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Originally Posted by David
Timeout for Old Memories:
When Stevie played the Forum in October 1983, she was (natch) as high as a kite all evening long — was totally on point with her singing but could not stop chattering between songs and even over the intros to songs. It was like watching someone with hypomania.
Before “If Anyone Falls,” Lori Perry actually (kind of teasingly) said, “All RIGHT. Shut up!” It was funny and everyone was having a good time, but both the fans and the band were getting antsy with her nonstop, very rapid chatter. I found it invigorating, despite the airheaded things she was saying.
I grabbed my old audio of it and uploaded here. Sorry for the awful quality.
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Wow that audio is really good!
I would love to talk to her band off the record and the challenges they faced with her behavior during that tour. In Largo during If Anyone Falls she tells the crowd "they just play until I start" meaning she is not going to start singing when she's supposed to start singing.
In Cuyahoga Falls, OH during How Still My Love right before the second verse she goes and into the audience for a hat that she puts on her head. Her band actually slows the beat a tad so she can make it back to the microphone on time to start the second verse.
They were improvising every night it seems.