On Friday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH — the 38th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Stevie wished everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day by sharing a photo and special message that were projected on the large screen at the back of the stage (see below).
Thanks and much love to Ann Johnston, Steve Mack, Nationwide Arena, Neil Shumate (Out of the Blue Magazine), and Jack Westerheide (slideshow photos) for sharing these pictures.
“Nicks has taken the opportunity to focus on a selection of her material deeper than just the hits and, more importantly, to tell the stories behind most of them. It was, perhaps, too much information.”
“Stevie Nicks is exactly what I wanted her to be, but I know she doesn’t care what anyone wants her to be. When the 68-year-old rock star took the stage at Nationwide Arena on Friday night, clad in a black lace dress and crazy-tall boots with a tambourine in hand, I knew it was going to be a night to remember.”
Twittersphere
Awe 😘 Went to Columbus yesterday w oldest daughter & saw Stevie Nicks & The Pretenders last night. It was AMAZING! pic.twitter.com/pX7M88Pqpz
On Wednesday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans — the 37th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Stevie returned to the “city of dreams,” where performing her Hurricane-Katrina-inspired-song “New Orleans” obviously took on a special meaning.
Thanks and much love to Rhonda Johnson, Jason D, and Amalea Summers, Genevieve Williams for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Amalea Summers)
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Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Jason D)
New Orleans (Jason D)
New Orleans (Rhonda Johnson)
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Stand Back (Jason D)
Edge of Seventeen (Jason D)
Edge of Seventeen (Genevieve Williams)
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Rhiannon (Genevieve Williams)
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Landslide (Jason D)
“Thank you. That’s another one of the songs that’s always played at my show. And every once in a while I do actually say to each of the band members, ‘Can we just not do ‘Rhiannon’ this time?’ And they’re like [gasps]! Never works.
So this song, this song we’re gonna do now, was written in Aspen, Colorado in 1973. I was there in the winter in the frozen tundra, and Lindsey had gone to be the other half of the Everly Brothers because Wally actually couldn’t go, so Lindsey got the job instead. Right? So they didn’t need an Everly sister. They didn’t, so I got dumped in the snow in Aspen and I took my best friend Terry with me because I knew I was gonna be up there by myself, and I wasn’t gonna be up there by myself.
So Terry and I ended up at this horrible apartment with this horrible fisherman guy who lived upstairs, and it was not going to be a good thing. So we were there like one day and said, ‘No!’ So we packed up our stuff and we like kind of put everything back in — you guessed it — the Toyota, which wasn’t moving then either ’cause it was stuck in the snow and it had no reverse. So we just met some really nice people and they…it’s some really nice guys…it’s not what you might think at all. It was totally above… They gave us one of their three bedrooms and so we had a really nice play to stay for the entire time that Lindsey was gone. And so anyway, one night they knew people there because they lived there. They said, ‘We’re gonna go to dinner with these great people so why don’t you guys come with us?’ So we did and they had this beautiful house, this beautiful living room, and this beautiful view and I said, ‘Can I just not go with you to dinner and just stay, sit here on the floor, and look out at this, and write a song?’ And they, ‘Of course you can!’ And so they left and I had my Goya, my little classical Goya guitar and I sat and I wrote this little song.
Never in a million years did I think — once back to having your dreams coming true — never in a million years did I think that this little song that I could play on the guitar would be the song that basically took us to the top. And not only that, but it has been off and on for several many years the favorite Super Bowl commercial song. So keep it in mind that one little tiny thing can change everything. So this little song is called ‘Landslide.’”
On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX — the 36th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. It was a lively weekend in Austin, as music revelers were also in town for the vibrant SXSW Conference & Festival. “Well, what a trip to be here during South by Southwest!” Stevie told the audience at the start of the show. Drummer Mick Fleetwood, who also in town for SXSW, was also at Stevie’s show.
Stevie visited the Lone Star State earlier in the tour, making stops in Houston (10/29) and Dallas (10/30).
