The Best Live Rhiannon

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by blackroses

I have to say that I completely agree with that, David. I don't like that "still cry out/don't leave me" thing she does these days, but some people like it....just a different personal tastes. I really miss Rhiannon the way she performed it back in the day. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who feels that way. I personally never cared for the style she performed it in for her solo performances either. The FM performances are the only ones for me. I also like the Rhiannon in the Mirage video, but that is an acquired taste that most people would not share with me. I hated it at first, but it has grown on me. She looks really rough, and her voice is shot, but after she twirls back onto the stage, she comes to life with some really dramatic stuff, like "Baby, you don't change, and I don't change, and you don't change....Rhiannon". Riveting! And just Lindsey's guitar work alone in that one makes it worth loving.

I also like the Midnight Special, Mobile AL, the 78' video posted in this thread, and the version that trotter posted is superb. But one of my all time favorites is from early in the While Album era...a true moment in history. It's almost identical to the audio version that Michelle posted. They were new and slightly unpolished...not visually perfected yet, and there was bad mic feedback. But the difference in this one and all other versions I have ever heard is Lindsey's undulating guitar work that starts at about 4:37 minutes. I've never heard him do it quite that way in any other version. I wish he had kept it going longer and continued to build on it...simply mesmerizing. She totally expends herself toward the end. What a gift she had. Here it is:

oh yes. is that largo? landover? I can't keep them straight. I love this video/audio and the 4:37 mark too. not only is lindsey working that guitar, but stevie's working that chiffon like no other.

i always call this the "orgasm rhiannon" because when she starts at the end, that's what she looks like. it's a little more tame than say, rosebud, but it is so sensual and devine. love it.


and as people were saying about the "don't leave me noooooooowww" i don't like or dislike it, but i don't want her to remove the "weeeellll i don't think you do!" that she's added in the more recent rhiannons.