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Category: 24 Karat Gold Tour

  • RECAP: New York – Madison Square Garden

    RECAP: New York – Madison Square Garden

    Scroll down for photos, videos, reviews, fan reaction, and transcriptions of Stevie’s stories!

    On Thursday night, Stevie Nicks performed at legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City — a sellout and the 19th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    Being the largest city in the U.S., New York was a significant stop on the tour — “a big reason to be nervous,” Stevie told the audience. But as always, the nerves settled quickly and Stevie won over her fans with another standout performance. Stevie spoke often in between songs, revealing the stories behind many of the songs she performed.

    Following another frenetic performance of “Gold Dust Woman” — during which Stevie does her infamous “crackhead dance” — Stevie humored the crowd by revealing that she was wearing a Fitbit. This generated a fun response from fans on Twitter.

    Stevie closed the show with “Landslide,” which was added to the set list (replacing “Leather and Lace”) at the last show in Toronto.

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    Stevie Nicks
    (The Front)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Stephen Barth)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Madison Square Garden)
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    (Madison Square Garden)
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    (Madison Square Garden)
    Stevie Nicks
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    Stevie Nicks
    (Jillian Dellabovie)
    Stevie Nicks Waddy Wachtel
    (aerofan2007)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Madison Square Garden)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Michelle Cohn)

    Stevie Nicks

    Videos & Transcriptions

    Transcribed from Periscope recordings shared by ephemeral stardust and Real Tomatoes – Much love and thanks!

    Much love and thanks to aerofan2007, choops4683,  Peter Dolbey, Mickie Esemplare, julesy101, Jason Mathew, and Randi J. for filming and sharing these wonderful videos!

    Introduction after Gold and Braid

    Well, New York City, just like I pictured it! Welcome everybody! Well, I guess we couldn’t be more excited to be here. This is, you know, when you go on tour, it’s like Madison Square Garden, The Forum, the two biggest shows. Big reason to be nervous, trying not to be nervous, very happy to be here. I wanna tell you this is not, um, this is me being my totally honest, obnoxious self, um, that this is absolutely not going to be the same Stevie Nicks show you’re used to seeing. This is a new show because I decided that I was not going to go out and do that same show again because we only have so much time here. So I put together a bunch of little magical, gothic things from the gothic trunk of secrets and mysteries, pulled them out, pressed them off, and uh decided that I would sequence them into a set, intertwine it all and try to make it something that you would enjoy that would go way, way, way back. And I do mean, way back. So all that being said, this is a journey. Welcome! Let’s go!

    If Anyone Falls (aerofan2007)

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde (choops4683)

    (Features Waddy Wachtel on vocals)

    Gypsy (Randi J.)

    Bella Donna / Enchanted / New Orleans / Starshine / Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Peter Dolbey)

    Starshine (Randi J.)

    Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Mickie Esemplare)

    Stand Back (julesy101)

    Moonlight / Stand Back / Crying in the Night (Peter Dolbey)

    “Very short story. Prince and I were friends. And he wrote a song called ‘Little Red Corvette’ and I had a poem and sang the poem over his song. And I called him from Sunset Sound Recording Studios in Los Angeles and said, ‘Can you come over because I have this song that I wrote to your song,’ and he said, ‘I’ll be right there.’ And he was right there in 15 minutes. And he came in and the track was done more or less, and he did the du-du, du-du, du-du things on the organ part and then he did some guitar and he did a few other things and he was happy, he loved it, and he was gone. Poof! In a purple haze. And that’s exactly how he was. He came into your life and he would be out of your life before you even realized that he was even in your life. So I’m gonna miss him. But the fact is, though, when we hear ‘Stand Back,’ whenever you hear it on the radio, whatever I hear it, you can just click it right into ‘Little Red Corvette’ — they are one of the same. And feel blessed that we have that little connection that was made because he was really spectacular. So that’s all. Thank you.”

    Crying in the Night story

    So this next song… (A woman from stage left shouts out a different song title.) That’s coming, for the girl over there, not that I can see you ’cause I can’t see a thing. We are going to play for you, when I finish my story, the oldest song that we ever played onstage. It’s from the Buckingham Nicks album. And, uh, you aleady know a little bit about this, but when Waddy, when Lindsey and I drove to Los Angeles in 1971, we moved in with our producer and then we met Waddy through our producer. And Waddy already had a job. He was a really good session player. He already had a job. We had no job. So we just played music. We sat around and played music. And looking back on it, it was like, people say like, it’s the time of your life, well it was the time of life. And anyway, we had the Buckingham Nicks songs, when we got to LA, demoed, so we proceeded to really record them in a big studio called Sound City, also a famous place. Yes! And so that’s what we did for like forever, for a couple of years. And there was a song that we all knew was gonna be the single. Now the record didn’t go out. It did, and a few of you have it, but it got dropped in 1973. We weren’t that aware… So but this song was supposed to be the single, but we never played it. We never after that, I mean the record, we went and joined Fleetwood Mac and we never played this song again ever. And over the years Waddy has said to me many times, ‘Why don’t we do this song?’ And I would be like, ‘I don’t know. Maybe we shouldn’t do it. Is it ours? I mean, can we?’ And finally, this time when we went into rehearsal, he said ‘I really think we should do this song.’ … Something like that. And I said, ‘OK, let do it!’ So anyway, this is a song about a very intriguing woman who I have no idea who I was writing about because I was only like 22. So anyway, here it is. It’s called ‘Crying in the Night.’

    So this is the last thing I’m going to say about this song because this is like a testament to dreams coming true. We moved here in, not here, to Los Angeles in 1971. I think I wrote the song before we left San Francisco, so that would have been 1970. But let’s just round it off and say I wrote it in 1973 when the record came out. That would be 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013, 14, 15, 16…43 years ago! So this is my thought for you for tonight. The testament is dreams do come true. Anything you want is out there for you to just reach out there at the stars of Bella Donna and grab one because it is all there. This song has not been done for 43 years, and we’re doing it at Madison Square Garden tonight. And there’s the record right there looking at me. That picture got me into so much trouble with my parents. You have no idea! I said to my dad, ‘I didn’t want to do it.” And my father goes, ‘Well, why didn’t you just say no.’ And I said, ‘Because they said to me, don’t be a child, it’s art.’ Anyway, you must continue to believe that you can have what you want. Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re not talented enough, not smart enough, or any of that stuff ’cause you are. You’re totally beautiful, you’re totally talented, you can do anything you want, and never let anybody get in your way. Tell them to get out of your way. You’re on your way to greater things.

