From the Seven Wonders board again (http://www.sevenwondersonline.net/index.php/topic,14493.0.html):

"The one moment that stuck out in my mind the most was when Chris Isaak came out with his band with roses for Stevie. He touched her on her shoulders from behind just as she finished Landslide. She told the crowd after that she thought for a moment it was her Dad touching her....how emotional!

It's been said before, but what a great guy!

That is so nice!

I just read the same thing in this review from the June 18th edition of the Boston Herald:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/...ticleid=1007032

I'm just quoting parts --

Still rocking, still dreaming, enchantress Nicks delivers
By Lauren Carter/ Music Review
Monday, June 18, 2007 - Updated: 07:53 AM EST

At 59, Stevie Nicks is still enchanting onstage. And she still has really great outfits.

Nicks’ nearly two-hour set at the Tweeter Center last night proved that rock’s goddess has maintained the illusion of youth, but more important, hasn’t lost the fire that fueled her best work.

Fleetwood Mac classics like “Rhiannon” and “Gold Dust Woman” were dark and ominous, giving Nicks ample time to sway meditatively and charm the crowd with dreamy twirls.....

There was no elaborate set behind Nicks, just a giant screen which displayed dreamy shapes, images of mysterious, beautiful women, and during the soft cascade of “Landslide,” a montage of Nicks through the years with her now-deceased father, Jess Nicks.

At the end of that song, opener Chris Isaak, who provided an alluring but overlong opening set on his last tour date with Nicks, surprised Nicks onstage with a bouquet of flowers, thanking her for being as gracious onstage as she is off.

Stevie Nicks and Chris Isaak At the Tweeter Center, Mansfield, last night.

Ahhh, how sweet!

and we all know that Chris's set could never be "overlong." I was there, and it could have gone on much longer for my taste!

What a wonderful gesture. *sigh*

On a Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac board I frequent, a fan posted a slideshow of their awesome pics from this show. I've included the link they had posted which goes directly to the slideshow.

At the bottom of the page, the 12th and 13th thumbnails in the third row of pics...Chris giving Stevie the roses. (Also, the first few pics in the first row of thumbnails are of Chris as well).


Mansfield, MA pics

Hey SG, thanks for the link. Awesome pics and I luuuuurve the tie
Isaak has on when he's giving Nicks the flowers. How sweet! xx

SapphireGirl, thanks for posting the link to the Mansfield photos from Sunday night. I enjoyed looking at the slideshow. That was indeed nice of Chris to give Stevie those flowers after her song "Landslide" was over.

-Deanna

MomOnTheMove,

I meant to comment on that part of the review -- "overlong"? Chris' shows are NEVER too long and often too short. Besides, the show was supposed to be co-headliners, not Chris doing an "opening set", to quote that misinformed reviewer.

SapphireGirl,

Thanks for the photos!

I came across two more reviews of the show at the Tweeter Centre. For the most part, I am citing only the Chris parts but have also listed the links to the entire reviews. It's interesting to see how different people see the same show.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Isaak-Nicks hard act to top
http://www.telegram.com/article/20070619/N...&source=rss

MUSIC REVIEW
By Craig S. Semon TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

MANSFIELD— The inspired pairing of Chris Isaak and Stevie Nicks, playing Sunday night at the Tweeter Center, proved to be a double-bill that will be hard to beat this year and years to come.

When it comes to being the undisputed San Francisco treat, Isaak gave Rice-A-Roni a run for its money and left the crowd wanting more during his 70-minute opening set.

With his seemingly ageless good looks and his incomparable Roy Orbison-meets-Elvis voice, the 50-year-old rockabilly crooner warmed up the crowd with a series of slow-burn heartbreakers, including “Lonely with a Broken Heart” and “Let Me Down Easy.”

Wearing a mustard colored suit with rhinestone trim that only he could get away with, Isaak went straight into the cheap seats for “Return to Me.” After a brief return to the stage, Isaak went into the audience again, and had his sweat soaked faced being slobbered on by some of his adoring female fans during “Speak of the Devil.”

Isaak’s set really started cooking midway with his haunting classic, “Wicked Game,” in which the artist unleashed his spine-tingling falsetto that proved that he was much more than just a silly man in a funny suit.

