On Thursday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, NY (on Long Island) — the 48th and final show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Chrissie Hynde joined Stevie onstage for one last rendition of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” After the song, each member of The Pretenders came out onstage to give final everyone hugs.
During The Pretenders’ set, Chrissie dedicated “Hymn to Her” (from their 1986 album Get Close) to Stevie. “That was for Stevie. This is the last night of our North American tour.”
Photos
Thanks and much love to Chanty Dee, NYCB Live, Josh Phillips, and Keith Scholder for sharing these photos.
“The crowd was aware of the fact that they were in the presence of a rock and roll countess. Her 24 Karat Gold tour stop at Nassau Coliseum earned an A rating.”
Saw Stevie Nicks with Chrissie Hynde – Coliseum… Chrissie, amazing, Nicks talks way too much..Best pic of the night double rainbow pic.twitter.com/PiVE416mcp
On Friday night, Stevie Nicks performed at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, PA — the 45th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.
Like in Indianapolis on Sunday, the Pittsburgh show was also filmed for PBS Soundstage. At the end of the show, Stevie and Chrissie re-taped “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”
Videos
Thanks and much love to Geeks Burgh, Dana DeFabbo, Hannah Marckisotto, Michael Palmer, and scarletbegonia3 for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Hannah Marckisotto)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1qV7T3Labk
Gypsy – partial (scarletbegonia3)
Wild Heart – partial (Dana DeFabbo)
Bella Donna – partial (Dana DeFabbo)
Bella Donna cape story (Dana DeFabbo)
New Orleans (Geeks Burgh)
Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Geeks Burgh)
Stand Back – partial (Dana DeFabbo)
Edge of Seventeen (Michael Palmer)
Rhiannon – partial (Dana DeFabbo)
Landslide (Geeks Burgh)
Landslide (Hannah Marckisotto)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kkb0NOiFGA
“This is dedicated to Max, the favorite of all the children. And this is ‘Landslide.’”
On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ — the 46th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Just two shows remain in the tour, but Stevie is showing no signs of slowing down!
Photos
Thanks and much love to Joe Donahue, Prudential Center, and Jane Sabini for sharing these fantastic photos!
“As anyone who has heard her being interviewed knows, she’s a great raconteur — open and honest and always ready to delve into some fascinating tangent — and the stories made up a big portion of Sunday’s set.”
A fantastic 4 hr concert just ended; 60-70% crowd women ; many dressed in Stevie Nicks style. This song Stevie ended her encore with… pic.twitter.com/QhDWP7K6Cz
Stevie Nicks is in Newark tonight, performing in the original 1982 cape from "Bella Donna." "Not a fringe missing!" says Stevie pic.twitter.com/otGE1te6K7
Stevie Nicks ateotd is a folk singer. So she has a long and beautiful story before each song. Here she is singing her hit Gypsy… pic.twitter.com/FLD0pPykAN
On Wednesday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN — the 44th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. For the first time since March 21, Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders returned to the stage to open the show. Still recovering from a respiratory infection, Chrissie performed a shorter set than usual and wisely sat out during Stevie’s “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”
Photos
Thanks and much love to Jessica Hoffman (slideshow photos), Robert Scheer (slideshow photos), Eric B, Melissa, Q95, and Ryan and for sharing these photos.
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(Ryan)(Eric B)(Eric B)(Melissa)(Q95)
Videos
Thanks and much to Spencer Beneky, Erron Fleshman, Daniel LaPorte, and M J for sharing these videos. More videos to be added soon!
Gold and Braid (M J)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5VyBx240g
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around – partial (Daniel LaPorte)
what a legend @StevieNicks you are such a beautiful person inside and out loved hearing your stories about each of your songs pic.twitter.com/WCuEqk5QhI
On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, MD — the 43rd show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. For a third show in a row, The Pretenders did not perform due to illness. Some members of the band are suffering a respiratory illness.
Photos
Thanks and much love to Jim Hunter, Diane Lyn, and Faith Merritt for sharing these photos.
Thanks and much love to jclark0333, Tango Cruz, Stephanie Morton, oldschool7166, Jim Powers, and nraymond81 for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Jim Powers)
If Anyone Falls (jclark0333)
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Jim Powers)
Gypsy (Jim Powers)
Gypsy (nraymond81)
Wild Heart / Bella Donna (jclark0333)
Enchanted (Jim Powers)
New Orleans (jclark0333)
Starshine (jclark0333)
Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Jim Powers)
Stand Back (TangoCruz)
Stand Back / Meeting Prince story (Jim Powers)
Meeting Prince story (nraymond81)
“So here’s my Prince story. Prince and I were friends. I first met him probably in 1977 at Warner Bros. I didn’t really know who he was, and I didn’t really know what his music was. He was not that…he was that guy up there. He was not that guy yet. He was very shy and quiet, standing over there on the other end of the room. And a friend of mine took me and introduced us and I talked to him. I sat on the couch next to him and I talked to him for a minute. Not very talkative. And you know, I’m really a talker, so. So he’s like looking at me like eyes crossed, right? And I’m like Prince, you’re gonna have to learn to talk more. At that point, I just said, Nice meetin’ ya.’ I said, ‘I have to flutter. I have to go mingle a little.’ So I left and I never saw him or really heard of him again for a while up until like the beginning of the ’80s. So that was a couple of years.
