How long has it been?
 

I thought it might be interesting to see when and how Ledgies first got into Stevie...


How many years or months have u been a fan?
Do u remember what year it was?
Do u remember what song u first heard?
When was your first Stevie solo concert?


discuss! :angel:

The second I heard dreams. Her voice is one of the first things that I conciously remember going ooohhh, what was that, who IS this............

It was 1980 something. (I'm only 24) Which is why I get bitter when people discuss how WONDERFUL the wild heart tour was! ;) the 45 of talk to me was one of the first records I ever bought. Because I missed the 70's, I remember feeling VERY confused by the fact that "Stevie Nicks" was in a band called Fleetwood Mac. :laugh: OOOHHHH How little I knew!! But that's ok, I more han make up for it with my obsession now. :laugh:

The second I heard Rhiannon on AM in my mom's Chryser Wagon with non-authentic wood grain paneling on the sides :cool:

How long have u been a fan? About a year and a halfish... :o
do u remember what year it was? 2004
do u remember what song u first heard? Edge of Seventeen.
how many years or months has it been? Year and a half...
when was your first Stevie solo concert? June 19th, 2005. At the Tweeter Center, in Chicago. I went with my friend Krystle, and we got many looks why were so young and at a Stevie Nicks concert, and actually had good seats! (6th row) :D

so that was what, 2, 3 years ago? :p

Actually like 30 :eek: I need a drink :laugh:

I've been a fan of Stevie's since 2001, when I heard the hype about her "new album" on VH1 and went to look up more info. I was listening to "Edge Of Seventeen", and it's all history from there. :p

Landslide. And I was hooked.

I had no idea who sang it, and had to sort of figure out who this Stevie was, and how could she be in a band, and a solo artist, and what other songs where there, b.c I had to hear them. That was only 97, I was only . . .16. I found her and the Mac just in time to miss the Dance tour.

But, I've been addicted every since, and was finally able to see her with the Mac Sept 28, 2003 at Wachovia in Philly. Then Hershey, And then in Camden. And I finally saw her solo just this past July 1, and almost died to realize I was in the front row!! And got a handshake!! Sigh. . . :]

Became a fan when my mom brought home FM's greatest hits album. I think she got it around 89-90, a year or two after it came out. I was about 10.

To me, fan is short for fanatic -- in other words, the point at which I started collecting every magazine article or photo, rummaging through Goldmine & other magazines for ads from vendors selling concert photos of the Mac, buying bootleg audience tapes of shows, taping every appearance off TV & taping every interview off the radio, etc. I started doing all this in 1978. I saw some Fleetwood shows in 1977, but my real fanaticism (fan) was under way the following year.
I don't remember because I'm sure I heard Fleetwood Mac songs like "Rhiannon" & "Over My Head" before I was a fanatic (fan). In 1975, I was still listening exclusively to AM radio because I was a pop song baby. I had no interest in hard rock, blues rock, cock rock or hippie-dippy shlock rock. In 1975, Elton John was king on my little record player.
December 7, 1981, at this old place, the renovation of which was completed just a few weeks before Stevie opened her L.A. engagement:
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I am a fan of Fleetwood Mac, the entire band. Stevie comes along with this territory. She's not the star of the show to me though. She's only part of it. Christine to me is THE female voice of this band. Mainly because, she HAS a voice. Warm and resonant. Stevie and her reedy croak have gotten her far in life, and she has a definite place in this outfit, but her execution of her songs is surely an acquired taste. Anyway, I've been a fan since the 70's. When I was in High School. I discovered Stevie's solo work quite late in life and quite by accident when someone gave me her Enchanted Boxed set. I had a listen, and decided some of the songs were actually quite good. And some, were, as Chris McVie would say, "rubbish." It all seems to come together. I find her an interesting person, even if she's as nutty as a fruitcake at times. Like most interesting women I know and read about, she's fun and she's a complete flake. If Tasha Tudor could get up and rock, she'd be Stevie Nicks. :p

Oooh, love that theatre! David, Is that the Wiltern? Oh wait, the Fox Wilshire?

I don't know if I can really answer these question as a "Ledgie" since I am new to this board, with no intro (should've been more polite, like 53yearoldpixie), and only one post before this one.

I have been a fan for 30 years, ever since I first sang along with "Dreams" into my hairbursh. I know I had heard Rhiannon before, on KHJ, but it was just part of my 70's soundtrack. The fandom began when I bought Rumours, 1976,with my own money, and spent all that time trying to see into the photos in the insert. At that time I was equally into Christine, for her voice, but my ten year old self wanted to be Stevie!

