Is this the first time Stevie has recorded an album at her house?

[sorcerer999]

We all know that they (Dave Stewart, Glen Ballard) set up a recording studio inside Stevie's house to record this new album. My question is if this is the first time she's done this? Recorded an album from her home?

I know most of her records were recorded in studios and that TOSOTM was recorded in a huge mansion that she rented. Can't recall if she's recorded from home...besides the demos, of course.

[HejiraNYC]

Well, this is the first time she's recorded anything since moving to Los Angeles full time. And it's not like it was particularly convenient to get things done in Phoenix since everyone would have to be trucked in from somewhere else. I suspect that the initial recording/jamming/writing was done tentatively at Stevie's house, just to see if there was any point in continuing. Once they realized that this was the real deal, they probably decided to go to a real studio to finish recording. It's not like she started out in 2010 with 14 finished songs and the desire to record an album. I somehow get the sense that Stevie didn't realize that a solo album was even viable until they started noodling around at her house with Dave constantly calling Stevie's bluffs and making it so that there was no excuse not to record an album. I could imagine Stevie complaining that it (recording a solo album) would be too expensive, too difficult, too inconvenient, too taxing, etc. Dave probably had a mobile studio and Glen Ballard delivered to her house the next day just to shut her up. Recording at home probably took off the pressure and allowed things to evolve organically. At the end of the day, assuming this album is any good, we really owe Dave a medal of honor for making this happen. If it wasn't for him, I doubt we would have ever seen another full solo album. Ever.

[daniellaaarisen]

Wait, where has it been said that she's recording in her house? I have heard that she recorded this record, or at least part of it, at the Village....

[sorcerer999]

Wait, where has it been said that she's recording in her house? I have heard that she recorded this record, or at least part of it, at the Village....

http://blog.emusician.com/briefingroom/2010/09/08/stevie-nicks-chooses-equator-q10-monitors/

[Nikolaj]

Dave S. said it was recording an album in an entirely new way, I believe at her home studio, followed briefly by a proper LA recording studio for some 'killer lead vocals.' Maybe not, though.
Stevie said it was an entirely whole new way of writing with someone at the same time in the same room, loftily comparing she and Dave to Lennon and McCartney and R&H.
New way of recording, new way of writing, same completely old way of delaying it beyond reason to satisfy her whim of her March 1 release. So, what was the point?
If she were not taking so long between having recorded the cd and releasing it, all this 'entirely new' way of recording would make a difference- it'll get tweaked to death by March and get too sterilized like TISL did. There will be no year-end millions of people from teens to senior citizens who need to buy reasonable holiday gifts or stocking stuffers, and she will miss out on selling a couple hundred thousand copies more of the cd than she will in March.
Also, people won't be able to 'learn' the new songs by her 2011 tour, which she claims she finds necessary to be comfortable not singing 'Mold Dust Woman' and all the others to death, again.
I love GDW- with Fleetwood Mac- so that was sarcasm.

[daniellaaarisen]

Okay well I know for fact they did some work at the Village Recorder too. Interesting!

[MacMan]

The way I understood it was the music was being recorded in a studio (Village Recorder) with musicians such as Waddy and Mick etc... Stevie then takes the mixes and puts her killer vocals on that - and I believe that's what is being recorded at her house.. But I could be wrong, maybe some rough vocals were also added with the music at the Studio... and the REAL vocal work will be done at her home with the chicks.

[wheart]

Dave S. said it was recording an album in an entirely new way, I believe at her home studio, followed briefly by a proper LA recording studio for some 'killer lead vocals.' Maybe not, though.
Stevie said it was an entirely whole new way of writing with someone at the same time in the same room, loftily comparing she and Dave to Lennon and McCartney and R&H.
New way of recording, new way of writing, same completely old way of delaying it beyond reason to satisfy her whim of her March 1 release. So, what was the point?
If she were not taking so long between having recorded the cd and releasing it, all this 'entirely new' way of recording would make a difference- it'll get tweaked to death by March and get too sterilized like TISL did. There will be no year-end millions of people from teens to senior citizens who need to buy reasonable holiday gifts or stocking stuffers, and she will miss out on selling a couple hundred thousand copies more of the cd than she will in March.
Also, people won't be able to 'learn' the new songs by her 2011 tour, which she claims she finds necessary to be comfortable not singing 'Mold Dust Woman' and all the others to death, again.
I love GDW- with Fleetwood Mac- so that was sarcasm.

so did Dave S. himself describe Stevie's vocals as "killer"? I must have missed that tweet. I hope he's right. I feel Stevie's recent work (solo and FM) in the past ten years has been, for the most part, devoid of passionate vocals...particularly on SYW.

