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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires
I've been listening again recently to her Bella Donna tour concert (1981) and was reminded how much Rhiannon even then had already become very tame and middle-aged. No spark at all; all canned. Yes, I know that wasn't FM, but it's her song and she could have done it anyway she wished without the burden of FM, and she went with a watered down version that really isn't that different to The Dance version. Things spiced up a bit as the coke habit grew more intense, but she had already lost her ability to do Rhiannon as originally done (without mountains of coke) by the early 80s. Even Dreams had grown lame by then too.
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Rhiannon will never be as great as it was from 1975 -1980. Some of the 1982 performances were still inspiring and I have been to an enormous amount of Live Stevie shows over the years. There were some live Rhiannon's this century that brought me back to the 70's for a few seconds here and there in these live performances. But that was usually found in her twirls.