2 Perfect, Not Obvious...

[David]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

Name TWO Perfect Stevie Nicks moments to you- be it a song, a lyric, concert moment, anything- except, maybe nothing too obvious

• SUNG: L.A. Forum 10-02-83, "Outside the Rain": "Tellin' you/Tell myself" right after 1st verse
  
• SPOKEN: Dec. 1979 at home being interviewed: "Gabrielle? Really ... go (slight pause) catch a fever."

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by gypsy4life

First one I thought of:

"Lindsey, don't you think that Rhiannon is a beautiful name?from the "Birds Rising" demo: I cried the first time I heard it, and can cry right now just thinking of it. The emotion in her voice, (speaking voice, mind you), was like a tidal wave coming through my computer.

How did I not think of this first?!!? One of my favorite moments ever.

[Nikolaj]

[*]SPOKEN: Dec. 1979 at home being interviewed: "Gabrielle? Really ... go (slight pause) catch a fever."[/LIST][/QUOTE]

I'm stumped, totally, by this, anyone else? Who's Gabrielle?

2 more
1. The first time I heard 'Nomad'/'Candlebright' I believe was when the radio station KMET broadcast one of the many Fleetwood Mac or Stevie weekly specials in Los Angeles, I think it was only identified as a 'Buckingham Nicks unreleased track'-- It was such an amazing song, for some reason I really heard early LedZep influences in the song then, I don't think of that so much, anymore. It was an exciting indication, in the very, very early 1980s, that there were some real treasures in the vaults. That early version is sublime in every way. Some of the KMET specials I remember were Jim Ladd Interviews, Mary Turner's (??)Off The Record, The King Biscuit somethin? Hour, and there were others. It was pretty intoxicating, too, as a teenager, to hear the speaking voice of Stevie Nicks, as she was being interviewed during these radio programs.
2. The 'Are You Mine' demo that surfaced on one of the above mentioned radio broadcasts on KMET in the '80s, during the RAL era, was just another nice, almost forgettable, but in it's way, perfect, Stevie Nicks moment. A minor, bonus song eons before the Internet, still reminding us there was all kinds of music being kept from us, so it was 'perfect' to hear some of it.
I love that someone mentioned 'Midnight Wind'-- how I'd wear that song out. I think I finally tired of it, though Stevie WAS perfect on it, just after a while, I realized John Stewart's vocal sounds very cheesy to me, especially at the end, when he just can't ad lib a fade to save his life, and there was Stevie stealing the song. She was wailing, though, gorgeous vocal.

[ragrsrocalot]

1. All of Stevie's performances of Edge of 17 from the Rock A Little tour, are completely perfect for me.
2. I also really love the way she sang Wild Heart with Lori at the Rolling Stone photo shoot, even with the phone ringing in the background.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

1. 'Sleeping Angel', from the 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' soundtrack.
The first time I heard this, I knew it would be a song I would love forever.

Me too!

Originally Posted by FMlex

Kay so these aren't super obvious, like Rosebud "Rhiannon" or Mirage tour SOTM or working on "Angel" in the Tusk doc...

1) Stevie's singing "Your mood is like a circus wheel, you're changing all the time. Sometimes I can't help but feel that I'm wasting all of my time"/harmonizing/enthusiasm/hand gestures in this video from 2:16 - 2:43

Love.

Originally Posted by gypsy4life

[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]First one I thought of:

[B]"Lindsey, don't you think that Rhiannon is a beautiful name?]

Sorry, this just cracks my **** up.


1. Angel from the Tusk documentary. Perfection. I know all of her lovey dovey **** with Lindsey was probably planned, I don't care. That's not what makes it special. It's how genuinely happy and into the song she is. It's actually almost heartbreaking. I've never seen a performance before or after that matches her energy there. She'll never live to match the beauty again~

2. Silver Springs demo.


Do I need to explain?

[LittleCharmer]

1. The live tv version of 'Nightbird' with Stevie & Lori from 1983 (can't quite remember the name of the show..)

2. The 'Kind of Woman' piano demo.. I love everything about this - the way she counts in at the beginning, the simple piano, the gorgeous vocal..

[daniellaaarisen]

I already had my next two choices figured out when I wrote my last post, and then I came back home and both were mentioned by other people!

