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Originally Posted by jwd
To me, Stevie has become the dead weight in this band. Her voice is barely tolerable to me anymore. It is just a drone.
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It's the weirdest thing hearing her praised for her singing today. I think either my hearing isn't good or everyone else's hearing isn't good. I posted to a private board that, back in 1982, she sounded like a bellowing steer (a good thing). Today, she sounds like a braying mule (a bad thing).
I remember how disappointed I was during the final leg of the 1990 tour and the entire 1991 solo tour that Stevie had none of her signature vibrato (which always made her sound so alluring and passionate). In 1994 on her solo tour, she got her vibrato back, and how happy I was! I had been out of the Nicks fan community for many years, but that tour pulled me back in by sending me to the classifieds of Goldmine and Rolling Stone to look for tapes.
The worst days of the 1991 tour were GOLDEN compared with the way she sounds these days—on everything except
Landslide because she somehow still manages to sing
Landslide beautifully.