jones beach show

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Patience, glass-hoppah, patience. I've gotta get home and upload them. I was too cold, wet and tired to do this last night.

I can't wait to see the pictures and video!

And excellent review!

[emfan2377]

Originally Posted by rhiannon1119

I had tickets all the way up in the front row mezzanine, but when we got up there, because it was extremely windy and so damn freaking cold the security guy told us that they were moving that whole section down one level. So, we ended up sitting in the second stadium level. The security person there told us to sit in row MM any place you could find a seat. Our seats actually ended up being almost dead center, but from row MM up those seats were being used for the mezzanine people. It wasn't a sold out show by any means, but it was a pretty decent showing for a weeknight and a cold June day!

That's what happened to us. We were way up top in Row U and they moved us down to the second tier, row HH just about dead center. It was pretty windy there, I can't imagine what it was like up top. We walked down a little to the pathway and there was barely any wind there at all. I was cracking up watching the seagulls trying to fly in the wind.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by danax6

Must.See.Picture.

Its a replica of the coat she comes out in the Red Rocks Video for OTR/Dreams and Talk to Me. She wore it a few years ago with Fleetwood Mac at my show. I think its pretty ****ing cool.

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its a replica of the coat she comes out in the Red Rocks Video for OTR/Dreams and Talk to Me. She wore it a few years ago with Fleetwood Mac at my show. I think its pretty ****ing cool.

Are you serious?? I MUST see this!

[emfan2377]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its a replica of the coat she comes out in the Red Rocks Video for OTR/Dreams and Talk to Me. She wore it a few years ago with Fleetwood Mac at my show. I think its pretty ****ing cool.

I think she wore it at Jones for the Fleetwood Mac show also.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by emfan2377

I think she wore it at Jones for the Fleetwood Mac show also.

Yup she did. Funny, I just watched that DVD from 04. I loved that coat.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by equeen102289

Are you serious?? I MUST see this!

Hopefully, someone got a clearer picture. It is pretty cool!

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

Its a replica of the coat she comes out in the Red Rocks Video for OTR/Dreams and Talk to Me. She wore it a few years ago with Fleetwood Mac at my show. I think its pretty ****ing cool.

That could very well be... at one point she said something to the effect of "This coat is 25 years old. As you can see, this stuff lasts." Well, of course it lasts... it's 150% synthetic!

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

That could very well be... at one point she said something to the effect of "This coat is 25 years old. As you can see, this stuff lasts." Well, of course it lasts... it's 150% synthetic!

I really like it! Something out of the ordinary!

[Kelly]

The coat she wore for FM in Jones Beach was gorgeous. It didn't have a croqueted doily looking thing on the back though.

[Macfanforever]

Wow What an experience, I had at this show,
1 The weather, thank god the rain hold up,but cold, I had my bright red winter jacket again,last time at the Fleetwood Mac show.I thought that day was colder.
2 Traffic, wasn't bad as I thought, got in parkinglot at 5:30,
3 Hightide, my seats were flooded out,
4 Chris Issak took his shoes off and made his way through the crowd and walked right by me twice.
5 The Climax, Got to shake Stevie's hand , WOW after all these years it happen.


Now for the Quick review. When I got to my seats , I said to my self, wow.
some people were up there all ready before the security stop more people for
trying to get seated during Chris's set,Tying to enjoy his tunes. he was good. I was pissed, walking around cursing to my self,saying I will never coming back here again and saying what i do now. so I sat impationly in the upper level watching the tide and security, ok Chris's set ended I got up and checked with security to see whats up before Stevie starts, so me and couple of other fans standby to see what will happen, in about 10 minutes The security told all of us, to go to our seats.so I had my boots on anyway, I splash my way LOL up to my seat and sat on top like everbody else did. Oh what a relief.There is no way i'm going to pay premium tickets to sit in the cheap seats,NO not for Stevie,if it was somebody else, yes will go nice warm dry home.

Ok Stevie came out bundled up,ooh she look adorable.Photos please,Her girls were hot in their wardrobe and thier long hair blowing in the wind.ok Standback started playing , still sitting on top,the tide starting to go out, Then I finally see the floor around when I think Rhiannon was playing,please correct me if i'm wrong. Hum there is some magic here.so I got back on the floor with soggy boots, thank god I had a dry pair of sneaks and socks in the car.As iI alway said Stevie's band is HOT. I think she will be lost without Waddy there ,or less Lindsey was there. or sing A-cappella with the girls , oh I will enjoy that,ok Her voice was in tune, the sound and video was excellent, which I'm supprized do to the conditions. as I remember at the FM
show years earlier everthing was shot including Stevie's voice,she was sick.
Mick's mike was dead, the video screens were blank.Hats off for Stevie's Crew.ok The Climax, EO17 started playing, I was watching the security gaurds
some people got pulled out of the isle, and the gaurds disapeared at that time I waltz my way up to the front and wittle my way into the croud, yea I had my bright red Jacket on for Stevie will see me.so the walk started Stevie
make her way across the cold stage , poor thing, she must be freezing by now.so I had my hands up and out.she was geting closer and closer, I was geting excited by the second.and she came in front of me, and It happend
I think I said I love you Stevie.I don't remember I was in heaven,HaHaHa
I felt weak and good sensation, and the crowd around me was holding me up.
over 20 plus years I've been waiting for this to happen.ok I'd stayed in my place for the last to songs in a daze.Beauty and the Beast started playing.
I was almost in tears as I thinking of my older sister at 56 years old battling with breast cancer and this happening tonight.So I want to say Thank you Stevie for all the years of entertaining me.

