Stevie Nicks: Soundstage (2-disc set) - July 1, 2008 release

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by petep9000

Because most likely it will be live versions of 'Crash', EO17, 'Circle Dance', 'Gold Dust Woman', 'Rock And Roll' and 'Stand Back'? What I'm 'hearing' loud and clear on this thread is a bunch of voices saying "meh."

I don't own an officially-released, professionally recorded DVD with "How Still My Love," "Enchanted," "If Anyone Falls," "Fall From Grace," "Sorcerer," "Circle Dance," "Crash Into Me," "The One" or "Rock & Roll," so I'm very excited about this release.

[Hawkeye]

Stevie has NEVER released a live album/CD, ever. And she has 2 live videos, one awseome (In Concert), one EH (Red Rocks) Half of the songs she did at soundstage weren't on either of those DVD's. So I for one am THRILLED to have a great clear clean officially released DVD/CD of an excellent Stevie Nicks performance that includes things like How Still My Love, Fall From Grace, Circle Dance, Sorcerer, If Anyone Falls all on video for the first time. So I see no reason not to be excited about this release.

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Stevie has NEVER released a live album/CD, ever. And she has 2 live videos, one awseome (In Concert), one EH (Red Rocks) Half of the songs she did at soundstage weren't on either of those DVD's. So I for one am THRILLED to have a great clear clean officially released DVD/CD of an excellent Stevie Nicks performance that includes things like How Still My Love, Fall From Grace, Circle Dance, Sorcerer, If Anyone Falls all on video for the first time. So I see no reason not to be excited about this release.

This is the beauty of living in a free society, we all have our opinions. This is what makes us individuals! Here's a bouncy clown and a wavy, for our enthusiastic and diverse opinions!

[SandyMac]

Originally Posted by petep9000

And you'd buy it? And if she toured with the phonebook, wearing bunny slippers, you'd go? And feel good that you went?

Actually, seeing Stevie up there on stage wearing bunny slippers might be worth the cost of admission Maybe she can sit on a chair on stage and read Charles Dickens to us. In a way, I could go for that too. I am one of those people that are just in awe that she is still with us and wanting to tour and be out there instead of roaming around her rock and roll penthouse fading away. But that is just me. This woman inspires so many people, and love her for that uplifting spirit and energy she seems to emit.

Yes, at times, I am disappointed in her career choices, but it is her career. I really do think there are plans on the horizon for Stevie, we just are not privy to them yet. She is too creative and a free spirit to just settle down for good. The creativity might take on different forms, but I bet it is still there.

Edit: Oh, I agree about being happy about getting a professional clear copy that we will get of HSML and that kick a$$ performance of Rhiannon with the top hat and scarf. And a GDW performance that won't have her with closed eyes, and well, I could go on and on... but am so happy that an official professionally done CD/DVD will be released. I bet come July most of us will be raving about how wonderful it is and making screen caps and new banners.
(but as stated previously, we all are entitled to our own opinion, I just choose to look on the bright side of things I guess - not rose colored glasses, but take anything released by Stevie as a gift).

[RockALittle250]

I just find it disappointing that a thread intended to rely news and updates for this release has turned into an official filing of grievences. Everyone IS entitled to their own opinion(s) of coarse, but this thread was not intended for expressing our disappointments with Stevie. Personally, i find it laughable that some members here want her to keep up a pace where she is continuing to compete with artists who are 1/2 or 1/3 her age. The era of Bella Donna to Mirage to Wild Heart level recorded output is over. What more do you want from her? The woman is clearly burnt out, or at least taking a very extended breather. But for some0ne who has done as much as she has over the last 3 decades, isn't she entitled to keep things simple and do what she pleases?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by starshine

and just think of what we don't know or will never ever know.

Well, that's a good point. Think how everyone reacted to My Heart. She wouldn't have to do anything new. Just release old stuff that we didn't know about already and people would go absolutely bonkers. One drawback from her perspective might be that she may feel that if she released material with her youthful voice, it might invite a critical comparison to the way she sounds now.

