That's Prince on Stevie Nicks "STAND BACK"

[remicks]

*****


STAND BACK has always been one of my favourite disco songs and
was a TROC biggie .... one that I hope soon emerges at a REMEMBER THE PARTY night ... (hint hint!!)

So when I went to see Stevie Nicks in concert Thursday night I was a little disappointed that it was the very first number she came out on stage to .. ...with no particularly special treatment ..... over and done with before I'd barely gotten my seat warm! ...

I was hoping that it wasn't a "let's get this one out of the way" reason for its early placement. But in reading about it some more --- it seems that Fleetwood Mac always included this song in their later tour dates, so there must be some affection for it . They recognize it as a good number to use to get the crowd moving anyway ... Maybe it was used as the opening song Thursday as a way to make it clear that we were going to have a good time that night. ......

From reading about STAND BACK , I've discovered that Stevie Nicks based this song's sound on LITTLE RED CORVETTE and that it is Prince himself who then came in to provide those synth sounds on it !!!!!!! ...... !!! Is this common knowledge?? I sure never knew that and he never accepted credits ....


I am grateful that STAND BACK got included period ... you never know. The concert went on from there to be awesome ... Stevie has, of course, lots of great material to offer. .... The biggest boogie number was a looong rendition of EDGE OF SEVENTEEN which included some duo drum rallying not unlike T-Connection. Her encores were Led Zeppelin's ROCK AND ROLL and finally BEAUTY AND THE BEAST .

She sounded fantastic and I have to point out she LOOKED GREAT Trim and fit and therefore stunning in her stylized flowing lace and high boots .... making several changes along the way .


So gratifying to see a talent like her, even after a rough road, deciding to take good care of herself.



*****

[Videoskooter]

"I phoned Prince out of the blue, hummed a melody, and he listened," says Nicks of the latter hit's gestation. "I hung up, and he came over within the hour. He listened again, and I said, 'Do you hate it?' He said, 'No,' and walked over to the synthesizers that were set up, was absolutely brilliant for about twenty five minutes, and then left. He was so uncanny, so wild, he spoiled me for every band I've ever had because nobody can exactly re-create - not even with two piano players-what Prince did all by his little self.
~Stevie Nicks, Rock Lives, by Timothy White,1991"



Check out the list of songs that he has written/co-written for others during the 80's and 90's:

