If You Had The Chance...

Originally posted by chiliD
Uh...yeah. And, they did at the time, too. Stevie put on her best shows back then, "coked out of her brain" not withstanding. "Coked out" was, for the most part, socially acceptable at the time. There wasn't the "holier than thou" attitude that seems to prevail toward anyone who "self-medicates" these days.

The really sad part was that she was at her peak during a solo tour, not with Fleetwood Mac. It was all downhill after that RAL tour. The Red Rocks video/DVD is a very poor representation of the actual shows of that tour. I saw her in Costa Mesa, California on that tour (Peter Frampton opened the show) and I thought it was one of the best performances I'd ever seen by ANYBODY...at least, until Waddy's overly self-indulgent and way-too-long guitar intro for "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around". The show took a downturn after that.

well put....and, yeah, the Red Rocks show is way too overproduced to be a representation of the actual concert....

and if you want to get technical about it....she was most likely doing the stuff back in the Rumours days (and maybe before)...so you might as well dismiss all of them from the period of about 75-87 (yet Mick was still partying well into the 90's).

it's all personal opinion though...no, it's not technically a healthy thing to be all messed up like that....but, and i say this again and again, everyone came out ok...so, you can appreciate some of that craziness....i'm sure Stevie laughs about it now despite the serious message she often conveys in interviews...

but as chiliD said, it was socially acceptable back then...i'm 33 now and i do remember the tail end of that period...the socially conscious attitude that is now was pretty much nonexistent back then....drugs were an acceptable part of the rock culture.