[Fannymac]

Dave S. said it was recording an album in an entirely new way, I believe at her home studio, followed briefly by a proper LA recording studio for some 'killer lead vocals.' Maybe not, though.
Stevie said it was an entirely whole new way of writing with someone at the same time in the same room, loftily comparing she and Dave to Lennon and McCartney and R&H.
New way of recording, new way of writing, same completely old way of delaying it beyond reason to satisfy her whim of her March 1 release. So, what was the point?
If she were not taking so long between having recorded the cd and releasing it, all this 'entirely new' way of recording would make a difference- it'll get tweaked to death by March and get too sterilized like TISL did. There will be no year-end millions of people from teens to senior citizens who need to buy reasonable holiday gifts or stocking stuffers, and she will miss out on selling a couple hundred thousand copies more of the cd than she will in March.
Also, people won't be able to 'learn' the new songs by her 2011 tour, which she claims she finds necessary to be comfortable not singing 'Mold Dust Woman' and all the others to death, again.
I love GDW- with Fleetwood Mac- so that was sarcasm.

Sorry, but I think you're getting your panties in a bunch for nothing here....I'm sure the March release date isn't just Stevie's doing......most record labels like 3-6 months to plan for a new release...even if the album was done by the end of last month, that would have put things AT BEST at the end of November. Yes, she MIGHT get some stocking stuffer sales, but most playlists are frozen by this time, and most prints ads go to the Top Sellers.
January is kind of a graveyard for releases, so waiting a month or two until all the Xmas bills are paid makes sense to me. Plus, if this album is as good as everyone's saying it is, I'd rather they take their time and roll it out right!

[Nikolaj]

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That's okay reasoning above, and I hope you're right about it getting 'rolled out right'- that would be great. But a November and even late October release was completely do-able, and SN decided it had to wait for March 1. Her cd, her choice. But in my opinion, it was the wrong choice.
She's losing potential sales that could be a third of what the cd might sell, and no record company requires six months notice for release, and ad space is always available. Amazon.com and online retailers could be ready tomorrow to have a pre-order page.
Shelf space at Target, BestBuy, Borders, Barnes And Noble, and Walmart, they'd really have to decide now for the cd to be in stores by the first week of November and well stocked through January. All the rest is do-able. The retail availability of 'Soundstage' was minimal, it was a hard cd to find in stores, and that was a pre-planned spring release. Hell, she did an in-store at B&N in NYC, and Connecticut Barnes And Nobles didn't have the cd or dvd in stock the first week of release. I bet Reprise didn't ship 10,000 nationally.
Like I said once before, I can wait, but the difference between 'rolling it out right' and auto-tuning and overprocessing it to the point of taking away the spontaneous and reputedly excellent initial work is an issue. It's happened before with Stevie's releases. She fudges around too much with the post-production and seems to have regretted it in the past. I'd like to see a fast work released fast.
Recorded in a new way, and written in a new way, deserves a prompt release (new way, that!) rather than not, is what I was thinking.
Panties. You're cute :)

[RockALittle250]

^
That's okay reasoning above, and I hope you're right about it getting 'rolled out right'- that would be great. But a November and even late October release was completely do-able, and SN decided it had to wait for March 1. Her cd, her choice. But in my opinion, it was the wrong choice.
She's losing potential sales that could be a third of what the cd might sell, and no record company requires six months notice for release, and ad space is always available. Amazon.com and online retailers could be ready tomorrow to have a pre-order page.
Shelf space at Target, BestBuy, Borders, Barnes and Noble and Walmart, they'd really have to decide now for the cd to be in stores and stocked through January, by the first week of November. All the rest is do-able. The retail availability of 'Soundstage' was minimal, it was a hard cd to find in stores, and that was a pre-planned spring release. Hell, she did an in-store at B&N in NYC, and Connecticut Barnes and Nobles didn't have the cd or dvd in stock the first week of release.
Like I said once before, I can wait, but the difference between 'rolling it out right' and auto-tuning and overprocessing it to the point of taking away the spontaneous and reputedly excellent initial work is an issue. It's happened before with Stevie's releases. She fudges around too much with the post-production and seems to have regretted it in the past. I'd like to see a fast work released fast.
Recorded in a new way, and written in a new way, deserves a prompt release (new way, that!) rather than not, is what I was thinking.
Panties. You're cute :)

I believe there is also symbolic reasoning for waiting until 2011, since that marks the 30th anniversary of BD and the 10 year anniversary of TISL. Then it can be truly promoted as her first album in 10 years and an album she's releasing exactly 30 years after her solo debut.

[Nikolaj]

I believe there is also symbolic reasoning for waiting until 2011, since that marks the 30th anniversary of BD and the 10 year anniversary of TISL. Then it can be truly promoted as her first album in 10 years and an album she's releasing exactly 30 years after her solo debut.


That's a very likeable way of presenting it!

[iamnotafraid]

So Stevie's into numerology?
Since 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit (Alice?)
maybe that's why it's coming out in '11.