Favourite/Least fav Stevie tour...

[nightbird89]

Originally Posted by David

I think the shows were logy & exhausting. I thought the band was thudding & literalminded & had no character. They sounded like a thousand other bands with that blandly professional sound, like the bands that play for Sheryl Crow & Billy Joel & Elton John & Sarah McWhatsit. It's a really phony sound & a turnoff for me. I thought Stevie was dressed like the Bar Mitzvah boy's mother at the synagogue, with those sleeves that go halfway down her lower arms, like something middleaged women would wear to worship---except for those shoes & enough has been written about them so no need to repeat it here. Stevie sang without much color or life, & the whole sound just took on a droning quality to me. No color, no personal stamp, & certainly nothing visionary. It was all just "professional" in the bad sense.

She did some stuff on TV that year, like Blockbuster & Rosie, which I really liked. I especially liked her hair & the sound of her speaking voice on Rosie. I was looking forward to seeing & hearing those elements at the concerts, but they weren't there.

I think that statement is a bit more accurate for the mirror tour. esp. how they danced the cha-cha at the beginning of the way 2 elctronified intro to edge. but i think they were good on the tisl tour, imo.