Best Live Stevie Performances
 

I was just looking at some videos and cannot remember if we ever listed what our favorite live Steve Performances are.

My number 1 had not changed in a long time. The rest are not really in order.

1. Sisters of the Moon - Mirage tour
2. Gold and Braid - Bella Donna tour
3. Edge of 17 - version on Crystal Visions
4. Silver Springs - the Dance
5. The Chain - Street Angel tour
6. Gold Dust Woman - think 1981 with Bob Welch and Mike Fleetwood
7. Gold Dust Woman - Chicago Soundstage
8. Fall from Grace - Blockbuster Music Award Show
9. Ebony Eyes - with Bob Welch and Cal Jam
10. Insider with Tom Petty - Pack up the Plantations


So many to list!

Which one? Are you talking about the Forum video?

My faves
1. How Still My Love — 10.02.83
2. Gold Dust Woman — 6.30.77
3. Edge of Seventeen — 7.18.86
4. Leather & Lace — 10.18.82
5. Landslide — 9.19.82
6. Angel — 8.11.80
7. Outside the Rain — 10.02.83
8. If Anyone Falls — 11.24.83
9. Stand Back — 10.02.83

Are you talking about 83 US Fest?? If so i agree, i sat up last night watching it, I think its so cool she performed Angel & Gypsy solo. Tho I cant remember off hand if F/Mac performed at 83 US festival:shrug:

FM was at the US Festival in 1982 and Stevie in 1983.

Cool thanks vivfox, now im off to find F/M 82 US footage on youtube:thumbsup:

Rosebud Rhiannon. I never get tired of it - especially the last couple of minutes.

Gold Dust Woman: Japan
Gold & Braid & E/17: WWD tour
BATB Redrocks
yep, i agree Rhiannon Rosebud = epic

I love How Still My Love and Golden Braid. I'm not really sure why this song wasn't on The Wild Heart or Rock a Little, really good song.

Landslide - Bodokan - 1977
Ebony Eyes - Cal Jam - 1978
Gold Dust Woman - The Roxy - 1981
Stand Back - Solid Gold - 1983
Gypsy - The Dance - 1997
Beauty and the Beast - Las Vegas - 2005
Beauty and the Beast - Oz - 2006
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Gainesville - 2006
I Need to Know - Gainesville 2006
Insider - Gainesville - 2006
Love Is - Lake Tahoe - 2010
Love Is - Bethel Woods, NY 8/27/2011

Rhiannon live on the Midnight Special, if I could only show one performance to someone who had no idea who Stevie Nicks was, I'd show them that. It's everything Stevie.

1. Sisters- Mirage Video (I'm generally someone who doesnt like what you would call the most commercial live version of a song. I usually believe there is some random version out there better then the few versions that live pn forever like Rhiannon Midnight special i consider subpar to other rhiannons BUT it just does not get any better then the perfection that it is the sisters of the moon from the mirage video. everr mother f-ing aspect from the obvious Stevie tounges to the subtleness of Chritstine playing the piano like shes having sex or just had it, the lindsey john chase down thing. Lindsey playing guitar asleep on Stevie. Mick

2. How Still My Love 4/15/86

3. Rhiannon live Largo 1978

4. Rhiannon- LA August 1977.


5. Edge of 17 That show she did with Lindsey in 1986

6. Edge of 17 Turning Stone 6/17/07

7. Gold Dust Woman- Live in Wembley 2009 Most of Stevie's songs live performances peaked sometime in the 1970's or 80's, but I'm being 100 percent holnest when I say Gold Dust Woman has just kept getting better every tour. I thought maybe soundstage was the highlight but then the unleashed tour blew that away.

8. Silver Springs- The Dance

9. Stand Back- Woodstock 98

10. Stand Back- SNL

11.Storms Rochester 2009

12. Fall From Grace- Wiltern

13. Soldiers Angel- Sturgis

Stand back 1987 (Live San Francisco)
 

Hi all,

Im relatively new to Fleetwood mac and Stevie (as I was only born in 1987- but you can't blame me for that :o ) but I have recently purchased quite a lot of vinyl and I am wondering whether anyone knows where I can get Fleetwood Mac- Stand back (1987 live version during the Tango in the night tour) on vinyl?

I have heard that the 25 years- the chain boxset (CD) has the 1987 version but I would really like it on vinyl. I've mentioned vinyl 3 times here..maybe I'm becoming an addict!?

To show you why I want the 1987 live version...

The original (still amazing)

http://tinyurl.com/czfus2x

1987 Live (MIND BLOWN :blob2: )

http://tinyurl.com/cukfzzo

Many thanks in advance!

Lewis

Welcome Longview!
It's always nice to see someone new to Stevie and the Mac.
I haven't watched that 1987 footage in ages. I remember loving it too. Unfortunately, I think it's become an example of some of Stevie's 1980's mistakes: all close-up, all the time (the hair doesn't even match the long shots), overdubbed and enhanced vocals (she sounds like Robo-Stevie), and she doesn't even spin!!!

A much better live performance captured on film is very recent, her Standback from Soundstage is brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg3SA...eature=related

I think in a lot of cases the first version of a song we really fall in love with is the one that sticks with us. A lot of long time Stevie fans aren't so crazy about the Tango era live Stand Back but for Longview it might be the recording they really got into.

I love the Fleetwood Mac Live version of Rhiannon. As much as everyone touts the Rosebud footage or the Midnight Special appearance it was this Tusk era recording that really hit me like a ton of bricks. And to this day it still gives me goosebumps. And there is just something about that time weathered vocal, not quite so high and youthful yet not at the point where they had to rework the arrangement. It's so full of power. And the way she sings the "Once in a million" chorus with a slightly different melody than before gives it a little more depth and color. And when she reaches the crescendo towards the end with "all the same, all the same, Rhiannon" is less like a storm and more like a full on monsoon. It's just so amazing.

So true on both counts. I too loved the Tango Standback for a long time. As I got introduced to better stuff, that changed.
As for the Live album Rhiannon...I still love it, for 'all the same' reasons you do.