Jones Beach: Stevie Nicks' 'Dreams' spot(Interview)
 

Jones Beach: Stevie Nicks' 'Dreams' spot
Published: June 26, 2012 6:38 PM
By GLENN GAMBOA [email protected]

Stevie Nicks is on a mission.

Though her album "In Your Dreams" (Warner Bros./Reprise) reached No. 6 when it was released last year and spawned two Top 25 hits on the adult contemporary charts, it hasn't made the kind of impact the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is used to. So Nicks is taking to the road again this summer -- kicking off her tour Friday at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater -- to bring the music to more people.

"I lost my mom in December," Nicks said, calling from her home in Los Angeles. "But one of the last things she said to me was: 'Don't you give up on this record. . . . You take 2012 and you go out and work this record because this record is your little masterpiece. Don't be swayed by everybody else. You do what you need to do to sing these songs.' She knew it was important to me."

You really are showcasing "In Your Dreams" on this tour.

No one puts six new songs in their set. You're taking a big chance that people are going to say, "Excuse me, what songs have you just taken out to put that song in?" But that didn't happen last tour, and we were able to do the important old songs and the new songs. I feel like it's really a gift that my audience has given me to allow me to do the new songs and not start complaining. . . . I feel really thankful for that. You feel creative. You feel like you're still a really creative artist.

That creativity is still on display in the new song "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)." What more could you possibly do for a hit today?

I know! [Laughs.] I'm trying to understand the music business today, and I'm trying to learn why it is that that's true. I'm not feeling quite so bad about it anymore because it's happening to everybody. It's not just me. . . . It's happening to everyone unless you're 20 and have a big hit single. Then, even if you are 20, you have to be nervous about that 19-year-old who's going to come up with a song that someone else wrote for them that's really great and wipe you off the map. It isn't good for the young kids and it isn't good for us, either.

So you have to do something else to get the word out about your new music.

Yes, and if you're me, you're lucky because you get to walk out on the stage and say, "This is not a Stevie Nicks' greatest hits tour. This is a tour promoting a record called 'In Your Dreams.' I'm giving it a second run because I believe in it that much, and I hope that you like them. And if you like them and you're a part of my little army, do me a favor and tell a friend." I get to do that. Most people don't get to do that. I feel like I'm really lucky, and I'm in a good place in the music business. My heart breaks for the younger artists -- because I know that there's another Fleetwood Mac out there, and I know that there's The Who out there, that there's a James Taylor out there, a Carole King out there. I know they're all out there, but . . . someone has to figure this out.


WHO Stevie Nicks

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Friday, Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh. (Also, 8 p.m. Monday, Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway, Manhattan)

INFO $20-$175; 800-745-3000, livenation.com

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I love that "my little army" part!

We're all a part of Stevie's little army guys! Isnt that cool?! :thumbsup:

Quick- someone make up some camo tshirts we could wear to the shows that say, "Stevie Nicks Army"!

I loved that part too, yeah great idea to make up t shirts.. "Stevie Nicks Army":)
Geez, i wish i had the cash to fly to the USA to see Stevie in concert..
Can only hope for lots of photos & video footage:thumbsup:

Lmao what reality is she living in? Tons of artists put six or more new songs in their sets. I don't know why she has always acted like her fans would completely revolt if she threw in new songs. Of course more people will know Rhiannon, but nobody is going to walk out because you sang Moonlight.

I remember an interview she did a few years back and she mentioned FM practically getting booed off stage doing the new Rumours songs. She said that kind of scared her since then of doing new tunes on stage. Dumb, I know, but that's what I read.

Yes Jaime, this is exactly what she refers to everytime she justifies her reasons for not doing new songs. That one day in April of 1977 really scarred her for life. And those "new" Rumours tunes really turned out to be such duds, didn't they?:p

Stevie's Little Army!!!
 

I was just thinking the exact same thing! She is too cute!! We could all wear black t-shirts with white writing saying "Stevie's Army" in large letters to her concerts!!

^Or camo :)

But, Stevie does have a valid point about new songs. The casual fan who came to hear the hits could give a rip about new songs. It's the real fans who want new stuff and unfortunately, we are the minority.

What I want to know is why she's not singing this "I'm doing new songs whether they wanna hear 'em or not by golly" tune for Fleetwood Mac? :rolleyes:

John, she has probably been brainwashed over the years into thinking that she has to play the "HITS" at every concert by her management while, we, her fans, (her "ARMY"):lol: would love, for, her to sing whatever she wants to! Maybe she'd like to sing Bella Donna, Highwayman, I Sing For The Things, Rock A Little, Sable On Blonde, The Wild Heart, Blue Lamp:thumbsup:, Crystal, POTU, Sleeping Angel:thumbsup:! Don't Come Around Here No More, The Rose, wow, the list is literally endless. I would love to, actually, ask her what she would like to sing. It could be interesting to hear her answer!

I can understand why she would be shaken if the new tunes were played.Most of the audience are just general music fans that go to concerts.Us true fans love to hear new tunes.

Yes we have to report to duty in the next couple of weeks as our commander said.Seeya there.

TOO FUNNY!!!:lol::lol::lol:

Am I wrong.....but didn't Fleetwood Mac themselves put in 6 new songs from "Say You Will" in their 2003/2004 tour??

They did, but by the time they got to the west coast they dropped some.