[buckmacnicks]

Hey gang,

I was there too witnessing my first ever FM concert with Lindsey in the band, together with my boyfriend, cousin and his girlfriend. The first FM concert I saw was Essen 7 Sept. 1990 where Rick announced that Stevie and Christine would no longer be touring with them. Can´t believe it´s been 13 years since that concert.

The venue was not sold out, about 90% I guess. We had a great seating view left looking over the stage. They used lovely lighting and backdrops during the acoustic songs. Also a video screen was used. It seemed to me that Stevie looked a bit cross-eyed and somewhat sad and tired. She wore the usual black frock with interchangeable black, golden and pinkish scarfs. Her black boots didn´t appear but for the encores only. Before those were played she had these huge black blockish shoes on, not very glamourous! But I guess it´s hard to stand on a stage for 2,5 hours.

Lindsey was clearly the man of this concert (and probably the whole tour) with his overflowing energy, skillful guitar wizardry and funny routines. Stevie didn´t get into the show until the haunting Beautiful Child was finally played, what a gorgeous song, it was my favourite of the evening together with the lovely Silver Springs. When introducing Beautiful Child she said, "I never thought that I would get to play this song live" and stated that it was from the 1979 Tusk album (my all-time favourite album ever, shame they don´t do more songs from it!) A fan in the audience got ecstatic and screamed something like "yes finally Sara!!". Stevie chuckled and said "well gosh I´m sorry, I wish it was, but no!" Does this mean that she may be persuaded to do the song live again? Let us pray and hope so!

It was such a thrill to hear and see and experience them live! Hopefully they will return to Europe soon (Holland perhaps).

I do feel however that had they gotten a better promotion machine behind them over here, that they wouldn´t have been forced to cancel shows due to lack of sales. The absence of videos for the Say You Will album and commercial single releases may also have caused this.

Anyway, I won´t forget this concert ever, if someone has recorded it in excellent quality, please let me know!!

I wonder whether Christine will be joining them for a couple of songs in Britain?

Greetings,

Marcel.