Stevie Nicks / Costa Mesa 1989 Mike Millard Master Tapes / 2CDR

Stevie Nicks / Costa Mesa 1989 Mike Millard Master Tapes / 2CDR / Uxbridge
Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA, USA 14th October 1989

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The fourth week of JEMS’s special feature on Millered Master women is Stevie Nicks’ solo. As it has been published, Fleetwood Mac has released a number of great recordings as one of Millerd’s favorite groups. That’s why he went to Stevie’s solo show.
In 1989, when Mac was inactive, she released her fourth solo album, “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR.” Like the previous albums, it was a huge hit, and in the second half of the same year, it went on a world tour.
There, Millard went to Costa Mesa, where the tour visited the west coast. In 1989, he went to the Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa very often, not just on this day. That’s evidenced by the releases of Neil Young and Bob Dylan that have been released so far.
For that reason, it was something that Millard knew without permission. Again, it captured Stevie in 1989 with really great quality.

Therefore, it is a stable and superb audience this time as well, but the first half of the live is probably related to the sound output from the venue, and it seems that the performance centered on the guitars of Bandleader and Carlos Rios is more conspicuous than Stevie’s singing voice.
Therefore, at the time of this release, adjustments were made to improve the separation in this regard. Furthermore, the change in sound quality from the tape change that occurred in the middle of “Edge Of Seventeen”, where the performance continues endlessly at the end of the live, is alleviated.

Of course, because it was Stevie’s solo, a stage with a rock and pop sound that was completely different from that of the principal idol Mac was unfolding. The repertoire of the McDonald’s era, which was included between solo numbers, is also shown after being seasoned in the latter half of the 1980s.
However, while she made her own album a huge success in 1989, it was also a time when she was fighting to end her long-standing drug addiction. Even in such a situation, since the album was a world tour that had to be done from a big hit, she relied on the medicine prescribed to stop addiction at this time, which is why she remembers this tour. It is a famous story that I later confessed that there was no …
To tell the story of her struggling, her voice became unstable when it came to singing numbers such as “Alice”, “Beauty And The Beast” and the finale “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?” I mean … I feel like I’m drunk.
It can be seen that she would have relied not only on her prescribed medicine, but also on alcohol to recover from the pain of quitting her addiction.
Therefore, JEMS, who released the master this time, explained, “This may not be the record when she was in good shape … but I want to leave it to the judgment of her listeners.”
Still, Stevie, who is supported by the members of the back and shows off the stage, is still a diva of 100 battles. A valuable document by Millard from a tour where until now only items existed on Houston radio broadcasts!