"No Spoken Word" 1986 Red Rocks...speaking in tongues!!!

[macmar71]

Originally posted by gldstwmn
I have always believed she was saying "I don't know how to learn form some God damn motherf*cking book..." in the Red Rocks version of No Spoken Word . We've all heard the potty mouth before. Does anyone know what book she's talking aout?

I always thought that in the Red Rocks No Spoken Word, that I heard the F-word escape her lips. At least I am not the only one who thought this.

[blackdove]

Originally posted by joe
ok...the thread about "Sisters of the Moon" and the speaking in tongues Mirage version got me to thinking....if you've seen the Red Rocks concert then you might know what i'm talking about....i want to know if anyone can translate what she is babbling about in the following part:

well it will make you wiser
and it will make you look
she said look out, look out
i don't know how to learn
not from the pages
&$%#*@)!_$^@&^$%^@)(!!!! from a book!

anyone got any clues?

to me it sounds like part of it is

i don't know how to learn
not from the pages
of some god damn flaming &$%#@! book!

I can't make out the last word before book.

Love and happiness from Sarah

[petep9000]

I have a Jones Beach show on video and she was pretty wild....it was almost scary cause she definately seemed possessed especially during "edge of seventeen"...i can see her with that feathered cap and walking around in a half circle with the mic just going off chanting "well, will you come gently in my shadow when i call you......she says, i know what it sounds like....I KNOW WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE!" then Sharon comes rushing over for the last verse and i think Stevie almost threw her right off track cause her singing kind of almost cut into the next verse....Sharon was probably like "well, should i go back or are you going to let me sing?!" Stevie was VERY eager to sing in those days...i think every other line in that tour started off with "well well well...." [/B][/QUOTE]

Well well! I loved it when Stevie used to bleat a few well placed "wells" into her RAL era performances. that was sooooooo cool!!!! OK, since we have brought up Jones Beach from 1986, can anyone explain what she was babbling about in between B&TB and L&L? Something like "I used to have 8, count 'em, long songs.." and then the crowd almost seems to go into an uproar as if she pissed them off. Then she's like "no, no!" and then the band starts L&L to big cheers. No matter how hard, I can't make out what she was saying, perhaps we never will know?

[Livia]

I am almost positive that she's saying...

"Not from the pages of a God-damn mother-f*cking book..."

No book in particular, cuz the lyrics in the recorded version are "not from the pages - ooooh of a book."

[Johnny Stew]

Not to attack anyone's opinions here, but we're talking about the same woman who was "extremely uncomfortable" singing the word "bitch" in a song.
I have a hard time believing she would say "G**damn" and "mother-f***ing" in one of her songs, which are so precious to her.

Now... before anyone says, "but"... I realize that Stevie HAS used the f-word on stage, when yelling at the out-of-control security guards during that Bristol, CT., show in 1989... but that was a VERY different situation, and she was angry that they were roughing up her "people."
She wasn't singing the word in one of her songs.

In that particular line of the Red Rocks version of "No Spoken Word," I really don't think she's saying anything. I think she just sort of tripped over the ad-lib, and ended up babbling instead.
"Not from the pages, no, not from the pages ~ (babble) ~ from a book!"

[dissention]

Originally posted by Johnny Stew
Not to attack anyone's opinions here, but we're talking about the same woman who was "extremely uncomfortable" singing the word "bitch" in a song.
I have a hard time believing she would say "G**damn" and "mother-f***ing" in one of her songs, which are so precious to her.

Now... before anyone says, "but"... I realize that Stevie HAS used the f-word on stage, when yelling at the out-of-control security guards during that Bristol, CT., show in 1989... but that was a VERY different situation, and she was angry that they were roughing up her "people."
She wasn't singing the word in one of her songs.

In that particular line of the Red Rocks version of "Outside The Rain," I really don't think she's saying anything. I think she just sort of tripped over the ad-lib, and ended up babbling instead.
"Not from the pages, no, not from the pages ~ (babble) ~ from a book!"

