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The Touring Band:
Stevie Nicks: Vocals
Brett Tuggle: Keyboards
Waddy Wachtel: Guitar
Carlos Rios: Rhythm Guitar
Frank Simes: Guitar
Al Ortiz: Bass
Scott Plunkett: Keyboards
Lenny Castro: Percussion
Mark Schulman: Drums
Sharon Celani: Background Singer
Mindy Stein: Background Singer




Concert Review:
(Post-Gazette Amphitheatre, July 6, 2001)
published in Rolling Stone, July 9, 2001
(by Lynne Margolis)

Nicks Gets By With Friends: Stevie calls on Sheryl Crow for opening night magic

"There's never anything like the first show," Stevie Nicks announced Friday night as she kicked off her latest tour at Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette Pavilion. Appearing confident and ready to rock, Nicks' kick off date for her trek in support of Trouble in Shangri-La was a bit of a "family" affair -- her parents were in the audience, her brother oversaw merchandise sales, best friends Sharon Celani and Mindy Stein were on backing vocals and a troupe of old buddies -- including guitar great/band director Waddy Wachtel, guitarist Carlos Rios, and keyboardists Scott Plunkett and Brett Tuggle (who "lived through the Fleetwood Mac reunion tour") -- joined Nicks onstage. And what a stage it was. Her set -- a moss-draped, wisteria-vined New Orleans courtyard, with twin statues of an Indian deity planted mid-stage and a giant arch through which projections of clouds, planets and other heavenly images appeared -- seemed appropriate for the lyrical content of such classics as "Dreams" and "Edge of Seventeen." As she cranked out her opening number, the old Tom Petty duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," Nicks also delivered a pleasant surprise: a voice that sounds better than it has in about twenty-five-years, since various Fleetwood Mac-era abuses reduced its Buckingham-Nicks purity to a noise scarily close to the sound of a bleating goat.

But no amount of cleaner living, vocal exercising or band support could elevate her show to the levels it reached each time guest star Sheryl Crow took the stage. Crow, who produced nearly half of Nicks' Trouble, was involved in every one of the show's peak moments -- including some in which Nicks was nowhere near the stage.

When Crow stepped up to a stage-left mike as Nicks sang "Gold Dust Woman," the song immediately gathered strength. When Crow delivered her own "My Favorite Mistake," she pretty much stole the show. And on Crow's "Everyday Is a Winding Road," Nicks sounded much better as Crow's harmony vocalist than she did singing lead on not-quite-satisfying versions of her own "Stand Back," "Rhiannon" or the new "Planets of the Universe."

Nicks said their studio work and attempt to tour as "a viable singing duo" was a five-year-old dream deferred by many obstacles, apparently including gender-related ones. "Keep in mind this is a man's world," Nicks explained. That Nicks or Crow would have any problem with career control at this stage in their lives is hard to believe, but their determination to pull it off definitely was worth the struggle.

"Here on out for tonight, [Crow] is a member of this band. She does what she does," Nicks told the crowd of 13,000. What she did was salvage Trouble in Shangri-La track "Too Far From Texas," on which she delivered the part sung by Dixie Chick, Natalie Maines.

Nicks' classics like, "Dreams" and "Edge of Seventeen" received a fair rendition buoyed by the band's expertise and an inspired percussion intro by Lenny Castro. But even the band took a back seat to Crow's gorgeous pipes and dynamic stage presence. Though Nicks wowed the audience with her standard black, witchy-woman dress, a variety of shawls, her bouncy dancing and, thankfully, only a few song-ending twirls, she'd be well advised to retain Crow as "a member of the band" for the entire tour -- and keep her onstage as much as possible.


The Tour Setlist:
(Trouble in Shangri-la Intro)
01. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
02. Enchanted
03. *Outside The Rain
04. Dreams
05. Gold Dust Woman
06. Every Day
07. Sorcerer
08. Rhiannon
09. Stand Back
10. Planets Of The Universe
11. Too Far From Texas
12. Fall From Grace
13. Bombay Sapphires
14. Edge Of Seventeen

Encore:
15. I Need To Know
16. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

(there were other versions of this set list that we will post soon)
*dropped from the setlist at the Holmdel, NJ show.
The Tour Itinerary:
(If you have any correction or additions to this itinerary, our fleetnotes, or to this page at all, please send them here. As always, you will receive full credit for your submission.)

Date	Venue	City (Fleetnotes are highlighted in blue)
April 21, 2001	Hotel Intercontinental	Dallas, TX
July 6, 2001	Post-Gazette Amphitheatre (see above review)	Burgettstown, PA
July 7, 2001	DTE Energy Amphitheatre	Clarkston, MI
July 10, 2001	Allstate Arena	Tinley Park, IL
July 11, 2001	Riverbend Music Center	Cincinnati, OH
July 13, 2001	CTnow.com Meadows Amphitheatre	Hartford, CT
July 14, 2001	Tweeter Center	Mansfield, MA
July 17, 2001	Tweeter Center	Camden, NJ
July 18, 2001	Blossom Music Center	Cuyahoga Falls, OH
July 20, 2001	Jones Beach	Wantagh, NY
July 21, 2001	PNC Bank Arts Center	Holmdel, NJ
July 28, 2001	Nissan Pavillion	Bristow, VA
July 30, 2001	Chastain Park Amphitheatre	Atlanta, GA
August 3, 2001	Starplex Amphitheatre	Dallas, TX
August 4, 2001	Woodlands Pavillion	Houston, TX
August 7, 2001	Journal Pavilion	Albuquerque, NM
August 8, 2001	Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre	Englewood, CO
August 11, 2001	Rose Garden Arena	Portland, OR
August 12, 2001	Key Arena	Seattle, WA
August 17, 2001	Santa Barbara Bowl	Santa Barbara, CA
August 18, 2001	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre	Irvine Meadows, CA
August 20, 2001	Leno Taping	Los Angeles, CA
Sept. 4, 2001	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre	Virginia Beach, VA
Sept. 5, 2001	Alltel Pavillion	Raleigh, NC
Sept. 7, 2001	Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre	Charlotte, NC
Sept. 8, 2001	Sovereign Center	Reading, PA
Sept. 10, 2001	Molson Amphitheatre	Toronto, Canada
Sept. 15, 2001	Trump Taj Mahal	Atlantic City, NJ
Sept. 17, 2001	Polaris Amphitheatre	Columbus, OH
Sept. 19, 2001	Merriweather Post Pavillion	Columbia, MD
Sept. 22, 2001	Chastain Park Amphitheatre	Atlanta, GA
Sept. 23, 2001	AmSouth Amphitheatre	Antioch, TN
Sept. 25, 2001	Teco Arena	Ft. Myers, FL
Sept. 26, 2001	Mars Music Amphitheatre	W. Palm Beach, FL
Sept. 30, 2001	Shoreline Amphitheatre	Mountainview, CA
October 1, 2001	Chronicle Pavillion	Concord, CA
October 3, 2001	Coors Amphitheatre	Chula Vista, CA
October 5, 2001	Aladdin Theatre	Las Vegas, NV
October 6, 2001	Aladdin Theatre	Las Vegas, NV
October 9, 2001	Universal Amphitheatre	Universal City, CA
October 10, 2001	Universal Amphitheatre	Universal City, CA
December 6, 2001	America West Arena	Phoenix, AZ
December 7, 2001	Cox Arena	San Diego, CA
December 9, 2001	Masonic Auditorium	San Francisco, CA
February 26, 2002	The Forum	Los Angeles, CA

Sources:
Trouble In Shangri-la Pollstar Tour Data
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Fan/Press Reviews