I Can't Wait concert video! - Page 2

michelej1 · #16 02-13-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by priestofnothing

I agree. I got my hopes up so much when I went to the original Vegas shows in 2005 and they opened with the video of Stevie walking in the white skirt (at the end of the I Can't Wait video). She talked up doing new songs and putting up videos on the Caesar's screens in the Jim Ladd interview. I always thought this would be a killer opening song and get the audience up and jumping.

Even just seeing her bust through a wall would be exciting. Run out, bust through a wall and then she could finish up the rest of the song sitting on a stool, to catch her breath.

Honestly, I die inside every time she does Rock and Roll. Do anything from your own catalog lady, just anything. Do The Second Time. I don't care.

Michele

AliceLover · #17 02-13-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by priestofnothing

I agree. I got my hopes up so much when I went to the original Vegas shows in 2005 and they opened with the video of Stevie walking in the white skirt (at the end of the I Can't Wait video). She talked up doing new songs and putting up videos on the Caesar's screens in the Jim Ladd interview. I always thought this would be a killer opening song and get the audience up and jumping. I was disappointed obviously, but I was pleased that BATB returned.

I think another reason Stevie thinks it doesn't work - is - even though she pretty much performs on "auto-pilot" these days, there is a lot of pre-programmed music on this track, synthesizers and stuff. I don't know the technical ins-and-outs of it, but there seems little to no room for improvisation or leeway for Stevie to get off track. I know with live musicians like Waddy and the girls on backup they "just play until I start singing" like she says in the Largo WH show. With programmed music, she's got to sing when the programmed track plays or miss the line completely. There are several boots where she says "that's a hard one to play" after finishing this song.

I was surprised she even attempted I Can't Wait on this tour given the state she was in at the time, although it was a hit single at the time so I suppose she felt she "had to" do it.

She could barely sing it in 86, you think theres a chance in hell now? Im sorry I think I Can't Wait is one of Stevies hardest songs to sing.

JazmenFlowers · #18 02-13-2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by AliceLover

I think I Can't Wait is one of Stevies hardest songs to sing.

I have pretty good lung power, but this song is a force to sing.

petep9000 · #19 02-13-2008, 02:56 PM

and that's unfortunate, that her repetoire now has to be so limited because one is harder to sing than others.

Well, hopefully her memoir-writing will be just as rewarding as singing used to be.

JazmenFlowers · #20 02-13-2008, 03:01 PM

^^^
I wouldn't mind her taking her time to rework some of her songs. I Can't Wait may not make a great ballad, but she could rework it so that she could at least give it a whirl.

GODDESS6 · #21 02-13-2008, 03:29 PM

^^^amen to that!!!~

UndoingTheLaces · #22 02-13-2008, 09:10 PM

That's one thing about a lot of rock bands that I never understood. Baba O'Riley is one of the most brilliant songs by The Who and the famous intro was done by accident. They could never replicate it so they would play the recorded version before the band took over live on stage. I always thought that was a cop out. There were so many other ways to have handled it. Create a new keyboard intro, make a kick ass guitar solo that sounds similar but does it's own thing. That's how I feel about I Can't Wait. Totally rework the song on stage rather than try to replicate the record. It is a really hard song to sing, though. A lot of her songs are out of my range so I have to pitch the music down on the karaoke tracks but she did an amazing vocal on the original that it really difficult to do live. So I can see why she wouldn't want to do it now.

petep9000 · #23 02-13-2008, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

That's one thing about a lot of rock bands that I never understood. Baba O'Riley is one of the most brilliant songs by The Who and the famous intro was done by accident. They could never replicate it so they would play the recorded version before the band took over live on stage. I always thought that was a cop out. There were so many other ways to have handled it. Create a new keyboard intro, make a kick ass guitar solo that sounds similar but does it's own thing. That's how I feel about I Can't Wait. Totally rework the song on stage rather than try to replicate the record. It is a really hard song to sing, though. A lot of her songs are out of my range so I have to pitch the music down on the karaoke tracks but she did an amazing vocal on the original that it really difficult to do live. So I can see why she wouldn't want to do it now.

No one likes to do difficult things. The fact that she consistently shows us how much she doesn't like to difficult things and how she is now so set in her ways, is very telling. I believe it was a Rolling Stone writer, when reviewing 'Belladonna', who labeled Stevie as 'spoiled' or a 'princess'. Perhaps there is an ounce of truth, in that.

PriSsyGaL75 · #24 02-13-2008, 10:43 PM

[QUOTE=UndoingTheLaces;741698]Okay, the quality is crap because it's being filmed from an old video off of a TV by someone holding a webcam who's obviously standing on roller skates, but it's so worth watching if only for the little arm dance thingy Stevie does during the little tinkly keyboard part after the guitar solo (and don't you dare say you don't know what I'm talking about). She doesn't do the hand roll showing off her cleavage like she does in the video but she does do the part right before that where she spreads her arms out and then brings her hands together. And when I watched this for the first time I kept thinking all the way through, "this is so horribly filmed that I have to turn it off but I have to wait to see if she does the little arm dance.... oh yay!!! she did, she did do the little arm dance!!!"
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Oh, I love the arm dance! That is actually my favorite part of the song. Thanks for posting the video!!

UndoingTheLaces · #25 02-14-2008, 02:14 AM

Okay, here's the same clip from Veoh, straight from the video but pixelated so badly that Stevie looks like a character from an Atari 2600 video game. But the sound is much better. I love when she speaks the "How will we feel 20 years from now" line? Hmmm, I guess she could answer the question by now, huh? LOL!

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Does anyone know if that "how will we feel" line is a sample from something. I doesn't sound like Stevie's voice to me. I always thought it was from a movie or something.

skuncles · #26 02-14-2008, 06:30 PM

I think everyone who was watching MTV in '86 had the moves down. I mean come on, even now when you see the video don't you know exactly when she's going to bite her bottom lip, pull the hair out of her mouth or do the fishy lips thing?
The RAL tour was the first time I saw Stevie live (I was 15), I thought it was great at the time, but looking back now, that's a tough tour to watch. The local paper reviewed her show by saying "the song shouldn't be called 'Stand Back' it should be called 'Stand Still'".
Drugs had clearly done a number on her at this point. Her performance of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Peter Frampton in New York has got to be one of her worst vocals ever.

-Al

skuncles · #27 02-14-2008, 06:34 PM

>>Does anyone know if that "how will we feel" line is a sample from something. I doesn't sound like Stevie's voice to me. I always thought it was from a movie or something.[/QUOTE]

No it's Stevie just sped up and slowed down, just like Lindsey on "Family Man" from "Tango". Or Lindsey on "Big Love" from "Tango".

-Al

petep9000 · #28 02-14-2008, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by skuncles

The RAL tour was the first time I saw Stevie live (I was 15), I thought it was great at the time, but looking back now, that's a tough tour to watch. The local paper reviewed her show by saying "the song shouldn't be called 'Stand Back' it should be called 'Stand Still'".
Drugs had clearly done a number on her at this point.
-Al

Rashoman, I say to all this.

sasja · #29 02-14-2008, 07:14 PM

Rashomon?

SuzeQuze · #30 02-16-2008, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

No one likes to do difficult things. The fact that she consistently shows us how much she doesn't like to difficult things and how she is now so set in her ways, is very telling. I believe it was a Rolling Stone writer, when reviewing 'Belladonna', who labeled Stevie as 'spoiled' or a 'princess'. Perhaps there is an ounce of truth, in that.

Totally, Stevie is a rock and roll princes all the way.