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Rated "5" by Donny

Stevie's first show in Los Angeles last night at the Greek Theatre was fantastic. Even though the weather was chilly, she was in great voice. And she was in a terrific mood also. She opened with Stand Back, without the usual shawl. Instead she wore a velvet jacket and thick scarf to stay warm. She did wear her chiffon wings for Rhiannon, and had on a new white dress for Edge of Seventeen. It was beautiful, and she danced around during the end of the song looking like she did when she was young. They were even selling t-shirts that said "The boots are back".

Chris Isaak's opening set was really good too, but it was very long. A lot of fans were worried that Stevie wouldn't do her entire show, but she did. I've seen her many, many since the beginning of er career and this one one of the best performances I've ever seen her give. And thankfully, they didn't waist ten minutes doing the Bootylicious/Dreams remix tape thing at the start of the show. They simply walked out and started into Stand Back.

A classic Stevie Nicks concert!

Rated "5" by Michele Jackson aka "mjackson866"

Just saw SN in L. A. She was playing at the Greek Theatre, a place that was recently closed due to the wild fires. Guess you could say there was a different kind of fire burning there tonight. Well, there's no fire, just a soul crying . . .

The back cover of Stevie's program has a pink silhouette of her lower body, beneath a large caption that reads: THE BOOTS ARE BACK! Pretty cute.

At the door, they say you can only bring in disposable cameras. So, obviously pictures are allowed, they just don't want distracting flashes I guess. People were freely using their cell phones to photograph and record the show. At Lindsey's concerts, you're practically drawn and quartered for trying to take a picture.

Chris Isaak is the funniest, most personable guy around. He's simply adorable. I mean, I know his jokes are scripted, but they're funny nonetheless. The way he hams it up. He just had me grinning from ear to ear.

The show started pretty promptly at 7:35. It was still light outside and many of the seats were empty. I felt sorry for Isaak. I think this tour is somewhat of a regression in his career and I feel badly about it. But . . . you know I'm obsessed with FM. It's a mental problem and there's nothing I can do about it, because my Blue Cross won't cover the psychotherapy. But aside from obsessions which don't count, I can honestly say there are very few performers that I just plain like more than I do Isaak.

Isaak did not perform any songs with Stevie and that rather surprised me. Aside from his own songs, he covered Cheap Trick, I Want You to Want Me and Roy Orbison, Only the Lonely. Also threw in a little Don't Be Cruel.

So, Isaak leaves the stage at about 8:45 p.m. They move his stuff off the floor pretty clearly and Stevie's show starts at about 9:00 p.m. They don't use the Bootylicious or Dreams intro music anymore.

Basically, except for the fact that SDMHA was omitted, this is the same show I saw in Vegas. I felt Vegas was superb. I didn't think as much of this performance, but I don't think it was Stevie. It was the sound system and it might just be where I was sitting. I was on the Waddy's side and it seemed like the speakers over my head carried more guitar than vocals. I could hear Stevie, but her voice wasn't the prominent audio. I believe that impaired things just a bit for me.

It was about 60 degrees out that evening. Stevie is always dressed like an eskimo anyway though. She kept her neck protected and covered with a black boa.

Show's not really different than Vegas was a couple of months ago. So, I won't add much to what I said in that review, except:

After Stand Back she says that we're here because of a little album she did called Bella Donna and even though she never married and never had children, she has no regrets, because she's here tonight with us, doing what she loves.

Dreams, If Anyone Falls, Rhiannon. Until now, the back screen had been covered by a pink curtain. You could still see images on it, but they were somewhat obscured. Well, after the delicate piano intro to Rhiannon, when the bass starts revving up, the pink curtain falls in one swift motion. It's dramatic and I like it.

Enchanted. Then she introduces a song she wrote in 1973, the same year as Rhiannon. She says that she and Lindsey came down from Northern California and what they saw was both fearful and fantastic! So, she wrote this song about it. It's called Sorcerer.

Gold Dust Woman, still a stand out.

She says most of this probably know it already because we were there, but she toured with Tom Petty last year. Yes, what makes her think I would be there to see her sing back up to some guy? I was there, but what makes her think I was. She's got nerve.

She says she was only supposed to do 7 TP shows, but she ended up doing 27 and she had the greatest time of her life. So, to pay homage to Tom she wants to do a song he wrote for her, called I Need To Know.

The next song she dedicates to her friend Lori's dad. It's Landslide. She has added about 25 pictures of her father to the photo montage that plays during this song and it's really a moving memorial to him. She still has the picture of Christine in the montage, but she's removed pictures of the rest of FM. She shows footage of herself during FM shows and you can kind of see the faint image of Mick over her shoulder once, but by and large, those Macsters are out of the picture.

She says that Fall From Grace is the meanest song she's ever written. Aha! So, she thinks it's harsher than Planets of the Universe??

As she introduces the band, she says they've gotten 3 new players and she's really glad they've came to give her band a new look. She starts with Al and says, "I should move you onto the other side of the stage, because you aren't new."

Lenny is drumming for her now and I have to say that physically --- he's no Taku! Forget his percussion skills. Sometimes, you just want a little sex appeal!

But Stevie is glad to have Lenny back. He played with her a long time ago and she say's "he's back where he should be.

She's got Ricky Peterson back too and she said she hasn't heard the Hammond 3 sound so beautiful since 1981.

She says she's known Waddy since 1981 and of course, he and Sharon and Lori were with her for Bella Donna, where it all started. She says that Lori is her best friend and sister-in-law.

I'm thrilled that what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas. How Still My Love has joined Stevie for the rest of the tour and it sounds so good! She ends it differently. She'd been wearing this orange shawl and it kind of touched the ground and I was worried for her safety. I could see her tripping over the end of the shawl, when it caught on the heel of her uncomfortable boot. But she eventually allayed my fears by picking up the shawl and swinging it over her head.

Now in Vegas for me, the highlight of How Still was at the end when Stevie started singing, "it's me that's talking to you in the still of the night. It's only me." Well, she doesn't do that anymore. Instead she sings, "how still my love. Or should I say, hold still my love."

She keeps saying "hold still my love" and while crooning she's making these moves that she thinks are sexy and I don't think it's quite as effective as the Vegas ending, but I'm delighted anyway. The music continues and she turns her back to the audience and starts sashaying down the middle, off the stage, twirling her shawl softly over her head like a lasso. Rather nice.

She comes back out for EO17 wearing a white petticoat topped by a black coat. Before we've seen her with just the white skirt. This time, the entire dress beneath the coat is white. I like it.

Edge was good. I refuse to acknowledge Rock and Roll, but I was with a friend who is not a Stevie fan and she liked Rock and Roll quite a bit.

Ended with Beauty and the Beast.

At the end, Stevie talks about the sad state of music these days and says that it's important that we keep coming out to see shows like this. The fact that we still do when business if faltering makes us being here all the more precious to her.

Then, it was over. Until tomorrow.

"Sometimes, in the middle of the night I still think about you. Sometimes, in the middle of the night I still think about you. I know what it sounds like."

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