Edge of Seventeen - Live at Red Rocks *Original Vocal*

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Many"Live" albums and video/dvds are not always straight forward; a lot of post production studio work is done on them. In the case of Stevie's Red Rocks, extensive work was done on theaudio as well as the video. All of her close-up shots are not from the performance, but filmed later and inserted into the video. This is the most obvious alteration, revealed in the DVD.

Stevie faced the fact that she had to go rehab. But with this impending tour, she planned to get clean after she fulfilled her tour commitment. The first time I attended a Stevie concert was on this tour. At the time I was unaware of her predicament, but I was disappointed because she was a mess; she missed cues, seemed a little lost, and never sang any song with any consistency; just a lot of over-the-top wailing and blurting, with off-time ad-libs that ruined the songs.

I'm very grateful that she clean up. Yet the next time I saw her on her tour for The Other Side of the Mirror, it was the opposite situation. Her voice was consistent and she sang faithful versions of the songs. But she had very little stage presence, mostly standing still in front of her mike, exerting little or no energy. Only later were we informed of the reason why.