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

2. Silver Springs demo.


Do I need to explain?

Yes. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes YES.


And the Kind of Woman piano demo that LittleCharmer mentioned.

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by David

• SUNG: L.A. Forum 10-02-83, "Outside the Rain": "Tellin' you/Tell myself" right after 1st verse
  

I don't have this... someone wanna share? "Outside the Rain" boots are my second favorite to collect (under "Rhiannon"s of course).

[gypsy4life]

A couple more:

1. In the HBO special video, before she goes out on stage she prays. She says something like "Lord, please let us be good or we'll never be able to pay everybody." That was so cute!!

2. "..she spends everyday, waiting for the day...when Everybody Finds Out!!!!"

Just awesome-'nuff said!

[luckydimecaper]

Mine are...

1. The organ/fender rhodes demo of Gypsy... It's just stunning. Gypsy is already one of my favourite Stevie/FM songs but the use of the fender rhodes just makes it sound so ethereal and delicate. It's beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKIC_Kza4Ek

2. The SNL performance of Stnad Back from 1983. It's just got so much energy! There's just something that the album version doesn't seem to capture from these earlier performances of the song. I love it
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6o...ack-1983_music

[thatgirlwasme]

I agree with everyone's favorite moments--priceless! Mine are:

1. Most of the backstage footage from Bella Donna on CV, specifically that clip of Stevie dancing around the studio to Edge of 17.
2. That recording of Stevie and friends in the studio where Tom mics the roses and Stevie asks for a joint: "Tooooommmm? I know you're on the moon, but why are you micing the red dozen roses?" I also love that the guy does a Jimmy Stewart impression. I was just listening to this again and another funny part in when Stevie and this guy are talking about how old they look and they are only 31 or 32. He tells Stevie she doesn't look 30 and she says, "I do when I wake up!" SO funny! Anybody have it to upload--I don't know how!

I love all the candid backstage stuff!

A

[daniellaaarisen]

1) "The Chain" from the Mirage DVD. She gives me chills every single time I watch that.
2) Basically everything on Destiny Rules. Seriously. I think she is absolutely precious throughout the entire thing. One of my favorite quotes: "We think all these people that are our age are gonna just come out of the wall and say, 'oh, I'm just gonna start buying music again. And in fact... they're not laying around on the floor smoking dope thinking about what their next record they're going to buy is! They're trying to deal with delinquent children; they're trying to figure out how to pay the rent next month or, you know, how to pay for their house or how to put their kids through college. They are not, the first thing on their mind is not, "oh my God I have to get Billboard to see what the number one record is!"

[Ghost_Tracker]

GREAT idea for a thread!!! . . .


1.) The last part of "Beauty and the Beast," Las Vegas, August of 2005. . . . . Also, the REST of that performance!


2.) Stevie performing with Bob Welsh at the opening of Cal Jam II.
One helluva "instinctive" performance, i.m.o.

Runners-up would definnitely be Rosebud Rhiannon, Gold Dust Woman with Bob Welsh, GDW in Japan, and Nightbird with Lori and Sharon during the HBO Concert. GDW in The Dance is also definitely "worthy of mention," i.m.o.

Outside of performances, I'd defintely mention the time she donated $10,000 to relief efforts right away when she heard about
the tsunami, and her relatively unpublicized visits to Walter Reed.
Also, somebody posted a photo once in here, of a house she had supposedly bought in order to house some victims of the New Orleans flood/hurricane - I never heard anything about it since and it was never confirmed, so I don't know if it's true or not; but I figured I'd mention it.

[CADreaming]

Two Perfect Moments:

1. Buckingham Nicks live in Birmingham: "I don't think we've ever seen this many people - I KNOW we've never seen this many people!" - I love how thrilled and surprised they were - and unjaded then - by the crowd in Birmingham. Stevie's (and Lindsey's) comments at that show are so cool to hear now, realizing the magnitude of what was to come in the not so distant future for them with FM.

2. PS22 singing "Landslide" while Stevie "air-directed" them at the Mac Unleashed rehearsal in New York. - How amazing to have a song she wrote become a tool to teach children. I'm sure it gives her a great sense of accomplishment.

[Street_Dreamer]

1. That's Alright.
2. The dance she does at the end of Angel (I believe) on the Tusk documentary.

Matt