    If You Were Love story

    “So this song, I don’t remember who it was written about. But I love this song, and it should have been on Bella Donna. I didn’t like the way that it was produced or done so I pulled it right at the end. And that’s hard to do ’cause you have to hurt somebody’s feelings to do that. But, you know what, sometimes a girl’s just gotta say, ‘No, I don’t like it.’ And, uh, so I’m saying, so it went back in the gothic trunk of magical mystery things. Anyway, I think it was written about somebody that was heartbroken and that’s all I can really tell you about. It’s called ‘If You Were My Love.’”

    (After the song)

    Thank you. What I love about some of these songs is that it’s just so great to just really sing. With these two girls, and to just sing. For real, it’s so classy. Thank you.

    Gold Dust Woman (choops4683)

    Gold Dust Woman / Band Introductions / Edge of Seventeen (Peter Dolbey)

    Band Introductions

    “Thank you. This is when you’re supposed to say, ‘Hairdresser! Makeup, Hairdresser!’

    I’m gonna introduce you to my band now. And I’ve already been warned. I’m going to look at my…Fitbit.

    Anyway, I have to move right along here so first of all, don’t take it personally, it’s not going to be a long introduction. Um Hammond organ, our favorite Hammond organ player because he’s the best, he’s the finest in the world as far as I’m concerned in my opinion, and his name is Ricky Peterson, yay!

    Concise! Right next to whatever your name is, what was your name? I’m kidding! I’m totally kidding. I’m not there yet. Um drums, we have someone who, um, played drums for us for a long time and then had to go away and do other super interesting things and has now come back to us for a while and we totally appreciate every moment that we have you with us. Ladies and gentlemen, on fantastical and mystical whatever drums, Mr. Scotty Crago!

    Let me consult my Fitbit…OK! All right, this man, really quickly… When Darrell plays, I feel like I am playing the piano myself because I’m really not that good of a piano player, but I do play good enough to write, like on Moonlight. I can play it a little bit like you play it, but not really. And so when he plays, it’s like I’m playing myself and it’s like the most amazing thing. It’s hard to find somebody who can follow you and be in your song with you as if he were you. I think sometimes we sort of change personalities, right? We just switch. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, on grand piano, Mr. Darrell Smith!

    And right next to Darrell, in back of Darrell is my friend from Phoenix, Arizona, and I’m from Phoenix, Arizona. We have risen, the phoenixes have risen, right? Anyway, um, Al and I have been working together since the mid-’90s. He is my super demo person and I will tell you, it’s like I will say things like this to Al, ‘Al, I want to do a version of ‘It’s Raining Men.” And Al says, ‘OK!’ And we do, and we still have it. Nobody will ever hear it. Anyway, he is definitely a person who makes my songs come to life, and for that, I appreciate it so much. Ladies and gentlemen, on bass, Mr. Al Ortiz!

    And right over here… It’s hard to make this introduction short, I’m gonna do it. OK, right here where the blond girl is usually you’re used to seeing, if you a die-hard fan, you’re used to seeing a redhead, who is my redheaded sister-in-law. And for this tour, my redheaded sister-in-law — THERE SHE IS! (pointing to a projected image of Lori Nicks on the screen). That’s so funny! And she’s actually here tonight, so Lori wherever you are, you are up here with us, yay! So anyway, enough about Lori, and so now back to Minnie. So Minnie sang with us a long time ago, but she sang with us for quite a long time. So when Lori, oh, this is why… Lori’s baby is having a baby in January and I said, ‘Lori, you need to go home and be with your child when she has a child’ because you need to have your mom, right? So anyway, that’s why Lori is not here. Anyway, she is here tonight. But she’s only just here tonight. And so Minnie…I know! …has swept back in and been able to make this change very easy for all of us, and she has a kick-ass voice, and she’s most fun girl ever, so ladies and gentlemen, on vocal, um, her name is actually Marilyn Martin, but we call her Minnie.

    So that’s two introductions in one so it took a little extra time. Right next to Minnie is my friend Sharon Celani who has been (cheers from audience)…yes, I know, woo! She’s been with me since 1987…80…no, 78…I’m, I’m getting dyslexic too. Since 1978, I met her in Lahaina, Maui, and she was signing in a band at The Blue Max, which was ‘The hot bar.’ And I had gone there to drink, meet men, and, uh, meet Sharon. And so I met Sharon and I said, “Sharon, in case I ever do a record, would you like to come and sing on it, and she’s like…this is how she talks, ‘Absolutely.’ And two months later, Sharon moved to Los Angeles, but the funnest thing about Sharon is that very next day I said to her, ‘Sharon, I need a piano because I wanna write. I need to write, and when I need to write I need a piano, so she’s like, ‘No problem. I’ll find a piano’ So the next day, down the dirt road in Lahaina, Maui, here comes Sharon (image of Sharon pushing a piano is projected on the large screen, with laughter from the audience). So true! Anyway, there she is, ‘The Piano Lady,’ Billy Joel, get out of the picture! And she has been marvelous all these years. If I need something, the tape recorder, a cassette, a drink, something, Sharon gets it and we write that song. Ladies and gentlemen, on vocals, Miss Sharon Celani!

    OK, next to the girls is someone who’s also been in this band for a long time. He’s our player of much different kinds of music. He is, uh, very diverse. I don’t know where these words are coming from. They’re just coming. Um, he’s very diverse, and he can just play anything, and that’s why he’s so much fun, and he brings laughter to this band. He makes us all laugh, he is our therapist and, um, sometimes chiropractor. And so he’s a coat of many coats. Happens to be Waddy’s and my favorite song. And you are the coat of many colors in this band. Ladies and gentlemen, on guitar and his coat, Mr. Carlos Rios!

    Over here, I’ve already told you a lot of the story of Mr. Waddy Wachtel and I. He and I have known each other since 1971, which, as you know, is a very long time. And we have been making music for a very long time. When I got the chance to make a solo record, I immediately called him and said, ‘Can you do this with me? Will you be musical director?’ And our producer Jimmy was totally into that, and so it was like, it was a beautiful relationship and we made this amazing record. And we have been playing together ever since, and this time, doing this set, as you know because you’ve been here, very difference experience for us and so much fun. But Waddy is the one who makes me, who makes me courageous and makes me have no fear. Sometimes I introduce him and say he makes this place safe. He makes this safe for me. He makes it easy for me to come out and try new things. If I make a mistake, he doesn’t get mad at me. And he’s worth a million dollars, and so I call him my “million dollar baby.” Ladies and gentlemen, he plays everything, musical director, best friend, gemini twin, Mr. Waddy Wachtel on guitar!