I didn't see Stevie until 1983: Inglewood Forum October 2, 1983, and then
September 17, 1985 Mulholland Tomorrow, and...that's it. I wish now that I had seen more. I stopped seeing any stadium shows in my early 20's, got all snobby and would only see acts in small clubs, medium-sized venues.

One could only hope that Stevie decides to go the way of the small club/medium size venue route on future tours.. will you see her then?

welcome to the ledge, btw :wavey:

The Fox Wilshire!
93 KHJ was my radio station! My AM pop radio station extraordinaire. Remember when they played "One Tin Soldier" every afternoon at 4 -- practically on the button?
Well, you saw the greatest Stevie Nicks concert of all time, as far as I'm concerned. It's never been equaled. I have a rough old tape of it, but I keep hoping a really great recording of it comes to light. Remember how she twirled out onstage during the slow intro to "Gold Dust Woman" & the first thing she sang was that amazing yelp/yowl? And she just kept yelping/yowling the whole night, & chattering in her manic high.
She came onstage, overweight & dressed in a trench coat, during Petty's set for "Stop Dragging My Heart Around," & at the end of the song, said, "Tom said to tell you that I'll be back later." Remember the guy who climbed up on the edge of the stage at the end of the concert when they all took their bows & grabbed her "Stand Back" cape? I knew that guy! He was a real rat -- he lived in a dingy apartment in La Habra. He was the reason "Battle of the Dragon" got kicked off Rock A Little & put on that dumb soundtrack instead.

I still have my Mulholland Tomorrow shirt! Did you buy a shirt, an ugly gray shirt with purple logo & lettering?

Been a casual fan since 1975. Been a fanatic since 1977. I've been a fan since I was in middle school.
It was Stevie's voice that got me. I got Fleetwood Mac and Rumours in 1977 and I was hooked by the whole band. Now of couse it is mostly about Mr. Buckingham. :)

Well, I guess about 27 yrs. :D
GDW, 3 years old. 1977. But I also remember hearing GYOW a lot. Didn't like it then.
Consciously, Stand Back, 8 yrs. old, 1982. I was in love and haunted.
First Stevie solo: Enchanted

Funny, I consider most Chris McVie songs "rubbish."

How many years or months have u been a fan?

about 20 years.

Do u remember what year it was?

84-85ish....when I was able to understand what music was

Do u remember what song u first heard?

Stevie-wise it was Dreams....only because it was the first Stevie song to appear on Rumours

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

Solo: Opening Night TISL

OopS! Forgot to answer thsi one.
First time that I saw Stevie was with Fleetwood Mac in 1979. I saw Stevie from the back with Tom Petty in the summer of 1981 in Boston.
First Stevie solo show that I saw was in summer of 1983 in Worcester, MA.

Ah flashbacks
 

How many years or months have u been a fan? 23 years
Do u remember what year it was? Had to be between1982 & 1983 cause I was ALL over the Gypsy & Stand Back Videos. Being as Stand Back came out in 1983-ish, I am gonna say atrating point was 1983 and all downhill from there!
Do u remember what song u first heard? Stand Back, but then I LOVED Tusk, so I had known I liked FM, but like someone and so many have mentioned, the "knowing" of Stevie being the girl from FM was yet to be realized.
When was your first Stevie solo concert? 1989 The Other Side of The Mirror, post Loma Prieta earthquake.

So very long ago....
 

for me, the first time i heard Stevie was back in 1983/1984.. i was literally a small child, but i remember hearing "stand back" on the radio in my mom's car... even then, i really liked that song.. although i didn't become a "fan" until years later... the summer of 1991 is when i became a true Stevie Nicks fan... my first Stevie solo concert was at Jones Beach on July 24th, 1994 on the "Street Angel" tour.. :angel:

How many years or months have u been a fan?

About 4 years now. Until then I only had the FM Greatest Hits album and Timespace but I only listened to 4 songs on it (ROF, SIAB, TTM and ICW). Then Bootylicious came out and I heard that they used a Stevie sample in the song, so I decided to check out Edge....then the rest of Timespace, then I became totally addicted.

Do u remember what year it was?

2001

Do u remember what song u first heard?

Solo the first song I consciously remember hearing was Rooms On Fire and I loved it.

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

:( Never. I saw two Say You Will concerts but nothing solo....yet

MmHmm, that was the first 45 I ever bought, "One Tin Soldier" by Coven. Hee. I think I switched to KMET, and then KLOS, with some KROQ at the beginning of high school.

I got a floor seat for that show, but I missed a huge chunk of it: my boyfriend got me there late, and someone was in my seat. It was an intense show. I was peeved for missing the beginning, but I can't fault the boyfriend - poor guy didn't have a ticket and he drove me all the way from Hermosa Beach!

