Howard Stern mentions F-Mac

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by dissention

She's always been up-front about her surgery and said that her first time she had work done was after the No Exit tour, and I believe that. I saw her solo in '94, then with the Jazz Passengers in '96, with Blondie in '97, then again with Blondie in '98 (or '99, I forget); she never had surgery during those years. She's also said that she sees nothing wrong with surgery and that if she gets really old and decrepit looking, she'll get surgery to look Chinese, change her identity, and live anonymously. I think it's refreshing for someone to be so honest about surgery.

But, I don't think the surgery is what makes her sexy and hot, it's her youthfulness. Which my dear friend sparky summed up PERFECTLY. An Debbie will be 60 next year. And has toured just as much as La Nicks.

I kind of agree with this. Stevie even in interviews doesn't have that vibrant approach. I remember the Jim Ladd interviews way back and she used to have this great humor. Now it's all PC crap. Stevie and LB seem older to me than even Christine. Maybe because CM called it quits, she got her energy back. But her latest interviews make her sound like she's 40.

I think in all fairness SN and LB are fricken tired and crabby. I can understand why.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I kind of agree with this. Stevie even in interviews doesn't have that vibrant approach. I remember the Jim Ladd interviews way back and she used to have this great humor. Now it's all PC crap. Stevie and LB seem older to me than even Christine. Maybe because CM called it quits, she got her energy back. But her latest interviews make her sound like she's 40.

I think in all fairness SN and LB are fricken tired and crabby. I can understand why.

I'm at risk of starting an all-out war with this comment... but Stevie said in some interview (I wish I remembered) that 9/11 aged her about ten years.

Not to sound goofy, but I do wonder if the experience of being in New York on that day (albeit, in the relative safety of a luxury hotel room) still weighs on her.
She certainly seemed far more subdued and somber in the various 'SYW' interviews than she had in the 'TISL' interviews.

Or maybe the poor woman is simply tired.

[David]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I'm at risk of starting an all-out war with this comment... but Stevie said in some interview (I wish I remembered) that 9/11 aged her about ten years.

Maybe it did. I really loved how youthful & funky she was during the press for "Street Angel." She did a series of interviews on radio (Jim Ladd, WNEW, Museum of TV & Radio, Mark & Brian, etc.) & she was a real pistol. She had it all back for that short time. I guess, as we've learned in retrospect, she wasn't all that pleased with her then-recently finished album, but she was dying to get on the road & was quite the dickens, playing her keyboard & singing along on all these radio shows, joshing around with callers & DJs, etc. I hadn't heard her be quite so fun since 1986.

That was a personality high point for Stevie. Otherwise, she's been fairly morose.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by David

Maybe it did. I really loved how youthful & funky she was during the press for "Street Angel." She did a series of interviews on radio (Jim Ladd, WNEW, Museum of TV & