Stand Back US Festival 1983

[DashingDan]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

No slings or arrows but I could not disagree more. She was awesome here in 1983. Her only rough song was Edge of 17. I saw the Wild Heart Tour and as I said earlier this looked like it was years earlier. This was her best performance of 1983 by far. Have you seen her space cadet, high as a kite performance in Largo just 6 weeks later?

Coked out here? YES but still in command.

I do totally understand what you're saying with regard to the comparison. Yes, the codeine cough syrup lethargy of that show is the worse of those two evils. I actually saw the show the day before Largo, Worcester, and it was quite similar. The 15-year-old me, never having gone to a concert before, thought that when she disappeared to her tent after Dreams, "well, she's not coming back, she's ill." She sounded so...bronchial. I was startled. But, somehow, a minute later she popped out of that little tent on stage left with a little more spring in her step.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by DashingDan

I do totally understand what you're saying with regard to the comparison. Yes, the codeine cough syrup lethargy of that show is the worse of those two evils. I actually saw the show the day before Largo, Worcester, and it was quite similar. The 15-year-old me, never having gone to a concert before, thought that when she disappeared to her tent after Dreams, "well, she's not coming back, she's ill." She sounded so...bronchial. I was startled. But, somehow, a minute later she popped out of that little tent on stage left with a little more spring in her step.

Ha ha! I was 13 and saw her one week before the Largo show. Very similar reaction. As a teen you are used to the music videos and Bella Donna show. Even at 13 I could sense something was wrong. My local paper described the Pittsburgh stop as a "What happened To Stevie Nicks Game Show" since she would disappear constantly and her band seemed as confused as her. When the US Festival footage showed up in the age of the internet, I was in complete shock at the show because it was nothing like the tour that hit the road just days later.
Speculation was she was ill around that time (last week in June). Her voice was rougher and she was so spacey. However I listened to the Philly show the day before on youtube and its completely different and she is peppy and having fun. I think she stayed up all night with Joe and never slept all day before the show. It really showed.
Besides never releasing the pro shot Largo show with the staged little girl. There was a radio show in late 1983 national broadcast of Stevie live. They played the Bella Donna concert with inserting only 3 Wild Heart songs....Stand Back, Leather and Lace, and Beauty and the Beast. I think it was recorded in Chicago and always got a kick of her confused introduction of Beauty and the Beast. "This is a story about a prince who was turned into a beast because we dont know what he did."

Yeah Ok, makes perfect sense!

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

They played the Bella Donna concert with inserting only 3 Wild Heart songs....Stand Back, Leather and Lace, and Beauty and the Beast.

Honey, Leather and Lace is Bella Donna. Check your meds.
Bless your heart...

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Honey, Leather and Lace is Bella Donna. Check your meds.
Bless your heart...

Dear Sister Honey,
Leather and Lace was performed on the Wild Heart Tour. The radio broadcast of "Stevie Nicks in Concert" featured the Bella Donna show with 3 Wild Heart tour songs inserted. The point I was making (along with the Largo show that was not commercially released) was that her management limited her live show visuals and audios because of how high she was.
Pay better attention Sister or the hay wagon may pass you by.
You'll go fast like a cropper plane
and then fast like backyard stream
She'll hit you with a fury
Whispering those words one more time baby
one more time
And she says dont let your former golden hair get in your way now

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Dear Sister Honey,
Leather and Lace was performed on the Wild Heart Tour. The radio broadcast of "Stevie Nicks in Concert" featured the Bella Donna show with 3 Wild Heart tour songs inserted. The point I was making (along with the Largo show that was not commercially released) was that her management limited her live show visuals and audios because of how high she was.
Pay better attention Sister or the hay wagon may pass you by.
You'll go fast like a cropper plane
and then fast like backyard stream
She'll hit you with a fury
Whispering those words one more time baby
one more time
And she says dont let your former golden hair get in your way now

You SAID that she added three songs from Wild Heart, then listed three songs, the other two of which were WH songs.

You're as full of caca as $tevie. REVISIONIST!

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

You SAID that she added three songs from Wild Heart, then listed three songs, the other two of which were WH songs.

You're as full of caca as $tevie. REVISIONIST!

Reading is fundamental
It was written as THEY and not she. They as in the radio concert people or whoever put her 1983 concert on the radio.

Lacking a bit in reading comprehension and Iowa Basic Skills

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Reading is fundamental
It was written as THEY and not she. They as in the radio concert people or whoever put her 1983 concert on the radio.

Lacking a bit in reading comprehension and Iowa Basic Skills

You're so full of sh*t, we all need boots.

[David]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

There was a radio show in late 1983 national broadcast of Stevie live. They played the Bella Donna concert with inserting only 3 Wild Heart songs....Stand Back, Leather and Lace, and Beauty and the Beast. I think it was recorded in Chicago

Oakland (October 4), but two of the songs were post-production dubbed and not truly live: STAND BACK and LEATHER.

Always got a kick of her confused introduction of Beauty and the Beast. "This is a story about a prince who was turned into a beast because we dont know what he did."

She said some . . . uhh . . . interesting things in October, introducing BEAUTY. Once, she even said that Beauty killed Beast and he “rose up” and carried her skyward. She got a plug in, too, for Jean Cocteau’s movie. At one of the stops, she sang the line about “My love is a man who hasn’t been tamed,” and Stevie stomped her little foot and ad libbed “He’s a total fox.” This drew a big, noisy hoot from her sisters of the moon. She was completely enamored of the fairy-tale atmosphere she had created at her concerts. Meanwhile, thousands of kids (and adults) are up there in the rafters, thinking she was quite daft. It was a great time. She really was one of those silent movie queens, embalmed in their narcissism. She was Ziggy Stardust, Theda Bara, and Princess Turandot all come to life.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by David

Oakland (October 4), but two of the songs were post-production dubbed and not truly live: STAND BACK and LEATHER.

She said some . . . uhh . . . interesting things in October, introducing BEAUTY. Once, she even said that Beauty killed Beast and he “rose up” and carried her skyward. She got a plug in, too, for Jean Cocteau’s movie. At one of the stops, she sang the line about “My love is a man who hasn’t been tamed,” and Stevie stomped her little foot and ad libbed “He’s a total fox.” This drew a big, noisy hoot from her sisters of the moon. She was completely enamored of the fairy-tale atmosphere she had created at her concerts. Meanwhile, thousands of kids (and adults) are up there in the rafters, thinking she was quite daft. It was a great time. She really was one of those silent movie queens, embalmed in their narcissism. She was Ziggy Stardust, Theda Bara, and Princess Turandot all come to life.

Wow, good to know. For overdubbed songs, they were not great at all. The original live cuts really must have been messed up. But the clue was only having 3 Wild Heart Live tracks inserted into the Bella Donna concert. WTF? Thats almost admitting the stuff was too wacky or crazy for radio. BTW, do you remember the Pittsburgh show being extra bad. She was hoarse, spacey, and she claimed there were microphone problems and stopped the show several times. A few songs she sang from Waddy's mic and then Sharon's mic.