New Stevie Impersonator

[David]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I freaking LOVE her Street Angel performances! It's like she came out breathing fire ... That tour was one last glimpse of that Rock A Little and pre-Betty Ford passion.

No, I don't think she was breathing fire in 1994. People go overboard with their descriptions; their memories are spotty or they're in a revisionist, adulatory mood.

In 1994 on tour, the big difference was that Stevie had vibrato in her singing once again, & she was able to hit & maintain pitch -- quite well, actually (so that the various a cappella bits worked properly). But she wasn't Rock a Littling. She was still big & lumbering. It's just that she could sing clearly & tonefully, so it was pleasurable hearing her again. She wasn't dragging her pitch south in that trumpetlike fashion that she had in 1989, 1990, 1991.