Thanks and much love to atexas, Cody Bruce, daisy hayz, Lacey Monceaux, NickAguero512, and Shelly A for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Shelly A)
Greetings from Austin, TX! (Lacey Monceaux)
“I’d like to tell you a little story of this show. It’s not exactly the same Stevie Nicks show you’ve seen over the last 300,000 years. It’s different because I decided that at my age I was going to put together a show that has the songs in it that I love to sing and have never sung onstage before. So I went back through my many, many magical trunks of the lost songs, I call ’em, and pulled out my favorites and I put this little tapestry thing together, and I hope you enjoy it because it’s a lot of fun for me, it’s very, very creative. And anyway, it is a trip and it is a journey, so come with me! Let’s go!”
“Since Nicks drove, the arena had no choice – and happily so. 2014’s 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault prompted the platinum maker’s tour through solo output beginning with 1981 bow Bella Donna. If anyone came to hear mostly Fleetwood Mac songs, you couldn’t tell.”
“This concert was all about playing to die-hard fans of both bands, beyond the scope of music industry connections. When Nicks last visited Austin with Fleetwood Mac two years ago, she and the band addressed the crowd with a sense of finality, knowing it might well be the last time those five members would play together in Austin. But that didn’t mean Nicks wouldn’t come back on her own.”
Thanks and much love to @sadxhoe, Ashley Collins, KTBS, and Sheri Scott Phillips for sharing these photos.
(KTBS)(Sheri Scott Phillips)@sadxhoe(Ashley Collins)(Ashley Collins)
Videos
Thanks and much love to Ashley Collins, Scott Doucet, Chris Hemingway, Debra Lusk Johnson, Christina Martisek, Erin McCarty, and Kelli O’Neil for sharing these videos.
Gypsy – partial (Scott Doucet)
Bella Donna – partial (Ashley Collins)
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Belle Fleur (Debra Lusk Johnson)
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It’s like, ‘We’re in the money…’ It’s so great! But we would get picked up in a long, big, black, shiny limousine. And we also got a first-class ticket for a couple of places we flew off to do some press. This just killed me because I was so used to that Toyota and I was so used to living in that other world. Then all of a sudden, it was just like…it was, it was frightening almost. So anyway, what happened was, with the limousine, it started to become a thing that came to take me away — beautiful and grand and expensive and famous — but it was pulling up to my house to take me away. And if I had a boyfriend, it was goodbye and the relationship was basically over. So that started to stand for that. And as much as loved the limousine, it was kind of a sad thing. So I wrote this song about it because I thought, well, we should put… There’s the good and there’s the bad — it’s about being a famous rock star. So this song was written about that picture in my head of walking away from my house and waving goodbye to somebody and knowing that was probably it, until I found something else (lauging), which was never very long, so anyway. So anyway, the song’s called ‘Belle Fleur.’
New Orleans – partial (Christina Martisek)
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You need to write this stuff down. I’m like a reporter, I chronicle stuff, I’m an archivist — I think that’s the right word. And I don’t want people to forget, and I think people do forget. If you don’t write stuff down, it’s gonna just…time’s gonna just make it fade. So I continue to watch television every day for a couple of days. I wrote this poem, and I had to be very careful with what I was writing because you can’t, you know, you can’t… It was gonna be bad. We knew it, I knew it, we all knew it. So I had to write something that was somehow hopeful and somehow uplifting because otherwise in 10 years all the people from New Orleans will say, ‘Well gee, thanks for writing that horrible, horrific dirge about our city.’ And I’m like…so you’re going like, ‘I don’t want that so I have to figure out a way to look at this from another way.’ So I thought, OK if I was…if I had a magic wand, what would I do? I would make sure that most of the dogs that were in the water were saved; most of the people were pulled out of the water; most of the houses were rebuilt; the government slowly came in and did something…slowly; and people survived and they rebuilt their city; and they made this amazing, new, beautiful city — this quirky, unique, weird city. They brought it back because that’s what they’re gonna do, and that’s what I’m gonna write about. They say, you know, if you paint the picture, it will come true. Or if you build a field, they will come. So that’s what I tried to do with it. So anyway, we’re gonna play it for you now and it’s called new Orleans.
