"Blue Letter" '75

[cbBen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwh32driVoQ

It appears to be from the same source as this "Rhiannon": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRTSY-Y85DE

Stevie with the shortest hair I've seen on her.

found the whole concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5X6Gr-ZkwA

[sleepless child]

I believe she has a braid in the back. It was a shag cut, so the top is short and the rest is in the braid.

[BLY]

I have always thought that Christine should never try to harmonize on this live song. She is always off. I have never heard a live version of Blue Letter with her singing that sounds good IMO.

[cbBen]

I agree. She gets in the way of Stevie and Lindsey, whose voices on this song blend perfectly – a la "I Don't Want To Know" and, IMO, "I'm So Afraid" (see comment below).

[cbBen]

This show's version of "I'm So Afraid" confirms what I say on another thread about the 1982 version: that it works better during the chorus for Stevie rather than Christine to do the backing vocal (here more of a co-lead vocal). (Christine may be singing here too but, if so, Stevie drowns her out.)

As an aside, at five minutes in length this version of "I'm So Afraid" has to be the shortest live version in circulation. Song at 27:13 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5X6Gr-ZkwA

P.S. Further to my initial comment, during almost the entire show Stevie has her hair down (which looks better). It appears she braids it (making it look short) toward the end of the show during Mick's "World Turning" drum solo; then puts it down again during the encore break for the last song "Hypnotized" (so it's braided only during the end of "World Turning and during "Blue Letter").

[anusha]

Man, I love hearing Lindsey sing full out with the voice he had at that time. He still sounds good when he actually sings with no effects, but those were the days. What a voice.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by anusha

Man, I love hearing Lindsey sing full out with the voice he had at that time. He still sounds good when he actually sings with no effects, but those were the days. What a voice.

It's so refreshing.

[cbBen]

Originally Posted by anusha

Man, I love hearing Lindsey sing full out with the voice he had at that time. He still sounds good when he actually sings with no effects, but those were the days. What a voice.

His voice isn't anywhere near what it once was, and hasn't been for quite some time. That is why he hides behind effects such as speeding it up, semi-whispering, and so on.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by cbBen

It appears to be from the same source as this "Rhiannon": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRTSY-Y85DE

I think it's the only video I've seen where John wears that kind of hat.

[anusha]

Originally Posted by cbBen

His voice isn't anywhere near what it once was, and hasn't been for quite some time. That is why he hides behind effects such as speeding it up, semi-whispering, and so on.

I'd agree that it isn't the same as peak Lindsey (say, up through the OOTC), but I think that his later voice, on the rare occasions we get to hear it without all the effects, is a good voice but not the same quality of the earlier higher pitched voice he once had. And I do enjoy the current voice as well.

I do think some of the effects are meant to try and give him those higher tones back, but some of it is him just preferring that sound, which is mystifying. Also, possibly too much technology. But when I last saw him live, I thought he sounded good for where we are in time, if not near his all time best.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by cbBen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwh32driVoQ

Great drum solo at the end.