Red Rocks video

[DashingDan]

I like it when, during No Spoken Word, she sings:

"I don't know how to learn it,
not from the pages of that
@#$%@#$ BOOK!"

I don't think Jana would've approved had she been in the band back then.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by DashingDan

I like it when, during No Spoken Word, she sings:

"I don't know how to learn it,
not from the pages of that
@#$%@#$ BOOK!"

I don't think Jana would've approved had she been in the band back then.

It's rare to hear Stevie swear... at least in her songs. So, hearing FJKld;dfjklfjd;sGODDAMNfjdklafs****ingBOOK
makes me laugh (and rock, ha ha) a little.

[krrrby]

I thought it was

FROMTHATG*DDAMNMOTHERF***INSTUPIDBOOK!

[Livia]

Well, there are some that swear she's not cussing at ALL - but I think she is - I clearly hear the GD and the MF.

Of course, there's NO disputing the cussing during the incident with security (If you f*ck with my people...) Where was that again? Somewhere on the east coast. Hartford?

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Livia

Of course, there's NO disputing the cussing during the incident with security (If you f*ck with my people...) Where was that again? Somewhere on the east coast. Hartford?

Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT. That was one ****ty ass venue if you ask me.

I don't hear her swearing in "No Spoken Word." I hear her screaming "And not not not not from a book" with that wild voice she had back then.

[krrrby]

well I tried to put a pic on here...but its not working LOL

nm...

...you didnt seeeeeee meeeeeeee....

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by krrrby

I thought it was

FROMTHATG*DDAMNMOTHERF***INSTUPIDBOOK!

I was close enough.

[jannieC]

I can't even count how many times I've watched this video and have never noticed this.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by dissention

I don't hear her swearing in "No Spoken Word." I hear her screaming "And not not not not from a book" with that wild voice she had back then.

I think it's a combination of both. I clearly hear the "goddamn", too. *shrug*

[StevieNicksEO17]

Originally Posted by jannieC

I can't even count how many times I've watched this video and have never noticed this.

Me too!!! Now I have to go back and look for it

[David]

Why not listen to other RAL performances of No Spoken Word, too? Chances are that if she was letting it hang at that point in the song for Red Rocks, she would have done something similar at other venues before & after.

Personally, I don't specifically recall any cuss words in No Spoken Word from other shows, but they might be there.

Even things that sound totally unique & spontaneous were often repeated, at least a few other times, back then, just like today. Example: the speaking in tongues deal from L.A. in '82 also happened here & there elsewhere on the tour.

[SpyNote]

Here's another example (at 2:36)... I hear something, but I don't think she's cussing.

No Spoken Word, 7.21.86

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by dissention

I don't hear her swearing in "No Spoken Word." I hear her screaming "And not not not not from a book" with that wild voice she had back then.

That's what I hear, too.

And it just seems like a stretch that the same woman who was uptight about singing the word "bitch" in a song, would say "g-damn" and "motherf***er" in the middle of a song as she's being filmed for a video.

[Livia]

No fiasco for "bitch." Simply the song, "Sometimes It's a Bitch."

[DashingDan]

Way way way waaaaay back when, around 1996 or so, there was a stevie nicks email list that I belonged to and I posted the same post (without the jana comment, of course) as i did at the top of this thread and, believe me, if I didn't get some of the angriest emails from people who were so offended that I would suggest such a thing. People were really angry, some sent me personal emails asking me why I would ruin the list with my comments...

This group is much more fun and lively.