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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWFQdWZpAjs
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuoxf7A5Sxs
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Rogelle Keller)
Belle Fleur (AnchntQueen)
Gypsy (Millerviller)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B7sM-rRNNA
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEGhGB3zXAs
Stand Back (Richard Browning)
Gold Dust Woman (Rogelle Keller)
Gold Dust Woman (Millerviller)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yD-PCoS8mM
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!
40 years after Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Stevie Nicks is still one of rock’s biggest icons
The iconic 1977 Fleetwood Mac album Rumours turned 40 last week. This album has meant a whole lot to me over the course of my life, and this anniversary has forced me to reflect on that more than ever.
As a female writing about music, I have a special appreciation for women in music, and Stevie Nicks is one of the best the world has seen. As she approaches 70, she remains one of the most incredible women in rock, releasing album 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault, in 2013. She is currently touring and recently added 20 tour dates for 2017, kicking off on Feb. 23, in Reno, Nevada, and wrapping up on April 6 in Uniondale, New York.
In the music industry as a whole, women are typically confined to the roles of solo performers or singer-songwriters. This is what makes Fleetwood Mac stand out — it’s a mixed-gendered rock band, and by far the most successful one to ever grace the industry. Of course, there was drama that came along with it, but from that drama emerged some of the greatest music of the 70s, specifically the album Rumours.
Nicks was involved in a tumultuous relationship with her bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, and their relationship came to an end while the band remained whole. Instead of conforming to the heartbroken damsel in distress stereotype that people may have expected, Nicks continued working with Buckingham and the rest of the band, and went on to write the song “Dreams,” which is the only Fleetwood Mac single to reach number one on the United States charts. The drama and heartbreak being felt by almost every member of the band produced their most successful era because of the fact both the male and female perspectives were on display. There is dialogue within and between the tracks of the album, and this is what makes it stand out among most albums in rock history.
Nicks is also notable in the sense that she chose her career over settling down and starting a family. Women are often expected to be tame and take their so-called “biological duty” more seriously than their career or passions. Nicks never conformed to that. From the age of 16, she has been a songwriter and musician, and has let nothing get in the way — whether it was her affairs and relationships, or the societal pressure of settling down to have a family. Nothing could stop her passion for her craft, and as a result she has led an incredibly successful career both with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.
At the age of 68, it is expected that her career as a rock star may be approaching its end, but that doesn’t signal the end of her relevance. She is more than just a rock star — she is an incredibly wise and knowledgeable woman who uses her art to convey her experiences to the world and offer solace to those that have had similar experiences. All the while, she has paved the way for women in rock, and has simultaneously been exemplary to women in general, with her good-naturedness and her ability to overcome all sorts of obstacles — while still finding incredible success. She uses this success as a platform to share what she has learned as a woman in the rock genre, and simply as a student of the universe.
In a 2015 issue of Mojo magazine, Nicks said, “I think every band should have a girl in it, because it’s always going to make for cooler stuff going on than if it’s just a bunch of guys.” The world, and music in general, can learn a lot from the success of Fleetwood Mac, and of Stevie Nicks in particular.
Jenny Bourque is a freshman English and textual studies major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email her at ja******@*yr.edu.
Jenny Bourque / Syracuse University Daily Orange / February 7, 2017
Stevie Nicks’ first solo tour in four years — the 24 Karat Gold Tour — impacts the latest Hot Tours tally (see list, below), as the trek’s final show from its fall 2016 run ranks at No. 3 on the tally. The show, held on Dec. 18 at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., grossed $1.3 million from a sell-out crowd of 14,210.
The new tour supports Nicks’ most recent solo album, 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault, which was released in September 2014. The set debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking Nicks’ sixth solo top 10-charting effort.
The 24 Karat Gold Tour — with The Pretenders on board as the opening act — also topped $1 million in sales at Madison Square Garden in New York City with a sold-out performance on Dec. 1. Revenue from that concert reached $1.5 million with a sold ticket count of 15,167. Final box-office figures have not yet been reported from the entire fall run, but estimated grosses from the Live Nation-produced tour fall in the $25 million range based on box office data from 10 shows reported to Boxscore during the fall.
The 24 Karat Gold Tour launched Oct. 25 in Phoenix and will pick back up after a winter break on Feb. 23 in Reno, Nevada. The tour will continue through April. The Pretenders will remain with the tour through the April finale.