    And that’s them.”

    Edge of Seventeen (choops4683)

    Edge of Seventeen (Jason Mathew)

    Edge of Seventeen (aerofan2007)

    “New York City… So I want you to know how much this means to me, uh, to be able to come and try to make this like into my musical house and play you songs that you’ve probably never heard of before. And you’re just kind and sweet and you listen and you don’t yell at me and say, ‘Exactly what song did you take out to put that song in for?’ And so I just appreciate it so much. I mean, it was a little scary to do this, but it has been so overwhelmingly wonderful for my heart and for the fulfillment of being a musician to sing and to not just do the same thing over and over and over again. So thank you for being creative with me and staying ’til the end. I appreciate it so much, and we’ll see you next time! Love you much!”

    Rhiannon (choops4683)

    Rhiannon (Peter Dolbey)

    School of Rock —The Musical shout-out

    “So I have to, uh, yeah, turn on the lights! Where are you, like? There’s a little girl who plays bass, and she is so rocking that I’m just waiting for her to get a little bit older so I can hire her. Sorry, Al! Evie (Dolan)? Where are you? (Stevie waves both of her arms.) She’s only this big — we’re never going to see her. She is so rockin’. Ethan (Khusidman) on keys, Dante (Melucci) on drums, Brandon (Niederauer) on guitar, Jersey (Sullivan) on guitar. I have to tell you, everybody, if you haven’t seen it [School of Rock — The Musical], you have to go and see it because these kids, if I close…I did it three times with them in front of people for, um for Broadway Cares, and for their show too. Um, if I close my eyes, I swear I thought it was either Fleetwood Mac or this band. That’s how good they are. Spectacular… (Stevie lowers both her hands halfway to the floor.) This big. And I want you guys to know that I tried every way in the world to be able to figure a way for you to come up here and actually play, and of course, consulting my Fitbit, there would not have been time for that. But really, it’s an amazing play, and these kids to me are like the future of rock and roll. They are excellent. Go see it. Um, anyway, that’s the story of my newly adopted 13 children.

    Um, so the next thing that we are going to do for you is something that you probably are gonna expect, but we weren’t doing it until one night ago, so this is newly added to our way too long show. So here it is, Waddy hit it.”

    Landslide (Jason Mathew)

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  • RECAP: Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre

    RECAP: Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre

    Scroll down for photos, videos, reviews, and fan reaction!

    On Tuesday, Stevie Nicks performed at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario — the 18th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. It was the first of two shows in Canada (Stevie performs in Vancouver on December 9).

    The current tour is proving to feature her most diverse set list to date, with yet another set list change this evening. Stevie treated Toronto fans to Fleetwood Mac classic “Landslide,” the second encore and show’s closing number. Though it replaced another classic — the 1981 hit “Leather and Lace,” which was retired from the set at last Friday’s Uncasville, CT show — fans were thrilled with the “Landslide” addition. (Stevie ended the following Auburn Hills, MI show with “Rhiannon.”)

    Twitter was abuzz with overwhelming praise and accolades. Kelly Ryan, a fan attending the Toronto show, summed up the evening in the following tweet: “Stevie Nicks was amazing and still can kick ass at 68. Wow just wow!”

    Stevie Nicks
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    Videos

    Thanks and much love to Steve Gallow, Ken Lyons, Darin Parest, and The Concert Junkie for filming and sharing these wonderful videos.

    Gold and Braid / If Anyone Falls / Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around / Belle Fleur (Darin Parest)

    “Welcome, Toronto! Well, we are very glad to be here. We just came in from somewhere in the United States last night. And uh, I know, who remembers? But anyway, we’re really glad to be here.

    “So I want to tell you that this set, this set is not the same set that you saw probably…100 times over the last 20 years. This is a different set. I went back into, I call ’em,  the black, gothic trunk of mysterious and fantastical things to pull out songs that were not done, not because they were not good enough, but because I just didn’t like the way that they were done. So I pulled them. So never knowing  whether or not they would be ever used or heard again from that point. So anyway, I put them into a set. I tried to intertwine everything together and make it something that you’ll really like. It’s really fun for me, something different to do for my own musical love of music.

    “So anyway, I hope you enjoy it. We’re awful glad to be here and very glad that you are here. So, let’s go!”

    Gold and Braid / If Anyone Falls (Ken Lyons)

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde (Ken Lyons)

    “Thank you. So this next song has kind of a great story. When we did Bella Donna in 1981, it was produced by Jimmy Iovine, who had produced many people by then, even though he was five years younger than me. He would like that, that I said that. Anyway, Jimmy came to me and said, ‘OK, we’ve made the record. It’s really good.’ It took three months. We were very organized, very together and he said, ‘But there is a problem. And I’m like, ‘So what is the problem?’ And he says, ‘There is not a single on this record.’ I’ve only been in the business for like five years at that point. I don’t know a lot about all this, even then.

    “So I’m like, ‘What do you exactly mean by that?’ And he says, ‘It means you don’t have a single on your record. And you need to have a single or it’s possible that your record will tank and then you won’t have a solo career.’ [put her finger on her cheek] Hmm.  No, yes, he said that to me. And I’m like, ‘Well…so what am I supposed to do, go and home and try to write a single?’ I tried to write a single, there’s 12 of them, and he said, ‘No. This is what we’re gonna do. The reason you hired me was because you actually wanted to be in Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, right?’ And I’m going, ‘Yes! Yes!’ He said, ‘Well, I couldn’t help you with that,’ but he said, ‘But what I did is Tom Petty has offered to give you a great song that was supposed to be on the record he’s doing right now and not only is he going to give you this song, but he’s gonna sing it with you.’ And I’m like, ‘OK!’ I throw the arrogance out the window and go like, ‘I’m so happy. What can I say?

    “So anyway, that song — thank you, Tom Petty — was probably the reason why we are standing here today because it became a huge single, and it’s called ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.’”

    After ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’

    “So much fun. It’s like it’s my…it’s my destiny to almost always be a part of a duo. And it’s fantastic since I was this big with my granddad. It’s like I always find my way back to singing with another person so now I have a new person to sing with, Chrissie Hynde, and it’s just so great.”

    Belle Fleur story

    “So this next song could have actually well, it is written about me. But it could have been written about her also. In the beginning — in the beginning — like you know, like 1978, let’s say. I don’t remember, but somewhere back then. I wrote this song and it was about having relationships when you’re in a rock and roll band, and you’re a girl and you’re in the band, and you really can’t take your boyfriends on the stage. Well, you definitely can’t take them on the stage. But you absolutely can’t take them on the road either because they don’t have anything to do. And everybody starts walking around going like, ‘Who is that, and why are they here?’ So it ends up not being a good thing so the rule is pretty much: Don’t bring your boyfriend. Now it’s not the same for the guys, if they want to bring their girlfriends, it’s fine. But, not fine.

