(Review x 2) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - Vancouver April 22, 2011

Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, PNG

Friday night brought two legendary forces in music together at Rogers Arena
By Janelle Kidd
Rogers Arena

Between them, they have sold millions of albums, won countless awards, earned inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and accumulated vast catalogs of classics that have shaped the direction of Rock & Roll.

Friday night brought two legendary forces in music together at Rogers Arena, for a show that the crowd of 12,000-strong won't soon forget.

The pairing of Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks was a perfect blend of veteran presence and youthful energy. The seasoned performers' passion for music is undeniable.

Making its second to last stop in Vancouver, the duo's Heart & Soul Tour celebrates the release of Stewart's latest album The Best of...The Great American Songbook, while building anticipation for Nicks' new album—her first album of new material in a decade—In Your Dreams, set for release on May 3.

Full Review of the show at the Rogers Arena website

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Rod Stewart shows he's still got it in Vancouver
Nicks kept the near-capacity crowd happy with her mix of Mac standards and solo hits
By Steve Newton
Straight.com

Who’d have thought that two Vancouver concerts in the same week by a couple of ancient rock headliners from the ‘70s would be so damned impressive? Rod Stewart’s hugely entertaining show at Rogers Arena Friday night was a real nice follow-up to Robert Plant’s impeccable performance at the Queen E. the previous Sunday. It came down partly to both singers choosing the right material and still being able to perform it well, but mainly to the fact that they surrounded themselves with some of the finest instrumentalists and vocalists on the planet.

Although what’s been dubbed the Heart and Soul Tour billed Stewart as coheadlining with Stevie Nicks, the former Fleetwood Mac member only sang about 10 songs to Stewart’s 20, and her stage setup wasn’t nearly as lavish. But the 62-year-old Nicks still managed to keep the near-capacity crowd happy with her mix of Mac standards (“Rhiannon”, “Landslide”) and solo hits (“Stand Back”, “Edge of Seventeen”). One the downside, when she draped herself in a frilly scarf and twirled around in her frilly dress all I could think of was that scene in Sid and Nancy where Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) sees herself wearing Sid’s grandmother’s clothes and freaks out with “Aaggh! I look like fuckin’ Stevie Nicks in hippie clothes!”

Full Review of the show at Straight.com

(Review) Mission Accomplished for Nicks

Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, PNG

Sparks fly as Stewart and Nicks team up 

Veteran vocalists show their heart and soul at Rogers Arena

BY FRANCOIS MARCHAND,
VANCOUVER SUN

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When you take two of rock’s most memorable vocalists and pair them together, you can expect sparks to fly.

And that’s exactly what happened Friday night at Rogers Arena, where fans were treated to lengthy sets by both Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart performing on the same stage on what was dubbed the Heart & Soul Tour.

The pairing not only made sense stylistically — both Stewart and Nicks possess their own set of well-worn, sand-blasted pipes — but it also served to highlight two new releases: Stewart’s fifth instalment in his Great American Songbook series released late last year, and Nicks’ first studio effort in 10 years, In Your Dreams, which is set to be released on May 3.

Considering the breadth and impact of both artists’ career — with millions of records sold and armfuls of Grammy nominations and awards — new material would only play a small part in what turned out to be two fairly classics-heavy sets, which is probably what their 12,000 fans in attendance really wanted more than anything.

They certainly would not leave disappointed.

Stewart surprised just about everyone by stepping onto the stage right off the bat to introduce “one of the great voices of the 20th century” and the crowd on the floor rose to its feet as Nicks, draped in her signature black dress with sequined arms and gloved hands, made her way to the microphone to kick off her set with a rocking Stand Back.

For the Full Review visit The Vancouver Sun website

Photos: Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart in Vancouver

Stevie Nicks Live in Vancouver April 22, 2011
Photo by: Ian Lindsay, PNG

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Stevie Nicks - Oakland, CA April 20, 2011 - Video and Fan Review

Landslide... Always a crowd favorite!

She looks beautiful with her wavey hair...

