My Today Show Review

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Hey all, just got back from NYC a little while ago... :whew: what a morning!!

Here's what happened...

I got to NYC at about 5am and picked up Ed (Hejira) at his apartment... For about an HOUR we looked for parking, but couldn't find anything near the Today Show Plaza, so we ended up going back downtown to try to find a spot, which we did.. so at about 6am, we took a taxi back to midtown to Rockafeller Center... There was a line of about 30 people in front of us, which wasn't bad at all, considering this one lady who was behind us said that usually the lines wrap around the block for things like this... I walked off the line and went up and down asking people if they were "Ledgies" ( ), to which I got 1 reply - from Kelly
She was sitting in the second spot in front of everyone and met me with open arms

So, we waited a few minutes, and then all of a sudden we heard the intro beats to "Stand Back"... We walked off the line and up to the barriers where we could actually see the stage... Stevie was there, with the full band, doing soundcheck... she was wearing NO MAKEUP , had her hair in a pony tail, was wearing this brown-colored paint suit, and a cream-colored overcoat.. at first she was sporting sunglasses, but then took them off after about 10 minutes... She did "Stand Back" twice, full of twirls and everything.. I was in Stevie heaven ... she then did "Landslide" and "Dreams", during which security started letting people inside near the stage area... It wasn't packed AT ALL, surprisingly, considering how late we arrived (there were some girls there waiting since 3am who didn't get any closer to the stage than we did), and we ended up basically standing in the 2nd row

During soundcheck, Ed was able to get some awesome pictures of Stevie, some REALLY closeup ones, some very revealing ones ;-)
He also got some video footage of I think "Dreams"...

So after soundcheck was over (it lasted about 25 minutes), we just sorta waited around for about 2 hours.. Time went by pretty quickly and everyone in the crowd was very friendly and talkative, so it was cool...

Then, at about 830, the band came back to the stage without Stevie, and then something very interesting happened... Sharona went up to Stevie's mic and the band started playing "landslide"... She started singing the LEAD VOCAL on it, and sang the whole entire song!! I was surprised (pleasantly), as I had never heard Sharona sing lead before... I INSISTED Ed record some video footage of this, and he did - about 20 seconds worth

After Sharona finished, Stevie took the stage pretty quickly and awaited the signal from the director to begin playing live... and within a couple minutes, the band started, well, "landslide"

She then did "Stand Back" and "Dreams" back-to-back, although "Dreams" wasn't shown live (which we later found out)...

I absolutely loved "Stand Back" - she tore it UP!! It's too bad you guys didn't get a chance to see the twirling at home, it was awesome.. she definately had a lot of energy during it... :nod"

All in all, she seemed to be really happy out there today.. I didn't really know what to expect this morning and really didn't have any expectations on her.. But she seemed to be in good spirits and it definately showed in her performance... vocally she sounded great, and was very much in the moment..

I'm sooo glad I decided to go to this today... Stevie Nicks, New York City, free concert, 2nd row.. hellz yeah, so glad I didn't miss this... i had a total blast...

So now, ok, who wants to send me a copy of the show?