Q & A With Stevie...Las Vegas Sun
 

Just Seen this so I thought you would all enjoy.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...566616816.html

Thanks for the link...
 

I was off to go to sleep, but I had to read this Q & A. I liked the following question and answer the best:

"But you had some tough times, financially when you were just starting out."

"I was a cleaning lady, a waitress, which I enjoyed. Lindsey and I really had five years when we were, for all practical purposes, married. We had five years to really struggle and have a real life and become real people, so that we didn't get famous at like 18 like Bob Dylan. We actually had to be real, struggling, normal people for five years until the day we joined Fleetwood Mac and the band started paying us each $200 a week in cash and then, as soon as we went into rehearsal four weeks later, $400 a week in cash. I was finding $100 bills in pockets and in shoes and in clothes I had washed and I had to hang the money up to dry. It was hysterical."

The hanging money to dry part reminds me of the scenes from movies when someone is counterfeiting some $$$$ :lol:

Did all you Europeans catch that Stevie's coming to Europe later in the year to do press for the album? Wonder if she'll do some shows. :shrug:

And what are these three Florida shows after Vegas that she's talking about? :shrug:

Cool interview! She mentioned the Petty shows at The Greek. Awwwwwww.

"a story about a lady and her goldfish." :rolleyes: :laugh:

I'm glad she realizes that she doesn't have all the time in the world left & had better get stuff done. Keep on going, mama! :thumbsup:

Awesome - thanks for posting!

"So this package is a CD with 18 songs on it, songs from '81 to now."

:distress: :distress: :distress: :lol:

I love how she says her year off "vacation" was with Tom Petty. I can't think of a better vacation.

First thing I noticed!

I hope we get some more info on that fast, because if that's the case, I'm not flying out to NYC this summer.

So I called my manager and he goes, "This is your year off," and I'm like, "Well, I can't turn this down," and he goes "OK, but just remember at the end of the year when your year off is over your time off was Tom Petty. He was your vacation."

.......

So no. Everybody thinks I get all this rest but I don't. Tom Petty was my vacation, and it was the most fun I've ever had on the road. I loved it.

this is me playing my teeny tiny violin for stevie. womp woooomp.

oh, c'mon. don't you want to stay in the fantastic accommodations you did last time? :laugh:

Hmm... I'll believe that when I see it!

I take back all the bitching I did about them postponing the European release if she's actually going to get her ass over here for once. But yeah, she said she was going to come to Europe during TISL promo also. :rolleyes:

But with TISL, wasn't the plan to come over AFTER the summer tour, which would have been after 9/11? I could see why she never followed through with further plans, given that other artists were cancelling entire tours that fall.

Maybe she's afraid of all of your mastadons :shrug: :lol: :lol:

I also noticed that she now says they are rehearsing for the Summer tour after Vegas and the 3 Florida shows. I thought I had read that she was rehearsing before Vegas. Now, I'm afraid we really will just be seeing the old Dreams setlist next week.

:thumbsup: I'm totally with you on this!

True, I wouldn't have blamed her if she had cancelled it, but nothing had even been in the works. If she was going to head to Europe after her American tour (which wasn't going to work because of SYW anyway) we would have at least have dates or official word before 9/11. European gigs usually get announced further ahead than dates in their home country. That's why I doubt she ever planned on coming.

Come to think of it, didn't she say it during Enchanted promo also?

Even if 9/11 had not happened I still don't think she would have come... There had been absolutely no promotion or anything. And she was lined up to get back in the studio with FM wasn't she?

Oops.. you pretty much posted what I was trying to say... should have read your post first! :wavey:

Edit: I notice we posted at the same time! heh

Mediocre minds think alike. ;)

:cool: :thumbsup:

Actually, I figured I'd bunk with you in your luxurious penthouse. :laugh:

Great interview :thumbsup: For just once though, it would be nice if Stevie acknowledged her fans in an interview. I mean something like "yeah, I figured I better get this greatest hits package out for my fans (while they still want it), or something along those lines, but, it's always about "Stevie" :rolleyes:

I like this quote:

So people with the labels tell you, "You're kind of a folksy rock singing chick so now we're going to pair you up with a bunch of famous black artists and we're going to make you wear no clothes and you know what, you'd better do it or we're dropping you from the label."

