Landslide Oakland 1990

[David]

Originally Posted by skcin

To those who were fans at that time - was it fake & weird & did you just want to roll your eyes? Or was it actually sweet & sincere & exciting for you all that LB did this brief appearance with Mac again? Maybe I'm forming this opinion because I'm a "Dancer?"

Hi, Paula. I attended the Oakland Arena show (but not the Forum show the night after, where they did the exact same thing). Yes, I thought it was all weird & disconcerting for exactly the reasons that you mentioned. Things loosened up a little later on when Lindsey showed up for Go Your Own Way & Tear It Up, but probably because the focus was taken off the Lindsey/Stevie dynamic (although she continued to ignore him during those songs too).

Part of her problem, which manifests itself so blatantly during Landslide, was that she was basically a wreck at this point in the tour. So it wasn't just Lindsey on the last two nights with whom she had a weird vibe. She had been distant & out of it for at least a couple of months on this leg of the tour. She didn't really interact with anyone on that stage -- or only in the dullest, most predictable, most robotic ways.

It's a shame she couldn't snap out of it for just that once or twice when Lindsey appeared with them. But she couldn't.

No doubt at that point he was thinking, "Well, I did that. There isn't any point in my doing anything more with them because we just don't click anymore & they aren't doing anything interesting onstage, as far as I'm concerned, so I wish them all well & I'm outta here." And sure enough he was outta there, his decision to leave three years earlier probably more than validated in his mind.

Incidentally, to my ears, Christine got the majority of the audience response & applause that show in Oakland, not Madame Nicks. That was cool!