Review by: "Anonymous" posted on the Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Tour Dates page

My husband, oldest son and myself went to see them last night in Oakland, CA and I can honestly say it is one of the very best concerts I have ever been to in MY life and I have been to many. They both put on an incredibly good concert and everyone was totally into it. Stevie sang more songs and had more stage time than Rod which was fine by me because she still has it going on BIG TIME and her voice is still is beautiful and strong as when she was in her 20's. Rod is still going strong but his voice is not quite as strong as it once was but I have been unable to think of anything else the entire day today because the concert was that awesome. I am so happy I got to see the 2 of them together. I have seen Rod Stewart in concert before but not Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac but she is without a doubt my favorite female vocalist of all time. She was FANTASTIC and this is one concert I will never ever forget. I just wish I could see it again; it was that good. Anyone who thinks differently don't listen to them. There was so much energy last night and it was packed. I actually cried during one of Stevie's songs. I feel honored to have been fortunate enough to attend that concert.

Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart - Blonde Ambition as Icons Team Up

 

The Province Newspaper in Vancouver and The Vancouver Sun both today (April 21st) ran full pages promoting Rod and Stevie's show in Vancouver this Friday night... One is a reprint of an earlier story, the other is a review of the Hollywood Bowl show.  The OC Register included here is from April 18th and is the review of the Hollywood Bowl show that I posted earlier this week.

[Update] Heart & Soul By The Numbers...

Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart Boxscore Totals. Added Philadelphia and Chicago Numbers to the running total...

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Co-headliners Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks appear on the Hot Tours list for the third week in a row, posting their best ranking yet. The pair land at No. 3 with $2.9 million in ticket sales reported from two major U.S. markets. The pair performed on April 5 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, drawing a sellout crowd of 13,127, and on April 9 at Chicago's United Center with 14,039 in attendance. Seven shows from the tour have been reported so far this spring with grosses topping $10 million.

Billboard Magazine "Hot Tours"

(Review) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks -- delivered a nonstop barrage of hits

by Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
SoundSpike Contributor

Two of pop music's most iconic voices -- Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks -- delivered a nonstop barrage of hits over the course of three-and-a-half hours during their co-headlining show, "Heart and Soul," at Phoenix's USAirways Center last Friday (4/15).

Nicks made a triumphant return to her hometown stage promptly at 7:30 p.m. after an introduction by Stewart, which thrilled the sold-out crowd. Dressed in a black lace dress and a scarf around her shoulders, the former Fleetwood Mac songstress kicked off the show with an energized "Stand Back."

Full Review at Soundspike.com

(Video) Stevie Nicks Dedicates "Landslide" to Mr. Dave Stewart Night #1 Hollywood Bowl

For Making the BEST Year of Stevie Nicks' life just happen!

Fan Photos... Stevie Nicks Right Now - Hollywood Bowl

  


  

(Review) LA Times - Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Hollywood Bowl

Not Coachella: Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks revive their hits at the Hollywood Bowl

LA Times

Performing first at this hometown stop of what she and Stewart are calling the Heart & Soul Tour, Nicks, 62, revealed that she's lost a portion of her vocal range as well: The Fleetwood Mac frontwoman dodged high notes in “Dreams” and “Rhiannon” and took a low harmony line in “Edge of Seventeen,” leaving her backup singers to do the song's heavy melodic lifting.

Yet where Stewart used old-pro stage business to distract us from his limitations, Nicks turned hers into an asset, the rough grain of her voice concentrating the weird imperiousness of her music.

“Stand Back,” “Sorcerer,” “Gold Dust Woman” — these were powerful invocations of a type of mystery we rarely get from artists who've put in as much time as Nicks has in the public eye.

“There's no one that can take my place,” she sang with fists shaking in “Outside the Rain,” and it wasn't desperation she was expressing. It was total confidence.

Read The Full Review at The LA Times Blog

--Mikael Wood

Photo: Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks take their bows at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday night.
Credit: Barbara Davison/Los Angeles Times

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks: Concert Review (The Hollywood Reporter)

The co-headliners perform hit after comfy hit for an appreciative veteran crowd and duet on Stewart's "Young Turks" and Nicks' "Leather and Lace" in the first of two nights at the Hollywood Bowl.

The Hollywood Reporter
by Erik Pedersen

A warm, invigorating breeze traipsed through the Hollywood Bowl as the boomer-fantasy pairing of Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks played the first of two nights. And the coziness factor was ratcheted up as the co-headliners played hit after comfy hit for an appreciative veteran crowd that was out for a night of just that.

