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[The Tower]

Originally Posted by sparky

THAT WAS EXACTLY THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE.

Stevie does not have a two octave full voice range. She never really did. If you count falsetto as a voice, then everyone has a two or three octave range.

The highest note she has ever recorded was an E below high C from "Sisters of the Moon". The highest note she has ever recorded that's not falsetto was an E flat below high C from "Wild Heart". The lowest note she has ever recorded is a B flat below middle C from "Everyday".

These days she very rarely ever goes higher than G above middle C. I was pleasantly surprised to see the she kicked it with a B flat above middle C on "Everybody Finds Out" and an A above middle C on "Smile at You" (I thought for sure she was gonna drop the key from the demo- but I'm glad I was wrong. Her singing on "Destiny Rules" was lower than anything on "Say You Will"- and I don't think those lowers notes (D below middle C) sound very good for Stevie.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

La Nicks though - has a strange voice that really could never sing in an easier key like C.

She does occasionally- "Silver Springs" and "I Sing for the Things", for example.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

It sounds to me like when she sings "a little world in a world" in LIB - she is above middle C She was also above it on the Chris Issak special.

Not even close. I have the Chris Isaak thing on TiVo and she hits maybe a G or an A above middle C at the highest.

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I'm tellin' ya, I'm so sick of her 2-note range, I'm never listenin' to the hag again!!!

I'm really surprised that you would say that......

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by sparky

THAT WAS EXACTLY THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE.

As diss likes to say... "f*** 'em if they can't take a joke!"

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by The Tower

I'm really surprised that you would say that......

I was trying Queeny Sarcasm on for size.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I was trying Queeny Sarcasm on for size.

Should I be alarmed that Queeny Sarcasm works better on me?

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by dissention

Should I be alarmed that Queeny Sarcasm works better on me?

... yes ...

[dissention]

Originally Posted by The Tower

... yes ...

Wise ass.

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by dissention

Wise ass.

Well, obviously your queenie sarcasm works better than either mine or Brian's. I tried my hardest to point out that, once again, Brian has flown into the thread as the Super Defender of Stevie Nicks- but it kinda flopped.

Oh, well... I tried.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by The Tower

Well, obviously your queenie sarcasm works better than either mine or Brian's. I tried my hardest to point out that, once again, Brian has flown into the thread as the Super Defender of Stevie Nicks- but it kinda flopped.

Oh, well... I tried.

Why try hard to state the obvious, man?

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by The Tower

I tried my hardest to point out that, once again, Brian has flown into the thread as the Super Defender of Stevie Nicks- but it kinda flopped.

Oh, well... I tried.

Originally Posted by dissention

Why try hard to state the obvious, man?

Funny thing is, I don't feel I'm defending Stevie, so much as I'm just pointing out what I feel to be the painfully obvious.

She's never had a "perfect" voice, nor an amazing range. And she's certainly lost a lot of whatever range she DID have.

It is what it is, and it isn't gonna change back to what it was in 1979... "so why try to fight it."

"Yesterday's gone... yesterday's gone...."

[strandinthewind]

I was counting the falsetto in the octave count. I mean she sings in it and it is a strong voice (just ask Chris Issak he said so a month or so ago)

I just remember seeing sheet music once (a long time ago) and it appeared that the songs were written so the vocal would be higher than middle C - and when I play (albeit VERY POORLY ) SG on the piano, I have LB at middle C and the harmony one or sometimes, if I am feeling courageous , two above that.

In any event, I like it better when she sings higher. The lower voice is that that great sounding to me. But, I love her anyway

Interestingly, on songs like Dreams, she sings four parts on the harmony (assuming she is in the lead somewhere in there, but it is hard to heare that - and she still laters that way those these days it is usually two rather than three or four voices

[sparky]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

As diss likes to say... "f*** 'em if they can't take a joke!"

It's all just a joke !!!!!

Oh, that's right...it's all just painfully obvious.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by The Tower

but it kinda flopped

I've never witnessed you flop, Tower.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by sparky

It's all just a joke !!!!!

Oh, that's right...it's all just painfully obvious.

Of course it's all just a "joke"... painfully obvious or not.
We're not exactly discussing famine or poverty here!

Stevie's always had a limited range. Pretty much from the word "go."
I know that if it bothered me much, I'd be listening to someone else instead.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by sparky

I've never witnessed you flop, Tower.

I hear he's more of a flipper than a flopper!

[sparky]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Of course it's all just a "joke"... painfully obvious or not.
We're not exactly discussing famine or poverty here!

Stevie's always had a limited range. Pretty much from the word "go."
I know that if it bothered me much, I'd be listening to someone else instead.

I wasn't aware that mentioning the facts about someone's vocal range was an indication of being "bothered".

Doesn't bother me at all. I love how my discussions bother others though.

It's kind of like clockwork, really. A remotely, possibly interpreted as negative idea or statement, and BOOM ! The volleys and jokes and defense begins.
It's fun !