[Ghost_Tracker]

And the wind became crazy...


I know that others might not see it the same way, but these are my thoughts on this show -


I was there also and had a GREAT time!



There were some things that Stevie and the band did that I really admire. It seemed that when Stevie first came out, she did a "caricature" of a woman caught in a windstorm - she held onto her hat in an exaggerated way, pretended the wind was about to blow her over, etc. So in other words - and I doubt many will be surprised by this - she turned it upside-down and turned something "bad" into something useful - she took advantage of the bad situation, and made what she could of it.
Then at the end she said something like, "I don't think you have ANY idea how hard it was for you to stay here - thank you!" As always, she took the bad and used it as a way to teach, and made the best of a bad situation - It seemed to me that in between her lines, she was telling us, "why NO, as a matter of fact I DIDN'T consider stopping even for a MOMENT; I DIDN'T think of our own (considerable...) discomfort up here even for a MOMENT - you don't get to be successful in the rock music business (or anywhere) by thinking that way." Of course, she DID think those things, she DID feel tempted to cut it short, call it a night, re-schedule, etc. - but she didn't.

And here's the thing - I'm not sure how many people were there, but it was far less than the grand-smacking legendary total of 6 freaking thousand that the venue can hold. I looked around, and i THINK maybe there were only a thousand people there - two thousand tops. That's one percent of Fleetwood Mac in their heyday. I literally doubt Stevie made more than 5 thousand bucks last night. It was chump change, she could take it or leave it. And yet, even with the harsh conditions added to that, she knocked it out, and belted it out like there was no tomorrow. She gave us the SAME show that she would have given 60,000 screaming fans at Madison Square Garden. She poured her heart into it, and she didn't miss a note, and imo her harmonies were DEAD-on. Ditto for all of her backup musicians. There was ONE point where Waddy Wachtell maybe wavered just a LITTLE bit - but GEEZ it was cold, I don't blame him. But for the most part I was VERY impressed - he was RIGHT on the beat; even when he was doing the intro to Edge with a cold wind trying to blow him off the stage, it was still as incredibly precise as always. (And no, I really don't think it was a recording, thank you very much.) So I just love the rock-on attitude, and I love that they were THAT determined to give us "our money's worth," even though it was "no skin off their backs." And I love how Stevie grabs something annoyingly bad like this and seizes it as an opportunity to teach. And we all still had a ball DESPITE the bad weather - including Stevie - I SWEAR to you that it seemed like she had a grand old ball - LOTS of fun. And she seemed VERY cheerful and not tired at all.

Couple of other details -

Listen to Gold Dust Woman - CLOSE! There's some interesting changes there. And she took out the end part where she screams and so on and replaced it with some VERY interesting interaction between her voice and Waddy on the guitar - her voice kind of goes up and down the scale as his guitar notes sort of "chase" her voice, except going down when she goes up, etc. - it was wonderful.

It was really great to hear "How Still My Love." I really enjoyed that a lot, and I felt the harmonies were great. Actually I felt the harmonies in ALL of the songs were great, especially of course at the end of "Landslide."

Anyway - awesome show, bad weather or not. And Long Island doesn't suffer from major suckage, I SWEAR! I HOPE she'll be back to Jones Beach, because on a GOOD day it really is a beautiful venue.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

And here's the thing - I'm not sure how many people were there, but it was far less than the grand-smacking legendary total of 6 freaking thousand that the venue can hold. I looked around, and i THINK maybe there were only a thousand people there - two thousand tops. That's one percent of Fleetwood Mac in their heyday. I literally doubt Stevie made more than 5 thousand bucks last night. It was chump change, she could take it or leave it. And yet, even with the harsh conditions added to that, she knocked it out, and belted it out like there was no tomorrow. She gave us the SAME show that she would have given 60,000 screaming fans at Madison Square Garden.

You made me laugh so much in your review. Between 2 thousand showing up at the concert and 60,000 fans when there are 20,000 seats at tops at the Garden.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

You made me laugh so much in your review. Between 2 thousand showing up at the concert and 60,000 fans when there are 20,000 seats at tops at the Garden.

WELLLLL, all-righty. I was just throwing a random number out there. But I can tellya that for whatever it's worth, Mick claimed in his book that in their heydey, Fleetwood Mac once did a show in Germany with literally a hundred thousand fans there - some sort of sports stadium. Somehow I doubt this will register in Stevie's mind as the biggest show she ever did.

[danax6]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Somehow I doubt this will register in Stevie's mind as the biggest show she ever did.

What the hell does it even matter?