Woodlands Pavillion, Texas 8/13

[PastelGravel]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Me too. I can dance at home. I can party at home. At the concert is the only place I can hope to actually see the performer and that's what I try to do.

Michele

I need you sitting in front of me at shows, we'd get along just fine

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Brad

After GDW she talked for a couple of minutes about Amy Winehouse. She said something to the effect of "the part at the end with the 'baby, baby, baby you can't see me, you can't feel me, you can't save me'...I feel like nobody saw Amy Winehouse," and she talked about how sad it was that nobody "saw" her, etc. It was a nice moment.

Brad

Yeah, that was unexpected. There was something different about Stevie's GDW performance last night too, during that part - like she was in her own little timespace...

I've been checking youtube for vids - nothing decent yet, except this highlight clip that the Pavilion filmed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngGzIP2s-I

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by Livia

Yeah, that was unexpected. There was something different about Stevie's GDW performance last night too, during that part - like she was in her own little timespace...

I've been checking youtube for vids - nothing decent yet, except this highlight clip that the Pavilion filmed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngGzIP2s-I

Thanks for the review Livia. And I would just like to add that I LOVE the "baby,baby, baby, baby, you can't feel me now" ending to GDW. Has she been doing this since Soundstage or did it start before? Did you get to talk to Stevie during the Edge walk?

[Livia]

She started the "baby, baby" thing on the Crystal Visions tour, so yeah, that would be Soundstage.

I think I just blurted to her something like, "I love the new album, I love you, and thank you for doing so many of the new songs." I have no idea if she heard me. LOL But she was looking right at me, nodded, smiled, and then went on down the line...

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by Livia

She started the "baby, baby" thing on the Crystal Visions tour, so yeah, that would be Soundstage.

I think I just blurted to her something like, "I love the new album, I love you, and thank you for doing so many of the new songs." I have no idea if she heard me. LOL But she was looking right at me, nodded, smiled, and then went on down the line...

Yeah, the amount of new songs on this tour is quite a treat. I am hoping beyond hope that she comes to FL soon. Anywhere in this state and I'm there ("cos I care"...). I was worried about cancellations and/or delays, so I didn't consider Atlanta. Good thing I guess!

[Livia]

I don't know what is about the Woodlands Pavilion, but I ALWAYS have a good time there, lots and lots of memories...last night was a little bittersweet since I was missing Brucie and it was my first time at the Woodlands without him. I thought I'd cry, but I guess I got that all out of my system at the Wiltern show.

They did have the AC cranked in the pit - it pretty much hit you in the face while walking down the aisle to get to the pit - a cold rush. My hair is pretty long now and I thought it would end up in a hair clip to get it off my neck , but I was okay.

Good luck w/ FL. But you might want to consider ATL just in case. Maybe they'll reschedule it for a weekend night once this is all sorted out.

[Livia]

Great pics at the link - including red shawl...

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/..._woods_mit.php

Last Night
Saturday Night: Stevie Nicks At The Woodlands
By Chris Gray Mon., Aug. 15 2011 at 6:00 PM

Stevie Nicks
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 13, 2011

Aftermath can't help but wonder if the people who think Stevie Nicks is some kind of wand-waving white-witch faerie queen have paid much attention to anything she's done besides "Rihannon." Not that Nicks didn't give those Woodlands creatures what they wanted Saturday; we were just a wee bit surprised at what else she gave them.

To bend the title of one of her albums, Nicks didn't rock a little Saturday; she rocked a lot.

​Nicks is not going to make Lita Ford or Joan Jett (and probably not even Pat Benatar) cast any defensive spells around their amplifiers. Probably. But "Stand Back," a wicked wind-machine workout of an opener, and the new "Ghosts are Gone" had a much sharper hard-rock edge to them than we expected, like Nicks was hiding razor-blade fingernails in her fingerless gloves.

Truthfully, Nicks - blonde, beskirted and bewitching as ever at 63 - needed no other talisman than Waddy Wachtel, longtime L.A. session guru and Keith Richards' onetime co-pirate in the X-Pensive Winos. The white-haired guitar warlock on Nicks' sinister side (to those of us in the audience) lent a touch of Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper, never more than on the extended introduction/incantation to "Edge of Seventeen" that threatened to fan up some bubbly Deep Purple smoke on the water.

But Wachtel also had the possibly thankless task of tolling up the stark electric chords to accompany "Soldier's Angel," the song from Nicks' new album In My Dreams she wrote after a visit to Walter Reed hospital - including an up-close MASH-unit encounter on the way out that left her visibly shaken, even Saturday - during which she shapeshifts from angel to widow to mother to nurse.The other spellbinding moment Saturday was "Gold Dust Woman." Wachtel conjured psychedelic L.A. flesh memories from Morrison Hotel and Love's Forever Changes, as Nicks spun her golden shawl-clad self into spasms of interpretive dance as she spun the song said to feature a woman sobbing as one of its multitude of tracks into a stream-of-consciousness meditation on the fate of Amy Winehouse.

"People didn't see her," Nicks said after several minutes of incantation-like lyrics that were nearly lifted word for word from The Who's "Tommy."

The rest of the evening was more standard Stevie, less gripping but no less enchanting. She is forever the cool rock and roll aunt who, as long as you don't spill your apple juice on her shawl, will tell you tales of woodland nymphs, players who only love you when they're playing, and vampires in the moonlight until well after the witching hour.

