12 songs only. Any version of the band to take with you…..

[David]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

My friend, in Palm Springs, loves Goat (the most out of the 5). He's more of a casual fan. His one complaint is that she talks too much! Maybe it's just her diehard worshippers that like the bloviating and her public admiration of herself.

Timeout for Old Memories:

When Stevie played the Forum in October 1983, she was (natch) as high as a kite all evening long — was totally on point with her singing but could not stop chattering between songs and even over the intros to songs. It was like watching someone with hypomania.

Before “If Anyone Falls,” Lori Perry actually (kind of teasingly) said, “All RIGHT. Shut up!” It was funny and everyone was having a good time, but both the fans and the band were getting antsy with her nonstop, very rapid chatter. I found it invigorating, despite the airheaded things she was saying.

I grabbed my old audio of it and uploaded here. Sorry for the awful quality.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by David

Timeout for Old Memories:

When Stevie played the Forum in October 1983, she was (natch) as high as a kite all evening long — was totally on point with her singing but could not stop chattering between songs and even over the intros to songs. It was like watching someone with hypomania.

Before “If Anyone Falls,” Lori Perry actually (kind of teasingly) said, “All RIGHT. Shut up!” It was funny and everyone was having a good time, but both the fans and the band were getting antsy with her nonstop, very rapid chatter. I found it invigorating, despite the airheaded things she was saying.

I grabbed my old audio of it and uploaded here. Sorry for the awful quality.

I would have given anything to be at this show!! I was a total fanboy back then. I probably would have drooled at everything. (Admittedly)

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I would have given anything to be at this show!! I was a total fanboy back then. I probably would have drooled at everything. (Admittedly)

Lol the band just starting the song while she was about to restart rambling is priceless. Like the music playing at the Academy Awards during a long speech 🤣

[David]

Originally Posted by jmn3

Lol the band just starting the song while she was about to restart rambling is priceless. Like the music playing at the Academy Awards during a long speech ��

Her band intro from that night was surprisingly coherent.

Toward the end of the evening, she let loose with my favorite “How Still My Love” I can ever remember hearing, with Waddy adding jagged guitar and getting it cooked.

Sorry again about the far-from-great audio, but here’s a little factoid about the person holding the recording device — it was Toni Graphia, who became the executive producer of Outlander on cable. She is a huge Stevie Nicks fan. I told her to CHECK THE BATTERIES before the concert started, and she did not — so the batteries were actually dying while we were recording. After the concert, Hollywood partied with the rock and roll elite at the underground Supper Club at the Forum. In those days, Stan Lynch and Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench partied plenty with the Nicks circus, so don’t let them pretend otherwise.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by David

Her band intro from that night was surprisingly coherent.

Toward the end of the evening, she let loose with my favorite “How Still My Love” I can ever remember hearing, with Waddy adding jagged guitar and getting it cooked.

Sorry again about the far-from-great audio, but here’s a little factoid about the person holding the recording device — it was Toni Graphia, who became the executive producer of Outlander on cable. She is a huge Stevie Nicks fan. I told her to CHECK THE BATTERIES before the concert started, and she did not — so the batteries were actually dying while we were recording. After the concert, Hollywood partied with the rock and roll elite at the underground Supper Club at the Forum. In those days, Stan Lynch and Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench partied plenty with the Nicks circus, so don’t let them pretend otherwise.

Those are great quality David. She stayed at the mic the entire How Still My Love cackling like a wounded lamb. Usually on the tour she was so high she preferred to dance the last minutes of How Still My Love. She had the craziest dances. In Pittsburgh she made the ok sign with each hand and put them reverse over her eyes. But this night she wailed and cackled to the end.

My favorite Wild Heart clip. Cleveland OH, July 1983. Her dance at the end of How Still My Love is so awesome clapping off beat and high as a kite. Running in place at the mic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if0lkSZM8Ag

[Straightback]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Those are great quality David. She stayed at the mic the entire How Still My Love cackling like a wounded lamb. Usually on the tour she was so high she preferred to dance the last minutes of How Still My Love. She had the craziest dances. In Pittsburgh she made the ok sign with each hand and put them reverse over her eyes. But this night she wailed and cackled to the end.

My favorite Wild Heart clip. Cleveland OH, July 1983. Her dance at the end of How Still My Love is so awesome clapping off beat and high as a kite. Running in place at the mic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if0lkSZM8Ag

I miss the days of fun Stevie!

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Straightback

I miss the days of fun Stevie!