Twilight (A Vampire’s Dream)
Thank you. That song is probably my favorite song that I’ve written in a very long time. Just to make it short because this story is just way to long. It’s about vampires, which we know don’t really exist, but they do in the Twilight saga. And so I fell in love with that relationship between Bella and Edward, and it just took my heart, and I went straight to the piano, and I wrote this song in Australia, and I said, ‘Well, I guess I’m gonna have to make a record now because I can’t just put this one song out. So I went into the studio and made In Your Dreams and kind of walked back into the recording part of this business. The Internet had just driven me away because it was so…you know, you can’t sell anything. Who cares! I’m financially stable — it wasn’t that. It’s just the principle of it. But now, I don’t care because I can just go and make records and put ’em out and have a great time and then go back into the… It’s fine. So anyway, that is the story of Bella and Edward. So thank you and otherwise, we’re just leave them up in the twilight.
Gold Dust Woman – partial (Scott Doucet)
Edge of Seventeen (Chris Hemingway)
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Landslide (Erin McCarty)
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Landslide (Kelli O’Neil)
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… I had my Goya with me — that’s a little classical guitar. And they said, ‘Sure!’ So I spent a couple of hours there by myself, and I wrote this little song. Once again, I was just a little girl, and this little song took us all to the top. So sitting cross-legged in fringe jeans and thinking, well, it’s a cool song, I love it, and I’m happy, and off I go to the rest of my life. Never did I have any idea that this song would do what it did, besides like being the favorite Super Bowl commercial. It’s like so many things, you know? And so I just want you to keep that in your heart and remember that — the little, tiny song, little tiny dream, ah…poof! So this is ‘Landslide,’ that little song.
At age 68, Stevie Nicks still commands the stage and can deliver quite a show. It’s very obvious from the beginning of her show at the Century Link Center, she was going to do her own kind of show, not the typical Stevie Nicks show. She told the crowd “come enjoy the journey with me.” Read the full review.
I’m extremely happy to be here in your musical city that has so much history.”
On Wednesday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN — the 34th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Wednesday also happened to be International Women’s Day (March 8), which celebrates and honors the significant contributions of women around the world. Accomplished female rock icons and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde couldn’t have been a more appropriate bill to represent the special day.
Wednesday night’s Memphis got off to a funny start when Stevie misaddressed the crowd. “Well…hello, Nashville!” she accidentally said, which received some playful boos from the audience. (Memphis is about 210 miles southwest of Nashville.) But Stevie quickly recovered by humming a few bars of singer Marc Cohn’s 1991 song “Walking in Memphis.” The forgiving Memphis fans cheered and applauded.
Does everybody that comes in here sing that to you?” I’m sure they do, but you just have to do it. You have to let us, for a minute, sink into your “Memphis-ness” You have to give us a little of your “Memphis-ness.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m so glad you’re here. You know that this is a very, very special city. This is on that list of cities, when you look at everything, it says Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Memphis, New York, and those are the ones. Those are the really important shows, and you come into that city knowing that, so I’m extremely happy to be here in your musical city that has so much history.
This set is not like most Stevie Nicks sets that you might have seen in the past. I decided this time to do something different. And I went back into my catalog to pull out old songs that were supposed to go on records that I loved and for whatever, you know, the producer didn’t do what I wanted or I let it go and didn’t say anything and it was too late and at the end I said, ‘Well, you know, I don’t like the way you recorded it so I’m taking it back.’ So a lot of these songs were my favorite songs, and I just said, ‘I’m gonna pull these songs out.’ So anyway, it’s a trip, it’s a journey, come with me. Let’s go!
Thanks and much love to 901 Music (slideshow photos), 104.5 The River (slideshow photos), Nikki Boertman/The Commercial Appeal (slideshow photos), Ruth L. Barnes, Mark Franks, David Helton, Alicia Howard, Raider Kelly, Angela Shuckahosee, and Laura Rowland Upchurch for sharing these photos.
Thanks and much love to bigconcertfan (Jason), Ruth L. Barnes, msflutegirl13, Rex Ragland, Anna-Marie Rooker, Barry Weinstein for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid (Anna-Marie Rooker)
End of Gold and Braid/Introduction (Ruth L. Barnes)
At the end of the song (4:56), the microphone stand unexpectedly collapsed, forcing Stevie to remove the microphone from the stand. She commented on the bizarre microphone stand malfunction afterwards.
That has never happened before ever, that I have never taken the mic off the stand ever because, at some point when we were still in San Francisco, I did take the mic off the stand with Lindsey, and he said to me, ‘How very Las Vegas of you.’ And just like a museum [sic], it made such an effect on me that I thought: Well, I can never ever take the mic off and walk and sing with it. So that was a first. I guess I can actually do that.
