Remember everyone this was about 10 years ago, so my memory is a little hazy on this but on one of the songs, this was at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel,NJ, - and I forget what song it was, but there was like almost a major musical train wreck right in the middle of it. The band recovered pretty seamlessly, but you could totally vibe that our Stevie was a little ticked!

Love the song....the crimped hair was a bad idea, though. I guess it worked in the 90s....or not.

love the song...video is so so...i think a concept video would have been better.

i think the hairdo would've looked better providing SHE looked better. and i love the shawl too...it's classic stevie attire. nice seeing she brought that one out of the closet....i think she wore it this past summer too.

she looked so nervous on Leno. at one point he's touching her hair and she's got this really weird look on her face. i think the Letterman appearance was better....at least they were joking about "weasel" management. :laugh:

I agree - on Leno she looked like she had a cold and that lighting was the WORST ever. She also looked heavier than she did on Letterman. But, I like both performances - although the Letterman Joplinesq. YEAAAEEEAEAAESERFEEAAAAAAAA at the end puts Letterman slightly on top for me :nod:

is that the same one where she went, "whooooaaaaa and i will never forget the last time i saw you..."???

I think that was on Leno - but I am unsure - Time to haul out the videos again :laugh:

I believe the Leno appearance was filmed the same week she appeared at the House Of Blues, which was broadcast live.
And, as we know, she was suffering some time of bronchial/asthma-type problem that night, which lead to them re-dubbing a good portion of the vocals for later broadcasts of the show.

So, basically, I'm thinking she was probably struggling, health-wise, that entire week.