Series Finale: The Photo Era Scrapbook #9: Rock A Little - Page 8

silvasprings · #**106** 12-26-2009, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by skuncles

The tour began around March of '86.

Didn't she go to Australia at the end of '85 to tour with tom petty and bob dylan?( I know this isn't actually an official RAL tour, but did she perform new songs?)

Cause she got threatened to leave cause she didn't have a working visa, it would be so awesome to hear bootlegs from that part of the tour

David · #**107** 12-26-2009, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by silvasprings

Didn't she go to Australia at the end of '85 to tour with tom petty and bob dylan?( I know this isn't actually an official RAL tour, but did she perform new songs?)

That was end of February & beginning of March 1986. She sang very little -- she did maybe two or three nights onstage. Had nothing to do with her own tour, other than pissing her organization off that she wasn't marketing her own new album at the time.

Stevie started her own tour on April 11.

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Cause she got threatened to leave cause she didn't have a working visa, it would be so awesome to hear bootlegs from that part of the tour

There is some audio & even a little video bootlegged from those two or three onstage appearances (including "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" & "Blowin' in the Wind") as well as some audio of Stevie & Tom singing in a hotel bar in Melbourne.

skcin · #**108** 12-29-2009, 01:08 PM

Jesus Christ these pics are bad.

Hadn't seen most of them in a while. Now I'm sorry I looked again. Depressing.

David · #**109** 12-29-2009, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Jesus Christ these pics are bad.

Hadn't seen most of them in a while. Now I'm sorry I looked again. Depressing.

Stop that, Paula! It's Rock a Little goodness in action!!

MichaelE · #**110** 12-29-2009, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

I never knew she brought out the square microphone for the RAL Tour? I thought it made its last appearance on Mirage?

She used the Sennheiser 441 at the KC show. I was in the front row.

An excellent recording and stage mic. I had two at the time.

petep9000 · #**111** 12-30-2009, 08:50 AM

It's funny how RAL tour pictures generate such reactions. It seems like the tour photos and recordings are free passes for people to rag on Stevie's so-called horrible appearance and sound, since she was doing coke and booze of her own choice. Where are these same strong opinions when someone posts a photo from the 'Whole Lotta Trouble' tour? Or the 'Behind The Mask Tour', or TOSOTM tour? Instead, the usual reaction is "tsk-tsk, oh poor Stevie she was so ill, oh how sad that she was 'forced' by her doctors to take 5 times the daily dose of Klonopin, oh she was only trying to help herself, oh she couldn't help it that she was fat but at least she wasn't partying and gloating over her excesses like in 1986, oh I've been heavy and I know what it's like to have all those health issues, well at least she still had a pretty face," etc etc.

belladonnadream · #**112** 12-30-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsyBlueEyes

Those pictures really are heartbreaking for anyone who really loves her the way we do. She looks so sad. I can't imagine what she must have been going through at that time in her life. It must have been awful. I'm so happy that she finally got the help that she needed.

Me too...I love her and am so glad she came through that time and decided to get help instead of getting to the point where she would have died. She did seem to play on the whole thing with the eye makeup though...I mean she literally put brown shadow all around her eyes..like 360 degrees...????? Maybe she was making a point to everyone that she wasn't doing well....

skcin · #**113** 12-30-2009, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MichaelE

She used the Sennheiser 441 at the KC show. I was in the front row.

An excellent recording and stage mic. I had two at the time.

2 mics or 2 recordings? If I recall, the KC show was one of the best bootlegs from the RAL tour.

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Originally Posted by petep9000

It's funny how RAL tour pictures generate such reactions. It seems like the tour photos and recordings are free passes for people to rag on Stevie's so-called horrible appearance and sound, since she was doing coke and booze of her own choice. Where are these same strong opinions when someone posts a photo from the 'Whole Lotta Trouble' tour? Or the 'Behind The Mask Tour', or TOSOTM tour? Instead, the usual reaction is "tsk-tsk, oh poor Stevie she was so ill, oh how sad that she was 'forced' by her doctors to take 5 times the daily dose of Klonopin, oh she was only trying to help herself, oh she couldn't help it that she was fat but at least she wasn't partying and gloating over her excesses like in 1986, oh I've been heavy and I know what it's like to have all those health issues, well at least she still had a pretty face," etc etc.

Oh no, I'll say she looks like crap in a lot of pics from those eras too. I'm an equal opportunity basher.

goldustsongbird · #**114** 12-30-2009, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

It's funny how RAL tour pictures generate such reactions. It seems like the tour photos and recordings are free passes for people to rag on Stevie's so-called horrible appearance and sound, since she was doing coke and booze of her own choice. Where are these same strong opinions when someone posts a photo from the 'Whole Lotta Trouble' tour? Or the 'Behind The Mask Tour', or TOSOTM tour? Instead, the usual reaction is "tsk-tsk, oh poor Stevie she was so ill, oh how sad that she was 'forced' by her doctors to take 5 times the daily dose of Klonopin, oh she was only trying to help herself, oh she couldn't help it that she was fat but at least she wasn't partying and gloating over her excesses like in 1986, oh I've been heavy and I know what it's like to have all those health issues, well at least she still had a pretty face," etc etc.

Nah, she looked like hell at least a couple of times in every era. Even in her sex kitten days, she still took a bad photo or two. Half the time she had a mustache.

GypsyBlueEyes · #**115** 12-30-2009, 09:54 PM

Is it just me or does this look nothing like Stevie. I mean, obviously its her...but there is something about her here that looks SO different...and I don't know what it is exactly. Every time I see them I just kind of have a "what is up with these pictures??" sort of reaction.

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StreetAngel86 · #**116** 12-31-2009, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by David

That was end of February & beginning of March 1986. She sang very little -- she did maybe two or three nights onstage. Had nothing to do with her own tour, other than pissing her organization off that she wasn't marketing her own new album at the time.

don't forget she was plagued with her stalker!husband David Letterman around this period

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Originally Posted by GypsyBlueEyes

Is it just me or does this look nothing like Stevie. I mean, obviously its her...but there is something about her here that looks SO different...and I don't know what it is exactly. Every time I see them I just kind of have a "what is up with these pictures??" sort of reaction.

this is gonna come as a real shocker BUT...ITA

i think it's the poodle frizzay hair.....haha i don't know
is she already on Tranqs during the Tango tour?

Matthew · #**117** 12-31-2009, 06:33 AM

It´s not about the hair, I think her face expression or.. you know what I mean. She was on Klonopin when Lindsey was leaving the band, so definitely during all Tango shows too. Klonopin changed her face too, sometimes it´s not so seen, but sometimes very much - maybe like in these photos from Grammy in 1987...

David · #**118** 12-31-2009, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Matthew

maybe like in these photos from Grammy in 1987...

MTV Video Music Awards held in 1988 in Australia.

jannieC · #**119** 12-31-2009, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Matthew

It´s not about the hair, I think her face expression or.. you know what I mean. She was on Klonopin when Lindsey was leaving the band, so definitely during all Tango shows too. Klonopin changed her face too, sometimes it´s not so seen, but sometimes very much - maybe like in these photos from Grammy in 1987...

It may be a combination of the suntan and the outfit?

petep9000 · #**120** 12-31-2009, 03:34 PM

I think we're just not used to seeing Stevie in such a revealing outfit. I don't recall seeing her in strapless other than this event, so we are seeing shoulders and her entire chest sans boobs so I think our eye is elongating her somehow.

But her face does have some sort of a strange cackle to it.