The Best of the Rock A Little Tour 1986

mikebise · #1 05-14-2010, 05:35 PM

No, I have none to post at the moment, but let's start a companion to the thread Alex started for the 1983 The Wild Heart Tour.

I'm most interested in "Rhiannon" from Dallas, Houston & Austin ~ since I was there! Front row centre in Austin!

Post your favourite 1986 live versions!

mikebise · #2 05-15-2010, 08:45 AM

Could anyone post the show that's on Cloaks & Daggers? Illinois? I lost my CD of it.

Small request: individual links and not torrents? Pretty please?

upontheventura · #3 05-15-2010, 09:17 AM

Texas, especially..

nailatixela · #4 05-15-2010, 09:25 AM

Oooh you tease. I thought you had made one already. I never got along to making one. I have a lot of RAL boots, and just don't have the time right now to listen to them all and note my favorite tracks, like I did for my Wild Heart shows.

mikebise · #5 05-15-2010, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by upontheventura

Texas, especially..

YES!!!!!!

My old cassette bootleg of the Houston show (opening night!) cut off right after "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?", but at the concert, Stevie stuck around, even as the lights were coming on, babbling away. She started talking about her love for Texas, and how she had once written a song, "Texas Girls Are the Best" and she started singing a bit of it, before she finally left the stage.

I wish someone had that to post!!!

mikebise · #6 05-15-2010, 10:24 AM

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwzztkqegqt

Here is "Gypsy" from Opening Night in Houston, as posted by Lisa in the "Demos/Live Requests" thread.

SapphireSister · #7 05-15-2010, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Could anyone post the show that's on Cloaks & Daggers? Illinois? I lost my CD of it.

Small request: individual links and not torrents? Pretty please?

Here's Cloaks and Daggers. For some reason I think the first track (Outside the Rain) is missing and I'm not sure if they are in the right order but all theses songs are from that show.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4...b5ba589d1986ba

Nathan · #8 05-15-2010, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

YES!!!!!!

My old cassette bootleg of the Houston show (opening night!) cut off right after "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?", but at the concert, Stevie stuck around, even as the lights were coming on, babbling away. She started talking about her love for Texas, and how she had once written a song, "Texas Girls Are the Best" and she started singing a bit of it, before she finally left the stage.

I wish someone had that to post!!!

Was that in '86 or '83?

"We are the girls from Texas -- Texas, the lone star state!"

Here's that from 1983. Also, notable is the goooood daaaaaamn chaaaaain.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/emzujixyew2/01 Outside The Rain.mp3

Nathan · #9 05-15-2010, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwzztkqegqt

Here is "Gypsy" from Opening Night in Houston, as posted by Lisa in the "Demos/Live Requests" thread.

I downloaded this before. And it's just fabulous.

'Weeelll, and you see your gypsy'. She just rips into every part in a way you don't normally hear on Gypsy.

mikebise · #10 05-16-2010, 09:11 AM

Nathan, thanks for posting that!

Yes, Stevie also talked about that song in 1986 in Houston on the first night of the Rock A Little Tour. After "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?", the lights were coming on and Stevie just would not shut up!

I have all this documented because I brought along my journal and wrote down (in the darkness!) as many of Stevie's lyrics changes as I could catch. Most of the changes were in "Gypsy", "How Still My Love" and "Rhiannon".

"Rhiannon" was especially different that night in Houston because Stevie sang some very different lyrics I've never heard before or since, not even on the Westwood One concert.

"Once in a million years
A lady like her
Well, she gets up
And she rises!"

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jmzvvmo5jmj/16

And she would repeat that "She gets up!" line several times throughout the song. But I've never heard it on any other 1986 concerts.

P.S. Thanks, Lindsay, for Cloaks & Daggers!

badanimals87 · #11 05-16-2010, 11:34 AM

badanimals87 · #12 05-16-2010, 01:26 PM

mikebise · #13 05-16-2010, 02:04 PM

Thank you!!!! How exciting!!!!!!

As George Takei would say: "Oh my!"

mikebise · #14 05-16-2010, 02:40 PM

The Austin labeled "Gypsy" is really the ending of "I Can't Wait" from the instrumental break. "Gypsy" was only done opening night in Houston (Viv says more and I'd LOVE to hear them!!!!).

vivfox · #15 05-16-2010, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

The Austin labeled "Gypsy" is really the ending of "I Can't Wait" from the instrumental break. "Gypsy" was only done opening night in Houston (Viv says more and I'd LOVE to hear them!!!!).

Viv says Philly. That's all.