Don Henley and Stevie Nicks On Tour
April 18, 2005
April 19, 2005
Wantagh, NY
Don and Stevie will be appearing at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY on June 10th. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
Hershey, PA
Don and Stevie will be appearing at the Giant Center in Hershey, PA on June 13th. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
Philadephia, PA
Don and Stevie will be appearing at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on June 3rd. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
Holmdel, NJ
Don and Stevie will be appearing at the P.N.C Bank Arts Center on June 4th. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
Uncasville, CT
Don and Stevie will be appearing at the Mohegan Sun Casino on June 6th. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
Mansfield, MA
Don and Stevie will be appearing at the Tweeter Center on June 8th. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
Atlanta, GA
Don and Stevie will be appearing at the Gwinnett Arena on June 16th. Tickets will be handled by Ticketmaster. If you have questions about this show or find other fans attending the show, please use the comments button below. Remember to return here after the show to share your review, setlist and photos.
April 24, 2005
Philadelphia Daily News | 04/23/2005 | Nicks, Henley tour starts June 3 in Philly
Link: Philadelphia Daily News | 04/23/2005 | Nicks, Henley tour starts June 3 in Philly.
NEW YORK - Stevie Nicks and Don Henley have confirmed the tip-off date for their summer tour will be June 3 at the Wachovia Center. The tour will feature Nicks and Henley performing in solo and collaborative settings.
VIP ticket packages are available for the first five shows via ILoveAllAccess.com. The top-level package sells for $385 per ticket, including a seat in the first 10 rows, exclusive merchandise and a variety of on-site perks. A less expensive package sells for $195, and offers a ticket in the first 20 rows plus the merchandise.
Before the Henley trek, Nicks will play a four-night stand at the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas beginning May 10, under the moniker "Dreams." Backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last month in New York, the artist said the show would consist of "favorite songs, which you don't always get to do. This is a chance for me to go back through all those many, many years and pick out a few songs I haven't always done."
As for Henley, he will rejoin the Eagles for a new round of touring after the Nicks run, beginning Aug. 11 in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
June 07, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA
Don and Stevie will be at the Post-Gazette Pavillion on June 11th.
Detroit, MI
Don and Stevie will be at the DTE on June 18th.
Chicago, IL
Don and Stevie will be at the Tweeter Center on June 19th.
Stevie Nicks Charms Even Don Henley In Duo's Arena Show
Link: TheDay.com, New London, CT.
It's tough to say which was more entertaining at Stevie Nicks and Don Henley's concert Monday at Mohegan Sun Arena: listening to their still-mighty musical artistry during their solo sets or watching how awkward they were when performing together.
The big draw of this show was seeing Henley and Nicks dueting. The musical icons, who dated back in their heyday and recorded "Leather and Lace" in 1981, launched their joint tour last week. Based on their lack of chemistry during their first few numbers together, they're still getting comfortable.
The banter-free concert was constructed so that Henley sang first, with Nicks joining him mid-set for three songs. After an intermission, Nicks took the stage; Henley came on for two numbers during her performance, and then they did a couple of songs together for the encore.
When Nicks first came onstage, she and Henley stood at separate microphones, and he sang straight ahead, with an impassive expression, often with his eyes closed. This is how he sings when by himself, too, performing with energy but also a certain grim determination. But you'd think he would connect more with a partner. After a couple of songs, Nicks began trying to engage Henley, looking toward him and eventually swinging her microphone around so she was facing him, not the crowd.
Eventually, though, the theatrical Nicks managed to loosen up Henley. By the encore, she coaxed a hint of a smile out of him when, during the line "Take from me my lace," she friskily held out the edge of her lacey shawl toward him, and he playfully grabbed at it.
Whatever the camaraderie, their harmonies sounded sweet. The mix of Nicks' distinctive rasp and Henley's reedy tenor remained potent, particularly on their versions of Bonnie Raitt's "Circle Dance," Nicks' "Gold Dust Woman" and Henley's "New York Minute."
