Stevie postpones shows due to Covid in the band

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Stevie starts her Spring Tour tonight. Did anyone hear who was ill with COVID in the band?

Any chance of Twisted, If You Ever Did Believe, Rooms On Fire, 24 Karat Gold, or Angel?

Edit: Upsetting that there were no setlist changes. She had to start Sara again because she forgot where she was in the song.

How far into it when that happened??

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

How far into it when that happened??

https://youtu.be/0GdCZE9QJY8

She never started. It just meanders for a minute and then she chats Waddy up and admits she’s lost and has no clue where she was in the song. They quickly restarted and it seemed to be fine then.

This is one of those “thats rock and roll” type moments IMO. It happens.

I listened to Stand Back and it’s gotten Rhiannon level painful. It plods at a slow tempo and she sings it so painfully blah that I don’t understand why she insists on this tired setlist. The twirls are ridiculous. She’s nearly 75 - why is that even a thing she attempts to do still?

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by jmn3

https://youtu.be/0GdCZE9QJY8

She never started.

She didn't sing "Wait a minute baby..." but she did do the "hooh-hooh," but never sang "Drowning in the sea of love"

I think she has a teleprompter.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by jmn3

https://youtu.be/0GdCZE9QJY8

She never started. It just meanders for a minute and then she chats Waddy up and admits she’s lost and has no clue where she was in the song. They quickly restarted and it seemed to be fine then.

This is one of those “thats rock and roll” type moments IMO. It happens.

I listened to Stand Back and it’s gotten Rhiannon level painful. It plods at a slow tempo and she sings it so painfully blah that I don’t understand why she insists on this tired setlist. The twirls are ridiculous. She’s nearly 75 - why is that even a thing she attempts to do still?

Very strange. Her vocals on Sara are what begins the song so she really was confused. In the old and crazy days she could dive back into the song with either right or wrong lyrics and get back into the groove. She seemed lost where to pick up the song. Reminds me almost of the Stand Back Albany 1990 but the band never stopped. It kept rolling until she got her groove. The RAL Chicago stop had her botching Rhiannon so bad that she says "Its my song, I got this" and tries to recover. Her coked out confidence was in full effect because she was just saying the same lyrics over and over.
Back in the day, her band always sort of improvised her behavior. 2 great examples are during her klonopin years, Outside the Rain in CA she came out and sang the last verse twice and somehow her band was so good you could not notice unless you really knew the song. In 1983 in OH on How Still My Love, she goes down to the audience to grab a hat and her band actually slows down so she can get back to the microphone for the second verse. I am always impressed with such a coordinated, orchestrated, and spontaneous venture

I saw Cher in concert once and she is a perfectionist. There was a tiny mistake by her in a second verse that no one caught. She stopped the song and told her band to begin again. The band stopped immediately and then started immediately at her request.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Very strange. Her vocals on Sara are what begins the song so she really was confused.

She says they didn't practice Sara before this show. And if what sleepless child heard was true that Stevie was in bed with Covid for a month, then she likely didn't even soundcheck for this show.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

She says they didn't practice Sara before this show. And if what sleepless child heard was true that Stevie was in bed with Covid for a month, then she likely didn't even soundcheck for this show.

She just got off the road and performed Sara several weeks ago. She has performed it a million times. Not a big deal to flub lyrics but the opening to Sara should be fairly easy.
If she did have Covid, its clearly affected her memory. Besides not knowing when to start Sara, not knowing the album RAL is odd. A few weeks ago she was talking about the recording of I Sing For Things.
I applaud her for doing this at her age though. From the Edge of 17 link, I see she still remembers what it sounds like

[Villavic]

Forgetting a line may be something not so weird. I remember Don Henley forgetting a line (I think it was a new song at that moment) during Hell Freezes Over (showed in a documentary) and Glenn laughed at loud.