The tour is Nicks’ first solo outing since her In Your Dreams Tour wrapped in September 2012. The following spring, she headed out on the road with her band Fleetwood Mac for the Fleetwood Mac Live tour from April through December 2013. It was followed by another Mac tour, the On With the Show tour (with a returning Christine McVie), from September 2014 through November 2015.
HOT TOURS – January 24, 2017
Ranked by Gross. Compiled from Boxscores reported Jan. 17-23
Rank ACT
Total Gross
Show Date Range
Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts)
Total Attendance (Capacity)
1 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
$3,514,134
Dec. 18-Jan. 18
O2 Arena, London (1/0)
INTRUST Bank Arena, Wichita, Kan. (1/0)
Scottrade Center, St. Louis (1/1)
40,884 (43,243)
2 MARC ANTHONY
$1,622,258
Dec. 9
Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, San Juan (1/0)
16,484 (16,508)
10 HA-ASH
$460,108
Nov. 26-Dec. 2
Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City (1/0)
Auditorio Banamex, Monterrey, Mexico (2/0)
22,282 (23,114)
Bob Allen / Billboard / Friday, January 27, 2017
Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS
Guns N’ Roses; $5,073,213; $101.84.
Adele; $3,797,927; $109.01.
Drake; $2,414,789; $112.69.
Justin Bieber; $2,376,511; $81.71.
Kanye West; $1,836,417; $87.63.
Red Hot Chili Peppers; $1,682,643; $82.10.
Marc Anthony; $1,670,772; $131.93.
Luke Bryan; $1,650,593; $66.85.
Elton John; $1,362,239; $115.67.
Black Sabbath; $1,323,035; $67.16.
Maroon 5; $1,261,453; $93.98.
Jason Aldean; $1,187,812; $54.16.
Andre Rieu; $996,479; $105.69.
“Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour” / Puff Daddy; $920,868; $83.91.
The Cure; $910,724; $62.10.
Stevie Nicks; $840,751; $96.00.
Sia; $821,290; $78.98.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $812,980; $60.25.
Dixie Chicks; $779,357; $72.03.
Nickelback; $748,171; $85.46.
Associated Press / Friday, January 6, 2017
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS
Guns N’ Roses; $5,258,305; $104.11.
Adele; $3,649,630; $109.07.
Justin Bieber; $2,376,511; $81.71.
Drake; $2,328,301; $112.64.
Kanye West; $1,836,417; $87.63.
Luke Bryan; $1,822,045; $70.03.
Red Hot Chili Peppers; $1,682,643; $82.10.
Marc Anthony; $1,670,772; $131.93.
Black Sabbath; $1,279,314; $66.52.
Maroon 5; $1,261,453; $93.98.
Jason Aldean; $1,072,244; $51.31.
Andre Rieu; $996,479; $105.69.
The Cure; $925,867; $62.24.
“Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour” / Puff Daddy; $920,868; $83.91.
Scroll down for photos, videos, set list, fan reaction, and full transcripts of Stevie’s stories!
On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks wrapped up the first leg of the 24 Karat Gold Tour, performing at The Forum in Inglewood, CA (near downtown Los Angeles). The show was another sellout. Celebrity sightings included actress Hilary Duff, singer Carly Rae Jepsen, and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.
Due to the extreme weather that the rest of the country has been experiencing, Stevie was relieved to back in Los Angeles.
“Hello Los Angeles! Well, it is so great to be back here. We have been all over the country, Canada…we have been to all the places that are now completely frozen over, and we are so glad to be back in California! She says, I may not be able to talk — it is cold out there!”
Continuing to break with convention, Stevie remained chatty with the audience, telling the stories behind the “mystical and magical” songs she had chosen for the tour. Some of the stories were noticeably shorter, with Stevie conceding, “I was told, I have to shorten the stories. My stories are becoming longer than the concert!” The adjustment comes after a scathing review from a Vancouver critic — the only one of the entire tour — who slammed the singer as a “party pooper” for telling “lengthy, egotistical and over-rehearsed anecdotes.” Another Vancouver critic, however, offered a less-agitated perspective — supporting the veteran rock acts well-earned “freedom to explore their vast musical repertoires” and appreciating this rare opportunity to hear those songs performed in concert at this late stage of their careers.