Wild, I didn't remember what she was wearing,or any of those details, until you described them. From where we sat - way back, you couldn't see much in the details of what anyone was wearing, just color. Did she maybe have something like a military coat on? I do remember her saying that "Tom said..." thing. Weird. You know I didn't go to that show to see L. Rondstadt, but I remember thinking she just blew the roof off with her version of Tumbling Dice.
I didn't buy a shirt.

You know, I think I had decided I was a snob (or "snoob" :laugh:) when I stopped buying tickets to big shows, but I think the real reason is that I was cheap. I never bought any memoribilia, except a few songbooks. I just wanted all my money for more records, More records, MORE Records Bwahahaha!

Thanks!
Hey I would see her anywhere now! It is just hard to get away for a night from my toddler.

I think, back then, I had gone to a lot of shows where we shelled out lots of money for seats so far away the artists were just blurs, and the sound was just ok, and I felt gypped. And then I had some jobs in little music venues, and just got into another scene. I saw some amazing shows in those little places, but I know I missed some great concerts too! I am thankful for those brave audience recorders, so I can hear some of what I missed.

But I never stopped loving Stevie... Ok, maybe for a little while, when she donned those crinoline skirts and Grand Ole Opry hairdos.

I can't believe I said "snooby" :o

The first Mac song I heard was Peacekeeper. My Mum got Way You WIll and got me to listen to it in the car one night. I bet she regrets that now. :laugh: I really liked that song, then I got listenint to Running Through the Garden and Stevie's voice was just amazing. It was a complete awakening, like nothing I've ever heard before. So then I stole the CD and never looked back. That was about February 2004. I'm nearly sixteen. I know in lots of ways I'm a very newbie Macfan, but believe me, I got obsessed _very_ fast. I got the Dance after that, found out that Stevie and Lindsey were the girl and the guy respectively :sorry:, found out just how sexy Lindsey was, discovered Silver Springs, and the rest is history.

And no, I still haven't been to a concert. *sob!*

How many years or months have u been a fan? 32+ yrs & counting~
Do u remember what year it was? 1973
Do u remember what song u first heard? "races are run"
When was your first Stevie solo concert? 1986, rock-a-little, tho i saw the mirage tour in 1982~

Not that I'm really a Stevie fan, but
 

it's 5:00 a.m. and I'm bored. So...

How many years or months have u been a fan?
Do u remember what year it was?
Do u remember what song u first heard?
When was your first Stevie solo concert?

I first became interested in Stevie's music about 14 years ago (in 1991 or 92) when I was watching MTV and they did a block of Tom Petty videos (Remember when they did those? When they actually played music videos?!!!) and they included "Stop Draggin My Heart Around" as part of the block.
I didn't make the connection, though, between this weird blonde chick with beads in her hair and that band Fleetwood Mac that my parents used to listen to (used to as in before they became parents. Somehow their musical taste went down the sh*tter with the arrival of children) for quite some time. In fact, it was only shortly before The Dance that I figured it out.
I've never attended a Stevie solo concert. I have all of her solo albums (plus BN and a lot of demos) but once I got into Fleetwood Mac I discovered Lindsey Buckingham, and just couldn't imagine paying to see Stevie without him. (Now I just can't imagine paying to see her at all, since I found her performances on the Say You Will tour to be unexciting for the most part and even annoying at times - see her "I'm a little teapot" hand gestures on "Say You Will.")

How many years or months have u been a fan? Do u remember what year it was?


I was around 6 or 7 and I am 29 now. My dad bought me my first Stevie cassette when Wild Heart came out. He also bought me Fleetwood Mac Mirage and Christine McVie's solo album. Then when I was around 15 or 16 I was listening to the Wild Heart and freaked out. I said to my dad I need the rest of her music so we went to the store and bought all of Stevie's CDs and Fleetwood Mac CDs that she was on. Then little by little I started collecting the Fleetwood Mac albums Stevie wasn't on.

Do u remember what song u first heard?

Stand Back on radio. Then on MTV. I keep remembering my daddy saying "SHE IS SO HOT." :laugh:

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

Street Angel at Jones Beach.

How long?

About three and a half years, my ex's mum gave me "Rumours" on my 17th birthday, because she said I dressed like Stevie Nicks. (I hate having to point out to people, that no i do not dress up like Stevie Nicks now, I was wearing this stuff before I knew she existed :)). I just fell in love with it, but I only bought a solo cd after reading a reference to "loves a hard game to play" in a book by Judy Blume (Summer Sisters). So I bought Timespace. I still have a soft-spot for that song, even if most people hate it! Became obsessed, trawled the net for hours and hours at a time and spent a lot of money.

First song?

Was actually "Rhiannon" at ex's house, but I didnt know it was sung by Stevie. I fell for it big time tho, since it was the version from the Live 1980 cd, altho I didnt know that at the time.

