TOSOTM Tour question
 

I've been listening to TOSOTM a lot more lately & I'm really into Juliet. I think it would be great live. So I'm browsing Nicksfix & it says that Juliet WAS done (along with Talk To Me) summer of 89 in Canada.

I know an audio boot for Toronto '89 exists, but I don't have it. Is it on video? Are there any other shows from Canada circulating?

Brian J.- you have the setlist for Toronto listed as the same as the other '89 shows - is there a difference in the setlists? I must know! :D

EDIT: I notice that Juliet was apparently done at Greatwoods & Jones Beach summer of 89 according to Brian's list.Must add to request list!

I have a video labeled "Canadian National Expo; Toronto, Ontario, Canada 8/17/89" that has Juliet and Talk To Me. It is a Stevie boot, though, so the quality obviously sucks. The video is not in focus, despite being rather close, so it's kind of unwatchable. I have another video from another Canadian Mirror show, I believe, but I don't know where it is at the moment.

The only drawback is that 95% of the Mirror tour boots are putrid quality. Even the San Jose audio boot has that annoying high-pitched hum in the background that drives me positively batty.

The upgraded...
 

version of the Oct.20,1989 show I have has the high pitched sound reduced (It is only obvious now during the between song chats), Since it came from a better source recording than the copy that is currently floating round....The best TOSOTM tour recording IMHO.

I remember seeing 'Juliet' at Stevies '89 stop at the Jones Beach Theater for TOSOTM tour. She wore a plain silky black robe, the shoulder pads were less poofy than the rest of the costumes she wore that night and her stage dance seemed to consist of her arms straight out on either side with hands pointed making little cocentric circles, sort of like jazzercize. Except for the 'sky is crying' part, at which point she'd point to the heavens! It wasn't terrible, it was something different anyway although not really her strongest voice that night. A better performance that night I thought was 'Alice'.

Juliet is one of the 3 songs I wish were not on this album. I just can't get into it at all but good luck finding it. I've told this story before but I'll say it again. Alice was also another song I did not like until I heard bootlegs from TOSOTM tour and I fell in love. The keyboard intro at the beginning is so beautiful and when she calls out "Aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!". Does anybody know the part I'm referring to? Now I love that song :)

Paula PM me if you are interested in getting any with Juliet and Talk to Me. Jones Beach 8-25-89 in my opinion has great quality and both songs are on it. I have many shows from this tour. Also, getting in some dvds with these songs on it, so if anyone is interested please PM me.

I have a great fasination in this tour ad you can probably tell from my username :lol:

My new best friend. ;)

Pete, which stop was this? I know she played there 2 times on that tour. But from the boot I have from 8-25-89, id say she was very strong vocally.

Um, I was referring to the first of her two stops. And as for me not thinking she was particularly strong vocally, I guess I was comparing her to her last solo stop there in 1986 during the RAL tour when she tore the roof off of the place (well, not really, it's an outdoor ampitheatre but you know what I mean :laugh: ).
TOSOTM tour was a big shock for me. The platform Reeblechs, the satin robes with the huge shoulder pads, the weird hats, ribbons instead of real flowers on the mic stand, some unfamiliar players in her band, the weight gain, the seeming 'distance' Stevie seemed to have (well, now we know why)- I left the theater in a weird funk.

I saw this tour, I'm quite sure, in Ottawa. I remember Talk to Me, and I SO remember Whole Lotta Trouble - becausde she messed up the words, and I was at her feet, and got them right - and she heard me and laughed and said "you got them right!"

Ah, memories... :laugh:

I don't remember if she did Juliet... :sorry:

"Juliet" was in the setlist until around mid-September, I think. The last boot I've been able to find it on was the September 12, 1989 Cleveland, Ohio show. She may have performed it at a few shows after that. It doesn't show up on the September 30, 1989 Miami, Florida boot though so I'd assume it had been dropped by then.

Do you mean she was wearing her platform Reeboks back in 89? I thought those came out with the SYW tour?

I really like the song Juliet, especially Bruce Hornsby's piano part. I'm glad I got to see her perform it in Mansfield, MA aka Great Woods (now a defunct name). As I can recall, the song came off pretty well, and there was a nice percussion solo at some point.

Although Stevie was in a haze for most of that period, I was impressed that she had the confidence to play five new songs. "Long Way To Go" should have been one of them.

yep - that would be a fierce song done live.