At the end of the show, Stevie told the audience that she would be starting up the tour again in February and also revealed that she may tour in Australia later in the year, though she wasn’t sure. She dedicated ‘Landslide,’ the final song of the evening, to her hard-working stage crew.
Much love and gratitude to all the fans who shared photos and video!
(The Forum)(Trevor Rich)
Gold and Braid (iseethecrystalvision)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6BY3c8ehk
“Hello Los Angeles! Well, it is so great to be back here. We have been all over the country, Canada…we have been to all the places that are now completely frozen over, and we are so glad to be back in California! She says, I may not be able to talk — it is cold out there!
The Forum, yay! So this show is not exactly the Stevie Nicks show that you have seen 300,000 times in your lifetime probably, because this time I decided I was going to do something for me, which was dig out some of my old demos that I love, that for whatever reason did not make it onto records, not because they weren’t as good, but because I pulled them, because I wasn’t happy with the concept. So I call all of these songs the songs that went into the black trunk of gothic, mystical songs that were lost forever. Well, I pulled them out and I’m really excited about them. This is our 28th show and we’ve had such a good time because it is different — it’s different — and it’s really fun and it’s really fulfilling for me So anyway, it’s a journey, come with me. Let’s go!”
(Andrew Kevin Walker)
If Anyone Falls (jitsu1109)
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde (SoCalLiveitLive)
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde / Belle Fleur (Cal Vid)
Stevie: We have had the best time on this tour.
Chrissie: It’s all over. I love her.
Stevie: You can hire us two as a duo…parties, birthday parties, Bar Mitzvahs, we can do it. We have laughed ourselves across this country. We have forgotten words, we have giggled, we have looked at each other like, ‘We just didn’t come on here with a brain tonight!’
Chrissie: She gave me that hat.
Stevie: And I did give you that hat. You can only wear the hat and keep it on. You can never take the hat off.
Chrissie: See, I’m on a learning curve. And I’m learning from the queen herself.
Stevie: I gave it to you so you could just take it home and put it on your dining table! So you’re not leaving us, we’ll see you again.
Chrissie: No, we’ll see you soon. And I love you, you know that.
“OK, so this next song could have been written by Chrissie Hynde or Stevie Nicks or any girl that’s in a rock and roll band. When I first joined Fleetwood Mac, I was very taken by this one picture, and that was: A) I was a cleaning lady and a waitress and I had a Toyota with no reverse B) Suddenly, I was picked up by a very long, shiny, beautiful, black limousine. This stuck in my head to this day. I’m not crazy about the SUV thing because the limousine is just so grand, and after driving that Toyota with no reverse for five or six years, I was like, ‘Ah!’ But what I realized, when that black car came to pick me up to take me somewhere, it was usually on a tour and that meant that I wasn’t going to be back so if I had a boyfriend, which sometimes I did, sometimes I didn’t. But if I did, I had to basically say, ‘au revoir.’ And I couldn’t say when I would be back because you never know when you go on tour when you’re gonna be back. So I painted this picture in my head, and I wrote this song about it and it’s called ‘Belle Fleur.’”
Gypsy
(Taehyuns Jaimz)
Gypsy (SoCalLiveitLive)
“Thank you so much.”
(Renee Bowen)
Wild Heart / Bella Donna (The Scatman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZwPah1ytk
“Thank you. So I have a little story that goes along with those two songs. First of all, when we did Bella Donna, you have to kind of understand I walked away, and I didn’t…I wasn’t walking away, but that’s how everybody looked at it. I walked away from a very big band to do a solo record, which you know, was not, not greatly applauded by my friends and my band. But I promised them, I made them a promise. Swear to God, I’m not breaking up this band. You don’t have to worry, go on vacation and then I’ll be back. And you’re going on vacation anyway so you won’t even be here. So I said, I’m going to do this record. So when I did it, Bella Donna was very, very successful, and… But what I was afraid of was that everybody would think that it was fluke, and that’s what I was afraid of. And so I knew that I was going to leave Bella Donna because it was a very short tour and run to Paris to do Mirage, and then the second I got to Paris to do Mirage, I could be writing Wild Heart really fast so that the second I got finished with that, I could hit the ground running back to do Wild Heart because I knew that Wild Heart would be the single thing that would prove that Bella Donna wasn’t a fluke if it was successful. And Wild Heart…crazier, more fragmented, drove Jimmy (Iovine) crazy…but nevertheless, a beautiful album, very successful. And for me in my heart of hearts, signified that Bella Donna was not a fluke and neither was my solo career. So I had a little confidence, and I didn’t hurt anybody’s feelings. But the last thing about that story is you might notice I am wearing the original Bella Donna cape, which does not even have a snag. It is perfect, it is exactly the way it was in 1981 when it was made so I’m going to show it to you.
