The Chain Solo? - Page 2

skcin · #16 10-11-2004, 08:35 AM

I agree with Kelly - I don't think it's "declined", it's just different. I do remember the first time I heard Everyday on the radio - I was shocked at how nasal it sounded. (I still don't like that tune in general.) But I don't really she sounds that "nasally" on the rest of the TISL songs

And I think she's hitting way more high notes live this time around that The Dance or Enchanted tours. No falsetto or anything, but her range is a bit more broad, IMO.

Paula

Serrart · #17 10-11-2004, 09:02 AM

I've known her first with the actual voice, then gone backwards, and personally the intensity she has now blows me away

. There are so many some strong or crystal voices that I can admire technically but don't communicate me anything, while Stevie's recent voice strikes me hard everytime.There's all her life written in it, and amplifies so powerfully the emotions of her songs.

By the way, I love the HOB version of The Chain too. Not my favourite, but it's great!

Romy

Hawkeye · #18 10-11-2004, 01:06 PM

Well I should've emphasised that I think ver voice on the SYW tour was EXCELLENT. While I agree with Dissention that the Enchanted tour still blows the SYW tour away, but they are MUCH MUCH better then the TISL, how people can say that was the best Stevie tour ever is unbelievable. I think Stevie's really been opn an upswing lately. And if I'd never heard that Woodstock 98 boot I'd still be saying the recent tour is the best Stevie's been since the SA tour, but that 98 performance was just SOOOO amazing.

chiliD · #19 10-11-2004, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by markolas

but it's definitely not Lindsey, Rick Vito, or Billy Burnette.

Well, actually, it IS RICK VITO on lead guitar & background vocals on her Street Angel tour.

blinker12 · #20 10-12-2004, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

But then pop in Fall From Grace from the Blockbuster Awards and there is a rather startling difference; it had gotten very weak.

You really think so? I love that performance. I think it's one of her strongest of the past five years.

dissention · #21 10-12-2004, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by blinker12

You really think so? I love that performance. I think it's one of her strongest of the past five years.

I like it, too, but there can be no question that the quality of her voice had decreased rather dramatically. It was rather weak and ragged during that performance.

ontheEdgeof17 · #22 10-12-2004, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

I like it, too, but there can be no question that the quality of her voice had decreased rather dramatically. It was rather weak and ragged during that performance.

Sheryl didn't help the situation.

-Curt

Johnny Stew · #23 10-12-2004, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Well, actually, it IS RICK VITO on lead guitar & background vocals on her Street Angel tour.

Ages ago, David sent me a cassette tape of the original live broadcast of the performance (before it was over-dubbed for the syndicated version, to disguise the vocal problems Stevie was having that night from her asthma/bronchial trouble*), and I remember the announcer saying that Waddy Wachtel had joined the band for the last song.
After I heard this, I assumed it must be his voice you can hear on the "runnin' through the shadows" parts, since I never thought it sounded like Rick.

I could be wrong though.

(*It's been a lonnnng time since I listened to the original broadcast recording, but I remember at the time noting that one or two songs sounded exactly the same as those on the overdubbed/syndicated version. I believe one of those songs was "Destiny." They must have only overdubbed the songs/moments where her voice was really effected.)

Johnny Stew · #24 10-12-2004, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

I like it, too, but there can be no question that the quality of her voice had decreased rather dramatically. It was rather weak and ragged during that performance.

It's weird, because I taped the performance when it first aired on TV, and the mixing sounds better on my tape than on the mp3 version that's floating around out there.
Stevie's vocal does sound a little shakey (I attributed it to nerves, and lack of warm-up... I didn't think it sounded like a "dramatic decrease"), no doubt about it, but it sounds weaker on the mp3 mix than on my videocassette.

She sounds more overpowered by the instruments, and by Sheryl, on the mp3.

It was a cool perfomance though, and when you have the visuals to go along with it, Stevie was really putting her heart into it. It was a great way to kick off the 'TISL' promotion.

blinker12 · #25 10-14-2004, 12:48 AM

Re: the Blockbuster Awards performance

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

It's weird, because I taped the performance when it first aired on TV, and the mixing sounds better on my tape than on the mp3 version that's floating around out there.
Stevie's vocal does sound a little shakey (I attributed it to nerves, and lack of warm-up... I didn't think it sounded like a "dramatic decrease"), no doubt about it, but it sounds weaker on the mp3 mix than on my videocassette.

She sounds more overpowered by the instruments, and by Sheryl, on the mp3.

It was a cool perfomance though, and when you have the visuals to go along with it, Stevie was really putting her heart into it. It was a great way to kick off the 'TISL' promotion.

The MP3 is all I've ever heard, and I love it. Technically, it might not be brilliant, but you can tell she really *cares*, and puts her heart into it, and that's been a rare thing for Stevie in the last few years.

AliceLover · #26 10-14-2004, 02:35 PM

She looked so nervous and i agree it wasnt her best, but you could tell she was trying. She really does get nervous at these events. Look at GDW from cnetral park if you have the video, right during the first couple verses shes touching all over the microphone stand for those ribbons but they arent there, and her hand fidgits lol. not fidgits but shakes.

Jimmy