The L.A. stop on RaspFest '11, officially dubbed the Heart & Soul Tour, was a pleasing if occasionally uneven affair that juxtaposed Nicks' straightforward quasi-mystery and Stewart's broad-playing rock-star antics. She stood at the microphone, strumming occasional air guitar and making graceful little gestures; he peacocked around the stage, preening and teasing.

Ultimately, both were entertaining -- for the young, young at heart and otherwise. And that's what it was all about.

Nicks opened with a 70-minute set that she seemed more into than during her 2009 arena tour with Fleetwood Mac, likely invigorated by a new album due May 3. "The best year of Stevie Nicks' life just happened because of Dave Stewart," she said of the man with whom she wrote much of In Your Dreams, her first studio record in a decade. Lead single "Secret Love," a likable mid-upper-midtempo track she'd sung on The Oprah Winfrey Show three days before, drew a genuine cheer from the sellout crowd.

um Trouble in Shangri-La. Dressed in trademark dripping, glittery gown, Nicks, 62, began with a vocally rough "Stand Back" but settled in by the time her six-piece band locked into the laconic/iconic groove of "Dreams." Her smoky vocal enveloped the 1977 hit.

Sometimes raspy, sometimes reedy, Nicks was at her best during crowd favorites "Gold Dust Woman" and the still-lovely "Landslide." During the latter, a video screen showed photos of her from infancy through stardom, many featuring her father.

A hard-rocking intro to "Edge of Seventeen" -- courtesy of guitarist Waddy Wachtel, who has played with Nicks for most of her 30-year solo career -- fired up the crowd. But its repetitive riff and lyrics were more grating than stirring, especially in the endless version that closed her main set.

Read the FULL REVIEW - including the duets at The Hollywood Reporter site

(Review) Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart - Hollywood Bowl (Night #1)

Rod Stewart is entertaining as ever at the Bowl
by STEVE FRYER
The OC Register

"Stevie Nicks opened with an 11-song show, and later joined Rod on stage for “Young Turks’ (his song) and “Leather and Lace” (her song, written and recorded with Don Henley). Both were fine collaborations, with their voices mixing well enough that, sure, they should go forward with it.

Nicks’ voice sounded better than ever, especially during the encore of “Love Is” during which she was accompanied by only piano and two supporting singers. She did a couple of her Fleetwood Mac hits, with “Gold Dust Woman” and “Rhiannon” given epic instrumental introductions that were a touch melodramatic. The songs are strong enough on their own, let ‘em breathe."

Full Review at The OC Register site

Photo Gallery - Hollywood Bowl (1st Night)

Photos by Armando Brown, for the Orange County Register

(Review) Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks bring Heart and Soul to Phoenix + Photos

STEVIE NICKS PLAYS HER HOME TOWN
by Serene Dominic
AZ CENTAL

Photo Gallery
PHOTOS BY: RALPH FRESNO

They say the only predictable things are death and taxes and concerts by veteran rock acts teaming up to fill arenas during a recession.

But this neither deadly nor taxing Heart and Soul Tour pairing Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks which arrived here on tax return weekend, playing US Airways Center Friday, raised lots of preliminary questions.

Which one would be the soul? Sure, Rod has covered a lot of Sam Cooke over the centuries, but Stevie has an equal number of songs about leaving her body. Metaphysically speaking, the soul should be her.

How much time would they actually spend onstage together?

Would they only sing songs they've recorded as duets with other veteran rock acts? They could do a whole set of those alone!

Who would sport more scarves?

And would they sit together on a piano bench and bang out "Heart and Soul," the song most amateur pianists insist on playing?

You say no, but if Rod is serious about this American Songbook thing, he's gotta get around to even that chestnut eventually.

Full Review at AZ Central

(Review) Phoenix, AZ - Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks US Airways

Phoenix Concert Review: Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart–Apr. 15, 2011, US Airways

If you ask me who I like better, Stevie or Rod—it really is a tossup. Yes, they are both known for a raspy style of singing, both have been around for some 30 years making truly legendary music and both artist’s records and CDs fill my music collection – but there is just one thing that makes it impossible to choose—they are both amazingly and uniquely talented--unique being the key word…but more on that in a moment.