Now, Nicks has the kind of voice that people either love or hate. Her voice got gravelly after "Rumours," and, in her later drug-dazed days, Nicks started sounding like Tom Waits and looking like Kirstie Alley. Now, she looks fabulous and acts focused. Her voice is strong and effective, even if her upper register has grown more limited. On some songs, she dropped to a lower note instead of reaching for the higher one she used to, but she made it work, giving songs a slightly different torque.
Henley's voice sounded remarkably like it did back in the 1970s and '80s, still supple on everything from "Witchy Woman" to "End of the Innocence." And is it me, or is Henley starting to resemble Phil Collins, albeit with a great head of hair?
Nicks scampered offstage for lots of costume changes during her solo set, switching from one floaty black outfit to ... another floaty black outfit. (This left plenty of time for band solos.) She looked particularly stunning in a gown that Barbra Streisand and Donna Karan would envy for "Beauty and the Beast."
Best songs of the night: Henley's haunting "Desperado" and blistering "I Will Not Go Quietly," and Nicks' epically romantic "Beauty and the Beast" and driving "Stand Back," during which she did - how could she not? - that patented Nicksian twirl, which actually elicited cheers.
After such a superb concert, the ending was anticlimactic. The last number was a cover of The Byrds' "So You Wanna Be A Rock N Roll Star," and this mushy-sounding song was not a strong choice. After hearing the best creations of talented writers Henley and Nicks, I wanted to hear more of their songs, not a tepid tune of someone else's.
Reviews: Don Henley / Stevie Nicks
Link: Entertainment: Reviews Article | Reuters.com.
Concert review: Stevie Nicks, Don Henley
Tue Jun 7, 2005 10:42 AM ET
By Deborah Wilker
HOLMDEL, N.J. (Hollywood Reporter) - Big-ticket heritage acts have been propping up the listing concert business for years now, and if this is the way it must be, the industry would do well to take a close look at a novel (but too-brief) new tour from Stevie Nicks and Don Henley -- one of the most magical rock shows in a long while.
More than just the standard double bill, these songwriting legends (and fronts for two of the greatest bands of all time, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles) work hand in hand, interpreting each other's stuff in a way rarely done by truly big stars.
On the second night of this 10-date swing, Henley, up first, got things rolling with some dry wit and a well-received "Witchy Woman." Quickly he was into the big stuff -- "Hotel California" -- during which Nicks sauntered in from the wings to join him, setting off the kind of frenzied, organic ovation that touring's modern-day corporate labs simply cannot manufacture.
Superstar pairings are best, of course, when there is mutual admiration between the artists and a career path that is somehow parallel yet also different -- as with Billy Joel and Elton John. Tortured friendships are also great for the box office (Eric Clapton and George Harrison) -- and if the two were also lovers back in the day, well, that's a grand slam.
Henley and Nicks -- both pioneering California rockers -- were indeed an item in the late 1970s (after her split from FM bandmate Lindsey Buckingham) and have remained friendly. While they don't quite set off the unrequited sparks that the Nicks/Buckingham-led Mac still produces to this day, there is a familiarity about them that lends both comfort and renewal to hits such as "The Last Worthless Evening" (his) and "Gold Dust Woman" (hers).
On this particular night, there was also a defiant "Stop Dragging My Heart Around," a wistful "New York Minute" and their lone hit together, 1981's "Leather and Lace."
Each also worked hard separately. From his seemingly inexhaustible supply of frothy radio singles and sturdy album tracks, Henley pulled out "Dirty Laundry," "Life in the Fast Lane" and the brilliant "Heart of the Matter." Nicks, who only gets better with age, countered with an ethereal "Rhiannon," and dramatic versions of "Stand Back," "Edge of Seventeen" and others from her long career, all set off by her usual costume array of flowing ribbons, scarves and ponchos.
Though this terrific evening ran almost three hours, there was still a lot missing, including the rumored set-closer "Desperado" -- something they're bound to get to if this limited run becomes the full-fledged tour promoters are said to be banking on for next year.
