Spac Show Tonight

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by PastelGravel

Great re-cap Ed. It's Melody BTW (and Tod)

What a journey you guys have been on. Love it!

Thanks, Melody. I have such a horrible memory when it comes to names, but all I kept thinking to myself was how Pastel Gravel was such a weird concept. Nice to meet both you and Tod. Hope you are enjoying New York City (and spending your loonies wisely).

Originally Posted by SaraThePoet

I am so glad someone else can echo the awesomeness of boston as opposed spac i sorry.we were both a those two shows and didnt get to meet though

Yes, it was like night and day, wasn't it? But a stock Stevie show is still better than anyone else.

Originally Posted by michelej1

Stevie attracts mainly fans of her own height in that region.

Great adventure. Oh my goodness, your six hour drive, in moutainous, unfamiliar territory . . . I could not do it. Aside from fears about weather, my car, getting lost, and an accident I would also expect to be kidnapped and victimized in one of those Hills Have Eyes scenarios. Hmmm.

Michele

The hills do have eyes... of mostly the bovine and equine variety. But there really was no time to ponder the potential for misfortune when you are on an abbreviated timetable. Priorities are priorities! Yes, the interstate would have been much faster and convenient, but I still wouldn't have changed a thing- I enjoyed watching the countryside flash by in a blur.

Oh, and even Michael Grimm is a munchkin. Al, Waddy, Carlos- her entire front line- are probably 5'7" or under; I suspect Lenny and Jimmy are also in the same league. Next thing we know, Stevie will be moving her base of operations to Cornwall, England.

Originally Posted by J.Miller

You are living my dreams, thanks for posting.

Aw... Well, hopefully you'll be able to try it some time. And FWIW is a surprisingly apt road song!

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

OMG you guys went to SPAC via Brattleboro? I'm surprised you didn't switch to a boat for that part of the trip. That's dedication.

At one point, while passing a farm, we seriously considered ditching the van and going the rest of the way to Saratoga Springs on horseback.

Originally Posted by greendaze5

Don’t know if this was mentioned before - but you can get a signed copy of ‘IYD’ at the merch booth for a measly $30.

I didn't know this! Very interesting. Imagine how many more CDs she would sell if she actually came out to the merchandise booth and signed them in person like Michael Grimm.

[jkmaletic]

Wow- the stage is really low there! You could give Stevie a shoe shine!

It seems Stevies energy feeds off the crowds and vice versa, which explains the difference between this show and Boston.

Jamie

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by jkmaletic

Wow- the stage is really low there! You could give Stevie a shoe shine!

It seems Stevies energy feeds off the crowds and vice versa, which explains the difference between this show and Boston.

Jamie

hahaha shoe shine.but the setup sucked.very limited.The pit section was barred in.As I remeber I did not see the option on livenation for pit only.

[kitten]

Originally Posted by SNicksed

Thank you, kitten! I am the one in the brown t-shirt. Is it okay if I repost one of the pics to my facebook page?

that's so awesome that i got you! sorry i didn't wait for your handshake moment, but she was getting really close to me then..

pm me your facebook page and i'll tag you in those pics

are you going tonight? we are in sec 104, rows C&D

[SNicksed]

Originally Posted by kitten

that's so awesome that i got you! sorry i didn't wait for your handshake moment, but she was getting really close to me then..

pm me your facebook page and i'll tag you in those pics

are you going tonight? we are in sec 104, rows C&D

The three or four people to my left are all Ledgies as well.

[kitten]

that's so awesome! sorry i didn't know to say hi

[SaraThePoet]

Yup,i was right next to Snicksed for the Edge walk..(after i folded up the folding chair in front of me and moved it so Melody,Tod and I could scoot up haha) and Lori(StevieRox81? pretty sure i forgot what her username is on here lol) was right next to me

[Troddew]

Did anyone get any video or recording?

[michelej1]

Nippertown
http://www.nippertown.com/2011/09/08...ks-spac-83011/



Decades-old Stevie Nicks songs have been given new life on club dance floors in recent years, with remixes of her songs by New York City DJ Eli Escobar, Australia’s Young Edits and many others serving as staples in sets by disco-oriented DJs.

She’s an icon, whether on the dance floor or in the pantheon of rock lore, one with a singular raspy voice and the rare gift of being able to set a crowd aflame with her wardrobe-based stage moves alone: one twirl of a cape or swirl of a shawl, and everybody loses it.

When Nicks came onstage at SPAC with her nine-piece band last Tuesday (after the PA pumped out the nearly-lost but still awesome new wave song “Destination Unknown” by Missing Persons), she launched right into the dance floor-burner “Stand Back,” which got the crowd out of their seats and moving.

“I’m so glad the weather’s beautiful, and you’re safe,” Nicks said in reference to the hurricane two days prior, after a brief wardrobe mishap required an assistant to join her onstage and un-snag a red glittery cloak from around her neck.

The crowd stayed standing during “Secret Love,” an ethereal tune from Nicks’ latest album, ‘In Your Dreams,” produced by former-Eurythmic Dave Stewart. Released in May to positive reviews, the album provided nearly half of the tunes for Nicks’ SPAC set, interspersed in well-sequenced fashion among the hits.

“C’mon we’re not kids, sit down!” yelled one crank behind me as the fans in the amphitheater were slow to return to their seats during the lesser-known number. (And there were primarily only fans in the amphitheater, as Nicks or her people refused to allow lawn tickets to be sold for this show.)

She followed with the melancholy and disillusioned “Dreams,” shimmying her arms in a fairytale-princess dance. The song was the only hit by Nicks’ longtime band, Fleetwood Mac, to ever reach number-one on U.S. charts, somewhat unbelievably given the extent of the band’s catalogue.

“I have the hit record on my wall; it’s only on mine,” Nicks said, embracing the embitterment. (She wrote the song alone, as she and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham were ending their eight-year romantic relationship).

Her new material had plenty to offer, from the stormy ballad “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” to the album single “For What It’s Worth,” which Nicks accompanied with an amusing tale about filming the video for the song at a desert lake in Nevada, which turned out to be a mirage, against her better judgment but at Stewart’s urging.

You got the sense that not many people could get Nicks to do something she didn’t want to do. The singer’s forceful personality infused hits like “Gold Dust Woman,” “Rhiannon” and “Landslide” with a dramatic power. On the former, she waved her golden shawl like a pair of bat wings as she twirled around her longtime guitarist and musical director Carlos Rios, egging on his solo, her clothing serving as both conductor’s wand and stand-in for an unseen dance partner.

Review by Kirsten Ferguson
Photographs by Andrzej Pilarczyk

[kitten]

Originally Posted by Troddew

Did anyone get any video or recording?

audio
needs editing like the other 4. someone will with more skill than i will be working on it eventually... stay tuned

kitten

[kitten]

Originally Posted by SaraThePoet

Yup,i was right next to Snicksed for the Edge walk..(after i folded up the folding chair in front of me and moved it so Melody,Tod and I could scoot up haha) and Lori(StevieRox81? pretty sure i forgot what her username is on here lol) was right next to me

i saw you guys fold up the chair! i thought immediately 'resourceful ppl'. too many obstacles to stevie these days...

kitten

[Troddew]

Originally Posted by kitten

audio
needs editing like the other 4. someone will with more skill than i will be working on it eventually... stay tuned

kitten

Thanks Kitten!