Nicks McNuggets

[michelej1]

[From an article about young artist Robert Nofire, but they don't show the picture of Stevie he drew]

By Dana Eversole/TDP Special Writer Mar 31, 2016 Tahlequah Daily Press

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/central-student-s-artwork-awes-online-viewers/article_472feff6-f78c-11e5-956e-e7713b18e1ca.html

His pencil drawing of Stevie Nix of Fleetwood Mac fame earned him first place in the Cherokee County Art Show.

[lilyfee]

I was coming out of my gym tonight and there's a bar there. As I walked up the stairs Rooms On Fire was blasting out of the speakers as they were doing a music quiz. I thought I was imagining it because you don't hear Stevie's solo work very often at all. I so wanted to run in and shout "It's Stevie Nicks!!!" :lol:

I do this every time I hear her music in public!

[michelej1]

[from an article about Dawn Coulter Cruttenden, a woman whose work is on display in the Savoy Hotel]

http://www.derrynow.com/news/derry-woman-makes-history-at-londons-savoy-hotel/85123

“I used to paint more landscapes, which were nice, but last year I did a series of fairy tale drawings, which I think were much more sincere.

“Those were spotted by the singer, Stevie Nicks’, make-up artist. She showed them to Stevie, who then bought everything I had, which was incredible, as I listen to her music while I’m working.”

It was through this that Dawn’s work came to the attention of the Savoy Hotel.

[bombaysaffires]

[from an article about Dawn Coulter Cruttenden, a woman whose work is on display in the Savoy Hotel]

http://www.derrynow.com/news/derry-woman-makes-history-at-londons-savoy-hotel/85123

“I used to paint more landscapes, which were nice, but last year I did a series of fairy tale drawings, which I think were much more sincere.

“Those were spotted by the singer, Stevie Nicks’, make-up artist. She showed them to Stevie, who then bought everything I had, which was incredible, as I listen to her music while I’m working.”

It was through this that Dawn’s work came to the attention of the Savoy Hotel.

wish they'd included some pics of her actual work!!!

[bombaysaffires]

http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/dawn-cruttenden/artwork/69411?return=dawn-cruttenden

http://www.shop.obsidianart.co.uk/collections/dawn-coulter-cruttenden

[Danielle]

http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/dawn-cruttenden/artwork/69411?return=dawn-cruttenden

http://www.shop.obsidianart.co.uk/collections/dawn-coulter-cruttenden

Thank you!!!

[michelej1]

http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/dawn-cruttenden/artwork/69411?return=dawn-cruttenden

http://www.shop.obsidianart.co.uk/collections/dawn-coulter-cruttenden

Ooh, thanks for the link. I can see that Stevie would totally love the "Finding Fairies" print.

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

Ooh, thanks for the link. I can see that Stevie would totally love the "Finding Fairies" print.

Michele

Yes. And there's also something about that particular one that reminds me a bit of Chris's painting on the cover of Kiln House.

[michelej1]

[from a Ben Hazlewood interview] Female First, UK by Daniel Falconer | 12 April 2016

Who would you love to work with on material in the future and why?

I would love to work with Stevie Nicks. I have always been a big fan of her music and style. She has a way of telling story that drives the emotion across in such a transparent and honest way.



Read more: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/interviews/ben-hazlewood-exclusive-interview-remix-wanted-937317.html#ixzz45gEEP85t

[michelej1]

[Four 60 Minutes Australian reporters staged a kidnapping and ended up in jail. This is from an article about one of them]

The Australian Business Review

TRACY GRIMSHAW THE AUSTRALIAN APRIL 18, 2016 12:00AM

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/04/australian-60-minutes-reporters-jailed-kidnapping-ditched-journalism-ethics-chasing-story-lebanon/

Everyone loves Tangles. Seriously. Laura says so. They walk into a room together and everyone gravitates to the big fella with the grin, who has a thousand stories, but wants to hear all about YOU.

On a 60 Minutes shoot with Fleetwood Mac a few years ago, Stevie Nicks — no pushover — was obviously a wee bit smitten. After the interview as the crew packed up she asked Tangles his favourite Fleetwood Mac song.

“Rhiannon” he said, no hesitation. So she sang it. Just for him. Poor girl’s only human.

[SisterNightroad]

35 Years Ago: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Face Another Battle on ‘Hard Promises’
By Jeff Giles May 5, 2016 1:28 PM

One notable change was the introduction of Stevie Nicks into Petty’s creative circle. Nicks, who’d been working with Petty producer Jimmy Iovine on her debut solo album, Bella Donna, developed a close working relationship with Petty and the Heartbreakers that spilled over into Hard Promises as well as her own record. “Insider,” a song Petty initially wrote with Nicks in mind, ended up on Hard Promises after Nicks tried singing harmony to Petty’s guide vocal and realized he wouldn’t want to give up the track — so instead, Petty gave Nicks “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” a Bella Donna duet between the two that later became a Top 5 hit.



Read More: 35 Years Ago: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Face Another Battle on 'Hard Promises' | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-hard-promises/?trackback=tsmclip

[SisterNightroad]

It's written by a professor and author of paleontology, but with a great taste if I might add:


Sixty-six years?!

The time is strange.
Our perception of time is strange.
We perceive time as a sequence of events - before, during, after.
This affects our relationship with time, its perception.
I've told the story other times - in the summer of 1984, on a hot night and infested with mosquitoes, with only Pippo Baudo on television, I fished two tapes that had long dwelled in the house.
A friend had given them to my father telling him: "give your son something good to listen," and my father had put them in a drawer and forgot them.
So, in a desperate search for something that would keep the terminal boredom at bay (and did not require to keep the lights on), I put one of those tapes in my Walkman (yes, I know, these things seems taken from the Code of Hammurabi but be patient...) and discovered ... well, this.

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Listen to it, then we may go ahead.

Talking about love at first sight is wrong - it was the voice of Stevie Nicks to drag me away.
I listened to "Live" by Fleetwood Mac no less than three times that night.
Stevie Nicks' voice.

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Then yes, OK, when I found out more about this group of strangers (none of my high school friends knew, they listened to Duran Duran) there was also the visual impact, and found out what faces those people who were building my personal soundtrack had- Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie were extraordinary for a boy who lived in those years.

Usually we are ashamed, when around twenty/thirty years old, of the songs we listened to as teenagers.
Those who have made up our personal sentimental education, who we may not know it, but they have helped to make us what we are.
After a bit you feel a certain embarrassment.
But Fleetwood Mac, in groups or as soloists, in their English blues or Californian pop incarnation, I have listened to them incessantly for three decades.

https://strategieevolutive.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/fleetwood-mac-tickets1.jpg

Yeah, thirty years old. Which should have given me a minimum defense, protection.
Because today, I found out today Stevie Nicks celebrates her 66 years. Sixty-six years!
But how?

https://strategieevolutive.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/stevie-nicks-feet-201203.jpg

Certainly it depends on the fact that records, books and movies, freeze people at certain moments of the time.

It also depends on the fact that we perceive time subjectively more than anything else.
And in some ways I remain that high school student who listened to Live with the Walkman, and Stevie Nicks in my imagination remains the little girl dressed as a gypsy playing the tambourine.
The one whose voice broke on Landslide...

It is not possible Stevie Nicks is sixty-six years old.
It is not possible that I am forty-seven.
Somewhere something happened.
We got swindled.

But on the other part:

Time makes you bolder
children are getting older
and I'm getting older too

We knew it also that summer night of thirty years ago, right?

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[michelej1]

[from a Billboard Interview with Justin Tranter]

Billboard 4/7/2016 by Shirley Halperin

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7325296/hit-songwriter-justin-tranter-writing-justin-bieber-gwen-stefani-songs

Can you tell us about working with Britney Spears on her new album?

It's been such a cool experience. Her voice is just so special, yeah, and she's a very underrated writer. That girl's melodies!

Who's left on your wish list?

Stevie Nicks, Stevie Nicks and... Stevie Nicks! [Laughs] I would also really love to work with Kanye West, because I think he's one of the best producers of all time. And if I could write a hook for Jay Z, that would be really cool.

[michelej1]

[from a review of last night's Nashville, which has been canceled by ABC]

Nashville Recap: 'After You've Gone'
POSTED BY ASHLEY SPURGEON ON THU, MAY 12, 2016 AT 12:02 PM

http://www.nashvillescene.com/countrylife/archives/2016/05/12/nashville-recap-after-youve-gone

Some broad I couldn’t instantly recall, later revealed to be Amber, that broad they’re on tour with, tells Gunnar that cute little blond singers get pushed to the front all the time. Yep, women have it notoriously easy in the music industry, just ask this episode’s guest star! Amber compares The Exes to Fleetwood Mac (lololololololololol k) and Scarlett to Stevie Nicks, even though Scarlett’s love life and drug problems are both far, far less impressive. She then asks Gunnar to write with her, and he agrees, as if he or the story had a choice.

[michelej1]

[From an article about Bootylicious]

Entertainment Weekly, May 20, 2016 by jessica goodman

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/20/destinys-child-bootylicious-15th-anniversary

By May 2001, they had reclaimed the word “Bootylicious” on one of the album’s touchstone tracks that featured the phrase “I don’t think you ready for this jelly” and a Stevie Nicks’ guitar sample. Fifteen years after it was released on May 20, 2001, some of the track’s key players remember how it all went down.

“I had this track that had a Stevie Nicks’ [1981 hit “Edge of Seventeen”] guitar loop on it,” producer Rob Fusari, who has since worked closely with Lady Gaga, told EW in an interview earlier this year. He said hip-hop group Bell Biv Devoe wanted the song, but he gave it to Destiny’s Child’s manager and Beyoncé’s father, Mathew Knowles, instead.

***

But Mathew Knowles went back and forth with Fusari about the track, debating whether to pull out the Nicks sample, which proved to be a fiscal splurge. “Initially the loop I wanted in the track was from ‘Eye of the Tiger’ which is the same riff,” Fusari said. “I didn’t have the vinyl to handle it, but I did have the Stevie Nicks record. Needless to say, Mathew was adamant about not replacing that loop because I knew it was going to come with a significant sample fee and a copyright that Stevie Nicks would want and sure enough it did. It was 50 percent of everything. He said, ‘The record’s perfect the way it is,’ so I didn’t get to change that. We kind of had a pissing match in terms of what the record needed.”

The sample worked to their advantage when the iconic Fleetwood Mac singer made a cameo in the “Bootylicious” music video, directed by Matthew Rolston. Nicks plays herself in a dressing room, strapped with a glittery guitar and magenta flared pants.

“Putting [Nicks] in the video… I don’t know what better way to put it than it’s woman-centric positioning,” said the album’s mixer Tony Maserati. “It’s super smart.”

Fans and critics agreed when the track hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song went on to sell 485,000 units to date, has been streamed more than 36.7 million times, and had a radio audience of 974 million, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

[michelej1]

[Stevie Scarf in Memory Lane Museum]

http://if.com.au/2016/05/31/article/Aussie-director-snares-Kate-Winslet-and-Kate-Moss-for-new-feature/RGDUBEUBKE.html

Fremont Tribune Patti Jo Peterson Managing editor May 31, 2016

Music is in the air at Memory Lane Museum in Weeping Water as collector Kevin Brack revealed his newest display of song and artists memorabilia in May.

* * *

A new display case features a shawl/scarf worn by former Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks. Carley Simon’s Platinum award for her Greatest Hits album.

[SisterNightroad]

Chris Isaak on collaborative songwriting: ‘Like taking your clothes off in front of strangers’


Q: What made you record most of your new album in Nashville?

A: I’m friends with Stevie Nicks, and she did an album called “24 Karat Gold” that I heard and I thought it really sounded great. She said, “Yeah, Nashville.” I thought, well, you’re Stevie Nicks, you’re a legend, you go wherever you want. But I thought that would be expensive. I should have known better. I’ve played Nashville and been there and had friends there. But I thought of Nashville as only country music. I started looking at the songs I had written and I was wondering, “Are they going to look at me and say this isn’t country enough for us to produce?”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/chris-isaak-on-collaborative-songwriting-like-taking-your-clothes-off-in-front-of-strangers/2016/05/05/39286f0e-0d90-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html

[michelej1]

Top Ten Facts about Frankie on Just Jared

One of our favorite emerging artists has to be Frankie, whose song “New Obsession” has been in our heads for months!

Source: 10 Fun Facts News, Photos, and Videos | Just Jared | http://www.justjared.com/tags/10-fun-facts/?trackback=tsmclip

Visit:Just Jared | Twitter | Facebook

#5 . Stevie Nicks is my ultimate queen. When I was nine I dressed up as her for Halloween and no one my age knew who I was but I didn’t care.

[michelej1]

[excerpt from Constance Zimmer interview]

Backstage By Rebecca Strassberg | Posted June 9, 2016, 11 a.m.

http://www.backstage.com/interview/9-questions-constance-zimmer/

What’s your go-to karaoke song?

“Don’t Stop Believin’ ” by Journey. That one’s really good. Or anything by Stevie Nicks, really, because I can kind of hit the majority of Stevie Nicks’ chords, so I also tend to sing a lot [of her], too.

[Danielle]

Barbra Streisand visited the Winter Garden Theatre and the 'Funny Girl' dressing room and look who's there on the wall next to the orginal Funny Girl:

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http://s25.postimg.org/xpt3cu82n/13458586_1362760920406041_3905139040785880826_o.jpg

Wonder if Babs got a little jealous. :D

[Macfanforever]

Barbra Streisand visited the Winter Garden Theatre and the 'Funny Girl' dressing room and look who's there on the wall next to the orginal Funny Girl:

http://s25.postimg.org/xpt3cu82n/13458586_1362760920406041_3905139040785880826_o.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/xpt3cu82n/13458586_1362760920406041_3905139040785880826_o.jpg

Wonder if Babs got a little jealous. :D

Wow look at the Stevie stuff on the walls. I always enjoyed Barbra Streisand's music and movies.She looked great on the Tony's the other night.

[Danielle]

Sierra Boggess from School Of Rock is a huge Streisand fan. I am too. :D

[Newzchspy]

oh a ohhhh, too much pulling or too much something there........................

That's Barbra???

[michelej1]

oh a ohhhh, too much pulling or too much something there........................

That's Barbra???

I know. Yes, she doesn't look like 74 years old and I guess that's great, if you can get used to looking at a stranger in the mirror.

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

oh a ohhhh, too much pulling or too much something there........................

That's Barbra???

thought the same thing!!!!

[olive]

oh a ohhhh, too much pulling or too much something there........................

That's Barbra???

at first glance i thought it was jocelyn wildenstein

[Newzchspy]

at first glance i thought it was jocelyn wildenstein

Good catch, certainly NOT a timeless beauty like Stevie!! I am soooooo glad that Stevie has taken a much more "conservative" route in her "maintenance" . I have nothing against taking care of oneself, BUT some of these "Jocelyn" type pulls just baffle me. Does the recipient really believe they look good or are they told that after spending $50 K with a surgeon??

Wiki says she's 74 and based on what I am seeing , she looks it! Poor James!!

Now, as to Stevie, a classic, timeless beauty who doesn't need all the tune-ups and just takes good care of herself (and has decent genetics to boot!!)...............

[olive]

Good catch, certainly NOT a timeless beauty like Stevie!! I am soooooo glad that Stevie has taken a much more "conservative" route in her "maintenance" . I have nothing against taking care of oneself, BUT some of these "Jocelyn" type pulls just baffle me. Does the recipient really believe they look good or are they told that after spending $50 K with a surgeon??

Wiki says she's 74 and based on what I am seeing , she looks it! Poor James!!

Now, as to Stevie, a classic, timeless beauty who doesn't need all the tune-ups and just takes good care of herself (and has decent genetics to boot!!)...............


I always have to ask is that Madonna when I see her

[Danielle]

https://s32.postimg.org/sqlc49i5h/Clipboard01hh.png

The demo (https://soundcloud.com/groundctrlstream/touched-by-an-angel-stevie-nicks) is just so beautiful.

[michelej1]

U TV, Ireland

http://utv.ie/Entertainment/2016/06/20/Stevie-Nicks-vs-Kate-Bush-sing-along-a-hit-at-Body-and-Soul-60552

Stevie Nicks vs Kate Bush sing along a hit at Body and Soul

MUSIC 20 JUN 2016 Story by UTV Ireland Staff, Dublin

Sing Along Social with Stevie Nicks vs Kate Bush might just have saved a washed out and mucky Sunday at Body and Soul in Co Westmeath.

With more or less solid rain on Sunday, and after two nights of trampling the ground into a spongy mess of muck, the appetite for leaving the tent was low.

That is, until it was time for the Stevie Nicks vs Kate Bush sing-along showdown.

Sing Along Social, the brainchild of Aoife McElwain, usually takes a single iconic artist like Prince or Madonna and lets people just sing their hearts out along with the tracks.

Crowds slipped and slided through the dense mud to the Woodlands Stage where Wuthering Heights was destined to meet Dreams.

With the words all printed out and passed around, Aoife McElwain led the crowd in singing along to hits like Edge of Seventeen and Babooshka.

The masses were divided by screams for both singers and while Kate Bush got a loud cheer, Stevie Nicks - with a little help from Fleetwood Mac - stole the show.

Vinyl records were awarded to the “most emphatic and ethereal singers” but there wasn’t much encouragement needed.

[michelej1]

Indiana Star David Lindquist, 10:40 a.m. EDT June 21, 2016

[Review of Oreo Jones' album]

http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/06/21/indianapolis-oreo-ballantine-weight-stamps-rad-summer-joyful-noise-fountain-square/85598436/

That's a keeper: Jones fills “Stevie Nicks’ House” with unlimited spectacle associated with the Fleetwood Mac vocalist. During a fictional visit to Nicks', Jones spies a parakeet named Dharma and a pale-pink Miata as well as artwork by Georgia O’Keeffe and Keith Haring.

[Macfan4life]

Today in Stevie history......Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh play the Pittsburgh Civic Arena - Wild Heart tour 1983. My first concert. 33 years ago today.

[BlueDenimLamp]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When played at 45rpm, Bruce Springsteen sounds exactly like Stevie Nicks <a href="https://t.co/QZbMw2rLk9">https://t.co/QZbMw2rLk9</a> <a href="https://t.co/Zj0YRWvhcb">pic.twitter.com/Zj0YRWvhcb</a></p>&mdash; Gigwise (@Gigwise) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gigwise/status/748216497013727232">June 29, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[The Highwayman]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When played at 45rpm, Bruce Springsteen sounds exactly like Stevie Nicks <a href="https://t.co/QZbMw2rLk9">https://t.co/QZbMw2rLk9</a> <a href="https://t.co/Zj0YRWvhcb">pic.twitter.com/Zj0YRWvhcb</a></p>&mdash; Gigwise (@Gigwise) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gigwise/status/748216497013727232">June 29, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That doesn't surprise me. Bruce is just a year younger than her, but he's always been possibly the best rock concert showman around, putting passion and fury in every note he sings and plays.
I *adore* Stevie. But she has slowed down some. But comparing her in concert with Bruce Springsteen isn't entirely fair; it's like comparing a Honda Accord to a Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda. Plus the Boss' vocal range has only dropped a little in the past 30-odd years, so...

They're both awesome, great singers and songwriters both.

[welcomechris]

I don't know if this has been posted yet but watch this

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Dear Jimmy, My name is Rhiannon from the Stevie Nicks song....


and this:

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"Dreams" playing in the background.

[michelej1]

Flashback: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Cover Jimmy Buffet in 1982

Watch surprise three-song reunion of the former romantic couple at the Peace Sunday anti-nuke concert

By Andy Greene July 5, 2016 [excerpt] Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-cover-jimmy-buffet-in-1982-20160705

Approximately 85,000 people flocked to the stadium to see Gil Scott-Heron, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Taj Mahal, Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and many others. Midway through the night, Joan Baez took the stage and played "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" "Warriors of the Sun," John Lennon's "Imagine" and "Diamonds and Rust."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-cover-jimmy-buffet-in-1982-20160705#ixzz4DbiwfJHD
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

[michelej1]

[Movie News Review of the Edge of Seventeen Movie]

Watch: Red band trailer for 'The Edge of Seventeen' will make you cringe like never before

http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news/Watch-Red-band-trailer-for-The-Edge-of-Seventeen-will-make-you-cringe-like-never-before/383108.htm

Surprisingly (and sadly, if we're being honest), this movie starring Hailee Steinfeld is not a biopic of Stevie Nicks but more of a Ronseal situation as Steinfeld plays a high schooler with a very awkward run of things.

Also starring Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, Blake Jenner and Haley Lu Richardson, 'The Edge of Seventeen' documents the serious of awkward and stomach-churningly cringe moments that come to pass in Steinfeld's life. Those include, but are not limited to, her best friend hooking up with her arch-nemesis older brother, a useless mother and an apathetic teacher who literally could not give less of a **** about Steinfeld or any of her crap, which makes this coming-of-age dramedy stand out already.

And the red band trailer doesn't take any prisoners.

[olive]

Ugh... The guy who made this made the equally horrible Gypsy 83

[michelej1]

Glide Magazine July 18, 2016

http://www.glidemagazine.com/video/25-years-ago-today-first-lollapalooza-tour-launches-arizona-watch-rollins-band-perform-obscene-live-91/

25 years ago today (7/18/91), the very first Lollapalooza tour kicked off in Chandler, AZ at the former Compton Terrace (venue owned at the time by Jess and Gene Nicks, the father and uncle of Stevie Nicks) with a lineup that included Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees,Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes, Fishbone and Emergency Broadcast Network. In its initial years the Lollapalooza was one of the U.S.’s premier edgy festivals with a lineup that featured the most creative and interesting of alternative nation artists (. Today the festival has lived on at Chicago’s Grant Park since 2005 as small shade of its former self hosting pop and mainstream alternative bands. Watch the Rollins Band in true primitive form perform “Obscene” from that initial ’91 Lolla tour in Enurnclaw, WA.

[michelej1]

From Female First 23 July 2016

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by David Menon

Read more: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/in-the-shadow-of-the-tower-david-menon-967653.html#ixzz4FD9QI7nc

FIVE - My all time favourite song is 'Sara' written by Stevie Nicks and on the Fleetwood Mac 'Tusk' album.
I've often been asked why I call Stevie 'the voice of my interior world' and for me the answer is easy. Her poetry and melody have connected with my emotions in a much deeper and more profound way than any other artist and I play her stuff at some point every day. I've seen her in concert many times, either on her own or with Fleetwood Mac, and I once flew to Dallas, went to her show that night and then flew back the next day. I did the same in Boston a few years later. At her solo concert in Birmingham in 1989 I was on the second row and I wore a top hat in honour of her song 'Rhiannon'. She came to the edge of the stage, I lunged forward with my hat and she took it off me with a big smile. She then proceeded to wave to the audience with it. I don't think I slept for a week!



Read more: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/in-the-shadow-of-the-tower-david-menon-967653.html#ixzz4FD9HqL7O

[Danielle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3727328/Sheryl-Crow-shines-checkered-frock-celebrates-10-cancer-free-years-BlogHer16Experts-event.html

Sheryl Crow:

"Although she’s given up touring for the time being, she’s currently working on a new album with collaborators Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks and others.
‘It’s been good for me to just be bored and creative, to be present. In the meantime, I’ve made a record with friends, hopefully out in the beginning of next year: Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson…’"

[michelej1]

Sheryl Crow:

"Although she’s given up touring for the time being, she’s currently working on a new album with collaborators Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks and others.
‘It’s been good for me to just be bored and creative, to be present. In the meantime, I’ve made a record with friends, hopefully out in the beginning of next year: Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson…’"

Well, that's interesting news. I had often found myself wondering if Stevie and Sheryl were still friends. This answers that. Michele

[MikeInNV]

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/adele-was-funny-as-hell-in-phoenix-last-night-8558997

Adele compliments Phoenix during her show there: "Well done, Phoenix, for raising Stevie Nicks. Oh, I should have learned a Stevie Nicks song! Oh well, next time."

[michelej1]

From an interview with a staffer at 417 Magazine, Chelsea Warren, September 2016

by Kevin O'Reilly

http://www.417mag.com/417-Magazine/September-2016/Meet-a-Staffer-Chelsea-Warren/

What celebrity would you most like to have coffee and conversation with? Why?

Probably Stevie Nicks. She worked with so many amazing artists, and I’m sure she has some entertaining stories about the music industry in the ’70s and ’80s.

[michelej1]

Celeb Mix by Jonathan Currinn

http://celebmix.com/25-superstar-female-singers-never-uk-number-one-album/

These 25 female singers have never been at the top of the UK Albums Chart

#14

Best known for her time with Fleetwood Mac, she went off and had a successful solo career, but never had a UK number one album. She did get to number three on the chart though, back in 1989 with “The Other Side of the Mirror”

As for singles, she really hasn’t done well at all. The best she’s done was her 2006 collaboration with Deep Dish on song “Dreams” which charted at 14.

She recently announced that she would commit to recording a new Fleetwood Mac album.

[michelej1]

[Radio Milwaukee Interview with Big Thief by Amelinda Burich 9/20/2016]

http://radiomilwaukee.org/discover-music/know-big-thief/


4. If you could collaborate with anyone dead or alive who would you pick?

Leonard Cohen. To me he’s a teacher, a muse. Not necessarily because I think we would write the best song in the world or anything, but just to absorb whatever possible about his being. He’s incredible. He’s so full of grace and humility. He’s made his work for such a long time and been true to it and is still doing it. When I saw him live it was so special, I feel like his poetry and his thinking and ideas go beyond just being a songwriter.

The other person I would want to collaborate with is Stevie Nicks. Her voice…I think she’s my favorite singer.

[SisterNightroad]

John Farnham ‘not sacked’ from Stevie Nicks tour
John Farnham’s manager Glenn Wheatley has denied reports the singer was fired from a double-bill tour with Stevie Nicks in 2006 because he treated the Fleetwood Mac star badly.
AAA - The West Australian on October 14, 2016, 8:56 am


Tour promoter Andrew McManus claimed he fired Farnham and added that Nicks “didn’t know why a support act would treat her so badly”.

However, Wheatley told a Melbourne newspaper that Farnham had “never been sacked in his life”.

“At the risk of turning this into War and Peace ... we weren’t sacked,” Wheatley said.

“All he did was go on stage every night, blow Stevie off the stage, and she couldn’t cope.”

Wheatley said he and Farnham didn’t “even say a word” to Nicks during the tour.

“She was too busy in her coven with black drapes, lit candles, ouija boards and whatever else,” he said.

“We didn’t have the chance to treat her badly. Given the chance, we would have.”



https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/32893418/john-farnham-not-sacked-from-stevie-nicks-tour/

[michelej1]

[Article about Medium Thomas John] Vogue by Kristen Anderson 10/15/2016

http://www.vogue.com/13491376/thomas-john-celebrity-psychic-hollywood-medium/

I’m something of a proud skeptic. I’ll go in for the arcane, the recherché to a degree; I believe in ghosts, I think. My friends who find comfort in healing quartzes, I don’t judge (though I’ve never paid a sidewalk palm reader, either). It’s when someone stands to make a dollar out of the deal that my scoff reflex kicks in. So when I joined a colleague and close friend, Emily Farra, at a brand event this summer proffering an intimate reading with celebrity medium, Thomas John, I was willing, if pretty pessimistic. John counts among his clients Julianne Moore, Jennifer Lopez, Stevie Nicks (a witchy woman if ever there was one), Goldie Hawn, and Courteney Cox. How could I resist?

[michelej1]

[Hands in the Air photographer talks about his fundraising pictures for Rett Syndrome]

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Hands-in-the-air-Photographer-snaps-stars-for-a-9972300.php

He began searching his photo collection for singers raising their arms. From then on, whenever he was shooting photos at a concert, he would wait for performers to raise their arm and capture the moment.

* * *

All of the artists are pictured front and center, facing forward, raising their arms - except one: Stevie Nicks. She has her back to the camera. Her choice.

[Danielle]

[Hands in the Air photographer talks about his fundraising pictures for Rett Syndrome]

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/columnists/hoffman/article/Hands-in-the-air-Photographer-snaps-stars-for-a-9972300.php

He began searching his photo collection for singers raising their arms. From then on, whenever he was shooting photos at a concert, he would wait for performers to raise their arm and capture the moment.

* * *

All of the artists are pictured front and center, facing forward, raising their arms - except one: Stevie Nicks. She has her back to the camera. Her choice.
It says you have to be a subscriber to read the article. Michele, do you know if it includes the picture of Stevie?

[michelej1]

It says you have to be a subscriber to read the article. Michele, do you know if it includes the picture of Stevie?

No, it doesn't include that.

Michele

[Danielle]

No, it doesn't include that.

Michele

Thank you.

[michelej1]

[From an article about a man who worked as Ronald McDonald in the eighties]

Atlas Obscura By Eric Grundhauser OCTOBER 18, 2016

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strangely-glamorous-world-of-a-1980s-ronald-mcdonald

After four years as McDonald’s' official clown, Arem stepped away from the character to pursue other character opportunities, but his time with McDonald’s wasn’t up yet. In 1985, McDonald’s created a character aimed at the adult market, named Mac Tonight. The character was a 1950s- inspired piano crooner, with a crescent moon for a head. The character originated in a series of popular television commercials, and eventually Arem was tapped to appear as Mac in a series of live performances.

Giving him a giant moon-head and costume, Arem as Mac would hop in a vintage car and show up to different events, often hosted by radio personalities. During his brief, month-long tenure as the moon man, Arem got to meet some of his personal heroes after being invited to host a benefit event by rock star Dave Mason. “Roy Orbison was there, Stevie Nicks, both of them performed. Van Halen was there. Plus there were entertainers in the audience. And they asked me to MC it!”

After his stint as Mac Tonight, Arem left McDonald’s behind, but continues to perform as a fitness educator.

[michelej1]

[From an article on Bon Iver]

Loyola Phoenix By Brianna Fenzl|Posted on October 19, 2016 8:57 p.m. CT

http://www.loyolaphoenix.com/2016/10/bon-iver-redefines-indie-folk-sound/

The song “29 #Strafford APTS” mixes Vernon’s natural voice with the Auto-Tuned version of his voice to create an uplifting yet captivating track. The song’s soft, warm melody fills the listener with nostalgia. One surprise on the album is a sample of Stevie Nicks’ voice, taken from a YouTube video, in the background of“10dEAThbRE asT⚄⚄”—Nicks’ voice can be heard singing her song “Wild Heart.” The voice in the song sounds similar to that of the notorious Batman villain, Bane, but Bon Iver has that special touch that makes it enjoyable.

[michelej1]

KMAC

http://wfpl.org/kmacs-sisters-of-the-moon-considers-the-feminine-divine/

KMAC’s ‘Sisters Of The Moon’ Considers The Feminine Divine

By Ashlie Stevens Arts and Culture October 19, 2016


There are certain craft activities that have traditionally been classified as feminine: sewing, weaving, and knitting to name a few.

For this reason, according to Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft curator Joey Yates, female artists who’ve dealt in those forms of expression were often dismissed from contemporary artistic discourse.

But then things began to change.

“Going back to the 70s, a lot of female artists have taken up those practices as a way to reclaim them,” Yates says.

This is a thread that is woven throughout KMAC’s latest exhibition “Sisters of the Moon: Art and the Feminine Dimension.” This is the second exhibition in the museum following a full renovation.

The exhibit — borrowed from the title of a Fleetwood Mac song — features artists who investigate ideas related to mysticism and mythology, illuminating the creative spaces where female identity, artistic practice and spirituality converge.

Rooted in the ancient belief that women more fully embody the generative forces of nature — possessing a greater connection to the surrounding environment — this exhibition explores the poetics of nature and the feminine divine.

Though, according to Yates, similar to the way in which “feminine” craft techniques are often dismissed, the concept of divine feminine energy is overlooked.

“There is kind of a feminine divine that most of us don’t necessarily operate in or perhaps haven’t given much thought to because we all accept certain kinds of spiritual practices,” Yates says.

There are 16 artists represented in “Sisters of the Moon,” who work in diverse media including painting, drawing, collage, video, photography, ceramics and installation.

Yates says within the group, there are artists who look more directly at “the ancient idea of the feminine divine,” like Elizabeth Insogna who deals with reinterpreting classic mythology. Then there are artists like Saya Woolfalk and Chitra Ganesh, who look at a futuristic aspect of women’s power and magic.

“Whenever you curate a group show, you’re putting artists in conversation with one another who haven’t been in conversation before,” Yates says. “So that’s kind of a good bookend — most things fit between that spectrum.”

“Sisters of the Moon” will be on display until January 2017. The exhibition will feature an event series corresponding with the full and new moons. More information is available here.

[BlueDenimLamp]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So many things come from attending <a href="https://twitter.com/NYRP">@NYRP</a>'s Hulaween 2016 including <a href="https://twitter.com/BetteMidler">@BetteMidler</a> &amp; a greener NYC! Buy tickets here: <a href="https://t.co/dmr88saH7c">https://t.co/dmr88saH7c</a> <a href="https://t.co/soaq14wDYH">pic.twitter.com/soaq14wDYH</a></p>&mdash; Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) <a href="https://twitter.com/StevieNicks/status/792123352026578944">October 28, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[SisterNightroad]

She's lightening up! Jessica Alba thanks celebrity colourist Robert Ramos for her 'more natural' new honey brown tresses

Aside from Jessica, the Emmy nominated stylist has a celebrity client list that includes Bette Midler, Melissa McCarthy, Nick Jonas, Eva Mendes, Katey Sagal, George Lopez, Rachel McAdams, Stevie Nicks and Annie Lennox, according to his website.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3911024/Jessica-Alba-thanks-celebrity-colourist-Robert-Ramos-natural-new-honey-brown-tresses.html#ixzz4PJohulWj
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[michelej1]

[From a Huffington Post fashion article. There's a picture of Stevie in her velvet jacket]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/11/08/velvet-fashion-trend_n_12849158.html

The Huffington Post Canada | By Anne T. Donahue 11/08/2016 3

While velvet has been consistently present since its inception centuries back, its association beyond the glamour spectrum has been relatively recent. The '80s and '90s ushered in the fabric as the uniform of the cultural underground (although the '80s also saw crushed velvet attached to mainstream uniforms), but the '70s saw the likes of Stevie Nicks and Jerry Hall cloak themselves in dark shades to evoke the drama of the Victorian era. Which, thanks to the '90s resurgence -- which was originally a '70s resurgence, FYI — is where we’re at now.

[SisterNightroad]

Clay Paky Mythos, grandMA2 Hit Road On Stevie Nicks's Solo Tour

Stevie Nicks has gone solo for the "24 Karat Gold Tour" playing more than two dozen arena dates in North America before the end of the year. Production designer Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc. in Minneapolis chose 88 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures for the lighting rig and a grandMA2 console for show control. He previously deployed Mythos on tours for Miranda Lambert and Macklemore.

Nicks's latest tour, in support of her album, "24 Karat Gold - Songs from the Vault," launched in Phoenix and will wrap in Los Angeles. While the iconic singer/songwriter appears as a solo artist, she tapped the Pretenders to open for her - delivering a powerhouse show for ticketholders.

A veteran of Nicks's tours, Guthrie endeavored to "create something new and a bit more modern" for her new show. "Stevie enjoys using video content so the tour features a lot of video on an LED videowall backdrop and L-shaped scenic pieces," he explains. "Our overwhelming lighting edict is always no smoke. So we defer to lighting the band and adding in layers of light to create new looks."

The versatility of Mythos offers myriad options to Guthrie. "It's fun to have one light that can produce a multitude of different effects in the same head," he says. "Mythos is basically the workhorse light in the rig." He notes that the tour's complement of 100-120 moving lights "is now considered a medium-size rig for an arena tour. It used to be that 16 were considered to be a lot! We've come a long way." PRG's Las Vegas office supplied the fixtures.

Eighty Mythos are mounted in the overhead lighting trusses where they form "solid lines of Mythos," Guthrie reports. "On the downstage and mid-stage trusses they provide stage wash and beam effects. Those on the most upstage of the trusses, upstage of the videowall, create layers to add depth."

Eight more Mythos are positioned on the floor upstage of the band "to set fire" to their dynamic performance.

Tom Wagstaff, the lighting director for the Pretenders deploys about 60 Mythos, on the downstage and mid-stage trusses, and repositions the complement on the floor, says Guthrie.

Two grandMA2 full-size consoles, one active and one back up, and two NPUs are on hand to "literally run everything that's moving and changing on stage that's not the actual band," he notes. "We control all the lights, the video, the hoists and the scenic movement from the board."

Guthrie and Chris Lose jointly programmed the show. "I had the show file from Stevie's last solo tour and Chris had the show file from the last Fleetwood Mac tour he did. So we combined them to start then built out the file over two weeks of rehearsals at Sony in LA."

Guthrie likes the grandMA2 for its "reliability and feature set. I'm extremely fortunate to work with a lot of very clever MA users so I'm constantly learning new tricks," he adds.

"The ability for Chris and me to be on the board and programming was a huge advantage. In a lot of rehearsals I was making adjustments to the file as he was running the show. I could program content while he programmed lights. That's a massive advantage."

A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive North American distributor of both Clay Paky fixtures and MA Lighting products.

For the "24 Karat Gold Tour" Thomas Mayer is the lighting crew chief and Cecil Nelson, Matt Schiller and Scott Naef are the lighting crew.

About A.C.T Lighting
A leading importer and distributor of lighting products, A.C.T Lighting, Inc. strives to identify future trends and cutting-edge products, and stock, sell and support their inventory. The company provides superior customer service and value for money to all of its clients.

For more information, visit www.actlighting.com.



http://livedesignonline.com/briefing-room/clay-paky-mythos-grandma2-hit-road-stevie-nickss-solo-tour

[michelej1]

Stylecaster

https://stylecaster.com/kindness-quotes/

21 Kindness Quotes to Inspire You to Be a Better Human

byCHRISTINA GRASSO 11/15/2016

13. “Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn’t how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.”―Stevie Nicks

[michelej1]

Elle Australia 11/17/2016

http://www.elle.com.au/culture/elle-interview/2016/11/lizzy-abegg-and-isabella-pennefather-spell-and-the-gypsy-collective/

We sat down with the Byron Bay-based sister duo to talk inspiration, Stevie Nicks, and what's next for the brand (hint: we're getting another store).

Describe Spell in three words.

Lizzy: Beautiful, feminine and soft.
Isabella: Free-spirited, flowing and colourful.

Who are the ultimate Spell women?

L: I saw Blake Lively wearing Spell the other day, she had just stepped out after having a baby and it was so lovely to see her looking so feminine and beautiful. I think Spell is something women can wear when they want to feel beautiful. One of our muses, especially Isabella's, is Stevie Nicks: a '70s goddess who's well-travelled, free-spirited and still feminine.

I: Really any travellers, gypsetters who frolick around beautiful places feeling free, brave and colourful.

[SisterNightroad]

45 Non-Cheesy Quotes on Body Image

32. “I look at these pictures and realize I worried about things that I shouldn’t have been worrying about. I wouldn’t go out to the beach without a sarong from my neck to my ankles. Now I see a picture of myself from that era in a bikini and I’m like, ‘You looked great. And you missed out on a lot of fun vacations because you were so sure that you were fat.’” –Stevie Nicks


Read more: http://stylecaster.com/body-image-quotes/#ixzz4QfK3Kvnc

[SisterNightroad]

Chrissie Hynde Talks About the All-Star Ensemble That Contributes to the Pretenders' New Album


Hynde says she doesn’t necessarily get a thrill out of playing to a hometown crowd in Akron, but she’s excited generally at how the current tour, which finds her playing arenas with Stevie Nicks and then headlining smaller theaters on her own, has worked out.

“You know, I feel the same wherever I play,” she says. “We’re on stage and in the band doing what we do. I get off within the band experience and hope everyone else likes it. In the past, I felt like hometown gigs are ones where you’re observed by people who know you. That makes it feel like more pressure. I don’t feel that anymore. I do the show and hope we do a good show. It’s good to see friends, but we have to drive to the next gig. Stevie takes time off, but we do on our own shows on the days off, and it’s fantastic. With her, it’s a different experience. I don’t like being in big places, but the arenas are very personable. I really enjoy those shows. And we can do our own shows. It’s the perfect tour.

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/11/21/chrissie-hynde-talks-about-the-all-star-ensemble-that-contributes-to-the-pretenders-new-album

[Danielle]

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2016/11/stevie-nicks-shawls-photos

The rock ’n’ roll goddess is currently on a two-month tour in the United States and Canada, and while her music leads the way, it wouldn’t be a Stevie Nicks show without a swirling shawl to complete her onstage ensemble. Take a look at her inimitable mantles through the years.

[SisterNightroad]

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2016/11/stevie-nicks-shawls-photos

The rock ’n’ roll goddess is currently on a two-month tour in the United States and Canada, and while her music leads the way, it wouldn’t be a Stevie Nicks show without a swirling shawl to complete her onstage ensemble. Take a look at her inimitable mantles through the years.
Nice, but it's quite apparent that some of those aren't shawls but sleeves.

[SisterNightroad]

Lovely edit I found on tumblr (Leather and Lace for Inuyasha):

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[SisterNightroad]

FROM THE '70S TO TODAY: THE EVOLUTION OF STEVIE NICKS' INCREDIBLE ROCK 'N' ROLL HAIR

The 68-year-old rock 'n' roll legend Stevie Nicks is currently on tour again, making a stop at Madison Square Garden tonight. She's been a presence on the stage since the early '70s, when she was the lead singer and only female member of Fleetwood Mac. In 1981, she began her successful solo career, and has since become not only a musical icon, but also a fashion and beauty inspiration, with her free-flowing shawls, amazing '80s curly bangs, and overall empowering aura. In short, Stevie Nicks goes her own way. Here, a closer look at her unrivaled rock 'n' roll hairstyles through the years.

http://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/from-the-70s-to-today-the-evolution-of-stevie-nicks-incredible-rock-n-roll-hair

[Danielle]

FROM THE '70S TO TODAY: THE EVOLUTION OF STEVIE NICKS' INCREDIBLE ROCK 'N' ROLL HAIR

The 68-year-old rock 'n' roll legend Stevie Nicks is currently on tour again, making a stop at Madison Square Garden tonight. She's been a presence on the stage since the early '70s, when she was the lead singer and only female member of Fleetwood Mac. In 1981, she began her successful solo career, and has since become not only a musical icon, but also a fashion and beauty inspiration, with her free-flowing shawls, amazing '80s curly bangs, and overall empowering aura. In short, Stevie Nicks goes her own way. Here, a closer look at her unrivaled rock 'n' roll hairstyles through the years.

http://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/from-the-70s-to-today-the-evolution-of-stevie-nicks-incredible-rock-n-roll-hair
What? :shrug:

[SisterNightroad]

What? :shrug:
Apparently Chris is a man for them? Not to mention they got most of the dates wrong, and it should be easy to figure it out since the first picture they labeled 1975 is exactly the same hairstyle that they later labeled 1979-80.

[SisterNightroad]

Anticipating the Music: from a Stevie Nicks Concert to Friday Night Vespers

"Oh, Vera, I can't wait to hear that Overture, Tell me about the show!" - Auntie Mame Dennis, Jerry Herman's Mame

A din falls over the audience. A single note pierces the silent din, the overtones sparkling in a pure array of simple fireworks. The spirit of music rises in the air, melting hate and violence in a since millisecond, inspiring the average human to continue their trek towards Arcadia.

Music, stripped of its message, is but black dots on a page. The most beautiful song can be rendered meaningless by a subpar presentation, which is why most musicians are incessant perfectionists. To be a musician is to honor the only mystical force that man can tame.

I'm in the unique situation this weekend to experience two completely different musical experiences in two days. Tonight, I will be singing as part of a Friday Night Vespers prayer service at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Lisle, IL. Tomorrow, I will be hoisting myself off to The Grand Bastion of The Chicago Blackhawks, The United Center, to hear Stevie Nicks perform with The Pretenders. And Sunday, as always, I will be heading back to JoA to sing my regular Sunday service.

I have been lucky, in my life, to hear some of the most glorious music known to Man and God alike. Though I adore simply laying back and experiencing the music in any form, nothing beats rolling your sleeves up and doing it yourself.

For those of you that have never attended a Catholic Vespers service, especially during Advent, you are depriving yourself of an experience akin to achieving total nirvana. The lights are dimmed, the incense flows like wisps of silky sinew, and the music rises in the air like wind. I often find myself, an extremely dedicated and concentrated musician, becoming lost in the peace of the moment. Even Jazz Musician Duke Ellington mused on the mystic air of sacred music: "On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine."

A stadium concert, on the other hand, is like a Feast of Dionysus. Alcohol is drunk to excess, emotions are high, and the spectators are encouraged to free their inhibitions and "shout, shout, let it all out!" I, an often calculating and reserved human being, find myself getting swept up in the feverish glee of a concert where every person is there to worship an icon.

This afternoon the juxtaposition of these two experiences on back-to-back days struck me as comedic. But, after dwelling on the finer points of each, I realized that they are two sides of the same coin. The notes on the page are all the same, quarter notes, half notes, and rests alike. But, when you place each in its proper context, you see that, while they are incredibly different, they are both sacrifices to the altar of music. Though we won't necessarily adore every piece we hear, we recognize that it all stems from the same root. Ellington, once again, sums it up perfectly: "There are two kinds of music: Good music, and the other kind."

So I ask you, my friends, to look at the music that populates your life and assess the role it plays in your daily existence. Switch off the Top 40 station and roll up your shirt sleeves, discovering new music like a thirsty man lunging at a stream of the purest water. Define what you enjoy, why you enjoy it, and what you can do to further your understanding of the role of music in your day-to-day life.

Whether it's a sung psalm...or Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen"...the role music plays in our lives is inimitable and irreplaceable.

And remember, to quote ol' Duke for one final nugget of wisdom, "The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."



http://www.chicagonow.com/intellectual-chicago-suburbs/2016/12/anticipating-the-music-from-a-stevie-nicks-concert-to-friday-night-vespers/

[SisterNightroad]

Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine documentary series The Defiant Ones coming to HBO

Hip-hop moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are one of music’s most successful yet unlikely tandems. HBO is telling their story with a huge documentary event.

The cable network announced The Defiant Ones, a four-part documentary from director Allen Hughes (Menace II Society) on the longtime business relationship between Dre and Iovine. The series will follow Iovine, “the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman,” and Dre, who came “straight out of Compton,” through their solo careers and their partnership, which led to founding Aftermath Records, finding Eminem, and creating the instantly recognizable Beats Electronics brand.

Hughes filmed the pair over a three-year period and also interviewed Bono, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Ice Cube, and more. Unearthed footage of old recording sessions from their early years — including moments with Springsteen, N.W.A, Eazy-E, and Stevie Nicks — will also appear in the documentary.



http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/08/hbo-dr-dre-jimmy-iovine-documentary-defiant-ones

[michelej1]

[I wonder what the caller was angry about. Was it because he called Stevie "former" lead FM singer]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/newsletter/os-newtix-roundup-1209-20161206-story.html

Orlando Sentinel, by Bryan Ferry, December 8, 2016

Turning now to a Stevie, Ms. Nicks is swinging back through Florida just like a white winged dove might. When I wrote about the former lead vocalist for Fleetwood Mac coming to Tampa back in November, I got a very angry call, so I'm going to stick to bare facts this time. Stephanie Lynn Nicks was born in Phoenix in 1948, sang "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty and once said that "rock and menopause do not mix." Stevie's 24 Karat Gold Tour swings into Orlando's Amway Center on March 21. Tickets are $46-$146.50, on sale Monday, Dec. 12. Details: ticketmaster.org

[SisterNightroad]

Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood Were Born to Sing 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around' Together: Watch

As they wind down their Australian dates on the Ripcord World Tour, Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood gave fans a treat on Saturday at the GIO Stadium in Canberra, revisiting their duet on the 1981 Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks hit "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." They played the song together earlier this year on the American Idol finale in April and have performed it a few other times on TV. Both are headed home for the holidays after the tour, which wraps with a pair of shows in Brisbane on Dec. 16-17.

Urban is booked to play the Jack Daniel's Music City Midnight: New Year's Eve show in his native Nashville alongside Styx, Moon Taxi, A Thousand Horses, Charlie Worsham and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Check out the duet:

<iframe width="620" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fkswWJfEjJw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>



http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/7624468/keith-urban-carrie-underwood-stop-draggin-my-heart-around-australia

[SisterNightroad]

Claypaky Mythos Hits the Road with Stevie Nicks’s New Solo Tour

http://www.etnow.com/images/general/news/large/74111378_0614.jpg

USA – Stevie Nicks has gone solo for the “24 Karat Gold Tour” playing more than two dozen arena dates in North America before the end of the year. Production designer Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc. in Minneapolis chose 88 ClayPaky Mythos fixtures for the lighting rig. He previously deployed Mythos on tours for Miranda Lambert and Macklemore.
Nicks’s latest tour, in support of her album, “24 Karat Gold – Songs from the Vault,” launched in Phoenix and will wrap up in Los Angeles. While the iconic singer/songwriter appears as a solo artist, she tapped the Pretenders to open for her, delivering a powerhouse show for ticket holders.
A veteran of Nicks’s tours, Guthrie endeavoured to “create something new and a bit more modern” for her new show. “Stevie enjoys using video content so the tour features a lot of video on an LED videowall backdrop and L-shaped scenic pieces,” he explains. “Our overwhelming lighting edict is always no smoke. So we defer to lighting the band and adding in layers of light to create new looks.”
The versatility of Mythos offers myriad options to Guthrie. “It’s fun to have one light that can produce a multitude of different effects in the same head,” he says. “Mythos is basically the workhorse light in the rig.” He notes that the tour’s complement of 100-120 moving lights “is now considered a medium-size rig for an arena tour. It used to be that 16 were considered to be a lot! We’ve come a long way.” PRG’s Las Vegas office supplied the fixtures.
Eighty Mythos are mounted in the overhead lighting trusses where they form “solid lines of Mythos,” Guthrie reports. “On the downstage and mid-stage trusses they provide stage wash and beam effects. Those on the most upstage of the trusses, upstage of the videowall, create layers to add depth.”
Eight more Mythos are positioned on the floor upstage of the band “to set fire” to their dynamic performance.
Tom Wagstaff, the lighting director for the Pretenders deploys about 60 Mythos, on the downstage and mid-stage trusses, and repositions the complement on the floor, says Guthrie.
For the “24 Karat Gold Tour” Thomas Mayer is the lighting crew chief and Cecil Nelson, Matt Schiller and Scott Naef are the lighting crew.
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive North American distributor for Clay Paky.
Francesco Romagnoli, Clay Paky area manager for North and Latin America, added: “Mr. Guthrie always does great work and is trusted to work with great artists. It’s always a please to collaborate with him.”



http://www.etnow.com/news/2016/12/claypaky-mythos-hits-the-road-with-stevie-nickss-new-solo-tour

[bombaysaffires]

Benmont Tench on Twitter on Dec 25:

tried singing "if you were mike love" to the tune of stevie nicks' "if you were my love" but it didn't have the same effect


:laugh:

[MikeInNV]

An excerpt from a lengthy article about what we don't understand about "being offended."

People can be offended by anything -- it just takes having a personal experience. Let's say, hypothetically, you were beaten up by a badly jaundiced bodybuilder when you were a child. You're probably not gonna like that scene at the end of The Avengers where the Hulk rearranges Tony Stark's tiling with Loki's face. That's such an arbitrary and unique experience that there's no way to count it against the film's creators. Unless, hypothetically still, jaundice is a serious problem in your community? And roid rage? And somehow those problems are linked -- let's say by Gypsy magic? Then you could say that it was irresponsible to include that scene, because it's normalizing the well-documented societal ill of jaundiced Gypsy roid rage. Also, sorry for saying "Gypsy" so much. Hopefully I didn't offend any Gypsies or Stevie Nicks

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-everyone-gets-wrong-about-being-offended/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=SR&utm_campaign=SR&sr_source=lift_facebook

[SisterNightroad]

Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine documentary series The Defiant Ones coming to HBO

Hip-hop moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are one of music’s most successful yet unlikely tandems. HBO is telling their story with a huge documentary event.

The cable network announced The Defiant Ones, a four-part documentary from director Allen Hughes (Menace II Society) on the longtime business relationship between Dre and Iovine. The series will follow Iovine, “the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman,” and Dre, who came “straight out of Compton,” through their solo careers and their partnership, which led to founding Aftermath Records, finding Eminem, and creating the instantly recognizable Beats Electronics brand.

Hughes filmed the pair over a three-year period and also interviewed Bono, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Ice Cube, and more. Unearthed footage of old recording sessions from their early years — including moments with Springsteen, N.W.A, Eazy-E, and Stevie Nicks — will also appear in the documentary.



http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/08/hbo-dr-dre-jimmy-iovine-documentary-defiant-ones

It seems Stevie will appear also in an interview in the documentary:

HBO documentary tracks bond between Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine

PASADENA, Calif. — The Defiant Ones focuses on an unlikely relationship between two of the most influential people in popular culture.

The four-part HBO documentary, which premieres this spring, looks at the bond between two entertainment icons: rapper and producer Dr. Dre, a Compton native known for N.W.A. and Death Row Records, and music mega-producer Jimmy Iovine, son of a Brooklyn longshoreman. The pair founded the multi-billion-dollar entertainment entity, Beats Electronics.

Defiant follows their paths through recording studios, giant mansions, corporate boardrooms and even criminal courts.

"It's about the relationship of a white guy and a black guy who both grew up in racially charged areas. There was something about it and we just hit it off," Iovine told television critics Saturday (Dre wasn't present for the panel.). The pair dealt with "some pretty tough times and some pretty dangerous times (and) some circumstances that were never in entertainment before. We got through it."

What to expect from your favorite TV shows this season
He hopes the relationship between two very different people can provide an example in "a country in this moment that is so screwed up in this area. We stayed together under some of the most difficult circumstances you have."

Iovine, who has produced John Lennon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and U2, says he was taken by Dre's brilliance immediately.

"The day I met Dre and saw what he does and heard what he does, he couldn’t shake me with a stick," says Iovine, who then related some advice he had received: "If you bump into a genius on a beach, never let him go."

As for the Beats partnership, Iovine said the two wanted to make headphones that sounded great and looked cool. "All the headphones at that time looked like medical equipment."

The Allen Hughes-directed documentary, which was filmed over three years, features interviews with a hall of fame of music stars and moguls, including Bono, David Geffen, Eminem, Nas, Ice Cube, Gwen Stefani, Jon Landau, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen and will.i.am.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/01/14/hbo-documentary-tracks-bond-between-dr-dre-jimmy-iovine/96585588/

[FuzzyPlum]

What shall I wear to Donald Trump’s inauguration if ‘all the dress shops are sold out’?
The Guardian online
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/jan/16/donald-trump-inauguration-fashion-advice


I’m going to the inauguration in DC this week. What should I wear?
Rose, by email


Will Melania Trump copy Stevie Nicks’s look for the Trump inauguration?

Something waterproof, obviously. What? I was referring to DC’s famously poor winter weather. Look what happened to William Henry Harrison when he didn’t wear weather-appropriate clothes at his inauguration – the man died nine days later! So honestly, I was just thinking about everyone’s good health and in no way making some cheap reference to #watersportsgate (the only -gate this column accepts).

So! You’re going to the inauguration, Rose. Well, I don’t think you’ll have trouble getting a seat, put it that way. Despite a lifetime of desperation to be near celebrities, a desperation that has resulted in him appearing in such classy fare as Home Alone 2 and being a guest at QVC’s Oscars party in 2011 alongside Kim Kardashian, Trump is now insisting, from his gold-plated Manhattan penthouse, that he doesn’t care about those elites.

“The so-called ‘A’ list celebrities are all wanting tickets to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!” he tweeted last month, sounding adorably like a seven-year-old who didn’t actually want any of those people he begged to come to his birthday party to turn up. He totally planned all along to celebrate with two teddy bears, a set of Lego and his mother.

And, indeed, Trump proceeded to prove how little he cares about these A-listers by tweeting about how many more people watched him on The Celebrity Apprentice compared with its new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Keeping it real for the PEOPLE there.

Anyway, the team around Trump continues to use language in a way that the pigs in Animal Farm can only admire. The head of his inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, said last week that they don’t need any celebrities because “we have the greatest celebrity in the world … ”

“Which is the president-elect.” Oh. “So what we’ve done, instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers, is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place. It’s a much more poetic cadence than having a circus-like celebration that’s a coronation.”

Wait. You’re going to have to run that by me again: “We are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place.”

I’m sorry, have you ever been to DC? I have, many times, and let me tell you, of all the adjectives that come to mind when I think of the place (“clean”, “white”, “clean”), “soft sensuality” does not appear very high in the list. In fact, I genuinely don’t think anyone has sex in that city (too dirty, too little possibility of politics chat.) So the tactic seems to be, instead of surrounding Trump with people, he will instead be surrounded by air, which is totally what I’m going to say to waiters when they give me grief about dining on my own.

“What, you’re eating by yourself?”

“Instead of trying to surround myself with what people consider to be other people I’ve decided to surround myself with the soft sensuality of the restaurant. Can’t you see the poetic cadence?”

Anyway! There is, amazingly, a point to all this, and that is to suggest you try to match this mood board by looking for clothes that convey soft sensuality and poetic cadences. I’m seeing a very Stevie Nicks look here, all flowing sleeves and sheer materials. Honestly, I can’t think of a better look to celebrate this incoming administration than one associated with a band known for self-destruction and in-fighting.

But you must sort your look out fast, Rose, because Trump has said that his inauguration is going to be so popular that “all the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It’s hard to find a great dress for this inauguration.” Now, you’ll never believe this, but some DC stores have cast doubt on this claim (“We have a wonderful assortment of dresses and gowns,” Bloomingdale’s, a US department store with two locations in DC, has said), but doubtless that is just fake news from the elites, or something something word salad something.

The person who really needs to get a move on is Melania Trump. Some Trump supporters have criticised those designers, such as Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, who have said they won’t give clothes to her. I must have missed the part in the constitution where it says fashion designers are obliged to give free clothes to the president’s wife, even if she is married to a man who appoints a raging homophobe as his VP, a man who objects to everything about these designers’ lives.

But never mind Marc and Tom, I honestly reckon a bit of Stevie Nicks fringing would suit Melania a treat. A little dancing across the stage, waving her shawl and shouting in Don’s face: “You can go your own way.”

For once, I think Melania would be speaking for Republicans and Democrats alike. Roll on, bipartisanship!

[Steviegirl]

It seems Stevie will appear also in an interview in the documentary:

HBO documentary tracks bond between Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine

PASADENA, Calif. — The Defiant Ones focuses on an unlikely relationship between two of the most influential people in popular culture.

The four-part HBO documentary, which premieres this spring, looks at the bond between two entertainment icons: rapper and producer Dr. Dre, a Compton native known for N.W.A. and Death Row Records, and music mega-producer Jimmy Iovine, son of a Brooklyn longshoreman. The pair founded the multi-billion-dollar entertainment entity, Beats Electronics.

Defiant follows their paths through recording studios, giant mansions, corporate boardrooms and even criminal courts.

"It's about the relationship of a white guy and a black guy who both grew up in racially charged areas. There was something about it and we just hit it off," Iovine told television critics Saturday (Dre wasn't present for the panel.). The pair dealt with "some pretty tough times and some pretty dangerous times (and) some circumstances that were never in entertainment before. We got through it."

What to expect from your favorite TV shows this season
He hopes the relationship between two very different people can provide an example in "a country in this moment that is so screwed up in this area. We stayed together under some of the most difficult circumstances you have."

Iovine, who has produced John Lennon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and U2, says he was taken by Dre's brilliance immediately.

"The day I met Dre and saw what he does and heard what he does, he couldn’t shake me with a stick," says Iovine, who then related some advice he had received: "If you bump into a genius on a beach, never let him go."

As for the Beats partnership, Iovine said the two wanted to make headphones that sounded great and looked cool. "All the headphones at that time looked like medical equipment."

The Allen Hughes-directed documentary, which was filmed over three years, features interviews with a hall of fame of music stars and moguls, including Bono, David Geffen, Eminem, Nas, Ice Cube, Gwen Stefani, Jon Landau, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen and will.i.am.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/01/14/hbo-documentary-tracks-bond-between-dr-dre-jimmy-iovine/96585588/

Squee! Finally, HBO releases a decent program about music after that inane and utterly unwatchable Vinyl. So excited to see this!

[lilyfee]

What shall I wear to Donald Trump’s inauguration if ‘all the dress shops are sold out’?
The Guardian online
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/jan/16/donald-trump-inauguration-fashion-advice


I’m going to the inauguration in DC this week. What should I wear?
Rose, by email


Will Melania Trump copy Stevie Nicks’s look for the Trump inauguration?

Something waterproof, obviously. What? I was referring to DC’s famously poor winter weather. Look what happened to William Henry Harrison when he didn’t wear weather-appropriate clothes at his inauguration – the man died nine days later! So honestly, I was just thinking about everyone’s good health and in no way making some cheap reference to #watersportsgate (the only -gate this column accepts).

So! You’re going to the inauguration, Rose. Well, I don’t think you’ll have trouble getting a seat, put it that way. Despite a lifetime of desperation to be near celebrities, a desperation that has resulted in him appearing in such classy fare as Home Alone 2 and being a guest at QVC’s Oscars party in 2011 alongside Kim Kardashian, Trump is now insisting, from his gold-plated Manhattan penthouse, that he doesn’t care about those elites.

“The so-called ‘A’ list celebrities are all wanting tickets to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!” he tweeted last month, sounding adorably like a seven-year-old who didn’t actually want any of those people he begged to come to his birthday party to turn up. He totally planned all along to celebrate with two teddy bears, a set of Lego and his mother.

And, indeed, Trump proceeded to prove how little he cares about these A-listers by tweeting about how many more people watched him on The Celebrity Apprentice compared with its new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Keeping it real for the PEOPLE there.

Anyway, the team around Trump continues to use language in a way that the pigs in Animal Farm can only admire. The head of his inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, said last week that they don’t need any celebrities because “we have the greatest celebrity in the world … ”

“Which is the president-elect.” Oh. “So what we’ve done, instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers, is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place. It’s a much more poetic cadence than having a circus-like celebration that’s a coronation.”

Wait. You’re going to have to run that by me again: “We are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place.”

I’m sorry, have you ever been to DC? I have, many times, and let me tell you, of all the adjectives that come to mind when I think of the place (“clean”, “white”, “clean”), “soft sensuality” does not appear very high in the list. In fact, I genuinely don’t think anyone has sex in that city (too dirty, too little possibility of politics chat.) So the tactic seems to be, instead of surrounding Trump with people, he will instead be surrounded by air, which is totally what I’m going to say to waiters when they give me grief about dining on my own.

“What, you’re eating by yourself?”

“Instead of trying to surround myself with what people consider to be other people I’ve decided to surround myself with the soft sensuality of the restaurant. Can’t you see the poetic cadence?”

Anyway! There is, amazingly, a point to all this, and that is to suggest you try to match this mood board by looking for clothes that convey soft sensuality and poetic cadences. I’m seeing a very Stevie Nicks look here, all flowing sleeves and sheer materials. Honestly, I can’t think of a better look to celebrate this incoming administration than one associated with a band known for self-destruction and in-fighting.

But you must sort your look out fast, Rose, because Trump has said that his inauguration is going to be so popular that “all the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It’s hard to find a great dress for this inauguration.” Now, you’ll never believe this, but some DC stores have cast doubt on this claim (“We have a wonderful assortment of dresses and gowns,” Bloomingdale’s, a US department store with two locations in DC, has said), but doubtless that is just fake news from the elites, or something something word salad something.

The person who really needs to get a move on is Melania Trump. Some Trump supporters have criticised those designers, such as Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, who have said they won’t give clothes to her. I must have missed the part in the constitution where it says fashion designers are obliged to give free clothes to the president’s wife, even if she is married to a man who appoints a raging homophobe as his VP, a man who objects to everything about these designers’ lives.

But never mind Marc and Tom, I honestly reckon a bit of Stevie Nicks fringing would suit Melania a treat. A little dancing across the stage, waving her shawl and shouting in Don’s face: “You can go your own way.”

For once, I think Melania would be speaking for Republicans and Democrats alike. Roll on, bipartisanship!

This is such an odd article. While it mentions Stevie's style throughout, I don't understand why they bring her into it at all.:shrug:

[SisterNightroad]

Photo Flash: Natalie Douglas Honors MLK Day with 'STEVIE SONGS' at Birdland

The Broadway at Birdland concert series welcomed singer Natalie Douglas, who returned to her musical home on Monday, January 16 with "Stevie Songs: The Music of Stevie Nicks & Stevie Wonder," in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

The concert celebrated the artistry, vision & enduring brilliance of two towering musical influences, Stevie Nicks and Stevie Wonder. Natalie, her musical director Brian Nash & her band turned attention to Nicks' compositions including "Gold Dust Woman," "Rhiannon," & "Leather & Lace," in addition to songs penned by Stevie Wonder such as "You Haven't Done Nothing" "All in Love is Fair" and, "Higher Ground."

The Broadway at Birdland concert series takes place every week on the stage of the historic music room, located at 315 West 44 Street, in the heart of New York's theater district.



http://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/Photo-Flash-Natalie-Douglas-Honors-MLK-Day-with-STEVIE-SONGS-at-Birdland-20170119

[michelej1]

[From an article about Elle Fanning]

Ottawa Citizen BOB THOMPSON 01.13.2017

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/elle+fanning+plays+dark+damaged+affleck+crime/12702735/story.html

And yes, she does have a dream project. “I would love to play Stevie Nicks in a movie,” she says of the Fleetwood Mac pop singer and songwriter. “She’s the coolest lady and I really like her music.”

[bombaysaffires]

Just finished reading Andy Summers' memoir (guitarist for The Police) and writes about when they were starting to get really famous:

"We play at he LA Sports Arena and before the show we hoover up some of Bolivia's finest and play a tight fast set brimming with powdered energy. Stevie Nicks stands at the side of the stage and watches the whole show. As I come offstage I get a note from her asking me to meet her later at the Rainbow, a sleazy rock joint on the Strip that everyone fights to get into-- unless you are a celeb, in which case you walk in with a cool swagger, superior and more important than the proles who hang around outside. LA, Hollywood-- it suddenly seems like a sewer and I miss New York."

Hmmm.... sure sounds like a hook-up to me.... wonder which song he inspired....:shrug:


He goes on to say that "Cocaine use rages like a white blizzard, and to avoid it, you would need a Band-Aid over your mouth and nose. Wherever we are now, drug dealers leap like genies from the wallpaper. We have power now, fame; and like a magnet, it suck in everyone from celebrities to pushers, all hoping to rub up against the illusion." Imagine then Stevie being surrounded by all this attention and sucking-up from everyone around her as a solo artist rather than just as a member of FM. The band at least had a few people like John Courage who kept an eye one who was around the band and acted as a gate-keeper to weed out some of the hangers-on. Solo, because she was the boss, I don't think she controlled things so much or tolerated being told what to do.

[SisterNightroad]

Fraudster Uses Westlake Man's Identity to Buy $1,100 Worth of Stevie Nicks Tickets

WESTLAKE, OH - A local man was unable to Go His Own Way this past week because some enterprising digital fraudster and apparently Fleetwood Mac fan used his credit card to purchase $1,100 in Stevie Nicks concert tickets. Read more about that incident below.

Fraud, Jan. 14 - The world's biggest Stevie Nicks fan may also be a part-time personality thief. The Nicks fanatic used a Sherwood Drive man's credit card account to purchase $1,100 worth of Nicks' concert tickets over the Internet. The account has been closed and the theft reported.


http://patch.com/ohio/westlake/fraudster-uses-westlake-mans-identity-buy-1-100-worth-stevie-nicks-tickets

[bombaysaffires]

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lea-michele-stevie-nicks-gave-me-this-gift-after-cory-monteith-died-w463272

NEWS
Lea Michele Reveals the Gift Stevie Nicks Gave Her After Cory Monteith Died
January 26, 2017 @ 7:20 PM

By Joyce Chen

A gift from the heart. Lea Michele revealed in a recent interview that Stevie Nicks gifted her with a special “art book” filled with personal notes and song lyrics following her boyfriend Cory Monteith’s 2013 death from a drug overdose.

“I have this incredible book that Stevie Nicks gave me in 2013 when my boyfriend [Glee costar Cory Monteith] died,” the 30-year-old Glee alum told Billboard in an interview published on Thursday, January 26. “She gave me this art book of hers that she put notes in over the years and song lyrics, and then she rewrote personal notes for me that say things like, ‘Keep singing, and have faith.’”

Michele explained that she turned to Nicks’ gift when she was in the process of figuring out a title for her new album, Places. (She explained to Billboard that the album’s name was due at the record label the next day.) “I poured myself the biggest glass of red wine, I put Fleetwood Mac on my vinyl, I lit candles, and I legit started praying and looking for a sign,” she said.

“I was looking through this book and praying that there was an answer in it, somewhere,” the Scream Queens star continued. “And there was something in there that said, ‘The only thing that matters is you, and who you are.’ That’s what I’ve been trying to do with this whole record — just connect to me and where I’m from.”

Places is a reference to the theater phrase “Places, everyone!” that is yelled out prior to showtime, the actress-singer-songwriter explained to Billboard. After consulting the art book, Michele said she was inspired to call up her BFF, fellow Broadway star Jonathan Groff.

PHOTO
Stevie Nicks during the premiere of "Sound City" in 2013. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

“I was like, ‘What’s something from our time in New York — a word, or a phrase, or something that is from theater, or from us?’ And he said, ‘What about Places?’ When you’re on Broadway, you get your 30-minute call, then your 15-minute call. You hear, ‘Places, everyone!’ And that means it’s showtime.”

Earlier in the week, Michele shared a never-before-seen photo of herself and Monteith snuggling up on New York City’s Bleecker Street back in 2012, posted without caption. In the image, the bottom half of Monteith’s face peeks out protectively over Michele’s half-obscured face. (The Glee alum died of a drug overdose in July 2013.)

According to Michele, Monteith’s untimely death had a great impact on the tone of her first album, 2014’s Louder. “When it came time for me to make my own album, I think it was a little clouded for me in terms of wanting to figure out what my own sound was,” she said of having to juggle her own album and a full-length record of Glee covers. “And it was also clouded by a big tragedy that had happened to me, in the midst of making that album. And you hear that in the album — you hear the darkness of what was going on in my life. I don’t think there is a consistency to the record that I was hoping for, but that’s life.”

[SisterNightroad]

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[Sanne2]

I was reading an old concert review when suddenly.....

Nicks' insistent emphasis on old material comes as no surprise, as she will release a greatest hits package called "Time Space" in September. The album will contain virtually every solo song she performed last night as well as three new songs -- "Desert Angel," "Sometimes A Bitch" and "Love's A Maid Gone To Play" -- that she omitted from the set.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-07-18/features/1991199206_1_fleetwood-mac-14-songs-nicks

....such an underappreciated song!:lol:

[SisterNightroad]

I was reading an old concert review when suddenly.....

Nicks' insistent emphasis on old material comes as no surprise, as she will release a greatest hits package called "Time Space" in September. The album will contain virtually every solo song she performed last night as well as three new songs -- "Desert Angel," "Sometimes A Bitch" and "Love's A Maid Gone To Play" -- that she omitted from the set.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-07-18/features/1991199206_1_fleetwood-mac-14-songs-nicks

....such an underappreciated song!:lol:
Ah ah, now that's a truly autobiographical Stevie song!

[michelej1]

I was reading an old concert review when suddenly.....

Nicks' insistent emphasis on old material comes as no surprise, as she will release a greatest hits package called "Time Space" in September. The album will contain virtually every solo song she performed last night as well as three new songs -- "Desert Angel," "Sometimes A Bitch" and "Love's A Maid Gone To Play" -- that she omitted from the set.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-07-18/features/1991199206_1_fleetwood-mac-14-songs-nicks

....such an underappreciated song!:lol:

But just give Stevie that song title and tell her to run with it and I think she could come up with something quite interesting.

This makes me laugh thinking of the Crystal Visions documentary when she narrates and wonders where he maid is and why all those chickens are around. And how could all of her clothes fit into that small wardrobe.

Michele

[Macfan4life]

I was listening to the BIG 80s countdown today on Sirius xm. This week in 1982 Leather and Lace was at #6 for a second week in a row. One notch higher than Olivia Newton John's Physical which fell 4 notches to #7.

[SisterNightroad]

Sheryl Crow Launches a Clothing Line for HSN, Still Isn’t Over That ‘Famous Actress’ Who Stole Her Favorite Leather Jacket

A note to the actress who tried to steal Sheryl Crow‘s leather jacket at an MTV awards afterparty circa, well, a long time ago: She hasn’t forgotten. And you wouldn’t forget either if someone tried to snag your $3,500 leather jacket – after all, it was the first big purchase Crow made after hitting it big in the music industry.

Since the early ’90s, Crow has been writing hit after hit, touring the world and performing in incredibly memorable outfits that still have a home in her closet. “My closet is just ridiculous… but I have my archives,” she tells PEOPLE. “I have everything that I’ve worn on stage – 27 years of touring.”

It was that abundant collection that helped fuel the designs behind her soon-to-launch clothing line for HSN, which hits the network on April 13 and will range in price from $39.90 to $299.90. Digging through her the jeans, boots, t-shirts and leather jackets, Crow picked out her favorite pieces and gave them a new twist. Perhaps most important (and we can’t disagree) was her desire to design the perfect long-lasting t-shirt. “I think there’s nothing better with a t-shirt than washing it 50 times. that’s when it gets really good!”

We sat down with the country star in Nashville to get the scoop on the line, her unbelievable closets and how her kids have helped inspire her.

What are the most special pieces in it?

I have an old lace – it’s like a robe but it’s not a robe – it’s like a duster that Stevie Nicks gave me and it’s just unbelievably astounding, probably my most precious piece. I’ve worn it in photoshoots before and I could put it on with a wifebeater and a pair of Levis and it’s so beautiful.



http://people.com/style/sheryl-crow-clothing-line-for-hsn/

[lilyfee]

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I have an old lace – it’s like a robe but it’s not a robe – it’s like a duster that [B]Stevie Nicks gave me and it’s just unbelievably astounding, probably my most precious piece. I’ve worn it in photoshoots before and I could put it on with a wifebeater and a pair of Levis and it’s so beautiful.



http://people.com/style/sheryl-crow-clothing-line-for-hsn/


Ooh anyone have photos?

[SisterNightroad]

Ooh anyone have photos?
I would like to know about it too, I've tried to search but I didn't find anything that really fit the description.

[gldstwmn]

Sheryl Crow Launches a Clothing Line for HSN, Still Isn’t Over That ‘Famous Actress’ Who Stole Her Favorite Leather Jacket

A note to the actress who tried to steal Sheryl Crow‘s leather jacket at an MTV awards afterparty circa, well, a long time ago: She hasn’t forgotten. And you wouldn’t forget either if someone tried to snag your $3,500 leather jacket – after all, it was the first big purchase Crow made after hitting it big in the music industry.



http://people.com/style/sheryl-crow-clothing-line-for-hsn/

Lindsey Lohan :nod:

[SisterNightroad]

Stevie Nicks Was Willing To Lose Her Entire Future If It Meant Making One Thing Happen

Stevie Nicks is pretty much one of the most fearless, quintessentially badass women in rock, having slugged it out for years before stumbling into Fleetwood Mac with then lover Lindsey Buckingham at the age of 27. Never afraid to get her hands dirty, Stevie did it all; waitressing and cleaning houses by day before staggering in late at night for another round of marathon songwriting while Lindsey spent the entire day crafting songs, it was Stevie’s determination that eventually saw the pair embark on the adventure of a lifetime – but none of the blood, sweat, and tears were for her own sake.

That’s right – Stevie nearly gave up on her own dream of making it as a singer-songwriter in favor of seeing Lindsey achieve his, banking on the fact that if they ultimately failed and had to return home it was Stevie that had a fighting chance, whereas all Lindsey knew how to do was sing, write, and play guitar. If one of them was going to make it, it was going to be Lindsey and Stevie, wildly in love and secure beyond belief in his talent and potential, was willing to do anything to make it happen.

“It was more important for Lindsey than it was that I make it. Because I knew I could do a hundred other things and nobody could ever take my music away from me. I would be fine. I worried about him, I didn’t know what he would do.

And because I was so in love with him there wasn’t any question in my mind that I would I stick in there until if we didn’t both make it, at least I got him up there.”

Love, they say, isn’t just doing anything for someone else; it’s being willing to lay down on the funeral pyre and offer yourself up in sacrifice if it means that the person you love will have a better tomorrow. 20-something Stevie Nicks knew this and knew it intimately, days of hearing Lindsey consider the very real possibility that Buckingham-Nicks would never make it and seeing the crestfallen look on his face all the incentive she needed to offer up her own aspirations as sacrifice.

Thankfully, the door leading to Fleetwood Mac opened and we’ll never have to know a world in which Stevie is still a waitress or a cleaning lady and not a rock icon – but the fact that she was willing to lose everything to see someone else shine speaks volumes as to her character, and there’s no one we’d rather have in our corner!



http://societyofrock.com/stevie-nicks-was-willing-to-lose-her-entire-future-if-it-meant-making-one-thing-happen/

[SisterNightroad]

Bon Jovi helps Phoenix stroke survivor

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -
Joe Dorosz of Phoenix spends much of his time in rehab and therapy programs, but for decades he was on the road, touring with big name acts.

Through his career, he focused on percussion equipment, but also toured as a stage manager and tech "guru" for Bon Jovi, Fleetwood Mac, the Dixie Chicks, Prince, Poison, the Backstreet Boys, Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston and others.

After 35 years in the music business, Dorosz developed spinal stenosis and opted for a spinal fusion at St. Joseph's Hospital last Thanksgiving.

The family received a call from a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit on Thanksgiving morning, informing them Joe had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke.

He spent the next two months in the hospital and has a long road to recovery.

His fiance, Diane Scappaticci, is struggling with unexpected bills and challenges.

"It's changed our lives one hundred percent because he needs 24-7 care," Scappaticci said.

Saturday night in Phoenix, Dorosz was able to reunite with Bon Jovi before a performance at Talking Stick Resort Arena.

"It was emotional for him, the crew and the band," she said.

Members of the band pledged to match the amount raised on Joe's GoFundMe page.

Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac have also donated.

"Their generosity and support means everything to us," Scappaticci said.

Dorosz hopes to get back on tour with the band if his recovery progresses. His mind remains sharp, but he lost his mobility and his speech, at least for now.



http://www.azfamily.com/story/34680794/bon-jovi-helps-phoenix-stroke-survivor

[SisterNightroad]

The rock revival: Guns N' Roses were 2016's highest-earning world tour per city while acts over 50 accounted for HALF of the $4.5billion generated by last year's top 100-grossing tours
Iconic rockstars were some of the most profitable performers per city on average last year for world tours
Guns N' Roses topped the list, with the legendary group earning an average per city gross of $5,004,737
Justin Bieber was second on the list with $1,676,016, before two more rockers - the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stevie Nicks - took out the next two places with averages per city of $1,487,928 and $898,269 respectively
Analysts found acts over 50 made up half of the $4.5billion generated by last year’s top 100-grossing tours

It seems as though age is no barrier when it comes to making money on tour.
New figures released this week have broken down which global tours were the most lucrative, with a top 10 of the acts with the highest average per city gross calculated.
Legendary rockers Guns N' Roses topped the list, which was compiled using data provided to the industry magazine, Pollstar, with an average per city gross of $5,004,737. The rock group was pushed to the top of the pile by an average ticket price of $101.82.
Pop star Justin Bieber came in second on the list, with an average gross of $1,676,016, and a ticket price of $80.90.
Two more rockers closed out the top with, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers average of $1,487,928 good enough to put the California rockers in third, while Stevie Nicks was fourth with $898,269.
A quartet of country stars filed the next three spots, with Eric Church's gross of $834,604 good enough for fifth, while Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood's joint tour pulled in $748,456 per city.
Blake Shelton was seventh with an average of $719,365, before Underwood made the list again at number eight - but this time for her solo tour, which averaged $713,215.
Maxwell and Mary J. Blige were ninth in the top 10, thanks to their combined shows averaging $711,898, and veteran rockers Green Day closed out the top spots by pulling in $657,586 per city.
However, when contrasted to the Forbes Highest Paid Musicians of 2016 list, there was hardly any crossover between those who made the most money per city, and those who made the most money - period.
The Forbes ranking, which included all money paid to performers - and not just ticket sales, was topped by Taylor Swift, who received $170million last year.
A pair of Brit acts completed the top three, with One Direction and Adele making $110million and $80.5million respectively.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/26/22/3EA9AA0B00000578-4351290-image-a-6_1490564584820.jpg



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4351290/Most-lucrative-global-tours-city-2016-revealed.html#ixzz4cXYyvlfj
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[dreamsunwind]

Stevie Nicks Was Willing To Lose Her Entire Future If It Meant Making One Thing Happen

Stevie Nicks is pretty much one of the most fearless, quintessentially badass women in rock, having slugged it out for years before stumbling into Fleetwood Mac with then lover Lindsey Buckingham at the age of 27. Never afraid to get her hands dirty, Stevie did it all; waitressing and cleaning houses by day before staggering in late at night for another round of marathon songwriting while Lindsey spent the entire day crafting songs, it was Stevie’s determination that eventually saw the pair embark on the adventure of a lifetime – but none of the blood, sweat, and tears were for her own sake.

That’s right – Stevie nearly gave up on her own dream of making it as a singer-songwriter in favor of seeing Lindsey achieve his, banking on the fact that if they ultimately failed and had to return home it was Stevie that had a fighting chance, whereas all Lindsey knew how to do was sing, write, and play guitar. If one of them was going to make it, it was going to be Lindsey and Stevie, wildly in love and secure beyond belief in his talent and potential, was willing to do anything to make it happen.

“It was more important for Lindsey than it was that I make it. Because I knew I could do a hundred other things and nobody could ever take my music away from me. I would be fine. I worried about him, I didn’t know what he would do.

And because I was so in love with him there wasn’t any question in my mind that I would I stick in there until if we didn’t both make it, at least I got him up there.”

Love, they say, isn’t just doing anything for someone else; it’s being willing to lay down on the funeral pyre and offer yourself up in sacrifice if it means that the person you love will have a better tomorrow. 20-something Stevie Nicks knew this and knew it intimately, days of hearing Lindsey consider the very real possibility that Buckingham-Nicks would never make it and seeing the crestfallen look on his face all the incentive she needed to offer up her own aspirations as sacrifice.

Thankfully, the door leading to Fleetwood Mac opened and we’ll never have to know a world in which Stevie is still a waitress or a cleaning lady and not a rock icon – but the fact that she was willing to lose everything to see someone else shine speaks volumes as to her character, and there’s no one we’d rather have in our corner!



http://societyofrock.com/stevie-nicks-was-willing-to-lose-her-entire-future-if-it-meant-making-one-thing-happen/

I just saw this and isn't this like the exact opposite? I thought that's the whole Landslide thing, they were fighting like cats and dogs and he ditched her in Aspen and she was miserable so she cried and looked out at the snow covered hills and decided to stick it out anyways ~for the music~

[wheart]

I just saw this and isn't this like the exact opposite? I thought that's the whole Landslide thing, they were fighting like cats and dogs and he ditched her in Aspen and she was miserable so she cried and looked out at the snow covered hills and decided to stick it out anyways ~for the music~

I think you're right. Steve wanted to be famous and successful more than anything. I'm sure she cared for Lindsey but said once they were not getting along even before they joined FM. I think she saw him as someone who could help her get to where she wanted to be.

[sue]

Just about to go to bed when a cover of "Landslide" is on TV..
It's an advert for James Wellbeloved dog food !!!!!!
A CGI cartoon of a young man with his dog busking and singing "Landslide"
It's quite charming...lovely.

[SisterNightroad]

Who is Artem Chigvintsev’s Girlfriend, Torrey DeVitto? Here are 4 Fun Facts

#2. Her Father Was a Drummer for Billy Joel

Born in Long Island, New York, DeVitto was raised in Florida and grew up in a musical household. Torrey DeVitto’s wiki makes for an interesting read because her parents, Mary and Liberty DeVitto, were musicians who named her after Mary’s maiden name. Not many of her fans are aware of this fun fact, but Torey DeVitto’s father used to be a drummer for singer-songwriter Billy Joel’s band. Funnily enough, her mother was good friends with pop star Stevie Nicks, and Torrey DeVitto’s parents met while on Nicks’ Wild Heart Tour in the early 1980s.
Torrey DeVitto’s siblings include two younger sisters named Devon and Maryelle. As a child, DeVitto took violin lessons and spent most of her time on tour with her parents before kicking off her career as a fashion model.

#3. She is a Musician, Fashion Model, and Philanthropist

DeVitto is an accomplished violinist who played fourth chair in high school, and even performed at supermodel Christie Brinkley’s wedding. She began her career by acting in commercials, and signed on with prestigious modeling agencies like Ford and Avenue One. After rekindling her passion for music, Devitto played the violin on singer Raphael Saadiq’s album Ray Ray (2004) as well as Stevie Nicks’ album In Your Dreams (2011).



https://www.earnthenecklace.com/artem-chigvintsevs-girlfriend-torrey-devitto-wiki-age-instagram-dwts/

[SisterNightroad]

Hopelessly Devoted: Michelle Branch on Finding Album Inspiration Amid the Pain of Divorce

Speaking of, what were those albums that did for you what you did for my generation when you were a teen?

One of my first, earliest musical memories was I was literally in the back of my mom’s car and “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac came on. I was living in Arizona and Stevie [Nicks] was the hometown hero. She’s from Arizona, so she was a huge hero for me growing up. Huge influence. Then I remember being 11 or 12 years old when Jagged Little Pill came out. I was at a sleepover, and we were supposed to be asleep and we had MTV on. The “Hand in My Pocket” video came on and we all stopped what we were doing and were like, what is this? I remember both moments vividly because they were moments that were important to me. Shortly after that we snuck out of the house and we all got caught because we were staying at my friend’s house and her dad was our sixth grade teacher and he knew that we were awake, listening to Alanis Morissette. I’ll have that memory for the rest of my life.


Read More: Michelle Branch on Finding Album Inspiration After Divorce: Interview | http://popcrush.com/michelle-branch-hopeless-romantic-interview/?trackback=tsmclip

[SisterNightroad]

Lessons in Authenticity from Stevie Nicks

As a millennial, it’s easy to feel underwhelmed by the lack of authenticity and grit that exists among pop-culture, and society in general. I grew up before the advent of social media—before comment threads and virtual walls and double-taps that fire more dopamine than a sugar rush—in the days where it took approximately 46 minutes to dial up the modem and required genuine effort to communicate, you know, using actual words. And I may spend a solid part of my day on the ‘gram (it’s literally part of my job), I’m thankful I know a time before all that.
And when I was about six years old—before every moment of our lives were recorded and then put on display—I was first introduced to the magic of Stevie Nicks. Despite the fact that it was an otherwise ordinary day, I have a vivid memory of walking through the local mall with my mom when Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara” came on over the speakers. I must have liked it, because I remember my mom telling me in that moment that I was almost named Sara.
Later, in the early aughts when I was in middle school and Discmans were a thing, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was one of my first CDs (in the mix with Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera, of course), and I would listen to it almost every night before I went to bed.
More than 20 years after my initial discovery, “Sara” is still one of my favorite songs, Rumours my favorite album, and Stevie Nicks—one of the most authentic icons of our time—has been a huge part of my upbringing and how I view myself and the world. But more than just her musical talent, it’s her resilient spirit that has influenced me deeply. Stevie is, in my humble opinion, a lesson in how to be a gracious, respected, strong-ass woman—and how lucky I feel to be, in a sense, her pupil. Likely one of her youngest, but still.
Several decades ago, Stevie had become so terribly addicted to cocaine that it burned a hole in her septum. Doctors warned her of a potential brain hemorrhage had she continued using, so she checked herself into treatment. “I knew I was going to die and I didn’t want to die…I did my 28 days and I came out and I was brilliant,” she said at the time. “I was as strong as an ox and I felt great. I could feel myself starting to glow again and I was totally excited about my life. When I walked through those doors at Betty Ford and they searched me and took away all my stuff, it was like, ‘OK I’m never doing THAT again—because I’m never coming back to a place like this.’”
But following her stay at Betty Ford, a psychiatrist prescribed her the tranquilizer Klonopin to treat her anxiety and curb her cocaine dependency, and Stevie spent the next eight years addicted to the prescription drug, which nearly killed her—again. “I nearly died,” she confessed to The Telegraph. “I molted. My hair turned grey. My skin started to completely peel off. I was in terrible pain. That was the worst period of my life. It was eight completely wasted years of my life,” After admitting herself to the hospital for a 47-day detox, she’s been clean ever since.
Of course, I don’t really know Stevie Nicks, and it feels strange to have such a deep admiration for someone I’ve only met once, very briefly (after the show I captured on my Instagram, below). But she was, for a while, the only living proof I had that one could go through something like that and emerge on the other side not just alive, but stronger. Although I’ve never struggled with addiction per se, I have a long history with eating disorders, and through treatment over the course of the past several years I’ve watched several of my peers die, or stay trapped in the cycle of treatment and relapse. It can get incredibly discouraging. Cheesy as it might sound, time and time again, I’ve found courage and faith in Stevie’s history and reminded myself that if she could conquer her own seemingly insurmountable afflictions and go on to have a happy, successful, meaningful life, I could, too. And long story short, I have, and I am. I credit so much of my own recovery to Stevie, which again, feels both weird but completely natural all at once.
Looking at Stevie Nicks now, in all her sparkly-haired, fairy godmother-esque, mysterious, chiffon-y glory, you’d never know how close she once came to the edge (not the Edge of Seventeen—a different edge). Her tiny 5-foot-1 frame (plus a couple of inches with those signature platform boots, obv) is rapt with radiant energy and fully present on stage, and even at the age of 68 she shows no signs of slowing down. And thank God for that–we need her! Nobody chooses to develop an addiction, or in my case, an eating disorder, but it does take tremendous strength and a conscious choice to overcome, a choice she’s clearly and very admirably made more than just once. She’s had to fight for the life she’s now living, and in doing so has empowered me to do the same.
I suppose I’ll never really know, precisely, what attracted me as a child to Stevie Nicks, who began her craft long before I was even in the womb, but I sure am glad it did. Because in this ever-evolving digital age where most things we consume are carefully-curated or somehow altered (see also: fake news!!!), I feel incredibly grateful to have grown up transfixed by a woman whose raw, timeless talent and sterling qualities are something I would be proud to emulate at every age, from the inside-out–rather than continuing to chase the widespread emptiness of our generation.



Read more: http://stylecaster.com/stevie-nicks-lessons/#ixzz4e1rhjKjU

[SisterNightroad]

5 Things We Learned About ‘Lust For Life’ from Lana Del Rey’s ‘Dazed’ Cover Story

The album was, as always, executive produced by longtime collaborator Rick Nowels — and it’s got a bit of “a sci-fi flair.”

Rick Nowels. He actually did stuff with Stevie Nicks a while ago. He works really well with women. I did the last few records with him. Even with Ultraviolence which I did with Dan (Auerbach), I did the record first with Rick, and then I went to Nashville and reworked the sound with Dan. So, yeah, Rick Nowels is amazing, and these two engineers – with all the records that I’ve worked on with Rick, they did a lot of the production as well. You would love these two guys. They’re just super-innovative. I wanted a bit of a sci-fi flair for some of the stuff and they had some really cool production ideas.



Read More: 5 Things We Learned About 'Lust For Life' from Lana Del Rey's 'Dazed' Cover Story | http://popcrush.com/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-dazed-cover-story/?trackback=tsmclip

[SisterNightroad]

Trade Shawls, Scarves And Skirts At Stevie Nicks-Inspired Clothing Swap

ALBANY PARK — Before there was boho, there was Stevie Nicks.

Known as much for her style as her singing, the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman, dubbed the "pop culture fairy godmother of witchy women," is the inspiration behind Thursday night's "Give To Me Your Leather, Take From Me My Lace" clothing swap at Halcyon Theatre.

Comb your closet for shawls, scarves, peasant skirts and anything with velvet, fringe or ruffles — better yet, anything with velvet, fringe and ruffles.

The swap kicks off at 7 p.m. at the theater, 4541 N. Spaulding Ave. Admission is $10 or BYOB.

The organizers are requesting that people bring a minimum of two items and a maximum of six to the swap.

Additional swap tips, courtesy of no less than Oprah:

• Make sure to clean out any pockets first.

• Leave anything stained or in poor condition at home.

• Don't forget accessories (Stevie loves hats!) — bring shoes, jewelry, handbags and other accessories.



https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170420/albany-park/stevie-nicks-clothing-swap-halcyon-theatre-give-to-me-your-leather-take-from-me-my-lace-fleetwood-mac-fashion-style

[lilyfee]

Trade Shawls, Scarves And Skirts At Stevie Nicks-Inspired Clothing Swap

ALBANY PARK — Before there was boho, there was Stevie Nicks.

Known as much for her style as her singing, the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman, dubbed the "pop culture fairy godmother of witchy women," is the inspiration behind Thursday night's "Give To Me Your Leather, Take From Me My Lace" clothing swap at Halcyon Theatre.

Comb your closet for shawls, scarves, peasant skirts and anything with velvet, fringe or ruffles — better yet, anything with velvet, fringe and ruffles.

The swap kicks off at 7 p.m. at the theater, 4541 N. Spaulding Ave. Admission is $10 or BYOB.

The organizers are requesting that people bring a minimum of two items and a maximum of six to the swap.

Additional swap tips, courtesy of no less than Oprah:

• Make sure to clean out any pockets first.

• Leave anything stained or in poor condition at home.

• Don't forget accessories (Stevie loves hats!) — bring shoes, jewelry, handbags and other accessories.



https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170420/albany-park/stevie-nicks-clothing-swap-halcyon-theatre-give-to-me-your-leather-take-from-me-my-lace-fleetwood-mac-fashion-style

This sounds so cool!

[24karatstevie]

This sounds so cool!
I know I want to go!

[SisterNightroad]

English twins Ward Thomas on conquering Nashville and how niceness can be 'cool'

Their accents may be more “hoorah” than “yee-hah”, but last autumn Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas became the first British country act to top the UK album charts. Now the 23-year-old twins from the sleepy Hampshire village of Liss are gearing up to support Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks when the rock legends play Hyde Park in July. No wonder they’re “a bit dazed”.

“We love Stevie Nicks,” gush the sisters, when I meet them at their publicist’s office in north London. “Fleetwood Mac and the Dixie Chicks are our favourite bands. When we were growing up our parents were in a Seventies covers band. Mum was the singer, she was Stevie Nicks.” The wholesome sincerity of their enthusiasm is irresistible. They’re ridiculously likeable and totally lacking in the diva-esque attitude that was once standard issue in pop stars their age.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interviews/english-twins-ward-thomas-conquering-nashville-niceness-can/

[SisterNightroad]

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[gldstwmn]

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Oh my... My favorite live version of Stand Back ever. I can't imagine she's too happy about this being re broadcast. I can't even remember the last time this was on. This is going to blow some young minds but not in a bad way. I might even have to watch. I haven't watched it from start to finish in decades.

[SisterNightroad]

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa debuts Art Deco-inspired casino

The Orient Road Garage will have a walkway into the Mezzanine Level Casino where guests can take a self-guided memorabilia "rock walk" tour, which will showcase over 100 of Seminole Hard Rock Tampa's prized memorabilia pieces, including new items from artists such Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, Stevie Nicks, Bon Jovi, Nicki Minaj and many more.


http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article/seminole-hard-rock-hotel-and-casino-tampa-debuts-art-deco-inspired-casino-221137

[SisterNightroad]

Oh my... My favorite live version of Stand Back ever. I can't imagine she's too happy about this being re broadcast. I can't even remember the last time this was on. This is going to blow some young minds but not in a bad way. I might even have to watch. I haven't watched it from start to finish in decades.
Actually I did watch it in entirety not too many years ago, like two or less, and both the 80s seem to have come back in fashion and I've started to develop a taste for that period it was particularly fascinating.

[SisterNightroad]

A History Of All-Girl Bands And The Rock World That Tried To Keep Them Out
Women aren’t rejecting rock. Rock is rejecting women.

It was 1964 and singer Genyusha “Goldie” Zelkowitz had a problem. The all-girl band she formed in 1962 with drummer Ginger Bianco, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, had a major label record contract and an upcoming Las Vegas stint ― but the bassist, Nancy Peterman, had just told the band that she was pregnant. She’d formed an attachment to the organist of a band they’d been performing with; things had taken their natural course. In the 1960s, birth control for unmarried women was still illegal in certain states. Roe v. Wade was not yet a glimmer in the Supreme Court’s eye, and an attempt to get her an illicit procedure fell through. The situation was unsurprising, and the conclusion was unfortunate: Peterman had to leave the band.

Zelkowitz, who now goes by Genya Ravan, practically explodes with laughter remembering the incident now, 50 years later, during a phone conversation. “She kept saying she was ‘so lonely’!” Ravan hoots. “Had I known I would have bought her a vibrator.” A vibrator and a career, or a sexual partner and parenthood: That’s a choice The Beatles likely never had to make.

For Ravan, who was determined to make it in the music business, settling down wasn’t an option. After forming Goldie and the Gingerbreads, she saw the branding benefits of keeping the lineup all women, to capitalize on the exotic appeal of an all-girl rock ’n’ roll band. But over the years, they lost members, and it was difficult to fill all the parts in the group with women.

“A lot of the girls that were canned down the line … they wanted to have a family, they wanted to have children,” said Ravan. “There’s no room for that here.”

Womanhood used to usher women off the stage in fairly obvious, biological ways. But it’s 2017. Seven years ago, Pink put in a rousing performance at the American Music Awards while expecting a baby. In February of this year, Beyoncé performed gravity-defying moves during a Grammy performance while pregnant ― with twins.

Nonetheless, pockets of the music world remain startlingly male. Our greatest pop stars today might be women, but in instrument-heavy rock ― indie, punk, metal and beyond ― the standard-issue band is still a group of three to six guys. Less common: a group of male musicians with a female vocalist, or even a female keyboardist or bassist. Least common: a band comprised primarily or entirely of female musicians.

The music internet periodically offers up listicles of all-women bands to check out, which feature a common core cast of incredible indie groups: Hinds, Ex Hex, The Prettiots, Chastity Belt, Warpaint and so on. Plenty has been written about the the chart-topping pop-rock sister group Haim, but even in a diverse musical landscape of EDM, hip-hop, pop and hybrid music, a wide variety of all-male bands still flourishes. Why is the all-female band relatively elusive?

One might be tempted to blame women as a group. Perhaps we’re biologically uninterested in playing electric guitar, much like advanced algebra and video games. Maybe there simply aren’t girls out there with the chops and dedication to succeed. But ― much as with mathematics and video games ― a closer look at the picture suggests that the problem isn’t that women are rejecting rock. It’s that rock is rejecting women.

But how is the music world fencing women out? Picking on the visible gatekeepers is easy, and in many ways fair: Record labels, magazines and music festivals don’t tend to give women artists an equal platform. Last year, a HuffPost analysis of the gender breakdown of acts at 10 major festivals over the past five years found that the vast majority of performers were male. “[A]ll-male acts make up the overwhelming majority of festival lineups, ranging from 66 percent of all performers (Outside Lands and Governors Ball) to 93 percent (Electric Zoo),” HuffPost Women’s Editor Alanna Vagianos concluded. An LA Times piece on Coachella’s specific problems with women noted that, at the time it was written, only one female act had ever headlined the festival, out of over 40 headliners in its history.

Music media seems little better. In 2016, KQED Arts pointed out in December, exactly zero women made the cover of Rolling Stone ― no Beyoncé, no Rihanna, no Alessia Cara, no Hayley Williams. Women who do snag coverage by major outlets routinely see their musical chops downplayed in favor of their sex appeal, or wind up relegated to special women’s issues or listicles.

The problem, though, starts way before the point when the organizers of Coachella or Bonnaroo are scouting acts, and before magazines are picking out cover models. This isn’t an excuse for their paltry lineups of female artists; it’s just to say that there are other pressures guiding tastemakers toward men and guiding women to give up rock stardom.

Bands made up of all women are rare not because of a lack of talent, dedication or interest, but because women have been siphoned out of the pipeline at nearly every step of the way.

Getting The Band Together

For young boys, forming a crappy band is as elemental a part of growing up as playing baseball, or quitting the baseball team to spend more time smoking pot. If you’ve ever known a handful of teenage boys, you probably know at least one who’s been in a jam band inspired by Phish, or a dude rock band inspired by Dave Matthews, or an indie rock band inspired by Weezer. Guys in bands stand to benefit from male bonding, creative self-expression, and cultivating a rock god image to attract romantic interests. As Alex Pall of The Chainsmokers told Billboard in 2016, “Even before success, pussy was number one … I wanted to hook up with hotter girls.”

The flip side, however, is that this gendered adolescent experience rarely includes a space for girls to be anything but doting audiences and, at worst, “pussy.”

“To me that was just kind of a given, guys were always starting bands and playing guitar in their bedrooms,” Allison Wolfe, the former lead singer of riot grrrl band Bratmobile and, most recently, Sex Stains, told me. She grew up in Olympia, home of artsy, crunchy Evergreen State College in Washington State, in the midst of the burgeoning ‘90s DIY punk scene. “I went to a lot of punk shows and saw guys playing. Olympia and Eugene were cool, not super macho like a lot of other places, but it still made me feel like I couldn’t really be a part of it.”

Suzie Zeldin, of the indie band The Narrative, spent her teenage years attending hardcore shows across the country, in Long Island, New York, that were packed with both male and female fans ― but vanishingly few female artists. “It was pretty rare actually to see a girl onstage,” she recalled.

And this was in the late ‘80s to early aughts. Decades ago, when rock ’n’ roll was really taking off, the scene was almost entirely male. “You go back to the ‘60s, and you’re talking about the dark ages of women in music, because the light that you’re putting out, there’s nothing to reflect it back,” said June Millington, co-founder and lead guitarist of the pioneering 1970s band Fanny. “You had to have the courage to walk into that cave that was completely dark.”

Her bandmate, drummer Alice DeBuhr, was blunt: “We didn’t think of ourselves as the beginning of or part of a tradition of women musicians. Because there weren’t any.”

As with any boys’ club, some determined and talented women have always fought their way in. But bands aren’t just about individual moxie. Forming a band requires collaboration. As a teenage bassist in Australia, music writer Anwen Crawford, author of a New Yorker article titled “The World Needs Female Rock Critics,” wanted that classic, adolescent band experience. The only problem? “I could never find other girls to play with, in those crucial years when you’re forming bands,” she told me. “Your teacher is likely to be male, your peers are likely to be male. It’s quite isolating.”

Just playing with her male peers wasn’t a solution either, she pointed out: “The boys around me didn’t really take me seriously, or thought I was a novelty.”

For many years, and even, to some extent, today, women who did seriously pursue rock music were less likely to find a thriving community of female peers to play with. Female stars like P.J. Harvey or Suzie Quatro, Crawford noted, typically ended up as solo artists or the sole women in mostly male bands. After Goldie and the Gingerbreads disbanded in 1967, Ravan joined a mostly-male band and later built a solo career.

The creeping, pervasive assumption that little boys learn drums and grow up to be rock stars while little girls play Barbies and grow up to be groupies can isolate and stifle young girls who do pursue music, or it can simply delay their start. Many talented female musicians don’t begin their careers until early adulthood, at the age when young people are exploring who they really are outside of their rigidly defined peer groups. By then, many of their male peers have been mucking around with their instruments and amateur bands for a decade ― but that gap isn’t an insurmountable obstacle.

Augusta Koch, the guitarist and vocalist of the pop-punk band Cayetana, readily admits that she “didn’t know how to play guitar” when Cayetana was born five years ago. Koch and her bandmates were all out of college and dreaming of starting a band when they met at a party in Philadelphia. They decided to join forces and polished their skills together, through years of intense solo and band practice.

Mindy Abovitz, drummer and founder of Tom Tom Magazine, started her first band in college, not long after she’d surreptitiously begun to learn drums. “It would have made zero sense to be in a band with a guy at that time, because all my guy friends who were musicians had been in bands since they were 12,” she told me.

“I played music in school band, clarinet and bass clarinet, but it wasn’t until much later that I thought I could do something like be in a band,” recalled Bratmobile’s Wolfe. “But I think I was very lucky to grow up in Olympia.” In the midst of a music scene that prided itself on counter-culturalism and anti-professionalism, “anyone could do anything, and it would be considered music,” she said.

Wolfe went to Eugene to attend the University of Oregon, but many weekends she’d return to Olympia with her friend and future bandmate, Molly Neuman, to hang around the music scene. They met Kathleen Hanna, then a student at Evergreen. Wolfe began to notice that women around her were forming their own bands ― and not cute, smiley bands. One day, the summer before college, she peeked into Hanna’s art gallery, Reko Muse, and saw a band rehearsal in progress. “There was Kathleen, onstage,” recalled Wolfe, “and she was just yelling at the top of her lungs, with her veins popping out of her neck, and her face was all red ... It was really confrontational, and intense.” Hanna’s band, Bikini Kill, ended up becoming early supporters of Wolfe and Neuman’s nascent group.

Wolfe and Neuman wanted to be involved in the scene ― they were already referring to themselves as a band around Olympia ― but they didn’t actually begin writing and performing music until a friend asked them to play a show he was booking. Despite Bratmobile’s slapdash beginnings, their first show was a rousing success.

“I don’t think it would have happened outside the Olympia scene, because I don’t think we would have had the encouragement,” she admitted. “People would have laughed us off the stage. But instead we had Bikini Kill there cheering us on.”

Keeping The Band Together

Getting an all-girl band together is a magical achievement, but it’s only step one. Rock bands are notoriously fragile things. Internal power struggles, ego trips and artistic disagreements tear many of them apart. For women, though, the stress of fending off inappropriate behavior, condescension and disdain rooted in their gender often ends up compounding the ordinary struggles faced by every band.

Having overcome years of overt or implicit discouragement to choose a musical career, female musicians face exhausting assumptions: That they don’t understand their own gear or craft; that, if they came later to mastering the art form, they are perpetual amateurs; that they’re just hanging around the scene to get male attention. Cayetana’s drummer, Kelly Olsen, pointed out that “women getting into relationships with musicians... get looked at in a very different way than men that do. And I know that we have been judged by who we date, like, you’re just doing that to get close to this band. And it’s like, actually, no! I have my own self and my own power in my own scene.”

The assumption, however, generally remains that women don’t belong onstage unless they’re accompanied and overseen by men. Lydia Night, the teenage frontwoman of The Regrettes, caught the rock fever early ― she’s been playing guitar since the age of six and has not only attended years of music classes but performed in several bands. Nonetheless, she’s noticed, sound technicians often assume she can’t handle her own equipment. The sexism is difficult to ignore thanks to one simple fact: The band has one male member, drummer Maxx Morando. “We’ve met so many amazing sound people,” she told me, “but we’ve met so many annoying sound people who just assume that ... oh, of course Maxx knows how to set up his drums, but she must not know how to set up her amp.”

Though many of the women I spoke to said that they felt respected and appreciated by their male peers in the industry, the spaces men make for themselves aren’t always welcoming. Women might be left out of bands and tours by men who want to keep the fratty vibe, or who don’t want their significant others to worry about infidelity. “Tour buses are definitely places where women get excluded,” Abovitz said, referencing a situation she’d recently advised another female musician about. “They don’t get hired. They just get left off.” Her acquaintance and the other woman in her band weren’t invited on a bus due to this reasoning; in the end, they had to drive themselves separately for the entire tour.

When it’s not the men directly involved in the industry, it’s the press. Music journalism, a field that was carved out and is still largely populated by white men, has historically been hostile at worst, and patronizing at best, to female artists. “The assumption [was] that interviewers and other people could treat us with condescension and that was the norm,” says Millington. “That condescension was pretty lethal, because it can come at you in so many different ways, even the subtle ways cut ― at least 50 percent, 60 percent or more of the time, the condescension had to be there even if [critics] said they liked us.”

Critics and journalists might cover a girl band with a tone of surprise that a group of women could even play competently, or fixate on the band members’ sex appeal and gendered characteristics.

Plus, female artists were played off each other, creating the impression that in the massive rock universe, there was only room for one woman star. “It was never about the music,” Raven remembered of her early reviews. “They always had to compare me with somebody.” Usually, the times being what they were, that somebody was Janis Joplin. In 1969, legendary rock critic Robert Christgau described her as “this group’s resident Janis Joplin” in a review of Ten Wheel Drive, a jazz-rock band she joined after Goldie and the Gingerbreads broke up. Joplin comes up yet again in his review of one of her solo albums, “Urban Desire,” in addition to the accusation that “she oversings.” (Christgau’s oeuvre is a trove of chauvinistic criticism, which is rarely subtle; he takes pains to graciously judge that Fanny’s “execution is competent enough.”)

In the early days of rock ’n’ roll, even audiences who presumably showed up to enjoy these shows were sexist by default. Millington and DeBuhr both vividly recalled one particular compliment from male listeners that seemed to dog Fanny throughout its run: “Not bad for chicks!”

No matter where they performed, “that was the best compliment we could get through the early ‘70s. Isn’t that incredible?” Millington told me. “And we almost always smiled and said ‘Thank you.’” Worse, Fanny often confronted the assumption that they couldn’t play their own songs. “I can’t remember how many times people asked us, ‘Who were the male musicians playing on the album?’” DeBuhr remembered. To a group of women who practiced and performed tirelessly and who took pride in their music, this question was particularly galling.

In the punk era, disdainful audiences could be more aggressive. Wolfe half-seriously insisted that her nearsightedness and poor hearing protected her ego from the vitriol of sexist crowds. “A lot of the time I was saved by the fact that I couldn’t see or hear what was going on in the audience,” she said. After Bratmobile’s second show, Kathleen Hanna met them offstage and asked if they were OK. Unbeknownst to them, some “scary metalhead dudes” in the crowd had been hollering death threats at the band throughout their set.

Harder to ignore: An incident at a show during Wolfe’s time in the late-’90s band Cold Cold Hearts, when a man grabbed her ass while she performed. “I actually started laughing, because it was just too shocking,” she said.

“Growing up, there were a lot of girl artists like the Spice Girls, Aaliyah and Destiny’s Child,” Alana Haim told Lip Mag in 2014. “But none of them really played instruments and I would always look up to Stevie Nicks and Blondie – they are dope female musicians. So I just see us as a band. When people call us a girl band, I take it as an insult – being a girl in a band shouldn’t be a thing. It seems so medieval.”

Some women involved with the music world saw a relatively egalitarian, non-threatening environment, at least in specific scenes. Punk historian Gillian McCain, co-author of the oral history Please Kill Me, pushed back on the idea that the early punk scene could be sexually exploitative. “The girls were enjoying their sexual freedom as much as the boys were,” she wrote in an email. “None of the women we interviewed saw themselves as victims.”

But there’s no denying that some women in the music industry have been victimized, and that the experience can directly affect their careers. Pop star and songwriter Kesha, the most infamous recent example, follows in a long line of women whose voices were snuffed out thanks to male exploitation. Due to her ironclad contract and current legal battle with her former producer, Dr. Luke, whom she has accused of sexual and other abuse, Kesha is reported to be sitting on at least 22 new songs she’s not allowed to bring out.

In 2015, the original bassist of The Runaways, Jackie Fuchs, accused the band’s late manager, Kim Fowley, of raping her soon after she joined the band in 1975. She quit in 1977. In a HuffPost Highline feature, Jason Cherkis documented multiple alleged victims of Fowley’s sexual violence, primarily Fuchs and Kari Krome, a precocious songwriter Fowley began grooming at just 13 years old. By the time Cherkis spoke to Krome, some 40 years later, she had been out of the music business since her teen years, instead writing boxes full of unpublished lyrics. “[S]he couldn’t shake the idea that Fowley never believed in her talent, that he only wanted to sleep with her,” he wrote. “She ended up abandoning her dreams of becoming a successful songwriter.”

Though it’s impossible to say how many women’s careers have been stunted or destroyed by sexual predation, even those who remain and succeed continue to face gendered criticism and abuse. With few other options, women musicians often embrace determinedly nonchalant attitudes toward their harassers and critics. “It’s hard to play a show when someone screams ‘you can’t play guitar’ or ‘you’re hot,’ but at the same time,” said Koch, “we try to not let it ruin us.”

During the riot grrrl movement of the ‘90s, women on the scene tried to find safety in solidarity. After the butt-grabbing incident at her Cold Cold Hearts show, Wolfe remembered, “The amazing thing is I didn’t have to do anything. It was a girl power show; all the women bounced him out in two seconds.” By urging “girls to the front” and forefronting feminism, riot grrrl created a safer space for women in rock ― at least temporarily. In other times, in other cases, playing through the pain simply led to burnout. “I left Fanny in ‘73, because I was just tired,” Millington told me.

When women aren’t kept out of rock genres through sheer discouragement, exclusion or harassment, the malleable nature of the genre can also be used against them. Women artists may be edited out of the rock annals simply through gendered perceptions ― what men play is rock and what women play is pop. Nowhere is this more evidently the case than with black women, who, like black men, often find themselves reflexively categorized as R&B simply because of their race. As Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos wrote in 2016, the white appropriation of rock has been so total that it “box[es] black performers into R&B and soul categories no matter how genre-bending they are.”

“Though largely forgotten in our whitewashed annals of history,” LaTonya Pennington wrote in The Establishment, “black women helped create the genre of rock, which has its roots in blues, country, jazz, gospel and R&B.” Just as many pioneers of rock were black men ― Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard and Bo Diddley ― many of the early female pioneers, like “Godmother of Rock ’n’ Roll” Sister Rosetta Tharpe, were black. White women were also often complicit in undercutting black women performers. The first recording of “Piece of My Heart” was performed by Erma Franklin ― known as an R&B singer ― yet it was white singer Janis Joplin ― known as a rocker ― whose rendition rose to fame.

The contributions of black women have been routinely swept under the rug and written out of rock history. But Pennington, Spanos and other critics have seen black women reclaiming their place in the rock genre in recent years, from undeniably rock acts such as The Alabama Shakes (fronted by vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard) to indie darling Santigold to, yes, Beyoncé.

In “Lemonade,” the pop icon dabbled in country and rock ’n’ roll to great effect. “Beyoncé... provided one of the year’s most memorable rock moments with ‘[Don’t] Hurt Yourself,’” Crawford argued. “Here we have a song by a black woman artist (Beyoncé), who has not typically been ‘seen’ as a rock musician, which appropriates white rock masculinity in order to emphasize that the origins of rock music (in the blues) lie with black women, whose music was, in turn, appropriated by white men.” The all-important visuals work fluidly with the song to reinforce this message, she added. “The film clip ... which begins and ends with a young black woman sitting behind a drum kit, makes literally visible this lineage of largely disregarded and historically invisible black female musicianship.”

Passing The Torch

With all the obstacles and forms of discouragement women in rock have faced over the decades, rock is no longer the coolest nor freshest genre. Does it even matter how inclusive it is to women anymore? Crawford, though she qualifies that it’s important for women to have equal opportunity in any genre, suggests women look elsewhere. The masculinization of the scene has been so entrenched, and the genre itself seems so archaic, that she “wouldn’t necessarily advise [a young woman today] to pick up a guitar. I think of rock music like the realist novel ― it’s fun, people are still doing it, but why?” And though “other genres have their own problems,” she pointed out, there’s a less lengthy and calcified history of exclusion to undo. Women have been making huge amounts of exciting, boundary-pushing music in electronic music, in pop and beyond ― rock just hasn’t been as welcoming.

Conversely, McCain downplayed the severity of the obstacles faced by women in punk rock ― though the punk scene was predominantly male. “Unfortunately that’s the case in a lot of vocations,” she wrote in an email. “I think there were barriers to both men and women making it in punk music! [...] In some ways the women may have held an advantage as far as getting more media attention.” McCain cited breakout female stars of the era, from Patti Smith to Tina Weymouth, who remain popular today. As Ravan realized in the 1960s, being a woman in a man’s world could be a great marketing tool.

Still, staking a visible claim to rock music isn’t just an ego trip for marginalized artists: It clears the path to stardom for those that follow. Not only does it make it easier for audiences and critics to conceptualize, for example, black and female artists as rockers, but it helps future musicians to avoid the derision, harassment and sense of alienation that has afflicted many.

Even today, women deal with gendered belittlement and abuse on tour. But audiences have seen enough female rock musicians to mitigate the level of scorn faced by individual artists. Where Fanny and Goldie and the Gingerbreads often felt like their gender was so unusual that it was simply treated as a gimmick ― the only reason people bothered to book them as opposed to the many male bands ― women who are currently early in their music careers see a more diverse scene. Night told me that The Regrettes perform alongside “a lot of women ... super badass women.”

Zeldin has also toured with a number of bands with one or more woman. “There are a lot of bands that have at least some female presence. It’s nice to see that happening more and more,” she said.

Part of the more welcoming environment for women and gender non-binary individuals in rock has to do with changing norms, like a better understanding of the harm caused by sexual assault. Recalling her time in Fanny in the ‘70s, DeBuhr describes a scene that was not only permissive of male urges, but that lacked a language to talk about it critically. Though sometimes she felt deeply uncomfortable with the sexualized atmosphere, she told me, “At the time, I don’t think we called it sexual harassment ... It was creepy, I didn’t like it.” Creepy behavior might still be fairly common in the music industry, but women musicians do have the vocabulary to talk about it. Take music publicist Heathcliff Berru, once a power player in the field. He fell precipitously from grace after a raft of female musicians and industry professionals ― most notably Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors ― publicly accused him of various forms of sexual misconduct.

Even the idea that women can be rebels and artists as well as homemakers, mothers and playthings needed to emerge over the past few decades. Not only were the first all-girl bands were presented as gimmicks, they were often presented as sexualized ones. Fowley notoriously positioned The Runaways as a clique of sexy jailbait rather than serious musicians ― and that’s a temporary brand at best.

During high school, in 1960s Iowa, DeBuhr played in a girl band called Women. (“We were a gimmick,” explained. “That was the attraction, it was all girls.”) While at an Iowan club, teenage DeBuhr saw a female drummer in a jazz trio. The drummer was older, “maybe 40,” she recalled. “I said, ‘I will quit when I‘m 30. I won’t be an old lady playing the drums.” She did end up hanging up her drumsticks not long after Fanny broke up. Now, she says, she regrets it.

To a young DeBuhr, that solitary, middle-aged woman drummer may have seemed like an oddity at the time; the lack of visible female rock icons inevitably perpetuates the assumption that women don’t belong onstage, unless they’re go-go dancers or sultry vocalists. Even serious bands like Fanny and the Gingerbreads faced pressure to go onstage scantily clad ― which they resisted to varying degrees.

Perhaps the most important evolution has been the determined, serious incursion of women into the genre, a genre that at first seemed to have no place for them. Though Ravan and Millington cite a few forerunners as inspirations ― Etta James, Lillian Briggs ― they saw their own music as something different. They were playing rock ’n’ roll in bands, just like the boys.

Today, budding musicians have a pantheon of women rockstars to draw inspiration from and emulate. “When I was five, my dad took me to a Donnas concert ... and I just fell in love with it,” Night told me. “The turning point for me ― I think I was 10 ― my mom took me to see a movie about the drummer of Hole. I started listening to a lot of Hole, Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland.”

A push for mostly all-women bands may be unlikely today because, in a more inclusive scene, female musicians see less of a need to huddle together. When Night initially fell in love with The Donnas, she longed to start an all-girl band; now, she says, she doesn’t even think about gender when forming a band. Zeldin, who has always worked with male musicians, felt the same. “I’d totally be down to do a girl band,” she told me. But she wouldn’t be motivated to do so “just because it would be all girls.”

The success of “girl rock” can come in waves. For groups like Fanny and Bratmobile, being all women was part of the point; at those times, it felt like both safety in solidarity and a way of making political statement. “If the whole point was giving voice to girls, then yeah, we wanted to play with other girls,” said Wolfe. After the overtly feminist, but flawed, riot grrrl scene faded, punk and indie rock seemed to contract around men again.

“I feel like riot grrrl ended in the mid-’90s, and by the late-‘90s there was a lot of backlash,” said Wolfe. “Suddenly there were a lot fewer girl bands in the punk scene, and it was like, what happened?” The backlash to riot grrrl, which she concedes had its own problems, still felt “like sexism. Or just dissing feminism.”

Though juggernaut all-women bands like Sleater-Kinney arose from and survived riot grrrl, they were more the exception than the rule. By the early aughts, critics were commenting on the almost startling sexism of the ascendant emo and punk scene. Andy Greenwald’s Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo noted the dearth of women on popular emo labels, as well as the overtly resentful and objectifying view emo artists took of women: “Now emo songwriters were one-sided victims of heartbreak, utterly wronged and ready to sing about it, with the women having no chance to respond.”

In an essay on emo misogyny from her 2015 book The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, titled “Where the Girls Aren’t,” music journalist and critic Jessica Hopper remembered growing up in the era of riot grrrl. “For me, even as a teenage autodidact who thought her every idea was worthy of expression and an audience,” she wrote, “it did not occur to me to start a band until I saw other women in one.” Watching female fans at emo shows where all-male artists sang about cardboard-cutout women who had hurt them, she thought, “I don’t want these front row girls to miss that. I don’t want girls leaving clubs denied of encouragement and potential.”

The clock couldn’t simply be turned back to the 1950s after the riot grrrl era ended, though. Bikini Kill records were still out there. We knew about the Bangles. Zeldin, who grew up frequenting the emo and hardcore scene, took the rarity of women onstage at those shows as a challenge. “I think that’s probably partially what drove me to do it, aside from having the inclination,” she told me. “It was more like ― I don’t see girls doing so let’s do it.”

Abovitz, who launched a whole publication to cover female drummers, believes fervently in the power of modeling. “There’s this sort of thing that every female drummer I know does: Go out and play a show not just for herself, but for every other female drummer,” she said. “You just want to do it, so that people will get over it already.”

The scene already looks less homogenous than it did 10 years ago, despite the daunting machismo of the aughts. Earlier generations of women musicians have sought to further their gains by promoting their own legacies, and even by educating new generations. Millington started the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA) with her partner, Ann F. Hackler, in 1986. The institute runs rock camps for young girls, among other initiatives to support women in music. Camps like the IMA’s have begun to bear fruit ― like Night’s The Regrettes, formed by three girls and a boy who met in an LA School of Rock.

Though the genre has put up walls against women for decades, women have refused to stay out ― and the more they refuse, the more open the music industry becomes to all women.

“You gotta keep writing songs that speak out about this stuff, or keep being in bands, or whatever it is that you do,” said Wolfe. “Being there, inserting yourself in a space that isn’t common for women to be.”



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Lea Michele sings power ballads for the iAge

She also drew some inspiration from Stevie Nicks.
“She’s been really wonderful for me, a constant source of inspiration. She’s such a talented performer. She’d given me an [art] book many years ago, that I flip through now and again. I go back and look at it. It’s sources of motivation,” Michele says.


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‘Glee’ star Lea Michele sings from her newest album at the Shubert May 3

“I do not procrastinate. I do my business and I stay on top of everything. The album title was the only thing I didn’t get to. The record label finally said, ‘Lea, you have to come up with a name by tomorrow.’ Stevie Nicks is a good friend and she’s also kind of my spirit animal, so I sat down, listened to Fleetwood Mac, and looked at this amazing art book and personal note that Stevie gave me. And I said, ‘Stevie, I am praying to you for help,’” recalls Michele, with a laugh.


http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/entertainment/20170427/glee-star-lea-michele-sings-from-her-newest-album-at-shubert-may-3/1

[SisterNightroad]

Dave Grohl’s mum on what it was like bringing up the rock legend
Virginia Hanlon Grohl, who spawned the Nirvana and Foo Fighters star, tells Mark Beaumont about life as a rock mum

Behind every rock god there’s a devoted mother trying to get strange stains out of leather trousers. Yet, on her regular tours with Foo Fighters, Virginia Hanlon Grohl never seemed to run into any of the other rock stars’ mums. So she set out to interview them, telling the stories of the mothers of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Dr Dre, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Amy Winehouse, Beastie Boys’ Mike D, Haim, Pharrell Williams and more in her new book From Cradle To Stage. “It turned out to be an amazing group of women who all said in the beginning, ‘There’s nothing special about me, nothing interesting about my story’,” she says, “and that turned out to be entirely untrue.”

Have you found yourself in some strange rock ’n’ roll situations?

“Early on, the fans were difficult with Nirvana – it was hard to get out of a car. I’ve met Stevie Nicks, I’ve met Prince Harry, I’ve met Obama when Dave played at the White House. Paul McCartney was there, so I got to watch the President as he sang ‘Michelle’ to his wife. That was a very shivery evening.”


Read more at http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/dave-grohl-mum-interview-book-2061760#W6K0Col8aK1gZHZ4.99

[SisterNightroad]

These Were The 10 Bestselling Albums And Singles On Record Store Day 2017

This year, Record Store Day turned 10 years old, and the annual event celebrated by recruiting some of the biggest names in the business to release special editions, live recordings and previously unheard collections, as is the case every time one of the music industry's favorite days rolls around again.

When compared with last year, the 10th edition of Record Store Day was another triumph, with sales on the rise in most categories. According to data compiled and shared by BuzzAngle Music, total album sales in independent record shops on April 22 (the date Record Store Day took place this year) were up 6% from 2016. When looking at specifically vinyl album sales, that number swells to a 14% rise. It seems the public is no longer as interested in vinyl singles as they once were, as sales of that format were down 3% from the year before.

When Record Store Day sales numbers (which the organization doesn’t release to the public) are compared to the weekend prior, when there is no special promotion taking place, it is clear how effective the event truly is. Vinyl album sales on April 22 at indie stores rose just over 2,600% from the weekend before, while total album sales (including CDs) at small record shops were up 1,274%.

BuzzAngle also ranked the bestselling albums and singles on that day, and while many new artists do release their material on vinyl these days, the biggest names from decades past still performed the best, with rabid fans snapping up special items while they were still available.

These were the top 10 bestselling albums in independent record stores on Record Store Day 2017:

1. Grateful Dead - N.E. Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 7/29/66

2. David Bowie - Cracked Actor

3. The Doors - Live At The Matrix ’67

4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Live From Welcome To 1979

5. The Cure - Greatest Hits Acoustic

6. The Cure - Greatest Hits

7. Sublime - Badfish

8. Stevie Nicks - Rarities

9. The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Lime and Limpid

10. The Notorious B.I.G. - Born Again

These were the top 10 bestselling singles in independent record stores on Record Store Day 2017:

1. The Beatles - “Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane”

2. John Williams - “Star Wars: A New Hope”

3. U2 - “Red Hill Mining Town”

4. Pearl Jam - “State of Love and Trust / Breath”

5. Pink Floyd - “Interstellar Overdrive”

6. Prince - “Little Red Corvette / 1999”

7. The Smiths - “Boy With The Thorn In His Side”

8. Alice In Chains - “What The Hell Have I b/w Get Born Again”

9. Rush - “Cygnus X-1”

10. Def Leppard - Def Leppard EP



https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2017/05/01/these-were-the-10-bestselling-albums-and-singles-on-record-store-day-2017/#3345be5d1b7e

[gldstwmn]

These Were The 10 Bestselling Albums And Singles On Record Store Day 2017


These were the top 10 bestselling albums in independent record stores on Record Store Day 2017:

1. Grateful Dead - N.E. Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 7/29/66

2. David Bowie - Cracked Actor

3. The Doors - Live At The Matrix ’67

4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Live From Welcome To 1979

5. The Cure - Greatest Hits Acoustic

6. The Cure - Greatest Hits

7. Sublime - Badfish

8. Stevie Nicks - Rarities

9. The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Lime and Limpid

10. The Notorious B.I.G. - Born Again

These were the top 10 bestselling singles in independent record stores on Record Store Day 2017:

1. The Beatles - “Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane”

2. John Williams - “Star Wars: A New Hope”

3. U2 - “Red Hill Mining Town”

4. Pearl Jam - “State of Love and Trust / Breath”

5. Pink Floyd - “Interstellar Overdrive”

6. Prince - “Little Red Corvette / 1999”

7. The Smiths - “Boy With The Thorn In His Side”

8. Alice In Chains - “What The Hell Have I b/w Get Born Again”

9. Rush - “Cygnus X-1”

10. Def Leppard - Def Leppard EP



https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2017/05/01/these-were-the-10-bestselling-albums-and-singles-on-record-store-day-2017/#3345be5d1b7e

Huh. No Mirage? That should drive some folks on the Rumours forum crazy.

[SisterNightroad]

Sister Act 2: How Haim Found Their Way Back With 'Something 
to Tell You'

Este is wearing a crescent-moon necklace that Stevie Nicks – a big Haim fan – gave each sister as a gift. "She took us to Moonshadows," Danielle says, "this restaurant in Malibu, and was like, 'This is where we used to hang out,' telling us stories about Don Henley and stuff."


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-haim-found-their-way-back-with-something-to-tell-you-w480244



Feminine Growl
Anna Rose doesn't conform to traditional stereotypes of the female—or male—rock star

Rose gladly lists some of the strongest women in music as influences. She considers Patti Smith to be a pioneer and incredible role model. Sheryl Crow showed people you don't have to be 21 years old to make it. Stevie Nicks reigns as an incomparable vocal idol. And for her personally, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt paved the way.


http://www.bendsource.com/bend/stellar-female-musicians-throughout-history/Content?oid=3163016

[lilyfee]

I don't know how to embed but Haim briefly discuss meeting "personal hero" Stevie on "Last Questions":

https://youtu.be/vBt-Nm0eKw0?t=1m22s

[SisterNightroad]

Here, you just have to click with the right and select "copy embed code" (or something similar):

<iframe width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vBt-Nm0eKw0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[James89]

Rooms on Fire was played earlier today on BBC Radio 2. After the song finished the presenter said "Isn't that the best song? We should just play that every week." :lol:

I have to say, even after all these years ROF sounds fantastic. What a single it was. One of Stevie's best and I think if it was released earlier in her solo career it would've done even better. Such a tune.

[svnwndrs]

Rooms on Fire was played earlier today on BBC Radio 2. After the song finished the presenter said "Isn't that the best song? We should just play that every week." :lol:

I have to say, even after all these years ROF sounds fantastic. What a single it was. One of Stevie's best and I think if it was released earlier in her solo career it would've done even better. Such a tune.

Man, do I wish this song would EVER be played on any radio station AT ALL. It's fantastic and it's not over played like a few of her other singles. It's a shame, really.

[BombaySapphire3]

Man, do I wish this song would EVER be played on any radio station AT ALL. It's fantastic and it's not over played like a few of her other singles. It's a shame, really.

The last truly great single by Stevie ,Fleetwood Mac or any of it' s members.

[dreamsunwind]

The last truly great single by Stevie ,Fleetwood Mac or any of it' s members.

I disagree I love Lindsey's song Countdown.

[24karatstevie]

Stevie joined Harry Styles from One Direction at his show earlier last night. Here's a clip of Landslide I found on Instagram. She's been pretty quiet since the tour ended. I was wondering if she'd make any one-off appearances.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUTTCEeBm_J/?hl=en

[Andyleo]

I saw this. I actually don't mind it.

[SisterNightroad]

Was Chris Cornell taking ‘the world’s deadliest’ prescription medication?

In speaking out against a medical examiner’s preliminary finding that Chris Cornell died of suicide by hanging, his family said he was not suicidal and suggested that side effects of prescription drugs could have led to his death.

Specifically, they point out that the Seattle-based Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman may have taken “an extra Ativan or two” before his death and wonder if this commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medication affected his actions, People reported. Soundgarden lead vocalist Chris Cornell performs in concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, July 21, 2011.

Cornell, 52, was found in his hotel room at the MGM Grand Detroit following his grunge band’s performance Wednesday night. According to his wife Vicky, Cornell was slurring his words when she spoke to him on the phone after his show. He admitted to her that he had taken more than his prescribed dose of Ativan. Vicky Cornell said the call prompted her to contact security to ask that they check on him.

Cornell family’s attorney Kirk Pasich said in a statement that the family is “disturbed” by inferences that Cornell knowingly and intentionally took his life. Pasich said such conclusions shouldn’t be made before the results of toxicology tests come in.

“Without the results of toxicology tests, we do not know what was going on with Chris — or if any substances contributed to his demise,” Pasich said. “Chris, a recovering addict, had a prescription for Ativan and may have taken more Ativan than recommended dosages. The family believes that if Chris took his life, he did not know what he was doing, and that drugs or other substances may have affected his actions.”

Ativan is the brand name for lorazepam,a benzodiazepine, that is used to treat anxiety, drug withdrawal, agoraphobia and seizure disorders, among other things. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, serious side effects of using Ativan include worsening depression, unusual mood or behavior and suicidal thoughts.

Like all benzodiazepines, Ativan is mostly intended for short-term use and comes with a risk of dependance and addiction. The addiction and recovery website The Fix puts dependance on “benzos” in more dire terms, describing addiction to drugs in this class as particularly grueling and potentially lethal.

“When it comes to prescription drugs that are not only able to kill you but can drag out the final reckoning for years on end, with worsening misery at every step of the way, it is hard to top the benzodiazepines,” writer Christopher Byron says in the 2011 post, which is headlined “Is this the world’s deadliest pill?”
The brand name for other benzos include Valium, famously known as “mother’s little helper”; Restoril, which was developed as a short-term treatment for insomnia but became known as the “date rape” drug; and Xanax, which at one point may have accounted for 60 percent of all hospital admissions for addiction, Byron said.

Then there is Klonopin, the brand name for the pill known as clonazepam, which was originally brought to the market in 1975 as a medication for epileptic seizures. Since then, Klonopin, as well as other benzos, have become “a prescription of choice for drug abusers from Hollywood to Wall Street.”

Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks spoke openly in interviews about overcoming her addiction to Klonopin, the Fix says. But other celebrities didn’t survive their experience with benzodiazepines: model and actress Margaux Hemingway committed suicide by overdosing on a barbiturate-benzodiazepine cocktail in 1996 and Hollywood producer Don Simpson died from an unintentional benzo-based overdose. Author David Foster Wallace, who was suffering from profound depression, was prescribed Klonopin before he hanged himself in his back yard in September 2008.

With regard to the Soundgarden singer, Vicky Cornell’s statement Friday describes her husband as a devoted father and husband whose world revolved around his family first and his music second.

“Chris’s death is a loss that escapes words and has created an emptiness in my heart that will never be filled,” she said about her husband, whom she wed in Paris in 2004. Together, they have two children, Toni, 12, and Christopher, 11. The singer also had a daughter Lillian, 16, from his previous marriage to Susan Silver.

Vicky Cornell said her husband flew home for Mother’s Day to spend time with his children and stayed through Wednesday before flying to Detroit to perform. During his visit home, she said, he talked about vacation plans for Memorial Day weekend and “other things we wanted to do.”

“What happened is inexplicable and I am hopeful that further medical reports will provide additional details,” she said. “I know that he loved our children and he would not hurt them by intentionally taking his own life.”



http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/19/was-chris-cornell-taking-the-worlds-deadliest-prescription-medication/

[michelej1]

It's so strange to hear audio from Michigan with Cornell sounding chipper, just hours before taking his own life. His wife said he sounded normal on the phone too.

Michele

[gldstwmn]

It's so strange to hear audio from Michigan with Cornell sounding chipper, just hours before taking his own life. His wife said he sounded normal on the phone too.

Michele

I watched some YouTube videos of it and he seems a little off. There was an article that
reiterated as much. I don't know what to think. People are trying to rent his room at the hotel. :distress:

[michelej1]

I watched some YouTube videos of it and he seems a little off. There was an article that
reiterated as much. I don't know what to think. People are trying to rent his room at the hotel. :distress:

People are awful. I heard the same thing about people trying to stay in the hotel room where Whitney Houston was found.

Michele

[Sanne2]

From an interview with Giorgio Moroder: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7817625/giorgio-moroder-djing-david-guetta-weeknd

“Take My Breath Away,” recorded by Berlin for Top Gun, won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Song in 1986. Didn’t several other singers took a crack at it before Terri?
Several. [The Motels’] Martha [Davis] did one. It came out nice, but [producers] Jerry [Bruckheimer] and Don [Simpson] didn’t think it was right. We gave it to Stevie Nicks. I don’t think she said she doesn’t like it, [but] she passed. There was a male British singer, Paul Young, and then I think we had somebody else.

[StreetAngel86]

It's so strange to hear audio from Michigan with Cornell sounding chipper, just hours before taking his own life. His wife said he sounded normal on the phone too.

Michele

His wife said his behavior had been STRANGE and out of character the days before/day of his death ...


anyone can fake happy on a phone

[SisterNightroad]

Watch Harry Styles take over 'The Tonight Show'

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Careful what your guests wish for, Jimmy Fallon.

During Harry Styles' appearance on The Tonight Show Wednesday, the talk show host presented his guest with a jade bottle he said was given to him by Stevie Nicks. According to the legend told by Fallon, if you make a wish and blow into the bottle it will come true.

After the Dunkirk actor hesitantly did as he was instructed, the comedian clutched his chest and fell to the ground. The Sign of the Times singer wasted no time taking Fallon's place behind the host desk and hyping the crowd up for the evening's show.

Looks like practicing on The Late Late Show made perfect.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/07/20/harry-styles-wish-to-man-the-tonight-show-kills-jimmy-fallon/103851904/

[SisterNightroad]

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women

70. Stevie Nicks
Bella Donna (Modern, 1981)
On September 3, 1981, Stevie Nicks graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, flanked only by the same pet cockatoo that accompanied her on the cover of her newly-released solo debut, Bella Donna. In the sub-header, Rolling Stone dubbed Nicks the "Reigning Queen of Rock & Roll" — a title cemented two days later when Bella Donna hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was a seminal turning point in Nicks' career, transforming her from one of three songwriters in Fleetwood Mac into a bona fide icon. Here was the ethereal gypsy woman pulling back the shroud and emerging stronger than ever. Her voice unfurled, backed by a propulsive guitar riff on "Edge of Seventeen," one of the album's four Top 40 singles and arguably her most recognizable song. (Destiny's Child even sampled the riff in their 2001 hit, "Bootylicious," with Nicks making a cameo appearance in the music video.) With "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (featuring Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) and "Leather and Lace" (featuring the Eagles' Don Henley) peaking at No. 3 and No. 6 respectively, Nicks not only proved that she could hold court with some of the biggest male names in rock, but that she was a pioneer in her own right. Throughout the years, Nicks' voice has been a gateway to a world of depth, and her words a vehicle for nostalgia. As she sings midway through Bella Donna, "the feelings remain" long after these songs end. But when it comes to Stevie Nicks, the glitter never fades. —Desiré Moses (WNRN)



http://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538354622/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women-page-9

[24karatstevie]

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women

70. Stevie Nicks
Bella Donna (Modern, 1981)
On September 3, 1981, Stevie Nicks graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, flanked only by the same pet cockatoo that accompanied her on the cover of her newly-released solo debut, Bella Donna. In the sub-header, Rolling Stone dubbed Nicks the "Reigning Queen of Rock & Roll" — a title cemented two days later when Bella Donna hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was a seminal turning point in Nicks' career, transforming her from one of three songwriters in Fleetwood Mac into a bona fide icon. Here was the ethereal gypsy woman pulling back the shroud and emerging stronger than ever. Her voice unfurled, backed by a propulsive guitar riff on "Edge of Seventeen," one of the album's four Top 40 singles and arguably her most recognizable song. (Destiny's Child even sampled the riff in their 2001 hit, "Bootylicious," with Nicks making a cameo appearance in the music video.) With "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (featuring Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) and "Leather and Lace" (featuring the Eagles' Don Henley) peaking at No. 3 and No. 6 respectively, Nicks not only proved that she could hold court with some of the biggest male names in rock, but that she was a pioneer in her own right. Throughout the years, Nicks' voice has been a gateway to a world of depth, and her words a vehicle for nostalgia. As she sings midway through Bella Donna, "the feelings remain" long after these songs end. But when it comes to Stevie Nicks, the glitter never fades. —Desiré Moses (WNRN)



http://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538354622/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women-page-9
Only number 70?! :shrug: Oh well it's number 1 in my heart!

[SisterNightroad]

Only number 70?! :shrug: Oh well it's number 1 in my heart!
And behind Spice Girls, Madonna and Destiny's Child nonetheless. Also putting Beyonce's Lemonade at 6th higher than Patti Smith and Janis Joplin feels like a joke but all's subjective.

[James89]

I guess it's based on the impact they have had on women? Not really sure tbh.

[MikeInNV]

In the August 11 issue of Entertainment Weekly, there is an article about the reboot of Will & Grace. It mentions how most of the test audience who watched the original series pilot didn't realize Will was gay, "despite him talking about Stevie Nicks' fashion sense and professing his love for George Clooney before the opening credits had even begun rolling."

[sorcerer999]

In the August 11 issue of Entertainment Weekly, there is an article about the reboot of Will & Grace. It mentions how most of the test audience who watched the original series pilot didn't realize Will was gay, "despite him talking about Stevie Nicks' fashion sense and professing his love for George Clooney before the opening credits had even begun rolling."

Whoever wrote the EW article needs to do their homework. It was actually GRACE who made the comment about Stevie in the opening of the Pilot episode. :laugh:

[MikeInNV]

Whoever wrote the EW article needs to do their homework. It was actually GRACE who made the comment about Stevie in the opening of the Pilot episode. :laugh:

Really? I remembered it as Will too. I thought he was critiquing something from Grace's wardrobe and made the comparison. Guess I'm going to have to find that episode and watch it again.

[sorcerer999]

Really? I remembered it as Will too. I thought he was critiquing something from Grace's wardrobe and made the comparison. Guess I'm going to have to find that episode and watch it again.

Will - "Did you get that black flowy thing?"

Grace - "No. It was too 'Stevie Nicks: the heavy years'."

