Pittsburgh Post Gazette Review

PittsburghChain · #1 06-14-2005, 10:04 AM

Don Henley and Stevie Nicks

Their bands paralleled each other throughout the 1970s, and their solo careers did the same in the 1980s. Now Don Henley and Stevie Nicks intersect on their shared coast-to-coast concert tour.

The two headliners brought their overlapping performances to a soggy Post-Gazette Pavilion on Saturday. Four songs into the former Eagles songwriter's set, as he sang the "Hotel California" line, "There she stood in the doorway ...," Nicks appeared in silhouette. The Fleetwood Mac star stayed for three songs, then left Henley to finish the set with his road band.

After a quick stage set, Nicks and her band played four songs before Henley joined them for two. The co-headliners shared a three-song encore and a cuddly slow dance to close the show.

Artistically, it was interesting to hear the old friends dueting on each other's classic songs. With her husky whisper and growl, Nicks took the lower register while Henley wailed the high parts of his "Hotel California," "New York Minute" and "Last Worthless Evening" and her "Gold Dust Woman" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." They reprised their hit duet "Leather and Lace" and covered a beautiful Bonnie Raitt ballad, "Circle Dance."

True to form, Henley stuck to familiar studio versions of his songs and those he wrote with The Eagles. Nicks, however, stretched and molded her parts of the show to better fill the needs of a live performance.

-- Review by John Hayes,
Post-Gazette staff writer

Kinda A Small Review..but good none the less...right?
JV