Favorite Performance of Rhiannon?

[UndoingTheLaces]

I like the one from the Fleetwood Mac Live album from 1980. I think because it's the first time I'd heard it done live and I was so captivated by how different it was than the album version and how intense it gets at the end. I know she hits the high notes in the earlier versions but the ending seemed so much more intense once she developed that deeper vocal range during the Tusk era.

[SisterNightroad]

New Orleans 1975. It's a vocal-shredding beast.

[johnnystorms]

any way to get the links to everyone's choice? I'm interested in hearing the various versions. thanks, if possible

[SisterNightroad]

I posted all my bootlegs on this thread last year: http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=54217

My second very close favourite is Osaka 1977.

[Artemis]

The Midnight Special version of Rhiannon. Vocally and visually a treat. If I was to ever introduce someone to Stevie Nicks, that is the video I would show them.

[David]

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.)

[Angel69]

There are many!!! Absolutely love the 1980 Hollywood Bowl versions.

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

I like the one from the Fleetwood Mac Live album from 1980. I think because it's the first time I'd heard it done live and I was so captivated by how different it was than the album version and how intense it gets at the end. I know she hits the high notes in the earlier versions but the ending seemed so much more intense once she developed that deeper vocal range during the Tusk era.

Yes, that one.

Originally Posted by Artemis

The Midnight Special version of Rhiannon. Vocally and visually a treat. If I was to ever introduce someone to Stevie Nicks, that is the video I would show them.

And that one!

I'm not a collector of live bootlegs, though I do have the occasional song in my iTunes. I love the Seven Wonders from Fresno 1987, and wish it were better quality.

[AnthonyMI]

If I recall, wasn't the LIVE album version actually recorded during the Rumours tour?