Stevie was to perform Go Your Own Way

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

But they tried (if you listen to the video). Maybe she volunteered and it did not work. I don't think the acoustic strumming on GYOW is the most difficult part ever. However you definitely would need basic guitar knowledge.
Did she not receive an acoustic guitar on her 16th birthday. She should have went Eddie Van Halen all over them.

I would agree it really wouldn’t be that difficult of a part to play. What is it, three chords? But there was no way anyone was seriously going to take the song out on the road with her playing it. I’m not saying she was ever going to be Nancy Wilson wielding that acoustic around the stage like a dynamo, but I think her career would’ve taken a far more interesting path if she had spent any time learning how to play a guitar or piano with even some Credibility.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by jmn3

I would agree it really wouldn’t be that difficult of a part to play. What is it, three chords? But there was no way anyone was seriously going to take the song out on the road with her playing it. I’m not saying she was ever going to be Nancy Wilson wielding that acoustic around the stage like a dynamo, but I think her career would’ve taken a far more interesting path if she had spent any time learning how to play a guitar or piano with even some Credibility.

Are you saying she plays tambourine with no credibility?

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Are you saying she plays tambourine with no credibility?

She plays a taped up tambourine with the most credibility one can have!

[David]

Originally Posted by jmn3

She plays a taped up tambourine with the most credibility one can have!

Actually, she even botches that. She’s off the beat and all over the map. But she looks good doing it, and that’s probably all that matters.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by David

Actually, she even botches that. She’s off the beat and all over the map. But she looks good doing it, and that’s probably all that matters.

Yeah. I don't think it was ever about the beat. It was a prop in her fantasy world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCdIN-02jYI

[michelej1]

Stevie addressed the idea of her playing on stage once. I don’t think she mentioned what particular song she would play on. She just said that the question had come up, but for her to do it would just be for show, and it would only end up with Lindsey yelling at her when she messed up, so what was the point.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Stevie addressed the idea of her playing on stage once. I don’t think she mentioned what particular song she would play on. She just said that the question had come up, but for her to do it would just be for show, and it would only end up with Lindsey yelling at her when she messed up, so what was the point.

Well, in Lindsey's defense, if her guitar playing is anything like her piano playing....

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by David

Actually, she even botches that. She’s off the beat and all over the map. But she looks good doing it, and that’s probably all that matters.

You've been very anti SN lately and frankly that frightens me a little bit. LOL. But in all fairness IMO she played tambo and other percussion instruments perfectly on all the videos I have seen of her from 1975 -1982. I was shocked and still am to learn her tambo was taped for the Clinton Inauguration. I no longer play piano or tambourine but she was my inspiration to learn both. And I am very proud of that fact. Watching her play piano on the tv show 20/20 in 1980 was awesome. To this day even if I tried I could still never imitate her witchy sounding style on SOTM.

[David]

Originally Posted by vivfox

You've been very anti SN lately and frankly that frightens me a little bit. LOL. But in all fairness IMO she played tambo and other percussion instruments perfectly on all the videos I have seen of her from 1975 -1982.

I like her guiro work on Rosebud, but her cowbell on “Tusk” didn’t add much. Thoughts on her tambourine shaking on “Ebony Eyes”? Pretty good, no?

Watching her play piano on the tv show 20/20 in 1980 was awesome. To this day even if I tried I could still never imitate her witchy sounding style on SOTM.

If we should ever find ourselves in the same room at the same time, I’ll show you how it’s done.

Still baffling to me is why she played a little guitar in rehearsal in 1979 after her try at it in 1977 didn’t convince the others.

Check out this pretty “Save Me a Place” cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI34ULobYZs

[David]

Originally Posted by jmn3

But there was no way anyone was seriously going to take the song out on the road with her playing it. I’m not saying she was ever going to be Nancy Wilson wielding that acoustic around the stage like a dynamo, but I think her career would’ve taken a far more interesting path if she had spent any time learning how to play a guitar or piano with even some Credibility.

There’s the famous mid-70s tour rehearsal picture of Stevie with a guitar (which first ran in Newsweek, I guess) and also the picture from the 1979 tour rehearsal in the People cover story of November 1979 (probably playing “Save Me a Place” with Christine and Lindsey also on acoustic).

She just did not have the chops to play seriously in front of a paying audience (for show, she used to play the electric piano on “Rhiannon” for thirty seconds on the 1983 solo tour). Wasn’t it some print interview where Christine said that Stevie should have built her chops and played onstage just to be thought of as “one of the musicians”? Stevie had every opportunity to do so in a fifty-year career and chose not to. (We know why: it doesn’t look alluring for the Welsh witch to have a guitar strapped around her shoulders. It restricts her flowing movements.) Her guitar playing is OK for someone’s living room (that may be her playing on one of her demos on the Enchanted box set), but her piano playing shouldn’t be foisted on any paying customer — except in a decorative context (where she puts candles on a grand piano and bangs out “Dreams” or “Gypsy”). She is practically hopeless on an instrument. Her voice is her instrument (and a good one it is).

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