[SisterNightroad]

I found and translated this interesting article from Italian journal La Repubblica:

Women's albums preferred by women: the 30 most loved

The National Public Radio, the independent organization that embraces more than 900 US radio stations, has selected 50 listeners, asking them to create a curious ranking: fishing from women albums, published between 1964 and today, they had to chose their 150 favorites. The long list, which according to NPR is "an invention, a remedy, a 'correction' of what the history of music has decreed and, hopefully, a way to start a new dialogue," reveals many surprises. The list is dominated almost entirely by American artists and, massively, by interpreters of color. And if a good part of the titles are concentrated between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, and there are several from the 1990s, the previous decade - the 80s - is relegated to a marginal period not only in history but also in the hearts. It's surprising the presence in the top 30 of some contemporary artists such as Beyoncé (last year's Lemonade is the latest record to dominate the top 10 positions, along with 'Back to Black' by the late Amy Winehouse and '21' by Adele), as that of Fleetwood Mac, the only 'abnormal' choice in the ranking that, despite the presence of the charismatic Stevie Nicks, is a band in which the male presence has always played a key role. Another thing: the only two artists to appear twice in the top 30 are two of the biggest black voices, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone. When the story goes hand in hand with the heart, in short. Also interesting is the presence of some 'outsiders' of the music business, in particular Patti Smith and PJ Harvey, then the feminist 'riot grrrl' Ani Difranco. Also country does quite well with cornerstones Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Lucinda Williams. The hardest hip hop? There's only the 'badass girl' Missy Elliott, who is still in company, though the bar moves more toward neosoul with Lauryn Hill. And the popstars? Madonna is present, and there is also the star of Latin music Selena, killed in 1995. But surprises do not end here. Here are the first 30 discs chosen by NPR listeners, from the thirty-first to the first position, to "rethink the music putting the woman at the center."

https://www.repstatic.it/content/nazionale/img/2017/08/10/173752597-037a5077-4e89-4eb8-8eb9-67860eb8c0a4.jpg
16) Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (Warner Bros., 1977)



http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/musica/2017/08/11/foto/i_30_migliori_dischi_della_storia_incisi_da_artiste_donne-172795832/1/#1

[SisterNightroad]

Stevie Nicks gushes over Harry Styles
Harry Styles has "the world at his fingertips", according to Stevie Nicks.

The 69-year-old Fleetwood Mac star is good friends with the 'Sign of the Times' singer and believes he has the talent to sustain a long-lasting career in both music and movies.

Speaking to Mike Hosking on New Zealand's Newstalk ZB, she said: "I'm a big fan of Harry's, and I think he's a fan of me.

"I believe in Harry Styles. I think he's really good. I think he's funny, I think he's a good actor. I think he has the world at his fingertips and he's going in the right way. And I'm really happy for him and I'm glad to be a part of that."

Stevie performed on stage with Harry during his solo show at The Troubadour in Los Angeles earlier this year and she believes he asked her to join him for some moral support.

She explained: "He called and asked me if I would come and sing at the Troubadour with him. And I'm like, sure I will, but a) sing what? and b) why are you asking me? I know we're friends and everything... And he said, 'because I'm doing this alone and I would just love it if you would come and do this with me'. And I knew what he was saying, it's like, 'it would make me feel better and stronger.'"

Stevie also repeated her previous assertions that her Fleetwood Mac bandmate has "adopted" One Direction singer Harry, 23.

She said: "[Mick Fleetwood] has always wanted a son, and I think he adopted Harry. It's Harry Styles-Fleetwood now."



https://www.sundayworld.com/entertainment/music/stevie-nicks-gushes-over-harry-styles

[SisterNightroad]

Este Haim: ‘I copy how Steve Nicks writes songs’

Haim sisters Este, Danielle and Alana have likened their meeting with Stevie Nicks to a scene in Disney classic Beauty and the Beast.

The band were taken under the wing of Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie a few years ago, and she taught them how she writes lyrics on the back of journal passages.

Este has recreated the songwriting style for her own musical offerings, and the three siblings still can’t get over how lucky they were to meet her.

“The way she journals, I was like, that is so genius!” Este told DIY magazine. “It’s so simple! And now we have these magical little books that depict everything that’s been going on in our lives.”

“Stevie Nicks’ tips,” Danielle added with a smile. “We were super lucky, she took us in her arms, and taught us about journals.”

“It’s like that scene in Beauty and the Beast, where she sees a library for the first time,” Este continued. “And the beast is like, ‘this is all yours’ She walks in, and there’s bound books, upon bound books.”

Haim recently released their second album, Something to Tell You, which reached the top 10 around the globe.

It came nearly four years after their debut record, and the U.S. sisters admit they’d barely left the country before finding success with their first album, Days Are Gone.

“We started playing live as kids, and that’s the part of being in a band that’s so much fun; you get to run around and play music,” Alana grinned. “It’s a dream. Before Days Are Gone I had never really been outside the U.S. It was a culture shock, like, ‘woah, I’m in places I learned about at…’ Places you see in books!”

“Coming back, we had all those experiences to write about, and to draw from.”



http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/107494/Este-Haim-I-copy-how-Steve-Nicks-writes-songs

[SisterNightroad]

7 trends fashion editors will be embracing for the new season

The new season is upon us, and with it, a plethora of new trends to embrace - and many to avoid. The Telegraph’s fashion editors share their AW17 favourites...

Kate Finnigan will be channeling 70s bohemia

I’m of the opinion that once you’ve found the silhouette that suits you, stick to it. Mine is long and cinched in at the waist. That can take me from Katharine Hepburn style slacks and a blouse to floaty maxi dresses via a cropped knit and a mid-length A-line skirt.

This season, thanks to Isabel Marant, it’s going to be a Kate Bush/Stevie Nicks homage - a three-quarter length chiffon or silk dress with a wild print and a waterfall hem, a big belt and over-the-knee boots. It’s always a pleasure and a relief when you spot your signature silhouette on the catwalk so shout out to Marant for providing my phew-I-can-still-be-relevant moment for autumn. And also for making me consider over-the-knee...



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/7-trends-fashion-editors-will-embracing-new-season/

[SisterNightroad]

Carter Alan’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Diary: August 28 in Classic Rock History

Paul and Linda McCartney had a baby girl named Mary on this day in 1969.She appeared on the cover of what album?

ANSWER: “McCartney” (Paul’s first solo album)

What else happened on this day in rock n’ roll history? Here’s the Rock N’ Roll Diary for August 28, from the College of Classic Rock Knowledge – 100.7 WZLX!

1969: Paul and Linda McCartney became proud parents of a new baby girl named Mary and born in London.
1986: Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks and Neil Young headlined a concert in Long Beach, California to raise lobbying money for a law targeting polluters.
1997: Genesis celebrated the release of their album Calling All Stations, their first studio album in six years and their first without Phil Collins, with an unplugged performance at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The album was not a success.
Checking the WZLX ticket stash…
1973: It was Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin at the Music Hall.
1974: The Band played the Boston Garden with Little Feat.
1978: Eddie Money stopped by the Paradise.
1989: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were at Great Woods.


http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2017/08/28/carter-alans-rock-n-roll-diary-august-28-in-classic-rock-history-3/

[SisterNightroad]

Dave Stewart Confirms Sunderland Show As Part Of 65th Birthday Celebrations

Dave Stewart will play Sunderland Empire as part of his 65th birthday celebrations.

The co-founder of Eurythmics, alongside Annie Lennox, Stewart will perform in his hometown on September 10, following his previously confirmed date at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London earlier in the week. Speaking about the new show, Stewart said:

"I’m looking forward to playing lots of the hit songs I’ve written over the years in the legendary Sunderland Empire. I was born and grew up in Sunderland and have many great memories about my life there (I’m sure more will come flooding back). I was a struggling musician as a teenager in Sunderland so I chose to invite the three young local bands below to perform before me. The bands are Social Room, Lilliput and Picnic."

The shows will also accompany the release of 'Nashville Sessions - The Duets, Vol 1', a new compilation that features duets with Stevie Nicks, Alison Krauss, Colbie Caillat and Joss Stone.

Dave Stewart Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:

Fri September 08 2017 - LONDON O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sun September 10 2017 - SUNDERLAND Empire

Click here to compare & buy Dave Stewart Tickets at Stereoboard.com.


https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/210251/9

[Feather Blade]

Dave Stewart Confirms Sunderland Show As Part Of 65th Birthday Celebrations

Dave Stewart will play Sunderland Empire as part of his 65th birthday celebrations.

The co-founder of Eurythmics, alongside Annie Lennox, Stewart will perform in his hometown on September 10, following his previously confirmed date at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London earlier in the week. Speaking about the new show, Stewart said:

"I’m looking forward to playing lots of the hit songs I’ve written over the years in the legendary Sunderland Empire. I was born and grew up in Sunderland and have many great memories about my life there (I’m sure more will come flooding back). I was a struggling musician as a teenager in Sunderland so I chose to invite the three young local bands below to perform before me. The bands are Social Room, Lilliput and Picnic."

The shows will also accompany the release of 'Nashville Sessions - The Duets, Vol 1', a new compilation that features duets with Stevie Nicks, Alison Krauss, Colbie Caillat and Joss Stone.

Dave Stewart Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:

Fri September 08 2017 - LONDON O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sun September 10 2017 - SUNDERLAND Empire

Click here to compare & buy Dave Stewart Tickets at Stereoboard.com.


https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/210251/9

Is the Stevie duet just Cheaper than Blah? I wondered for a second there if this was a reference to something new.

[SisterNightroad]

Today in rock history; the birth of Freddie Mercury, Skinny Puppy arrives, Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna and more
Soundgarden releases 'Louder Than Love,' too.

Today in rock history: on this date in 1981, Bella Donna, the very first solo album from Fleetwood Mac co-lead vocalist Stevie Nicks reached the no. 1 spot on Billboard’s pop albums chart. Stevie’s very first solo outing included contributions from several of her contemporaries and musician friends and it spawned two incredibly successful hit singles that were recorded as duets with some of the most popular of the album’s guests: “Leather and Lace” with Eagles member Don Henley and “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Other album standouts include the country-influenced “After The Glitter Fades” and one of Stevie’s signature songs, “Edge of Seventeen." The record achieved platinum status a month after topping album sales charts and eventually went on to sell in excess of six million copies in the U.S. alone making it Stevie Nicks’ most popular and successful album as a soloist to date. Read our review of Nicks' rarities-laced November 2016 Tampa set here (http://www.cltampa.com/music/reviews/article/20840975/review-stevie-nicks-digs-out-rarities-for-intimate-set-at-tampas-amalie-arena).


http://www.cltampa.com/music/music-news/article/20974513/today-in-rock-history-the-birth-of-freddie-mercury-skinny-puppy-arrives-stevie-nicks-bella-donna-and-more

[SisterNightroad]

2017 Rocktober campaign to feature vinyl reissues from Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Chicago & More

RhinoA new series of cool limited-edition vinyl reissues from various artists will be released on the first four Tuesdays in October as part of the Rhino label’s second annual Rocktober campaign. Among the well-known acts who are part of the campaign: Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Chicago, Faces, The Grateful Dead and T. Rex.
The 2017 Rocktober campaign kicks off October 3, and will feature the reissue of three Alice Cooper albums, Love It to Death, Pretties for You and Special Forces, which will be available, respectively, on black-and-white-swirl, red and white vinyl.
Also being reissued that day will be Faces‘ Ooh La La album on dark-red vinyl and The Velvet Underground‘s Loaded on gold vinyl. In addition, a two-LP version of the soundtrack to the 1981 film Heavy Metal, which includes songs by Journey, Black Sabbath, Sammy Hagar, Stevie Nicks, Grand Funk Railroad, Cheap Trick, Don Felder and many others, will be released.
October 18 will see the release of a two-LP version of the 1997 Chicago compilation Chicago Presents: The Innovative Guitar of Terry Kath, which pays tribute to the band’s late founding lead guitarist.
To close out the initiative on October 24, reissues of T. Rex’s classic Electric Warrior and ZZ Top’s debut, ZZ Top’s First Album, will be available on 180-gram vinyl. In addition, a new two-LP compilation The Best of The Grateful Dead Vol. 2: 1977-1989 also will released.
Other artists with albums being reissued as part of Rhino’s Rocktober initiative include Jane’s Addiction, Nickelback, Skid Row and Testament.
Visit Rhino.com to check out the complete list of Rocktober releases.
Copyright © 2017, ABC Radio. All rights reserved.



http://rock107.com/2017-rocktober-campaign-to-feature-vinyl-reissues-from-alice-cooper-zz-top-chicago-more/

[SisterNightroad]

DEER TICK RETURNS FROM HIATUS WITH A DOUBLE-BARRELED DUAL ALBUM RELEASE

You’ll love it. That’s totally in your wheelhouse too. Though if you do wind up doing a duet for that album, it seems almost a requisite that you and Vanessa [Carlton, McCauley’s wife] do Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around [the classic Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty duet from Nicks’ 1981 solo album, Bella Donna].

Oh yeah! We almost did that at Newport Folk a couple of years ago. (chuckles) We came up with the idea at the last minute, but we could not find the key we were both most comfortable singing in, so we had to abandon it. (chuckles again)

Ah, that’s too bad! You mean you couldn’t call your friend Stevie Nicks and ask, “Hey Stevie, what do we do here?” [Stevie Nicks officiated McCauley and Carlton’s wedding in December 2013].

Yeah! “How did you and Tom figure it out?”


https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/deer-tick-double-album-interview/

[SisterNightroad]

Stand Back: Nina Cain stars in story of Stevie Nicks

Since Nina Cain’s already accomplished the feat of being the lead singer of seven different musical groups at once, you might expect that taking on the persona of Steve Nicks for a couple of weekends at the Cutting Edge Theater in Slidell should be a piece of cake.

Well, yes and no.

For Cain, mastering not just the lyrics but the look and movements of the Rock ‘N' Roll Hall of Famer for “White Winged Dove,” the tribute show debuting Friday and created by Cutting Edge owner/operator Brian Fontenot, was not that difficult.

It’s the biographical narration portions of the show between songs that’s a little harder.

“I have a challenging time on the stage (acting, not singing) sometimes, jumping ahead and things like that,” Cain said. “But this show is not just a concert, and I have to switch back and forth between being Stevie the singer and Nina the storyteller.

“That’s how I want to come across — as a storyteller — not just a singer. I’m telling Stevie’s story along with singing her songs.”

Cain admits she didn’t know much about Nicks or her music before Fontenot approached her in the spring about starring in the latest of the cabaret shows Cutting Edge presents two or three times a year between the theater’s larger productions.

Cain, who was appearing at Pippi, the stripper with the heart of gold, in Cutting Edge’s version of "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" at the time, was Fontenot’s first and only choice for the role.

“For a show like this, you’ve got to have the right physical attributes,” Fontenot said. “Nina’s definitely got that.

“And then, you have to be an outstanding performer. When she walks on that stage, she’s extraordinary.”

To Fontenot, who has penned shows about the lives and music of Mama Cass and Buddy Holley among others, the combination is essential.

Audiences, he said, are expecting to see a recreation of the artists at his or her peak, even if the artist is still living. Nicks is now 69, but still popular and touring. (She drew more than 9,000 to the Smoothie King Center the week "Trailer Park Musical" opened at Cutting Edge).

“People come to these shows looking for nostalgia,” he said. “A single song can take you back 50 years in an instant, so think of what an entire concert can do, especially when you’re bringing back memories by talking and show pictures from the past.

“This audience is going to get Stevie’s good stuff performed in the style when she was at her peak and in a much more intimate setting than you’d get in an arena. It’s playing to your market.”

It's a stroll through Stevie’s greatest hits, both with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist — “Dreams,” “Landslide,” “Rhiannon,” “Stand Back” and the climactic “Edge of 17” among others.

Chad Gearig-Howe, who appeared with Cain in "Trailer Park," and Rob Reidenhauer, add harmony to the performance.

Along the way, Cain also became somewhat of a Nicks expert, not just about her music but about other aspects of her life.

“Her lyrics are very relatable to me, especially ones about going through breakups, because I just did,” she said. “She’s telling the stories I want to tell.

“And she’s into witchy things, and I’ve always wanted to be a witch. We’re both Tauruses, so there’s a lot of magic going on.”

Cain also is into the capes, shawls and scarves that Nicks wears, not just to enhance her mystical aura but because back in the Fleetwood Mac days it made her appear larger on stage.

Another identifying point — at 29, Cain is the same age as Stevie was in 1979 when "Rumours" was in just about everyone's record collection.

And Cain certainly knows something about changing singing styles on stage, going back to the time 10 years ago when the Morgan City native left UNO, where she’d come to study music, to become the lead singer with the house band at the Famous Door on Bourbon Street.

Over the years, Cain has fronted several bands, going from pop to blues to soul to jazz. Among her current gigs is a residency with the New Orleans Juke Box at the Saint Hotel on Canal Street.

“You learn how to dress up for corporate appearance,” she said. “And then maybe you have a bare midriff for a bar. “It’s just whatever suits the moment and what you’re playing.”

Cain said she’s hoping this isn’t her last such show. She’d like a crack at being Madonna.

And Fontenot, who can see this show being held over for an extra weekend, has ideas of his own for future shows with the music of Bette Midler, Gloria Estefan and Barbra Streisand.

So, could there be another collaboration down the road?

“That would be great,” Cain said. “This has been a lot of work, but I’m having the time of my life.”



http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/communities/st_tammany/article_0b06e10e-9a17-11e7-96cc-f7c5c5ba3c61.html

[SisterNightroad]

Kyle Stevens opens up about digital transformation of journalism

On his proudest professional moments, he revealed, "The proudest moment in my career was conducting a long-form interview with the legendary Stevie Nicks. Every day, I wake up feeling blessed because certain people behind the scenes took a chance on a young writer who wanted the opportunity to prove himself. Stevie was very gracious with her time when she didn't have to be. The article that I wound up publishing made me a player in the industry. I thank Stevie for ultimately giving me freedom. A person truly couldn't ask for anything more in life!"

http://www.digitaljournal.com/entertainment/music/kyle-stevens-opens-up-about-digital-transformation-of-journalism/article/502953

[bombaysaffires]

Stand Back: Nina Cain stars in story of Stevie Nicks

Since Nina Cain’s already accomplished the feat of being the lead singer of seven different musical groups at once, you might expect that taking on the persona of Steve Nicks for a couple of weekends at the Cutting Edge Theater in Slidell should be a piece of cake.

Well, yes and no.

For Cain, mastering not just the lyrics but the look and movements of the Rock ‘N' Roll Hall of Famer for “White Winged Dove,” the tribute show debuting Friday and created by Cutting Edge owner/operator Brian Fontenot, was not that difficult.

It’s the biographical narration portions of the show between songs that’s a little harder.

“I have a challenging time on the stage (acting, not singing) sometimes, jumping ahead and things like that,” Cain said. “But this show is not just a concert, and I have to switch back and forth between being Stevie the singer and Nina the storyteller.

“That’s how I want to come across — as a storyteller — not just a singer. I’m telling Stevie’s story along with singing her songs.”

Cain admits she didn’t know much about Nicks or her music before Fontenot approached her in the spring about starring in the latest of the cabaret shows Cutting Edge presents two or three times a year between the theater’s larger productions.

Cain, who was appearing at Pippi, the stripper with the heart of gold, in Cutting Edge’s version of "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" at the time, was Fontenot’s first and only choice for the role.

“For a show like this, you’ve got to have the right physical attributes,” Fontenot said. “Nina’s definitely got that.

“And then, you have to be an outstanding performer. When she walks on that stage, she’s extraordinary.”

To Fontenot, who has penned shows about the lives and music of Mama Cass and Buddy Holley among others, the combination is essential.

Audiences, he said, are expecting to see a recreation of the artists at his or her peak, even if the artist is still living. Nicks is now 69, but still popular and touring. (She drew more than 9,000 to the Smoothie King Center the week "Trailer Park Musical" opened at Cutting Edge).

“People come to these shows looking for nostalgia,” he said. “A single song can take you back 50 years in an instant, so think of what an entire concert can do, especially when you’re bringing back memories by talking and show pictures from the past.

“This audience is going to get Stevie’s good stuff performed in the style when she was at her peak and in a much more intimate setting than you’d get in an arena. It’s playing to your market.”

It's a stroll through Stevie’s greatest hits, both with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist — “Dreams,” “Landslide,” “Rhiannon,” “Stand Back” and the climactic “Edge of 17” among others.

Chad Gearig-Howe, who appeared with Cain in "Trailer Park," and Rob Reidenhauer, add harmony to the performance.

Along the way, Cain also became somewhat of a Nicks expert, not just about her music but about other aspects of her life.

“Her lyrics are very relatable to me, especially ones about going through breakups, because I just did,” she said. “She’s telling the stories I want to tell.

“And she’s into witchy things, and I’ve always wanted to be a witch. We’re both Tauruses, so there’s a lot of magic going on.”

Cain also is into the capes, shawls and scarves that Nicks wears, not just to enhance her mystical aura but because back in the Fleetwood Mac days it made her appear larger on stage.

Another identifying point — at 29, Cain is the same age as Stevie was in 1979 when "Rumours" was in just about everyone's record collection.

And Cain certainly knows something about changing singing styles on stage, going back to the time 10 years ago when the Morgan City native left UNO, where she’d come to study music, to become the lead singer with the house band at the Famous Door on Bourbon Street.

Over the years, Cain has fronted several bands, going from pop to blues to soul to jazz. Among her current gigs is a residency with the New Orleans Juke Box at the Saint Hotel on Canal Street.

“You learn how to dress up for corporate appearance,” she said. “And then maybe you have a bare midriff for a bar. “It’s just whatever suits the moment and what you’re playing.”

Cain said she’s hoping this isn’t her last such show. She’d like a crack at being Madonna.

And Fontenot, who can see this show being held over for an extra weekend, has ideas of his own for future shows with the music of Bette Midler, Gloria Estefan and Barbra Streisand.

So, could there be another collaboration down the road?

“That would be great,” Cain said. “This has been a lot of work, but I’m having the time of my life.”



http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/communities/st_tammany/article_0b06e10e-9a17-11e7-96cc-f7c5c5ba3c61.html



Stevie's a Gemini, not a Taurus. She talks about it all the time, so it's in a ton of interviews you'd presumably read when putting a show like this together. When you miss a detail so small and obvious it casts questions over the rest of your facts......

[lilyfee]

Stevie's a Gemini, not a Taurus. She talks about it all the time, so it's in a ton of interviews you'd presumably read when putting a show like this together. When you miss a detail so small and obvious it casts questions over the rest of your facts......

I was surprised by how offended I was to read that she thought Stevie was a Taurus. I almost wrote to the author of the article indignantly!

[ricohv]

I was surprised by how offended I was to read that she thought Stevie was a Taurus. I almost wrote to the author of the article indignantly!
DITTO! Everyone knows Stevie is a Gemini! :mad::rolleyes::shocked::lol:

[SisterNightroad]

Apertures & alcohol: the evolving art of music photography according to Rankin and friends
WeTransfer Studios and Rankin have teamed up to launch The Backstage Sessions, a series of films exploring the stories behind the most iconic rock ‘n’ roll photos of the 21st century and their creators. The Drum spoke to Rankin and his subjects – David Montgomery, Gered Mankowitz and Kevin Cummins – to find out how they view their industry now that it is shot primarily through a digital lens.

Montgomery, a true Brooklynite who once shot Hendrix against a backdrop of fire, admits he was, and still is, whimsically relaxed on a shoot. “I never know what I’m going to do, even if I do know what I want to do,” he drawls. “Until you look in the camera… it’s kind of magic really.
“I once flew to California to photograph Fleetwood Mac, probably 30 years ago, and I walked in the room and saw Stevie Nicks and I fell madly in love with her on the spot. I couldn’t think straight. I took possibly one of the worst pictures of my entire life.”

(for those who are curious, this is the picture in question: )

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3a/f7/67/3af7672f4ba73fa226ad7910c70e7503--fleetwood-mac-stevie-nicks.jpg


http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/09/26/apertures-alcohol-the-evolving-art-music-photography-according-rankin-and-friends

[SisterNightroad]

Watch Haim Lead Exuberant Dance in 'Little of Your Love' Video
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directed playful clip, set at Los Angeles bar Oil Can Harry's

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Haim lead an intricate line-dance in their exuberant video for "Little of Your Love" video, the second single from the pop-rock band's second LP, Something to Tell You. Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directed the clip, set at L.A. bar Oil Can Harry's.

The close-knit siblings came out of the San Fernando Valley to make a killer debut and win over Taylor Swift and U2. Now, can they top themselves?
Guitarist Danielle Haim opens the clip strutting down the street, decked out in a vintage Stevie Nicks T-shirt, to join the in-progress dance sequence alongside her bandmates Alana and Este Haim. Each musician takes a turn singing into Anderson's swirling camera, and the floor eventually clears to showcase the sisters' playful slides and hand claps.

Anderson recently directed the trio's 14-minute short film, Valentine, which showcases the band's creative process while workshopping early versions of album tracks like "Right Now," "Something to Tell You" and "Nothing's Wrong." The There Will Be Blood director instigated the collaboration after realizing the sisters' mother was his former art teacher.

Haim recently concluded a stretch of headlining fall tour dates. Their next date is a sold-out hometown show at L.A.'s Greek Theater on October 19th.



http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-haim-lead-line-dance-in-little-of-your-love-video-w506528

[SisterNightroad]

‘The Voice’ blind auditions: Chloe Kohanski rocks out to ‘The Chain’ and is ‘obsessed’ with Miley Cyrus [WATCH]

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During Night 5 of “The Voice” Season 13, Chloe Kohanski‘s performance of Fleetwood Mac‘s “The Chain” caused three coaches — Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson and Blake Shelton — to all press their buttons. After a long deliberation process that had to be broken up by Adam Levine, Kohanski ultimately decided to join Cyrus’ team after revealing that she’s “obsessed with Miley.” Did she make the right choice? Watch Chloe Kohanski’s “The Voice” blind audition video above.

“Look, my dad had me listening to Stevie Nicks, riding around in his truck always,” Cyrus told the young rocker. “I kind of aspired to be like Stevie. And just turning around and seeing your style, it feels like you really know who you are. And my foundation is knowing who I am. We’ve got a very similar range so I think I know songs that would be great for you because they’re songs that would probably end up working for me, too.”


http://www.goldderby.com/article/2017/the-voice-blind-auditions-chloe-kohanski-the-chain-miley-cyrus-news/

[SisterNightroad]

In Advance of Her Music Box Concert, Singer-Songwriter Suzanne Santo Reflects on 'Recalibrating' Her Life

One of the album's many highlights, “Ghost in My Bed” recalls R.E.M.’s hit “Losing My Religion” with its moody vocals, folk-y acoustic guitars and chirping strings.
“There’s a journalist that totally came up with their own idea and wrote an article about it and said it’s about being in a relationship with an alcoholic,” she says. “That’s not true at all. I’ve never been in a relationship with an alcoholic. It’s about being destructive and then being accountable for it. It’s loosely inspired by the Stevie Nicks lyrics ‘Don't blame it on me/Blame it on my wild heart.’ Right when I moved back to L.A., I was recalibrating my life and I could feel the ghosts of my vices.”


https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/10/11/in-advance-of-her-music-box-concert-singer-songwriter-suzanne-santo-reflects-on-recalibrating-her-life

[SisterNightroad]

New In Streaming: Eurythmics Videos, Stevie Nicks in Concert & Music From Athens, GA

The following are music documentaries and concerts added to Netflix and Amazon Prime over the last week:

Amazon
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams - The Video Album - This extraordinary video features in-concert performances from 1983, conceptual video clips and animation woven together in a fabulous "album" highlighting Eurythmics international smash hit"Sweet Dreams" and more. Songs: This is the House, Never Gonna Cry Again, Take Me To Your Heart, I've Got An Angel, Satellite Of Love, Who's That Girl, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).

Stevie Nicks: Live at Red Rocks - Stevie Nicks: Live at Red Rocks captures this sensual, poetic artist in the breathtaking, natural surroundings of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. The state-of-the-art special effects set the stage for Stevie and her special guests, Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton. Your music video collection shouldn't be without this superb film performance.

Athens, GA: Inside Out - Led by the success of the B-52's and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia was the most happening music scene in the country by the mid 80's/ Following several different bands from different genres, this film paints Athens as a magical artistic environment where bands are not in competition, but co-exist in harmony. Live performances of R.E.M.'s"Swan Swan H" and"Dream (All I Have To Do)" at the Lucy Cobb Institute chapel are included. Also featured are performances and interviews frm the B-52's, Pylon, B-B-Que Killers, Time Toy, Jim Herbert, Flat Duo Jets, Love Tractor, Kilkenny Cats, Squalls, and more.


http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2017/10/new-in-streaming-eurythmics-videos.html

[Richard B]

EXCLUSIVE: How George Harrison babysat Bob Dylan, Tommy Lee nearly froze on a glacier, Sinatra grabbed Dean Martin’s butt and Stevie Nicks almost fell off a roof: Rock photographer tells the stories behind music’s most iconic pictures

And Preston admits he almost killed Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks on an At Home shoot for People magazine.
‘She was living in Venice, California, at the time and she had a condo on the top floor of a six-story building right on the sand in Venice Beach and we had a great shoot, she couldn’t have been easier.

