Brian:
"Well hey now, hold on a minute. I agree with a lot of what you said, but 'Her voice is shot?'"
I honestly did not mean that as a cheap shot. I accept that most folks around here still love (or like) her voice. But in my opinion, when you compare it to the voice that recorded Landslide, Dreams and Sara, it is shot.
Johnny Stew:
"And I don't think anything he said was ever 'anti-Stevie' at all."
That may come down to a matter of interpretation. After all, I have posted comments here that I thought were funny only to be villified for being "negative." But that you would interpret Letterman's remarks as anything but negative against her is up there with Clinton questioning the meaning of "is." Letterman may not have meant any malice, but he was pissed. And that came through clearly.
"In that time, she had two Top 20 albums (one hitting the Top 10), a Top 40 'best of' compilation, and six Hot 100 charted singles (two of which were Top 20 hits, and a third hitting the Top 5)..."
There are many albums that hit the Top 20 only to disappear into extinction quickly. This is all relative, Johnny, as you know. What's a quick hit in the Top 20 for someone who was in a band that held the No. 1 spot for how many weeks and sold a gazillion copies of Rumours? Truly, from the mid 80s to about 1997, Stevie Nicks was mostly an object of ridicule, despite the tiny victories she may have had on the charts.
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