Shortly after I arrived in Columbus the magic of Stevie seemed to be everywhere! I stopped at a place called Dick Clarks American Bandstand restaurant for lunch, and as you enter, in a glass case is Stevie's blue velvet jacket. Also was the album cover for Tusk and the insert phot's from the Tusk album inside the case which I believe, the jacket was from the same tour. On the far wall was a framed photo of Stevie with a black scarf she wore on the Bella Donna tour! I was not the only Stevie fan there, a few other Stevie fans wearing there Stevie shirts, were taking pictures also! The same as I entered the Polaris, a guy who had on the same Street Angel shirt as I was waveing and pointed to our shirts!
Stevie headline the show so she was the last of alot of good performers! I have to say she was the only one to have practically everyone on there feet for the whole performance. The only other band was KC and the Sunshine Band that had everyone on there feet. I would say the majority of people there were mainly to see Stevie! I saw numerous Stevie shirts in the crowd and a woman dressed in white Stevie like clothing.
She opened with Outside the Rain into Dreams and wore a black dress with a long black coat, that looked sort of like lace or a lace like pattern. Her hair was long and wavy! Waddy was back on guitar with Carlos Rios! She thanked everyone for coming to benefit the kids camp, although it was hard to hear what she was saying with everyone screaming and yelling! This time she sung Twisted by herself instead of a duet, with Sharon and Lori backing her. Stevie seemed to be looking right at Waddy as she sung Twisted, and he had a big smile on his face! She mentioned that Twisted was from the movie Twister and it sounded like she said she'd like to be inside a twister, and that it was a very new song. As the intro for Gold Dust Woman began, she attempted to take a golden scarf off her mic, but she couldn't get it off! She tryed and tryed and finally yanked it off, but then she couldn't get out the knot so she tossed it onto the floor of the stage, laughing! This was one fantastic version of Gold Dust Woman!! Waddy and Carlos were really jamming away the end of the song, as Stevie walked back to the mic singing "shadow"! And she mentioned how excited it was that Gold Dust Woman was popular again! Rhiannon was the following song, a great song to follow the spectacular Gold Dust Woman! Hauntingly slow in the beginning breaking into the fast rock beat! She ended the song with a refrain of "don't leave me now"! Stand Back had a different intro then the usual, and the crowd was going crazy by this point! I need to know followed and she mentioned Tom Petty as she usually does, but I couldn't hear what she actually said. The lights went out for a few seconds and when they came back on Stevie now had on a white shaw. The last song was Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You and it looked like she had tears in her eyes? Maybe because this was the end of the show and she was sorry it was to end. At the end of the song where she speaks "and they ask her about the men in her life..she said, well in answer to your question..they are poets, and they were priest of nothing, they were legends" she follow that singing out in beautiful voice "legends"!!! Stevie and the band walked up to the front of the stage and took a bow, then Stevie thanked everyone and ended the evening with "I miss you, bye, bye"!
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