What made the Eagles incredible was their harmony among themselves. If you watch Stevie's Timespace pro shot show on youtube, Mabry is overpowering everyone on Stand Back. She was a powerhouse singer but too powerful Like you said, it was very powerful and gospel.
Mabry sang with Sly and the Family Stone. Another black female Lynn Mabry was hired by the Mac for BTM and Stevie's Timespace tour. Wright toured with Stevie on RAL and Mac's Tango tour. There was one exception I recall: the Jamaican Elisecia Wright. But for some reason, the singers Fleetwood Mac usually uses are rather colorless in their harmony arrangements. Truth to tell, I like the idea of singers in the back at a lot of concerts, and many of them I’ve seen added to the spirit - like the Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, Nick Cave, Dylan, Graham Parker, etc. It was pretty purely Fleetwood Mac most of the night, and no workstation extensions, modules, and MIDI sequencers (although other bands certainly used them), and certainly no singers in the back. Sova, Todaro, and Ray Lindsey played on only a few select numbers. Waddy was cranked up too during Crying In The Night.
I saw the 24K Gold tour and she sung every word and every line. I have a hunch the band music was pre recorded and the band still played but mostly went through the motions. Speaking of The Dance, I was watching Dont Stop with the USC Marching band. I felt guilty leaving the Dance concert in 1997 to feel this way.
Of course I prefer Lindsey over Billy and Rick but 1990 still had the arena rock sound vs the controlled studio sound of The Dance. I preferred the 1990 concert to the Dance. Speaking of unpopular opinions I probably have the biggest one. I was disappointed in 1987 when I saw Stevie's back up singers microphones being set up. The technology of the 90s really took over and bands seemed to embrace the studio sound over the arena rock golden days. They pretended to play instruments to the track but sung it live. Many of us were shocked when Christine leaked several years ago that the Clinton inauguration ball was a pre-recorded track. I agree but this was an era of controlled sound. Could they still pare it down a little bit? Absolutely. This might be an unpopular opinion - I think The Dance tour was the last time that the band could have performed without all of the extra musicians.įrom 2003 onward, I think some of the extra musicians helped round the rough edges that were clearly there and they helped keep the energy up.
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