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daniellaaarisen · #31 08-10-2009, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by paleshadow

Yeah, she was clearly upset, but it's just hard to tell if she was emotional over the song, or because she knew her voice was failing. "I can't do it" to me seems like she knew her voice was toast. I think these guys were on emotional autopilot by that point. Everything was (and still is) so rehearsed that it's hard to imagine that she would break down at that point. Plus, although I haven't listened to the track in a while, from what I remember the vocals are pretty bad right out of the gate. It's just more romantic to think she got caught up in the emotions of the song.

I agree with that to a level.... although honestly, I really believe that some pretty complex emotions were running around between Stevie and Lindsey during this tour. I don't doubt that there was some "romantic rekindling" going on at the time, like many other Ledgies around here also see as a possibility. Either way, the stories I have heard about this tour make me believe that it was more emotive than that.

LikeAWillow · #32 08-10-2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by paleshadow

Everything was (and still is) so rehearsed that it's hard to imagine that she would break down at that point. Plus, although I haven't listened to the track in a while, from what I remember the vocals are pretty bad right out of the gate. It's just more romantic to think she got caught up in the emotions of the song.

Listening to the boot now, her voice is obviously going throughout the song. My one problem with the "she left the stage because she couldn't sing it" thesis, though, is that we've all seen what Stevie does when she's having trouble on a tune: she keeps going. I'm sure there's at least one example from every tour (off the top of my head, Silver Springs in Nashville from this year, Insider in North Carolina with Tom Petty, etc), where Stevie's voice cracks, breaks down, or she flubs on entire verses. Never, though, has she given up because of it. To me, it makes more sense for a vocal problem for her to stay on the stage and catch Lindsey eye and convey to him to finish it out rather than to leave in a fluster and draw more attention to what's happening.

GypsyBlueEyes · #33 08-10-2009, 07:27 PM

I don't know you guys, I've listened to it many times and yes, her voice is going, but I don't think it was so bad that she couldn't have finished that last bit. I would give anything to be able to see video of it

paleshadow · #34 08-10-2009, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

I remember you noting that Lindsey was crying too after he sang it and how the boot was really awful, compared to being there and witnessing it.

Michele

Haha. Your memory is better than mine! I do think I remember Lindsey crying! Again, that was a long time ago! Yeah, definitely I think the bootleg was pretty bad compared to actually being there. I think that when you are there you get caught up in everything though. It's loud, and just the excitement of seeing your favorite band live. Then months later when you hear an actual recording that feeling isn't there, and you can just hear the actual vocals. Then again it could be just a bad recording. I have to say, the bootlegs of the more recent tours, and Stevie solo have been pretty good!

daniellaaarisen · #35 08-10-2009, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by paleshadow

Haha. Your memory is better than mine! I do think I remember Lindsey crying!

If I had been there, I would have been crying, too. More like bawling like a baby.

michelej1 · #36 08-10-2009, 08:11 PM

I guess there's not a video boot of it. I just looked and my list goes right from Albany to Landover. I thought I had New Jersey, but I didn't.

Well, she could have been upset because her voice was breaking. I mean, in Reno she got upset and couldn't finish the song because people in the audience were fighting. And she got the chance to leave the stage during an encore and collect herself, yet upon her return she was still rattled enough that she asked Lindsey to finish the song. So, it could be anything that got her started, but it still really penetrates on an SnL level.

Michele

daniellaaarisen · #37 08-10-2009, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

I guess there's not a video boot of it. I just looked and my list goes right from Albany to Landover. I thought I had New Jersey, but I didn't.

Well, she could have been upset because her voice was breaking. I mean, in Reno she got upset and couldn't finish the song because people in the audience were fighting. And she got the chance to leave the stage during an encore and collect herself, yet upon her return she was still rattled enough that she asked Lindsey to finish the song. So, it could be anything that got her started, but it still really penetrates on an SnL level.

Michele

Possible, but something tells me that Lindsey wouldn't be crying if Stevie's voice gave out OR if someone was fighting. We seem pretty sure that he definitely cried too, which means that this would have to be something that affected both him and Stevie...