[singing] “Well, you’re walking in Memphis…” Thank you, everybody! It’s really hard to say how much we appreciate the fact that you come out for three hours and spend that time with us and that you have stayed with us for all these many, many years. We are constantly on that road to find new and fun things to bring to you and to fulfill ourselves up here so that we can really be good. So thank you for allowing us to do songs that you’re not used to hearing and to listen to all my insane stories and to just be like, this is our living room. This is really what I do in my living room. I say, let’s just play music, you know. So thank you for talking to me, thank you for listening, and thank you for just being a super beautiful audience. I will never ever forget you. Thank you so much! God bless you!
It was a fitting close to International Women’s Day as two of rock’s iconic female figures, Stevie Nicks and the Chrissie Hynde, took the stage of FedExForum on Wednesday. Appearing with her solo band, Fleetwood Mac star Nicks was the ostensible headliner, but it was Hynde and her group The Pretenders who stole the show, with both women presenting district and distinctly different visions of musical and personal empowerment.
On Monday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the BOK Center Arena in Tulsa, OK — the 33rd show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.
Stevie introduced the show by telling the crowd that she had been awoken by the Tulsa area’s extreme weather that morning.
Welcome, Tulsa, Oklahoma! Well, I can tell you that this morning at 8:00 I got woken up by the extreme wind. And by 11:00 I was sure I was Dorothy. And the night before, of course, I watched two hours of The Weather Channel on twisters, right? On whatever, tornadoes. So I was sure that I wouldn’t even make it to the show today. So anyway, just wanted to let you know that I did make it and there was an actual magical fairy…
So this show is not like the other Stevie Nicks shows that you have seen over the last two thousand years. It’s slightly…it’s different. I went back through my catalog of songs that didn’t make albums because they just weren’t done well enough, but they were still my favorite songs, or all kinds of other stories, which I will tell you about as we go through this journey, and that’s what it is. It’s a journey, it’s a trip, it’s a lot of fun, so let’s go!
Thanks and much love to angelicdemise, angelnemesis, Charles T. Crook, Hunter Davis, Shanesta Garcia, Elizabeth Jane Gartrell, Dante Hill, King Crybaby, sgtmcgrail, Brian Talley, Jane Terry, Twisted Sense, and Dalton Williams for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid / If Anyone Falls / Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around / Belle Fleur / Gypsy / Wild Heart / Bella Donna / Enchanted / New Orleans / Starshine (Twisted Sense)
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Welcome/Introduction (Charles T. Crook)
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If Anyone Falls (sgtmcgrail)
If Anyone Falls (Dante Hill)
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Gypsy (angelicdemise)
Gypsy (Hunter Davis)
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Bella Donna – partial (Dalton Williams)
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New Orleans (Hunter Davis)
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Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Shanesta Garcia)
Stand Back (Jane Terry)
Gold Dust Woman – partial (angelnemesis)
Edge of Seventeen – partial (angelicdemise)
Rhiannon (King Crybaby)
Landslide (Elizabeth Jane Gartrell)
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Stevie Nicks revisits storied career at BOK Center (Jimmie Tramel, Tulsa World) —”I don’t know how the majority of attendees felt about Nicks shifting back and forth between sing gear and talk gear, but why in the heck wouldn’t you want a concert to be a one-of-a-kind experience with artist commentary? If all you want is song after song with no elaboration, maybe a greatest-hits album should be your next adventure.”
What is there left to say about Stevie Nicks that hasn’t already been said? (Keaton Bell, Red Dirt Report) — “Nicks has never shied away from her love of over-the-top theatricality and melodrama. One of the biggest factors of her everlasting appeal is her ability to channel her deeply-felt emotions in such a universal way through everything she writes.”
Twittersphere
@StevieNicks Tulsa loves you the tornadoes subsided! Thank you for hours of sheer entertainment, no politics and lots of love.
On Thursday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Viejas Arena at Aztec Bowl on the campus of San Diego State University — the 32nd show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.
Stevie felt like it was a homecoming because she had recently spent a lot of time in San Diego, between the holidays and being with her niece Jessica for the birth of Jessica’s baby.