So if my mom was here, she would say to me, ‘Well, Stevie, you made a very good choice of fabric because, look at this, this cost like $2000, and you’ll never have to remake it because it’s made out of silk chiffon, and silk chiffon basically is what they make sails for boats out of. It will never fall apart.’ This is my mother, right? And I’m like, well this is her talking from heaven actually right now, and I’m thinking that she would be so knocked out to see this and think that, well, it really was a good choice. So that’s my little message from my mom. I think we should all invest in silk chiffon.”
Enchanted (The Scatman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYF8zCecHY
New Orleans
(Lindsey Salls)
Thank you. Well, this next song… It’s way harder singing all the songs, I have to tell you, than…(inaudible). You have no idea. So this song, this is serious, and I wrote this song in 2005. I was sitting in my house in Santa Monica, looking at my beautiful blue calm sea. And all of the sudden, on the news, it started that morning the fact that there was a giant, angry hurricane getting ready to slam into the coast of New Orleans. And so I, as a writer, when stuff like this happens, I’m always writing about it. I don’t necessarily tell people that I’m writing everything that’s going on, but I am, and so I hide those journals away. And so I thought, OK, as a writer, I know this is gonna be bad, so I have to figure a way to write about it, to chronicle it, to archive it, and not have people when they do read it in 10 years, go like, ‘Well, that’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard. Why in the world would she write something that was like unhopeful?’ So uplifting is the word that comes to mind. So that’s what I tried to do. I found a really good track that somebody had given me like two years before, brought my cassette-to-cassette recorder out, which is still the best way to record music, and sat there, and over the next two, three days, put this song together and then I put it away. I put it into the dark, gothic trunk of magical, mystical lost songs, and there it stayed. And then in 2010 when I did In Your Dreams, I decided I had the right people, I had Waddy, I had Dave Stewart, I had an amazing team of musicians, and I thought, OK this is the time. Let’s record it. So we did, and it came out so great, and I was so proud of it. We went on the road for two years with that record. We still did not do the song because it just was too sacred and too close. So when we decided to do this tour, I thought, OK, it’s time to like bring this song out and play it for people because it is a celebration now. It has turned into something that I’m very proud of that I hope the people from the city, the specific city, will love always. Anyway, so we gonna do it for you now. This is ‘New Orleans.’
Starshine (The Scatman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZvAHlyFCQ
“Thank you. So this next song was written at Tom Petty’s house. And I have been saying every single night that he was living in the Palisades when I wrote this, and I realized that’s totally not true. And I thought, ‘Oh my God, if Tom comes and I say he he was living in the Palisades and he wasn’t living in the Palisades, I’m going to get into so much trouble! So I think he was living in the Valley, which meant it was a long drive for me from Santa Monica to the Valley, but…
So I was going over there, he had a great studio and I had a song. And so I went there and I go to the door with my guitar in a case because I looked much more serious with my guitar in a case. Of course, I don’t play because I had really long nails, but I looked serious. So I come through the door, and he’s like, looks at me and he’s like, I’ve got my huge bag and my guitar, ‘Are you moving in?’ And I’m like, ‘No, just today.’ And I said, I have a song and I think it’s good. So he goes, ‘OK, well, come on. Play it, play it for me.’ So I sat down at the piano and I played it . And he said, ‘That’s a good song, Stevie.’ And he’s not, you know, he doesn’t love everything that you do, so it’s a big deal. So I’m like, ‘Yes! So I said like, ‘Well, can we record it?’ And he said, ‘Yes, we can.’ And The Heartbreakers slowly came straggling in, and the story is really very short because it happened…I think we played it twice. The track was amazing, and I did a good vocal. And had I been doing a record or had Tom been doing a record, it would have gone on one of those records, but we weren’t doing a record, so guess where it went? Into the glass gothic trunk of mislaid and mystical songs, lost forever. So there it stayed until now. And that was probably…1980? So anyway, it’s called ‘Starshine,’ and here it is.”
Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (SoCalLiveitLive)
“This is for Prince.”
“There’s a big, long story that goes with that, but I’m not even gonna go there tonight. I’m just going to tell you that he was my friend and that song was written about un-doable relationship of people, and I was Prince’s friend and I’ll always feel that maybe, you know, we…any of us could have done something, and so anyway let’s just leave it up there in the twilight. Thank you.”
Stand Back
(Ben Harris)
Stand Back (SoCalLiveitLive)
“Thank you. So the reason that we put that picture up now is because Prince and I actually wrote a song together even though we didn’t sit in the same room and write it. But the story is that I was driving in the car… I was told, I have to shorten the story. My stories are starting to become longer than the concert. Pretty soon it’s just going to be like a seminar here. So anyway, there is a longer story, but I’m just gonna tell you the immediate story and that is that I was actually driving to Santa Barbara on my honeymoon and this is in like, you know, 1982, and this song came on the radio and my then, one-and-only-husband Kim said, ‘It’s a great song, huh?’ and I’m like, ‘This is a great song.’ And I’m like getting paper and pencil out of my personal things and he goes, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘I’m writing a song to this song,’ and he goes, ‘Well, this is a Prince song. You can’t just go and write a song to his song.’ And I go, ‘Well, yeah, yes i can and I’m doing it.’ So I said, ‘We have to pull over to like a drug store, laughing — no, not driving to get a cassette player! — and have something to take with us to where we were going in Santa Barbara because we have to record this. We have to make a demo before I forget it.
So then we did that, we made a demo, we raced back to LA, went into Sunset Sound recording, and I finally talked to somebody, maybe it was my manager, I don’t remember who but I said, ‘So can we get in touch with Prince? And I know he lives in Minneapolis, but maybe he’s here. Well, of course, he’s not here, he’s in Minneapolis,’ and they said, ‘Well, guess what? He’s here and here’s his number.’ So I called him and I go like, ‘Hello, Prince. Um, this is Stevie Nicks.’ And he’s like, ‘Hello, this is Prince,’ and I go, ‘I know.’ He said, ‘Well, how are you doing? and ‘Well, I’m doing fine, but this is why I’m calling you. So I wrote this song along to your musical track of ‘Little Red Corvette’ and I think you’re really gonna like it, but you may hate it and if you hate it, it is like deleted.’ That word didn’t even exist then. It is erased. And I said like, ‘So you’re in Los Angeles?’ and he said, ‘Yeah.’ And I said, ‘Can you come over here to Sunset Sound?’ and he said, ‘OK, I’ll be there in minute,’ and he was. Dressed…more dressed up than me and the girls, so dressed up…in purple.
So he listened to the song, he loved it, and he thought it was very innovative of me and he played guitar, he played synthesizer, he played other keyboards, and he did all this in about an hour and a half and then he was — whoosh — gone! Just gone. And so this song became like, you know a big — that horrible word — single, big single for us and was extremely…became a huge part of my life. And now, it is more of that because now when I sing ‘Stand Back,’ it’s like he is standing right here. And for me that will always be for me, so he’ll always be right here on this stage because I’ll never not do ‘Stand Back’ onstage. And I’ll always be able to whisper in my head, ‘Thank you for that song.’ So that’s our Prince story for ‘Stand Back.’”
Crying in the Night (The Scatman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JhcA44INQ
“OK, here’s the really funny story. Let’s look at it this way. This song was probably written before Lindsey and I left San Francisco. That would have been 1970. But let’s round it off and say I wrote it in 1973 when Buckingham Nicks came out. So that would be 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013, 14, 15, 16…43 years! So I just wanna say that if you ever thought that you had a dream and it didn’t come true, the fact that Waddy and I are standing on this stage 43 years later, singing a song that should have been a single, but it never was, for an album that should have been big ’cause it was really good, but never was, and here we are today. So what I want to say to you is, you know, you have a dream, you’re 20, you don’t know what to do. You know, wait ’til you’re 25. Maybe it’s going to happen then. You’re 27…if you’re still looking for that dream, you haven’t found it yet. Your parents are mad you. OK, so like, 32…dream’s not happening yet. It’s in your hands. You’re like, I’m not giving up. 37…nothing. 40…45…here comes the dream, baby! Not quite. 50…55…60…68!
So never give up on your dreams because they are right out there in the ‘Bella Donna Starland.’ Just reach out your little hand and get ’em. It’s always there for you.”
