Columbus: A wardrobe change

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by Musicman408

Did you by chance video storms?????

I did but not the whole song. Sorry.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Josh2003

It's really that she wasn't energetic (...even though she wasn't...). It was more frustrating to me that she rarely smiled, she doesn't really interact with the audience, and she just kinda seemed like she was up there "doing her job," rather than enjoying herself.

And that is unfortunate, because she's seemed like a completely different person when promoting her solo stuff recently. I guess she, for some reason, has the mentality that she can't be "fun" while with Fleetwood Mac...it's not "her show," but her band's.

When I saw her solo last summer she acted the same way. I honestly thought - she looks like she would love to be just anywhere else. So, I can understand getting that vibe, although it's been great seeing pictures of her laughing and smiling at least in between the encores - maybe she's thrilled it's almost over!

[Musicman408]

Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

I did but not the whole song. Sorry.

Well, did you get the end???? (hoping hoping hoping)

[wheart]

Originally Posted by Musicman408

Well, has she been dedicating it during other shows? How does Columbus compare with the other?

not sure about other shows but she did do a dedication in Philly. I think generally she will dedicate it if she knows someone in that particular town. Again, I'm not sure of the dedication history on this tour so far.

[Regina]

Aw, he dumped the gray suit already?
Shoot.
I do like the jacket, though.
No more leather. It's too uncomfortable looking.

[Nico]

Originally Posted by Regina

Aw, he dumped the gray suit already?
Shoot.
I do like the jacket, though.
No more leather. It's too uncomfortable looking.

I really loved that gray color for him. It was very flattering. It made him look younger and fresher, whereas dark colors are always hot but his features just come out a little more harsh. But that's a minor critique because I suppose the noticeable pitt stains can be a drag.

[WelshWitchPMD]

OK, here are the rest of the videos.

Storms


Tusk


Gold Dust Woman intro (Lindsey)


Silver Springs


Stevie and Lindsey first encore


Stevie and Lindsey second encore with the flowers

[Musicman408]

[QUOTE=WelshWitchPMD;816630]OK, here are the rest of the videos.

Storms


Alright, so obviously my Stevie Storms moment was not at the end of the song like I was thinking..... that's odd.....

[Regina]

Those are great, Pattie.
Thank you very much.

[Musicman408]

Pattie, that Storms video is just beautiful!! To bad my Stevie moment was not as obvious as the Lindsey one, because I guess I could have somewhat gotten caught up in the excitement and saw something that never really happened..... But I swear I though she was looking at me with one of the "prayer" lines.

[skcin]

Thanks Pattie.

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

Yep that was me. I really need to learn to chat more but I never do. I am going to try to get the rest of the videos up tonight.

Well I'm sorry if I was screaming in your ear the whole night as well. lol.

Thanks so much for posting those videos!! That flower moment was so freakin sweet! I loved it!!

[Musicman408]

I was wondering something you guys- did Stevie do any twirls during Stand Back in Columbus? I really do not remember if she did or not.

[MacMan]

I'm not one to really give a sh*t about what someone writes about these guys in terms of reviews... But this is just all around rude!!

Lindsay raised us up; Stevie brought us down

By John Petric
The Other Paper

I have a theory about Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac: She’s really Nancy Reagan as seen through a slight time warp.

The former first lady was definitely there in the bloated weirdness of the mystical chanteuse Nicks Saturday night at the Mac’s well-attended, well-intentioned Nationwide Arena show.

Despite a wealth of fine and good songs, everyone’s parade of memories was mercilessly squalled upon by the lethargic and loopy Nicks. You’ve never seen a bigger psychic party pooper.

Thanks to gigantic video screens flanking the stage, Nicks’s eyes appeared as toxic slit-trenches honing down on us like Big Brother’s weird big sister—that is, when her eyeballs could occasionally be seen. Normally they were half-closed, as if Nicks were focusing on her inner Ouija board, conjuring up spirits of Manuel Noriega and other notorious cocaine kingpins to rescue her from the banal reality of singing the hits yet one more time.

And I’m not going to even talk about how large the screen made her nostrils. You can only imagine how much illegal activity those air passages have seen in their day.

Nicks was a living wreck. When she spoke between songs, she made no sense. Between her garbled story about growing up idolizing the Velvet Underground and her trademark bleating vocals, which were more half-hearted than the onset of age would allow for, one could be forgiven for thinking Nicks was a tad heavily sedated.

All of which made her the complete opposite of Lindsay Buckingham, the hyper-intense, emotional guitarist/singer/songwriter and her former love partner.

Buckingham, slim and trim and highly energetic; Stevie, low and slow and quite possibly affecting Earth’s orbit. Buckingham, jovial and happy to be alive, his personality definitely his own; Nicks, everyone from The View rolled into one person, but on their worst days only. (Nicks seemed to hate everyone for being at the show—her unhappiness was that visceral.)

Buckingham, raw passion; Nicks, quite possibly the most depressed woman to ever waddle onstage on platforms. Sad, really.

The hits sounded good, though: “Rhiannon,” “The Chain,” “Dreams,” “Landslide,” “Tusk,” etc. But I’d have to say this was only because they were so well-written to begin with and were supported by the dy-no-mite rhythm section of John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Buckingham and Nicks—once the equivalent of Lennon and McCartney for the spoiled-rotten California narcissistic set—did an uneven job of selling them.

As the pair traded the spotlight, Buckingham would work the crowd into a frenzy only for Nicks to bring it down. He was a lightning strike with an inimitable guitar style. She had the happiness level of a gorilla fresh out of banana rehab. You didn’t want to be around her.

By the time the band got to “Say You Love Me,” Nicks—who clearly was Moby-Dick to Lindsay’s Captain Ahab by this point—began to seriously lose what little steam she had stored in the haunted old engine house called her soul. She seemed prepared to collapse onstage, her platforms and top hat destined to be her lasting memorial.

And then she surprised us.

When she came out from backstage after her latest costume change, she was draped in black for “Stand Back.” (No problem, lady.) She crossed her arms, black Mass-style, but unintentionally looked like a Mardi Gras float. Then she unloaded the song with a heretofore unseen amount of emotional energy: vitriol, pure vitriol.

The woman has issues, by God, and to her credit she finally made them work for her.

[Nico]

What a really mean-spirited review! And how effing rude that they would misspell Lindsey's name in bold like that. Imbeciles!

I guess I'm going to just ignore all these jabs. A lady I work with just informed me she, too, was at the Columbus show and then proceeded to describe loudly and in crass terms how "horrible" and "worthless" Stevie Nicks was. She said she had no stage presence, made no attempt to seem like she cared to be there, and ruined Gypsy.

Now, I was at this show...granted, Stevie wasn't lively aside from a few numbers (Stand Back was awesome), but these comments just seem to be kicking low. The co-worker had the nerve to say that she was going to write a letter to the tour manager or some such nonsense demanding Stevie's percentage of her ticket price back.

She praised Lindsey but after all the negativity I was done with her.

Stevie is 60. She's not perfect. She was probably having an "off" day. It happens. I personally didn't think her performance made anything lack in the overall presentation. I may be a total Lindsey girl, but it's not fair for people to just trample over someone's effort. Her voice sounded great in any case, and that's a huge deal.