**SPOILER** Tonight's setlist

[jkmaletic]

Originally Posted by Fiver

Now THAT was a great video recording! I love it- it's like being there again!

Jamie

[jcfree]

Thanks so much for sharing these video clips from Wiltern! These are soooooooooo awesome, I am loving these!

[vivfox]

By Phil Gallo

Fri May 27, 2011 8:55pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - At a packed Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday where the audience included Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Reese Witherspoon and Andy Garcia, Stevie Nicks took advantage of a rare night in which musicians who worked on her first album in a decade, "In Your Dreams," were on hand to make cameo appearances.

Nicks, who was celebrating her 63rd birthday, told the audience at the top of the show that she would be telling songwriting tales, even if it meant the show would last three hours and they would beg her to hush up and sing.

It didn't last that long -- she put in a nice two hours, 10 minutes -- but she did have a good number of stories, some whimsical, some historical and none more poignant than the one behind "Soldier's Angel."

One day in 2005, Nicks spent seven hours visiting wounded soldiers at a hospital and, on her way out, an emergency crew rushed in another set of the wounded. "I went in a girl and came out a changed woman," she told the audience.

The experience inspired her to write a poem that she had printed and handed out to soldiers for four years. In November of 2009, she was in London when seven British soldiers were killed in Iraq and media response in London was overwhelming; she wrote a four-page rant in her journal and eventually spent close to a year trying to turn the poem into a song. It never came to fruition.

"I have to call Lindsey," she said, which led them to completing "Soldier's Angel." Buckingham joined Nicks for an acoustic rendering of the tune, with the occasional roll of drums, that became the emotional high point of the show.

"Soldier's Angel" was one of eight songs from the new album performed, each of them explained in detail. "Annabel Lee," written when Nicks was 17, was inspired by an Edgar Alan Poe poem; "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" shares a through line with "Lady From the Mountain"; "For What It's Worth" was written about her summer riding the bus across the U.S. with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. (Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell joined the band for the tune). Nicks called it "the best summer of my life-and you can interpret that any way you like."

"Secret Love," one of several songs to feature Stewart as guest guitarist, was written in 1975, recorded on a cassette and eventually bootlegged many times over. The country-tinged duet "Cheaper Than Free" sprang from a comment Witherspoon made to Nicks and Stewart - she was offering her Nashville condo to Stewart for a couple of weeks, making it "cheaper than free."

Her six-piece band led by Waddy Wachtel and two background singers backed Nicks, who got her bearings straight after a rocky opening half-hour. At the opening of the show, she explained the importance of the Wiltern in her career: In early 1975, it was the venue where she and Buckingham first rehearsed with the other members of Fleetwood Mac - Christine McVie, John McVie and Fleetwood - having joined the band on New Year's Eve 1974.

(Editing by Chris Michaud)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...74R01S20110528

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by vivfox

"Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" shares a through line with "Lady From the Mountain"

Can someone explain to me what this is supposed to mean?

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by FM77

Keep in mind they were waiting to see how the CD did before they started planning anything. She also has been doing non-stop press for weeks. It takes time to put a tour together no matter what size AND most importantly--you have to get paid because you have to pay your crew. If it were solely up to Stevie, she would go play tomorrow. It's a big machine with lots of decision making power spread around. The promoters decide what they can pay or what markets can support the tour. Everyone involved wants to make money, not break even. I am speaking of mgmt and promoters.

She wants to go, they are discussing details this weekend. I think you will see an announcement before London. I think the Wiltern show was a sneak preview done to get buzz again and to help push the idea of a small tour. But this won't happen much before August.

I think waiting a bit to go out makes sense... gives people the opportunity to first of all discover that she's got a new album out, because at the end of the day getting the word out to the masses takes some time when you aren't a top 40 staple... Plus, it gives people a chance to live with the new music and love it...

If she can pull together a show similar to The Wiltern I think people will be extremely happy with the show die hard fan or not... It was an amazing night of music with a lot of new music but still playing many fan faves from the past. They looked so well rehearsed and comfortable playing the new stuff - and it just sounded so great! This music was made to play live... The videos are all really great from the show, but there's nothing like seeing this stuff live. GO STEVIE!!!!

[Regina]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Can someone explain to me what this is supposed to mean?

I understand through lines to mean something that's repeated, maybe with slight variations, throughout the song. Something that's not a chorus, I believe, but more of a theme. So, with this one, I'd think it was either the "strange" theme or the candles that were mentioned at the beginning and throughout the song.

I just watched the Moonlight video. Wow! Absolutely no pun intended but it's really nice to see she has something new to sink her teeth into.

[jkmaletic]

I'm currently uploading my Edge Walk video to youtube. After that I will do Love Is, then Moonlight. It's taking longer thatn usual for some reason. Maybe lots of youtube traffic today? Anyway, it is coming.

Does anyone know an EASY way to convert youtube videos to a DVD disc? I looked online and it's kinda complicated. It would be great to watch these on HDTV, and not just at the computer.


Jamie

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by J.Miller

Top this bitches!!! I swear this as good the Rosebud Rhiannon footage.

I like it at the end when she's holding that last note that even Waddy is looking at her and smiles widely. He must be thinking, "Nailed it."

Michele

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by jkmaletic

Does anyone know an EASY way to convert youtube videos to a DVD disc? I looked online and it's kinda complicated. It would be great to watch these on HDTV, and not just at the computer.

It's okay if I repeated your request with some emphasis?

Funny how the Billboard reporter expects everyone to know what "Lady From The Mountains" is...

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by jkmaletic

Does anyone know an EASY way to convert youtube videos to a DVD disc? I looked online and it's kinda complicated. It would be great to watch these on HDTV, and not just at the computer.

Get a streaming box, like an Apple TV.

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by jkmaletic

I'm currently uploading my Edge Walk video to youtube. After that I will do Love Is, then Moonlight. It's taking longer thatn usual for some reason. Maybe lots of youtube traffic today? Anyway, it is coming.

Does anyone know an EASY way to convert youtube videos to a DVD disc? I looked online and it's kinda complicated. It would be great to watch these on HDTV, and not just at the computer.


Jamie

Yep,if you use Free YouTube Download you can grab them and just make a DVD from the downloaded content

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products...e-Download.htm

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by Bryan

Yep,if you use Free YouTube Download you can grab them and just make a DVD from the downloaded content

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products...e-Download.htm

Thanks! Does it store it in a file (or go to a file) so you can put a lot of clips on one DVD, or is it one clip for one DVD right then and then when you grab it?

[jkmaletic]

Here's a link to the Edge Walk video I shot. At 1:37, my girlfriend Kim can't quite reach Stevie, but if you watch you'll see that they have a little moment where they both kind of wiggle their fingers at each other. It's cute.

Maybe some of you can see yourselves in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u356K7AE5pE


Jamie

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Thanks! Does it store it in a file (or go to a file) so you can put a lot of clips on one DVD, or is it one clip for one DVD right then and then when you grab it?

Yeah you can get as many vidz & put 'em all into a folder & set the order for a DVD.I put into AVI files and they come up great on HD TV,and sound good too!

[mikebise]

Thanks, Bryan!!!!!!!!