But what I am reading here is something to worry about. Hope she is ok.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

She just got off the road and performed Sara several weeks ago. She has performed it a million times. Not a big deal to flub lyrics but the opening to Sara should be fairly easy.
If she did have Covid, its clearly affected her memory. Besides not knowing when to start Sara, not knowing the album RAL is odd. A few weeks ago she was talking about the recording of I Sing For Things.
I applaud her for doing this at her age though. From the Edge of 17 link, I see she still remembers what it sounds like

And for a few years now, Edge of Seventeen is more instrumental than lyrical.

Stevie said that they (her solo band) haven't done Sara in about 20 years but the solo Sara is just about the same as the FM version from 2009-2017.

[bombaysaffires]

the band actually sounds quite good. I like that the piano is upfront; always hated the BD concert version where it was too synth-y or whatever (maybe electric piano?). But boy, that's a real brain fart. and even if she missed the intro, once those chords started I would have expected her to just jump in with the "drowning...." It almost seemed like either she was fixated on trying to start with "wait a minute baby...." and couldn't figure out why the music wasn't matching....or she just really zoned and couldn't recall if she was in the middle of the song or the end or what... Agree at her age and with possible health stuff it happens... and she handled it great, as she always does with these sorts of things, including the audience in what's going on. But her voice seems to continue declining and she seems to stay more and more just rooted at her mic. I wouldn't say she should stop performing, but as others have said in other threads, maybe consider more intimate venues where she could tone it down and not strain her voice so much. But... ego.... and competitiveness prevent...

[bwboy]

When I saw Stevie during her Trouble in Shangri-La tour, she messed up the lyrics to Planets of the Universe; during one of the taping of the Dance, she said in an interview she flubbed Dreams because she was nervous seeing so many celebrities in the audience. Take in account her age and being off the road for a month due to Covid, and it’s really more of a surprise that she didn’t mess up more lyrics that night. Covid fog is a real thing.

Even if she got the booster shots, that wouldn’t completely prevent her from getting Covid.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by bwboy

Even if she got the booster shots, that wouldn’t completely prevent her from getting Covid.

Who in this thread said getting a booster prevents you from getting COVID? I didn't.

It doesn't but I'm multi-boosted and I know if I got COVID that I wouldn't be in bed for four weeks. That's why we're told to get boosted so we don't have symptoms or have a mild case.

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Who in this thread said getting a booster prevents you from getting COVID? I didn't.

It doesn't but I'm multi-boosted and I know if I got COVID that I wouldn't be in bed for four weeks. That's why we're told to get boosted so we don't have symptoms or have a mild case.

I work in a medical facility and know of people who had the boosters and still got very sick. Getting the boosters isn’t a 100% guarantee you won’t get it or only get a mild case. I’m not an anti-vaxxer, btw LOL I get the boosters.

[SteveMacD]

Got vaxxed.
Got boosted.
Got COVID.
Didn’t die.

That’s how it works.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I work in a medical facility and know of people who had the boosters and still got very sick. Getting the boosters isn’t a 100% guarantee you won’t get it or only get a mild case. I’m not an anti-vaxxer, btw LOL I get the boosters.

I guess it depends on one's personal health. I got COVID in 2020 and didn't need to go to the hospital. But also Stevie may not have worn a mask backstage.

I'm sure if I got COVID in March of 2023 I wouldn't get very sick because of my 3 boosters.

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

I guess it depends on one's personal health. I got COVID in 2020 and didn't need to go to the hospital. But also Stevie may not have worn a mask backstage.

I'm sure if I got COVID in March of 2023 I wouldn't get very sick because of my 3 boosters.

I would say age is probably a factor, too. I’m sure Stevie wasn’t the only one in her entourage who had Covid, but she may have been the only one who had symptoms to the point she had to take time off the tour. I wonder if the band does random Covid testing? Stevie is probably surrounded by the same people day in and day out, but those people have lives, go shopping, interact with family members who go to schools, etc.

Im actually a big fan of masks now. I haven’t had the flu or colds as often. Having said that, though, I don’t always to remember to wear one when I’m at the store.