Let's Talk About...I CAN'T WAIT - Page 3

GoldDustOrphan · #31 08-19-2009, 01:16 AM

In regard to sound quality:

This is by far the best recording/audio quality:

Stevie Nicks - I Can't Wait (Live in Popular Creek, 6-21-86).mp3
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yjmdd0hxtdj

Holmdel comes in a distant second, followed by Oklahoma. They'll give you idea of how I Can't Wait sounded live, but that's about it.

The other recordings are audience bootlegs - transfers from audio cassette to mp3. They're all poor quality, particularly Mansfield, Mass.

Sanne2 · #32 08-19-2009, 04:41 AM

I love ICW! So much fun and energy!
The video is my favourite Stevie-video, I love how she isn't really "on point" during some scenes, she messing with her hair, she seems to be nearly cracking up by something happening behind the camera-guy and at one point she opens her mouth to start singing and then deceides not to and turns around again.

Dodfather · #33 08-19-2009, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

I'd like to see her do it in concert with the video playing first. Then, when she breaks down the wall in the video, she can break onto the stage at the same time.

I remember seeing the Ice Capades as a child and Mary Poppins did this. First you had footage from the movie and then a human Mary Poppins emerged out of the screen flying. I was mesmerized. So, if it worked for Mary Poppins, I think it will work for Stevie

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Michele

LOVE that line! Hahaha!! I may steal it, citing you corectly of course...

David · #34 08-19-2009, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by GoldDustOrphan

In regard to sound quality:

This is by far the best recording/audio quality:

Stevie Nicks - I Can't Wait (Live in Popular Creek, 6-21-86).mp3
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yjmdd0hxtdj

Holmdel comes in a distant second, followed by Oklahoma. They'll give you idea of how I Can't Wait sounded live, but that's about it.

Alpine Valley (May 31) was recorded by the same guy who recorded Poplar Creek (June 21), using the same equipment. They're virtually identical in audio quality.

There's a two-minute sampling of the song on soundboard from one of the Australian shows in September. Have you heard that?

jannieC · #35 08-19-2009, 02:38 PM

I just watched the video again because...well, I am writing case notes and sometimes I have to just *stop* and do something light-hearted for a moment.

For one thing. I think this video really illustrates the move from ethereal-soft Stevie to sexy rock chick Stevie. She was such a beautiful example of what we were all trying to achieve back then- lol.

Also, the scenes where she has just broken through and the light is shining down- so gorgeous. The hair! The moves!

Again, I guess you really just had to be there.

vivfox · #36 08-19-2009, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I just watched the video again because...well, I am writing case notes and sometimes I have to just *stop* and do something light-hearted for a moment.

You could always read the Vivfox thread for some light-hearted fun.

Black_Moon · #37 08-19-2009, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cbBen

I hate it. Stevie has plain lost it by this point. Just look at her frenetic shaking in the music video. Her range is so limited at this stage it's scary. The Red Rocks DVD says a lot, and not any of it good. But boy did she bounce back strong in 1996.

Have you heard her live in the past ten years?

Musicman408 · #38 08-19-2009, 09:08 PM

In that 9/30 Melbourne, she's forgetting words and everything.....

Black_Moon · #39 08-19-2009, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Musicman408

In that 9/30 Melbourne, she's forgetting words and everything.....

But the instruments are completely kick arse though.

petep9000 · #40 08-19-2009, 09:31 PM

I'd rather hear her skip words and bleat out some inappropriate "wells" and "babys" in a hoarse holler, kohl dripping off her eyes, etc. She was a hot mess. It's fun, like watching some kind of wild drama unfolding. She was never closer to Janis, than during the '86 tour.

petep9000 · #41 08-19-2009, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

Definitely still on LI- I lived there through my early twenties. I really need to scan some photos to show how spot on you are in your description.

Did you ever practice the hand movements? lol

I tried! I could do some of them! But, never had the opportunity to show anyone. At one of the NOTS shows, I saw a bunch of people doing them. with scary precision. I was in awe.

I'd love to see the 80's Janet, in rock-chick mode. Did you have leggings in zebra or leopard print? Black suade boots with fringe? I know all these LI looks, because my sister was 2 years older than me and she was the real deal, total 80's realness. And Stevie's hair in the ICW video is the epitome of Long Island hair, it is what every girl in every salon ('Hot Cutz', 'The Lemon Tree', 'The Mane Event') aspired to, remember? LOL

cbBen · #42 08-23-2009, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Black_Moon

Have you heard her live in the past ten years?

You're right. She probably couldn't pull off Seven Wonders the way she did in 1986.

But somehow I still think that 1985-86 was her worst period. Maybe not with respect to vocal range as I said, but with respect to vision. Either she was being led astray by producers who put her in an unflattering light, or her own vision led her astray. She had no warmth and moreover no real daring. The Red Rocks video really says it all.

1996-present finds her, if nothing else, more awake and with better artistic sensibilities.

cbBen · #43 08-23-2009, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

She was never closer to Janis, than during the '86 tour.

On this score I must respectfully disagree. I think we find her closest to Ms. Joplin on Rhiannon and Sisters Of The Moon from the Mirage video.

grace_face · #44 08-25-2009, 01:24 AM

I love this song. It's my guilty pleasure. My partner LOVES Fleetwood Mac and Stevie's solo stuff, but doesn't care for this particular song. She doesn't like much typical 8Os stuff, but this song makes me so excited. It just reminds me of waiting for Stevie to come out, at one of her shows...so exciting...*shivers*

grace_face · #45 08-25-2009, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by cbBen

On this score I must respectfully disagree. I think we find her closest to Ms. Joplin on Rhiannon and Sisters Of The Moon from the Mirage video.

I agree with this too, just to butt in and be rude, sorry! lol

I'd never seen Janis perform until last year and I was struck by the similarities in some Stevie performances of Rhiannon and Sisters of the Moon, etc. The foot stamping, the changing of hands to hold the mic, the head movement...yep.