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07-02-2008, 10:58 AM
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07-02-2008, 12:43 PM
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The Washington Post, July 7, 1983, Thursday, Final Edition
SECTION: Style; Records; B8 HEADLINE: Pop: Open & Closed Cases BYLINE: By Boo Browning BODY: Both Stevie Nicks (who performs at the Capital Centre tonight) and Rickie Lee Jones approach their music with a fervency uncommon in mainstream pop. Nicks' songs evoke a mystical, deeply romantic world that is inviting but ultimately inaccessible to the listener, while Jones opens up her interpretations in such an intensely intimate manner that the audience feels immediately privy to the experiences she describes. Nicks, like Jones, shares a frankness and vulnerability made popular by Barbra Streisand, Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell, but she lacks the vocal skills and songwriting ability to elevate her expressiveness above sheer pop drama. Her second solo album, "The Wild Heart" (Modern 90084-1), is animated but far from eloquent. Part of the problem is her persistence in playing the quasi-mythological Welsh witch that defined and limited her participation with Fleetwood Mac. In a typical Nicks song, images from the occult are slung together willy-nilly with romantic fantasies to create billowy but incomprehensible themes. Hers is a style that lends itself better to a visual context than to vinyl, and her studio albums seem only to draw attention to her narrow vocals and formulaic compositions. The most embarrassing example of Nicks' actressy pretensions occurs in "Nightbird," in which she laments the state of her eye makeup and summer footwear while lamely attempting to cast herself as a metaphor for mysterious love. "Beauty and the Beast" is a better attempt, anchored on a real story; a softly swaying waltz, it's also the album's best cut musically. Elsewhere she rambles, especially on the title track, which contains some four-plus minutes of chorus repetition. Dedicated to a friend who died, it's a pretty, rocking song with some catchy phrases and good melodic hooks, but Nicks gets carried away in her expansiveness of emotion and overstates the tune. On "Wild Heart," Nicks' voice is in its best form since early Fleetwood Mac--less thin and raspy, more rocking and self-assured. Determined to remain a solo artist, she is nonetheless at her most beguiling in the company of other vocalists, as past collaborations with Kenny Loggins, Tom Petty and others have shown. Her duet with Petty on her debut album, "Bella Donna," proved a durable, engaging rock hit. Perhaps in an effort to repeat that success, the two perform another Petty-penned piece here, "I Will Run to You." Unfortunately, Petty sounds cranky and unmotivated on this one, as if it represented more an obligation than an opportunity. The guitar phrases are stale leftovers from his "Damn the Torpedoes" album, and the lyrics rival Nicks' own for inane sentimentality. Nicks continues to be one of the most passionate female vocalists in rock music. What she has yet to acquire is the ability to strike a more universal balance between fantasy and reality, to invite her audience to some common ground where they might share the source of that passion. Rickie Lee Jones' most recent release, a seven-song EP titled "Girl at Her Volcano" (Warner Bros. 1-23805), demonstrates her considerable skill at exacting emotional involvement from her audience. In addition, this album, which contains only one self-penned composition, shows Jones getting as much emotional mileage from other artists' material as she has previously gotten from her own. Her range and technical ability are as awe-inspiring as ever, but here they become formidable tools that she uses to manipulate texture and tone from one moment to the next. On the two live tracks, "Lush Life" and "My Funny Valentine," the audience responds by hanging onto every nuance, cheering or even shouting replies at a phrase here, breathlessly silent within a pause there. Particularly on "Lush Life," Jones uses their enthusiasm to draw them even deeper into her interpretation, thus weaving her audience into the context of the song. Jones has a knack for making the most familiar standard emphatically her own. Leaping from a tristful whisper to a chill-raising shout, she breathes a jazzy new anguish into the 1966 Left Banke hit, "Walk Away Renee." And on "Under the Boardwalk," she weaves through the male voices of the chorus with such spontaneity and verve that the old Drifters favorite is transformed into a tapestry of youthful joy. Of course, Jones' highly stylized approach has its perils, chief among them the risk of overindulgence. On "Rainbow Sleeves," a Tom Waits tune released earlier this year on the "King of Comedy" soundtrack, she slips from heartfelt nostalgia into a weepy childlike pose that does justice neither to her womanly soprano nor to the intent of the lyrics, which concern renewed strength through companionship. Yet even "Rainbow Sleeves" has its thrilling moments, as does her own "Hey, Bub," a ballad sketch that captures the whimsy and tenderness of a remembered friendship. Jones has taken great pains to assert that "Girl at Her Volcano" is not the "next" Rickie Lee Jones album, but merely a sampling of favorites she has enjoyed performing in her scattering of club dates over the past few years. Still, it will do just fine to hold over those who've come to regard her as the most impressive pop vocalist since the young Streisand.