Hello, San Diego! Well, I feel a little bit like I’ve come home. I spent from the 19th of December ’til the 3rd of January here for Christmas with my family — they all came here this year. And then I came back because of my niece Jessi this year, she had a baby. So we came back on like the 12th, and she had her little boy on Martin Luther King Day, the 16th. So I spent a lot of time in San Diego over the last month and a half.
Stevie humored the crowd by joking about the unusually cold San Diego weather.
Who knew San Diego could be so cold? I thought it was like Hawaii, California, right? No, it’s bitter freezing cold, but pretty.
Thanks and much love to AnchntQueen, Richard Browning, Nobby Coburn, Mark Drakk, Dirty Radio, Rogelle Keller, Millerviller, Valerian Productions, and Shawn White for sharing these videos.
Gold and Braid / If Anyone Falls / Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Dirty Radio)
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Hello, San Diego! Well, I feel a little bit like I’ve come home. I spent from the 19th of December ’til the 3rd of January here for Christmas with my family. They all came here this year. And then I came back because of my niece Jessie this year, she had a baby. So we came back on like the 12th, and she had her little boy on Martin Luther King Day, the 16th. So I spent a lot of time in San Diego over the last month and a half. Who knew San Diego could be so cold? I thought it was like Hawaii, California, right? No, it’s bitter freezing cold, but pretty.
So this show…this show is not the Stevie Nicks show, the quintessential Stevie Nicks show, that you’ve seen a million times because I have done that same show a million times — I’m tired of it, so I have moved on! When you’re as old as me, it’s like, why not? So I said, ‘Let’s do something different.’ So I went back through my… all my old demos that I loved, and for whatever my reasons, did not go on records because, mostly because, I didn’t like the way they were done and so I said at the last minute, ‘I’m taking that song back.’ And so I had all these wonderful songs that I always wanted to play on stage. So anyway, this is a journey, it’s a trip, and so I ask you to come with me. Let’s go!
If Anyone Falls (Nobby Coburn)
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Millerviller)
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Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Rogelle Keller)
Belle Fleur (AnchntQueen)
Gypsy (Millerviller)
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Gypsy (Richard Browning)
Bella Donna (partial) (Shawn White)
Bella Donna cape story / Enchanted (partial) (Shawn White)
My mom, if she were here today, she would say, ‘Stevie, that was a very good choice of fabric because you know silk chiffon is what they make boat sails from, which means it will last forever. And you’ll never have to get another one.’ And she was totally right. There’s not one thread that’s gone from this — it’s perfect. So that’s my little endearing story of my mom. Thank you, Barbara!
Starshine (Mark Drakk)
Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Valerian Productions)
Stand Back (Rogelle Keller)
Stand Back (Millerviller)
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Stand Back (Richard Browning)
Gold Dust Woman (Rogelle Keller)
Gold Dust Woman (Millerviller)
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Edge of Seventeen (Shawn White)
We give you back what you give us, you know? You give us your heart and your soul, then we try to throw it right back at you like a magical…and it’s so great. For me, it’s so great to be able to stand up here and do these more unfamiliar songs and be able to tell you the stories and really but myself it’s like writing a book, you know? And I’m never gonna write a book, so this is as close to actually writing my history as I’m ever probably going to get. And so anyway, it was really such a beautiful night and you made it that way. It’s all your fault. So take care of yourselves, we’ll be back for sure, and I love you… Thank you so much.
There’s a fine line that separates telling stories between songs and letting the music speak for itself. Last night at Viejas Arena, Stevie Nicks was on the wrong side of that line. When you go to a Stevie Nicks concert, it’s her captivating, raspy singing voice — the one that has been reeling in fans for nearly 50 years — you want to hear most of all. And that’s not what happened Thursday night. Read the full review.
Nicks’s voice is remarkably similar to the pure, gravelly vocals that graced her debut solo record nearly 36 years ago. The stadium cheered as Nicks sang and narrated her songs, especially when the time came to end the more than two-hour-long set with a “Landslide” encore.Read the full review.
Thanks and much love to Alenal33, Ami Collofello, Brian Garish, David Greenwald, Chris McGowan, Bill Patton, and Greg Pfohl for sharing these pictures.
Thanks and much love to Ginger Balazs, Alex Klenski, Matty McFly, sdintn, Mark Selph, pokeadoubledecker, Chris Taylor, and Walter & friends for sharing these videos.
