Stevie and the new Rolling Stone
 

If you haven't gotten the latest issue of Rolling Stone, go get it. :blob2: :nod: I subscribe, so I don't know if it's on shelves yet, but the cover is the 1,000 issue. THere is a great collage of artists. Stevie, though small, is on the upper left hand corner. It's the classic 70's shot of her. Inside, is a picture of the issue with the mac on the bed from '77. Many of us know the tales of that photo shoot LOL, but the article reminices and is heart warming still :blob1:

I'm glad they even included her on the cover and the mac in the issue. They seem to ignor them a lot and have cast them off insignificant. I have a feeling Jan Werner hates Stevie.

I saw this issue today as I was out getting the Andrea Bocelli cd "Amore" for my Mom for Mother's Day. :xoxo: It was kind of neat seeing Stevie making the cover of Rolling Stone again, albeit a small little space on the upper left hand corner of the page. There had to be at least a 100 small little heads of "artists" on the cover, so I guess Stevie was paid respectable homage. No Mac, any significance to that? Hmmmmmm... I perused the "heads" and Bill Clinton was staring me in the face...I about freaked out! WTF! :laugh: Other than that, everybody on there, belonged on there, that I could see.

On a sidenote I heard "Sara" and "As Long As You Follow" in the stores today folks..the Mac is still alive...:laugh:

AND DON'T FORGET, THIS SUNDAY IS MOTHER'S DAY!

stevie is also in the fold out section where they show high school pics of artists, she is right next to tom petty~

Fleetwood in Flagrante
Saturday, 06 May 2006
Rolling Stone [RS1000]
May 18 -June 1, 2006

Cameron Crowe had been covering Fleetwood Mac since 1973. “I had gotten a ride with a date to see Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles play,’ he remembers. “I was wandering around with a tape recorder and interviewed Fleetwood Mac, and one of the road crew stole my date.

Crowe kept writing about Fleetwood Mac as they grew into the biggest rock band in the world. This cover story chronicles the making of Rumours, which would spent thirty-one weeks at Number One and sell 19 million copies. “We knew we were on some kind of roll,” says Lindsey Buckingham, although he says they had no idea how big the record would get. Crowe, at least, had an inkling. One page of his notebook has but a single sentence: “Suddenly everybody everywhere loves Fleetwood Mac.”

In the article, the band members spoke of the stress and conflicts that had led to breakups for the entire group: Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Christine and John McVie, as well as drummer Mick Fleetwood and his wife, Jenny. Rumours’ songs were steeped in tension and recriminations. “The musical soap opera brought out the voyeur in everyone,” Buckingham says, “And their protective instinct.”

Crowe says that after his Fleetwood Mac story came out, “other musicians would say, ‘Well, I see the level of raw honesty the magazine wants from us.’” Told this, Buckingham snorts, “I wouldn’t necessarily advise that to other people. It was part and parcel of the band for us – all our boundaries got melded and we couldn’t hide our level of pain.”

Annie Leibovitz’s iconic cover of Fleetwood Mac in bed perfectly captured the band’s interpersonal dynamics. On the day of the shoot, Leibovitz says, “I thought I’d be nice and polite, and I brought a bunch of cocaine for everyone. In those days, for photo shoots, you just brought cocaine. I took it out, and they looked a little freaked out at first, but then consumed it in, like thirty seconds. Then I learned they’d all recently been to rehab. So they were all a little jittery and tense.”

Buckingham’s memory of the session centers on something different: After Leibovitz finished, everyone got off the mattress except himself and Nicks. Wearing only their bedclothes, the two of them stayed where they were and just held onto each other.

The wounds of their breakup were still raw. Says Buckingham, “After all that we’d been through, knowing that we loved each other – somehow, we just couldn’t get up.” For five minutes, maybe more, Buckingham and Nicks shared a silent embrace. Leibovitz and the rest of the band milled around until finally Mick Fleetwood returned to the mattress and whispered to the entangled pair: “Guys, you’re freaking everyone out.” –G.E.

Transcribed by Adam O'Leary

BAHWAAAHAHAA!!!!

God love 'em!

I know - I have this vision of them kind of snooping around and then Mick diving in followed by the four all holding short straws :laugh:

It was like this movie I saw the other night, called "54" all about the Studio 54 in its heyday: all the drugs & the scramble for power & influence & the treachery & the deceit & the self-absorption & the Ziggy Stardust sucking-up-into-the-head stuff. Fascinating ...

Fleetwood Mac fell into the American Dream, as Stevie once said. What she didn't specify was that there are several American Dreams, not all of them equally salubrious.

Was this the big production with Ryan Philipe, Selma Hayack, Liv Tyler, etc.?

Yes, I love that movie, I heard it wasn't succesful, but I liked it. It inspired in all things happenning in that disco (the E! True Hollywood Story about it confirmed a lot of the facts, like the sex in the balcony, the old woman dancer, the "vip" basement, etc. I think the movie is inspired in that research, though the way they show the fall of the discotheque, and the way the IRS entered, was far from reality (it was Hollywood after all)

The soundtrack (2 CDs) is a must for classic disco fans

BTW, Does Liv Tyler appear there???

Yes I think that was it.

that movie has HOTT written all over it

Does anyone else think Stevie's pic on the cover is way too small!!!!!!!

I do, of course. but then, I think she should have been right next to Janis Joplin...;)

I'd never heard this particular nugget. It makes the whole "No one told us coke was dangerous" statement even more hysterical.