Eagle Flies with Nightbird (Mansfield Preview)
Link: BostonHerald.com - the Edge: Eagle flies with nightbird.
Don Henley is nothing if not a gentleman.
When asked in what order he and ``Two Voices'' tourmate Stevie Nicks would perform at their co-headlining show at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield tonight, Henley laughs.
``I'm going to go first every night,'' he says, ``because there are certain things that she has to have.''
Those include, but are not limited to, special lighting, time for costume changes and the proper performing temperature.
``I'm just a guy,'' Henley says. ``Guys don't mind sweating. I'm just going to go first and that will make my life a lot simpler.''
The charming Eagles frontman and Fleetwood Mac's witchy woman, both 57, have long been friends - and more in the mid-'70s. They even scored a hit duet in 1981 with ``Leather and Lace.''
What songs will they sing together on tour?
Speaking by phone from Dallas, Henley chuckles.
``We've already exchanged lists. Now we're in the process of arguing about it.''
Following his stint with Nicks, Henley hopes to begin work on an album of new American standards by the likes of Leonard Cohen and Randy Newman.
Then he'll hit the road again with the Eagles in August. If you're waiting for that long-promised new Eagles album, Henley has some advice: Don't hold your breath.
``I don't know if that's ever going to come to fruition,'' he says.``It used to be frustrating, but I had to adopt a more Zenlike position or tear my hair out.''
June 15, 2005
Henley, Nicks performances revive hits, affirm renown
Link: PennLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page.
Don Henley and Stevie Nicks, two of rock's heavyweights, on the same double bill is an intriguing idea.
In reality, it's two stars past their primes who can still put on a decent show.
At times inspired, at others sounding tired, the dynamic duo came to Hershey's Giant Center Monday night.
Henley, the Eagles' drummer, led off the festivities with the foreboding sounding "The Genie."
Jangling a tambourine, he picked up with the pace with his old band's "Witchy Woman," matching any version the Eagles could produce, and sounded in fine voice, which was tested on the song's falsetto parts.
On the line "there she stood in the doorway" from the classic "Hotel California," Nicks emerged from the shadows for a trio of duets that included Henley's solo hits "New York Minute" and "Last Worthless Evening."
Nicks' voice seemed to fill the arena, and her more energetic persona added badly need animation to the stoic Henley.
There is no banter from the Texan, just the sporadic "thank you" through an hour-plus greatest hits set.
His voice sounded raspy but serviceable on "The Heart of the Matter."
His stellar band gave real punch to "Dirty Laundry," "Life in the Fast Lane" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance."
Henley used a nice, delicate touch on The Eagles' "Desperado" and played to the crowd, letting them sing back the line, "you better let somebody love you" before stepping aside for Nicks.
With a more elaborate stage set, a larger band and back-up singers, Nicks, using a microphone draped with beads and scarves, opened her uneven set with Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams."
A nice acoustic intro to "Rhiannon" slid into a strange, high-pitched, train-whistlelike refrain, and then Henley was back to assist on Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman."
He took Tom Petty's part on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," but Henley's voice is not as distinctive as Petty's, making their take more lackluster than the original.
Henley exited after their rendition of Bonnie Raitt's "The Circle Dance," and Nicks seemed to leave the stage after every other song for a subtle wardrobe change -- flowing skirts of different hues and capes of varying colors, perfect for her signature whirling dance move.
When she was center stage, "Stand Back" was followed by Nicks providing the soundtrack for a "Beauty and the Beast" film.
"Edge of Seventeen" closed out the set, and Nicks ended the night shaking hands with fans in the front row and kissing a young girl on the head.
In total, it was a three-hour show that had its moments, just not enough of them.
Concert review: Stevie Nicks, Don Henley
Link: News Feature.