A bill with two such superstars is always a big draw, and so it was not a surprise to see a very full, near sell-out crowd at last night’s show. Stevie came on first almost exactly on time, which I think left a good chuck of the crowd stuffed in the tunnels trying to get in—but when you have two full sets from two mega-artist’s you need to get started. She opened with “Stand Back,” and I was pleased to hear a strong voice in top form from Stevie. “Outside the Rain,” was followed by the amazing Fleetwood Mac tune she performed beautifully, “Dreams.”

Full Review at Examiner.com

(Photos) Rockstar Pro Photography: Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Detroit - April 10, 2011

A massive amount of really great photos of Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart performing at Joe Lewis Arena on April 10, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan.

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Live in Detroit - April 10, 2011

Rockstar Pro Photography

Photos by Scott Legato
View Full Gallery at the below links
38 Photo Gallery Rod and Stevie | 37 Photo Gallery Stevie Nicks

Photos... Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago

Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks Concert - United Center, Chicago, IL 4/9/11

Photos: Rory O'Connor

View his Photo Gallery at

Timeout Chicago

Heart & Soul By The Numbers...

The relatively short tour with Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks sharing a stage continues to roll across North America from East to West... Next stop is Phoenix on April 15th... Additions to this summary below are both the New York City shows on March 26th and April 6th at Madison Square Garden... Both shows were reported as sellouts by the promoter with a combined audience of 27,016 and gross revenue of $3,034,795.  Not bad for a couple nights work!  Click to enlarge.

(Review) Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks - Kansas 4/12/11

By TIMOTHY FINN
The Kansas City Star

Tuesday’s show at the Sprint Center was a jukebox bonanza, a career-spanning showcase by two performers with dozens of hit albums and scores of Top 40 hits between them. Rod Stewart was the headliner, but he appeared first, to introduce the opener and co-headliner, Stevie Nicks, who came fashioned and equipped like the main event: with a seven-piece band, two backup singers and her own video show. Nicks spent her 70-minute set digging through her solo catalog, playing a song (“Sorcerer” "Secret Love") off her upcoming album, covering a Tom Petty song (“You Wreck Me”) and obliging everyone with four of her best-known Fleetwood Mac titles: “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman,” “Rhiannon” and “Landslide.”

More Photos by Jim Barcus here:  Back to Rockville

Full Review at the Kansas City Star Website:

Stevie Nicks Setlist: Stand Back; Outside the Rain; Dreams; Secret Love; Sorcerer; Gold Dust Woman; You Wreck Me (Tom Petty cover); piano interlude; Rhiannon; Landslide; Edge of Seventeen. Encore: Love Is

"Landslide" Stevie Nicks Kansas City Sprint Center

Also.... Gold Dust Woman

(Chicago Review) Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks Live!

Even if Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks don’t seem like the most obvious tourmates, their careers actually share several parallels. For starters, each found fame with an influential group, with Stewart fronting British rockers Faces from 1969 to 1975 and Nicks co-leading Fleetwood Mac since ‘75. From there, each rocketed to international stardom, reinventing themselves to mirror the changing musical landscapes throughout the ’80s and ’90s, though, coincidentally, neither has released an original studio album since 2001 (though that’s all about to change in the case of Nicks, who drops In Your Dreams on May 3rd).

At 62, Nicks still sings like a woman half her age and commands plenty of cheers as she twirls with her laced-garnished shawl at full speed. Such was the case during the throbbing opener “Stand Back,” which earned a recent resurgence as a remix on the dance charts and kicked off the affair oozing with ominous attitude. Solo favorites like “If Anyone Falls” and “Sorcerer” were juxtaposed with the enchanting new cut “Secret Love” and four Fleetwood warhorses. Even if “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman” and “Rhiannon” missed the group’s unmistakable harmonies, “Landslide” benefited from a surprise appearance by a shimmering Sheryl Crow, a longtime protégé of Nicks’ in town to join her for an “Oprah Winfrey Show” taping.

“Edge Of Seventeen” turned the tides back to Nicks’ solo career and, aside from an indulgent and excessively long guitar-charged introduction, it’s a bona-fide classic that hasn’t sounded this hot since Destiny’s Child sampled it a decade ago. Comparatively speaking, the sentimental, barebones finale “Love Is” was underwhelming, but it once again showcased her status as one of rock’s most distinctive voices.

Full Review at Illinois Entertainer

– Andy Argyrakis