Stevie Superstar Concert Series from 1984

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Originally Posted by David

The Westwood One radio show was billed as the 1983 performance in Oakland, so you can imagine the disappointment of those of us who love (& loved) the Wild Heart tour when only three tunes were included in the broadcast.

The only other radio broadcast was the stereo simulcast of the Showtime broadcast of three songs from the US Festival May 30: Stop Dragging, Stand Back, & Outside the Rain. Do you have those?

I do have the US Festival, tracks. Thanks!

And I agree that it's such a bummer (as Stevie would say) that those are the only six good quality tracks available from that tour — and two of them are Leather & Lace and Stop Dragging which don't excite me the way Edge of 17, How Still or If Anyone Falls would.

WH is my favorite Stevie period — she's at her most confident - vocally adventurous, high on coke and success, wild, baroque, passionate and amazing - but just before her all the partying caught up with her and her voice was shot and she stopped singing and sort of croaked and talked her way through her set (a la Rock A Little tour) - not that I don't love that, too. It's a shame that there isn't more decent quality audio material from this period - live and outtakes from the Wild Heart sessions. I keep thinking there MUST be good audio of the complete US Fest show, but haven't found it - and would LOVELOVELOVE to hear more of the WH sessions....

If Stevie were smart - and not so protective of her vaults - she would release tons of the live shows and put them online in FLAC or MP3 files like the Dead, Tori Amos, and others have done.