HOLMDEL, N.J. (Hollywood Reporter) - Big-ticket heritage acts have been propping up the listing concert business for years now, and if this is the way it must be, the industry would do well to take a close look at a novel (but too-brief) new tour from Stevie Nicks and Don Henley -- one of the most magical rock shows in a long while.
More than just the standard double bill, these songwriting legends (and fronts for two of the greatest bands of all time, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles) work hand in hand, interpreting each other's stuff in a way rarely done by truly big stars.
On the second night of this 10-date swing, Henley, up first, got things rolling with some dry wit and a well-received "Witchy Woman." Quickly he was into the big stuff -- "Hotel California" -- during which Nicks sauntered in from the wings to join him, setting off the kind of frenzied, organic ovation that touring's modern-day corporate labs simply cannot manufacture.
Superstar pairings are best, of course, when there is mutual admiration between the artists and a career path that is somehow parallel yet also different -- as with Billy Joel and Elton John. Tortured friendships are also great for the box office (Eric Clapton and George Harrison) -- and if the two were also lovers back in the day, well, that's a grand slam.
Henley and Nicks -- both pioneering California rockers -- were indeed an item in the late 1970s (after her split from FM bandmate Lindsey Buckingham) and have remained friendly. While they don't quite set off the unrequited sparks that the Nicks/Buckingham-led Mac still produces to this day, there is a familiarity about them that lends both comfort and renewal to hits such as "The Last Worthless Evening" (his) and "Gold Dust Woman" (hers).
On this particular night, there was also a defiant "Stop Dragging My Heart Around," a wistful "New York Minute" and their lone hit together, 1981's "Leather and Lace."
Each also worked hard separately. From his seemingly inexhaustible supply of frothy radio singles and sturdy album tracks, Henley pulled out "Dirty Laundry," "Life in the Fast Lane" and the brilliant "Heart of the Matter." Nicks, who only gets better with age, countered with an ethereal "Rhiannon," and dramatic versions of "Stand Back," "Edge of Seventeen" and others from her long career, all set off by her usual costume array of flowing ribbons, scarves and ponchos.
Though this terrific evening ran almost three hours, there was still a lot missing, including the rumored set-closer "Desperado" -- something they're bound to get to if this limited run becomes the full-fledged tour promoters are said to be banking on for next year.
Henley pauses family life to tour with Nicks
Link: PennLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page.
Don Henley, the voice of "Hotel Cali fornia," protector of Walden Woods, a man who's seen a "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac," drives a car pool.
The Eagles drummer and renowned solo artist is a 57-year-old dad like millions of others trying to juggle the demands of family and work.
"When we were young and single, our time was our own to listen to music, talk about music and create music," Henley said from his home in Texas. "Now I'm up at 6 to get the kids to school. They need picked up at 3. There's homework to do, cars to wash and gas up, things to do."
Music is still a priority but one that struggles alongside a list of other priorities that compete for his time.
He's involved in a variety of environmental and preservation causes, most notably the Walden Woods Project. The Eagles begin a three-month tour in August, solo and band albums have been discussed, and he's now on the road with Stevie Nicks.
The dynamic duo comes to Hershey's Giant Center at 8 p.m. Monday.
Tickets are $95, $75 and $45 and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 534-3911 or 260-2000.
Several weeks ago, Henley began rehearsals for the 10-date tour with Nicks with mixed emotions, not about working with the Fleetwood Mac vocalist or performing at the shows themselves but at the prospect of more travel and being away from home.
Touring, he said, "is just like anything else, you have your good days and bad days. I can only take about two weeks at a time, then I get burned out. But it's better than working at the local convenience store or digging a ditch."
The Eagles' 120 million albums sold, a greatest hits package that's the best-selling record of all time, four Grammy Awards, his solo successes ("Building the Perfect Beast," "The End of the Innocence") and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame membership have assured Henley that he won't be working for minimum wage anytime soon.
