New Book

[aleuzzi]

Prince played on the song. There's no debate there. Stevie and others who were in the studio attest to it. Yes, she has since worn the collaboration like a badge, and yes, she is prone to exaggeration, but that's beside the point. This was 1983 and she was at the top of her solo game and a huge figure in the public eye. There would have been no reason why this would not be believable.

The only surprising thing is her insistence on 50/50 publishing rights. Any number of her Mac songs have required more input from Lindsey and the rest of the band. It's like giving John McVie partial credit for his game-changing bass line in "Rhiannon." Because of him, a straight-ahead galloping rock tune became a slithering, seductive thing. Where's his royalty

On another note, the title of this thread is "New Book." I'm still waiting for the thread that will read: "New Album."

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Prince played on the song. There's no debate there. Stevie and others who were in the studio attest to it. Yes, she has since worn the collaboration like a badge, and yes, she is prone to exaggeration, but that's beside the point. This was 1983 and she was at the top of her solo game and a huge figure in the public eye. There would have been no reason why this would not be believable.

The only surprising thing is her insistence on 50/50 publishing rights. Any number of her Mac songs have required more input from Lindsey and the rest of the band. It's like giving John McVie partial credit for his game-changing bass line in "Rhiannon." Because of him, a straight-ahead galloping rock tune became a slithering, seductive thing. Where's his royalty

On another note, the title of this thread is "New Book." I'm still waiting for the thread that will read: "New Album."

Prince might well have demanded 50%. Or his lawyers. Stevie loves to spin stories in the most romantic way possible, and the down and dirty of the business side of show business is anything but romantic. So she tends to leave it out. She never even acknowledged the 50-50 part of it until recent years anyway. Then she began telling the story like it was all her idea. Then again, maybe Prince was gracious about it, and didn't call her out for the thief she was like Tom Petty did when she wrote a song to one of his tracks and took it to FMac. According to her he made her tell them she was a thief and didn't have his permission to use his music.

[michelej1]

Houston Press TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2016 AT 7 A.M. by Bob Ruggiero

http://www.houstonpress.com/music/he...-story-8458050

To casual rock-book readers, works that compile previously written pieces on bands and musicians into one volume have strong pros and cons. They do provide a fascinating time capsule of the artists at very different points in their career, when they have no way of knowing what the future might bring but that you, the 2016 reader, do. But on the downside, each piece may also serve as a primer on the band’s history – one that gets told over and over and over again.

Fortunately, the insight Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac offers outweighs its frequent repetitiveness. It's great fodder for fans of a band as legendary and with as many members (with strong personalities) as Fleetwood Mac has had over the years.

Consisting of interviews, features and reviews from 1967 to 2014 (though the vast majority of pieces cover the lineup on 1977's Rumours), it’s a whirlwind tour through the Mac’s musical change and soap opera-like personal relationships. How refreshing to hear Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie discuss, say, Rumours when it is a work in progress and not a foundation of the classic rock canon.

Through the years, members’ opinions of their romantic couplings and uncouplings change and develop as their lives progress. One circa-1982 article, ostensibly to promote the Mirage album and tour, becomes a rumination on the white-hot solo success of Stevie Nicks at the time, as well as what that did to the group dynamic and Buckingham's intensely competitive nature.

A number of articles are also from the period of time in music journalism when writers actually got to spend days with their subjects observing and interviewing them — both on and off the record. Not surprisingly, those go far deeper than a 15-minute phoner or a staged round-robin cattle call of interviews.

So the reader feels as if he or she is in the studio with the band as Christine McVie empties another bottle of Blue Nun positioned on her keyboards; or John McVie and Nicks share giggles while thumbing through a copy of Playboy; or a writer shares a joint with Buckingham (and likely more that never made it into print) after a night of partying.

Of all the band members, Stevie Nicks comes off as the most free-ranging, delving into the mysticism of lace and shawls and the “Rhiannon” myth in one talk, and railing against the Shah and the Ayatollah of Iran during the hostage crisis in another.

The recently departed Prince, who played keyboards on Nicks’s solo hit “Stand Back,” even gets mentioned when she remembers how he gave her the music to an early version of “Purple Rain” for a collaboration that didn’t happen. She also recalls spending a (chaste) night sleeping on the floor of his actual purple kitchen one night during a Mac tour.

And the story isn't over yet. The reunited Rumours Five have been touring over the past few years, including stops in Houston in 2014 and a few months later in 2015, and a new album is on the way.