    “So I wrote a song about when you leave and you’re going on a tour, you can’t really say how it’s gonna last because you don’t really know, and so you’re walking down your little path to the long, black limousine that I personally loved, not the SUV, the real limousine. And you’re turning around and you’re waving goodbye to that person and you don’t know when you’re gonna be back, and it pretty much means that the relationship is over. You know it, he knows it, it’s just the way it is. So anyway, this is my picture painting, and it’s called ‘Belle Fleur.’”

    Gypsy (Ken Lyons)

    Stand Back / Crying in the Night (Ken Lyons)

    “Thank you. Yes, that was Prince, and yes, we did know each other and we were actually very good friends. And we wrote that song together. We didn’t really write it in the same room together, but I wrote it along to his track ‘Little Red Corvette.’ And then I called him and told him the truth: ‘I have written a song to your song from another one of my, you know, ferocious, long poems.’ And he said, ‘Great!’ And I said, ‘So, I’m at Sunset Sound Recording Studio right now in Los Angeles. I don’t have any idea where you are, but if you’re here, could you come over?’ He said, ‘I’m in Los Angeles. I’ll be over in 15 minutes.’ And he was, and played a little guitar, he played keyboards, he said he loved it, and then he like whooshed into a purple haze and was gone. And really, that is a fact of who he was. He was like came to get his work. He was really nice and he left. And then for the rest of his life, that’s how I would see him every once in a while. It would just be like woosh! and then he was just like gone.

    “So he will always be a part of us because he will always be a part of…every time you hear ‘Stand Back,’ you can think about ‘The Purple One’ making it possible for me to write that song.”

    Crying in the Night story

    “So anyway… OK, next song… Do you feel like you’re in school yet? If this hadn’t all worked out for me, that’s what I would have been, a teacher. And I would have taken all my music into my classes and made people sit there and listen to it! And I’d be fine.

    “So the next song is the oldest song we have ever performed here onstage because it was a song on the Buckingham Nicks album. And it was probably written…hard to remember, but it was probably written before Lindsey and I drove to Los Angeles in 1971 because we had our 12 Buckingham Nicks songs demoed really beautifully. So that’s probably when I wrote it, like in even 1970.

    “Anyway, we came to Los Angeles. We moved in with our producer and the first thing that happened was we met Waddy Wachtel. And he was already a very well-known session musician, who had a job and was doing well. And so the three of us became really good friends. When I look back on it, it was like, you talk about like ‘the best times of your life.’ It was like, this is the best times of our life.

    “Anyway, this song that I wrote, I don’t know, it just turned into this great song. And it’s like we don’t know what it was about — we can’t figure these words out. It was about some girl that none of us knew. And anyway, we recorded and it came out great, and it was gonna be the single on the Buckingham Nicks record, but it never really made it to that place because the Buckingham Nicks album was put out and dropped by the record company in like a couple of weeks.

    “So anyway, we have often thought about doing this song and I’ve said, ‘No, you know, maybe this isn’t…’ And so Waddy said, ‘Why not? Let’s just do it.’ So I said, ‘OK! Let’s do.’ So anyway, this song from the 1973 record is called ‘Cryin’ in the Night,’ and we’re gonna play it for you now.’”

    After ‘Crying in the Night’

    “…a dream come true that we never actually thought would come true, bringing something actually to the forefront that was lost forever. And so this only means that it is a testament to… I hate to see people not go after their dreams because you can have them. You just have to fight for them, and you just have to remember to not listen to anybody else, that you have to say: ‘This is what I really want! It’s not your life. You don’t live here. It’s me. Go away!’ And stick to it because you can have it. The stars are there, just like ‘Bella Donna’ says, you know, ‘Come in out of the darkness.’ Anyway, I have to say that. That’s my little preaching moment, so thank you.”

    If You Were My Love (Ken Lyons)

    “I’m back! I need a pulpit, I do. I need something to put my hands on.

    “OK, so this next song… Oh yes, it goes way back too. It is the only other song that I honestly don’t remember who it was about. But it was a very important song to me because I pulled it off Bella Donna because I didn’t like the way it was recorded. So I think it was about a heartbroken person somewhere. Someday, it’ll come to me, but it hasn’t yet. And it’s one of my very favorite songs. It’s called ‘If You Were My Love.’”

    Gold Dust Woman (Ken Lyons)

    Edge of Seventeen (Ken Lyons)

    “Thank you, Toronto! What a beautiful city you have here! We could all be moving here soon. I love it here.

    “You have been an awesome audience. I appreciate so much you listening to all my, my dark, gothic trunk of magical, mystical…’Mrs. Peregrine’s Place for Curious Children and Song.’ I know that it’s a lot, and I appreciate the fact that you are kind and sweet and listen as if we were in like our house, our living room. And we are just missing refreshments — that’s the only thing!

    “So that’s what I actually came here for is to make you feel like we’re all in our house of music, and this is the good place. This is where it all happened. So I thank you for making me feel like my little way I wanted to go goes right. And we will see you next time. Stay well and safe. Love each other. I love you so much. Thank you very much.”

    Rhiannon (Ken Lyons)

    Landslide (Steve Gallow)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3Kh7-lkco

    Landslide (The Concert Junkie)

    “So this last song… We actually just decided to do… We usually don’t do this song, but we decided to do this song tonight because, when we left on this tour, I said, ‘You know, we’re not working for anybody else, so if we wanna just change a song, do a different song, it’s like we’re not going to get thrown in jail or anything. We can actually do whatever we want.’ So tonight we’re doing a different song…I think. I haven’t sung this song in a while so I hope, I hope I even… Of course, I remember it. It’s the other song besides ‘Rhiannon’ that’s been done every single time I’ve ever gone on the stage, except this time. But now it’s gonna be this time too. Take it away, George!”

    Reviews

    Nothing beats a night with Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde (Chaka V. Grier / Now Toronto)

    https://twitter.com/RdeTriomphe/status/803831699796852736

    https://twitter.com/Ashleytredenick/status/803823290825449472

    https://twitter.com/jamiegibsonxo/status/803823144393986048

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    https://twitter.com/niccrichi/status/803779202143154180

    https://twitter.com/Foodietwo/status/803729911177428992

  • RECAP: Auburn Hills (Detroit), MI – The Palace

    RECAP: Auburn Hills (Detroit), MI – The Palace

    On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks performed at The Palace in Auburn Hills, MI — the 17th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    There was a humorous moment when Stevie was telling the crowd about her stunning blue “Bella Donna” cape. As she tried to remove it, the cape got stuck and required some assistance from her guitarist Waddy Wachtel. Afterwards, Stevie joked, “It was just a little…(wardrobe) malfunction.”

