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Originally Posted by Annabell Lee

Wow great video. You were so close !! Thank you so much for sharing !! Rod did better last night, did he have a teleprompter ? I see more of an attempt at chemistry than at Philly. It was def. an improvement ! Thanks again it was great just great !!

yes he did have a teleprompter lol! Before Stevie came on they covered it. When they were breaking down the set i saw a guy take it off for him.

My pics arent great at all but i got to see things that u guys didnt. I'll post when i get home from work.

[Christopher]

Thank You HejiraNYC! The pictures and the vid are great. Nice to see Leather & Lace coming along and Stevie sounds real good on this. Love her harmony in the chorus as usual. She should bring it back into her solo set and sing it with the girls. That would be a real full circle moment. Now, they just need to retire Young Turks, and do First Cut Is The Deepest or Reasons To Believe...and the train will be back on track.

Its mentioned a lot, but in every video I've seen on the H&S tour, my intuition tells me, these two just flat out have no chemistry! They're heading in the right direction with adding L&L. But, with barely any eye exchange during L&L, or smiling back and forth. That's just very unlike Stevie when she sings a duet with someone, to the point that watching it is almost distracting, even if the singing is good. Rod seems very sincere to her, but her body language give her feelings away. Thank heaven this U.S.tour is half-way over and can't help but think Stevie feels the same way. It just makes me long for her to be solo or share the stage with Dave Stewart - someone she obviously adores and trusts very much. It makes a big difference.

[Annabell Lee]

Originally Posted by Christopher

Thank You HejiraNYC! The pictures and the vid are great. Nice to see Leather & Lace coming along and Stevie sounds real good on this. Love her harmony in the chorus as usual. She should bring it back into her solo set and sing it with the girls. That would be a real full circle moment. Now, they just need to retire Young Turks, and do First Cut Is The Deepest or Reasons To Believe...and the train will be back on track.

Its mentioned a lot, but in every video I've seen on the H&S tour, my intuition tells me, these two just flat out have no chemistry! They're heading in the right direction with adding L&L. But, with barely any eye exchange during L&L, or smiling back and forth. That's just very unlike Stevie when she sings a duet with someone, to the point that watching it is almost distracting, even if the singing is good. Rod seems very sincere to her, but her body language give her feelings away. Thank heaven this U.S.tour is half-way over and can't help but think Stevie feels the same way. It just makes me long for her to be solo or share the stage with Dave Stewart - someone she obviously adores and trusts very much. It makes a big difference.

I couldn't agree more. I really think the problem is, there is no history between them. There's no long lost love, or a relationship gone awry,or anything that she could pull from to get that reaction. You know Stevie is all about the love, drama, etc. Her and Rod have none of it, so, it seems awkward at best for them to connect on an intimate level ! I long for the days of a good ole angry Silver Springs sung directly to Lindsey. Now THAT'S chemistry !

[HejiraNYC]

I think Stevie has better chemistry with the back-up singers than with Rod. Although, admittedly "Young Turks" is not a "sing-at-each-other" kind of song. Still, looking at each other every once in a while would be nice. But at the end of the day, it looks like Stevie is out there dancing, smiling and having fun. And a year ago, who woulda thunk she'd be singing "L&L" with Rod Stewart in 2011? I think all of this unexpected new-ness, on top of a cr@pload of new songs is just... part of the comedy of riches any Stevie fan will be enjoying this year.

[Annabell Lee]

I think so too ! It seems like a good year to be a Stevie fan ! We def. can't always say that. We're getting more new stuff from her this year than ever. I am absolutely soaking it all in, i love it !!

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[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Christopher

Thank You HejiraNYC! The pictures and the vid are great. Nice to see Leather & Lace coming along and Stevie sounds real good on this. Love her harmony in the chorus as usual. She should bring it back into her solo set and sing it with the girls. That would be a real full circle moment. Now, they just need to retire Young Turks, and do First Cut Is The Deepest or Reasons To Believe...and the train will be back on track.

