Stevie's next opening song should be ... - Page 2

APerfectLie · #16 10-25-2010, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I can't help it, I know it's as tired and worn out as Stevie's cooze itself

, but opening with:

Outside the Rain

Then bleeding into:

Dreams

Just works.

Agreed! But I didn't suggest it for fear of my life.

daniellaaarisen · #17 10-25-2010, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kokoro

Here's an intro that I have labeled as Portland:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9klay8nvan8mikr

I am UNBELIEVABLY obsessed with this.

Let's start a petition for her to bring this back. I'm seriously in love with it.

LiquidDiamonds · #18 10-25-2010, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Travis

Nightbird done live - YES ... and as an encore, the 1st after Edge, YES, but ...

Opening??? Umm, no

It's better than Outside the Rain.

daniellaaarisen · #19 10-25-2010, 06:48 PM

So you guys all just think "Outside the Rain" is boring? Frankly, the opening is one of my favorite parts of a Stevie show.... I LOVE that song.

Silver Springs · #20 10-25-2010, 06:49 PM

I wouldn't mind Highwayman, because I like it when shows start off slow and then kick up pace to a heavy crescendo, much like Silver Springs. But I realise that's not to everybody's taste.

GavinBrown · #21 10-25-2010, 07:21 PM

I kinda liked seeing Fall From Grace as an opener at the casino shows this summer....

SapphireSister · #22 10-25-2010, 08:07 PM

^^Ditto. FFG is a great opener!

My thoughts on OTR - I've never really liked the studio or live version of this song but I absolutely LIVE for the for transition music from Dreams to OTR live. It gives me chills just thinking about it and always brings me back to that feeling of being at a live show. This is pretty much also the reason I don't want her to get rid of Dreams in the set list, I won't get my transition! On another OTR note as I mentioned not being crazy about the music I've realized only within the last couple of months how brilliant this song is lyrically. Honestly, some of Stevie's most compelling and relateable lyrics ever:
Outside the rain
And the heart skips a beat
So you're lonely (yes Stevie, I am!)
Creature of the night
It's been almost a week
Can you love me only (could you??)
*swoon*

louielouie2000 · #23 10-25-2010, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

We need to be excited. Not sleepy. You should be shot for just suggesting this(in this thread).

HEY! Nobody said nothin' about opening with "Angel!"

I just happen to really love Outside The Rain... it's one of my very favorite Stevie solo songs. I like the bleed in to Dreams, too. I think it's kind of a fun tradition (unlike her tradition of massacring Rhiannon the past 3 decades

).

michelej1 · #24 10-25-2010, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

HEY! Nobody said nothin' about opening with "Angel!"

It would be over then. She'd make so many people happy that she wouldn't even have to put on the whole rest of the show.

Michele

David · #25 10-25-2010, 08:58 PM

I think these would be popular openers:

ROCK & ROLL
LISTEN TO THE RAIN
TALK TO ME
SEVEN WONDERS
CRYING IN THE NIGHT

LukeA · #26 10-25-2010, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Travis

If not "Whole Lotta Trouble" then my vote goes to ...

Ooh My Love

Love the song, but if that's the opening number, 85% of the audience goes "WTF" and immediately grows restless. Stevie needs a hit/otherwise well known song to open her show to placate her live, paying audience.

APerfectLie · #27 10-25-2010, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by David

I think these would be popular openers:

ROCK & ROLL
LISTEN TO THE RAIN
TALK TO ME
SEVEN WONDERS
CRYING IN THE NIGHT

Please, god no! I am sooo tired of Rock and Roll.

sorcerer999 · #28 10-25-2010, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by APerfectLie

Please, god no! I am sooo tired of Rock and Roll.

Agreed. I think (especially with this new album) that Stevie should cool it with the covers, at least with performing so many of them.

I wouldn't mind seeing "Angel" or "Gold & Braid" as show openers. And I too would like to see "Rooms On Fire" put back in the mix. She doesn't do anything from TOSOTM. She should do at least one song from all her albums...oooh, but then we'd have to suffer through something from Street Angel...nevermind.

GoldDustOrphan · #29 10-26-2010, 01:12 AM

Waddy did a really long interview - I can't remember what publication - where he said he tried to get Stevie to open with Talk to Me, believing it's the perfect opener in regard to energy and familiarity.

Travis · #30 10-26-2010, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

Love the song, but if that's the opening number, 85% of the audience goes "WTF" and immediately grows restless. Stevie needs a hit/otherwise well known song to open her show to placate her live, paying audience.

Oh I don’t know Luke, I mean, OTR was never a single. Granted, more folks probably know it over Ooh My Love due to the fact she’s been forcing it on us for eons. People aren’t going to walk out of her show during the first song. She can open with it and THEN, go into something more familiar. I was just thinking yesterday while in my car listening to a Stevie mix I made in 1992 on cassette – Stevie and the Mac have basically been doing the same show ever since they started. They simply add in a few new selections with each new CD but overall, we get the same show every tour. In some ways I understand it; it’s like seeing an old friend you have not seen in while. However, I’ve just grown tired of the predicable set list. Adding one new song from the vault or a new cover song does nothing for me. I last saw Stevie in 2007 at the last show in Atlantic City and I was underwhelmed. I skipped out on 2008 and the Mac shows in 2009. I had almost zero interest in seeing them. As Stevie once said, there are some songs that fall under the category of “have to play”, I get that BUT, out with the old and in with the new I say.