    Due to the venue’s curfew, Stevie ended the show with “Rhiannon,” skipping the second encore “Leather and Lace.”

    Much love and thanks to FlightAttendantPixie and Chacuterie King for live streaming the show! Here is a transcript of some the stories Stevie told Sunday night.

    Opening comments

    “Hello, Detroit! Well, welcome everybody, uh, we are so glad that you’re here! I didn’t know Kid Rock’s in Nashville, what’s up with that? (On Stevie’s last visit to Auburn Hills with Fleetwood Mac, Kid Rock, born and raised in the Detroit area, surprised her by coming onstage during the show and giving her a big hug.) Seriously. I’m a have to have a talk with him. So we are really glad that you all are here because most of all you are the most important — he has his own thing. Um, this show is not what you are gonna think it’s gonna be because I decided before I came out this time that I was gonna go into the, I like to call it the dark, the gothic trunk of mysterious, magical things you’ve heard of but you never actually heard. So that’s what I did. I put it together, tried to sequence it really good, intertwine everything. So it’s delightful for me because it’s something different for me after all these years. And I didn’t want to come out here and do the same Stevie Nicks set you guys have seen 5,000 times. So I hope you enjoy it. Let’s go!”

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (huntingtonm15)

    Chrissie Hynde: “I like him (Tom Petty), but I love her (points to Stevie Nicks).”

    Bella Donna / Wild Heart

    “Thank you. So that little story on those two songs. First of all, you know Bella Donna was the first record and there wasn’t a very big tour because I had made a promise to Fleetwood Mac that I wasn’t going to break up Fleetwood Mac so I said when you need me I will wrap it up. So they needed me about two month after we released the record so I wrapped it up. So we didn’t really get to tour, rarely ever so we never played Bella Donna hardly at all. Um, the thing about the follow-up which is The Wild Heart, was that whenever you can come away from a hit debut record, everybody’s always going to say, it’s a fluke…fluke…fluke. And so the only way you can mess with that argument is to make another record that does really well too, then they cannot say that Bella Donna was a fluke. So actually, we owe that to Wild Heart for being the crazier, more darker record but that did really well and gave me really the ability to have two careers for the rest of my life to be standing here tonight.

    And I would just like to show you, you’re looking at it, but I want you to know that this is the original Bella Donna cape…for this song. [Stevie then tries to remove the cape, but has some trouble so she needs Waddy to help her remove it.] Well, you know, it was just a little, what is it, [waredrobe] malfunction. (Shows the audience the cape.)

    So this was worn a few times…and it was on the back cover of Bella Donna and on the inside of Bella Donna and actually this was supposed to be the cover of Bella Donna, and…I’m doing this thing and I was wearing this, so. The funny thing about this all is that if my mom was here today, and we wish she was, she would say, ‘Stevie, that was a great choice of fabric,’ because look at how well, how perfect, look at how well it’s held up and that’s because it’s silk chiffon, which is what they make sails for boats out of, so of course, they never ever fall apart. So if you want to put your money on something, I say silk chiffon.”

    Gypsy (huntingtonm15)

    New Orleans

    “So this next song was written in 2005 and recorded finally in 2010 on In My Dreams. I was sitting in my house that’s next to the ocean in Santa Monica, and I was watching the oncoming, huge, and horrific hurricane that was coming toward New Orleans. And as a writer, you’re kind of like a reporter and you want to chronicle stuff, stuff that’s going on. You want to write about it because you want to still have it because time passes and things disappear. So I wanted to write about this, but this is a pretty heavy thing to write about and once again, as a writer, you start to think, well, this is bad so I don’t wanna write this seriously sad and depressing poem that in years to come people will read and go like, I really wish she hadn’t written it because it’s awful.

    “So I stopped and I remembered that I had track that a friend of ours who plays with Fleetwood Mac, his name is Neil, had written and sent to me 2 years, maybe 3 years before. And it was in my bedside table next to my bed. And I thought, there’s a track on that, it’s track two, and I ran it in the cassette player that will record and will not break and will work, and recorded the song with the poem, and then sat there and watched the hurricane go crazy. I hoped when I finally got around to ever playing this song, or even recording it that it would have turned into something that was almost celebratory because that’s what you hope as a writer is that you can write something, you can tell what’s happening, but you can also make it like life will once more be a celebration, and that’s what I hoped for it. And I’ve never done this song on stage until this tour, so we’re going to do it for you now. It’s called New Orleans.’”

    Starshine

    “Well, this next song was written in Tom Petty’s basement slash studio, probably in 1979, 1980. And I live in Santa Monica and Tom lives in Pacific Palisades. It used to be Pacific Palisades Park. That was even before I moved there. So I would go over to Tom’s house sometimes, and he would never invite me. But I would call and say like, can I come over? And he’d go like, ‘sigh OK.’ And I’d go like, I’ll be there in an hour! So I’d go with my Hershey Chocolate powder in case I needed a glass of chocolate milk and my guitar in case, which was ridiculous because I had super long nails. But it looked good for me to arrive with a guitar. So I’d knock on the door and he’d open the open and he’d look at me and go like, ‘Are you moving in?’ And I’m like, Noooo, I’m not moving in but I just came like, you know, for a play-date. So I said, Tom, I’ve written a really good poem and then put it to music and I think it’s really good. And I was wondering, if you like it, maybe we could record it. So he’s like, ‘OK, play it for me. So I sit down at the piano, I don’t play that good but good enough to write. And I played this song, and he’s like at the end it, he goes, ‘That’s a good song Stevie.’ And I’m like, thank you Tom. And so the Heartbreakers start straggling in and we recorded it. And it came out amazing. It came out so amazing that if either of us had been doing a record, it would have gone on one of those records. But neither of us was doing a record, so the song went into the dark gothic truck of things possibly never to be heard from again. And it had been there since 2014 when I made 24 Karat Gold. So anyway, this is what it is. We’re gonna play it for you now. It’s called ‘Starshine.’”

    Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)

    “So this song for me was the touchstone. It’s my favorite song to sing. So thank you very much. I really appreciate it.”