Those to songs could be fantastic duets.

[michelej1]

Music Review, New York Times
Two Rockers, Old Hits And Reasons to BelieveBy BEN RATLIFF
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/ar...en-review.html

Published: April 8, 2011
The “Heart & Soul” tour, a pairing of Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks, is pure nostalgia, a valentine for the middle-aged and what they listened to from 1976 to 1978. Not a judgment, just a fact. But the really outmoded part about the concert is that the link between them is the radio.



Remember the radio? We submitted to it completely. It made the connections for us. Besides Los Angeles, teased blond hair and a tremendous talent for the exaggerated courtly stage bow, what Mr. Stewart and Ms. Nicks really have in common is that they are singer-songwriters, articulating consciousness through words and melody, and they are fundamentally different at that job.

Ms. Nicks, 62, who performed first at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, is the goddess of indirection. “Do you know what this is?” she sang in “Love Is.” “No I don’t/but whatever it is/it’s very powerful.” This could be her organizing principle. The referents of her lyrics flicker in and out; she suddenly omits the subject of a sentence, asks a rhetorical question or moves from first to third person without warning. Most pop songwriters don’t do this anymore. But Ms. Nicks is a woman who can put on a black shawl, raise her arms and spin, and the audience roars. Whatever that is, it’s very powerful.

Wednesday’s set was a tight group of greatest hits, so there was “Edge of Seventeen”: “Just like the white winged dove/sings a song, sounds like she’s singing.” And “Sorcerer”: “All around black ink darkness/and who found the lady from the mountains?” Who or what is like the dove? Who did find the lady? Essentially it’s you: the listener and her own experiences fill the gap between what is to be understood and what is not.

Ms. Nicks’s voice narrowed a long time ago, forcing her to write melodic detours away from the upper register, but her sound and phrasing remain the same. She drones and under-enunciates, the better to be misunderstood, and with several band members who have been a constant for decades — the guitarist Waddy Wachtel and the percussionist Lenny Castro — she fitted the songs to the audience’s memory.

People forget that Mr. Stewart, now 66, is a songwriter: he’s been privileging people’s material for so long and so effectively — not just the last decade of his “Great American Songbook” albums, but also his previous covers of the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Tim Hardin, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and others. Let’s treat it all as one project. He seems to.

As opposed to Ms. Nicks, there’s usually a straight-forward narrative in Mr. Stewart’s songs and the ones he chooses to cover; there’s also very little wondering or regret. As for love, he hungers, consumes, dispatches. Sometimes he fails: oh, well. (He’s good at cheery leave-takings: “Maggie Mae,” “Forever Young.”) He sees no crystal visions.

Mr. Stewart’s voice is pretty damaged, too, sometimes dropping beneath the line of audibility as his longer set wore on, swerving away from high notes and turning to a wheeze. But of course he’s had a rough voice forever, and the whole point of Rod Stewart is finessing a light engagement with one’s own material. In a succession of bright raw-silk jackets, he swiveled and high-stepped just enough to convey that he was having an all-right time, while his band and production provided the rest: a rugged rhythm section, tall female soloists in red dresses (on trumpet, tenor saxophone and fiddle), and a stage like an enormous mid-’60s television show set, clean and beautifully lit.

The stars performed two songs together, unexcitingly, during Mr. Stewart’s set — his “Young Turks,” her “Leather and Lace.” But whereas Ms. Nicks remained her own entity, Mr. Stewart traced his enthusiasms to and connections for what came before and around him. He sang songs by Sam Cooke and Chuck Berry and Hardin and Mr. Waits, and repped once again for the Celtic Football Club, as he’s been doing since the early ’70s. It’s unclear who’s heart and who’s soul. But it is clear who’s an idol and who’s a fan.

[crtrofthenight]

I'll tell you somthing... that performance HAS Tour MSG is unbelievable. She is so ON and into it. I just noticed she sang the very first word just like the white album....the way she annunciates it! I know this sounds corny but her vocal is better than years past.