Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks and the Heartbreakers

[Hawkeye]

I copied and pasted this from what I wrote in the article on tom thread, but feel it deserves its own seperate thread.

This article reminds myself of an idea I've had in my head for awhile as a somewhat dream scenerio:

Stevie and Tom go on tour together, but not performing one after the other (with Stevie the opener) But basically Stevie getting her wish from back in the late 70's and she'd actually BE one of the heartbreakers. And the tour would be billed Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks and the heartbreakers. they call her an honary member. Shes the only girl in the band, so lets make that girl work. They basically did what I'm saying on a smaller scale in 06. But in this new scenerio she wouldn't be a speradic special guest. It wouldn't be a suprise and she'd be there the whole time next to Tom. Shed leave frequently as she does in Fleetwood Mac and Tom would be the focus of the show still. But I, and I know Stevie as well would have zero problem with that.

Tom usually does an 18 song set now but I feel he could go longer if Stevie is sharing vocals. And stevie usually does 15 but can do 20's if shes not the sole vocalist. So lets go 22 songs. Stevie could be the lead vocalist on lets say 8-10 of those songs. SDMHA and I Need To Know are givens but dont forget the heartbreakers played on Outside the Rain originally, maybe thats included. Maybe they do I Will Run to you. I would imagine Tom would allow any of her songs that would fit in with a heartbreakers set. I think Stand Back is a definite no (no tears here) But now that we know Stevie can play an abreviated Edge, she'd be able to play her most well known and rocking solo hit. The final 2 songs of the main set would be Edge then Refugee. And in my mind (remember this is all complete fantasy, it doesn't have to be possible since they already have non stevie plans booked) This super tour was taking place this summer taking the place of Stevie's next leg of the IYD tour, So I'd hope the band let her make half of her 8 songs from IYD. FWIW is a given if this tour existed. I feel the band would LOVE to play Ghosts are Gone and Tom can duet on Soldiers Angel.

But the absolute #1 thing that popped into my head when i first had this vision was Tom saying this halfway thru the show:

(in laid back tom petty voice) Wow yea you guys are great. This next song is one of Stevie's thats not really well known. I was originally singing on this song back in the mid 80's. Stevie took me off the song, now im uh putting myself back in the song. its a uh really really cool song and its called Battle of the Dragon.

Yea I know, this tour is feasible at some point except for that last part. So it wold look something like this

22 Songs

Stevie is lead vocalist on 9, 7 of which are actually Stevie Nicks songs EO17, SDMHA, OTR For What Its Worth, Soldiers Angel Ghosts are Gone and Battle of the Dragon. Then shed sing Tom's songs I Need To know and You Wreck Me. I'm sure theyd also do Insider but I wont even count that as Stevie getting a song. Tom fans can consider that getting one of his deep cuts.

The rest would be straight up tom songs, Stevie singing back up when appropriate and exiting the stage when she felt the need to. They could throw in a fun cover or two. theres really so much possibilities with this non existent tour.

Now I still much prefer Stevie stay on her current path of being seemingly focused on making some more new music and going out and promoting it herself, But if we had a time machine this would've been perfect for say, 2008 when Stevie just toured for the summer for no reason other then pay tribute to Dave Mathews and Bob Seger

And this whole intertwined concert experience could only work with Tom. It couldn't have even worked with don henley. in fact there really aren't ANY combination of 2 artists where this could work. I realize superbands have been created in the past (The man of this thread in one of the them ironically) but thats still totally different. The only thing that resembles this scenerio is when Pearl Jam toured with Neil Young, pearl jam being neil youngs band.


So guys, any thoughts. I've obviously thought about it A LOT. And yea its next to impossible to actually happening, but its still more possible then that all members of Fleetwood Mac concert we all like to fantasize about. (and thats not meant to be a bad joke about how 2 of them are dead, i'm refering to before that and even for the other 14 to get together)