Spoiler-Chris Isaak-Christmas!

[estranged4life]

Just finished watching (And recording) the "Chris Isaak Christmas", So do not read below the green line if you do not want to be spoiled:

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It was a great looking Stevie tonite on the "Chris Isaak Christmas" episode of Soundstage...She looked damn sexy, Much better than she did on the "Live In Boston" Soundstage/DVD/etc. Even a few camera closeups from the side proved she looked much sexier than ever...And her voice sounded great, But sounded just undermixed a tad.

Chris Isaak introduced Stevie the following humorous way:

"One of the nice things about being in show business is to not only to be able to entertain but to also find and discover new talent and we have somebody tonight I think you will hear alot of in the future and I want you to give her a warm welcome, Stevie Nicks...Remember that name."

Of course she sang on "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", But only after being teased with a few musical bars of a song Chris called a "Christmas classic". Once the jazzy music started, the piano player, Scott Plunkett, lead everyone on the forementioned "Christmas Classic" alright, A few short bars of Rhiannon to which Stevie was amused to hear. (It sounded quite cool...They should have played the whole version of it in that jazzy-esqe sound!)

Stevie finished the song ("Santa Claus is Coming To Town") and after a very short intermission she came back to the stage with the other special guests, Brian McKnight & the other guy whos name escapes me at the moment to sing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" in which Stevie sounded great.

Btw, The credits showed the following phone number where you can purchase the "Chris Isaak Christmas" DVD, Which includes bonus footage not shown tonite for $19.95 (Maybe some bonus Stevie footage???)

1-866-383-4643

I recommend watching this show if it airs on yer local PBS station...Very entertaining and very humorous!!!

Brian j.

[KateTheCursed]

I couldn't agree more. I thought it was a wonderful performance...the only downside being that it came to an end far too soon.

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by KateTheCursed

I couldn't agree more. I thought it was a wonderful performance...the only downside being that it came to an end far too soon.

my DVD burner's counter had it at 56 minutes...Shoulda/coulda been much longer IMHO.

Brian j.

[strandinthewind]

When I get mine (should be like two weeks) I will check it against your's - etc.

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

When I get mine (should be like two weeks) I will check it against your's - etc.

I may order it myself since it was a great show!

Brian j.

[GardenStateGirlie]

From what I heard, it sounded incredibly good and yes, despite having no picture, I laughed at Chris's jokes. I think i'm going to end up ordering it

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

From what I heard, it sounded incredibly good and yes, despite having no picture, I laughed at Chris's jokes. I think i'm going to end up ordering it

his jokes were pretty good, But the "Christmas Classic" song was the best one

Brian j.

[ShangriLaTroubl]

I just ordered one...but she said "it should take 3-4 weeks" lol o well i will watch it after christmas

[strandinthewind]

Thanks Brian - just ordered it!!!!!!!!!! Who knows WHEN Atlanta will air it

[Enchanted_Stevi]

I watched it this morning before going to school.....I woke up at 4:51 am to watch it at 5am....plus I video taped it. I love it when Chris says "down and sexy" and Stevie did a funny thing....lol...She's so funny! She looked as GORGOUS as ever....like she always does. I ant to order it and see if there is extra footage of Stevie

[GODDESS6]

friggin' awesome!!!~ it didn't air here until 11 am this morning & then again periodically thruout the day, it was a gr8 show, the whole playing of the beginning of "rhiannon" was priceless~ loved all the humor & stevie's was the best "comet, cupid, donner & blitzen", i have ever heard!!! ~ i also orderd it on dvd, i can't wait 2 get it, i thought when they showed the phone #, they said there was more footage than showed during the hour show ~ oh yeah & i loved & the end when chris introduced her, he said "little stevie nicks", lol, how cute was that?

[ricohv]

Ok-did it not sound like Stevie was singing in a sweet much higher than usual voice? And didn't she look effortless doing it??? Was it just me??? Does this prove she hasd not lost her range? If yes, why does she constantly try to make us think she has lost her range??? She sounded so good and looked 100 x better than any of the times I saw them on the SYW tour. Why couildn't that have been her standard dress for SYW tour? She looked so great. I didn't even mind her toned down air guitar and drums.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by ricohv

Ok-did it not sound like Stevie was singing in a sweet much higher than usual voice? And didn't she look effortless doing it??? Was it just me??? Does this prove she hasd not lost her range? If yes, why does she constantly try to make us think she has lost her range???

Call me deluded (shut it, dissention ), but I've never thought she's lost all of her range... I really do think it's a matter of her just not singing with it. My belief is that singing night after night proves to be too much of a strain on her voice if she goes beyond the range we typically hear from her, so she avoids it in order to preserve her voice.
But one-off performances like this are a different story.

She sounded beautifully sweet on "Say Goodbye" too, on various recordings I've heard from the tour... but that's another case where it's just one song on which she's not singing lead. So something like that is probably more "do-able" than singing several songs that way, as the lead vocalist.

Anyway, that's just my theory... I'm sure others will completely disagree!

[ricohv]

Yes- there are times where she does still pull out the higher voice. I thought it was funny how she'd sing so pretty and high but when she walked up to the microphone and said "hi Chris" it was in the much deeper voice. I also notice when she was singing higher there was not really any vibratto to it-I always kind of wonder if that is natural or affectation?!?
Anyways...sheesh...too bad the early-in-the-SYW-tour-TV-appearances couldn't have been a little more like this. This was the Stevie we all know and love and clamor for. I remember when Rolling Stone did a review of one of the Tango shows and they said something like "Stevie Nicks, the eternal time-warped love-goddess casts her spell again...". This performance made me think that again. F*ck!!! She looked so good!!. And even though she looked a little hippy (i.e. her hips looked a little on the biggish side) I think that dress was more of what she wants as far as "slenderizing black". The sheer, sort of tiered or layery effect worked well...or maybe it was the boots (YEEHAW!!!!) giving her legs an extra 6 inches!!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Call me deluded (shut it, dissention ), but I've never thought she's lost all of her range... I really do think it's a matter of her just not singing with it. My belief is that singing night after night proves to be too much of a strain on her voice if she goes beyond the range we typically hear from her, so she avoids it in order to preserve her voice.
But one-off performances like this are a different story.

Hi, Deluded!

Of course she hasn't lost all of her range, otherwise she'd never be singing amazing versions of Beautiful Child. But she's lost a LOT of her range from misusing her voice for years. Anyone who tries to say that her current voice is just from aging is nuts, she killed that voice of hers and it's a bloody miracle that she can even speak, let alone sing a song. If she had sung properly, she'd probably only have lost a fraction of what she has. Look at Ann Wilson or Patti Labelle or Cyndi Lauper or Debbie Harry or Linda Ronstadt or Martha Davis. Between them, they haven't lost much range at all because while they knew when not to f*ck with their voices and they knew how to sing properly; they learned one way or another. Stevie didn't learn until the nineties and that was when most of the damage had been done. I wince when I hear those reels where she says she takes care of her voice with cough drops and when she breathes in moist air to "open up" her voice. No wonder she had a sore throat constantly.

I've taken voice lessons for years and the worst thing to do is to sing with your throat. When you start doing that, your voice starts shredding, cracking, and running out of steam by the third or fourth song. You lose your range for that night and if you keep up, you lose more and more eventually. The reason Julie Andrews had so many vocal problems is because she didn't song properly for quite a long time.