On Saturday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City — the second show of Leg 2 and 30th show overall. Salt Lake City was one of many cities where Stevie spent time as a child. She shared a story about attending public and Catholic stories in the area.
Hello, Salt Lake City, Utah! Well, you know that I went to the 8th and the 9th grade here. Oh, yeah. So in some cities, I’m…this whole tour is all about stories, and in some stories, there are different stories because specific things happened in different cities. And this city, I actually lived here, and I loved it. And we got transferred at the end of…like no, I was actually…went into like almost two months of the 10th grade and then my family got transferred to Los Angeles.
But this is the very funny story is that my parents told me, I was going to like Wasatch (right?) Junior High, and my mom and dad told me if you don’t get a B average, you’re not going on to the big high school with your best friend Karen, who’s here tonight. You are gonna go to the Catholic school in the middle of the city. And I’m like, they’d never do it, right? They would never, ever do that. Well, guess what? I didn’t get the B average, and they did it. And I had to walk like two blocks in the snow down to the bus to drive all the way to downtown Salt Lake City to the Catholic school. However, it totally backfired on my parents because it was really a fun school. And it was co-ed…yes! Ah! I did not rave. I didn’t rave about it because I knew that they would whip me right out of that school and put me in a convent.
So anyway, everybody, I’m so happy to be here because really I’ve…I really…I stayed yesterday up in Park City…so beautiful. And let me tell you, it is really snowing up there. I know you know, but it is snowing up there.
So this isn’t the same show you’ve probably seen before. It’s really different because I decided this time that I was going to go back into my catalog of — I like to call them the new-old songs, which were songs that didn’t go on albums for some reason or another. But songs I really loved. So I call it the gothic trunk of lost songs. So anyway, you’re gonna hear some, I think, really great songs tonight that are not that familiar but I’ll tell you the story of why they were written, and then you’ll understand and just roll with me on that. So, here we go! Let’s go!
At the end of the show, Stevie again mentioned having a personal attachment to the snowy area during her introduction for “Landslide.”
Thanks and much love to Sammy Jo Hester, McKell Richardson, Christine Hall, and LA for sharing these pictures.
(Sammy Jo Hester)(Sammy Jo Hester)(Sammy Jo Hester)(Sammy Jo Hester)(McKell Richardson)(McKell Richardson)(McKell Richardson)(McKell Richardson)(McKell Richardson)(McKell Richardson)Stevie performs “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday night. (LA)
Thanks and much love to Troy Dunn, Doug Jessop, Barbara Keckler, Krista Kendall, metgpks, Gwenita Pawwinnee, pobox5255, Connor Taylor, Ashly Thorn for sharing these videos.
I went to Tom Petty’s house somewhere around 1981/1982. Maybe…it could have even been 1979, actually, probably was. And I went over to his house and I had my guitar in hand, in the case so I looked totally serious, even though I had super long nails which meant: Why are you bothering to bring your guitar? Because it looked good. So I would go over there once in a while and we’d like sit and write. So I walked in, I said ‘So I think I have a good song. I have a good poem, and I think the melody’s good.’ So he said, ‘OK, well, play it for me.’ No pressure. So I sit down at the piano and I play this song and he likes it! And he doesn’t like everything so you’ll thrilled when he does like something. So I said, ‘OK, good, so does that mean we can maybe record it?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, OK, well, OK, all right.’ And I said, ‘Are The Heartbreakers coming over?’ And goes like, ‘Yeah they’re kind of on their way.’ So they came slowly in.
And so anyway, long story short, we recorded this song, and it took like 20 minutes. It was really easy and…because I only three or four chords. So it was really easy, and it came out great, even the lead vocal was even good. So if he had been doing a record, or if I had been doing a record, it would have went on one of those records. But neither of us was doing a record so it went into the ‘gothic trunk of lost songs.’ And it stayed there until two years ago when I went to Nashville and took all my demos that were in the ‘gothic trunk of lost songs’ and recorded them exactly like they were on their demos. So here it is and it’s called ‘Starshine.’
Stand Back (pobox5255)
Stand Back story (Amanda Dickson)
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Gold Dust Woman (Ashly Thorn)
Rhiannon (pobox5255)
Landslide (Doug Jessop)
Thank you. So that’s one of the five or six songs that have also been played every single time on the stage pretty much. And every once in a while I will say to whoever is the band, ‘So why don’t we just not do ‘Rhiannon’ this time, and this is the reaction I get… [gasps!]. So I go like, ‘OK!’
