The Best Live Rhiannon

[trotter]

What does everyone think of the one i posted i think it has best ending of Rhiannon ever!!!

[David]

Originally Posted by trotter

What does everyone think of the one i posted i think it has best ending of Rhiannon ever!!!

Great Rhiannon! But how do you know it was Aug. 29? ChiliD & his friend taped that, & he can't remember which night of a multinight stand at the Forum it was.

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

I don't see anywhere to click to download the song on that "megaupload" site.

Put in the 3 letters it asks for at the top... Scroll down and let it count down the 40 seconds or so. and then click on the "free download" button when that's done - and the download should initiate.

[Villavic]

I do like the Dance version. It's sober, elegant, I like the arrangemens.
Of cour the 70s or 80s perormances are far more intense, energic. I like the Mirager the LIVE versions.. they sound cool and Stevie gives everyting toer public.

[Bumperke]

To be honest, i don't like Rhainnon at all.
The song sucks.
Stevie wrote a bunch of good (and even brilliant) songs, but this is not one of them.
Sorry,....

Will

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by Bumperke

To be honest, i don't like Rhainnon at all.
The song sucks.
Stevie wrote a bunch of good (and even brilliant) songs, but this is not one of them.
Sorry,....

Will

Yes, in some ways it doesn't hold up to 'Affairs of The Heart'.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

I don't see anywhere to click to download the song on that "megaupload" site.

towards the top there is a place to type letters in a box. then there is "download" next to it.


thanks chris for that.



here is one i've had forever (hell...even posted it on the white album tour i'm sure ) but i just really listened to this and oh my dear god.


before the "dreams unwind, love's a state of mind" i love when she does the "ooooohhoohh's"


a little guitar squeak but we'll forgive lindsey for that


rhiannon-live in passiac, NJ 1975

http://www.mediafire.com/?0pp51litxmy

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

a little guitar squeak but we'll forgive lindsey for that


rhiannon-live in passiac, NJ 1975

http://www.mediafire.com/?0pp51litxmy

Michelle I think that was feedback from the amps. That happened a lot in the 70's. Nowadays with our high effing tech we don't have to hear that anymore.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Michelle I think that was feedback from the amps. That happened a lot in the 70's. Nowadays with our high effing tech we don't have to hear that anymore.

aaaah yes lol forgive me, lindsey hehh

[blackroses]

Originally Posted by David

Just like nowadays she does that stupid "And you still cry out for her/Don't leave me, don't leave me/Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww" drawing it out as if each syllable were portentous.

I have to say that I completely agree with that, David. I don't like that "still cry out/don't leave me" thing she does these days, but some people like it....just a different personal tastes. I really miss Rhiannon the way she performed it back in the day. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who feels that way. I personally never cared for the style she performed it in for her solo performances either. The FM performances are the only ones for me. I also like the Rhiannon in the Mirage video, but that is an acquired taste that most people would not share with me. I hated it at first, but it has grown on me. She looks really rough, and her voice is shot, but after she twirls back onto the stage, she comes to life with some really dramatic stuff, like "Baby, you don't change, and I don't change, and you don't change....Rhiannon". Riveting! And just Lindsey's guitar work alone in that one makes it worth loving.

I also like the Midnight Special, Mobile AL, the 78' video posted in this thread, and the version that trotter posted is superb. But one of my all time favorites is from early in the While Album era...a true moment in history. It's almost identical to the audio version that Michelle posted. They were new and slightly unpolished...not visually perfected yet, and there was bad mic feedback. But the difference in this one and all other versions I have ever heard is Lindsey's undulating guitar work that starts at about 4:37 minutes. I've never heard him do it quite that way in any other version. I wish he had kept it going longer and continued to build on it...simply mesmerizing. She totally expends herself toward the end. What a gift she had. Here it is:

[UndoingTheLaces]

I think my favorite will always be the one from the Live album. I also really love the Buckingham Nicks bootleg version where she goes "don't play it too fast". LOL! I just recently got the book Triad (Amazon, for one dollar, can you believe it?) and am reading it now. Hard to imagine this little book was the start of a huge phenomenon.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by blackroses

I have to say that I completely agree with that, David. I don't like that "still cry out/don't leave me" thing she does these days, but some people like it....just a different personal tastes. I really miss Rhiannon the way she performed it back in the day. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who feels that way. I personally never cared for the style she performed it in for her solo performances either. The FM performances are the only ones for me. I also like the Rhiannon in the Mirage video, but that is an acquired taste that most people would not share with me. I hated it at first, but it has grown on me. She looks really rough, and her voice is shot, but after she twirls back onto the stage, she comes to life with some really dramatic stuff, like "Baby, you don't change, and I don't change, and you don't change....Rhiannon". Riveting! And just Lindsey's guitar work alone in that one makes it worth loving.