Paula Abdul 1991 * "U"
Deborah Allen 1987 "Telepathy"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "Blue Limosine"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "Happy Birthday Mr. Christian"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "In A Spanish Villa"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "A Million Miles"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "Ooo She She Wa Wa"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "Sex Shooter"
Apollonia 6 1984 * "Some Kind of Lover"
The Bangles 1986 * "Manic Monday"
Dale Bozzio 1988 * "So Strong"
Brownmark 1989 * "Shall We Dance"
Tevin Campbell 1993 * "Uncle Sam"
Tevin Campbell 1993 * "Paris 1798430"
Tevin Campbell 1993 * "Shhh"
Ray Charles 1991 "Uh Huh"
Ingrid Chavez 1991 * "Elephant Box"
Ingrid Chavez 1991 * "Heaven Must Be Near
Ingrid Chavez 1991 * "Jadestone"
Ingrid Chavez 1991 * "Slappy Dappy" [PP,IC]
Ingrid Chavez 1991 * "Whispering Dandelions" [PP,IC]
George Clinton 1993 * "The Big Pump" [GC]
Joe Cocker 1992 * "Five Women"
Margie Cox 1994 * "Standing At The Altar"
Andre Cymone 1985 "The Dance Electric"
Miles Davis 1989 * "Amandla"
El Debarge 1992 * "Tip O' My Tounge"
Celine Dion 1992 * "With This Tear"
Candy Dulfer 1993 * "Sunday Afternoon"
Sheila E 1984 * "The Belle of St. Mark"
Sheila E 1984 * "The Glamorous Life"
Sheila E 1984 * "Next Time Wipe The Lipstick Off Your Collar"
Sheila E 1984 * "Noon Rendezvous"
Sheila E 1984 * "Oliver's House"
Sheila E 1984 * "Shortberry Strawcake"
Sheila E 1985 * "A Love Bizarre"
Sheila E 1987 * "Boy's Club"
Sheila E 1987 * "Koo Koo"
Sheila E 1987 * "Love on a Blue Train"
Sheila E 1987 "Love and Sex"
Sheila E 1987 * "One Day (I'm Gonna Make You Mine"
Sheila E 1987 * "Pride and the Passion"
Earth, Wind & Fire 1993 * "Super Hero"
Sheena Easton 1984 * "Sugar Walls"
Sheena Easton 1987 * "Eternity"
Sheena Easton 1988 * "101"
Sheena Easton 1988 * "Cool Love"
Carmen Electra 1992 * "All That"
Carmen Electra 1992 * "Everybody Get On Up"
Carmen Electra 1992 * "Fantasia Erotica"
Carmen Electra 1992 * "Fun"
Carmen Electra 1992 * "Go Go Dancer"
Carmen Electra 1992 * "Just a Little Lovin'"
T.C. Ellis 1991 * "Girl of My Dreams"
T.C. Ellis 1991 * "Miss Thang"
The Family 1985 * "Desire"
The Family 1985 * "High Fashion"
The Family 1985 * "Mutiny"
The Family 1985 * "Nothing Compares 2 U"
The Family 1985 * "The Screams of Passion"
The Family 1985 * "Susannah's Pajamas"
The Family 1985 * "Yes"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 * "On The Way Up"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 * "I Am"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 * "Love's No Fun"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 * "Ooh, This I Need"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 * "Playgirl"
Nona Gaye 1994 * "Love Sign"
Nona Hendryx 1987 * "Baby Go-Go"
Howard Hewett 1993 * "Allegiance"
Jill Jones 1987 * "All Night, All Day"
Jill Jones 1987 * "Baby, You're A Trip"
Jill Jones 1987 * "For Love"
Jill Jones 1987 * "G-Spot"
Jill Jones 1987 * "Mia Bocca"
Jill Jones 1987 * "My Man"
Jill Jones 1987 * "Violet Blue"
Chaka Khan 1988 * "Eternity"
Chaka Khan 1988 * "Sticky Wicked"
Kahoru Kohiruimaki 1990 * "Bliss"
Kahoru Kohiruimaki 1990 * "Mindbells"
Kid Creole & the Cocon. 1990 * "The Sex of It"
Patti LaBelle 1989 * "Yo Mister"
Patti LaBelle 1989 * "Love 89"
