Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!waltt From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.music Subject: Re: SF in music (Stevie Nicks) Message-ID: <5598@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 17:20:07 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.5598 Posted: Wed Aug 14 17:20:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:00:21 EDT References: <3200@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 37 Keywords: Welsh Witch Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:9554 net.music:8803 > From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (JERRY BOYAJIAN) > > > > From: romkey@mit-borax (John L. Romkey) > > > And Fleetwood Mac's (Stevie Nicks's) song "Rhiannon" is supposed to > > be about a Welsh (Welch?) witch. Anybody know if Stevie's still > > around? > > While it's true that the name Rhiannon is a reference from Welsh myth, > the lyrics from "Rhiannon" don't seem to me to be about such. > > --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) Check out the "Fleetwood Mac Live" album (released following the Tusk tour). On the live album, there is a version of Rhiannon that Fleetwood Mac recorded in London. As is the custom with many live albums, the performers do some sort of introduction to the song. Over the opening chords of Rhiannon, Stevie Nicks says: "This is a song...(small pause)...about a Welsh Witch" (background noise of crowd fades up then down... then "Rhiannon rings like bells in the night, etc, etc, .... .... dreams unwind, love's a state of mind, etc, etc...) Case closed. Incidently, this version of Rhiannon is longer than the studio version, and contains some other lyrics not heard on the original. Actually, I like the live version better. -- Walt Tucker Tektronix, Inc.