John Stewart Passed Away On Saturday

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

This is from the interview with Ian Meldrum:

Meldrum: Going back to the first song that you wrote, you said you got the guitar and wrote a song. What musical influences were going around in your mind?

Nicks: Everly Brothers. I would say The Beatles except for the fact when I met Lindsey he was so insistent that I listen to The Beatles for form, for like: here's your verse, here's your one bar, and I'm going "this is a bar down the corner - right?" I mean, two bars, and then there's another verse, and then you have to have a chorus, and now you have to have a bridge, and I'm going over to a blotter, and I don't understand this. So I got a little upset with people that I was forced to listen to. So, I was not forced to listen to the Everley Brothers and I was not forced to listen to R&B or The Supremes or The Beach Boys, The Four Tops.

Apparently, neither Lindsey nor Stevie knows what a bar of music is.

I also suspect that Stevie would not have made quite the splendid teacher she thinks she would have made. Would her reaction to a history lesson have been equally impatient & dismissive? "You're telling me that the Normans invaded the Saxons & I'm going over to a blotter & I don't understand this." Or how about English, considering her vaunted proclamation that she's a poet? "A pronoun doing time as a prepositional object must be in the accusative case? I'm going over to a blotter."