Favorite Intros @ Live Shows

[ragrsrocalot]

Just wondering if anyone was interested in posting or talking about some of their favorite intros to a song from a live show, or their favorite part of a song from a live show, and why? What is it about that part that makes you feel this way?

I really love the Stand Back intro from Weedsport, NY-RAL- 1986.
Bobby Hall does her amazing **** (along with a drum beat) for a full like a full 2 minutes, then the rest of the band chimes in with the regular intro, until Stevie decides to start singing a full minute after that. In total the intro is about 3:22 long, and in my opinion it totally kicks ass!


Stand Back
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bbs02q

[equeen102289]

I've always loved the intro to Dreams from the Wild Heart tour. I was going to upload the version from Dallas that I have, but it's lossless and 56 mb and was taking too long, so I said forget it. Maybe someone has it or at least another good quality version of Dreams from this tour?

[David]

I like the keyboard pads that linked the end of "Dreams" with "Rooms on Fire" on the 1989 tour. It was a nice little mood piece in the medley. It was great up in Sacramento at the state fairgrounds. I guess Chris Cameron is the one who played it. Maybe Bobby Martin played secondary boards on it. The part was basically the same idea from night to night, but because it was improvised, there were cute little differences in the melodic lines.

[GODDESS6]

any intro, where stevie's father introduces her~ i have always thought it was just sweet as hell~

[David]

Also "Stand Back" on the 1983 tour was the best energy in Stevie's shows of all time. The drum machine was set on a straightway 4/4 beat, Bobbye Hall played her congas, & then finally Kunkel kicked in on his kit right before the synth part made everybody recognize what it was.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

any intro, where stevie's father introduces her~ i have always thought it was just sweet as hell~

Me too, I was gonna post the same thing.

You can just hear the pride in his voice:

"Ladies and GENTLEMEN,
my DAUGHTER,
Stevie NICKS!"

"dooo - DOOO-dooo, doo-doo-DOO-dooo Out-SIDE'S the RAIN AND MY HEART skips a beat..."

[nailatixela]

I like the intro to Rooms on Fire from 1999.

[vivfox]

I liked the intro by Chris Nicks on the RAL Tour: "Are you ready to rock a little? Then please welcome Miss, Stevie Nicks!"

And then the first time Stevie speaks to the audience she says, "Hello! Welcome!"

[gypsy4life]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Me too, I was gonna post the same thing.

You can just hear the pride in his voice:

"Ladies and GENTLEMEN,
my DAUGHTER,
Stevie NICKS!"

"dooo - DOOO-dooo, doo-doo-DOO-dooo Out-SIDE'S the RAIN AND MY HEART skips a beat..."

EX-ACT-LY!!

[whitesoxx]

Each and every Stevie Nicks show should start with "Outside The Rain". Period.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Me too, I was gonna post the same thing.

You can just hear the pride in his voice:

"Ladies and GENTLEMEN,
my DAUGHTER,
Stevie NICKS!"

"dooo - DOOO-dooo, doo-doo-DOO-dooo Out-SIDE'S the RAIN AND MY HEART skips a beat..."

YES AND YES> BUT I have one somewhere from Enchanted where Her dad reads the definition for "Enchanted" in the dictionary and THEN introduces her and begins Outside the Rain. I am STILL soooooooooooooo dissapointed that we dont have a CLEAR NICE GOOD QUALITY version of outside the rain where it sounds modern. It really rocked for a while there. The Melbourne Symphony is a good version but again, we only have BOOTLEGS.

[gypsy4life]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

YES AND YES> BUT I have one somewhere from Enchanted where Her dad reads the definition for "Enchanted" in the dictionary and THEN introduces her and begins Outside the Rain.

I would love, love, love to hear that!!

[nailatixela]

Is that her Dad reading the dictionary, or was it Chris? It didn't sound like her Dad to me but I could be wrong.

[Nikolaj]

Her '83 solo performance at The US Festival has to qualify for this thread. Her introductions were often hilarious ('Sharon Celani, she's yours for $25,000')-- and there's what I'm pretty sure she said at the time was the first performance ever of her new song- 'Stand Back'- and her comment after- 'You could be standing in it? What does that mean? Well, you'll be the only 75,000 people who will know- it's quicksand', and the Girl Scout Cookies comment, she went off on some tangents that night! Another tangent was her 'don't tell me turn left off the freeway, I'll turn right'.
She playfully tried to (or did!) lift up Sharon's and Lori's dresses, whilst merrily exiting the stage at one point, there's a lot of fun stuff in that show- 'Mr Film Camera' (from she didn't know where) caught her with a big wineglass in her hand and getting back to the mic a tad late during the band's solos in 'Stop Draggin'-- Her yanking on Waddy's hair is pretty fiery too.
Vocally, there's my favorite ever 'How Still My Love' that night, and a terrific 'Angel' that may be better than the live Mac version.
Near the end of her set, there's a hilarious (to me, anyway) awkward plop back on to the stage-- no-one even tried to help her, and so she just climbed back onto the stage after venturing too far off of it- the plop was just before she bravely stood back up- but you try being graceful with 7 inch platforms and a good buzz going! It's to her credit she was able to get back to the stage and her mic to finish the song. I think this was during 'Edge' though it may have been 'Rhiannon'.
The bootlegs are quite good in quality, and she is in such good spirits throughout the concert.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

Is that her Dad reading the dictionary, or was it Chris? It didn't sound like her Dad to me but I could be wrong.

It was Chris.