Patti LaBelle 1991 * "I Hear Your Voice"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Andorra"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Cape Horn"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "The Dopamine Rush"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Easy Does It"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Little Rock"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Night Owl"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Overnight, Every Night"
Eric Leeds 1991 * "Times Squared"
Eric Leeds 1993 * "Aguadilla"
Louie Louie 1993 * "Dance Unto The Rhythm"
Louie Louie 1993 * "Get Blue"
Madhouse 1987 * "One"
Madhouse 1987 * "Two"
Madhouse 1987 * "Three"
Madhouse 1987 * "Four"
Madhouse 1987 * "Five"
Madhouse 1987 * "Six"
Madhouse 1987 "Six and 1/2"
Madhouse 1987 * "Seven"
Madhouse 1987 * "Eight"
Madhouse 1987 * "Nine"
Madhouse 1987 * "Ten"
Madhouse 1987 * "Ten and 1/2"
Madhouse 1987 * "Eleven"
Madhouse 1987 * "Twelve"
Madhouse 1987 * "Thirteen"
Madhouse 1987 * "Thirteen and 1/4"
Madhouse 1987 * "Fourteen"
Madhouse 1987 * "Fifteen"
Madhouse 1987 * "Sixteen"
Madhouse 1994 * "17"
Madonna 1989 * "Love Song"
Martika 1991 * "Don't Say U Love Me"
Martika 1991 * "Love... Thy Will Be Done"
Martika 1991 * "Martika's Kitchen"
Martika 1991 * "Spirit"
Mazarati 1985 * "100 MPH"
Mayte 1994 * "However Much U Want"
Monie Love 1993 * "Born 2 B.R.E.E.D."
Monie Love 1993 * "In a Word Or 2"
N.P.G. 1993 * "Guess Who's Knocking?" [LSj,MB,TE,ST,TM,KJ,DA]
N.P.G. 1993 * "Johnny"
N.P.G. 1993 * "Goldnigga"
N.P.G. 1993 * "Deuce and a Quarter" [LSj,MB,TE,ST,TM,KJ,DA]
N.P.G. 1993 * "2Gether"
Stevie Nicks 1982 * "Stand Back"
Mica Paris 1991 * "If I Love U 2 Nite"
Kenny Rogers 1986 * "You're My Love"
Taja Sevelle 1987 * "If I Could Get Your Attention"
Taja Sevelle 1987 * "Wouldn't You Love To Love Me"
Mavis Staples 1989 * "Come Home"
Mavis Staples 1989 * "I Guess I'm Crazy"
Mavis Staples 1989 * "Interesting"
Mavis Staples 1989 * "Jaguar"
Mavis Staples 1989 * "Time Waits for No One"
Mavis Staples 1989 * "Train"
Mavis Staples 1993 * "The Voice"
Mavis Staples 1993 * "House In Order"
Mavis Staples 1993 * "Blood Is Thicker Than Time"
Mavis Staples 1993 * "You Will Be Moved"
Mavis Staples 1993 * "The Undertaker"
Mavis Staples 1993 * "A Man Called Jesus"
Jevetta Steele 1991 * "And How"
Jevetta Steele 1991 * "Skip 2 U My Darling"
Jevetta Steele 1993 * "Hold Me"
Jevetta Steele 1993 * "Open Book"
The Steeles 1993 * "Well Done"
The Steeles 1994 * "Color"
Ren Woods 1982 "I Don't Wanna Stop"
Three O'Clock 1988 * "Neon Telephone"
The Time 1981 * "Cool"
The Time 1981 * "Get It Up"
The Time 1981 * "Girl"
The Time 1981 * "Oh, Baby"
The Time 1981 * "The Stick"
The Time 1982 * "777-9311"
The Time 1982 * "Gigolos Get Lonely Too"
The Time 1982 "Grace"
The Time 1982 * "I Don't Wanna Leave You"
The Time 1982 * "OnedayI'mgonnabesomebody"
The Time 1982 * "The Walk"
The Time 1982 * "Wild And Loose"
The Time 1984 * "The Bird"
The Time 1984 * "Chili Sauce"
The Time 1984 * "Ice Cream Castles"
The Time 1984 * "If The Kid Can't Make You Come"
The Time 1984 * "Jungle Love"
The Time 1984 * "My Drawers"
The Time 1990 * "Chocolate"
The Time 1990 * "Data Bank"
The Time 1990 * "Donald Trump (Black Version)"
The Time 1990 * "Jerk Out"
The Time 1990 * "My Summertime Thang"
Vanity 6 1982 * "3 x 2 = 6"
Vanity 6 1982 * "Bite The Beat"
Vanity 6 1982 * "Drive Me Wild"
Vanity 6 1982 * "If A Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)"
Vanity 6 1982 * "Make Up"
Vanity 6 1982 * "Nasty Girl"
Vanity 6 1982 * "Wet Dream"

