One of the funniest things I ever read she did was when she and Lindsey were living with Keith Olson before they joined FM. Keith wrote about this over on the Penguin and I almost peed in in pants when I read it. Keith explained he had to go out of town and so Stevie gets up at 5AM to drive him and some other guy to the train station in her bathrobe and I think he said heeled slippers. Keith mentions the guy with him made some comment about Stevie being flacky or something and he'd be lucky if he ever sees his car again. She drops them off and drives back to Keith's house and goes back to bed. But....she doesn't put the car in gear and/or doesn't put the brake on and they live on a big hill!!!!!!! The car rolls down the hill and smashes into somebody's house. It's like something out of I Love Lucy. In this case I love Stevie. Keith gets a message from Lindsey saying something happened to his car, but nobody got hurt. So don't worry. Keith said she still laughs about it. Can you just picture her at 5am in her bathrobe parking the car and going back to bed with it rolling away. Priceless.
Here's a few more that I remembered:
SYW Tour: I think it was Raleigh or Jones Beach. They have technical difficulties at the beginning of the show with this loud buzz that won't go away. And she says something like we all like a good buzz now and again. Can't remember exactly . It's on my back up drive but it was funny and the crowd loved it.
OTSM Tour: She got pissed off at the security people for keeping people back and says "don't f___k with my people....
Crystal Visions Tour: She tripped at the Ontario show while dancing in front of Jana on Edge. The next night she joked about it and said something like no matter how hard they tried, they could not lift me up. At least she laughs at herself.
CV - Atlantic City 07 - She changes the end of Rhiannon and then tells everybody she went back to 1977 for a minute. It was clear she did. It was the wild Stevie for a moment.
Arizona Heart Benefit 2000: She's introducing the next song which she said she and Lindsey picked out together. Then she says no it was really just Lindsey who picked out the song. Then she says they've never done the song before. Then she says well we did many years ago but not on stage before. Then she says well not without a full on band. I have the video and Lindz is thinking can she dig a bigger hole. It was hysterical. The song was Gypsy and it was terrific done acoustically.
Tom Petty tour 06 - First show of the tour (Charlotte I think), she completely forgets the words to her part of SDMHA, but does apologize and says that she loves Tom so much and she was just so nervous even though she's done the song for 15 years. At least she's honest!!!!
And can I just say the Christian Visions is the absolute best. I have a bootleg of the whole show and she's is just hysterical. She could not believe it came out of her mouth and said as much. It was priceless.
For all the RAL tour experts, didn't she literally fall off the stage at at least one show maybe two. She was so high on coke at that point, she probably never knew she fell.
And that's why we all love her so much. She is so real, not fake. You can relate to her. And she's soooo, sooo funny. "Don't ever change, Sara."
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