‘But I still wanted that one last killer photograph and I said almost at the same time as she said: “Why don’t we go up on the roof and shoot as the sun is going down?” I thought it was a fantastic idea.
‘She had put on this white outfit with long sleeves of fabric that really caught the wind like a sail on a sailboat. The second I put the camera to my eye the wind starts kicking up. She is posing and the sleeves are going all over the place, and I realize about three frames in that the wind is going to be blowing so hard that one gust and she could be blown right off the side of the building, six stories down, which would have ruined Time Life’s insurance department’s day.
‘There was only one thing to do because we were getting great photos and the sun waits for no man and it was going down. So I made an assistant of mine lie on his stomach out of frame and I said “You hold on to that white boot — you do not let go.”
‘And that is what he did. She stayed in one place and we got great pictures. But that is why you don’t see her boots in the pictures. There could be no full-length shot.’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/16/16/4564A5B500000578-0-image-a-18_1508168763732.jpg

Full Article w/ Lot's of Photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4985704/Snapper-tells-secrets-pics-Nicks-Petty-Rose.html

[MikeInNV]

EXCLUSIVE: How George Harrison babysat Bob Dylan, Tommy Lee nearly froze on a glacier, Sinatra grabbed Dean Martin’s butt and Stevie Nicks almost fell off a roof: Rock photographer tells the stories behind music’s most iconic pictures

And Preston admits he almost killed Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks on an At Home shoot for People magazine.
‘She was living in Venice, California, at the time and she had a condo on the top floor of a six-story building right on the sand in Venice Beach and we had a great shoot, she couldn’t have been easier.

‘But I still wanted that one last killer photograph and I said almost at the same time as she said: “Why don’t we go up on the roof and shoot as the sun is going down?” I thought it was a fantastic idea.
‘She had put on this white outfit with long sleeves of fabric that really caught the wind like a sail on a sailboat. The second I put the camera to my eye the wind starts kicking up. She is posing and the sleeves are going all over the place, and I realize about three frames in that the wind is going to be blowing so hard that one gust and she could be blown right off the side of the building, six stories down, which would have ruined Time Life’s insurance department’s day.
‘There was only one thing to do because we were getting great photos and the sun waits for no man and it was going down. So I made an assistant of mine lie on his stomach out of frame and I said “You hold on to that white boot — you do not let go.”
‘And that is what he did. She stayed in one place and we got great pictures. But that is why you don’t see her boots in the pictures. There could be no full-length shot.’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/16/16/4564A5B500000578-0-image-a-18_1508168763732.jpg

Full Article w/ Lot's of Photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4985704/Snapper-tells-secrets-pics-Nicks-Petty-Rose.html

Caption under the photo: STEVIE NICKS 1981 ‘I knew Stevie was beautiful and talented but I didn’t know how hysterically funny she is. To this day I tell her if this rock ‘n’ roll thing doesn’t work out you could be a stand-up comic. This was taken on the roof of her building in Venice, California. Because of the high wind my assistant is grabbing her ankle. That’s why it is not a full-length shot.’

[SisterNightroad]

The Voice': See Team Adam Hopefuls Cover Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks
Battle Round performance pits Adam Pearce against Whitney Fenimore on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"

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The Voice's Battle Rounds kicked off last night with a diverse set of songs ranging from Ariana Grande to Bob Dylan, but Adam Levine's team members Adam Pearce and Whitney Fenimore inadvertently landed the most timely tribute of the evening with Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks' "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around."

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/videos/the-voice-see-cover-of-tom-petty-stevie-nicks-w509267

[SisterNightroad]

How Heather Parry Is Helping Live Nation Bring Lady Gaga, Puff Daddy And More To The Screen

Baltin: What is the dream biopic?
Parry: There’s a lot, [David] Bowie, I really want to do Beastie Boys, anybody that has an interesting story to tell. And then there are people that are still doing their thing and you can’t even touch it. I think Stevie Nicks, back on tour. But David Bowie, for me, he had an incredible life. I’d love to do that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2017/10/18/how-heather-parry-is-helping-live-nation-bring-lady-gaga-puff-daddy-and-more-to-the-screen/#4b25a6ac1c96

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Introducing 'Oath': FIRST Agency Partners with Verizon for Brand Launch
FIRST Global Events Agency partners with Verizon to launch Oath with a glam kick-off party in Cannes featuring a concert with Stevie Nicks.

FIRST Global Events Agency partners with Verizon to launch Oath, the new brand combining AOL and Yahoo. The experiential activations got started at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in June, where some 1,300 guests enjoyed a kick-off party complete with a concert by rock goddess Stevie Nicks. Photos by Menbar Photos.

Tim Armstrong meets Stevie Nicks
Oath CEO Tim Armstrong poses for photos with rock goddess Stevie Nicks.

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http://www.specialevents.com/corporate-events/introducing-oath-first-agency-partners-verizon-brand-launch

[StreetAngel86]

Caption under the photo: STEVIE NICKS 1981 ‘I knew Stevie was beautiful and talented but I didn’t know how hysterically funny she is. To this day I tell her if this rock ‘n’ roll thing doesn’t work out you could be a stand-up comic. This was taken on the roof of her building in Venice, California. Because of the high wind my assistant is grabbing her ankle. That’s why it is not a full-length shot.’

that story about the boots is the most amazing story.
i am pretty sure if he killed stevie that day he would have been in VERY big trouble :eek::lol: they are really some of her best photos though. stunning.

[SisterNightroad]

Paul Buckmaster, Essential Arranger for David Bowie and Elton John, Dead at 71
String arranger masterminded Rolling Stones, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon and Taylor Swift songs

Just as pop singing wasn't the same after Elvis or the guitar didn't recover after Hendrix, neither was rock orchestration the same after Paul Buckmaster, the half-British, half-Italian string arranger who died Tuesday at age 71 of undisclosed causes. Even if his name doesn't ring any bells (or, more appropriately, triangles), the records Buckmaster arranged and orchestrated will. Starting with his work on David Bowie’s "Space Oddity," Buckmaster's alternately lush and brooding string arrangements enriched, deepened and darkened pop records for nearly 50 years.

If that sounds like an exaggeration, consider just some of the records featuring his arrangements. In Buckmaster's hands, string sections on rock records weren't schmaltzy. They were trippy and panoramic (the Rolling Stones' "Moonlight Mile"), dark and brooding (Elton John's "Madman Across the Water," the Stones' "Sway"), stately (Harry Nilsson's "Without You," John’s "Levon"), high-stepping (Simon's "You're So Vain"), and lush without being overbaked (Taylor Swift's "Back to December"). The muted French horns and other woodwinds that underscored Guns N' Roses "Madagascar" made that the moist listenable song on the messy Chinese Democracy.

By his own admission, Buckmaster wasn't the most obvious candidate for arranger to the (rock) stars. His mother was a concert pianist, and as a child, he studied cello in private school in London. He didn't even learn how to arrange records until after his schooling. But accidental or not, his timing couldn't have been better. By the mid-1960s, rockers were eager to stretch out the music as much as possible (or as much as could fit onto a side of an LP), and layering strings atop guitars and rhythm sections suddenly didn't seem as anti-rock an idea as a decade before.

First as a touring cellist with the Bee Gees and former Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones, Buckmaster found himself drawn into a very different musical world, and his ghostly work on "Space Oddity," followed a year later by his orchestrations on several tracks on the Elton John album (particularly "Your Song" and "Sixty Years On"), established Buckmaster as the stringman of choice.

From that point on, Buckmaster seemed to be everywhere. "I don't think Paul has gotten the credit he deserves," John told Rolling Stone in 1973. "He's influenced so many string writers, especially the Elton John album; everybody pinches off Paul Buckmaster. Like Lennon on Imagine, I'm not saying he pinched it, but he used a lot of strings on 'How Do You Sleep?' I think nobody really used strings until Buckmaster came along and showed them you can use strings without having them being sugary and awful."

Not everyone agreed: To the Grateful Dead's grousing, Buckmaster was recruited to orchestrate the title song suite of the band's Terrapin Station, which managed to turned those morsels of songs into the Dead's most glorious shot at prog. And who else could have bathed Stevie Nicks in strings the way Buckmaster did on "Beauty and the Beast" from The Wild Heart?

Although he was largely associated with the classic rock era, Buckmaster hardly slowed down; in recent years, he worked with not only GNR and Swift but Train, Brandi Carlile, Faith Hill and others and moved into movie scoring with Twelve Monkeys.

But it will be his rock work for which he'll best be remembered, and rightly so: In his hands, and those of his violinists and conductors, Buckmaster made the possibilities of rock seem even more infinite.


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-buckmaster-arranger-for-bowie-and-elton-john-dead-at-71-w511370

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'Rock 'n' Roll Perspectives': New photo show features top moments in Cleveland concerts, 1970 - 2017 (photos)

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Tina Turner is leaning against the wall. Stevie Nicks is hanging out around the corner with Taylor Swift and Bono.

Across the room, some of Cleveland's greats await - Michael Stanley and Stiv Bators and Pere Ubu.

And, oh yeah, there's David Bowie. In 1972. At his first show in Cleveland, at the Music Hall.

These musical legends - dead and alive - have come together for a knockout photo show from two of the city's top concert photographers. "Rock 'n' Roll Perspectives: Anastasia Pantsios and Joe Kleon" opens Friday night and runs through Sunday at Loftworks Gallery on East 40th Street.

"Rock 'n' Roll Perspectives" features almost 200 black-and-white and color photos from nearly half a century of rock 'n' roll in Cleveland: 1970-2017.

Pantsios, one of the city most lauded concert photographers, got into covering live music during the heyday of rock 'n' roll in the city. A native of Chicago, she moved to Cleveland in 1970 to study theater and lighting design at Case Western Reserve University.

Drawn to the flair of the emerging '70s rock scene, Pantsios would often take the bus downtown to see shows. She took her Cannon with her.

"In those days, you could just walk right into a show with your camera and start taking pictures; there were no rules," she says. "None of this three-songs-only-from-the-soundboard photography" she adds, referring to the restrictions most photographers of live shows face today.

And what shows she walked into! Pantsios had moved to the right place at the right time.

In the heyday of WMMS FM/100.7 as well as Cleveland's punk scene, she was fortunate to see and shoot early shows by the likes of T-Rex, Iggy Pop, the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, U2 and Madonna.

Rising local stars of the '70s, from the Michael Stanley Band to the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu, were also frequent subjects of her lens. A close-up of a sweaty Stiv Bators leaning into the mic is one of the highlights of the exhibit.

Her first published work was in the CWRU Observer, "but I can't recall what it was," she says. "I do know the first shot I had appear on a cover was in a Cleveland underground publication called The Star, which had its office in an old clock repair building on Payne [Avenue] at East 30th [Street], across from where Asian Town Plaza is now. It was a photo of Todd Rundgren at Music Hall, and that shot will be in the show."

Over the years, Pantsios' work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice, Esquire, Creem, Hit Parader, Circus, People, USA Today, The New York Times, the Toronto Sun and The Plain Dealer, as well as numerous books and box sets.

Pantsios had the good fortune, and forethought, to check out one of the most important shows in local rock history: David Bowie's first show in Cleveland at the Music Hall in 1972. She captures Bowie in all his Ziggy Stardust glory, long, lean and magical in his gilded suit.

"David Bowie was so theatrical. You couldn't help be drawn to him," she says.

Pantsios has several Bowie shots from over the years that will be on display at the show. Other legends memorialized early in their careers include a bold young Chrissie Hynde, a lithe Iggy Pop in 1973, baby-faced U2 striking a pose, Led Zeppelin at Public Hall, Alice Cooper and his guillotine and a boisterous Ramones. Pantsios also has thoroughly documented Cleveland favorites the Michael Stanley Band over the years.

Not that she's stuck in the past. Her collection also includes some striking shots of Pearl Jam, Linkin Park and other newer acts. But by the '90s, Pantsios was slowing down in her concert photography. It wasn't the same situation anymore - where you could walk in with a camera, take as many shots as you wanted and often even get backstage access.

"Everything was becoming so restrictive," she says. "The labels and artists really try to control what you do now."

That's not the only change, she says. "Back in the day, a roll of film for 36 color pictures could cost $25. You really had to evaluate how many photos an act was worth, and really edit yourself as you worked."

Just about the time Pantsios was slowing down with concert photos, Joe Kleon was getting started. Credit Art Bell.

Yes, Art Bell, the paranormal-believing broadcaster.

Kleon, a classic rock fan - Rush is his favorite band - had worked as a DJ at WNCX and other stations over the years. Following the loss of a job in 2002, he invested in a camera to take on his honeymoon to Mexico.

Though he had only ever taken "about 200" photos previously, he was inspired. When he got home, he happened to hear on the radio that Bell was looking for photos of Mayan ruins for his website. He sent some in; Bell liked them so much they were featured on his home page, and a career was born.

Soon, Kleon was a photographer spinning his classic rock connections into a new job of taking photos of his favorite acts.

Though today's era is far different from the time Pantsios came up - "we don't get a lot backstage access and things like that" - Kleon has made a name shooting some of the biggest rock and pop acts of the day.

Rush, KISS, Bruce Springsteen, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift ... he's shot them all, for Cleveland Scene magazine and other local and national publications.

"The rock acts are my favorite, but people really seem to like the pop photos," says the photographer. "Which makes sense. A middle-aged father may not want to buy a Bruce Springsteen photo to hang on his own wall, but he will buy his daughter a Taylor Swift one.

"After all, when I was a teenager, I was putting pictures of my favorite stars up on the walls."

Today, Kleon is the one taking the pictures that go on the walls - and that's fine with him. "I like to be in the background," he says.

This weekend, though, these two photographers will step out of the pit and into the much-deserved spotlight.

PREVIEW

Loftworks Gallery

What: The exhibition "Rock 'n' Roll Perspectives: Anastasia Pantsios and Joe Kleon."

When: Friday through Sunday. There will be a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, Jim and Eroc classic rock duo will perform from 3 to 6 p.m., and the exhibit will be open 2-8 p.m. Sunday's hours are noon to 5 p.m.

Where: 1667 East 40th St., Cleveland.

Admission: Free. Go to loftworksgallery.com.



I suggest taking a look to the photo gallery because there are many very beautiful pictures:http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/11/rock_n_roll_perspectives_new_p.html

[SisterNightroad]

Billy Corgan: The Fact That So Many Living Rock Legends Are Not Making New Music Is Just Wrong
"Sentimentality and the melancholy that goes with sentimentality, that's a big business."

The Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan discussed the fact that many living rock legends - such as Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks or The Who's Pete Townsend which he took as examples - haven't released any new music for many years, saying on Q (via Alternative Nation):

"I think our culture - and I'm including our bigger culture here in the west - sentimentality and the melancholy that goes with sentimentality, that's a big business.

"Unfortunately, I would argue at this point the sentimental crowd and the business behind the sentimental crowd, it's like the reboots of the movies.

"Let me use a perfect example. Stevie Nicks is one of my favorite songwriters, one of my favorite singers of all time.

"The world should be begging her for more new songs. She's walking this planet, she still sings great, she still looks great.

"It's like, 'Hey, can you play 'Rhiannon' one more time?' It's like, 'How about write a new song, and we'll listen to that, and we'll listen to 'Rhiannon'?' That's where we get off the wrong detour.

"I'm arguing against the fact that now that the average musical star's life has a longer shelf life.

"It's no longer 'I hope I die before I get old.' Pete Townshend was just through Chicago doing 'Quadrophenia' with Eddie Vedder and an orchestra, right? So these works live on.

"But Pete Townshend is one of the greatest living songwriters in the world, there should be more interest in his new work than the past. It should be proportionate - that's going to be my argument until the day I die.

"I think people will one day kick themselves that they didn't take more advantage of these great living artists - and I mean LIVING in capital letters - and use that vitality.

"Pete Townshend should be documenting, and I'm sure he is, he should be documenting every stage of his life, not just when he put on skinny trousers. You know what I'm saying?"



https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/billy_corgan_the_fact_that_so_many_living_rock_legends_are_not_making_new_music_is_just_wrong.html

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New Grammy holiday auction offers signed items from Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne and more stars

Kristin Burns; Brandise DaneswichA new Grammy-sponsored charity auction has been launched in celebration of the holiday season that’s offering a variety of autographed collectibles signed by such stars as Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne and Dave Grohl.
Among the many items up for bid are signed and framed vinyl copies of Nicks’ 1985 album Talk to Me and Browne’s 1976 record The Pretender, as well as a framed 2013 issue of Billboard magazine autographed by Grohl.
Other collectibles being auctioned include a platinum record award for Billy Idol‘s 1990 album Charmed Life, a green-vinyl copy of the Brian Setzer Orchestra‘s 2015 Christmas record Rockin’ Rudolph signed by Setzer and a drumhead autographed by Foo Fighters‘ Taylor Hawkins.
VIP packages offering fans the chance to attend the 60th Grammy Awards telecast and after-party event also are on the block.
Bidding for the items will be open until Wednesday, December 6. Proceeds raised will benefit the Grammy Museum and the MusiCares organization.
Check out all of the items at eBay.com/Grammy.
The 60th Grammy Awards takes place January 28 at New York’s Madison Square Garden and will be broadcast live on CBS.
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http://rock107.com/new-grammy-holiday-auction-offers-signed-items-from-stevie-nicks-jackson-browne-and-more-stars/

[SisterNightroad]

The demise of rock stars in new book

I recently spoke with David Hepworth about his book, Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars, which explores his theory that the era of the rock star began in 1955 and ended in 1995 with the advent of computers & social media. He's divided the book into 40 chapters, one for each year between 1955 and 1995 beginning with Little Richard's New Orleans recording of "Tutti Fruitti" for Specialty Records in 1955.

Other chapters focus on dates like the Beatles breakup in 1968, the Rolling Stones in 1972, and Bob Marley in the 1975 chapter. The 1980's chapters feature the "This is Spinal Tap" movie (1983), Bob Geldof & the Live Aid concerts (1985) and Elton John's Sotheby's auction in London (1988). Some of the women mentioned in other chapters include Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, and Madonna.

It's a fascinating book for those of us who lived during that time frame with rock and roll music interwoven into the essential fabric of our lives. Music historians will also enjoy this read.



http://wvxu.org/post/demise-rock-stars-new-book#stream/0

[lilyfee]

[B]Billy Corgan: The Fact That So Many Living Rock Legends Are Not Making New Music Is Just Wrong

"The world should be begging her for more new songs. She's walking this planet, she still sings great, she still looks great.

"It's like, 'Hey, can you play 'Rhiannon' one more time?' It's like, 'How about write a new song, and we'll listen to that, and we'll listen to 'Rhiannon'?' That's where we get off the wrong detour.

"
"I think people will one day kick themselves that they didn't take more advantage of these great living artists - and I mean LIVING in capital letters - and use that vitality


https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/billy_corgan_the_fact_that_so_many_living_rock_legends_are_not_making_new_music_is_just_wrong.html

Yes, please! I'm tired of Rhiannon. Bring on new material!

[SisterNightroad]

Stevie Nicks, Lenny Kravitz & Def Leppard's Managers Form New Company
Craig Fruin, Sheryl Louis and Mike Kobayashi are launching CSM Management with offices in Los Angeles and Nashville.

Managers for Stevie Nicks, Lenny Kravitz and Def Leppard have teamed together to form a new firm called CSM Management with offices opening in Nashville and Los Angeles, it was announced Monday (Jan. 22).

In their new partnership, Craig Fruin, Sheryl Louis and Mike Kobayashi bring together decades of experience working with legendary manager and HK Management founder Howard Kaufman.

"At CSM, we approach client management with a core philosophy and a global brand perspective. said Fruin, who represents Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Lynne and Jeff Lynne's ELO, in a statement. "We provide each client with a customized focus on every aspect of their career. Collectively, we bring expertise in international marketing, touring, digital marketing and expertise in film, television, design, and merchandising. We all take pride in creating and implementing solutions that are innovative and collaborative with our artists."

The announcement comes one year after Kaufman died unexpectedly on Jan. 19, 2017, at the age of 79.

"Bringing our individual expertise under one roof gives our clients the opportunity to thrive and grow more than ever," said Louis, who manages Stevie Nicks, Chris Isaak and co-manages Fleetwood Mac, in a statement. "This wider perspective has created a perfect environment for the three of us to collaborate, explore strategies and ideas, and collectively bring our vast experience and attention to the needs of our artists."

"Forming this company with Craig and Sheryl felt seamless given our long term partnership with Howard and HK Management," added Def Leppard and Tesla manager Kobayashi. "Our special bond with one another and collective vision for CSM enables us to focus on what's most important and meaningful to our artists during every facet of their careers. We understand the need to adapt to the ever-changing music landscape which guides us to be at the forefront of a thriving global industry. Our commitment is to fully servicing our clients in all aspects of the business while actively looking for like-minded artists to grow our roster."


https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8095453/stevie-nicks-lenny-kravitz-def-leppard-managers-company-csm-management

[SisterNightroad]

Race To Erase MS Announces 25th Anniversary Gala

Race to Erase MS announced today that its historic 25th Anniversary Gala will take place on Friday, April 20 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, and will be hosted by HQ Trivia’s Scott Rogowsky.

The landmark evening will also boast a Fall 2018 runway show from Hollywood-favorite fashion brand alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet. The legendary, celebrity-filled gala has raised over $47 million to date for Race to Erase MS and its Center Without Walls program. This year marks the 25th Anniversary Gala, where guests will participate in a silent auction before enjoying a gala dinner featuring live musical performances. The organization also announced one of the luxury live auction items that will be available to guests of the event – a Ferrari Portofino, one of the first of its kind to reach Los Angeles.

“We are absolutely thrilled to have reached this momentous occasion! At the core of this organization is the overwhelming desire to find a cure for this life-altering disease and ensure that those with the brain power to make a difference have every resource available to them,” said Race to Erase MS founder Nancy Davis. “We have been so fortunate to have the support of our community and people who use their platform to bring awareness to the cause. The strides we’ve made over the past 25 years can be seen in the research done and new drugs developed, and every year brings us closer to eradicating MS altogether. Here is to a spectacular Anniversary Gala, and a future of progress and hope!”

The inaugural Race to Erase MS event was held in 1993 in Aspen, Colorado, just one year after chairman Nancy Davis was diagnosed with the illness. It was a two-day ski race event, which raised approximately $1.3 million for MS research efforts and featured performances by Michael Bolton and Kenny G. In 1996, the event moved to Los Angeles for the first time, where it has remained ever since (with the exception of a special year in Vegas). No matter the venue, the event continues to grow year after year, with the performance roster exploding to include some of the biggest names in music history including Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Steven Tyler, Gloria Estefan, Cyndi Lauper, No Doubt, Natalie Cole, CeeLo Green, KISS, Rita Ora, Ne-Yo, Kenny Loggins, Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, Stevie Nicks, Goo Goo Dolls, Fitz and the Tantrums, Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Chicago, The Eagles, and many, many more.

Over time, the Race to Erase MS galas have honored those in the community who are battling the disease themselves, and those who have taken extraordinary measures to raise awareness for the cause. Award recipients have included Sharon Osbourne and Jack Osbourne, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tommy Hilfiger, Dean Singleton, Montel Williams, Teri Garr, Deb & Bill MacMillan, Katie Mattingly Brass, William O. “Bill” Perkins, and Carolyn Rafalian, Founder, CEO, and Chief Creative Director of ALEX AND ANI.

Supporters of the Race to Erase MS events have included some of the most recognizable faces from stage and screen – Cher, Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone, Muhammad Ali, Jerry Seinfeld, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cindy Crawford, Angelina Jolie, Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Reeve, John Travolta & Kelly Preston, Melanie Griffith, Angelica Huston, LL Cool J, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jared Leto, Ray Romano, Bill Maher, Anne Heche, Paris Hilton, Mayim Bialik, Sophia Bush, Kaley Cuoco, Neil Patrick Harris, Mel B, Victoria Justice, Kellie Pickler, Daisy Fuentes, Ashley Tisdale, Randy Jackson and so many others have all shown up to help raise awareness and fight for a cure!

Race to Erase MS was founded in 1993 by Nancy Davis and is dedicated to the treatment and ultimate cure of Multiple Sclerosis. All funds raised by the organization, through its iconic galas and year-round initiatives, support the “Center Without Walls” program, a unique collaboration of the world’s leading MS research scientists currently representing Harvard, Yale, Cedars Sinai, University of Southern California, Oregon Health Science University, UC San Francisco and Johns Hopkins.

Davis also created the annual “Orange You Happy to Erase MS” campaign, which takes place for the entire month of May (MS Awareness Month) and adds yet another branch of fundraising for MS research. Throughout the month, a variety of orange products, many of which are specially created for this initiative, are sold to benefit the cause and elevate public awareness about MS. Orange T-shirts with symbolic messaging are created annually and in recent years, modeled by longtime supporters Sharon and Kelly Osbourne. For the 2018 campaign, they will be joined by Jack Osbourne, an MS survivor himself, and his two young daughters! Among the partners is ALEX AND ANI, a company that has been a loyal partner to Race to Erase MS since 2012. They created a unique Cupcake Charm Bangle and donated twenty percent of its proceeds to Race to Erase MS. This effort alone has raised over $1 million for multiple sclerosis research.

For Spring 18, Right Bank Shoe Co. and famed designer, Mr. Right Bank, created The Peace and Love Collection, which is inspired by Nancy Davis’s lifelong love of hearts, peace signs, and equality. The core philosophy of the brand is that everybody in the world ultimately wants peace and love in their lives. Not only does this capsule collection capture Nancy’s inspiration, but 10% of the proceeds will be donated to Race to Erase MS.

Race to Erase MS will also continue its partnership with Evine, an interactive digital retailer, and once again give guests the opportunity to bid on a first-class trip to their national headquarters where they’ll experience the magic behind the television camera and see how products are brought to life on air. Following the Gala, Race to Erase MS founder Nancy Davis will be featured live on Evine where she’ll sell a variety of jewelry products as part of her Peace & Love collection.

The Race to Erase MS Gala has always provided its guests with the opportunity to bid on some of the most luxurious, one-of-a-kind vacations, jewelry, and vehicles during its annual live auction, and this year will be no exception. Attendees will have access to one of the first Ferrari Portofinos in Los Angeles. The Ferrari Portofino is the new Ferrari V8 GT setting a new benchmark for its segment thanks to a perfect combination of outright performance, versatility, an unparalleled level of driving pleasure and on-board comfort. Capable of unleashing a massive 600 cv and sprinting from 0 to 200 km/h in just 10.8 seconds, the Ferrari Portofino is the most powerful convertible to combine the advantages of a new retractable hard top, a roomy boot and generous cockpit space. The new Ferrari Portofino takes its name from one of the most charming towns on the Italian Ligurian Riviera, Portofino, which has become an international icon of elegance and exclusivity. This is the most versatile Ferrari: a car designed to be driven every day that effortlessly converts from an authentic ‘berlinetta’ coupe to a drop-top in just 14 seconds, even when on the move at low speeds thanks to the new and lighter retractable hard top system. Ideal for any occasion, the Ferrari Portofino represents the perfect combination of Ferrari design, performance and technology. Additional partners and special auction items will be revealed in the coming months.

Find out more about the event here.


https://www.looktothestars.org/news/17702-race-to-erase-ms-announces-25th-anniversary-gala

[Macfan4life]

Stevie has been involved with erase MS for awhile. Don Henley's wife has MS and I think Don got Stevie involved in the cause many years ago.

[Sanne2]

Flashback: Behind the scenes with Sheryl Crow & Stevie Nicks

This photo shows a small part of the walls and ceiling in the room where a Stevie Nicks / Sheryl Crow music video was being filmed.
Oddly enough there were only vague ideas for what was to be painted on the walls but nothing specific or approved. I had a notebook with about 20 pages of song lyrics but no additional data, so at last when I had no other options I just painted on the lyrics that I liked the most. (I painted all the graphics on 5 major walls in 3 hours, extremely fast.)
Stevie and Sheryl were around, in makeup or rehearsing and I finished painting everything at about 2 AM. At one point when Sheryl was taking a nap on the couch, Stevie came up to me and in a slightly serious manner asked me who had picked out the painted lyrics. Man, was I up against the wall. So I just told her the truth, that it was ME. She replied, “Those are my favorite lyrics too,” with a great smile. Boy was I relieved.

http://collinsvisualmedia.com/flashback-behind-the-scenes-with-sheryl-crow-stevie-nicks

[MikeInNV]

observer.com/2018/04/fleetwood-mac-stevie-nicks-new-york-apartment-for-sale/

Stevie Nicks’ Former New York Crash Pad Is Back
By Morgan Halberg • 04/27/18 5:00pm

Stevie Nicks and John Elway both stayed in this apartment. Douglas Elliman
Stevie Nicks is preparing to go on a massive tour with Fleetwood Mac this fall when they visit over 50 cities in the United States. When she stops in New York next March, though, Nicks is going to have to rethink where she’ll be staying.
Nicks has reportedly crashed at a sleek three-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom apartment at the Jean Nouvel-designed 100 Eleventh Avenue, but the home is now back on the sales market. It seems the current owner, Larry Mueller, is determined to part with the 2,674-square-foot abode.