It's kind of politically incorrect, but I love that she said that!

What does she mean three Florida shows? I think she is confused, because she already did her three Florida shows last month.

Maybe she's coming back to do another show at the Hard Rock - she said she would because of all her ear monitor problems - you know because everything is so HFT these days! :rolleyes:

I think this interview was done a while ago. She mentions having 'just' done the two Petty shows at the Greek and that was what...last september? No mention of Eye Sack yet either.

I picture you playing air violin like she skillfully performed this past summer during "Don't Come Around Here No More." :D


But we didn't want it. :shrug: :p

Well, not until this DVD commentary thing came to fruition. :cool:

My first reaction to this line was: Nelly Furtado! I just wonder if this was actually more of a dig at Jimmy Iovine, who is the head of Interscope (Nelly's label). I could imagine she is appalled at the cr@p music that Jimmy is responsible for overseeing.

Hey, don't you pick on our Nelly! :mad: :laugh:

I got that vibe too.

I also think she refers to when she collaborated with Prince and how she told him she could never be scantily clad and sing about sex so blatantly - or something like that. I mean look at what Prince did to the virginal girl who sang "My Baby Takes the Morning Train" - then MY SUGAR WALLS :eek:

Now you're assuming that they actually attempted any sort of collaboration (beyond the synthesizer part in SB, that is). Put me in the camp that believes that Stevie did not sing on "All Over You."

^^
Welcome to the camp. :wavey:

I really liked this interview - and Im excited to see that she is probably coming back down here. If she does Australia, she may do NZ again - either way, Im going :thumbsup:

I am unsure about that. If anectdotal evidence is anything, La Nicks has messed around in the studio with just about every musician she knows from U2 to George Harrison, esp. pre 1985 or so. So, if she hung around with Prince, odds are she did some things with him. Also, he loved taking a pretty girl and transforming her. So, I am sure they did some recording. I think she also commented fairly directly on that by saying she did not want to sing his blatantly sexual lyrics. I cannot find the direct quote though.

The only reason I might dobt it is that La Nicks was a far larger star than Prince at that time. So, it is doubtful she or her people would let him transform her into anything.

At this point, it's hard to say what happened... but I definitely think she had every intention of touring in Europe in 2001. She said she planned to tour there and the t-shirts (and I believe that tourbooks) even said "TISL - World Tour."

I think the shows she had to make up due to her illness also played a part in that.

I have a lot I want to do. I want to make a movie out of the stories from "Rhiannon," which came from a Welsh mythological book. I have a cartoon story I wrote when I was 17 about a lady and a goldfish that could be made into an animated feature, a Disney thing. I have songs written for both projects, but until I get some time off I can't do them.

So somewhere in the 10 years that's coming in front of me I would really like to be able to make the space to do these other things before I'm too old to do any of them. I'm 58 years old. I still have great energy at this point but I figure in 10 years I'll be 68, so I need to get some of this done.

That was my favorite part, It makes me feel like she DOES have a plan.Touring is what she is able to do now, and she knows that. I have allways comended her for still going!:thumbsup:

(and HATED hearing "shes through after behind the mask, no, street angel, no, after the dance...
NO! Shes releasing a boxed set! Shes retired for sure!
TISL and its over,,,
No, make that after the vegas 0'5 shows.........
WELL< Guess what. :p :D

They said World Tour and then had just US dates on them. I'll never be convinced that it would have happened. She might have wanted it but I don't think it was ever a reality. JMO

She's been talking about those projects for the last 20 years! At least now she realizes she doesn't have all the time in the world to accomplish them.
The Rhiannon project sounds promising. Aside from The Three Birds of Rhiannon, I wonder what other songs she has written? She makes it sound as if it's a complete body of work.

Goldfish and Ladybug -- ahem...in the state that we know it leaves a lot to be desired. It's no Lion King! Bless her delusions to think that Disney would be interested in it. Better get to work, Stevie!

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Yaaaaaay!!!!!!!Lets hope she does come back to Australia!!!!!!!!!!!

That's probably because most Americans think the USA is the entire world. :lol:

great interview.