Rhiannon Demo - Page 2

cliffdweller · #16 08-08-2003, 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by darklinensuit
You are a Stevie Sense Zen Master Kabbalist if you can make sense of Stevie's lyrics in Mirage concert SOTM and the Rock a Little album's The Nightmare.

LMAO!! So true, so true....

darklinensuit · #17 08-09-2003, 01:08 PM

Yeah, considering what a weird song The Nightmare is, I haven't seen it mentioned on The Ledge very much. It's what Stevie would call her "serious statement" on the album, meaning people will really scratch their heads.

- Jake

Jen77 · #18 08-09-2003, 09:45 PM

The first time i heard this demo...i laughed so hard

I couldn't handle it!!! I was going to make a post about this the other day, and ask when the demo was made

Jen~*

GeminiStar03 · #19 08-10-2003, 05:42 PM

"Hi Jen!"

I still want to hear that demo sooo..bad!

It's so awesome how I can like finally relate to a music artist! I mean, I can relate to like Cyndi Lauper, Cher, and some other people but since Stevie and I are both Geminis--We are like totally connected! I love her soooo..much! I can't wait to one day possibly make a song and sing it with her!

~*~*KIM*~*~

Mad4stevie · #20 08-10-2003, 06:07 PM

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Originally posted by GeminiStar03
"Hi Jen!"

I still want to hear that demo sooo..bad! It's so awesome how I can like finally relate to a music artist! I mean, I can relate to like Cyndi Lauper, Cher, and some other people but since Stevie and I are both Geminis--We are like totally connected! I love her soooo..much! I can't wait to one day possibly make a song and sing it with her!

~*~*KIM*~*~

Hi, Kim. I have this song and can email it to you if you want!

GeminiStar03 · #21 08-10-2003, 06:54 PM

Hey! Ya, that would be great if you could email that to me! I'm not sure if my friend, Jen, was recording it for me but the more copies if it that i have, the better!

Thankys!

~*~*KIM*~*~

Mad4stevie · #22 08-10-2003, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by GeminiStar03
Hey! Ya, that would be great if you could email that to me! I'm not sure if my friend, Jen, was recording it for me but the more copies if it that i have, the better! Thankys!

~*~*KIM*~*~

Cool! What email address would you like this to be sent to?

GeminiStar03 · #23 08-10-2003, 09:00 PM

Send it to: [email protected]

```*Thanks a bunch a hunch*```

~*~*KIM*~*~

gypsysara · #24 08-11-2003, 03:38 PM

I believe its known as the "talking piano demo" if Im not mistaken.

I just got in a crisp and great 1978 3 track CD with Stevie doing 3 versions of Rhiannon / different mixes. Great, crystal clear and awesome seeing she was putting this earlier song onto reel to reel in 78.

EveryHour · #25 08-16-2003, 11:33 PM

Before you call her crazy, stop and think......

This has always been my take on this particular version: I don't believe it to be a writing demo, but a recording (done during the recording of the white album) of one of the many, many times I'm sure Stevie has sat alone and played Rhiannon. To me, it seems that she was frustrated and hurt that her song perhaps had not taken the direction she had hoped it would, and that she is saying things she actually said to Lindsey and Richard along with the replies she would have *liked* to hear as opposed to what she probably got. I mean, he seems a different man now, but can you imagine Lindsey at that time agreeing that Rhiannon was the most beautiful name he'd ever heard even though it touched Stevie so deeply? Though it did turn out to be a masterpiece, Stevie has illuded to it being taken in a more "commercial", perhaps, direction than was her vision. It upsets me to see people be so critical of something that was clearly painful for her.

bootylicous · #26 08-20-2003, 07:51 PM

I like all the explanations I've seen in this thread, but I think the fact is, Stevie was really stoned and/or drunk. We all know she's spent a lot of her life like that, I mean eventually she had to go to Betty Ford, correct?

But she's a rock star...

gypsysara · #27 08-21-2003, 12:07 PM

Correct. Then she went back in later on to get off of Klonopin. First it was coke and booze if Im not mistaken. Im happy she got cleaned up. Tho my personal opinion is a little joint doesnt hurt now and again, coke will steal your soul away and Im glad Ive stayed far away from that. I feel she looks great nowadays!

strandinthewind · #28 08-22-2003, 11:51 AM

To my recollection, Stevie has never been in rehab for booze. In fact , i have read a couple of interviews where she says the first rehab was explicitly for Coke and the second for Klonopin. She then said she never had a problem with booze.

dissention · #29 08-22-2003, 11:56 AM

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Originally posted by strandinthewind
To my recollection, Stevie has never been in rehab for booze. In fact , i have read a couple of interviews where she says the first rehab was explicitly for Coke and the second for Klonopin. She then said she never had a problem with booze.

She did call them her "coke and brandy" days, though.

strandinthewind · #30 08-22-2003, 11:59 AM

I esp. love the stories about how she would drink Brandy (perhaps out of the bottle) while recording in the studio at night.