gold dust woman and operation
 

Music and Conversation with Jim Conley - 1981
(quote also appears on "Rock Year - 1977")(about Gold Dust Woman)"I wrote that in Arizona when I was real sick.. after an operation under the Indian Mountains. So if you listen to it like that...I had an operation...I was in bed for five weeks so I just played my guitar and looked up at the Camelback Mountain."


I just found this quote and have never heard anything about this operation. Does anyone know anything more?

Christine
www.inherownwords.com

Very interesting quote, Christine (it's great to see you, by the way). I've never read that before.

Hmm... I wonder if this was after the breast augmentation surgery, which I believe would have been right around that time (early 1976). :confused:

Ahh! That's my tape! The Rock Years things ran on KMET. There were a bunch of them. In some others, Stevie talks about wanting to be the most elegant rock 'n' roll singer of all (as opposed to stomping around in tight spandex).

I always assumed that illness (we were just talking about the illnesses that created Sisters Of The Moon & Gold Dust Woman) was part of her ennui/illness from touring on that first 1975 tour that wore her down. However, it does fit the time frame of her boob job, so maybe that was it.

I was thinking the same thing.


Als - Christine -

I must thank you for your wonderful site. I have quoted it and cited it more times than I can count. Thank you so much for all your hard work :angel:

I also think Stevie is referring to the boob job!

Would it have taken five weeks to recover -- remember it was the mid 70's?

When was her "abortion"?

I am pretty sure that did not take five weeks to recover from under ordinary circumstances :shrug:

Neither would a boob job.

But it would take longer than an abortion, which people walk home from :shrug:

People walk home from boob jobs too. Girl in my class had one during the weekend and was back to class on that Monday.

I read that she had an ovarian cyst operation right after the Buckingham Nicks photo shoot. Ironically she said that she was in bed for 5 weeks after that. :shrug:

but this was 1975 or so :shrug: But, who knows, maybe the procedure was the same then.

gotta love those cystic ovaries! that would put you down for five weeks, easily. paging nurse curtis, any input?

She didn't get a tit job in the mid-seventies, though.