Technical difficulties or is this the new "Dreams"

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Since Stevie's had three weeks off, anyone think she'll modify the set on Friday?

Most likely she'll cut another song from the set and cut another verse out of Edge of 17, so it clocks in at 2:50. She'll add the full 15 minute story before Gypsy.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

Most likely she'll cut another song from the set and cut another verse out of Edge of 17, so it clocks in at 2:50. She'll add the full 15 minute story before Gypsy.

I’m really surprised the Wild Heart/Bella Donna mashup continued past the 2016 Tour. That has become, for the Cher fans here, the Half Breed/Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves/Dark Lady medley that Cher has been doing for decades.

I believe she’ll do 16 songs Friday including Sara and that will be the draw for fans to see her with Billy, but it won’t be in her solo shows.

[krrrby]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

This whole tour is a head scratcher. She does great vocally in some areas and then barely attempts other areas.

I can see that, but I think she's also trying to find places to put some lower notes in places where she usually goes high because she's trying to not overdo it. I mean, she's getting older I guess she has to be more protective about stuff like that?

Have you ever noticed sometimes when she tries new notes it's like her rhythm is kinda off and it sounds shaky like she's not feeling confident about how she sung a particular line. I think she's trying but she hasn't like solidified it into a place that sounds okay and then becomes a part of her routine. I think when you hear notes go kinda warbly like that, it's just her getting nervous or having some kind of weird tick about it.

She did mention something during the pandemic of her Epstein Barr virus making a resurface which can make you tired and all that, coupled with her age I think she's looking a little less lackluster vocal performance wise than she has since 2019. Maybe the pandemic era of not singing all that much for 2-3 years weakened her ability so belt out like she used to.

There's a lot of things at play here, and to me it seems like she's kinda fighting to get that energy back, but in some instances I think she's just kinda thinking it is what it is until she can't sing anymore.

Case and point, when she did the Jazz Fest touring again, she did not sound that good on that show. You could tell her breath was like short or something.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Since Stevie's had three weeks off, anyone think she'll modify the set on Friday?

How about this?
1. Outside the Rain
2. Dreams
3. If Anyone Falls
4. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
5. Ghosts Are Gone
6. Think About It
7. Wild Heart
8. Bella Donna
9. No Spoken Word
10. Gypsy
11. Stand Back
12. Sara
13.Gold Dust Woman
14. Edge of Seventeen
15. Rhiannon
16. Landslide

I like this!

[krrrby]

Originally Posted by Nathan

I like this!

I'd love her to do No Spoken Word, but I fear that she will just register low notes throughout the whole thing and barely squeak out a high note. Then she'll drop it off her set after like 3 times.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by Nathan

I like this!

Thank you. I thought it was a fair set list to ticket buyers.
Drop in a Rock a Little song that’s not Sing for the Things and which people may know because it was on Red Rocks, and I have to face it that there is no chance she’ll ever sing I Can’t Wait live again.
Give Bella Donna love by doing more than just 3 minutes of the title song. And give the crowd a more recent rocker rather than FFG, but also because I’ve heard FFG live about 30 times LOL
Now if I didn’t gaf about the patrons who are just coming to hear radio songs, I’d throw in Angel after Ghosts Are Gone as an epic entry into another ghost through the fog song and then have her do Leather and Lace to throw the crowd a bone, and follow that with Think About It

[UnwindedDreams]

In Philadelphia last night Stevie sang I Sing For the Things but she didn't sing Sara; I don't get that. Wouldn't 60,000 people rather hear Sara than a ballad?

Kudos to her for choosing the obscure over the hit song. Maybe Sara was too long to do...I think this tour's versions were 8 minutes.

I wish she'd drop the covers and do her own great songs like Nothing Ever Changes, Blue Lamp, Nightbird, Juliet, or Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

In Philadelphia last night Stevie sang I Sing For the Things but she didn't sing Sara; I don't get that. Wouldn't 60,000 people rather hear Sara than a ballad?

Kudos to her for choosing the obscure over the hit song. Maybe Sara was too long to do...I think this tour's versions were 8 minutes.

I wish she'd drop the covers and do her own great songs like Nothing Ever Changes, Blue Lamp, Nightbird, Juliet, or Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)

Yeah it makes no sense especially for a mixed crowd in a stadium. Sara would make more sense. I don’t understand I Sing for the Things’ place in the set. The second last song in the main set is a strange place for an obscure tune. But she’s weird so whatever.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by jmn3

Yeah it makes no sense especially for a mixed crowd in a stadium. Sara would make more sense. I don’t understand I Sing for the Things’ place in the set. The second last song in the main set is a strange place for an obscure tune. But she’s weird so whatever.

Right after Gold Dust Woman I think too which I think she wants to be the highlight of the show.

Jmn, do you think Sara has any chance of coming back into the set? Seems unlikely to me since she hasn’t done it for 3 shows but I guess we’ll know next week in Toronto.

One day I hope she’ll do the show she promised where she touches every album

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Right after Gold Dust Woman I think too which I think she wants to be the highlight of the show.

Jmn, do you think Sara has any chance of coming back into the set? Seems unlikely to me since she hasn’t done it for 3 shows but I guess we’ll know next week in Toronto.

One day I hope she’ll do the show she promised where she touches every album

To me it would make total sense to put an extremely well known and popular song like Sara into the setlist when you’re playing in a show as a co head liner with Billy Joel and the audience isn’t all yours. That she has dropped it would make me think it’s unlikely to return. Nobody in the FM universe is known for having too much evolution in their sets once they’re established during a tour.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by jmn3

To me it would make total sense to put an extremely well known and popular song like Sara into the setlist when you’re playing in a show as a co head liner with Billy Joel and the audience isn’t all yours. That she has dropped it would make me think it’s unlikely to return. Nobody in the FM universe is known for having too much evolution in their sets once they’re established during a tour.

True, and when Stevie dropped Annabel Lee on 24KG, it didn’t return. IIRC Bombay was dropped and didn’t return on TISL. Maybe she’ll drop Sing for the Things and do Sara which will be the surprise of the shows next week

[sue]

Drop Gold dust woman and do Angel…
Drop anything and do Angel.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by sue

Drop Gold dust woman and do Angel…
Drop anything and do Angel.

Sue, you are a King. I would pee myself to hear Angel live. Though Stevie’s current drummer is really not suited for her band. My favorites were Jimmy Paxson, Mark Schulman, and Scott Crago.
The current guy plays, to my ears, like high school battle of the bands

[sue]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Sue, you are a King. I would pee myself to hear Angel live. Though Stevie’s current drummer is really not suited for her band. My favorites were Jimmy Paxson, Mark Schulman, and Scott Crago.
The current guy plays, to my ears, like high school battle of the bands

And you know, I think she could still do the song justice.
There are no high bits, it sounds better when slower and she could dance to it……(well maybe not the last bit)
But I would just love to hear Angel.
Before she hangs up her microphone ribbons for good.

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Sue, you are a King. I would pee myself to hear Angel live. Though Stevie’s current drummer is really not suited for her band. My favorites were Jimmy Paxson, Mark Schulman, and Scott Crago.
The current guy plays, to my ears, like high school battle of the bands

I had the same thought, the guy just bashes through everything like it’s an AC/DC song.