But was that a hint of a fang in her smile? Only Stevie Nicks knows for sure.

Personal Bias: Aftermath saw the final Harry Potter movie weekend before last and is now re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Again. We suspect it may be affecting our work.

The Crowd: About 75 percent female and over 40; 100 percent devoted.

Overheard In the Crowd: "I love you, Stevie!" "Get in line!" - between-song dialogue between two dudebrahs in our row.

Random Notebook Dump: Um... we thought she'd be taller? Sorry, didn't really take a lot of notes at this one.

​SET LIST

Stand Back
Secret Love
Dreams
Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
Gold Dust Woman
Soldier's Angel
Annabel Lee
For What It's Worth
Rihannon
Landslide
Ghosts Are Gone
Leather and Lace
Edge of Seventeen

ENCORE

Love Is

[BrownEyedGirl26]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

FINALLY!!!! The day has finally come! I am SOOOOOOOO pleased that Sorcerer is dropped. Maybe she will put IYD back in?

I love Sorcerer because she sings it with such intensity! It is fun singing this with her while she is looking at you!

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedGirl26

I love Sorcerer because she sings it with such intensity! It is fun singing this with her while she is looking at you!

I didn't love it on past tours, though it's my favorite on that album, but I thought it sounded great on the current tour.

- Jake

[badanimals87]

Originally Posted by Livia

She started the "baby, baby" thing on the Crystal Visions tour, so yeah, that would be Soundstage.

I think I just blurted to her something like, "I love the new album, I love you, and thank you for doing so many of the new songs." I have no idea if she heard me. LOL But she was looking right at me, nodded, smiled, and then went on down the line...

She actually started the "baby baby" thing during the Dreams showcase in May '05 in Vegas. I personally really like the Street Angel tour performances where she screamed "she don't wanna hear about it!!!!! or I don't wanna hear about it...you better try harder!!!"

Jones Beach '94
http://youtu.be/6NzHReBfTWI?t=6m4s

[SummerlongBoots]

Thanks for posting this!

Originally Posted by Livia

Great pics at the link - including red shawl...

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/..._woods_mit.php

Last Night
Saturday Night: Stevie Nicks At The Woodlands
By Chris Gray Mon., Aug. 15 2011 at 6:00 PM

Stevie Nicks
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 13, 2011

Aftermath can't help but wonder if the people who think Stevie Nicks is some kind of wand-waving white-witch faerie queen have paid much attention to anything she's done besides "Rihannon." Not that Nicks didn't give those Woodlands creatures what they wanted Saturday; we were just a wee bit surprised at what else she gave them.

To bend the title of one of her albums, Nicks didn't rock a little Saturday; she rocked a lot.

​Nicks is not going to make Lita Ford or Joan Jett (and probably not even Pat Benatar) cast any defensive spells around their amplifiers. Probably. But "Stand Back," a wicked wind-machine workout of an opener, and the new "Ghosts are Gone" had a much sharper hard-rock edge to them than we expected, like Nicks was hiding razor-blade fingernails in her fingerless gloves.

Truthfully, Nicks - blonde, beskirted and bewitching as ever at 63 - needed no other talisman than Waddy Wachtel, longtime L.A. session guru and Keith Richards' onetime co-pirate in the X-Pensive Winos. The white-haired guitar warlock on Nicks' sinister side (to those of us in the audience) lent a touch of Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper, never more than on the extended introduction/incantation to "Edge of Seventeen" that threatened to fan up some bubbly Deep Purple smoke on the water.

But Wachtel also had the possibly thankless task of tolling up the stark electric chords to accompany "Soldier's Angel," the song from Nicks' new album In My Dreams she wrote after a visit to Walter Reed hospital - including an up-close MASH-unit encounter on the way out that left her visibly shaken, even Saturday - during which she shapeshifts from angel to widow to mother to nurse.The other spellbinding moment Saturday was "Gold Dust Woman." Wachtel conjured psychedelic L.A. flesh memories from Morrison Hotel and Love's Forever Changes, as Nicks spun her golden shawl-clad self into spasms of interpretive dance as she spun the song said to feature a woman sobbing as one of its multitude of tracks into a stream-of-consciousness meditation on the fate of Amy Winehouse.

"People didn't see her," Nicks said after several minutes of incantation-like lyrics that were nearly lifted word for word from The Who's "Tommy."

The rest of the evening was more standard Stevie, less gripping but no less enchanting. She is forever the cool rock and roll aunt who, as long as you don't spill your apple juice on her shawl, will tell you tales of woodland nymphs, players who only love you when they're playing, and vampires in the moonlight until well after the witching hour.

But was that a hint of a fang in her smile? Only Stevie Nicks knows for sure.

Personal Bias: Aftermath saw the final Harry Potter movie weekend before last and is now re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Again. We suspect it may be affecting our work.

The Crowd: About 75 percent female and over 40; 100 percent devoted.

Overheard In the Crowd: "I love you, Stevie!" "Get in line!" - between-song dialogue between two dudebrahs in our row.

Random Notebook Dump: Um... we thought she'd be taller? Sorry, didn't really take a lot of notes at this one.

​SET LIST

Stand Back
Secret Love
Dreams
Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
Gold Dust Woman
Soldier's Angel
Annabel Lee
For What It's Worth
Rihannon
Landslide
Ghosts Are Gone
Leather and Lace
Edge of Seventeen

ENCORE

Love Is