The Tango Tour

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I didn't go to any Tango or BTM concert. Just have seen the Tango video. But I've read (and talked with friends) that her perfomance was evidently affected during those tours. Specially Tango.

I saw the Tango tour early in October 1987. No sign of anything wrong. Stevie was alert and having fun on stage. Many times during the show she would go out of her way to get the crowd whipped up. Remember that she started with a small dose. It was not until I saw her 2 years later in 1989 that it was evident there was a problem.
Even the extensive interviews she did with MTV in 1987 were classic Stevie with no visible impairment at all. 2 years later she had the klonopin stare and seemed distant and uninterested. Like any drug she kept upping her dose over the years.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I saw the Tango tour early in October 1987. No sign of anything wrong. Stevie was alert and having fun on stage. Many times during the show she would go out of her way to get the crowd whipped up. Remember that she started with a small dose. It was not until I saw her 2 years later in 1989 that it was evident there was a problem.
Even the extensive interviews she did with MTV in 1987 were classic Stevie with no visible impairment at all. 2 years later she had the klonopin stare and seemed distant and uninterested. Like any drug she kept upping her dose over the years.

reminded me of the MTV interviews she did for WH in which she was clearly coked out...

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

reminded me of the MTV interviews she did for WH in which she was clearly coked out...

Really?
I could not disagree more. In 1983 her voice was coked out and she would sway back and forth. She seemed grounded IMHO

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Really?
I could not disagree more. In 1983 her voice was coked out and she would sway back and forth. She seemed grounded IMHO

I was talking about interviews on MTV, particularly ones she did with Mark whats-his-name on MTV (dark curly hair veejay) not stage performances. There's a seated interview where she's a bit looped and her eyes are like totally dilated and one where they are standing outside and she is totally coked up and giggly and incoherent.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I was talking about interviews on MTV, particularly ones she did with Mark whats-his-name on MTV (dark curly hair veejay) not stage performances. There's a seated interview where she's a bit looped and her eyes are like totally dilated and one where they are standing outside and she is totally coked up and giggly and incoherent.

Yes that's from 1983 US Festival
Her and Mark would do huge lines of coke together.

In 1987 she gave several MTV interviews. The one where she says she did not want to be a hot dog for Halloween but always wanted to be a witch. Then the other long one where she is in the fur coat talking about the tour. Those interviews were normal.

[BLY]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I saw the Tango tour early in October 1987. No sign of anything wrong. Stevie was alert and having fun on stage. Many times during the show she would go out of her way to get the crowd whipped up. Remember that she started with a small dose. It was not until I saw her 2 years later in 1989 that it was evident there was a problem.
Even the extensive interviews she did with MTV in 1987 were classic Stevie with no visible impairment at all. 2 years later she had the klonopin stare and seemed distant and uninterested. Like any drug she kept upping her dose over the years.

Yes...that’s how I remembered it. On the 1987 tour she was fine.....saw a slow decline on the OSOTM tour and BTM tour. When I met her after a Street Angel show she was out of it....but she sure sounded good that night.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by BLY

Yes...that’s how I remembered it. On the 1987 tour she was fine.....saw a slow decline on the OSOTM tour and BTM tour. When I met her after a Street Angel show she was out of it....but she sure sounded good that night.

She was off klonopin when Street Angel was released. She had a huge accident and finally got help towards the end of recording Street Angel. When she got out of a long rehab she finished the album.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

She was off klonopin when Street Angel was released. She had a huge accident and finally got help towards the end of recording Street Angel.

What was her huge accident???

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

What was her huge accident???

I believe it was December 1993 when Stevie fell in her living room and bashed her head into the fireplace. It was the catalyst for her friends (who where there) to finally speak up and get her to rehab. I guess it was her "rock bottom" moment (pardon the pun).
I cant imagine for the life of me what a Streel Angel tour would have been like if she had not cleaned up. 1994 was the first tour in 20 years that she was not on some substance while performing live. Her hair was fried, her waist bigger, but supposedly clean as a whistle.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I believe it was December 1993 when Stevie fell in her living room and bashed her head into the fireplace. It was the catalyst for her friends (who where there) to finally speak up and get her to rehab. I guess it was her "rock bottom" moment (pardon the pun).
I cant imagine for the life of me what a Streel Angel tour would have been like if she had not cleaned up. 1994 was the first tour in 20 years that she was not on some substance while performing live. Her hair was fried, her waist bigger, but supposedly clean as a whistle.

Wow, I can't believe I've never heard that story before.

Did she fire any of those friends from her life? Addicts often do...

Do you know who there were?

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Wow, I can't believe I've never heard that story before.

Did she fire any of those friends from her life? Addicts often do...

Do you know who there were?

This was in the People's magazine article when she blew the lid off her coke addiction, klonopin addiction, and breast implant removal (or anther article around that time). Remember when she told people she kept her breast implants in her freezer?
Years later she softened the story claiming she asked Mike Campbell to take one of her klonopin doses and he was so wiped out that he urged her to get help. So not sure if the Mike Campbell story came before or after the fall. She also stated kicking tranqulizers was brutal as you can imagine being hooked for so many years. Her hair turned grey and her skin shed like a snake.
All of this is my paraphrasing and article from 1998.
After rehab she pissed off her producer and brought Waddy in to play guitar over songs and Sheia E's brother to do percussion while her producer was in England. She claims she did not have time to fix the record properly and it was already overdue because of her rehab.

Edit: Here is the article. One part I forgot is after she gashed her head open on the fireplace....she never felt a thing! (now that's some serious drug)

https://people.com/archive/high-priestess-vol-49-no-2/