Then you'd better invent a time machine, because that ship sailed so many decades ago!

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Straightback

I miss the days of fun Stevie!

They were definitely fun and wild days back then. There used to be an old thread of all the crazy stuff she did or said on the Wild Heart tour. I noticed that Stevie would introduce her band at different times in the set over the Wild Heart tour. I once read that it was fairly common for her to miss a bandmember during introductions. I would love to talk to a former bandmate about how unexpected she would be. For example I was listening to the Pittsburgh show the other night and when she goes to introduce her bass player Wizard, he's not on stage. She has to bypass him and finally introduces him at the end. I suppose Wizard needed a bump or took an unexpected bathroom break However nothing beats her selling Sharon at the US Festival. "She can be yours for $25,000." WTF?

In 1983 my local paper had a write up review of the Wild Heart show. Its said that Stevie relied too much on her sex appeal to carry the show and that her band seemed as confused as she was and the concert was like a "What ever happened to Stevie game show" since she was backstage so much. I thought that review was harsh. But looking back it makes sense. Stevie had incredible talent and she was beautiful so she could get away with that strange behavior on stage. Imagine a 300 pound woman acting the same way. She would be laughed off the stage with speaking in tongues because she is trying to convey 4 thoughts at once. But the magical fairy tale world Stevie created allowed her to escape that harsh criticism. It was all part of the fairy tale persona she created. She was beautiful and hot so it was her being her. She still could sing. By the time her next solo tour rolled along 3 years later the wheels started coming off. Her voice was gone, she gained weight and was losing control completely.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by David

Timeout for Old Memories:


I grabbed my old audio of it and uploaded here. Sorry for the awful quality.

Wow, she added a lot of energy to this song. I loved her belting back then. Still love it (in this era)...

In the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack of your mind!!!

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Wow, she added a lot of energy to this song. I loved her belting back then. Still love it (in this era)...

In the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack of your mind!!!

I try to remember these people are old now but this is what lacks in live performances today. Not just Stevie, and not just the old farts either…so much is preprogrammed and over rehearsed that you miss all of the spontaneity that used to slip into live performances. Stevie’s randomly odd vocal inflections, wails, and woahs used to add a lot to the performance. Today you’d be lucky to get a random “well”

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jmn3

I try to remember these people are old now but this is what lacks in live performances today. Not just Stevie, and not just the old farts either…so much is preprogrammed and over rehearsed that you miss all of the spontaneity that used to slip into live performances. Stevie’s randomly odd vocal inflections, wails, and woahs used to add a lot to the performance. Today you’d be lucky to get a random “well”

When you start playing with tracks, SPONTANEITY IS OVER. You can't really improvise, or let the song breathe... tracks were the end of live bands being great.

But hey, we kinda sound like the record now!

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

When you start playing with tracks, SPONTANEITY IS OVER. You can't really improvise, or let the song breathe... tracks were the end of live bands being great.

But hey, we kinda sound like the record now!

Especially as a band. Because now you're just memorizing instead of playing off someone else. (who's also memorizing in today's world).

The amounts of improv that Mick, Lindsey, and Christine, (and even John sometimes) played back in the day make those performances priceless.
How the hell do you expect to stay fresh?

[DownOnRodeo]

Originally Posted by David

I grabbed my old audio of it and uploaded here. Sorry for the awful quality.

Good lord she's speaking in tongues.

Haha, yes jmn3. So true.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by David

Timeout for Old Memories:

When Stevie played the Forum in October 1983, she was (natch) as high as a kite all evening long — was totally on point with her singing but could not stop chattering between songs and even over the intros to songs. It was like watching someone with hypomania.

Before “If Anyone Falls,” Lori Perry actually (kind of teasingly) said, “All RIGHT. Shut up!” It was funny and everyone was having a good time, but both the fans and the band were getting antsy with her nonstop, very rapid chatter. I found it invigorating, despite the airheaded things she was saying.

I grabbed my old audio of it and uploaded here. Sorry for the awful quality.

Wow that audio is really good!

I would love to talk to her band off the record and the challenges they faced with her behavior during that tour. In Largo during If Anyone Falls she tells the crowd "they just play until I start" meaning she is not going to start singing when she's supposed to start singing.

In Cuyahoga Falls, OH during How Still My Love right before the second verse she goes and into the audience for a hat that she puts on her head. Her band actually slows the beat a tad so she can make it back to the microphone on time to start the second verse.

They were improvising every night it seems.