There was nothing cheap or gimmicky about Isaak’s crowd-pleasing cover of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me,” which was made even more memorable with a walk-on appearance from Stevie Nicks’ guitarist and veteran axe-man Waddy Wachtel.

Prefacing with “high notes are a sign of masculinity,” Isaak sounded like he was channeling the spirit of the late, great Roy Orbison on his cover of “Only the Lonely.” During a crowd-pleasing “Baby, Did a Bad, Bad Thing,” Isaak broke into a masterful rendition of Elvis’ “Don’t Be Cruel,” before revving up with the set’s closer, “Gone Ridin’.”

Wearing a suit covered with little mirrors, Isaak was transformed into a hip-swiveling, human disco ball during his encore. With reflecting rays of light shooting out in the audience and star power shooting out into the stratosphere, Isaak crooned his “Heartbreak Hotel” equivalent “Blue Hotel” and worked in a different kind of blue as he led a bevy of enthusiastic females onstage for a rockabilly bump and grind, “Bonnie B.”
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Boston Globe
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/ar...der_edged_rock/

Nicks charms and twirls through harder-edged rock
By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff | June 19, 2007

What do Stevie Nicks and Chris Isaak have in common?

"Besides a record label and a onetime appearance by the erstwhile Fleetwood Mac chanteuse on Isaak's late, great eponymous Showtime series, not much it turns out.

There certainly appeared to be little fan base overlap for the night bird and the retro rocker Sunday night at the Tweeter Center. Judging by Nicks's rapturous reception, most of the 1/3 capacity crowd -- likely in part because the top ticket cost $125 -- was there to see the female half of this odd pairing.

Although the 59-year-old lost her high notes long ago, Nicks's familiar rasp was in strong form as she twirled and beguiled through a nearly two-hour performance, ably supported by her stalwart trio of female back up vocalists.....

The only disappointment was the number of songs relative to the length of the show. Several of her biggest hits were omitted for several reasons: band spotlights, including a superfluous drum solo; four costume changes, all variations on the be shawled, ruffled black dresses that are her trademark; and an endless outro to "Edge of Seventeen" as she shook hands with the faithful and it started to feel a bit like we'd been listening to the song since we were 17 .

Since Nicks saw fit to include a spirited encore of Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" from her new "Crystal Visions" compilation it seemed doubly odd to push aside the duets "Leather and Lace" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," especially when she had such a gifted male touring partner on hand.

If Nicks suffered from time management issues, Isaak was the model of economy packing 16 songs into 70 minutes.

Matinee-idol dreamy and with a pillow-soft falsetto at 50, Isaak and his whip - smart crew tightly maneuvered through the best of his sultry and rocking Elvis Presley-Roy Orbison-inspired repertoire of heartbreak and yearning."

Thanks Fifi and SG!! Great info. there, and those pictures are great. I love the new yellow suits, very um, yellow. I'm wondering however, like I have whenever I see pictures of Stevie these days, if that hair is all her own?!? I remember her having shorter, curlier hair in the past. I wonder if she opted for hair extensions? Anyway, she's still lookin' good.

Great reviews! Thanks for posting them FifiKitty. And for starting the thread Silversands. The pictures that you posted were really good SapphireGirl. That one of Stevie and Chris snuggling was very sweet and obviously very heartfelt...

Cheryl, I have wondered the same thing about Stevie's hair. I know as I have gotten older my long hair has gotten more difficult to keep long (did that make sense?).

What an utterly fabulous sentence ! I like a reviewer who is not afraid to step out of the box when describing an act.

Hey Kathy! Yeah, you make sense. I think your hair does definitely change as you get older. Mine's been driving me crazy lately! I've just cut it all off because it was in a really crap condition. It hadn't been trimmed in ages, and I think all those years of blow-drying and straightening have taken their toll. I took about 8 inches off. I'm fortunate in the fact that it grows pretty fast though. I'm planning on keeping it shorter til the end of the year (kind of giving it a good rest altogether) and then I'll grow it back again next year. (Anyone else with any hairytales of their own?? The salon is now open for business, ha!)

But yeah, Stevie used to have very different hair, so I don't know what's happening there...maybe she's had extensions? Or maybe even a wig?? Tina Turner's been wearing them for years apparently. I'm guessing hair extensions for Stevie though...they're all doing it these days, huh?