Can you remember the first time you beheld her?
 

I don't mean live, necessarily.
For me, I saw a tiny pic of Fleetwood Mac in the kiddie magazine Dynamite when I was little. From the name I thought it was a country band. I think Stevie was crouching or doing a split, and I think she was in a brown hat. (Or maybe Mick was in the hat.)
Whichever, I didn't really give Stevie much thought in terms of attraction. In the 70s I was all about crushes on brunettes: Lynda Carter, Jaclyn Smyth, etc. (though I did like the blonde sister on Eight is Enough, but I digress...). However, there WAS something about Stevie's eyes.

I remember seeing the Hold Me video years later and thinking Stevie was just another 80s video model with a made-up shiny face, though she did look great. I don't remember seeing Gypsy in those days.
My clearest first memory of being "enchanted" was seeing her in the Stand Back video. Wow. I remember staring every time the video would air.

BTW, it was not until the RAL album that I found out Stevie was not just a solo artist, but also a singer in Fleetwood Mac. That's when I realized that the hot singer in the SB, If Anyone Falls, Talk to Me, I Can't Wait videos was the same as the hot woman in the Hold Me video and the squatting blonde in Dynamite magazine, which I had long since thrown out.

When did you first set eyes on Stevie's image?

- Jake

Herbie Worthington's photo on the back of Rumours. I got it for Christmas along with Toys In The Attic, Boston, Chicago and a bunch of others I can't remember right now. She had this really cool dress on and for some reason I identified with her in that photo even though we had nothing in common. My fav song then- I Don't Want To Know. I got seriously bitten in the fall of 1982 in Vail, Colorado when my loser ex-husband stole a tape deck with one frigging tape in it-Mirage. That's Alright. Yeah, it was my theme song. Of course it was a really small town then and he promptly got busted, cops at our door, causing our neighbor to flush some very expensive weed down the toilet. I think he might have been a little freaked abut his semi- underage girlfreind also. But I digress. Stevie was everywhere on MTV, on the radio and then of course The Wild Heart. There was no going back after that.

Great story
 

"Has anyone ever stolen anything for you
In all your darkest hours, did the cops come take it back":laugh:

"Meet me down at the police station
I've been waiting, I'm through making bail for you"

"Flushing down the toilet
Weed's swirling in brilliant colors"

Okay, I'll stop.

BTW, shouldn't you have gotten the White Album in Vail? Isn't Colorado (Aspen) where Landslide was written? Wrong tape deck!

(BTW, no way are you old enough to have been married in '82.)

- Jake

I've loved music for as long as I could remember....at the age of 8 or 9...I knew 'of' Stevie....and I thought she was this "cool...hippie....Bohemian kinda chick...who dressed real funky"...and when I was bored I would put my parents stereo on and sing along to the songs on the AM radio stations...(FM radio was just beginning to become successful....Christ, I'm showing my age:rolleyes: )....and I have vivid memories of me singing Dreams pretending I was dressed as 'that cool hippie chick'.

Fast forward to the age of 13....I saw Stevie Nicks' concert on HBO when it premiered and for the next hour I was MESMERIZED...It truly was like watching a rock and roll 'angel'....and suddenly, she was everything I wanted to be...Blonde, beautiful, graceful, spirited...I studied EVERYTHING....every facial expression fit the song....She was smiling and dancing and laughing through "Gold and Braid"...After "Dreams"....she smiled with nostalgia as a single tear fell from her eye....During "Sara"....you could see memories coming and going throughout her mind...and the sadness in "Rhiannon" as her concert came to and end..."She in all her magic" didn't want the night to end.

I immediately bought Bella Donna....and truly believed every song was written for me....I could apply any song to any circumstance in my life and throughout my adolecence (and all the crap that goes along with it:) ) Stevie became my sanctuary....my big sister...my guardian angel...and fairy godmother all rolled into one...She 'helped' me through my parents divorce....break-ups with boyfriends...feeling 'outcast' in high school...and even all the way up until I thought my own marriage was going to fail.

Now my life is 'on track'....and I may not "need" her guidance as much as I use to....but everytime I hear a Stevie 'classic'....I'm literally thrown back in time and I'm 16 again and living in my "lavender" bedroom...with my bed on the floor and my posters all over the wall...and I see my little 'shrine' to Stevie...and the memories come flooding back....and i'm home :)

Hey, who needs a 'shrink' when you have Stevie :laugh:

Ditto (what TwoTricky said)....

A friend of mine's parents had the FM white album, we used to listen to that a lot - and I also still remember the first time I heard Rhiannon on the radio - I thought "who IS this chick with the cool voice and what is she saying? Breathe on and on? Huh?" LOL

When Rumours came out, it was on my Hanukkah list - along with KC & the Sunshine Band's greatest hits, Barry Manilow's greatest hits, the soundtrack to A Star is Born, and the KISS Alive II album. My mom bought me all of them, and my musical taste remains as eclectic....