Stevie Nicks might have to look for a new crash pad. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
He’s relisted the apartment, located on the 19th floor, for $7.95 million, but he once had far more ambitious expectations for the West Chelsea home—it was asking $10.6 million in April 2016. Coincidentally, Observer checked out this exact unit back when it had the higher price tag and Corcoran was attached as the brokerage. Alas, there was no mention of a tie to Nicks at the time, so perhaps it was more of a secret then—or maybe she didn’t start staying here until the past year.
Aside from Nicks, former NFL quarterback and current Denver Broncos general manager John Elway also used to stay at this apartment, according to the New York Post. It just so happens to be on the same floor as Kelsey Grammer’s onetime residence in the building.

It’s the same floor where Kelsey Grammer once lived. Douglas Elliman
The apartment hasn’t changed much since Observer last saw it, at least not per the listing photos, though there has been a switch to Douglas Elliman brokers Andre Rouach and Raphael De Niro. The floor-to-ceiling windows are one of the most attractive parts of the apartment; the views of the Hudson River are striking.
There are terrazzo floors and 11-foot ceilings throughout, and the great room is equipped with a sparkling black-accented fireplace, which we were previously told was redone by the owner’s designer, Cheryl Lucas, from its original white color.
The kitchen’s stainless steel finish is offset by the glassy eating areas and breakfast bar. And it seems as if the seller is into vino, as there are two separate wine refrigerators. Each of the bedrooms has an en-suite bathroom, while the master features a walk-in closet and a bathroom with a separate stall shower and custom bathtub.

The kitchen is finished with stainless steel and glass. Douglas Elliman
We must say, though, the sharp, modern lines of this apartment don’t exactly scream Stevie Nicks—it seems little too slick, so we’re going to assume she used this as temporary lodgings. Alas, Nicks resides in Los Angeles full-time, where she owns at least two homes, and we don’t really see her as a potential buyer for the place.
In other Fleetwood Mac news, John McVie recently parted with his Hawaii retreat, as he’s making the move back to Brentwood. Hopefully, it won’t be too awkward if he runs into recently ousted former band member Lindsey Buckingham.

[SisterNightroad]

PREMIERE: The Shantics Release New Single “Stevie Nicks”

Following the release of their infectious single, Mind Pop, London boys The Shantics are keen to keep building momentum and release their next single, Stevie Nicks; a thrillingly riff-based, fast-paced indie banger.
Stevie Nicks is a song written about a strangely positive encounter they had with a wanted criminal who sold them their PA System. Some of the lyrics are almost direct quotes from their conversations with him. Of course, they didn’t know he was a thief at the time of buying the PA but found out after and felt compelled to write a song about their experience. “We wanted to make sure the song’s lyrical concept matched with the vibe of the music. The guitar riff was written to emulate footsteps to sound like a robber creeping around at night and the slightly discordant feel represents our mixed emotions towards him.”
The way that The Shantics came together could be translated into a modern-day band love story. It seems that the universe knew long before them that they were meant to play together; it just took a few near misses and little nudges to assure it.
At the centre, are two brothers; Jimmy and Harry Morris, who grew up in a musical household, learning guitar from the age of four. Add in drummer Mike Cosburn, and Jacob Nation the band’s bass player and you have the quintessential four-piece rock band that has a knack for crafting infectious songs, big in personality.
Determined to never become background noise, The Shantics teamed up with multi-platinum producer, Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, James Bay, The Libertines), and signed to his record label Goldun Egg Records.
The inner child in them enthuses the big dream of making music, the inner musician in them dedicates everything to making noise, the inner writer in them seeks inspiration from the little parts of every day, and the inner brother in them supports every move.

http://ventsmagazine.com/2018/05/03/premiere-the-shantics-release-new-single-stevie-nicks/

[SisterNightroad]

Stevie Nicks TV Block This Weekend For Her Birthday

http://www.antimusic.com/_img/18/May/17/StevieNicks.jpg

AXS TV have announced that they will be celebrating Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks' upcoming birthday with a career-spanning lineup packed with performances and profiles on her actual birthday, Saturday, May 26 starting at 1pE/10aP. They sent over the following details:

The festivities begin with an in-depth look at one of the band's most influential works, taking viewers behind the scenes and into the studio as Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie discuss the creative process behind Rumours in Classic Albums: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours.

An encore broadcast of Classic Albums will air at 6:30pE. The GRAMMY®-nominated 1986 concert Stevie Nicks: Rock A Little follows at 2pE, as Nicks takes the stage at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre for a powerhouse set featuring "Edge Of Seventeen," "Talk To Me," "Stand Back," and "Dreams," with guest appearances by Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton. An encore broadcast of Rock A Little will air at 7:30pE.

The day continues at 3pE with the 2014 profile series Rock Legends: Fleetwood Mac, compiling expert interviews, rare archive footage, classic concerts and more to tell the story of the band's incredible legacy. An encore of Rock Legends airs at 8:30pE. Then, at 3:30pE, Stevie breezes into The Windy City for an intimate evening, blending solo hits and Fleetwood Mac favorites in Soundstage: Stevie Nicks, with an encore at 9pE. And Nicks is back in action with Fleetwood Mac, as the band brings the Say You Will Tour to the FleetCenter for an unforgettable show featuring "Rhiannon," "Gold Dust Woman," "Go Your Own Way," and many more in Fleetwood Mac, Live In Boston at 4:30pE with an encore broadcast at 10pE.

The block comes to a close at 12aE, as Fleetwood Mac's dynamic duo reunites for a once in a lifetime event in Lindsey Buckingham With Special Guest Stevie Nicks. The hit-fueled set features Buckingham's priceless stories revealing the meanings-and controversies-behind some of the most beloved songs from his acclaimed career, before launching into an eclectic setlist that includes "Trouble," "Murrow Turning Over In His Grave," "Big Love," "Peacekeeper," and "Someone's Gonna Change Your Mind," headlined by an emotional duet with Nicks on the Fleetwood Mac signatures "Never Going Back Again" and "Say Goodbye."


http://www.antimusic.com/news/18/May/17Stevie_Nicks_TV_Block_This_Weekend_For_Her_Birthday.shtml

[SisterNightroad]

Tom Petty's Former Encino Home Lists for $5 Million

Petty called the house on Encino Way his home for more than two decades.
When renovating the former home of a rock legend like Tom Petty, one is likely to encounter some peculiar amenities. The house on Encino Way, which Petty called home for more than two decades and which is now back on the market for $5 million, did not disappoint.

"There is still a secret ladder that connected the costume room to the master suite," says Jenna Mattison, who recently completed an 11-month overhaul of the 11,483-square-foot home. The exact reason for the ladder is unknown, but rumor has it that Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks would hole up in the costume area for brief stints.

"Every inch of that house had to be reinvented and redesigned. It wasn't a disaster in that it was dilapidated, but it was definitely rock star bizarre," says Mattison, a film director who has a side hustle flipping homes. Mattison, along with her partner Donald Woolhouse, purchased the home out of foreclosure last year for $2.6 million and when they first walked in were struck by the leopard skin carpets and neon-blue tiling. "You definitely knew someone very eccentric had lived there."

It's impossible to tell from the staging photos, but the six-bedroom, 10-bathroom home that includes a special guest quarters survived everything from an arson attack, a foreclosure and a SWAT team invasion. And those are just the things that we know about.

Early one morning in 1987, Petty and his family were eating breakfast when an arsonist lit the wooden staircase on fire. Almost everything burned down except for the basement recording studio. The house was promptly rebuilt in a style that resembled a mountain cabin.

Petty's first wife, Jane Benyo, acquired the home in their 1996 divorce settlement. JPMorgan Chase would later foreclose on the home, but before it did, the property was reportedly rented out to a party planner who held a series of raucous parties there, which drew the ire of local neighbors. When the bank took possession of the home, a SWAT team was required to evict the tenant, who had refused to leave the premises and threatened the authorities.

The home sits on an enormous 38,000-square-foot lot and has a swimming pool and waterfall along with ample outdoor space and a nine-car garage.

"It's a really unique home, and you have to be a bit of a genius to get it," says Mattison. "It won't be for the average family with a Volvo in the garage. The person buying this house is probably going to be a creative type."

The home is being listed by The Agency's Craig Knizek and Ninkey Dalton, and for the those curious about a little slice of L.A. rock and roll history, the open house starts on Saturday.


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-pettys-encino-home-lists-5-million-1112904

[SisterNightroad]

Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders wants you to put your **** phone away at live shows

Q: The Pretenders have an upcoming gig at Wrigley Field in Chicago opening for Journey and Def Leppard. Are you surprised to find yourself on the same bill as Journey?

A: I don’t know much about them, so I’m not surprised. I also just toured South America with Phil Collins. That was a surprise. I did a couple of tours with Stevie Nicks, also a surprise. I’ve been on the bill with all sorts of odd combinations. I’m not quite sure where I or anyone fits into it at the moment, because it’s a funny scene. It just feels like it’s wide open and anything goes.

https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/07/02/chrissie-hynde-pretenders-wants-you-put-down-your-phones/751660002/

[SisterNightroad]

'Equalizer 2' actor Pedro Pascal slams family separations: 'There's no justifying it'

Right after a movie press-day that the actor wrapped-up with a live Twitter Q&A session, actor Pedro Pascal spoke with NBC News wearing a Fleetwood Mac shirt that his sister got for him. When asked if he was a fan, the answer was a resounding "Yes!"

The actor confessed he had never been to one of their concerts, though he fondly remembers having a long conversation with Stevie Nicks, during which she held his hands the entire time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/equalizer-2-actor-pedro-pascal-slams-family-separations-there-s-n893821

[SisterNightroad]

Legendary Musicians Waddy Wachtel of Stevie Nicks and Bernard Fowler of The Rolling Stones to Headline AlertTheGlobe.com August 18th Event

Concert will be live streamed at http://www.AlertTheGlobe.com

VENTURA, CALIF. (PRWEB) AUGUST 16, 2018

Alert the Globe Productions along with Discovery Ventura are proud to present an evening with the legendary Waddy Wachtel Band on August 18th. The performance begins at 9:00 pm at Discovery Ventura, located at 1888 E. Thompson Blvd, Ventura CA.

The evening’s performance will also be available for viewing around the world LIVE courtesy of Alert the Globe at http://www.AlertTheGlobe.com

Waddy Wachtel is one of the most respected performers in the music industry. His career has spanned many years as a guitarist, producer and songwriter. Starting from his early days with Warren Zevon, Waddy went on to earn accolades performing alongside Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor and Jackson Browne to his current work with Keith Richards and Stevie Nicks, with lots of stops along the way.

The Waddy Wachtel Band has been performing since 2000 and includes some of the best known and most respected artists in the world today. Core members include Bernard Fowler (The Rolling Stones), Phil Jones (Tom Petty), Brett Tuggle (Fleetwood Mac), Al Ortiz (Stevie Nicks), Keith Allison (Paul Revere and the Raiders) and vocalist Jamie Savko. They frequently are joined by special surprise guests too, including Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Joe Walsh, Neil Young, Adam Sandler, Bobby Womack, Donovan, Eric Burdon, Leo Sayer, George Thorogood and many more.

AlertTheGlobe.com offers a unique and proprietary system that connects musicians and music lovers using a never before seen platform that offers instantaneous delivery to the world.

The All-Star group of Advisors who have been behind the AlertTheGlobe.com movement are Bernard Fowler, vocalist with The Rolling Stones; Waddy Wachtel, guitar legend and music director for Stevie Nicks; Roy Bittan, keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen’s band; Greg Bissonette, drummer with Ringo Starr’s band; Bunny Brunel, legendary bassist and Rob Shanahan, personal photographer to Ringo Starr just to name a few. “Our LIVE stream will change the way you see us and we see you,” says Fowler.

Tickets to the Discovery Ventura can be purchased in advance, visit https://nightout.com/events/waddy-wachtel-band-at-discovery-ventura/tickets for more information.

Connect with AlertTheGlobe.com on social media; Facebook Fan Page at AlertTheGlobe, Twitter @AlertTheGlobe, and Instagram @alerttheglobe.
For media inquiries and interviews, please contact Kelly Bennett of Bennett Unlimited PR Kelly(at)BPUnlimited.com or (949) 463-6383.

About Alert the Globe: AlertTheGlobe.com was created to share music, promote brands and stream live high quality video and audio from stages all around the world. There are no borders concerning the interest and affinity for arts in all the varieties imaginable. Our mission is to bring the world together through music by connecting musicians live. For more information, visit http://www.AlertTheGlobe.com.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/legendary_musicians_waddy_wachtel_of_stevie_nicks_and_bernard_fowler_of_the_rolling_stones_to_headli ne_alerttheglobe_com_august_18th_event/prweb15691146.htm

[MikeInNV]

The September 14 issue of Entertainment Weekly has a piece on Cher's new album of ABBA songs, stemming from her role in Mamma Mia 2. They suggest other options for compilations based on her movie career, and their top pick is a Witches of Eastwick inspired album of Stevie Nicks covers.

[MikeInNV]

"Dance Like Stevie Nicks," the debut single from Scottish singer-songwriter Cameron Adam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2PXksMOhVI&feature=youtu.be

[vivfox]

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[MikeInNV]

On this week's Hollywood Game Night, they played a game where you connect one celebrity to another. One clue was, "This celebrity officiated Vanessa Carlton's wedding." The team correctly guessed Stevie. From there, it was "Stevie Nicks starred on American Horror Story alongside this celebrity's niece." The team correctly guessed Julia Roberts.

[Sanne2]

Captain Marvel’s hair was inspired by Stevie Nicks

Captain Marvel is the most powerful superhero in the Marvel Universe, and her hair was inspired by equally strong women in real life.
Because the just-released movie takes place in the ’90s, Camille Friend, head of the hair department for the film, and her team looked toward icons of that era for reference.
“One thing about the ’90s is that it wasn’t really a great hair period,” Friend told Page Six Style with a laugh. “For Brie [Larson, who plays the titular character], we wanted her to have a little edge. So we looked at the women who were rockers of the age, like Chrissy Hynde and the women of Fleetwood Mac.”
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/19/captain-marvels-hair-was-inspired-by-stevie-knicks/

[bombaysaffires]

Captain Marvel’s hair was inspired by Stevie Nicks

Captain Marvel is the most powerful superhero in the Marvel Universe, and her hair was inspired by equally strong women in real life.
Because the just-released movie takes place in the ’90s, Camille Friend, head of the hair department for the film, and her team looked toward icons of that era for reference.
“One thing about the ’90s is that it wasn’t really a great hair period,” Friend told Page Six Style with a laugh. “For Brie [Larson, who plays the titular character], we wanted her to have a little edge. So we looked at the women who were rockers of the age, like Chrissy Hynde and the women of Fleetwood Mac.”
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/19/captain-marvels-hair-was-inspired-by-stevie-knicks/

uh, I think the actual article says it was inspired by both Stevie AND Christine, as well as Chrissie Hynde. Misleading headline.
(critique of article, not a critique of the person posting it here)

[kak125]

Audible announced Monday a deal with Rolling Stone to produce an audio series focused on the lives of legendary icons.

“The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks,” a look at the life and music of the lead singer of Fleetwood Mac, will be released exclusively on Audible on April 4. Rolling Stone journalist and best-selling author Rob Sheffield will narrate.

“The epicenter of culture and technology is where Audible lives, so we’re honored to work with Rolling Stone, a magazine that has served as a purveyor of pop culture and rich storytelling for decades, to produce next-level audio journalism,” said David Blum, editor-in-chief of Audible Originals.

In October 2018, Audible and Rolling Stone teamed up to produce a series on the legendary Aretha Franklin titled “The Queen.” Franklin died in August of that year. The audiobook remained on Audible’s bestseller list for weeks.


“Audio journalism represents a great step forward in long form storytelling for Rolling Stone,” said Rolling Stone President and chief operating officer Gus Wenner. “We couldn’t ask for a better partner in this space than Audible Originals.”

Nicks will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this Friday, March 29 for her work as a solo artist. Having already been inducted with Fleetwood Mac, she will be the first female artist inducted twice.



https://variety.com/2019/music/news/audible-rolling-produce-series-on-the-lives-of-icons-1203172012/#article-comments

[kak125]

As of this Friday (March 29), Stevie Nicks will have the honor of two spots in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- but to hear her tell it, one small step is not a giant leap for womankind. “It’s 22 to zero,” she deadpanned to Rolling Stone in 2019. “Twenty-two guys who have gone in twice to zero women. So maybe this will open the doors for women to fight to make their own music.”

If the music industry has a long way to go for equal gender representation, we’re lucky to have Nicks leading the charge. Fleetwood Mac began as a blues-rock boys’ club in 1967 -- but conquered the world in the 1970s with powerful songwriters of both sexes.

Fleetwood Mac’s internal disharmony made the Mac a less-than-utopian ideal -- to graph out their various interband trysts would be to weave a tangled web. But crank up their still-intoxicating “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams” or “Rhiannon,” and for a moment, you believe. She proved she didn’t need the boys to achieve commercial success in her own right, topping the Billboard 200 with solo debut Bella Donna in 1981 and continuing to release hit albums throughout the '80s. She never stopped making great music: earthy later albums like 2001’s Trouble in Shangri-La and 2011’s In Your Dreams stand among her finest work.

Many rockers of her generation are on the final legs of their farewell tours; she’s still slugging it out on the road with an updated Fleetwood Mac. Still, she knows what she’ll do when she finally hangs up her shawls. “I will fall to my knees on my cushy white rug and look out at the ocean and go, ‘I am finally free,’” she told Rolling Stone. But she’s still onstage, casting her singular spell -- one that’s landing her in the Rock Hall one more time.

In honor of her second induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, here are her 10 greatest solo cuts, ranked. (Her 1981 duet with Tom Petty, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” is excluded from this list because she wasn't involved in the writing.)

10. “Beauty and the Beast” (from The Wild Heart, 1983)
The Wild Heart is Nicks’ most opulent album -- and for its final track, “Beauty and the Beast,” she pulled out all the stops. The tune was to be recorded live with a symphony orchestra and grand piano; she and the background singers wore long, black gowns and served champagne to a throng of guests. (“It was like we had gone back in time,” said Nicks.) The song itself flips the Jean Cocteau film into a long, languorous ballad about the shackles of time and the meaning of love. In spite of itself, “Beauty and the Beast” works. Leave it to Stevie.

9. “Planets of the Universe” (from Trouble in Shangri-La, 2001)
Originally a demo from the Rumours days, “Planets of the Universe” confronts a heavy subject: her publicly doomed relationship with Lindsey Buckingham. Nicks doesn’t deal in crocodile tears, but celestial language. “The planets of the universe go their way / Not astounded by the sun or moon,” she sings, as if breaking up can be chalked up to Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Few writers are this unafraid of changing.

8. “Stand Back” (from The Wild Heart, 1983)
Fleetwood Mac stretched out and got weirder in the early 1980s, but Nicks was busy kicking up some new-wave dust on her solo albums. (She barely appeared on Tango in the Night.) “Stand Back,” a loving rip of Prince’s “Little Red Corvette” she wrote after her wedding to Kim Anderson, is a funky, infectious example of this, with the newlywed Gold Dust Woman purring like a cat over period synth arpeggios.

7. “Blue Denim” (from Street Angel, 1994)
Recorded during her exit from Fleetwood Mac and in the throes of a nasty Klonopin addiction, Street Angel is her least-loved LP by some margin, stalling out at No. 45 on the Billboard 200. Shame, since it features “Blue Denim,” which captures Nicks beautifully in her element even as it evokes Chrissie Hynde. “It's a song about this guy who came into my life, but left just as quick,” she told WDVE, referring to Buckingham. “And his eyes were that intense.” The music is just as bedazzling.

6. “For What It’s Worth” (from In Your Dreams, 2011)
In Your Dreams is Nicks’ version of James Taylor’s October Road, Graham Nash’s This Path Tonight or Van Morrison’s Keep Me Singing: rich, autumnal listens in which a 1970s troubadour audited their history from the vantage point of a new millennium. “For What It’s Worth” is a touching tribute to Tom Petty, and the gem of the bunch. “What you did was you saved my life / I won’t forget it,” she sings, referring to a tour with the Heartbreakers. The song vaulted to No. 26 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

5. “Rooms On Fire” (from The Other Side of the Mirror, 1989)
In the early 1980s, Nicks romanced British music producer Rupert Hine; instead of just exchanging numbers, the two headed to a Dutch castle on top of a mountain. “We made an agreement to make a magic album,” said Nicks of this unconventional courtship. Their collaboration was “Rooms on Fire,” a spectral jam about being spellbound by a lover in the halls of a candlelit palace. Few songs feature so many windchimes.

4. “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?” (from Rock a Little, 1985)
In 1974, Joe Walsh tasted tragedy. His daughter, Emma, was involved in a car accident, passing away at only three years old. A decade later, Walsh and Nicks drove through the mountains of Colorado together; when Nicks complained about a trivial matter from the shotgun seat, Walsh responded by talking about Emma’s death. This knee-wobbling shift in perspective produced “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?”, one of Nicks’ most beautiful ballads. It’s a tribute to Walsh, Emma and anyone who ended up without a song.

3. “If Anyone Falls” (from The Wild Heart, 1983)
“If Anyone Falls” constructs a vivid, three-dimensional scene of bodies in space. There’s Nicks, ear pressed against a wall listening to a man’s voice. (“Feels good, sounds good,” she sings.) Until she hears another voice through the door -- a man’s, and it throws Nicks for a loop. “There was a time in which I was falling out of one love and into another,” explained Nicks, remembering her moving on from Walsh to musician Waddy Wachtel. Like the Pixar film Inside Out, in which emotions are given personhood and personalities in a girl’s mind, “If Anyone Falls” lets Nicks’ romantic hang-ups play out in a theater of the mind. Only she could pull it off.

2. “Edge of Seventeen” (from Bella Donna, 1981)
Ever inspired by conversational minutiae, Nicks caught one of her greatest songs from a chat with Tom Petty’s wife, Jane. When she mentioned she met her husband “at the age of seventeen,” Nicks misheard “edge of seventeen.” With one slip-up, she was off to the races. She took the phrase to not just mean coming of age, but the enormity of death: her uncle Jonathan had recently died of colon cancer, her colleague John Lennon shot and killed. “The white-winged dove in the song is a spirit that is leaving a body,” she told Rolling Stone. “I felt a great loss at how both Johns were taken.” The result is the greatest, most distinctive rocker she ever penned; its tense 16th notes, uneasy bass line and ascending piano line will lift you to that same heavenly plane.

1. “After the Glitter Fades” (from Bella Donna, 1981)
No Nicks song captures her voice like “After the Glitter Fades.” It begins ruefully looking out from the Hollywood Hills -- she “never thought she’d make it” in Tinseltown. She considers King Midas: when did his golden creations lose their luster? A lonesome pedal steel curlicues like a question mark. It soundtracked a real-life memory. Nicks wrote “Glitter” in 1972, before she joined Fleetwood Mac. She wasn’t sure she could make it in music. She was fed up trying. Of course, we know how this story ends -- but Nicks’ weariness still rings true. “Glitter” speaks to the end of fame, of showbiz, of everything. It’s why we love Nicks. Her songs never claimed that life was hunky-dory; they’re about how life goes on. We can all relate. This glitter hasn’t faded.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8503602/stevie-nicks-10-best-songs-hits

[bombaysaffires]

7. “Blue Denim” (from Street Angel, 1994)
Recorded during her exit from Fleetwood Mac and in the throes of a nasty Klonopin addiction, Street Angel is her least-loved LP by some margin, stalling out at No. 45 on the Billboard 200. Shame, since it features “Blue Denim,” which captures Nicks beautifully in her element even as it evokes Chrissie Hynde. “It's a song about this guy who came into my life, but left just as quick,” she told WDVE, referring to Buckingham. “And his eyes were that intense.” The music is just as bedazzling.

6. “For What It’s Worth” (from In Your Dreams, 2011)
In Your Dreams is Nicks’ version of James Taylor’s October Road, Graham Nash’s This Path Tonight or Van Morrison’s Keep Me Singing: rich, autumnal listens in which a 1970s troubadour audited their history from the vantage point of a new millennium. “For What It’s Worth” is a touching tribute to Tom Petty, and the gem of the bunch. “What you did was you saved my life / I won’t forget it,” she sings, referring to a tour with the Heartbreakers. The song vaulted to No. 26 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

who wrote this? did they do any research?

FWIW- she is on film saying was about Derek Taylor and how he accompanied her on her tour right out of rehab.....

Lindsey hardly came into her life and"left just as quick"....unless you count 40+ years as "quick"

[pryderi]

Love the top 10 list! Just a few days away until the induction!

[mitzo]

7. “Blue Denim” (from Street Angel, 1994)
Recorded during her exit from Fleetwood Mac and in the throes of a nasty Klonopin addiction, Street Angel is her least-loved LP by some margin, stalling out at No. 45 on the Billboard 200. Shame, since it features “Blue Denim,” which captures Nicks beautifully in her element even as it evokes Chrissie Hynde. “It's a song about this guy who came into my life, but left just as quick,” she told WDVE, referring to Buckingham. “And his eyes were that intense.” The music is just as bedazzling.

6. “For What It’s Worth” (from In Your Dreams, 2011)
In Your Dreams is Nicks’ version of James Taylor’s October Road, Graham Nash’s This Path Tonight or Van Morrison’s Keep Me Singing: rich, autumnal listens in which a 1970s troubadour audited their history from the vantage point of a new millennium. “For What It’s Worth” is a touching tribute to Tom Petty, and the gem of the bunch. “What you did was you saved my life / I won’t forget it,” she sings, referring to a tour with the Heartbreakers. The song vaulted to No. 26 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

who wrote this? did they do any research?

FWIW- she is on film saying was about Derek Taylor and how he accompanied her on her tour right out of rehab.....

Lindsey hardly came into her life and"left just as quick"....unless you count 40+ years as "quick"
I just can't help but go on record to state that the top ten is nice but these two songs are among my very least favourite from Stevie.

[David]

I just can't help but go on record to state that the top ten is nice but these two songs are among my very least favourite from Stevie.
You don't like For What It's Worth? I love it overwhelmingly! It's the kind of song that would be great sung by anybody!

[mitzo]

You don't like For What It's Worth? I love it overwhelmingly! It's the kind of song that would be great sung by anybody!

Good song but sung in a low drone with sad instrumentals. Sounds like an old lady.

[lilyfee]

Stevie was mentioned on The View yesterday in a topic about Madonna and ageism. Meghan McCain listed a number of women in their sixties and seventies who are doing amazing right now, including Stevie... and her emphatic mention of Stevie is pretty much how I behave any time Stevie comes up ever!:p

Link to the clip here! (https://youtu.be/dpjVq1airYw?t=83)

[Nathan]

Stevie was mentioned on The View yesterday in a topic about Madonna and ageism. Meghan McCain listed a number of women in their sixties and seventies who are doing amazing right now, including Stevie... and her emphatic mention of Stevie is pretty much how I behave any time Stevie comes up ever!:p

Link to the clip here! (https://youtu.be/dpjVq1airYw?t=83)

Haha cool! Love when that happens. 👍

[Nathan]

Good article!

[Wind chimes. Lift you to that same heavenly plane. Her songs are about how life goes on.]

[lilyfee]

Super random and doesn’t technically involve Stevie but I watched the second To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before movie last night and part of the plot involves the Annabel Lee poem. I recognized it instantly from Stevie’s song and got very excited!

[Macfan4life]

Today on the BIG 80's countdown (SiriusXM): This week in 1983:

Stand Back just fell to #7 from the previous high last week at #5 this week (Week of Aug 28 1983).

#6 was Men At Work "Its a Mistake" who toured one year prior with the Mac in 1982.

Other hits in the TOP 10 this week was #10 China Girl David Bowie and #9 I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Culture Club. #8. Fascination - Human League

What a great summer - the summer of 1983 and the summer of Stand Back. Heavy rotation on MTV, pop radio, rock radio for 3 months, June, July, August 1983.

[Macfan4life]

This is the 3rd prank video in the last few months that has a Stevie Nicks songs in it.

See 2:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvG2nQQxdyo