If You Were My Love
“So this next song is one of the other songs I don’t remember who it was written about. But I do remember that I love this song, and it should have been on Bella Donna, but I didn’t like the concept of it. I didn’t like the way it was recorded, and it was all finished and mixed. It’s really hard to walk up to your producer and say, ‘I don’t like it.’ And they’re like, ‘Why didn’t you say something half way through it. ‘Like, I don’t know, but I don’t like it now.’ And so I pulled it because it was right. And I knew someday I could figure it out and make it right. It’s my favorite song. It’s one of my favorite songs to actually sing, because I think that being in this business is really about singing and if more people sang songs like this, it would be good. So anyway, for your listening pleasure, this is called ‘If You Were My Love.’”
(after the song)
“Thank you. That song is just for the joy of singing. I will be back.”
Gold Dust Woman (Steve Isaacs)
Band Introductions (iseethecrystalvision & The Scatman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8R4CeoqSXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p-kvSEuUig
“Thank you. So now I’d like to introduce you to my band because, just think about it, if there was no band, it would just be me telling you more stories. It’d be cheap.
So nice Christmas decorations. Did you do that yourself? Can you hear me? Did you do that yourself? He did it. Thaggard. OK. Ladies and gentlemen, on Hammond B3, the best in the world, Mr. Ricky Peterson! On drums, also best in the world, we love him, he’s come back, he goes away, he comes back, on drums, Mr. Scotty Crago!
The grand pianist on the grand piano, the person who is the best balladeer along with me, me and him, we’re the two balladeers of this band, and almost as cheap, just the two of us. What he plays, I feel like I’m playing, and that is like so amazing for an artist. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Darrell Smith on grand piano!
Right in back of Darrell is my friend from Phoenix, Arizona, yes. We come from the same place, and we’ve been hanging out since the middle of the ’90s. We make demos on cassette players. Well, we had an intern, we did. But anyway, we have lots of fun, and we have been in the beginnings of many amazing songs. So I always have to thank you for that because that’s very improtant to me. Thank you, Al. On bass, Al Ortiz, ladies and gentlemen!
Over here, the girls. First of all, you might notice that if you are a diehard Stevie Nicks fan, which you may not be, but if you are, you might notice that instead of a redhead where the blond is, there’s a blond now, and that’s because Lori, my sister-in-law, had to go and be with her daughter who’s having a baby in a couple of weeks. So we thought that was a good excuse, but we had to find somebody to sing for us. So we remembered that we had this amazing singer/friend from the ’80s that sang with us for quite a while. And I said to Sharon, ‘Sharon, what do you think? Let’s call Minnie.’ So we called Minnie and asked her if she would come on this tour, and she said, ‘YES!’ And we’re so happy that she came in without a ripple, and it’s a big job. So thank you, Minnie, you saved our lives. Ladies and gentlemen, on vocals, Miss Marilyn Martin, but we call her Minnie.
Right next to Minnie, my friend Sharon. I have known Sharon since 1978. I met her in Lahaina, Maui, and she was playing at the best bar in Lahaina. And I was there to have dinner and drink and hang out. And there was Sharon singing in this great band and I waited until she was done, and I asked her, ‘So Sharon, if I ever do a solo career, which wasn’t really in the book yet, would you like to be in my, like, Crosby-Stills-and-Nash thing?’ She said like, ‘YES!’ And so basically, two months later, she moved to Los Angeles and we went full speed on getting those Bella Donna songs written, right? So anyway, the really sweet thing about Sharon is though, the next day, I said to her, ‘Well, OK, we’re gonna sing and write and everything, but we don’t have a piano, so we’re acapella. So she said, ‘I’ll get us a piano.’ And so here comes… (A cartoon of Sharon moving the piano from her Treehouse is projected on the screen.) (laughing) Sharon lived in a treehouse. (laughing) She’s getting from (laughing)…the piano out of the treehouse. Seriously, this is the truth, and brought it to my house! Oh, Arlo! Arlo is our little lighting guy who does that. Sometimes, even I am surprised. She did live in a treehouse and it did have an upright grand piano in it. No lie. I ain’t lyin’. Ladies and gentlemen, on vocals and piano delivery, Miss Sharon Celani!
