#2: I can't pick just one. I couldn't pick just ten. LOL.
#3: My first time seeing Stevie live was the Tango tour. It was in Pittsburgh in fall of 87. I remember because I had just started college at Slippery Rock University (yes, there really is such a place) and some friends were going and invited me along. I was so thrilled. I didn't know that Lindsay had left the band until we were sitting there looking at the programs wondering who these other two guys were. Ah, life before the internet. LOL! I was absolutely captivated by Stevie. She sang Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You, and at the time I didn't really like ballads so I always skipped it on Rock A Little but once I heard her sing it live I totally fell in love with it. The one thing from that show that really stood out was that during the encore (I think it was Don't Stop) someone was throwing a frisbee around and it landed on stage. Stevie looked down at it for a second, then picked it up and threw it right back. And there was something so real and so human about her doing that and it really just made me love her all the more.
#4: Out of all her songs that make me cry from time to time it's Rose Garden that gets me nearly every time. When she sings "I've got all these things but a small gold band... on my finger... on my left hand" I always tear up. It's something about the way the music swells right at that point and especially the lyrics. It's the idea of this girl having passed up the one true love of her life for what she thought was going to be something better. And the fact that as a gay man I'm still fighting for my rights to someday legally marry the man of my dreams (when I finally meet him) and that we could have this entire life together and everything that comes with it... except for that small gold band (figuratively, of course). That line holds so much meaning for me and it chokes me up every time.
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