NY Times review of "Heart & Soul" Tour w Rod Stewart

[Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

The heart and soul tour is the worst thing Stevie has ever done in her career IMHO. She allowed concert promoters to talk her into touring with Rod Stewart and she became an opening act. She did not need this. Rod completely disrespected Stevie. He never came on her stage but she came on stage for him. They only did one Stevie song (Leather and Lace) in only a couple cities. Rod did not even know the words and it was terrible. When Stevie toured together with Don Henley she showed him the respect he deserved and came on stage during his show to sing. Rod clearly thought he was too big of a star to do this and Stevie was reduced to an opening act.

Agree 100 percent. Worst tour decision of her career. Ironically she did a few of these shows the same year as maybe her best tour of the 20th century (until this most recent one) the in your dreams tour with 6 (sometimes 7) new songs and interesting,funny and reasonable lengthed stage banter.

Thank god she's corrected this monstracity with maybe one the greatest double bills of all time with the pretenders. And I'm saying that as someone who had no interest in the pretenders whatsoever beforehand. I still don't find their radio songs that good at all, but boy did they put on a great performance. And their quick punch style of playing songs is th perfect compliment to Stevie's long winded story fest (albeit with an equally great performance in between stories)