lets talk about.... THOUSAND DAYS - Page 2

peer_gynt10 · #16 10-30-2016, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

question.

is the Thousand Days version on Enchanted the 1984 version or the Street Angel version? and was this version the same as the b-side version on MLWCYM?

i get so confused

Unfortunately it is the Street Angel version. To my knowledge, there are only low-quality versions of the Rock A Little demos floating around. Please someone correct me and point us to a pristine version. (Maybe if she re-releases RAL.)

bombaysaffires · #17 10-30-2016, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by vermicious knid

"'Thousand Days' was written about my non-relationship with Prince," says Nicks. . . . . "Days" recounts an abortive, all-night '80s recording session with him at his Minneapolis home during a Fleetwood Mac tour, climaxing with Nicks "smoking my pot - he didn't agree with my lifestyle - and going to sleep on Prince's floor in his kitchen. I like him, but we were just so different there was no possible meeting ground."
http://rockalittle.com/billbrd3.htm

Yep

bombaysaffires · #18 10-30-2016, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Lord that woman talks funny. What the hell is that supposed to mean, anyway? That he smoked her pot, yet chided her for her druggie ways? That she ended up sleeping on his kitchen floor? I'm so damned confused!

I've always liked this song. I know we all have people we're hung up on, who aren't our "friends or loves." This was definitely one of Stevie's earlier really frank, and pretty damn angry songs. I like it when Mama doesn't mince her words!

no, she was smoking her pot, and he was disproving. Read it again

StreetAngel86 · #19 11-01-2016, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by peer_gynt10

Unfortunately it is the Street Angel version. To my knowledge, there are only low-quality versions of the Rock A Little demos floating around. Please someone correct me and point us to a pristine version. (Maybe if she re-releases RAL.)

FORTUNATELY
i like the SA version

peer_gynt10 · #20 11-01-2016, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

FORTUNATELY
i like the SA version

You're right, the SA version is very good and I'm surprised she didn't include it on the album. I should have phrased this better. What I meant to say is that I wish we had a pristine recording of the RAL demo (along with Running Through the Garden), because that's my favourite Stevie period.

KarmaContestant · #21 11-01-2016, 04:35 PM

So, I like the Street Angel version of Thousand Days, but I don't love it.

I really do love the Rock A Little era outtake with the saxophone. I hope we get this on a box set, but I have a gut feeling that, even if we do get a deluxe Rock A Little, that version of Thousand Days will not be included. Or that epic cut of Running Through The Garden she did back then.

wheart · #22 11-02-2016, 07:04 AM

I've always loved this song. I like the Enchanted Box Set version a lot...I probably have heard the SA version but it's been a while so I should revisit it. Or are they the same? I think the story goes Stevie was trying out producers for SA (before she hired Glyn Johns) and Thousand Days was recorded with Chris Lord-Alge producing and that's the version on Enchanted? Someone correct me if I'm wrong. It's definitely one of her more "introspective" songs shall we say...a lot going on...conversations, personal experiences...lots of stuff all thrown together into a big stew. I find the lyrics hard to follow at times but that's part of the charm I suppose.

StreetAngel86 · #23 11-02-2016, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by peer_gynt10

You're right, the SA version is very good and I'm surprised she didn't include it on the album. I should have phrased this better. What I meant to say is that I wish we had a pristine recording of the RAL demo (along with Running Through the Garden), because that's my favourite Stevie period.

GET IN LINE
i want pristine copies of RAL EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!
esp RTTG

but most of all I want the SA version of RTTG

i want it to be as amaze as that Mirror Mirror outtake
but ... ya know ... it prob isn't

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Originally Posted by wheart

I've always loved this song. I like the Enchanted Box Set version a lot...I probably have heard the SA version but it's been a while so I should revisit it. Or are they the same?

the Enchanted version IS the SA version yes

i don't think there's another SA version floating around there