Omigod! I didn't know they all went to rehab before they went to rehab!!!! :eek:

Which, if Annie isn't incorrect, makes Stevie a triple rehab veteran. How awesome is that? She's like, right up there with Elizabeth Taylor, Liza, Keith Richards, etc. Does quitting Atkins count as another rehab ?

:laugh: No.

Epic woman, epic life, epic addictions. You can't be epic without drugs, debauchery, and beauty. For the process of becoming epic, the life needs amazing highs and bloated lows.
aaaahhhh. I know you're over her, but I love the woman.

It seems strange that no one in the band has ever said anything about going to rehab in the '70s. Mick didn't even mention it in his book, and he blabbed about everything (even told us he's circumcised)!

Bloated lows ? You have had a way with a phrase lately that just tickles me.

I know you love her, Homegirl.

I said it was awesome, didn't I ?

Yes. yes you did. :woohoo:

I think the word "bloated" makes things funny. Never knew that before.

I am short on bloated lows. I want to be epic. Many amazing highs. Some even coke induced. Gotta work on the bloated lows.

Well, also I think your life can be epic if you are in such good shape that you look fabulous all the time.
I, myself, am in the process of shedding my bloated low. Now for something spectacular....

I think I can swing that. I am thinking a debauched pool party. Hunky guys, hot chicks. A few of my crazy bisexual friends. 80's mix cd's. Outrageous tropical decorations. Patron, Cristal, and the one raging wacko friend I know who can still get top grade coke. Okay, I have the template for the 40th birthday party in July.

I have dropped a little bloated low before. Lose yours, and spend the summer here. We'll put it all back on, lose it with a fad diet, and be fabulous again next summer. I can feel it...we are epics in the making.

http://i3.tinypic.com/zkl62w.gif This sounds ideal!
What I wouldn't give for an invitation. Please just don't charge me $350. http://i1.tinypic.com/zkl6j7.gif

HAHAHAH COUNT ME IN!!!

I think Leibowitz got her wires crossed. Maybe she's thinking of the band she photographed the night BEFORE she shot Fleetwood. ;)

Why would all five trot off to a treatment facility together?? or even at the same time? That's ridiculous. It's possible, I guess, that they hired Rehab-on-Wheels to come by the recording studio, but the idea that they all left the grounds together to go get help is daft.

And if they *did*, apparently the treatment failed. Does anyone think this was a clean band as the 1977 tour started?

I found that film really useless. On the same theme, with less stars but a slightly more intelligent plot, IMO, there 's a better movie, Whit Stillman's The Last days of disco.

I agree it sounds nonsense, probably she just believed something an overzealous press agent told her.

Romy

This is what she said in September 2004:

"I have a feeling the band had all gone through rehab or something," says Leibovitz, "and I brought out huge amounts of drugs, thinking that's what they wanted. They were not so happy about it, but everyone consumed everything, so we were all out to lunch. I brought the mattress and sheets."

She had a feeling, she didn't know for sure. ;)

I will try to rent that & thanks for the recommendation! But for 54, didn't you find the whole thing this weird, compelling portrayal of duality: active vs. passive, clean vs. impure, urban vs. suburban, etc., with confused symbols, confused signs, confused characters? Think of the scene at the height of the artificial frenzy inside the club when the batty old cokehead snorts her blow & then died of cardiac arrest: I found it fascinating how the perspective got all screwy in a matter of minutes. It reminded me of the assassination in Nathaniel West's "Day of the Locust" (which it slightly resembled), & the batty old bird went from being a didactic symbol to being a lifeless person & back to being a symbol all within the space of about a 2-minute scene. It was weird & amazing! Plus, another thing I loved was that the rhythms established by the characters'/actors' speech were so evocative of the rhythms of American speech on the West Coast (even though the story takes place on the East Coast). Sitting there listening to the whole thing unroll was, for me, like walking around at the mall in my hometown of Arcadia in 1978 listening to the populace talk. It was extremely realistic, superlifelike.

But now I want to see this other movie you mentioned. I love movies that take place in that era, like Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" (which I didn't think was totally great) & Irvin Kershner's "Eyes of Laura Mars" (which I *did* think was totally great).

I agree. I'm thinking that she thought this sounded good for the article. She knows the history behind the band, so she expanded on the real story a little, or maybe the dementia has set in on her. ;)

I have a subscription to the Rolling Stone also, and I'll have to say that this is a great issue of the Rolling Stone. It is fun to look back on all the great covers, and the stories behind them. The holigram cover is really cool too, but I wish they could have made the images a little clearer. I was surprised too that they made some of the people they did so small, like Stevie and Pete Townshend?!:confused:

Yes, that was probably the best scene in the movie, IMO. The only one in which some life (through death, quite weird actually) came in a depressing, decadent and unresolved apology of a dolls' house.

IMo in 54 there were the rhythm, the costumes, the right sets, but there weren't the people, the feelings, it looked like the animation of a quite average essay on those years. Christopher gave a couple of minutes of life to every character, to forget them and pass to the next one. I think Stillman's movie was better because at least he chose to focus on 4 characters, build a constant interaction among them, and use them as guides for the audience. I can't say TLDOD is greatly balanced (and there's the usual Stillman's hint of upper NY glance that can be at times irritating), but at least you can see the people, not only the gossip, in the film.

I like a lot movies about 70s and 80s too. Not so much Summer of Sam and Eyes of Laura Mars, but I enjoyed a lot films like Almost Famous, Velvet Goldmine, Boogie Nights, Lenny, Quadrophenia, Blue Velvet, Fame...

Romy