Over the past 15 years, he has used his celebrity to organize events and raise money for the Caddo Lake Institute, a group dedicated to protecting the Texas wetland; the Recording Artists' Coalition; and, most famously, the Walden Woods Project, which, according to its mission statement "preserves the land, literature and legacy of Henry David Thoreau" and the famed Massachusetts pond and surrounding forest.
That seed of activism was planted in Henley long ago.
"My family was involved in their community, and they taught me it was important to vote and be involved in the democratic process," he said. "Back then, it wasn't called activism, it was called being neighborly. My parents and grandparents taught me to be generous."
His worlds often collide in benefit concerts and in another common challenge -- making people aware of new material or a cause.
"It's harder to get people's attention across the board for anything," Henley said. "There is so much data and information, people are just numb, they are overwhelmed to a degree."
Henley is not immune from the distractions of day-to-day life, especially when it comes to writing new music.
"There is a lot of stuff competing with my time," he said. "Things are not that simple and carefree anymore. To create you have to eliminate that clutter in your mind, but I'm still determined that my greatest creative years are not behind me."
Time will always be a challenge, but personally and professional all is well in Don Henley' world.
"I don't make goals, but I've surpassed all the goals I would have set anyway," he said. "The Eagles have gone longer and further then I could have ever imagined. ... I sometimes wish my life was a little simpler and I had more time at home with my kids. There's the occasional stalker and the loss of privacy. But I just had a checkup, and my health is very good, and I have a very full to overflowing life."
Henley and Nicks hit right harmonies
Link: Short Takes: Henley and Nicks hit right harmonies.
Their bands paralleled each other throughout the 1970s, and their solo careers did the same in the 1980s. Now Don Henley and Stevie Nicks intersect on their shared coast-to-coast concert tour.
The two headliners brought their overlapping performances to a soggy Post-Gazette Pavilion on Saturday. Four songs into the former Eagles songwriter's set, as he sang the "Hotel California" line, "There she stood in the doorway ...," Nicks appeared in silhouette. The Fleetwood Mac star stayed for three songs, then left Henley to finish the set with his road band.
After a quick stage set, Nicks and her band played four songs before Henley joined them for two. The co-headliners shared a three-song encore and a cuddly slow dance to close the show.
Artistically, it was interesting to hear the old friends dueting on each other's classic songs. With her husky whisper and growl, Nicks took the lower register while Henley wailed the high parts of his "Hotel California," "New York Minute" and "Last Worthless Evening" and her "Gold Dust Woman" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." They reprised their hit duet "Leather and Lace" and covered a beautiful Bonnie Raitt ballad, "Circle Dance."
True to form, Henley stuck to familiar studio versions of his songs and those he wrote with The Eagles. Nicks, however, stretched and molded her parts of the show to better fill the needs of a live performance
Music Preview: Don Henley takes time away from that elusive Eagles album to tour with Nicks
Link: Music Preview: Don Henley takes time away from that elusive Eagles album to tour with Nicks.
"[The recording of the new Eagles album is] going quite well. We're all very pleased -- surprised even. I think everybody in the group is surprised about how well it is going and how well we're getting along, and how everybody is stepping up to the plate, you know. So we're just going to keep recording. We might record enough material for two albums. I don't know."
Don Henley/Stevie Nicks
Where: Post-Gazette Pavilion
When: 8 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets: $28.50-$126. 412-323-1919.
That was Don Henley talking back in March ... 2002.
Now, it's 2005 and the last Eagles album was still in 1979.
This was, after all, the band that gave us "Take it Easy." But they've done plenty of that: So what's up with this Eagles record?
"We've been recording Eagles material for the last four or five years and putting it away in the vaults," says Henley, who brings his solo tour with Stevie Nicks to the Post-Gazette Pavilion Saturday, "but we've been away so much we haven't had a chance to complete a lot of it. The other big factor is that we're all married and have children -- three of us have young children -- and that takes a lot of time. Whereas the Eagles were once our main priority, I think our families are our priority now."
So how many songs would he say they've recorded and finished?
"I think only one or two of them are finished out of 15 or 16," he says.
