No Hi-tech for Nicks aritcle

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Got this thru the Stevie Nicks Chain - sorry if it's been posted already.

Herald Sun (Australia)

November 3, 2005

Section: Hit1 - FIRST

No hi-tech for Nicks

Claire Sutherland and Nui Te Koha

FLEETWOOD Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age.

Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons.

``I don't have a computer, I don't have a cellphone and I don't have an iPod,'' Nicks tells The Back Room.

``I don't like them.''

Nicks says her 14-year-old niece is a teen caught in a technology trap.

``She is the closest thing I have to a daughter and I hate it when she's slumped over her computer.

``I'll ask her something, and she'll raise her hand: `Excuse me, I'm busy!' I hate that,'' Nicks says.

``That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her.

``And I tell her: `You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games.

```Don't you want to stand tall, and be beautiful, and have something to say? You won't if you're slumped over that box!'''

Nicks, who wrote her biggest tunes, including Dreams, on cassette, acknowledges the wonders of the world wide web.

``If this new wave had stayed the information superhighway, I would have been happy.

``Gosh, doesn't life fly by fast enough without wanting to sit in a dark room with a monitor and keyboard? It creeps me out.''

But why doesn't music legend and femme-rock pioneer Stevie Nicks have an iPod?

``I have 300,000 CDs. Believe me, there is plenty of music in my life,'' Nicks answers.

``But I will admit I sunk to doing my last demos on (a computer-generated) 16-track pro-tools. I didn't run it, though, I wouldn't know how,'' Nicks says, laughing.

Nicks performs, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, at Rod Laver Arena on February 18. Tickets go on sale on November 15.

300,000 CD,s huh?