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07-02-2008, 08:54 PM
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Love that pic! The venue had to be the Buffalo Memorial Aud
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"Drowning, in the sea of love"~Stevie Nicks
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07-02-2008, 11:55 PM
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the 9th show on The Wild Heart Tour
July 3,1983 Hartford, Connecticut Venue: Hartford Civic Center I was 21 years old and I was at this show. After viewing the Stevie HBO Concert a thousand and one times I was excited for a whole new show with this Tour. You know how dissapointed we get with her current set list? Well this was my initiation to the basic same ole same ole with the setlist. It was the same basic HBO show with three new songs added in. But being there that night felt magical. It was my 4th time seeing Stevie. The 1st time was for Tusk and the other two were Mirage shows.  from BILLBOARD Magazine Boxscores Headliner: Stevie Nicks Opening Act: Joe Walsh Hartford Civic Center, Htfd.,Ct. Produced by: Cross Country Concerts/ Compton Terrace Concerts Ticket Prices: $11.50 & $12.50 Available Tickets: 16,069 Tickets Sold: 13,720 Concert Gross: $168,772 242 people have viewed this thread in the last 24 hours! Last edited by vivfox; 09-08-2008 at 11:06 PM..
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#53
07-03-2008, 12:04 AM
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the 10th show on The Wild Heart Tour
July 6, 1983 Worcestor, Massachusetts Venue: Worcestor Centrum I was at this show. It was my 5th time seeing Stevie. I don't remember anything from this night other than knowing I WAS there.  from BILLBOARD Magazine Boxscores Headliner: Stevie Nicks Opening Act: Joe Walsh Worcestor Centrum, Wor., Ma. Produced by: Frank J. Russo/Compton Terrace Concerts Ticket Price: $11.50 & $12.50 Available Tickets: 12,383 Tickets Sold: Sellout Concert Gross: $151,758
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07-04-2008, 10:09 AM
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Viv~
Im really loving this thread!!! Thanks for all the posting for this Wild Heart and Tusk thread. Since I didn't really get into Stevie since 1999 its so much fun for me to relive these experiences through your threads. A big thank you to you!!!!!
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07-04-2008, 04:41 PM
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Thanks for everyone's post and thoughts in this thread also. I didn't start collecting Stevie/Fmac til '88/'89 so I missed everything before this.....I wish someone knew about her show at Joe Louis Arena for the Wild Heart tour.....no soundboards or audience tapes for it either....same for her RAL show which I think that was at Pine Knob/now DTE in '86 too. If anyone has info or went to those shows....heck we might as well add the Mirror show in '89 since I couldn't go to that one either.....I'd love to hear about it.....Thanks much
 
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07-05-2008, 11:18 AM
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Just a quick add to the 5th show on this tour. The Meadowlands show. This was my first Stevie show, and as I graduated from the 8th grade that June, my parents bought me front row tickets for this show. Diana Ross and Prince were also at this show. I also saw Nina Blackwood, old school VJ on MTV back in the day.
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07-05-2008, 05:28 PM
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Michele, are these articles from your own collection that you are transcribing yourself? Sometimes you post things that I have never read before. That Washington Post review is similar to the Rolling Stone review. They both thought she was in good voice, but thought her lyrics had no meaning.
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07-05-2008, 07:14 PM
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Also, although I didn't do it this time, because the article fit into Mark's theme, I usually do a Yahoo search and see if the article is already online on one of the FM websites before I paste it here. I want the stuff we haven't seen before online, but not a repeat of all the stuff we already have. Since so many periodicals are gradually digitalizing their archives, we get more old news articles available all the time. Michele Last edited by michelej1; 07-05-2008 at 07:23 PM..
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07-05-2008, 07:52 PM
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I wanted to thank you and Viv for posting not only all of the articles, but as Viv is doing, taking this tour, gig by gig, datewise! That's a LOT of work... and thanks SOOOO much to the both of you!! 
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 __________ Arlene http://www.myspace.com/arlenelewis_sistaofthmoon There is magic all around you everytime you walk in the room.....
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07-05-2008, 07:59 PM
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I think what Vivfox thought of doing for the Tusk tour was a lot of fun and I'm so glad he started it for the Wild Heart Tour so that we would have something to follow while the Tusk Tour is on hiatus. I guess it will be coming to a complete end very soon. With Mark's Billboard entries and Sanne's pictures, I'm seeing things I've never seen before, even though I've been a fan since 1979. Michele
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