Yes, while the Eagles have been in the fast lane, touring-wise, since they declared that Hell Freezes Over in 1994, when it comes to recording, they seem to be broken down on the side of the road.
"We don't feel a great deal of pressure to finish anything," Henley says. "We're not signed to any particular label. I think the primary impediment has been the touring. If we wanted to finish a record we could. ... And there is the fact," he adds, "that we are competing with our legacy, our former music. We all agree that if we can't make a record that we think measures to the standards that applied in the '70s, then we'd just as soon not do it. We're working toward that. We're still working on songwriting chops and experimenting with various styles."
Henley adds that it doesn't help that he lives more than a thousand miles away from the other members. Eleven years ago, he left L.A., where he co-founded the Eagles in 1971, and returned to Texas, settling in Dallas, a little to the west of Linden, where he was born and raised.
"I wanted to have a family, and we didn't want to raise them [in L.A.], frankly. My mother was still living in Texas. Her parents are still in Texas. We both agreed that it was very important to have children who knew and interacted with their grandparents on a frequent basis. My mother passed away a couple of years ago, but my wife's parents are still active with our children. I still love California; we still maintain a home there, but it's good to have a different perspective and to get out of the fast lane -- I think you could say that."
Henley -- whose image is so tied to the bronzed Californian, hair slicked back and sunglasses on -- enjoys a daily life that consists of waking up at 6 a.m., getting his kids (girls 5 and 9, boy 7) ready for school, hitting the local coffee shop, gardening, working out and dealing with office work regarding everything from the Eagles to the Walden Woods Project to a revitalization of the courthouse in his hometown.
He has a recording studio at the house, but with all that other stuff going on, the songs don't come easy.
"It never came easy," he says. "There are certain instances where Glenn and I wrote a song in a matter of three or four days. Like the song 'Lyin' Eyes,' for instance. 'Desperado' was something that evolved over a span of four or five years. I started that song in 1968, before I even met the other guys in the band. ...
"The key to songwriting," he says, "is to try to eliminate distractions and to concentrate and to focus. That has become more difficult as the years go on. We're just simply not as self-absorbed as we were when we were younger. Songwriting requires a certain amount of self-absorption, or at least to the degree that one can meditate and concentrate and dream and get into what we call 'the zone.' That simply becomes more difficult whether you have kids or not. Life rushes in. It's a noisy, clanging world out there."
Henley has always liked to collaborate. He co-wrote with Glenn Frey in the Eagles, and, as the Eagle with the most successful solo career (with Top 10 hits like "Dirty Laundry," "The Boys of Summer," "All She Wants to Do is Dance" and "The End of the Innocence"), he's co-written with producers and artists like Bruce Hornsby and Danny Kortchmar.
"I'm not a musical island. I like to collaborate because it gives variety to the material and takes me in places that I wouldn't be able to go myself."
Henley's last solo record was "Inside Job" in 2000, and now, he says, "I have some things in the can. But there's a gray area between my own material and the Eagles material. If I'm writing something, even if I might have intended to put it on my solo record, if I get to a certain point in the creation and I decide it might be good for the Eagles album, I might give it over to that. That would be my first priority. Some of my solo stuff would not be suitable for the Eagles."
For now, he's put all of those projects on hold while he does a quick June tour with Stevie Nicks, with whom he recorded the hit "Leather and Lace" for her first solo record back in 1981. They plan to do a few songs together on stage, and he, of course, will front his solo band, many of whom also play on the Eagles tour.
In August, he'll hook up with the Eagles again for a West Coast tour. Asked if playing classic Eagles songs remains fresh for him night after night, he laughs and says, "Depends on how far into a tour we are. The audience makes it fresh every night. Sure, we get tired of some of these songs sometimes. Some of these songs we've been doing for 33 years. But when the lights go down and we walk out on stage and the cheers go up from the audience, it's a brand new world every night. The crowds are what make it worthwhile. They give us our energy."
