Best version of Rhiannon

[Gazza]

What's the best live version of Rhiannon that you know of? Where Stevie's vocals and Lindsey's guitar solo are just perfection for you?

[skcin]

Pretty much any performance from 1975/76 is excellent, IMO. I'm also a huge fan of the version on the Mirage Concert Video from 1982. As far as this tour goes, some shows seemed better than others; I like the Buffalo show & the Hershey shows best, I think, along with LIB.

Paula

[dissention]

My favorite is form the Live album. I loooooooooooooooover that one.

I really don't like the early versions very much, it's more screaming than singing.

And I really love the Live In Boston one, too.

[Sugar]

I never got why so many people like the Mirage video one. Her voice just sounds AWFUL! And the way she turns around at the end and just wraps herself in her shawl always makes me think that she knows it!

Ironically, I love what Lindsey's doing on that version, though...

Right now I'm really digging the version from LA Aug 29-30 (at least that's how I have it marked ) 1977. I guess she was turning it on for LA! I love at the end when she just screams, "DREAMER...DREAMER...DREAMER"

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Sugar

I never got why so many people like the Mirage video one. Her voice just sounds AWFUL! And the way she turns around at the end and just wraps herself in her shawl always makes me think that she knows it!

She sounds terrible on EVERY song. Gypsy is mind-boggling bad.

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by dissention

She sounds terrible on EVERY song. Gypsy is mind-boggling bad.

VERY true. But I like what she does on "The Chain" and GYOW and EOTW. And I have to admit that it IS my favorite version of SOTM. But yeah...that's about it...

[David]

Originally Posted by dissention

She sounds terrible on EVERY song. Gypsy is mind-boggling bad.

I thought Stevie's frayed vocals on that tour constitute, to this day, the most poignant live singing she's ever done. I remember how touched I was hearing it in person. It was a Stevie that, up until that time, I hadn't really known existed.

[skcin]

Originally Posted by Sugar

I never got why so many people like the Mirage video one. Her voice just sounds AWFUL! And the way she turns around at the end and just wraps herself in her shawl always makes me think that she knows it!

I think the "I don't change, you don't change..." lines do it for me.

Paula

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by skcin

I think the "I don't change, you don't change..." lines do it for me.

Paula

Probably the best part...But when she starts to belt out the "Dreams unwind/ still it's a state of mind" bit right before that...OI! I just want to run up to her with a cup of hot tea and lemon and say, "Drink, baby...just drink."

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by dissention

My favorite is from the Live album. I loooooooooooooooover that one.

I really don't like the early versions very much, it's more screaming than singing.

And I really love the Live In Boston one, too.

Wow. I agree 100%.


-Curt

[David]

Originally Posted by Gazza

What's the best live version of Rhiannon that you know of?

Tough question, but I usually think of a show in Irvine CA back in 1982 as being a genuine favorite of mine. I also love the spacy, languid Rhiannons of the 1978 tour, & the stretched-out forays into the Amerindian nether from the late Tusk Tour.

Someone else in the thread mentioned a December 1990 performance, & I nearly swallowed my tongue. To me, that must rank with the rankest of all time. If that aural & visual image were all I knew of Stevie Nicks, she'd be one of my most hated pop singers of all time.