I also like the Midnight Special, Mobile AL, the 78' video posted in this thread, and the version that trotter posted is superb. But one of my all time favorites is from early in the While Album era...a true moment in history. It's almost identical to the audio version that Michelle posted. They were new and slightly unpolished...not visually perfected yet, and there was bad mic feedback. But the difference in this one and all other versions I have ever heard is Lindsey's undulating guitar work that starts at about 4:37 minutes. I've never heard him do it quite that way in any other version. I wish he had kept it going longer and continued to build on it...simply mesmerizing. She totally expends herself toward the end. What a gift she had. Here it is:

oh yes. is that largo? landover? I can't keep them straight. I love this video/audio and the 4:37 mark too. not only is lindsey working that guitar, but stevie's working that chiffon like no other.

i always call this the "orgasm rhiannon" because when she starts at the end, that's what she looks like. it's a little more tame than say, rosebud, but it is so sensual and devine. love it.


and as people were saying about the "don't leave me noooooooowww" i don't like or dislike it, but i don't want her to remove the "weeeellll i don't think you do!" that she's added in the more recent rhiannons.

[blackroses]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

oh yes. is that largo? landover? I can't keep them straight. I love this video/audio and the 4:37 mark too. not only is lindsey working that guitar, but stevie's working that chiffon like no other.

I wish I knew which performance this was from. I've always wondered. Hopefully someone that knows will tell us. Yes, Stevie is definitely working that more simple, less stylish chiffon (less than what she wore later). It's so charming to see her turn even that into magic.

i always call this the "orgasm rhiannon" because when she starts at the end, that's what she looks like. it's a little more tame than say, rosebud, but it is so sensual and devine. love it.

Exactly. Sensual and divine is a good description. I think that is exactly the reason it's my favorite. It has an entrancing effect when it slows down it's pace. It makes me want to go into a meditative state, like chill out music. Then it slowly builds again into an explosion.

and as people were saying about the "don't leave me noooooooowww" i don't like or dislike it, but i don't want her to remove the "weeeellll i don't think you do!" that she's added in the more recent rhiannons.

Some of her performances now are really great and have their own appeal. I certainly can't fault her for any of them. I think it's just a matter of individual preferences. I find The Dance to be very enjoyable, but if I had my choice, I'd prefer the old Rhiannon.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by blackroses

I wish I knew which performance this was from. I've always wondered. Hopefully someone that knows will tell us. Yes, Stevie is definitely working that more simple, less stylish chiffon (less than what she wore later). It's so charming to see her turn even that into magic.

i'm pretty sure it's largo. that's what it says on youtube, anyway. and I was thinking it was between largo/landover anyway. and yes, exactly.

Exactly. Sensual and divine is a good description. I think that is exactly the reason it's my favorite. It has an entrancing effect when it slows down it's pace. It makes me want to go into a meditative state, like chill out music. Then it slowly builds again into an explosion.

exactly. need i say more?

Some of her performances now are really great and have their own appeal. I certainly can't fault her for any of them. I think it's just a matter of individual preferences. I find The Dance to be very enjoyable, but if I had my choice, I'd prefer the old Rhiannon.

oh, nothing will ever take the place of the old style rhiannon. mama was magnificent at soundstage, but rhiannon from back in the day was something to see.

[blackroses]

Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

I think my favorite will always be the one from the Live album. I also really love the Buckingham Nicks bootleg version where she goes "don't play it too fast". LOL! I just recently got the book Triad (Amazon, for one dollar, can you believe it?) and am reading it now. Hard to imagine this little book was the start of a huge phenomenon.

Yes, I've heard that Buckingham Nicks version. It's uniquely different. It's funny that after she says "don't play it too fast", they played it really fast anyway. I think that was typical of the BN versions....she sung them with a different rhythm in the words too. But I think the BN versions had much less of a mystical feel, which is what I love most about Rhiannon. Maybe not the best song she's ever written (although that's always a matter of personal taste), but I love that mystical place it takes me to.

How great that you found the book. Let us know what you think of it after you read it!