Straight Back

[Macfan4life]

Forget gypsy or sara or sisters. I know many want a few changes to the current setlist. but listen to this gem from the Mirage tour rehearsals. This would be so good live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpbWVVbJdWE

And how about the extended version. Oh you Mirage haters weep!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPjaQAzXh8c

[welcomechris]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Forget gypsy or sara or sisters. I know many want a few changes to the current setlist. but listen to this gem from the Mirage tour rehearsals. This would be so good live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpbWVVbJdWE

Here's take 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pye...WI0IQQAho0TUeg

[jmn3]

Great tune...should have been included in the 1982 setlist, but it likely would've been redundant with Sisters of the Moon. And if we didn't have Sisters in that setlist, we wouldn't have the famous 'tongues' version of the song which every performance before and after will always be compared to!

[SisterNightroad]

This is my favourite version: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/48zw..._Back_Demo.mp3

It's a pity that one of my favourite songs may never be performed on stage.

[sanders8323]

Take 2 sounds more like a raw studio demo than a live performance. The backing vocals by Lindsey and Christine sound too good and polished to be live. The first one though, sounds like a tour rehearsal.

[Dreamz19]

I've always loved Straight Back. I'm loving the tour rehearsal even more.

[He's So Unusual]

One of Stevie's worst FM tracks.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by He's So Unusual

One of Stevie's worst FM tracks.

Completely disagree. It's one of my favourites, and the vocal is outstanding.

I always found it odd that Stevie only did 1 new song in the Mirage set, compared with 2 on the Rumours Tour and 3 on the Tusk tour. It seemed that 82/83 was the start of Stevie's phobia of adding deep cuts and shaking up the setlist.

[kak125]

One of my favorite stevie songs. Straight Back is one song I listen to regularly from Mirage.

[tabruns]

Originally Posted by He's So Unusual

One of Stevie's worst FM tracks.

I love the mysticism of it. The production definitely makes this song. Love it.

[Wdm6789]

That's alright would have been amazing live also.

[sanders8323]

"Straight Back" is probably my least favorite song on Mirage and one of Stevie's worst FM songs. It just meanders and never takes off in any way. However, it does top "When I See You Again."

[Mr Scarrott]

I really used to dislike Straight Back and I still can't take to it in the confines of Mirage. In other contexts it seems to improve somehow. I have it in a playlist that goes Sugar Daddy- Born Enchanter- Straight Back-Sooner or Later- Tango in the Night with about a 10-second cross fade between tracks and it has really grown on me. Odd, as I'm a bit low on chiffon...

[moon]

Ohhh Mirage and Straight Back haters, I feel shame for you!!! Hahahaha
This is one of the most beautiful songs of Stevie from her FM repertory. I say this everytime, but it's a strong song, and everything sounds really good, drums, voices, guitars, keyboards...Even when I really don't like the sound of the songs from the Mirage tour at all, the song itself has a unique power, something that makes it really incredible.
Regards!

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by tabruns

I love the mysticism of it. The production definitely makes this song. Love it.

Same here, though my first listen of the song may have skewed my impression of it permanently. I was flying to Las Vegas for the first time in my life, listening to Mirage on my headphones (I'd just gotten it & Tango for my 19th birthday). Anyway, Straight Back came on as I was flying over the Grand Canyon & Lake Mead. I had this totally existential experience hearing the song & seeing that scenery for the first time. It just couldn't have been a better soundtrack for the moment. 13 years later, I still can't hear the song without thinking of that imagery.

In any event, I've always felt Straight Back doesn't get it's due respect. It may be a poor man's Sister Of The Moon, but it's still a great little song.