Songs he has helped with:

94 East "Dance to the Music of the World"
94 East "Games"
94 East "If You Feel Like Dancin'"
94 East "Lovin' Cup"
94 East "One Man Jam"
James Brown & Aretha Franklin "Gimme Your Love"
Kate Bush "Why Should I Love You?"
George Clinton "Tweakin'"
George Clinton "Let's Get Satisfied"
Sheila E. "Toy Box"
Sheila E. "Yellow"
Elevation "Traitor"
Eric Leeds "Kenya"
The Lewis Connection "Got to be Something There"
Madonna "Act of Contrition"
Brown Mark "Bang Bang"
Wendy & Lisa "Lolly Lolly"

Prince samples:

Above The Law "Groupies' Best Friend" "Housequake"
Acen 1992 "trip II the moon (mix)" "Alphabet St."
Arrested Development 1992 "Tennessee" "Alphabet St."
Arrested Development 1992 "Eve of Reality" "New Position"
Assassin "A Que L'Histoire" "Temptation"
Big Daddy Kane 1991 "The Lover In You" "Pop Life"
Black By Demand 1989 "Dearly Beloved" "Let's Go..."
Black, Rock and Ron "Rap Life" "Pop Life"
Bomb The Bass "Beat Dis" "Housequake"
Boy George 1988 "No Clause 28 (mix)" "Housequake"
Hiram Bullock 1992 "Way Kool" (album) "Housequake"
Candyman 1990 "Nightgown" "E.C." & "I.B."
Chubb Rock "Talkin Loud, Ain't Sayin Jack" "Housequake"
George Clinton 1989 "Hysterical" "Sex"
Color Me Badd 1993 "How Deep" "Crazy You"
Consolidated "America Number One" "Hot Thing"
Criminal Element Orch. 1987 "Put The Needle On The Record" "Kiss"
Cure 1993 "Purple Haze" "2 Whom It MC"
Da Lench Mob 1992 "Freedom's Got An A.K." "Gett Off"
De La Soul "Lovely How I Let My Mind Float""Ballad of DP"
Derek B 1987 "Bad Young Brother" "SOTT"
Die Warzau 1992 "Never Again" (Atlantic Mix) "America"
Digital Underground 1990 "Doowhatchalike"
Digital Underground 1990 "Hip Hop Doll" "Nine"
Digital Underground 1990 "Sex Packets" "Sex Shooter"
Digital Underground 1990 "Sex Packets" "S Always in MH
"
Digital Underground 1991 "Flowin' On The D-Line" "Housequake"
Dream Warriors 1991 "Wash Your Face in my Sink" "When Doves Cry
"
Candy Dulfer 1993 "Pick Up the Pieces" "Gett Off"
Eazy E "Eazy Duz It" "Let's Go Crazy
"
Carmen Electra 1993 "All That" "Adore"
TC Ellis "Miss Thang (mix)" "SOTT"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 "Playgirl" "Erotic City"
Elisa Fiorillo 1990 "Playgirl" "Raspberry B."
Full Force 1992 "If It's Cool Witcha Baby" "New Position"
Boy George "No Clause 28 (mix)" "Housequake"
House of Pain 1992 "Jump Around" "Gett Off"
Kiss Like This 1990 "Faith In You (12" remix)" "Kiss"
Kool Moe Dee 1987 "Rock You" "SOTT"
Kwame' "Skinny Muva" "Bob George"
Levert 1990 "Rope-a-dope Style" "Housequake"
Madonna 1989 "Like a Prayer (12" club mix) "Bob George"
MC Doc "Are U Wid It" "IWBY Lover"
MC Hammer "They Put Me In The Mix" "Housequake"
MC Hammer 1990 "Pray" "When Doves Cry
"
MC Hammer 1990 "Work This" "Let's Work"
Grace Jones 1993 "Sex Drive" "My Name Is P"
Grace Jones 1993 "Typical Male" "The Max"
Jesus Jones "Right Here, Right Now (mix)" "SOTT"
Me Phi Me 1992 "Pu' Sho Hands 2Getha" "Gett Off"
Miki Howard 1992 "I've Been Through It" "Alpha. Street"
Meat Beat Manifesto 1988 "I Got the Fear" "Kiss"
Meat Beat Manifesto 1990 "God O.D." "Pos" & "Al St"
Mucky Pup "Freakin' At The Peep Show" "Gett Off"
Naughty By Nature 1991 "Let the Ho's Go" "Housequake"
Nine Inch Nails "Ringfinger" "Alphabet St."
NPG 1993 "Deuce and a Quarter" "Horny Pony"
Oh Well "Radar Love" "Housequake"
Robert Plant 1990 "Hurting Kind" "Housequake"
PM Dawn 1991 "A Watcher's Point of View" "Cindy C"
The Project 1991 "Explode" "ICSTFIG"
Public Enemy 1990 "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" "Let's Go Crazy
"
Rodney-O and Joe Cooley 1987 "D.J.'s and M.C.'s" "Kiss"
Sex on a Beach "Mary's Jam" "Gett Off"
Sir Mix-a-Lot 1989 "Beepers" "Batdance"
Sir Mix-a-Lot 1992 "A Rapper's Reputation" "Head"
MC Solaar "Caroline" "SAIMH"
SUAD "Lamborghini" "ATWIAD"
Sudden Death 1992 "Sleep Around" "Gett Off"
TC Ellis 1991 "Miss Thang (mix)" "SOTT"
Terminator X 1991 "Ain't Got Nothing" "IIWYG"
To Be Continued "Yo, Mr. President"
The Underworld 1992 "The Afterworld" "Let's Go Crazy
"
UTFO "Bits and Pieces" "Kiss"
UTFO "Diss" "Kiss"
Ween "Push The Little Daisys (mix)" "Alphabet St."
Young Disciples "Get Yourself Together" "SOTT"
Young Disciples "Young Disciples Theme" "SOTT"

[Lance Andersen]

Prince is an amazing talent. I saw ihim n concert in 1980 (I think) in Pittburgh with the Time... just any amazing show

So who do you think had the best Prince Cover?