    Stand Back

    “Prince and I were friends. There’s a story I’m not ready to tell yet. We were just friends. And it was a long, crazy friendship. A beautiful soul.”

    Gold Dust Woman (huntingtonm15)

    Rhiannon (huntingtonm15)

    Revised Set List (as of 11/27)

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Gypsy
    6. Wild Heart / Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    10. Starshine
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      ENCORE
    16. Rhiannon

    Reviews

    https://twitter.com/GilmourWright/status/803091112412020736

    https://twitter.com/marissagv23/status/803080065865150464

    https://twitter.com/1003WNIC/status/803035698018160640

  • RECAP: Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

    RECAP: Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

    On Friday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT — the 16th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    Videos

    Much love and thanks to DewdRocks, Adam Kearns, and TheSkuncle for filming and sharing these wonderful videos!

    Opening comments (TheSkuncle)



    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde (TheSkuncle)

    Belle Fleur story

    “You can’t bring your boyfriend with you because, if you don’t have a job up here, you don’t get to go. It’s not cool. Um, so, I had this picture in my mind of me in the very beginning when I was so like, so taken with the guy that I was driving around in a, in a Toyota…and now I’m driving in a big, long, black, fantastically beautiful limousine… So I would say to myself in, in my painting, walking down a path from the house, waving, kinda turning around, waving to my boyfriend, getting in the car, and knowing that the relationship is for all practical purposes over because you’re not coming home for six months, maybe a year. You can never actually tell somebody how long the tour’s gonna go so, anyway, it was my picture, my little painting, and it’s called ‘Belle Fleur.’”

    Stevie Nicks)
    (Rose Aksterowicz)

    Starshine (TheSkuncle)

    Stand Back (Adam Kearns)

    Stand Back story (TheSkuncle)

    Crying in the Night (DewdRocks)

    Edge of Seventeen (TheSkuncle)

    Leather and Lace (TheSkuncle)

    Set List

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Gypsy
    6. Wild Heart / Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    10. Starshine
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      ENCORES
    16. Rhiannon
    17. Leather and Lace

    Reviews

    REVIEW: Stevie Nicks, Pretenders thrill Mohegan Sun Casino crowd (Chris Dondoros / The Republican)

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  • RECAP: Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena

    RECAP: Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena

    On Thanksgiving Eve, Stevie Nicks performed at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI — the 15th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde
    (Anthony Norkus Photography)

    Videos

    Much love and thanks to Lonnie Decker and Tony Greer, ToxMetal, and Travis Meeuwsen for filming and sharing these wonderful videos!

    Stevie Nicks

    A video posted by Travis Meeuwsen (@meeuwdog) on

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Lonnie Decker)

    Stand Back (ToxMetal)

    If You Were My Love – Part 1 (Tony Greer)

    If You Were My Love – Part 2 (Tony Greer)

    Gold Dust Woman – short clip (Tony Greer)

    Edge of Seventeen (Lonnie Decker)

    Edge of Seventeen – partial (Tony Greer)

    Leather and Lace (Lonnie Decker)

    Set List

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Gypsy
    6. Wild Heart / Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    10. Starshine
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      ENCORES
    16. Rhiannon
    17. Leather and Lace

    Reviews

    https://twitter.com/Csmizzle1/status/801647735535443968

    https://twitter.com/kyliesahloff/status/801646501533454336

    https://twitter.com/kaylakays17/status/801642493326622720

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    https://twitter.com/michaeldiaz101/status/801638990558461952

    https://twitter.com/ffbf42c8cb30463/status/801623606979661824

    https://twitter.com/brooklynpwarner/status/801620286663786501

    https://twitter.com/FKAgrendel_irl/status/801617074946711552

    https://twitter.com/sarahskin4/status/801613893424545793

    https://twitter.com/CharlsieMDewey/status/801611153877176322

  • RECAP: Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

    RECAP: Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

    Scroll down for pictures, videos, set list, reviews, and fan reaction!

    On Sunday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia — the 14th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    Stevie Nicks
    (Wells Fargo Center)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Alyda Mir)
    Stevie Nicks
    (NATty_light3)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Maryellen Suter Shaw)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Liberal Paul)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Liz Johhnson)

    Videos

    Much love and thanks to Bella Meghan, Dani Haines, hell0allis0n, Homes, Kelly, and Jim Powers for filming and sharing these wonderful videos.

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hynde (Jim Powers)

    If Anyone Falls (Jim Powers)

    Belle Fleur (Jim Powers)

    Gypsy (Jim Powers)

    Gypsy (Dani Haines Homes)

    New Orleans (Jim Powers)

    Starshine (Jim Powers)

    Stand Back – short clip ()

    Crying in the Night (Jim Powers)

    If You Were My Love (Jim Powers)

    Gold Dust Woman (Jim Powers)

    Edge of Seventeen (Jim Powers)

    Rhiannon (hell0allis0n)

    Leather and Lace (Jim Powers)

    Set List

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Gypsy
    6. Wild Heart / Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    10. Starshine
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      ENCORES
    16. Rhiannon
    17. Leather and Lace

    Reviews

    https://twitter.com/bellykagby/status/800557336289017856

    https://twitter.com/heytheremarlen/status/800552127156355072

    https://twitter.com/GreenleyWill/status/800551183614099457

    https://twitter.com/Drive_A_LEXIS/status/800549472723988480

    https://twitter.com/RealJPClemens/status/800544633797431297

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    https://twitter.com/MatthewVeasey/status/800510829284061184

    https://twitter.com/MatthewVeasey/status/800510543308066816

  • RECAP: Bethlehem, PA – Sands Event Center

    RECAP: Bethlehem, PA – Sands Event Center

    Scroll down for photos, videos, reviews, fan reaction, and the revised set list!

    On Saturday night, Stevie Nicks performed at the Sands Event Center in Bethlehem, PA — the lucky 13th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    Stevie has been telling audiences how important it is to do one wants, especially at her age. She stayed true to that advice by dropping “Dreams,” Fleetwood Mac’s only number single in the U.S, from Saturday night’s set list. The perennial favorite has been included in every major solo or Fleetwood Mac tour set list since its release in 1977. Stevie also dropped the related Bella Donna track “Outside the Rain,” another song often included in her set lists. But to the delight of the crowd, she replaced the two songs with Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1982 hit single “Gypsy.” She used the same black-and-white, projection-screen visuals featured in Fleetwood Mac’s 2014-2015’s On with the Show Tour.

    During “Stand Back,” Stevie posed with the 1973 Buckingham Nicks record, which a fan had brought for Stevie to sign. (It had already been signed by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham.) A similar moment occurred during Fleetwood Mac’s On with the Show Tour, where a fan presented the album for both Lindsey and Stevie to sign.

