Stevie News: She's Touring With...

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

The man looks like a piece of old leather.

So we might get Stand Back AND Leather and Lace?!

[Christopher]

Well for all we know, it could be a mix up, or Rod & Stevie will be co-headlining on a few sporadic dates depending on the outlets, with Stevie and Dave S. cutting loose for a few dates on their own in smaller venues. She did say she wants to promote this new record all of 2011.

But I agree with Jondalar, teaming up with Rod makes Stevie seem older and reaks of a nostalgic money grab. Exactly like we all said when the rumors of FM going on the road with the Eagles in 2010 1st started floating around.

[SandyMac]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

I'd rather hear Stevie singing "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"...

LOL, yes agreed, would think that would be AWESOME and worth the price of admission.

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by SuiteShangriLa

i dont see Stevie accepting to be an opening act to ANYONE at this point in her career.

Nor do I... This really doesn't make sense... I just read a November interview with Rod. He was just in vegas at Caesars for 8 nights... AEG who books the venue was seeing if he was viable as a resident now that Bette is gone and I think Cher is finished, or finishing up too...

Anyway, he mentioned that on tour, people either want rock ’n’ roll classics or the American Songbook, but not many want both. My point being that he just released his fifth song book album in November, he's got the Songbook Greatest Hits cd coming in February... and to drop all that and switch to a rock show for a tour with Stevie, kind of doesn't make sense from a promotional point of view. Who would do that? If he's out promoting the Songbook albums and Stevie comes out as an opener and blows the roof off the place, that doesn't fit either. Plus the fact they are on different labels (I'm hung up on that). Stevie's show would have to be complimentary to his show as an opener and vise versa...

I'm rambling just trying to make sense of this...

And someone mentioned that maybe this is Dave's collaboration bombshell he's going to drop. Well, when did it become his job to promote something that he's not even involved in? Unless of course he's referring to a collaboration on record between Rod and Stevie for her album - and he produced it - then it's his place...

Anyway... Carry on.

[Jondalar]

umm if she goes on Ellen on 1/31, doesn't that mean that the album is in the can. She has to have something to promote, not just the tour. I'm sure we will know a lot more details soon.

[SuiteShangriLa]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Nor do I... This really doesn't make sense... I just read a November interview with Rod. He was just in vegas at Caesars for 8 nights... AEG who books the venue was seeing if he was viable as a resident now that Bette is gone and I think Cher is finished, or finishing up too...

Anyway, he mentioned that on tour, people either want rock ’n’ roll classics or the American Songbook, but not many want both. My point being that he just released his fifth song book album in November, he's got the Songbook Greatest Hits cd coming in February... and to drop all that and switch to a rock show for a tour with Stevie, kind of doesn't make sense from a promotional point of view. Who would do that? If he's out promoting the Songbook albums and Stevie comes out as an opener and blows the roof off the place, that doesn't fit either. Plus the fact they are on different labels (I'm hung up on that). Stevie's show would have to be complimentary to his show as an opener and vise versa...

I'm rambling just trying to make sense of this...

And someone mentioned that maybe this is Dave's collaboration bombshell he's going to drop. Well, when did it become his job to promote something that he's not even involved in? Unless of course he's referring to a collaboration on record between Rod and Stevie for her album - and he produced it - then it's his place...

Anyway... Carry on.

it doesnt make sense...
just thinking of some popular acts ...the biggest tours/artists recently...Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, U2...anyone of these acts could ask Stevie "would you open for me on my summer tour?" and she would say...Kiss my ass...I'm Stevie Nicks!!!

[elle]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

I haven't heard Rod's name mentioned in 10 years, and he makes his living by singing old standards. Yeah, he's sold more albums but not of new material.

well, you see rod every now and then on the late night talk shows, last time as somebody mentioned about a month ago when he had that last album of covers out. or you see him every time when he has a new young blonde wife and a new baby on the way

i also think that i've seen it posted here that stevie/rod tour is a possibility... i like some of his old songs (w/faces etc), used to own that double album of greatest hits back in the begining of the 80s. saw him in concert once, like '91, and was dissapointed - he was kinda like a vegas act at the time... probably didn't get any better since.

but he's entertaining to watch, and i like his raspy voice. come to think of it, i'm surprised to read all this outpur of hate for rod, when both he and stevie made carriers off their raspy voices. actually, it's all getting fuzzy anymore, but i may have seen him in concert some time in the 80s too, somewhere in germany, and that time he was more rocking... so that's why i was so dissapointed in the early 90s.

oh, and speaking of stevie's friends, rod used to sing first cut is the deepest (1977 cover)

[RockAlot]

Originally Posted by Christopher

Also does anyone remember Dave S. tweets on Dec.31st?
He tweeted:
"2011 I will be dropping a Music Bombshell on The Industry !!!!!! can't wait" and clarified minutes later saying "a bombshell in music collaboration and a bombshell to the industry as it stands"

Could Dave have been alluding that this music collaboration was with someone other than himself that Stevie had never dueted with before - someone like Rod Stewart -which has been hidden under wraps til'possibly now. I just assumed he was talking up his collaboration with Stevie once again. Maybe she re-recorded "Cheaper Than Free" with Rod, I can see them rasping out that duet together with more positive results than with Dave.

Now this might work!

[tilthefirefades]

I now regret ever fussing about Dave. This makes her much more of an oldies act than belting out Dreams for 30 years. Rod is not a flop singer at all, but all of his recent albums have been cover albums. At least Stevie hasn't stooped that low yet, and I hope she never does. I will definitely be passing on this, even if that means I never get to see her live.

[mylittledemon]

I mean Rod Stewart? Really?

Doesn't it make much more commercial and musical sense to re-release Buckingham Nicks on CD, and sell it at the merch tables at a Buckingham/Nicks solo tour? For f*ckssake.

[BombaySapphire3]

Rod Stewart used to be great.."Handbags and Gladrags "Reason to Believe" ".Maggie May"."Gasoline Alley""Every Picture Tells a Story"and quite a few others are all undeniable classics.He just dropped the ball rather early on and never quite got it back.The comeback "Songbook"albums are all terrible IMO.

[RockAlot]

I too was in shock when I heard this, but come on guys who ever this "Stewart" is just out of respect we should accept Stevie's decision She has done well in the past with duo's...

And seriously, Ellen's very own website reads "Rod Stewart" & "Stevie Nicks", if its suppose to be "Dave Stewart" somebody needs to lose there focking job!

[elle]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I mean Rod Stewart? Really?

Doesn't it make much more commercial and musical sense to re-release Buckingham Nicks on CD, and sell it at the merch tables at a Buckingham/Nicks solo tour? For f*ckssake.

hey, let's be real - rod stewart is much more commerically viable then buckingam.

[elle]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Rod Stewart used to be great.."Handbags and Gladrags "Reason to Believe" ".Maggie May"."Gasoline Alley""Every Picture Tells a Story"and quite a few others are all undeniable classics.He just dropped the ball rather early on and never quite got it back.The comeback "Songbook"albums are all terrible IMO.

well, he's 65 and he has all those wives to pay off and kids to feed...

[tilthefirefades]

Originally Posted by elle

hey, let's be real - rod stewart is much more commerically viable then buckingam.

I try my best to be a good little chiffonhead. But if we really were the only thing in the whole world that matters to Stevie, she wouldn't let the record company dictate who she tours with, release an album every century, etc. At least Lindsey says he doesn't care about the money, and has actually released some new material since SYW.