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[cbBen]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Stevie simply couldn't hit the high harmony notes on ISA after the Rumours tour the way she had before.

"I'm So Afraid" doesn't call for a high part. It calls for a matching part. Stevie is the right singer.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by cbBen

"I'm So Afraid" doesn't call for a high part. It calls for a matching part. Stevie is the right singer.

Wrong. It does call for the high part. Christine did it the best.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by cbBen

"I'm So Afraid" doesn't call for a high part. It calls for a matching part. Stevie is the right singer.

Says you. But, they thought different and so glad they did.
BuckVie version is so much more emotional and richer.

[aleuzzi]

The high vocal part on the chorus is an essential part of “I’m So Afraid”—at least in its original form. Up through the Mirage tour, FM tried hard to reproduce as much of their original vocal parts as possible, not always successfully. By 1982, Stevie couldn’t reach those notes in ISA. Christine’s high harmonies lend a mysterious, haunting dimension to the song that differs from Stevie’s but is as good. When they did ISA on The Dance, the absence of any high harmony leaves the song wanting…

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

The high vocal part on the chorus is an essential part of “I’m So Afraid”—at least in its original form. Up through the Mirage tour, FM tried hard to reproduce as much of their original vocal parts as possible, not always successfully. By 1972, Stevie couldn’t reach those notes in ISA. Christine’s high harmonies lend a mysterious, haunting dimension to the song that differs from Stevie’s but is as good. When they did ISA on The Dance, the absence of any high harmony leaves the song wanting…

Amen, but 1972? Stevie was still in her 40's!

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

. When they did ISA on The Dance, the absence of any high harmony leaves the song wanting…

It became generic.

[Street_Dreamer]

YES! There is a yearning/agony feel that Christine's vocals added. It adds to the dark atmosphere of the song.

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

When they did ISA on The Dance, the absence of any high harmony leaves the song wanting…

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Amen, but 1972? Stevie was still in her 40's!

Egads! I meant 1982.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Egads! I meant 1982.

"Hey waiter, I'll have what he's having..."

[Villavic]

The tour started today 43 years ago.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by cbBen

"I'm So Afraid" doesn't call for a high part. It calls for a matching part. Stevie is the right singer.

"days when the rain and the sun are gone"....listen to Stevie's harmony on that in the 75-77 era.

"agony's torn at my heart too long".... same.

Magical.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

"days when the rain and the sun are gone"....listen to Stevie's harmony on that in the 75-77 era.

"agony's torn at my heart too long".... same.

Magical.

BUT she hasn't been able to hit those notes for nearly half a century.

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

It became generic.

I'm still pissed that the Rhiannon guitar solo was somehow removed for The Dance and remained MIA for the next 25 years.

Flash forward to 2013 and it happens again with a neutered Sisters Of The Moon. FM had a knack for dusting off some of their most intense songs and finding a way to remove all of their spunk.

All of those amazing guitar "arpeggio" type lines played during Sara between 79/82? - gone like they never happened between '04-'15.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

BUT she hasn't been able to hit those notes for nearly half a century.

Indeed.

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

I'm still pissed that the Rhiannon guitar solo was somehow removed for The Dance and remained MIA for the next 25 years.

Flash forward to 2013 and it happens again with a neutered Sisters Of The Moon. FM had a knack for dusting off some of their most intense songs and finding a way to remove all of their spunk.

All of those amazing guitar "arpeggio" type lines played during Sara between 79/82? - gone like they never happened between '04-'15.

Can’t we blame Rhiannon earlier than that? I think the guitar solo was neutered in 1990.

As for Sisters, I rather enjoyed it in 2013 and in no way expected it to be anything like it was in 1982. They could’ve played a similar arrangement to 1982 but Stevie’s inability to sing or perform it like she did 30 years prior would’ve made it quite a disaster. I didn’t think it was awful in 2013 and given its place in the middle of the set (vs final encore like it was in the 1979-82 days) it was serviceable. I also think it got better in 2014 when Chris was back and started adding little things with the keys.