Who is going to Jiffy Lube in VA?

[SandyMac]

My video of Rhiannon. Stevie was on FIRE!

[SandyMac]

I am going to try if I can use some editing software to split these two songs up and re-post as separate songs. (Landslide/Ghosts are Gone)
Had to record Landslide because it was dedicated to Sandra and that is as close to a Stevie dedication I will ever get (since my full first name is Sandra too)


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[LilyRose]

Originally Posted by SandyMac

My video of Rhiannon. Stevie was on FIRE!

Great videos, Sandy! And I loved the FWIW speech. She's so precious!

[Travis]

My cell phone never seems to take great pics but, here is one I took during the Edge walk ...

[fairydust75]

I already posted my Bristow concert review but I just thought of one more thing. Didin't someone on this board say something like they wished the bus in the For What Its Worth video would stop and pick them up? Stevie said she recently got a fan letter stating that same thing. Someone in Stevie's camp must be checking out our forum. What ya think?

[LilyRose]

Originally Posted by fairydust75

I already posted my Bristow concert review but I just thought of one more thing. Didin't someone on this board say something like they wished the bus in the For What Its Worth video would stop and pick them up? Stevie said she recently got a fan letter stating that same thing. Someone in Stevie's camp must be checking out our forum. What ya think?

I've seen several people say that, including myself on Twitter. Lol! What I want to know is where are people sending fan letters?? With Twitter and Facebook I forgot that people actually send in letters. But it's sweet that she's actually reading them. I wish her people would check her "official" Twitter account more often.

[Livia]

Stevie Nicks, in her first D.C.-area solo concert since the 2006 “Gold Dust Tour,” played Jiffy Lube (formerly Nissan) in a Live Nation-backed concert Saturday night that found the beguiling singer/songwriter lavishly showcasing her new album but also parsing her set list with plenty of hits to mostly keep everyone happy.

Copies of the set list floating through the crowd before the show — as well as reviews from other stops on the current “In Your Dreams Tour” — were a tad misleading. While Nicks technically only sang 14 songs (six from the new record), it didn’t feel as skimpy as it looked on paper. With several anecdotes peppered throughout, two lengthy solos (one keyboard, another percussion) and a few lengthy outros that gave the band time to jam while Nicks changed clothes, it felt pretty robust, clocking in at nearly two hours. With Nicks’ impressive discography, both solo material and her decades of work in Fleetwood Mac, I’d hoped she’d slip in a few more songs but the evening admittedly had a nice flow. She never seemed rushed, never plowing through her set like she was crossing off a grocery list.

The evening’s most pleasant surprises were twofold: first, the proximity to Walter Reed nearly choked Nicks up as she introduced the jangly, sparse “Soldier’s Angel,” an ode to the troops that, despite its faithful live rendering, worked better live than it does on the album. Second, Nicks’ vocals were astoundingly sturdy. She didn’t wail and tear it up like she did in the old days, but there was a strength and shimmer to them I’d never heard before. She was aware of it too and credited vocal coach Steve Real, with whom she duetted on “Leather and Lace,” with the improvement. You never expect bell-like clarity from Nicks — the sandy patches in her timbre are a big part of her calling card — but she’s still finding largely untapped wells of reserve in her instrument in her fourth decade of performing. Pretty amazing. It was most noticeable on long, climactic notes on “Moonlight,” chestnut “Landslide” and show closer “Love Is.” The only disappointment is that she and cohort Dave Stewart didn’t capture more of it on the new album, where it’s only hinted at.

The new cuts — she’d been out of the studio for nearly a decade — stood up surprisingly well to her classic cuts. She also seemed to genuinely enjoy herself. At times she defers too much to Mac-mate Lindsey Buckingham when they perform together and can come off nearly catatonic compared to his wild man stage antics, but Saturday night she helmed her tight, nine-piece band in a sizzling, exquisitely paced show.

Stevie’s set:
1. Stand Back
2. Secret Love
3. Dreams
4. Moonlight
5. Gold Dust Woman
6. Soldier’s Angel
7. Annabel Lee
8. For What It’s Worth
* piano interlude
9. Rhiannon
10. Landslide
11. Ghosts Are Gone
* band intros
12. Leather and Lace
* percussion solo
13. Edge of 17
14. Love Is (encore)

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/...rea-solo-stop/

[mlourimore]

I saw this show and Toledo and she was fabulous. Not sure if anyone saw the stuffed cockatoo that I was able to give to her during the edge walk - it was just like the bird on the cover of Bella Donna - she said thank you when she took it from me.

[michelej1]

Guitar International
http://guitarinternational.com/2011/...-mac-classics/




By Graham Binder
Photos by Sherree Wolfman


Stevie Nicks, Live in Virginia
Few artists bring back fine memories of days gone by coupled with new songs that keep shows edgy and lively. Enter Stevie Nicks, the legendary songwriter and vocalist with Fleetwood Mac and a major solo artist in her own right who put on a fine Saturday night show for her fans at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia on September 3, 2011.

Anyone who’s been to Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, for a concert has run through a gamut of challenges. The venue is a long haul from civilization, parking can be a nightmare and visitors are funneled from a major D.C. area highway into a squeeze play of bumper-to-bumper traffic. There’s also the recent new policy that’s abolished tailgating…a favorite past time of concertgoers and one that’s prompted a protest by Parrot Heads to steer clear of the place.

As frustrating as those things can be, when Nicks took the stage around 9:00 p.m. at the cavernous venue, everything was forgiven and the spotlight was laser focused on Stevie and her band. Clad in her signature witchy-gothic black lace dress and a fetching bright red shawl, she owned the night.

Opening the show with “Stand Back,” Stevie’s hit from her 1983 album, The Wild, which was clearly designed to get the crowd up and dancing and offered relief after a forgettable performance from Michael Grimm, a popular swamp rocker who took home the America’s Got Talent crown in 2010. From then on, her performance sustained a series of lulls and peaks, the peaks thundering down with fire and lightning emergent from four epic Fleetwood Mac songs in “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman,” “Rhiannon,” and “Edge of Seventeen (White Winged Dove).” Her band was tight and emotionally tethered to Nicks as she had her way with the crowd, although the Fleetwood Mac songs were extended with instrumental intros and outros that seemed to distract from and marginalize their original brilliance.

A crowd favorite, “Landslide,” was moving and all the more so when Nicks offered that it was her father’s favorite song.

The Grammy Award-winner and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee was keen on showing off some if her new stuff, featuring several tracks off her 2011 album, In Your Dreams (Reprise). Melodic and centered by her narrative style, the songs work their magic with her steel-trap vocals that always reach for the universal while evoking the particular theme of an underdog or a woman who finds herself wrapped in romantic complexities. But, it was mostly her emotive displays of love and affection for each band member that drew us all into her orbit. And as expected, the classic Fleetwood Mac songs more than held their ground given the polished quality of the performances. Stevie’s captivating persona and her fine performances gifted the venue with her legendary style and grace, keeping her already devoted fans engaged throughout the night.