We tend to prefer the performances we saw. In my case, that was the Inglewood (CA) Forum, October 1983. My recording was very bad, thanks to a dying battery, but the romanticism of the performance was the most potent I ever experienced, even during an era of very fine Rhiannons. When Nicks sang "Did you see her? Over there?" again and again during the outro, it reminded me of Glenn Goins conjuring up the mothership at a P-Funk concert—it had that kind of slow-burn spirituality. (Nicks was probably as high as a kite that evening.)
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