Stevie's Touring Band- Is A Refreshing In Order?

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by jeffd8382

Now if vocally Stevie just couldn't pull it off in a way that remotely worked, that's a different story of course.. and who knows.. that may have been the reason. I don't mean to criticize a scenario that I obviously had no part in... and he probably was just trying to be light-hearted in his response. And I'm certain the time factor of putting the tour together played a role. But that mentality just bothers me.

I would have to tend to agree that this is a hard song to pull off without it all sounding like a clunkering mess. Stevie probably hates it because 90% of it is sung in three-part harmony, and Waddy probably hates it because it is so full of stops/starts and changes time signatures from one verse to the next. I suspect that the only reason they could pull it off originally was because Roy Bittan and Russ Kunkel were in the BD touring band as well as the recording. It's one thing to get up on stage and attempt something like this when you're ten sheets to the wind, but when you're sober and full of stage fright, I don't think this is the type of song you would want to perform.