Like most books of this kind, they are really aimed toward a more-than-casual fan of Fleetwood Mac. But with only Mick Fleetwood having served up two autobiographies, and the definitive history of the group yet to be written (though there have been books through the years), Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac largely lets the group members speak for themselves.

Now, about those detailed diaries that Stevie Nicks has kept since 1974…

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Prince might well have demanded 50%. Or his lawyers. Stevie loves to spin stories in the most romantic way possible, and the down and dirty of the business side of show business is anything but romantic. So she tends to leave it out. She never even acknowledged the 50-50 part of it until recent years anyway. Then she began telling the story like it was all her idea. Then again, maybe Prince was gracious about it, and didn't call her out for the thief she was like Tom Petty did when she wrote a song to one of his tracks and took it to FMac. According to her he made her tell them she was a thief and didn't have his permission to use his music.

So this 50/50 thing is for sure then? For years I heard stories where she offered him 50% because of the circumstances around the way she wrote it, but he didn't think it was necessary and declined her offer.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Prince played on the song. There's no debate there. Stevie and others who were in the studio attest to it. Yes, she has since worn the collaboration like a badge, and yes, she is prone to exaggeration, but that's beside the point. This was 1983 and she was at the top of her solo game and a huge figure in the public eye. There would have been no reason why this would not be believable.

And while Prince had some hermit tendencies, in other respects he could be quite loquacious and very protective of his image. If it had never happened, as well known as the story was, I think he (or his people) would have said so.

Michele

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And while Prince had some hermit tendencies, in other respects he could be quite loquacious and very protective of his image. If it had never happened, as well known as the story was, I think he (or his people) would have said so.

Michele

If the collaboration never happened, I doubt Stevie would have been allowed to speak of it the way she has. Prince's "people" would have probably stopped her from telling outright lies. Why would she spin such lies anyway? She may be fanciful, but she isn't delusional. There is no reason to doubt her story. Embellishments of that story are another matter entirely.

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

If the collaboration never happened, I doubt Stevie would have been allowed to speak of it the way she has. Prince's "people" would have probably stopped her from telling outright lies. Why would she spin such lies anyway? She may be fanciful, but she isn't delusional. There is no reason to doubt her story. Embellishments of that story are another matter entirely.

The more we know, the more I have doubts
about this story. I'm thinking maybe you do
too.

Why would Prince have stopped this story even
if it was embellished (to say the least)? Because
it just adds to his legacy? It's positive?

I have nephews and nieces who believe I have a
genie in a bottle. They've seen the bottle. They
know where I told them I found it. How I became
it's master. And have even witnessed the magic.

Stevie's story might be just a little more real than
mine.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

The more we know, the more I have doubts
about this story. I'm thinking maybe you do
too.

Why would Prince have stopped this story even
if it was embellished (to say the least)? Because
it just adds to his legacy? It's positive?

I have nephews and nieces who believe I have a
genie in a bottle. They've seen the bottle. They
know where I told them I found it. How I became
it's master. And have even witnessed the magic.

Stevie's story might be just a little more real than
mine.

Point taken, genie. But then if we are to believe Stevie's story is grossly exaggerated, or even fabricated, then aren't we saying she either believes her own fabrications or is openly lying to the public? She may be many things, but she doesn't just invent stories like this. I can't believe we're even questioning the association with Prince.

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Point taken, genie.

That made me laugh.

____________________________

FuzzyPlum,

Wrong Barry.

[FuzzyPlum]

Mick Fleetwood, Kesha, other speakers added to SXSW music lineup
February 7, 2017 music news, SXSW 2017.
http://music.blog.austin360.com/2017...-music-lineup/


Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood, platinum-selling rap star Kesha and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic are among a large group of speakers announced today for this year’s South by Southwest daytime conference lineup.

The announcement also included many additions to the SXSW film and interactive events:

Other music additions include Cindy Wilson, a founding member of new wave pioneers the B-52’s, and Sammy Hagar, the “Red Rocker” who later became Van Halen’s lead singer.

Fleetwood’s appearance is related to his upcoming book “Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac” via Genesis Publications.

Kesha will team up on a panel in the conference’s “Social Impact” track with Amy Emmerich of Refinery29, a digital media company specializing in women’s lifestyles.

After Nirvana, Novoselic became known for his political activism. He was SXSW’s keynote speaker in 1996, and currently is the board chair of FairVote, a nonprofit dealing with democracy issues.

SXSW will continue to announce hundreds of music performers each Friday for the next few weeks. The last batch included Sara Watkins, Mark Eitzel and Bright Light Social Hour.