The first time I saw Stevie perform live in person, was October 31, 1982 in Austin, TX. I was completely mesmerized!!

:wavey:

Cool Thread...
 

the first time I saw Stevie was when I was shopping with my mom and saw the cover of "The Wild Heart." I remember thinking that that woman is the most beautiful woman in the world. I still stand by my first impression. I also put it together later that that was the same woman who was on the cover of the Rumours album which every one of my friends' parents had a copy of. Interesting...

Re: Great story
 

Married said fool six months after this happened at the age of nineteen. Then my favorite record in the whole world, The Wild Heart comes out which, according to Miss Nicks is all about falling in love, right? Well that was the record I got divorced to. I just kept singing Stand Back.

I was 10 years old and listened to the radio constantly, back when radio was beyond cool and stations actually played songs other than the "hits". I fell in love with Over My Head & Rhiannon, and Monday Morning, Landslide, and Crystal too. I was so totally amazed that there were three different singers in the band and that two of them were women! I begged my mother to buy me the "White Album". She did, but was none too happy with how scruffy the band looked on the back of the album! I believe she may have used the word "hippies". I played the album over and over again, every single day. Then I saw them on the Midnight Special and there was Chris--looking so cool and elegant playing her keyboards and stuff and there was Stevie swirling and twirling away in her black costumes with the long drapey sleeves. I was fascinated. By the time Rumours came out, I was a diehard fan. And have been ever since. Both Stevie and Christine had an huge impact on my personal sense of style. They just both looked so cool, and so amazing in the photos that were in the album insert of Rumours. I studied those pictures for hours on end! Despite the fact that I had no musical talent whatsoever, I wanted to be those girls! And you know, I think I still do! Let's just say that we've been through a lot together through the years and that Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks have been the soundtrack of my life! At 12, I may not have understood the huge breaking-up saga that inspired Rumours, but I loved those songs. As an older, wiser adult who has been through a couple of heartbreaks and quite a few heartaches, I not only love those songs, I can identify with the words and the emotions behind them and I love them even more now than I did then!

the first time i paid any attention, was when Big Love's video was beginning to be played on tv.
i saw this band with those two girls, who don't even sing! i remember thinking just how cool it is for a group, having two chicks just for the sake of coolness itself! they were just like the Human League!!! :eek:

I was working in a record store (around Christmas of 1973) and as I was filing the new stock of LPs that came in, I saw the Buckingham Nicks album in the "misc B" section of our store...I opened the album to play in the store (eventually bought that very album), before side one of the LP had ended, I'd taken three orders for the album (since the one I opened was the only copy we'd had in stock).

Fleetwood Mac has always been a part of my life as long as I can remember. I remember my parents listening to the White album and also Rumours. Me names Steph after Stevie so she's always been with me in a roundabout way.

Re: Great story
 

BTW, I am honored to have my very own song parodies now.:D

It was WAY back in 1997... I was 13 at that time... I had a terrible day at school and came home and fell on the couch and slept with the tv on VH1... Then all of a sudden I woke up and saw this beautiful woman on tv singing "you could be my silver springs"... Then I saw the rest of the band..

I said to myself who is the new band, wait they are too old to be a new band... Then I saw the rest of the performance, her and lindsey singing(yelling) to each other at the end of "silver springs"... Then I saw the name Fleetwood Mac.. I had never heard of them..

I wanted to get the single of "Silver Spring" but they didn't have one so my mother bought me "The Dance" for christmas... and the rest is history...

I know we had some Fleetwood Mac around the house when I was little but I don't remember my parents playing it all that often. I remember my mom's best friend's husband (Uncle Bob and Aunt Linda) who is now deceased, used to be in love with Stevie Nicks. I was little..I mean like, 3 or 4...and I used to sit there and watch TV as my mom would clean downstairs. She would turn on MTV or VH1 and I'd sit and sing along or dance or whatever. And I saw Gypsy. Then I saw Hold Me. I saw Little Lies (I did the Lindsey straddle thingy..lol). I saw Stand Back. And I loved it. It used to be me, my ballet slippers, my moms full length mirror and me imitating Stevie a la Gypsy....I was such the little dorkus. I've been hooked on Stevie and Fleetwood Mac ever since. The first music other than little kids stuff my parents ever bought me was Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits because they knew how much I loved them and adored Stevie :nod: I also remember very vividly...it was the night of the super bowl and the Disney Channel was showing Fleetwood Mac Going Home. I had my friends Heather and Lindsay sleep over and we watched. It's amazing how much it was a part of my childhood...good memories of the Mac :nod:

gldstwmn~~girl, if that means you're the age I think you are, I hope I end up with some fanfreakingtastic genes like that....you look like you're only 30 :nod:

The first time I ever "saw" Stevie was on the Rumors album cover. (my mom listened to it alot) I really loved that music~~~ ~~~Once Stevie went solo and I bought the Bella Donna album I was hooked. I used to obsess over the pictures. I thought(and still do) she and the girls were soooo beautiful. I've been a die hard fan ever since.

Nae