First concert?

None, ever :( Couldnt afford to eat, let alone pay those prices to go to the SYW tour and Stevie doesnt come here for her solo shows.....*cries quietly in the corner*

~Nicki

I was about 15 when I really discovered Stevie. So it's been...9 years :eek: I can't believe it's been so long. I've always been into classic rock, so was always familiar with Stevie/Mac. The song that got me into her was Rhiannon though. My first concert wasn't until SYW in Moline IL. I got into FM right before the Dance but was young and didn't have enough money to go. I had tickets for Enchanted and ShangriLa and they all got cancelled. :( So I didn't get to see her till SYW...and have never seen her solo. I have a feeling I may never get the chance to.

She just kept chattering. After "I Need to Know," she said, "Jim Ladd, if you're out there, this is a good time for a program for you: "Innerview -- because HE needs to know"

That's a trend I've noticed. A lot of younger fans say they haven't been to see Fleetwood or Stevie, even when there have been shows in their area in recent times. The reason is probably the extremely high cost of concerts today. In the olden days, everybody went to concerts. They were so relatively cheap. You didn't blow your entire savings just to go to a stupid concert, & everybody went -- especially fans who lived in big cities or suburbs. (I don't know what fans in the boondocks did -- maybe they went to concerts, too.)

But now that concerts -- & especially Fleetwood Mac concerts -- cost so much money, I run into more & more fans who just can't go.

It depends what kind of music you're into now though David. Not every concert costs an arm and a leg. I still go to loads and it's usually only the older legendary artists who charge a fortune.

Unfortunately, my musical tastes being of the classic rock/heavy metal from the 1970's and 80's it costs ALOT to go and see them. Normally I bite the bullet and go, since I might never get another chance. Not sure why I didnt for FM...but the prices were double what I paid to see Alice Cooper that year and I could barely afford that one. Guess that explains it! :)

How many years or months have u been a fan? 8 years as a huge fan, about 22 as a casual fan.

Do u remember what year it was? I remember Stand Back being on MTV all the time in 83, and I remember RAL, TITN & TOSOTM very well. But my obsessive fandom started with The Dance in 97.

Do u remember what song u first heard? Edge, but Stand Back is the one I recall better - maybe because of the video.

When was your first Stevie solo concert? Solo: TISL Cuyahoga Falls, OH 2001. I was also lucky enough to see The Dance tour in Buffalo 11/97.

1.) Approximately 12 years of fandom here :wavey: .

2.) 1993ish. I remember hearing FM songs on the radio long before that, but it wasn't until I was 11-12 yrs old that I put 2 and 2 together.

3.) First FM song was either 'Don't Stop' or 'Say You Love Me'. First Stevie was 'Dreams'. (I think...?)

4.) 1994 Street Angel tour. I convinced my parents to take me. I recognized the FM songs and a few of solo hits. At the time I only owned FM-Greatest Hits and Timespace.

How many years or months have u been a fan? ***approximately 32 years

Do u remember what year it was? ***1973

Do u remember what song u first heard? ***the first track of the Buckingham Nicks album, "Crying In The Night"

When was your first Stevie solo concert? ***Rock A Little tour 1986...Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa CA...Peter Frampton was the opening act

How many years or months have you been a fan? Since I was a wee lad and Tango came out, so about 18 years.

Do you remember what year it was? 1987. I specifically remember it because I got my Fisher Price record player for my birthday that year.

Do you remember what song you first heard? I remember hearing Gypsy and telling my grandmother "that person has a funny voice," but Seven Wonders drew me in. Odd, because I can't stand that song now.

When was your first Stevie solo concert? July 19, 1991 at Great Woods in Mansfield. I don't have fond memories of it, so I like to forget about it and just remember the opening night show of the Street Angel tour, which was marvelous.

How many years or months have u been a fan?
About 24 years.

Do u remember what year it was?
1981.

Do u remember what song u first heard?
I loved Stevie's voice from the moment I heard it and was conscious of it - which was 1981 - Stop Draggin My Heart Around. (I had heard Dreams and Rhiannon as a younger child; they were tucked away in my memory and pulled out later when I heard them again and made the connection)

I then became absolutely mesmerized with the Hold Me video - and the woman in the red dress. In my young ignorance, I had no idea they were the same person! :o But I was hooked. Then came Gypsy.... oh, my Lord! The rest is history.

The clincher was the release of Tango in the Night - and my first Fleetwood Mac concert ever. I don't think I took my eyes off Stevie the entire night. That's when I realized I had known and loved all her earlier songs for years, and all the pieces came together.

When was your first Stevie solo concert?
Other Side of the Mirror tour - summer 1989 - Ottawa, Ontario.