Right next to Sharon is our other guitarist, who is simply fantastic, and plays an amazing guitar, and has an amazing knowledge of the guitar and of all different kinds of music and keeps us laughing all the time. And for that and his brilliance on that instrument, we love him. His name is Carlos Rios, on guitar! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome him.
You notice I’m hurrying. I’m hurrying because I’ve been told to hurry. I’m not that good at hurrying. We just need another hour.
So OK, over here, this man, you’ve heard a lot about him since the beginning of the show. I met him in 1971. We became really good friends. We have played music ever since, and he’s been my musical director since 1981 when I got my Atlantic deal, with Jimmy and Atlantic. I called Waddy and said will you come and be like the musical director. I don’t even know what a musical director is at that point, but I’m like, I think that sounds good. So he says yes, and we go in and make that record. So he’s been along for the entire ride, and he is the person who makes me feel safe up her because I’m not always brave and courageous. This was a little scary to do this show and to do all these new songs that some of you probably have never heard. So I was nervous about it. And Waddy was just like, ‘You know what? Just do what you want to do, and have fun and feel your heart, I mean, at this point.’ So anyway, he makes this our little house of love. It’s like our little living room at The Forum. And when somebody does that for you, it’s amazing because you are never scared and that is such a great thing. Ladies and gentlemen, musical director, million dollar baby, best friend, Gemini twin…Waddy Wachtel!
That’s really the only time we get to talk. We have that little moment. So, OK, well, I’ll be right back.”
(Steve Gaines)
Edge of Seventeen (prestoff2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEIBI9s1PYo
“Thank you so much, everybody! You’ve been an awesome audience. You have been awesome! And it’s just so great to be back so I thank you so much. Hopefully, we’ll get to see you again. We’re going to go back out in February for like two more months and we’re going to Australia, I think. And so this is like, it’s carrying on. So I’m really excited, and I’m so glad you got to share this with me. So many of you out there are just my really close friends, and all the people, all of you. Even though you don’t know it, you’re my really close friends, too. So thank you so much. You have just been awesome!”
Rhiannon (The Scatman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OU9y1C65ts
“That darned, old Rhiannon. You know, we can’t rid of her. She like puts on her black wings and flies in and has been in every show on every stage I’ve ever been on, ever since 1975. And every once in while I will say, ‘So maybe we could not do Rhiannon this time.’ And this is the reaction that I get, (loud gasp!). So I don’t say that very often. People are like, ‘What?!’ So anyway, that was her. Now she’s gone.
So before we go into this last song, this is our 28th show, I want to thank our amazing crew because, as marvelous as the lighting is all done by our amazing lighting people and the sound that is done by our amazing sound people, the crew makes sure that one of those things don’t fall on my head. That’s really important if you think about it. Can you feel safe down here or not? So I want the crew to know that I know how hard you work every single day, every single night to put this together and make it safe up here for us. And Arlo, lighting, you’re just like…the graphics for Sharon in her treehouse like…you get like a small raise. Small, but nevertheless, a raise. And just everybody who has made this tour so fantastic. You just can’t name all the people. They’re all amazing. So thank you to them, and I would like to take this moment to dedicate this song to my crew, my lighting people, my sound people, and all the people who care so much about us and keep us safe here every night. This is ‘Landslide’.”
Landslide (Cal Vid & Steve Isaacs)
Reviews
Review: Stevie Nicks opens a ‘gothic trunk’ of lost songs at the Forum
Stevie Nicks brought her usual assortment of accessories to the Forum on Sunday night, including a tambourine festooned with glittering streamers and a dark-blue garment she described as “the original ‘Bella Donna’ cape.’” Unchanged since she started wearing it around the time of her debut solo album in 1981, the cape cost $2,000, she said, and was made of silk chiffon — the same material used to create ships’ sails, according to Nicks. “It’ll never fall apart,” she added. —Mikael Wood / LA Times (Read the full review here.)
Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde are timeless at The Forum While 2016 has seen more than its fair share of loss in the music world (David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Merle Haggard, Sharon Jones, Sir George Martin and Leonard Cohen for starters), two of classic rock’s most celebrated women showcased their distinguished legacies in a sold-out concert at the Forum in Inglewood on Sunday. —Robert Kinsler / OC Register (Read the full review here.)
Ninie & Mother are currently at the Stevie Nicks concert whereas I'm studying to remember the difference between ser & estar. lol, what? pic.twitter.com/tUvs14DGIX