Perhaps Chaka Khan or Tom Jones.... others?

[Videoskooter]

Chaka Khan's "I Feel For You" without a doubt! Timeless!

[pepper1dancer]

That' surprising to me also about Prince on "Stand Back". I saw Stevie in Austin, TX in the mid 80's and she went back stage after every number. We were all wondering what she was doing and then a few months later she came out and said she was in rehab for her addiction to the COKE. Mystery solved. I would love to see her live again.

[markydefad]

here's the AMG take on the story...

Inspired by a Prince song, "Stand Back" is supposedly based on the power that can be unleashed during a heated argument, but the song's rock-induced hooks and sharp keyboard instantly trivialize Nicks' lyrical intentions.

"Stand Back" became Stevie Nicks' fifth Top 40 single, stemming from her second solo album entitled The Wild Heart, released in 1983. Nicks had a monumental task ahead of her after the release of her stellar debut album, Bella Donna, in 1981, which netted her four Top 40 singles, with two of them climbing into the Top Ten. Prince originally made it into the studio to play keyboards on the first couple of drafts of "Stand Back," but it's Sandy Stewart's work that graces the final product, along with Toto's Steve Lukather on guitar. The song was an excellent choice in introducing The Wild Heart, emitting a marvelous rock & roll power through Nick's emotive vocals and through the depth of the soaring keyboards. Like "Edge of Seventeen," "Stand Back" is rock savvy and forceful, raising the song's stock slightly from a mainstream radio tune to something more expressive. When Fleetwood Mac released The Chain in 1992, a hearty four-CD retrospective of the band, it included a live, previously unreleased version of "Stand Back" with Lindsey Buckingham providing some astonishing guitar work. This rendition, because of Buckingham's guitar prowess and the live atmosphere (where Nicks truly shines), definitely trumps the original. Even so, "Stand Back"'s most familiar version surely deserves its Top Five status and serves as one of Stevie Nicks' best rock songs.

[thommy2458]

Thom's "Stevie Nicks" top 10(in no order)
-"Beautiful Child"
-"Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"
-"Silver Springs"
-"Storms"
-"Landslide"
-"Sisters of the Moon"
-"Dreams"
-"Stand Back"
-"Edge of Seventeen"
-"Sara"
I also love her fierce,live version of Tom Petty's "I Need To Know"

As for Prince-I'll take Sinead O"conner's "Nothing Compares.."

Thom

[markydefad]

Originally Posted by thommy2458

Thom's "Stevie Nicks" top 10(in no order)
-"Beautiful Child"
-"Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You"
-"Silver Springs"
-"Storms"
-"Landslide"
-"Sisters of the Moon"
-"Dreams"
-"Stand Back"
-"Edge of Seventeen"
-"Sara"
I also love her fierce,live version of Tom Petty's "I Need To Know"

As for Prince-I'll take Sinead O"conner

Thom

Thom,

That is a PERFECT LIST. I would pick all those songs...love "Beautiful Child"...played this at Aloha once in the evening and everyone was entranced and then the owner told me to stop killing the energy of the store!!! "Play some bad Moby Dick/Megatone record that wasn't selling!!!!" Oh yeah.

[thommy2458]

Originally Posted by markydefad

Thom,

That is a PERFECT LIST. I would pick all those songs...love "Beautiful Child"...played this at Aloha once in the evening and everyone was entranced

Thanks Marky! To me,there is nothing better than "Tusk"
era Stevie-pissed off,depressed,coked up-she was miserable and writing incredible music.Someone told me
once "Beautiful Child" was about her frustration at not
being able to have children(supposedly)but I laughed out
loud at the vision of you getting reprimanded for not
playing the latest Jolo/Modern Rocketry 12"! Too funny!

[markydefad]

I had used "Beautiful Child" on a tape that I gave to several folks who played it religiously after the Troc parties--the morning after...I know that Michael Jackson's "She's Out Of My Life" was either before of after it...and I was recreating some of my tape at Aloha...Keefe asked if it was from Buckingham/Nicks and I told him no.. it was from "Tusk"!!! But I continued down this vein a tad too long and Donald (the owner) told me to "bring back the beat." Play Magda Layna's off-key remake of "When Will I See You Again" YIKES!!!

"they tried to make me play Magda Layna/ I said NO..NO..NO!!!!"