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Originally Posted by michelej1

I do think this was a factor for Stevie during the SYW tour. I think reading the reviews they got, which mostly slanted towards Lindsey during that tour, was difficult. It's not that everyone loves Lindsey. Many people think he's too much. People resent the Lindsey show and that's not new, even reviewers who saw them in 1975 thought his antics were excessive. But, I would say that 80% of the SYW media reviews I read marvelled over his explosive energy and the crowds were responsive to him. I think this was hard for Stevie, mainly because, for many years she herself was known for her physical abandon on stage.

Today, she concentrates on her voice and the precision of her movements and gestures, which fans love. We don't see physical limitations when we look at her, but she lives with them. Perhaps her mind inflates them. Maybe she feels the absence of those Rhiannon exorcisms more than we do and it makes an FM tour feel inhibiting for her, in a way that tours weren't in the seventies and eighties. I don't think the problem is Lindsey or lack of Christine's presence, as much as it comes from within.

Michele

I have actually thought the same thing for quite some time now and it makes me really sad for her.