What are the confirmed last performances of Stevie high notes?

[ViscountViktor]

When did she last perform:

- The top note in 'all your life' in Rhiannon

- The falsetto on 'it's only right' in Dreams

Thank you!

[AnthonyMI]

The Regan administration. First one.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by ViscountViktor

When did she last perform:

- The top note in 'all your life' in Rhiannon

- The falsetto on 'it's only right' in Dreams

Thank you!

So it wasn’t truly the top note “All Your Life” but in her Grammy performance with Taylor Swift she sang it in that fashion. It didn’t sound how she does today and she sang “Taken by the wind” like the White album.

This wasn’t in concert but she sang the Dreams falsetto in Deep Dish’s Dreams remix.

[Macfan4life]

I think her live high notes retired on the Mirage tour. Her 1983 tour when she did copious amounts of blow had her vocals very rough some nights. I still think she could hit some high notes but it was rare. She started relying on her back up vocalists for the Edge of 17: ooo baby ooo, said ooo around that time.
Sara is a rare recording from the Mirage tour but several of them on youtube had her perfectly hitting the highest notes in that bridgey part of Sara ooooo oooo, oooo ooo ooo said Sara. You would have thought it was December 1979 instead of October 1982. Not all nights she did that though.
She could screech in 1986 if but I don't call that a high note

[aleuzzi]

Hard to say. She was already altering the notes by Mirage, but that was likely due to lack of discipline and boredom. She still had range and quite a bit of power. So I’d say 1983/84. By the time I saw her in 1986, her voice was in shreds: it was shocking how audibly she’d deteriorated.

A few years later, I heard “It’s a Bitch” and thought—“hmmm, the high notes are gone but she sounds healthy.” She’d become a powerful vocalist of a different sort. With “Blue Denim,” I was won over to this new voice, which lasted until about 2005.

Overall, I think she sang pretty well, with gradual but not unnatural deterioration, until about 2015.

[ViscountViktor]

I think my question is more does anyone have bootleg proof eg this date is the last one we have when she sang it.

I'm pretty sure it's the 1977 Rumours tour as by the end of it she was already avoiding these notes.

The 1978 live album has her dodging them, although she does sing the falsetto top part in the Dreams chorus.

Such a shame but I think that tour changed her voice a lot.

[jmn3]

Real high notes - live? Probably the first half of the Rumours tour if we’re being honest. It’s not that she couldn’t sing the songs since then but she had to adjust. She still had a lot of power to her voice IMO through the Say You Will tour. Although by then the power and range was already quite limited but she could still nail a few songs pretty well. For the last 15-20 years she has gotten painfully monotonous. She can still have some moments but more or less throughout an entire show she is painfully blah these days. Rhiannon has been brutal for years and the bridge on Gypsy is just sad.

[jbrownsjr]

Just listen to this, and it tells a story in and of itself. She's going for those notes, but she consults her book one too many times. Book of miracles wasn't workin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tcewuSGT0

listen to the end if you can take it.

I often think of Christine's face in the booth.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Just listen to this, and it tells a story in and of itself. She's going for those notes, but she consults her book one too many times. Book of miracles wasn't workin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tcewuSGT0

listen to the end if you can take it.

I often think of Christine's face in the booth.

That being said, I’d take this over any of her other TITN songs and Family Man, especially if they’d kept that driving rhythm guitar.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

That being said, I’d take this over any of her other TITN songs and Family Man, especially if they’d kept that driving rhythm guitar.

The music is wonderful. Did you hear what she says at the end, Steve?

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by jmn3

Real high notes - live? Probably the first half of the Rumours tour if we’re being honest. It’s not that she couldn’t sing the songs since then but she had to adjust. She still had a lot of power to her voice IMO through the Say You Will tour. Although by then the power and range was already quite limited but she could still nail a few songs pretty well. For the last 15-20 years she has gotten painfully monotonous. She can still have some moments but more or less throughout an entire show she is painfully blah these days. Rhiannon has been brutal for years and the bridge on Gypsy is just sad.

yep. she struggled with the high note in Dreams on the Rumours tour. Just too much wear and tear on her voice and lots of improper vocal technque singing things like Rhiannon shredded her voice. go back and listen to Dreams and she doesn't sing the lyric on "it's only right" there she does this "hoo-hoo" in place of "right" for some of that era, and she actually whistled for a time there too. Then the others started filling in for her. And once she got backup singers they did it in her place. The Rumours tour was infamous for cancelling dates due to her voice.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Just listen to this, and it tells a story in and of itself. She's going for those notes, but she consults her book one too many times. Book of miracles wasn't workin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tcewuSGT0

listen to the end if you can take it.

I often think of Christine's face in the booth.

But she thought it was WONDERFULLLLL

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Just listen to this, and it tells a story in and of itself. She's going for those notes, but she consults her book one too many times. Book of miracles wasn't workin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tcewuSGT0

listen to the end if you can take it.

I often think of Christine's face in the booth.

I like that better than many of her songs.

My all time favorite moment is in the Tusk doc outtakes, when Lindsey asks Stevie for "as little vibrato as you can go for, Stevie", and Lindsey and Christine share a look(with no words) that Stevie doesn't see. That look spoke volumes, IMO.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

The music is wonderful. Did you hear what she says at the end, Steve?

She’s so smart.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

My all time favorite moment is in the Tusk doc outtakes, when Lindsey asks Stevie for "as little vibrato as you can go for, Stevie", and Lindsey and Christine share a look(with no words) that Stevie doesn't see. That look spoke volumes, IMO.

And then he made WMYTYTO mocking the bejesus out of that!