What are the confirmed last performances of Stevie high notes?

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Originally Posted by David

I think that ended between September and November 1977. She is still doing that in Vegas and LA in late August, but it’s gone by the Australia video in November.



That, too, ended for the most part somewhere on the 1977 tour. It is gone on the first verse but still present on the second verse when they played LA August 29. (It’s there in Nashville in late May and others.)

By my ear, the falsetto and high notes on a more-or-less regular basis faded during the latter 1977 tour — at least on those two songs — but there were other songs where she really shot up there on the 1983 solo tour. So the modified choruses and such just became a habit rather than a technical vocal inability. I think she curtailed high notes to please vocal coaches.

I am just listening to the Las Vegas bootleg 25/08/1977 right now and yes she does sing some of these in each song, although not all of them!

What songs do you have in mind from the 1983 tour?

Edit: I am just watching Australia 1977 now - she is doing falsetto in Rhiannon chorus and hits one of the high 'million years' (but this could be dubbed?)