I'm thinkin' SnL.

michelej1 · #38 08-10-2009, 08:32 PM

Here are some reviews, posted at the time:

http://fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/dance97.htm

Gail and Charlie Cahill

Well, here it comes, the surprise...Stevie was really into "Silver Springs". She sang some of the lines a bit differently by drawing them out as she sang. The change sounded great and she was still in line with the tempo. Well, at the end when Lindsey joins Stevie to sing "you'll never get a way from the sound of the woman who loves you" and Stevie begins to rant "never get a way, never get a way" I could tell she was getting very emotional to a point where she didn't know how to continue her ranting. As the music turned softer at the end where she sings the last verse she had moved to over to Christine's stage mic grab it and turn her back slightly to the audience, she had the mic titled to her level. Lindsey sensing something was up walked over to her (he was facing the audience) and even from where we sat you saw her tell Lindsey at least three times that "I can't do it, I can't, no". So, Lindsey finished the song looking her dead in the eye, "you could be my silver springs, my blue/green colors flashing"! Absolutely fantastic! He sang it in a tiny voice almost matching the way Stevie sings it. At the end Stevie put her arm and hand out to him and he took hand and touched in face with it then kissed it. Very emotionally. I believe Stevie had some tears and when Lindsey came back over to his mic he place both hands over his face, then shook off the moment. I had chills! What a thrill!

Janet Strayer

Silver Springs--Stevie lost hr place or something--but Lindsey walked behind her and he turned around and he helped her finish the song--it was so like romantic. Bu then he kissed her hand and she seemed really choked up--awwww.

Marty and Lisa Adelson (site owners at the time)

Actually, we think Stevie blew her voice at the end of the song and Lindsey sort of had to help her finish it. She was standing with her back to the crowd and looked a bit upset when the song was over, and even Lindsey looked emotional. Then as they went to start Tusk, Lindsey mouthed to her, ‘Are you OK? You wanna sing?" and gestured towards the mike, but she didn’t sing on Tusk at all. Lindsey was so playful—at the last concert he was so intensely concentrating on what he was doing—now it seemed effortless as he goofed around with the rest of the band—especially on ‘Not That Funny’ where he pounded out some rhythms with Mick’s vest drums and danced around swami style.

daniellaaarisen · #39 08-10-2009, 09:00 PM

Meh, I really believe that Lindsey wouldn't have gotten emotional if it was just an issue with her voice. Maybe its just the shipper in me.... but I donno.

Amlyn · #40 08-10-2009, 09:01 PM

Awhile back I was reading some old posts on Buckinhamnicks.net and this topic was discussed over there. There was some speculation that the emotions were running rampant around that time because the beans were probably spilled about Kristen being pregnant.

Now, it's possible that has absolutely nothing to do with what happened that night, but still it seems like Lindsey having children was a defining moment in the SnL drama. And then there's this quote from the MTV Interview this past April which sort of validates that: "Asked when she knew the romance was really over, Nicks said, "The day his first child was born. I knew that was it ... that was the definitive thing."

It may be a stretch, but certainly a possible theory.

daniellaaarisen · #41 08-10-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Amlyn

Awhile back I was reading some old posts on Buckinhamnicks.net and this topic was discussed over there. There was some speculation that the emotions were running rampant around that time because the beans were probably spilled about Kristen being pregnant.

Now, it's possible that has absolutely nothing to do with what happened that night, but still it seems like Lindsey having children was a defining moment in the SnL drama. And then there's this quote from the MTV Interview this past April which sort of validates that: "Asked when she knew the romance was really over, Nicks said, "The day his first child was born. I knew that was it ... that was the definitive thing."

It may be a stretch, but certainly a possible theory.

If the timing is right, that definitely isn't a stretch. The more I learn about this tour, the more I believe that Stevie and Lindsey rekindled the romantic ties in 1997, even if they didn't act upon it.

Hmm.

Amlyn · #42 08-10-2009, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

If the timing is right, that definitely isn't a stretch. The more I learn about this tour, the more I believe that Stevie and Lindsey rekindled the romantic ties in 1997, even if they didn't act upon it.

Hmm.

Definitely seems something was brewing given the content of a good chunk of the TISL and SYW songs.

Musicman408 · #43 08-10-2009, 09:36 PM

Sadly at the moment nothing is on repeat for me since I haven't listened to and Stevie Mac in quite some time (other than the live CD from the show I went to that I listened to a few days ago). I really need to change this though- I am ready to love the Mac again!!!!

Lala · #44 08-10-2009, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

Then as they went to start Tusk, Lindsey mouthed to her, ‘Are you OK? You wanna sing?" and gestured towards the mike

I love this

paleshadow · #45 08-10-2009, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

Meh, I really believe that Lindsey wouldn't have gotten emotional if it was just an issue with her voice. Maybe its just the shipper in me.... but I donno.

Oh, I think he would have. Remember, this is someone who clearly he loves in one way or another, and to see her struggle with her voice and get upset could very easily have upset him as well. I guess only the two of them know for sure though. Either way it's a shippers dream.