Exactly.

I've never heard any swearing in the Red Rocks version of No Spoken Word. Everytime I listen to it, I hear "And not, not, not, not from a book!!"

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by Johnny Stew
Not to attack anyone's opinions here, but we're talking about the same woman who was "extremely uncomfortable" singing the word "bitch" in a song.
I have a hard time believing she would say "G**damn" and "mother-f***ing" in one of her songs, which are so precious to her.

Now... before anyone says, "but"... I realize that Stevie HAS used the f-word on stage, when yelling at the out-of-control security guards during that Bristol, CT., show in 1989... but that was a VERY different situation, and she was angry that they were roughing up her "people."
She wasn't singing the word in one of her songs.

In that particular line of the Red Rocks version of "Outside The Rain," I really don't think she's saying anything. I think she just sort of tripped over the ad-lib, and ended up babbling instead.
"Not from the pages, no, not from the pages ~ (babble) ~ from a book!"

The song in question is No Spoken Word. Stevie's mother disliked SIAB intensely, calling it her least favorite song. I attribute that to the "bitch" quote.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by gldstwmn
The song in question is No Spoken Word.

Grr... I have no idea why I did that! I was talking about "No Spoken Word," but typed "Outside The Rain" by mistake.
I guess I just had "Rain" on the brain.

Hopefully everyone still knew what I meant.

[Livia]

I'm sure Stevie did and said a lot of things during this period of her life that she now regrets and/or doesn't remember. I know her swearing seems unlikely, but I swear, that's what I'M hearing....and seeing as even she refers to this performance as her most coked out ever, and immediately went to Betty Ford, anything's possible...

Oh, and one more "f" word incident that was brought to light lately - "my throat is f*cked." The woman cusses like a sailor, just maybe not in public so much....

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by Livia
I'm sure Stevie did and said a lot of things during this period of her life that she now regrets and/or doesn't remember. I know her swearing seems unlikely, but I swear, that's what I'M hearing....and seeing as even she refers to this performance as her most coked out ever, and immediately went to Betty Ford, anything's possible...

Oh, and one more "f" word incident that was brought to light lately - "my throat is f*cked." The woman cusses like a sailor, just maybe not in public so much....

I thought about that too! There's also the Castaway incident.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by Livia
The woman cusses like a sailor, just maybe not in public so much....

I have no doubt that she can probably swear with the best of them... I just can't imagine Stevie using those kinds of words in one of her songs, which she is very protective of. Even when she was at her most out of control.

From the first time I heard that version back in 1987, to this day, I swear that she simply trips over her ad-lib, and ends up babbling.

[Starling]

There's also a little rambling ditty at the HBO special, backstage of the show, I think, and she's carrying the stuffed animals...again, memory doesn't serve so well since it's been a while since I saw it, but she runs into Waddy and says something like, "Hey, motha f*cka!!" then heads out to dump the stuffed animals. Something like this anyhow...anyone else recall?

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by Starling
There's also a little rambling ditty at the HBO special, backstage of the show, I think, and she's carrying the stuffed animals...again, memory doesn't serve so well since it's been a while since I saw it, but she runs into Waddy and says something like, "Hey, motha f*cka!!" then heads out to dump the stuffed animals. Something like this anyhow...anyone else recall?

I do indeed!

Originally posted by Starling
There's also a little rambling ditty at the HBO special, backstage of the show, I think, and she's carrying the stuffed animals...again, memory doesn't serve so well since it's been a while since I saw it, but she runs into Waddy and says something like, "Hey, motha f*cka!!" then heads out to dump the stuffed animals. Something like this anyhow...anyone else recall?

no....i think you're mistaking that coming from one of the guys! She walks in with the armload of stuffed animals and flowers and one of the guys (possibly Waddy) says "hey mother f*****!" and she replies "ahhhh, what did you say boy?!

[strandinthewind]

Thanks!!!! That may been it. That was a long time ago