Let's talk about.......STORMS.....
 

I'm really enjoying these threads and hope you are too! I thought I'd stick with the tusk theme again....not sure where we'll go from here....

Anyways...STORMS...
* It was absolutely magical to here it live during the Unleased Tour! I loved it!!!

*I do (finally) think this one is mostly about Mick, their secret affair, and their breakup.
"every night that goes between, I feel a little less......."
"I should have known from the first, that I'd be the broken hearted...."

The thought of Stevie & Mick gives me an awful mental picture. What was she thinking??? And I've read before that she considers him one of her great loves. Could you imagine how Lindsey felt when he found out?

So all & all.....a "storm" is another way to describe our girl....which seems fitting in the romance department.....

What do you think??

(She also recently said that Joe Walsh was her "great love"... hmm I don't think I buy that.)

Anywho, love love love Storms! I was glad that everyone was able to hear it live for the first time on this tour. Sounds like Stevie had fun with it - judging from video/audio of the tour thus far, she's been changing it up and stuff.

"But in those years and the lifetimes past
I did not deal with the road
And I did not deal with you I know
Though the love has always been"

Powerful stuff. :nod:

I have always been a storm. Stevie has always been a storm. She never is stable. She kind of thrives on sadness and heartache, I think. Not that that's a bad thing. After all, she writes some damn good songs when she's going through a rough time.

I am loving talking about all these songs!

ditto :nod:

Storms
 

Storms is transcendent, I don't believe it's about Mick, even if it is,lol, I think it's about King David and she is his wife, the lifetimes past. However, this has never been documented and (probably never will be,Big LOL)Still,Who knows better than Stevie?:shrug:

Hmmm. Then, this song should have a lot of meaning for Mark Sanford.

I do believe the every night that goes between part is Mick. And If You Ever Did Believe too (as Sheryl Crow has confirmed). The knowing from the start that she'd be brokenhearted sounds like Mick, in that she probably knew when the romance commenced that it could never last, was ill-fated.

But not dealing with something though the love has always been sounds like Lindsey as does the "not all the prayers in the world would save us." This gets old, but I really think it's about all of them. As she says on tour now, stormy people, stormy problems, stormy relationships. I don't think it's about one couple.

We were frail could mean her and Mick giving into temptation, even though she knew it would hurt Jenny and the children.

However, not all the prayers in the world could save us sounds like Lindsey again. I mean, did she ever really think that hers and Mick's was a forever love? Did she really struggle to make it work? I don't even think they were monogamous between his relationships and his saying she was with Paul. So, I don't think she was praying that it would work.

On the other hand, I think there was a lot of fraying and patching of Lindsey and Stevie's relationship since before they ever met FM. Trying so hard to keep them together, even through the White album, but ultimately they were doomed. With fame, money, drugs and attractive rockers all around, the center could not hold. The "not all the prayers in the world" makes me think BN.

Michele

While I believe that Beautiful Child and Beauty and the Beast are completely about Mick, I think Storms is probably half Mick and half Lindsey. Kind of the same thing as Sara...where it's about multiple things that were going on at the time.

I lost some very important people when I was in high school...to circumstance, time, space, etc. Storms...especially those lines, really helped me make peace with the situation.

In an interview with Jim Ladd from 2005 Stevie said Storms was about Mick.

Storms is another one of the Tusk songs that I just love. If I'm really sad or in a crappy mood it's the song I like to play on repeat.

I never thought I'd get to hear it live, and after I did, I realized I wasn't really missing anything. Now if she would have sung it on the Tusk tour, I might feel differently about it.

This I did not know...hmmm

It took me a while to get into Storms actually, but now I love it. I often find that with the best songs or albums you have to work at them and then all of a sudden it just hits you how great they are and it's totally worth it.

I think it's about Stevie's relationships with men in general, and also a great bit of self-reflection on her part.

I have loved this song since the first time I ever heard it. I am SO glad they are doing it on this tour. I loved hearing it live. :] It was awesome. It has really deep meaning and I love the words. Very cool song. One of my favorites. :angel:

For anyone who hasn't heard the unreleased/unmastered version of Storms, please download and listen.
The last 45 seconds or so are awesome! Intense. I love the two Stevie voices going on at the same time.

Courtesy of Brian, here it is:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ifknnzyirdd

Ooo thank you very much!

No problem at all!!! Thank Brian, he's the one who always gives us these fabulous torrents/mp3s!

Storms has never meant a lot to me (yet----sooner or later Stevie's poetry does soak in) , however, it means everything to a few Stevie fan friends I've made and that is what makes it special to me.

I think Stevie was writing about Mick/Lindsey/and relationships she had in general.
Being a rocker chic in the 60's-70's had to have made her emotional. She had to push twice as hard to be respected. Once she got some respect , she probably was confused on which direction and whose direction she would take it from. just a thought,.,

Storms. Hmmm. How to describe Storms... ???

Most beautiful thing I've ever heard. :nod: