How You Became A Fan..... Your Stevie Story

Musicman408 · #1 05-26-2007, 03:47 PM

I know we all got into Stevie/FM in various ways throughout the years. I thought it might be kind of cool if we shared our stories of how we became fans and all of that. I'll start off.

My family was in vacation in Destin in 2003. The 5th(or maybe it was the 6th) Harry Potter book was coming out, and we went to Barnes and Noble to find out information on the late night party because we were thinking of going. As we were leaving, my dad picked up Say You Will.

I had assumed that this c.d would be like one of many that my parents pick up. Not my kind of thing. I had heard of Fleetwood Mac I suppose and would later find out that I knew a few of their songs (the radio hits).

So we were heading back to the rental house and they popped in the c.d. I took the album booklet at was following along with the words, and they captivated me. Within 5 minutes, I REALLY liked this band.

My fandom grew slowly and by Christmas of that year, I was given Timespace and loved it. We say FM twice during SYW, the better of the two was in Nashville, 8th row or so. I was too scared to wave or anything, we were so close.

Now, I listen to Stevie everyday and am entranced by her music. It's crazy to think that if my dad hadn;t picked up that c.d, this whole love would have never started........ Pretty Amazing~~~

Much Love,
Ethan

SNLB · #2 05-26-2007, 05:48 PM

I started getting interested in Fleetwood Mac's music when I was in high school. Rumours was out. Dreams, Go Your Own Way, You Make Lovin' Fun and Don't Stop were all over the radio, seems all of the time. One day, I was listening to the radio and a song came on I'd never heard before, but it caught my ear right away so I listened to it all the way through. I just kept thinking, "I hope they give the title of the song and artist after they play it" because you know when you want to know the name of a song, the DJ rarely tells you.

It doesn't happen to me very often when I hear a song for the first time and have to put it my record collection RIGHT NOW! It was a song called I Don't Want To Know by Fleetwood Mac. That was it! If that song was on the Rumours album, I was going to buy it. I ran down to the mall and Musicland had the best selling album of the time all over their store. I picked it up and checked out the songs and sure enough, I Don't Want To Know was on there. I had no idea who any of the individual band members were at the time, but I took that album home and wore it out and I learned fast who they all were! Stevie became my favorite right away. God, I remember that they (re)released Buckingham Nicks after Fleetwood Mac hit the big time (thanks to Stevie and Lindsey!) and I saw it at a Music Plus store. Whoa, what was this? I bought it and was in Stevie heaven!

Today, I'm listening to Stevie on her special day. She is just AWESOME! Thanks, Stevie (and Fleetwood Mac!) and Happy Birthday!

NoSpeedLimit · #3 05-26-2007, 10:00 PM

My Dad. I have listened to Fleetwood Mac since I can remember. There are videos of me dancing around to "Save Me" when I was little...so funny lol. My Dad and I go to a lot of shows...Stevie and FM...it's our thing that we do together.

ryan8472 · #4 05-26-2007, 10:14 PM

I listened to Silver Springs off The Dance album. It turned me gay. And I've loved her and the band ever since.

petep9000 · #5 05-27-2007, 12:26 AM

I suppose I was 6 years old when it happened. It was 1976, and my oldest sister Linda (who was 22 at the time) had bought the FM 'White Album' on vinyl and also 8-track. Due to the big age difference, she assumed alot of responsibilty in our household and took good care of me. Anyway, she was always taking my sister Robin and I places in her blue '72 Pontiac Firebird. We'd be in the backseat, and she'd be driving and blasting her 8-tracks. It was always music, in her car. So we'd drive to Jones Beach in the summer, or even just to go to the store or one of her girlfriends houses or my aunts house- but the important thing to her was that there was always music playing. And it was alot of different music, there was FM, but there was also Donna Summer, Electric Light Orchestra, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Gloria Gaynor, Barry White, Traffic, Charlie Rich, and so many others.

So that's really how I came into FM- it was through my sister and it just sort of soaked in. We'd sing 'Rhiannon', and 'Blue Letter'. The next year, she bought 'Rumours', and we'd sing 'Don't Stop', 'Dreams', 'Go Your Own Way' 'You Make Loving Fun' and 'The Chain'.

BombaySapphire3 · #6 05-27-2007, 02:53 AM

I was beaten upside the head by my sister with an 8 track of the white Fleetwood Mac album.

michaelD · #7 05-27-2007, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

I was beaten upside the head by my sister with an 8 track of the white Fleetwood Mac album.

The EXACT same thing happened to me!

RavenOfRhiannon · #8 05-27-2007, 09:12 AM

I vaguely remember Rumours playing around the house early in my life, however, the defining moment came when I was about 8 years old. It was my parents wedding anniversary, and my mom wanted to do something really nice for my dad, so she coached my sister and I (in secret) to learn to sing 'Leather and Lace.' The only problem is that I HATED singing Don Henley's part and would always begin to sing Stevie's.
Come to think of it, that might be when I became gay too...

sasja · #9 05-27-2007, 02:03 PM

I was a huge kate bush fan, but my then BF beat me over the head with the rumours album. Didn't care for it that much but, two years later, LOVED Tusk.

After 1983 interest cooled off, occasionally the flames are fanned again, most notably by Lindsey though.

TheWILDheart · #10 05-27-2007, 02:53 PM

I'm 17 and been listening to Mac since I was in the womb. My Dad was a big fan. Gypsy was the first song I heard and LOVED it so when my Dad replaced his cassettes of Rumours and Mirage I just HAD to have them. I was about 4 or 5. That was pretty much it until 2001 ish when Trouble in Shangri-La came out and POTU was on Charmed. I bought Bella Donna straight after (even though it didn't have planets on...I'm strange...) and my Dad bought The Wild Heart in a sale which I stole about a week after he bought it. I got OSOTM and RAL on cassette when I was working in a charity shop and eventually just gathered all the stuff I have now...which is everything lol.

michelle2677 · #11 05-27-2007, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by RavenOfRhiannon

I vaguely remember Rumours playing around the house early in my life, however, the defining moment came when I was about 8 years old. It was my parents wedding anniversary, and my mom wanted to do something really nice for my dad, so she coached my sister and I (in secret) to learn to sing 'Leather and Lace.' The only problem is that I HATED singing Don Henley's part and would always begin to sing Stevie's.
Come to think of it, that might be when I became gay too...

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Originally Posted by ryan8472

I listened to Silver Springs off The Dance album. It turned me gay. And I've loved her and the band ever since.

i had remembered my parents playing fm when i was a kid, but never paid any attention. after all-it was old music. Then a friend had the dance playing in her car and I've been loving them ever since.

TheWILDheart · #12 05-27-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by michelle2677

i had remembered my parents playing fm when i was a kid, but never paid any attention. after all-it was old music. Then a friend had the dance playing in her car and I've been loving them ever since.

WOW The Dance really brought in a lot of fans. I never really paid much attention when The Dance came out. My Dad bought it and told me all the names of the members of Fleetwood Mac. I was only 7 but I thought it was absolutely hilarious that there was a man called Lindsey and a woman called Stevie. I was a very strange child.

michelle2677 · #13 05-27-2007, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

WOW The Dance really brought in a lot of fans. I never really paid much attention when The Dance came out. My Dad bought it and told me all the names of the members of Fleetwood Mac. I was only 7 but I thought it was absolutely hilarious that there was a man called Lindsey and a woman called Stevie. I was a very strange child.

well, it was 2000

so it's not like I caught it when it came out. and I thought that too, re: stevie/lindsey.

JazmenFlowers · #14 05-27-2007, 10:47 PM

add me to another "The Dance" made me do it list...I had just graduated high school and went to spend the summer with my aunt. this was like the summer of awakenings in so many ways. I left home that May and returned a totally different person in every way imaginable in August. anyway, I had been seeing the "never break the chain" promos all summer. my aunt told me that she had invited some friends over to watch a concert on TV and wanted me to watch. so, we sat down and for the next couple of hours I was spellbound. I went out the next day and bought everything I could find. 10 years later, I'm still as in love as I ever was...10 years older...a little wiser and so much happier having Stevie in my life.

CelticGypsy · #15 05-27-2007, 10:48 PM

Saw Fleetwood Mac on Midnight Special since I was allowed to stay up on the weekends. Loved Stevie on that and loved Lindsey's kimono top. lol Heard alot of their songs on the radio. The whole Stevie/Lindsey relationship was very interesting and romantic to a teenager from a very small town. When Rumors came out, I loved the album cover since I was into dance and ballet. Their songs were being played everywhere!!! It was not difficult to become a Fleetwood Mac fan in the mid 70's.