Nicks continues to enchant her fans
By CURTIS ROSS
TAMPA - The nation's arenas must look increasingly familiar to Stevie
Nicks.
She made the rounds last fall with the reunited Fleetwood Mac, which
played the Ice Palace in November.
Nicks returned with her own band Friday night, drawing a crowd of
6,873 for a set focused on tracks from
``Enchanted,'' a three-disc box set compilation of her solo work.
Nicks' appeal may not be as universal as Fleetwood Mac's - that band
drew a crowd of 17,247. But if anything,
her fans are even more devoted. Some came decked out in Stevie-wear:
Shawls, antique dresses and black
suede stacked- heel boots were in abundance.
Nicks didn't disappoint the faithful. The show featured a gothic
stage
set (stained glass and billowing fabric) and several costume changes.
And Nicks' most dramatic material, such as ``Gold Dust Woman'' and ``Edge
of
Seventeen,'' received prominent placement in the set.
But Nicks ignored some of her hits (``Gypsy'' and ``If Anyone
Falls,''
for instance) in favor of less familiar tunes
from her box set.
``Garbo'' took the middle slot of a mostly acoustic trio of songs,
which began with ``After the Glitter Fades'' and
concluded with ``Rose Garden,'' a song Nicks said she wrote at age
17.
These songs found Nicks in especially strong voice. Her two backup
singers provided pleasant, countryish
harmonies here as well.
She rocked harder on the piano-driven ``Enchanted'' and the
disco-pulsed ``Stand Back.'' Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers' ``I Need to Know'' was a surprise encore, and Nicks
closed with the lullaby-ish ``Has Anyone
Ever Written Anything for You.''
Opening act Boz Scaggs offered grittier music, kicking off his nearly
hourlong set with the uptown blues of ``Some Change.'' He crooned his
make-out anthem, ``Look What You've Done to Me,'' before closing with a
powerhouse trio - ``Loan Me a Dime,'' ``Lowdown'' and his encore,
``Lido Shuffle.''
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