Original audio 1986 RED ROCKS. "TALK TO ME", ""Stand Back," "Outside the rain/Dreams"

[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

yes, they do. but not to the extent of the Red Rocks video. they essentially decided that basically none of the concert close up footage of her was usable because she was such a mess. And she rambles at times and messes up and is noticeably out of it for a lot of it.

This is not your standard concert with a little sweetening to make it perfect for posterity.

This is video/audio of a woman sadly and sometimes embarrassingly wasted onstage. The tweaks are blatantly obvious (whereas most times they are fairly discreet). It's just such a blatant papering over of a drug fueled cluster**** .

It's very,very sad. I find it mostly impossible to watch. If you were a fan of hers from the 70s and recall how youthful and vibrant and California hippie girl she was, seeing her so wasted is just sad.

I think you're exaggerating a bit. As I said both the Red Rocks video concert and the Tango one have received the exact same treatment and in the latter Stevie wasn't a mess at all. I think the main reason why these two video concerts are touched up so is because of the main director's personal taste. I don't remember where but I've read that these shows were filmed purposely to look like music videos and not real concerts in true 80s style.

If it were really only because she was too wasted then they would have just not published the video, just like they've done for the Wild Heart one, now that was truly a mess. In the past Stevie has been often "sadly and sometimes embarrassingly wasted onstage" way before RAL. More than once during the Rumours Tour she risked falling off stage because she was too inebriated.