Christine played guitar live??

[louielouie2000]

So how have I never heard that Christine played guitar live, or at all? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Pe9...eature=related
I just LOVE this song live! It's gorgeous! The harmonies just give me chills. I wish I had a better quality version of it!

[Zombie]

Yeah, I wish the audio was better, too. Here's her playing guitar during Tusk rehearsals on "The Ledge," too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNanT533pQ0

[GoS]

Has Stevie ever played a real instrument live?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by GoS

Has Stevie ever played a real instrument live?

You mean at a regular concert and not Storytellers or something?

I remember when Chris said she thought it would be cool if Stevie played guitar on stage. Stevie said that there would be no point, because she'd be playing for show, not because she was good and Lindsey would just be yelling at her that she was out of tune and she said that was the last thing she needed.

Michele

[AliceLover]

Stevie was suppose to play acoustic guitar on Go Your Own Way on the rumours tour, but she couldn't do it and stormed off.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Stevie was suppose to play acoustic guitar on Go Your Own Way on the rumours tour, but she couldn't do it and stormed off.

I'm kinda glad she didn't. Seeing her hold a big clunky guitar would have spoiled her whole mystical allure . She would have had to bobby pin back her batwing sleeves and shawls, so they wouldn't get caught in the guitar strings .

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by GoS

Has Stevie ever played a real instrument live?

I think you have just deeply offended tambourine players everywhere...

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I think you have just deeply offended tambourine players everywhere...

And don't forget that little wooden thing with a stick she played too!

[Sanne2]

Not sure if this was a rehearsal or something....

[David]

Originally Posted by GoS

Has Stevie ever played a real instrument live?

She played thirty seconds on the Fender Rhodes in the last few months of her 1983 solo tour. But the rest of the band didn't play with her.

I know it's hard for the lads & lasses to accept, but she really doesn't play well enough -- on anything -- to play live with a band. There's just no point in her doing so. She knows it, her fellow musicians know it (Christine was being wry), & I assume many in the audience know it.

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by David

I know it's hard for the lads & lasses to accept, but she really doesn't play well enough -- on anything -- to play live with a band. There's just no point in her doing so. She knows it, her fellow musicians know it (Christine was being wry), & I assume many in the audience know it.

Yeah, but surely she could have handled three chords on some of the songs. Obviously she can strum a guitar and if she had played every night, even doing something simple, she's probably be pretty decent by now. That's one thing I've always found disappointing about Stevie that she never really tried at all to become a better musician. It seems lazy when you consider that it would have no doubt improved her songcraft.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Yeah, but surely she could have handled three chords on some of the songs. Obviously she can strum a guitar and if she had played every night, even doing something simple, she's probably be pretty decent by now. That's one thing I've always found disappointing about Stevie that she never really tried at all to become a better musician. It seems lazy when you consider that it would have no doubt improved her songcraft.

no joke. neil young, for instance, is not a "great" guitarist, but at least he knows more than 5 chords and has written some pretty amazing songs, in part because of his playing abilities.

[David]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Yeah, but surely she could have handled three chords on some of the songs.

Well, ok, but handling three chords is about 10 percent of the job. It's a lot easier to sit in your living room & strum your guitar than it is to play onstage surrounded by a band & amplifiers & monitors & an audience & all the accompanying confusion. Knowing some guitar chords is the tip of the iceberg of being a performing musician. You're responsible for being able to "keep up" with your entire band & having to make spontaneous & immediate judgments about subtly changing tempi & dynamics, being in the rhythm "pocket," & making all those adjustments you have to make based on not just what you hear but what you see. It's pretty tough if you're not used to it. At the Mac concert in Inglewood way back in the early '80s when the video was shot, the band started "Oh Well" on two or three different railroad tracks, & Mick jumped from one track to the other on his congas. Lindsey & John & even Christine on maracas all got back on within seconds. They all knew what they were doing & how to fix problems that happen onstage. They all know how to deal with feedback as instrumentalists or with other aspects of rotten sound. Stevie just doesn't have that experience or those gifts. The others can keep damage to just track turbulence, but she'd have completely wrecked or hit the snowdrift.

Obviously she can strum a guitar and if she had played every night, even doing something simple, she's probably be pretty decent by now.

I guess I could agree with that. If she'd been playing guitar onstage all these decades regularly, we could talk about her as an instrumentalist in addition to a vocalist.

That's one thing I've always found disappointing about Stevie that she never really tried at all to become a better musician.

I've always been puzzled by the fact that her piano playing shows no evolution or improvement from one eon to another. I teach piano lessons & have never seen this phenomenon in anyone else, or heard about it in anyone else. It just might be an anthropological first!

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

So how have I never heard that Christine played guitar live, or at all? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Pe9...eature=related
I just LOVE this song live! It's gorgeous! The harmonies just give me chills. I wish I had a better quality version of it!

She was the bass player in one of her first bands back before Chicken Shack, so (as she says on In The Meantime) "anything is possible".

[nicepace]

Originally Posted by chiliD

She was the bass player in one of her first bands back before Chicken Shack, so (as she says on In The Meantime) "anything is possible".

That's an interesting bit of musical history.

What was the name of the band? Do any pictures exist? Do any audio clips exist?

Christine is simply an amazing musician. I think she'd be able to play anything she put her mind to.