So this next song…and yes, there’s one more! There’s like maybe seven of those songs. And I wrote this song in Aspen. I totally wish I had written it here, but I wrote it in Aspen. It’s the only time I’d been in the snow covered mountains, snow covered hills or mountains, except for when I was here. I should have written it when I lived here because I was certainly more attached to here than I was the two months I spent in Aspen. And I wrote it in someone’s living room looking out over this beautiful view and trying to make a decision on what to do with my musical life. And so anyway, little did that little girl know that that song would really take her to the top. And that’s another way to tell you all that one little thing…because it may happen for you. Always keep your eyes open because that could be it. So here it is, ‘Landslide.’
After a two month break, Stevie Nicks resumed the 24 Karat Gold Tour, kicking off Leg 2 in Reno, Nevada on Thursday night. Stevie admitted she was nervous and uncomfortable after being off for so long, but she thanked the crowd for being so supportive, calling them “Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!”
Producer Keith Olsen (Buckingham Nicks, Fleetwood Mac) was at the show. Stevie first mentioned him during the band introductions, crediting him for introducing her to guitarist Waddy Wachtel, her “best friend” and “confidant” of more than 45 years. Stevie brought Keith out onstage at the end of the show for the final bows.
Like on the previous leg, Stevie first prepared the crowd for eclectic mix of songs (deep cuts) coming their way.
What I did was I went back through the, like…what do you want to call it? You know, the years! I went back through the years and back to the catalog and I found all the songs that I really love that for whatever reasons that did not go on records because not because they weren’t good enough, but because I didn’t like the way they were done. And as a strong woman, I said at the very end, ‘I don’t like it, you have to fix it!’ So these are some of those songs. There are some other things. Anyway, it’s a journey, it’s a trip. Come with me on my journey, all right? Let’s go!
While the tour mainly picked up where it left off in December, with the set list unchanged, Stevie added new drummer Drew Hester to her band, replacing outgoing drummer Scott Crago. She thanked Drew profusely for being able to pick up the drum parts in just two weeks’ time. “Our new favorite drummer” has “come in and saved our life,” Stevie told the crowd.
Stevie continued to tell long stories about the songs in the set list to the joy — or frustration — of the audience, depending on their desired concert experience. But her band introductions were noticeably shorter and succinct.
Fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee The Pretenders, led by singer-songwriter Chrissie Hynde, accompanied Stevie once again, opening the show as the support act. As expected, Chrissie joined Stevie on the stage for another lively rendition of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Humble and playful, Chrissie told the crowd how much she adored Stevie.
Thanks and much love to Tia Guenther, Anita Kayed, and Michelle Payne for sharing these photos.
Stevie, her band, and producer Keith Olsen take a final bow at Thursday night’s Leg 2 opener in Reno. (Michelle Payne)(Anita Kayed)(Tia Guenther)(Michelle Payne)
Thanks and much love to Tracy Crutchfield, Sheri Kush, Michelle Payne, and Willow J. for sharing these videos from the show.
2. If Anyone Falls
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What I did was I went back through the, like…what do you want to call it? You know, the years! I went back through the years and back to the catalog and I found all the songs that I really love that for whatever reasons that did not go on records because not because they weren’t good enough, but because I didn’t like the way they were done. And as a strong woman, I said at the very end, “I don’t like it, you have to fix it!” So these are some of those songs. There are some other things. Anyway, it’s a journey, it’s a trip. Come with me on my journey, all right? Let’s go!
3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde (Sheri Kush)
4. Belle Fleur
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So you probably know this is our first show. We’ve been off since the 18th of December. So we did 28 shows, Chrissie Hynde/Stevie Nicks. So this is the first time I’ve actually seen her since the 18th of December. I know, it’s all…it’s all rather shocking and amazing! So if I seem a little bit ‘discomboobled,’ it’s because I just haven’t been onstage in so long that I’m kind of asking myself, ‘What are you doing up here?’