In 1981 or ’82, I got married [for] 3 months — that’s it. The guy who introduced me to Prince was the guy that I married. So he and I are driving to Santa Barbara on our honeymoon and this song comes on the radio and I’m like, ‘Who is that? This is like such a great song.’ And my husband says, ‘It’s Prince. Remember that guy?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes!’ And I said, ‘Well, you know what? I’m a like writing a new song and take his song.’ And my husband says, ‘Well, you can’t do that, it’s like Prince’s song.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I’m already doing it. In fact, it’s happening in my head as we’re speaking.’ I’m like a typewriting in my head.’ So I said, ‘We have to get some paper and pencil so I can sort of remember it.’ So we went, we got paper and pencil, pulled over to the side of the road, and I got all the words written. We recorded it on a cassette — still have it — and raced back to Los Angeles to book a studio to go in and record this song.
So I went into Sunset Sound, which we already sang about in ‘Belle Fleur.’ So we recorded it with a very small band, just especially to the ‘dah dah dah-dah dah dah’ part ’cause that’s the main part of the song that’s not his song. So we recorded it, it sounded great and at one point, I said, ‘Hold up. We can’t continue. We have to get in touch with Prince. We have to find him. So does anybody in here know how to get in touch with Prince?’ Nobody. So I said, ‘Well then, call our managers, call our business people, call everybody and tell them we need to…we need a phone number. We need to call Prince because we really can’t continue this. So we’ll just sit in here and wait’ So in about 15 minutes in came somebody with a piece of paper and a number on it, ‘Here’s the number.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my God! I can’t call Prince.’ So I go like, ‘But I have to because otherwise I can’t do this song.’ So I dial the number and the phone is answered and this man says, ‘Hello?’ I’m like, ‘Hello, Prince? This is Stevie Nicks.’ And he says, ‘Hello, Stevie Nicks. This is Prince.’ So I got through that, but now I almost don’t really know what to say. I got him on the phone. He’s nice, you know? And I said, ‘Well, this is why I’m calling: So I was driving in the car and your song came on, and what I do once in a while, I start writing another melody to your melody. In other words, I’m writing a lyrical melody and a lyric to your track.’ I’m sure he was standing wherever he was going like, [twittles fingers around head]. ‘And it’s really good, and I think you’re really gonna like it, but if you don’t like it then it’s gone, it’s done, it’s in the garbage. And where are you, by the way? Are you in Minnesota in Minneapolis in the frozen tundra?’ And he said, “No, I’m in Los Angeles!’ And I said, ‘OK! Can you come to Sunset Sound?’ And of course, I’m like getting really excited, and he can hear it in my voice. I’m going like, ‘Can you come over to Sunset Sound like soon?’ And he said, “Yeah, I can.’
So 20 minutes later in walks Prince in total purple glitter and velvet and like leggings and oh my God just so much more like dressed up than anybody in the studio. And it’s seriously like, ‘Tah-dah!’ And we’re just like standing there like really stupid, dumb people that have no business to be in the same room with this guy. So he comes in. He’s very nice. and he just looks at me and says, ‘So, play it for me. Let’s see what you got.’ I’m just about to drop dead on the floor. And so we played it, went through the whole thing, and I’m standing next him like not looking at him because the body language can totally give you away, so I’m like not even looking. And he says, ‘I love it.’ And in my head I’m going, ‘Well, that was easy. Is he lying to me?’ And he said, ‘No, really, I love it. I think it’s great.’ And I’m like, “OK. Well, do you want to play on it.’ And he said, “Sure.’
So he went out and played some synthesizer on the verses and on the middle part and he played a little bit of guitar that’s mixed in there somewhere, and that was about an hour and then we was like, ‘Well, I’m outta here…people to see, places to go. So let me know. Keep in touch and let me know what’s going on. And I love it, Stevie, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Thank you, you know.’ And so I walk him out to his car, if my memory serves me, this car was a purple Camaro! And he gives me a hug and he gets into his car, and it’s like…Vroom! He’s gone. And I walked back into the studio — it’s a lonely place now.
So that was my experience with that, and so the song that we wrote ‘Stand Back’ to was ‘Little Red Corvette.’ So your mission in life is to go home and try to stick ‘Stand Back’ into ‘Little Red Corvette.’ You can do it. Put on your musical hat.
So anyway, the great thing now about having written that song and having it be a co-written song with Prince is that Prince always worried about me through the next many years up until my final rehab in 1994. Prince worried about me — he really worried. So now that he’s gone I feel like he’s right here, and I feel like he’s watching me. He’s watching over me, and sometimes I’m very nervous when I walk out onstage, and sometimes I am, it’s different from some nights, and I’ll just go, ‘Prince, walk with me.’ And he does — he does.
So anyway, whenever you hear either one of those songs, you can think of our friend that’s up there watching over all of us and how cool it was that we accidentally got that song from ‘Little Red Corvette.’ So that’s my Prince story. There are many more, but that’s for another time.
“Nicks turned back the clock and took the crowd on a voyage where she unveiled her music, which has transcended generations. Nicks looked refreshed as she performed during the final leg of her 24 Karat Gold Tour, which combines recently recorded, previously unreleased songs with the array of hits that have made the former Fleetwood Mac singer one of rock’s most iconic women.”
On Saturday night, Stevie Nicks performed at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA — the 42nd show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. For a second show, The Pretenders did not perform due to illness. Chrissie Hynde reportedly has the flu.
Photos
Thanks and much love to Tracy K. Coogle, Lauren Irby, and Lisa McWhirt for sharing these photos.
(Tracy K. Coogle)(Lauren Irby)(Lisa McWhirt)
Videos
Thanks and much love to Michael Brown, Brian Browning, cm2mm2, Denny Henson, Alicia Horonzy, Debbie Jones, pariscold, Syds Vids, and TheLurker2k for sharing these videos.
On Thursday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, FL — the 41st show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Due to illness, Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders did not perform at tonight’s show.
Photos
Thanks and much love to Michelle Guthrie, Jack Magazine, Fran Ruchalski, and THE YANCE for sharing these photos.