Maybe that's why she has started to do covers, because we have never heard her sing those songs and we can't compare them to old performances, can't say she changed the arrangement to accommodate fewer octaves.

Anyway, TISL worked for her and we knew most of those older songs. If she released some that she recorded but we have never heard, people would be swarming and buzzing non-stop.

Michele

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by RockALittle250

I just find it disappointing that a thread intended to rely news and updates for this release has turned into an official filing of grievences. Everyone IS entitled to their own opinion(s) of coarse, but this thread was not intended for expressing our disappointments with Stevie. Personally, i find it laughable that some members here want her to keep up a pace where she is continuing to compete with artists who are 1/2 or 1/3 her age. The era of Bella Donna to Mirage to Wild Heart level recorded output is over. What more do you want from her? The woman is clearly burnt out, or at least taking a very extended breather. But for some0ne who has done as much as she has over the last 3 decades, isn't she entitled to keep things simple and do what she pleases?

Of course she is. And my 75 year old mother is entitled now to sit on her sofa and watch TV and complain about her arthritis and her macular degeneration. But that doesn't mean I don't miss the way she was in 1975, when she could run up and down the stairs like a gazelle and carry 3 full paper grocery bags (remember those?!) in her arms out of the car.

I think if 'Rock And Roll' and 'Circle Dance' rocks someone's boat, more power to them.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by petep9000

And you'd buy it? And if she toured with the phonebook, wearing bunny slippers, you'd go? And feel good that you went?

...Only if she still spun around acoupple a times.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by petep9000

Of course she is. And my 75 year old mother is entitled now to sit on her sofa and watch TV and complain about her arthritis and her macular degeneration. But that doesn't mean I don't miss the way she was in 1975, when she could run up and down the stairs like a gazelle and carry 3 full paper grocery bags (remember those?!) in her arms out of the car.

I think if 'Rock And Roll' and 'Circle Dance' rocks someone's boat, more power to them.

I like what youve said here. and it makes sense. and i understand. MY only complaint really is when people COMPARE the two. missing is understandable, comparing, not so much. It' be like someone sayin "hey ma, get off the couch and go run some stairs. God, you've become SOoo Complacent!"

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by petep9000

Do we know what's going to be 'new' on it? Lots of old things from the attic turned into pretty stage pieces, like '24 Karat', 'I Can't Wait', 'Blue Lamp', 'Julia', 'If You Were My Love', and 'I Call You Missing'?

Because most likely it will be live versions of 'Crash', EO17, 'Circle Dance', 'Gold Dust Woman', 'Rock And Roll' and 'Stand Back'? What I'm 'hearing' loud and clear on this thread is a bunch of voices saying "meh."

It'll ALL be new to those of us who ONLY have "live (and wasted) Red Rocks 86'"
It seems like so manny people have ALL THESE bootlegs from EVERY tour that theyve seen a million times, and so NATURALLY, OF COURSE they are board. I loved hearing how still my love, cause iv'e only seen stevie from the street angel tour on, and had never seen it live, cause i dont have all the bootlegs. it kinda spoils the thrill, when something like this DOES come out. its like, Chocolate Cake is Great, but NOT if you have it all the time, it gets to be too much of a good thing. and then you dont enjoy it as much.

[Steviefan49]

Originally Posted by SandyMac

Actually, seeing Stevie up there on stage wearing bunny slippers might be worth the cost of admission Maybe she can sit on a chair on stage and read Charles Dickens to us. In a way, I could go for that too. I am one of those people that are just in awe that she is still with us and wanting to tour and be out there instead of roaming around her rock and roll penthouse fading away. But that is just me. This woman inspires so many people, and love her for that uplifting spirit and energy she seems to emit.

Yes, at times, I am disappointed in her career choices, but it is her career. I really do think there are plans on the horizon for Stevie, we just are not privy to them yet. She is too creative and a free spirit to just settle down for good. The creativity might take on different forms, but I bet it is still there.