    Stevie Nicks

    During “Edge of Seventeen,” two fans in the front row (Vikki Carlucci and Roseanne Mughetto) gave Stevie a rose-decorated crown, which Stevie graciously accepted and wore on stage (see more photos below).

    Stevie Nicks
    (Alexa Marie / Jasmine Leslie)

    The following slideshow photos by Chris Shipley / The Morning Call

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    The following slideshow photos by Matt Smith / Lehigh Valley Live

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    Stevie Nicks
    (Alexa Marie / Jasmine Leslie)
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    (Alexa Marie / Jasmine Leslie)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Alexa Marie / Jasmine Leslie)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Alyssa)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Robbie Lopez)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Alyssa)

    The following photos are courtesy of Vikki Carlucci:

     Reviews

    Revised Set List (as of 11/19)

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Gypsy
    6. Wild Heart / Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    10. Starshine
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      ENCORES
    16. Rhiannon
    17. Leather and Lace

    Videos

    Much love and thanks to Michelle Cohn, Mickie Esemplare, and Gypsy Soul Sunflower for filming and sharing these wonderful video clips!

    Intro/If Anyone Falls (Michelle Cohn)

    If Anyone Falls – short clip (Mickie Esemplare)

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (Gypsy Soul Sunflower)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7EvVkShxw

    Gypsy (Gypsy Soul Sunflower)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RV5i1ks-WQ

    Bella Donna (Mickie Esemplare)

    Enchanted (Gypsy Soul Sunflower)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DXioFa7Ic

    Starshine (Michelle Cohn)


    Stand Back (Michelle Cohn)

    Gold Dust Woman (Michelle Cohn)

    Edge of Seventeen (Gypsy Soul Sunflower)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SpScwAcuMc

    Rhiannon – partial (Mickie Esemplare) 

    Leather and Lace (Gypsy Soul Sunflower)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1vD9vOOMBA

     

     

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  • Stevie Nicks’ fall tour lit with Claypaky Fixtures

    LOS ANGELES – Stevie Nicks has gone solo for the “24 Karat Gold Tour” playing more than two dozen arena dates in North America before the end of the year.  The tour launched in Phoenix on Oct. 25 and concludes at the Forum in Los Angeles on Dec. 18. Production designer Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc. in Minneapolis chose 88 Claypaky Mythos fixtures for the lighting rig and a grandMA2 console for show control.

    More details from ACT Lighting (www.actlighting.com ):

    Nicks’s latest tour, in support of her album, 24 Karat Gold – Songs from the Vault, launched in Phoenix and will wrap in Los Angeles.  While the iconic singer/songwriter appears as a solo artist, she tapped the Pretenders to open for her – delivering a powerhouse show for ticketholders.

    A veteran of Nicks’s tours, Guthrie endeavored to “create something new and a bit more modern” for her new show.  “Stevie enjoys using video content so the tour features a lot of video on an LED video wall backdrop and L-shaped scenic pieces,” he explains.  “Our overwhelming lighting edict is always no smoke.  So we defer to lighting the band and adding in layers of light to create new looks.”

    The versatility of Mythos offers myriad options to Guthrie.  “It’s fun to have one light that can produce a multitude of different effects in the same head,” he says.  “Mythos is basically the workhorse light in the rig.”  He notes that the tour’s complement of 100-120 moving lights “is now considered a medium-size rig for an arena tour.  It used to be that 16 were considered to be a lot!  We’ve come a long way.” PRG’s Las Vegas office supplied the fixtures.

    Eighty Mythos are mounted in the overhead lighting trusses where they form “solid lines of Mythos,” Guthrie reports.  “On the downstage and mid-stage trusses they provide stage wash and beam effects.  Those on the most upstage of the trusses, upstage of the video wall, create layers to add depth.”

    Eight more Mythos are positioned on the floor upstage of the band “to set fire” to their dynamic performance.

    Tom Wagstaff, the lighting director for the Pretenders deploys about 60 Mythos, on the downstage and mid-stage trusses, and repositions the complement on the floor, says Guthrie.

    Two grandMA2 full-size consoles, one active and one back up, and two NPUs are on hand to “literally run everything that’s moving and changing on stage that’s not the actual band,” he notes.  “We control all the lights, the video, the hoists and the scenic movement from the board.”

    Guthrie and Chris Lose jointly programmed the show.  “I had the show file from Stevie’s last solo tour and Chris had the show file from the last Fleetwood Mac tour he did.  So we combined them to start then built out the file over two weeks of rehearsals at Sony in LA.”

    Guthrie likes the grandMA2 for its “reliability and feature set.  I’m extremely fortunate to work with a lot of very clever MA users so I’m constantly learning new tricks,” he adds.

    “The ability for Chris and me to be on the board and programming was a huge advantage.  In a lot of rehearsals, I was making adjustments to the file as he was running the show.  I could program content while he programmed lights.  That’s a massive advantage.”

    For the “24 Karat Gold Tour” Thomas Mayer is the lighting crew chief and Cecil Nelson, Matt Schiller and Scott Naef are the lighting crew.

    A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive North American distributor of both Claypaky fixtures and MA Lighting products. Guthrie previously deployed Mythos on tours for Miranda Lambert and Macklemore and Lewis.

    Nook Schoenfeld / PLSN (Projection, Lights and Staging News) / November, 16 2016

  • RECAP: Boston, MA – TD Garden

    RECAP: Boston, MA – TD Garden

    Scroll down for photos, videos, set list, reviews, and fan reaction!

    On Tuesday night, Stevie Nicks performed at TD Garden in Boston — the 12th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour. Despite the poor weather conditions outside (heavy wind and rain), the show went on as planned.

    Slideshow photos by John Wilcox / Boston Herald
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    Stevie Nicks
    (Alli Parker)
    Stevie Nicks
    (TD Garden)
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    (TD Garden)
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    (TD Garden)

     

    Stevie Nicks
    (Zachary Thai)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Carrie C)
    Stevie Nicks
    (kkpz)
    Stevie Nicks
    (TD Garden)
    Stevie Nicks
    (TD Garden)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Equus21)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Bobby Main)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Chelsea)

    Videos

    Much thanks and love to Damani Barboza, Carrie C, kcarton, Matthew Creen, Michal Korpalski, Lisa Samataro, Jason Trevino, and Wide awake for sharing these wonderful videos!

