Stevie Nicks Cancels Performance and Celebration of First CD in a Decade

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It's not easy to get a ticket for any show anymore (without getting ripped off by places like friggin' Stubhub), so the publicists and the record company and the friggin' fan club (which, why did we give them our info in the first place) should make 100% sure that ANYONE who made the effort to get tickets to Webster Hall or Borgata (which getting tickets for either show was such a pain in the friggin' butt) should get preferential treatment when these dates are "rescheduled."

Stevie has gone to great lengths (look at the borderline phony "letter to the fans" that she just released) to say that she thinks things should be like they were "back in the day." Apparently, she does not think things through far enough to wield her power over ticket buying. Oh, go out and buy my new CD, but if you previously bought tickets for one of my shows that is now CANCELED, I can't do anything about that.

As an artist with a huge, loyal fanbase, she is completely, willfully disconnected. She's not doing anything to make sure that the people who jumped through hoops to get tickets to Webster Hall or Borgata, are now taken care of competently. And neither is her publicist, Liz "all my artists have pneumonia" Rosenberg. They are the cynical ones, not the fans.

Until I get some love back for jumping through some hoops (Stevie and Liz better jump through a few of their own to get me my tickets), I will remain skeptical. They get paid millions of dollars in royalties so that we buy CD's and fill seats. I have yet to see anything that even approaches any kind of real sorrow on their parts that these dates have been canceled (with some nebulous wording of "possible" rescheduling).

I'm about ready to jump ship off the Nicks/Rosenberg armada. I'm really questioning if 35 years of loyalty is going to be repaid in any form at all. They could at least throw us all a bone in the form of an HQ video or an extra track or something. ANYTHING would do, but so far nothing other than vague words that they will "try to reschedule." And no words at all if the very difficult attempts we've made recently to get tickets will be compensated when these dates will be vaguely rescheduled. Frankly, I don't think the Webster Hall date will ever reappear in any form ever.

And Dave Stewart teased us all with those lovely ideas of Stevie nights in small clubs all over the place where we could watch his homemade movie and then see Stevie and him perform songs from the new album. Were we fools to ever believe these nights would ever come about? I'm beginning to think so, that we were being led along by seasoned old pros who know how to manipulate their fans. Go out and buy the CD so you'll know the songs ahead of time. After that, we can't promise anything.

I've lost all my joy over the release of the new album. Even if she is really sick, her corporate machine could have done better in terms of some compensation. Those of us who made the difficult effort to take time out of our days to secure and pay for tickets are given hollow promises about "possible" rescheduling. How about something concrete, Miss Liz Rosenberg? If you are the professional you purport to be, with all your power, then cough up some contingency plans. Even the dumbest executive in the most poorly run company knows about contingency plans. Where is yours?