OK! So anyway, this song, this next song could have been written in 1981, or whenever it was written, which could’ve been written by Chrissie Hynde or me, it’s about… When I first joined Fleetwood Mac, I had a Toyota. It was the…and it had no reverse. And did I mention I was a waitress and a cleaning lady? And so when I joined Fleetwood Mac, the first thing that I got, like two weeks into it, was I was picked up by a limousine, and I got a first class ticket on a plane. So this was really different than what I used to. So I always to this day have this picture of this long black limousine driving up in front of my house to pick me up. But what happened was that that started to become the picture of the limo coming to get me to take me away. So if I had a boyfriend, it was goodbye, but it might not be goodbye forever, but it usually was because if you go on tour, you usually don’t know how long you’re gonna be out. This (24 Karat Gold) tour was supposed to end on the 18th of December, and here we are two months later. So the fact is you can never actually give somebody a real answer. So the limousine started to become to me the thing that came to take me away. So this song was written about the big black limousine that comes to take you on tour and basically that relationship is over. Sad, but nevertheless, over. It’s called ‘Belle Fleur.’
5. Gypsy (Sheri Kush)
6-7. Wild Heart/Bella Donna & Enchanted
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Well, I have a story about this song, these two songs. Bella Donna was only done…it was a very short tour because I made that promise to Fleetwood Mac that I would only be gone for a little while. So we made the record, we did like a couple of weeks, and then I was off to Paris to do Mirage. So it was my promise, I kept it. I’m still keeping it…even after all these years. So anyway, Bella Donna ended up being very successful…lucky, lucky, lucky. However, many times when an artist walks away from a really big band, then makes a solo record, and it’s successful, then what is said about that is that it was a fluke. I was terrified that they would think that Bella Donna was a fluke.
So when I was off making Mirage and doing the very, very long Mirage tour, I was writing Wild Heart and setting myself up to hit the ground running the second I got home, which I did. It’s like…go home, unpack, straight into the studio. So we made Wild Heart. It was not as organized. It took a lot longer than three months. But it ended up to also be very, very crazily successful, which proved that Bella Donna was not a fluke, and therefore, my solo career was not a fluke.
This made me very happy because I even knew even way back then that for me, the Gemini that I am…the two personalities, the person that gets bored…it’s like I needed both of those tours to be happy. I wouldn’t have been happy to be in either one all the time. So that’s my Wild Heart and Bella Donna story.
This cape is on the back of the Bella Donna album, and it has been with me since 1981, and I’m gonna show you.
The interesting thing about this is that, you know…you don’t know this…but my mom, Barbara, was very frugal, even though my dad was very successful. And certainly they were very poor, and they worked very hard, and he made a lot of money, and then she didn’t have to be frugal anymore, but she never learned how not to be frugal, and she pounded that into me. So when I started doing all this stuff, this little number here cost like $2,000. And that [inaudible] a lot of money. So my mother would have like fallen dead on the floor if she’d known. And so I’d always think that if she was standing right here, she would look at this and go, ‘Well, Stevie, you made a very good decision on the fabric because it’s silk chiffon, and you know that’s what they make boat sails out of, and that was why it is in perfect shape 30 years later.’ So thank you, Mom, for teaching me to be frugal.
9. Starshine (Willow J)
11. Stand Back
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13. If You Were My Love
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14. Gold Dust Woman (Willow J)
Thank you. “Gold Dust Woman” has been done in every show, really, since the very beginning, since the beginning of the Fleetwood Mac, all the way through the beginning of Bella Donna, all the way through from those two records, all the way up to now. This song has never been dropped in the set, never once. So it’d always have its way. It morphs into a different… Depending on who’s playing, our vibes, it goes in and out of its own story. It changes every single time we do it on stage. So thank you for that.
15. Edge of Seventeen (Tracy Crutchfield)
Thank you, everyone. You have been a completely rockin’ audience! And whenever you do a first show, it’s always frightening because you’ve forgotten some things, you’re a little uncomfortable, and you’re little out of…you know…out of whack in your head. And so you always, when you walk in, you go, “Oh my God, I hope this is an audience that’s really gonna just roll with us and like kind of hold us up a little bit,” and you did that, you really did that. Thank you so much! I will be able to go on from here and feel like we did a good show, and now we can go on and we can be back to where we were when we stopped in December. Thank you so much for that, it means the world! You’ve been awesome! So awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Triple awesome! Thank you!