    Gold and Braid (Damani Barboza)

    If Anyone Falls (kcarton)

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hyde (kcarton)

    Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around feat. Chrissie Hyde (Jason Trevino)

    That time Chrissie Hynde came out to sing Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around with Stevie Nicks. Rock goddesses.

    A video posted by Jason Trevino (@jasetrevino) on

    Outside the Rain / Dreams (kcarton)

    Enchanted (kcarton)

    Stand Back (Matthew Creen)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXcKCudy3B8

    Gold Dust Woman (Lisa Samataro)

    Gold Dust Woman (Michal Korpalski)

    Edge of Seventeen (Wide awake)

    Leather and Lace – partial (Jamee Culbertson)

    Closing speech (Carrie C)

    “This tour has made me really believe that, you know, we all really should do what we want to do. Sometimes people tell you what you should do and, where they want you to go — whether it’s your parents or your friends or your boyfriend, the girlfriends, whatever, and people have a whole lot to say about what it is that you do. And I just want to remind you that the person that knows what you should do for you the best IS YOU. And that is what I have learned in my very long life that — in my very long life — is that time passes, things pass, problems pass away, and what you are left with is you and your dreams. So take care of your dreams and make them work for you and be happy amongst your dreams and the things that you love because that’s really…when you get to be my age… I mean, I don’t feel old, even though I totally am. I don’t feel that way. I feel like I’m still wrapped in my dreams, and you should too.”

    “So I love you all! You are a magnificent, magnificent city, and yes, I think I’m absolutely gonna get one of those beautiful apartments on Beacon Street. So I’ll see you there, walkin’ up and down the street. Thank you, Boston! You’ve been awesome!”

    Set List

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (with Chrissie Hynde & Waddy Wachtel)
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Outside the Rain/Dreams
    6. Wild Heart/Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Starshine
    10. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
      Band introductions
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      Encores
    16. Rhiannon
    17. Leather and Lace

    Reviews

    https://twitter.com/jleannw/status/798761885705248768

    https://twitter.com/tessaisdead/status/798743742375165952

    https://twitter.com/KatieMiller2112/status/798742555076788224

    https://twitter.com/BrienneLee1/status/798740140336312320

    https://twitter.com/equus_21/status/798737206013816832

    https://twitter.com/CNav_xo/status/798734300753645568

    https://twitter.com/tianna_balzano/status/798720040145158144

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    https://twitter.com/rks483/status/798712328510439424

    https://twitter.com/equus_21/status/798712080551608328

    https://twitter.com/BLKADR/status/798703545394536448

    When you’re a writer, you have to be very careful. We all know, especially after the last couples of years, what words do. You can’t just say shit, sorry. I know, I’m so grounded! I’m grounding myself.

  • RECAP: Washington, DC – Verizon Center

    RECAP: Washington, DC – Verizon Center

    On Monday night, Stevie Nicks performed at Verizon Center in the nation’s capital, Washington DC — the 11th show of the 24 Karat Gold Tour.

    Stevie has been having a lot of fun on the tour, even letting an expletive unexpectedly roll off her tongue at the DC show. While telling the story of ‘Crying in Night,’ Stevie accidentally dropped the F-bomb, saying “Why in the f*ck not?” Shocked by what she had just said, Stevie instantly covered her mouth, walked away from the mic, and paced around the stage for a few moments before returning to the center to apologize to the crowd. She told them “I never swear onstage — ever!” But the crowd didn’t seem to mind in the slightest and found Stevie’s blooper moment to be quite human and amusing. They laughed and shouted out in support ‘We love you, Stevie!’” Even guitar Waddy Wachtel walked over, with a big grin on his face, and put his arm around the clearly mortified Stevie. She managed to compose herself and continue telling the story. (See the full clip below).

    Stevie Nicks
    (Ginny Grivas)
    Stevie Nicks
    (EatDrinkandGoGirl)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Birthday Tickets)
    Stevie Nicks
    (EatDrinkandGoGirl)
    Stevie Nicks
    (EatDrinkandGoGirl)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Matt Ackland)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Kevin Bednarz)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Paige Eliasson)
    Stevie Nicks
    (Deanna Escobar)

    https://twitter.com/birthdaytickets/status/798389634279608320

    Videos

    Much thanks and love to Paige Collyer, Enjoy Life with Me, Nadine Hughes, Sandy Mac, Dianne King-McGavin, and Stevie Nicks concert videos for sharing these wonderful videos!

    Wild Heart / Bella Donna (Sandy Mac)

    Enchanted (Stevie Nicks concert videos)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK6nygIG4zI

    Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) (Enjoy Life with Me)

    Crying in the Night – ‘Why in the f*ck not?’ (Dianne King-McGavin)

    “…other people won’t like it. So maybe we shouldn’t do it. And finally, we’re like, ‘Why in the fuck not?’ Lynn Fleetwood, I know you’re out there. Do not tell anybody that you heard that. I do not swear onstage — ever. I swear in my regular life, but I do not ever swear onstage so I am…let me apologize for that.

    Anyway, I did say basically that. So we just decided, OK, let’s do it, why not? Without using the expletive. So anyway, it’s uh a very, it’s cool song. I have no idea what in the world at 21, 22-years old what the hell these uh…that’s not a swear word. That’s just, you know, a place. Um, I think that it’s uh I can’t figure out what in the world I wrote it. I must have seen a movie or something that I wrote it about because it’s very interesting…intriguing words. So anyway, here it is, ‘Crying in the Night.’”

    Edge of Seventeen (Paige Collyer)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDy8VzoqAIc

    Leather and Lace (Nadine Hughes)

    Set List

    1. Gold and Braid
    2. If Anyone Falls
    3. Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (with Chrissie Hynde & Waddy Wachtel)
    4. Belle Fleur
    5. Outside the Rain/Dreams
    6. Wild Heart/Bella Donna
    7. Enchanted
    8. New Orleans
    9. Starshine
    10. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
    11. Stand Back
    12. Crying in the Night
    13. If You Were My Love
      Band introductions
    14. Gold Dust Woman
    15. Edge of Seventeen
      Encores
    16. Rhiannon
    17. Leather and Lace

    Reviews

    https://twitter.com/invisiblefatman/status/798381611519737856

    https://twitter.com/emily_chauncey/status/798381150792286208

    https://twitter.com/BrooklynHillFit/status/798380832603992064

    https://twitter.com/ringthatLBell/status/798380363064209408

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    https://twitter.com/rhiannonclaw/status/798363470097891328

    https://twitter.com/kassmysass/status/798361773971832832

    https://twitter.com/NT_DC/status/798359667562803200

    https://twitter.com/TheLadyJSays/status/798347903676911616