Ann & Nancy Couldn't Match Stevie's Intake

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by QueenStevie

Why do they have to say that they couldn't keep up with Stevie's voracious appetite for various substances, or drugs? That just makes Ann and Nancy look as if they're trying to make themselves look better by putting another person down.

I know. It would have been enough just to tell us about the foray into Stevie's closet.

On the other hand, Stevie can do stuff like that herself. She has said how innocent she and Lindsey were and how they had to keep up with the English guys. She can give the impression that if John, Mick and Christine hadn't been such hardcore degenerates, Stevie would simply have been hitting Earl's English Grey Tea really hard.

Michele

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by QueenStevie

Why do they have to say that they couldn't keep up with Stevie's voracious appetite for various substances, or drugs? That just makes Ann and Nancy look as if they're trying to make themselves look better by putting another person down.

Idk, I think it depends on how the book tells the story. The person who wrote the article made it seem as if Ann and Nancy were randomly saying in the book that she did WAY MORE cocaine than them, but there must be a longer story attached to it. I haven't read the book, but I could just see them telling the story about they night they spent trying on Stevie's stuff and doing so much coke that they had never been that high before and then a reporter turns that into Ann and Nancy couldn't keep up with Stevie's drug habit! I just can't see either of them randomly bringing up Stevie's drug use to make them look better. But who knows! Maybe kak125 will post the story from the book!

[skuncles]

I actually just read the Stevie part in the book last night. In the passage in the book they are talking about how wild things got in the mid to late 80's and how coke was everywhere. They say how everyone in the band was doing their share of drugs and alcohol. Ann says that no one in the band did anything until after the show. She says that she was doing more drinking and coke than others in the band, then she tells the Stevie story.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I know. It would have been enough just to tell us about the foray into Stevie's closet.

On the other hand, Stevie can do stuff like that herself. She has said how innocent she and Lindsey were and how they had to keep up with the English guys. She can give the impression that if John, Mick and Christine hadn't been such hardcore degenerates, Stevie would simply have been hitting Earl's English Grey Tea really hard.

Michele

[WildHearted]

Someone just tweeted this, I'm assuming that they're at the convo.

"Stevie Nicks prefers that Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson) did not include her in their book."

oh snap

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Someone just tweeted this, I'm assuming that they're at the convo.

"Stevie Nicks prefers that Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson) did not include her in their book."

oh snap

Oooh la la.

Michele

[skuncles]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Someone just tweeted this, I'm assuming that they're at the convo.

"Stevie Nicks prefers that Heart (Ann & Nancy Wilson) did not include her in their book."

oh snap

Wonder where she said this. Seems odd that all of a sudden she's going to try and downplay her drug past. It's not like the book says that Stevie was a mess and an embarrassment, they just tell of hanging out with her, getting high and trying on clothes.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by skuncles

Wonder where she said this. Seems odd that all of a sudden she's going to try and downplay her drug past. It's not like the book says that Stevie was a mess and an embarrassment, they just tell of hanging out with her, getting high and trying on clothes.

She said it today at the Q&A thing before the film screening. She said that they weren't best friends really and that she thought what they wrote in their book was private.

[gypsy4life]

I read the book last week...and am a big fan of Heart...that being said..
I felt they portrayed Stevie in an odd manner....no mention whatsoever of her musical talents or her massive contribution as a woman in rock...it bothered me..and I can see Stevie's point...I thought it rather rude.
They had plenty to say of the talent of Alice In Chains though...while mentioning their partying....

[Jondalar]

I fealt that Stevie's response to Ann and Nancy putting her in the book was incredibly honest. It just smacked of truth. They weren't best friends, and there will not be a viginette of Ann and Nancy in her book. So truthful.

[QueenStevie]

Ann Wilson's latest attempt to dethrone Stevie won't work!

[bombaysaffires]

I adore Stevie but she really does try to manipulate her image and I think she can be very controlling about what people say about her. I've always gotten the sense that everyone around her chooses their words carefully in public because I think if you say something she doesn't like she can just freeze you out. On the one hand I totally understand that, but on the other hand it can turn into a very distorted reality.

It seems like lately she (or Liz Rosenberg or whomever) has made ground rules for interviews that they get to edit whatever is produced before it goes out... for example that journalist who reported turning over his tape to her team and getting it back with a statement she made about Lindsey edited out, and on the videos folks have posted from her session at the Hamptons Film Festival she herself talks about having just done an I Heart Radio thing and having a window of 72 hours to listen to her interview and edit it to her liking.

I understand why artists and their mgmt might want to do that but I think they and we lose some objectivity when they are allowed to .

[michelej1]

I don't think there's anything wrong with it being in the book, but I understand Stevie not liking it. As a reader, I'm glad for the little snippet, all FM news is good to put in our vault. However, as the subject of that snippet, I would be annoyed, think they had nerve and resent them using my name to try to spice up their little book.


Michele

[rhiannondontgo]

Honestly, I understand Stevie completely here. I agree that she can be ridiculous and stubborn and quit silly sometimes, but she's honest and straight-up about how she feels. She has every right to say that she didn't like being in the book. Personally, like most people have, I've made about a million mistakes and bad life choices and been involved in a ton of really stupid situations, and I know that. But I really wouldn't be happy if 40 years from now people were still writing about it and discussing it and asking me about it in every interview. Stevie's coke habit lasted for what, 14 or so years? Meanwhile she had a good 25ish years before that where she never did drugs, and then was clean off coke for another 25 years after that. But because of that much smaller segment of her life where she was using drugs, it's arguably one of things she's most famous for and most often asked about. It has to have gotten very old by now and she's probably sick of listening to other people tell her how much drugs she was consuming. She knows and that's all that matters. I think it's perfectly fair for her to say she doesn't like it, and I like that she's honest about her feelings.
That being said, I agree that Ann & Nancy did not mean any harm by writing it, and it's really no big deal. In fact I adore Heart. I don't think they meant to upset her at all.

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I don't think there's anything wrong with it being in the book, but I understand Stevie not liking it. As a reader, I'm glad for the little snippet, all FM news is good to put in our vault. However, as the subject of that snippet, I would be annoyed, think they had nerve and resent them using my name to try to spice up their little book.

I don't really see what it could add to the book. It seems like a knock at Stevie, and to what end? Is there more to the story, or do they just want everyone to know that Stevie did a lot of drugs, which is not a newsflash for anybody.