Edit: Oh, I agree about being happy about getting a professional clear copy that we will get of HSML and that kick a$$ performance of Rhiannon with the top hat and scarf. And a GDW performance that won't have her with closed eyes, and well, I could go on and on... but am so happy that an official professionally done CD/DVD will be released. I bet come July most of us will be raving about how wonderful it is and making screen caps and new banners.
(but as stated previously, we all are entitled to our own opinion, I just choose to look on the bright side of things I guess - not rose colored glasses, but take anything released by Stevie as a gift).

I gotta say "high five" on this post for sure! I concur with what you said 500%! It "IS" Stevie's career, and HER choices as to what songs she sings! I don't recall ANYONE holding any guns to my head MAKING me buy tickets to her performances! I can't tell you how much she's meant to me over the years, and how much she means to me NOW! I don't regret spending what I have on her over the years at ALL! And will gladly spend more, as long as we are blessed to have her around rocking!

[RockALittle250]

Originally Posted by Steviefan49

I gotta say "high five" on this post for sure! I concur with what you said 500%! It "IS" Stevie's career, and HER choices as to what songs she sings! I don't recall ANYONE holding any guns to my head MAKING me buy tickets to her performances! I can't tell you how much she's meant to me over the years, and how much she means to me NOW! I don't regret spending what I have on her over the years at ALL! And will gladly spend more, as long as we are blessed to have her around rocking!

Amen to you and SandyMac!!

[Steviefan49]

Originally Posted by petep9000

And you'd buy it? And if she toured with the phonebook, wearing bunny slippers, you'd go? And feel good that you went?

Absofrickinlutely!!!! I'd feel GREAT that I went whatever she was touring with, and wearing!! I may not like her set list, or agree with what she sings, but that's NOT my choice- it's HER'S! Does that mean we all have to be ugly and bad mouth her?? No! Does that mean I'm not going to like her music anymore ? No! Does that mean I'm NOT going to buy any of her new cd/dvd 's forthcoming, because I feel she sings the same songs all the time? No! I look at all of the song's she's given us over the past 30+ years, that has gotten me, personally, through some pretty hard times in my life, and I thank GOODNESS that I've had her music in my life to get me through the times it did! Instead of focusing on the positive points of Stevie, people are finding the negative to be more appealing. Why doesn't eveyone take a nice deep breath, remember all of the "GOOD" songs she's given us over the years, and try to forget the "negatives" here.. We have enough "negatives" as it is with the price of gas going up, and the economy situation... I feel Stevie, is one of the BRIGHT points of my life, for sure!

[RockALittle250]

Originally Posted by Steviefan49

Absofrickinlutely!!!! I'd feel GREAT that I went whatever she was touring with, and wearing!! I may not like her set list, or agree with what she sings, but that's NOT my choice- it's HER'S! Does that mean we all have to be ugly and bad mouth her?? No! Does that mean I'm not going to like her music anymore ? No! Does that mean I'm NOT going to buy any of her new cd/dvd 's forthcoming, because I feel she sings the same songs all the time? No! I look at all of the song's she's given us over the past 30+ years, that has gotten me, personally, through some pretty hard times in my life, and I thank GOODNESS that I've had her music in my life to get me through the times it did! Instead of focusing on the positive points of Stevie, people are finding the negative to be more appealing. Why doesn't eveyone take a nice deep breath, remember all of the "GOOD" songs she's given us over the years, and try to forget the "negatives" here.. We have enough "negatives" as it is with the price of gas going up, and the economy situation... I feel Stevie, is one of the BRIGHT points of my life, for sure!

Once again...Amen!

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by Steviefan49

I gotta say "high five" on this post for sure! I concur with what you said 500%! It "IS" Stevie's career, and HER choices as to what songs she sings! I don't recall ANYONE holding any guns to my head MAKING me buy tickets to her performances! I can't tell you how much she's meant to me over the years, and how much she means to me NOW! I don't regret spending what I have on her over the years at ALL! And will gladly spend more, as long as we are blessed to have her around rocking!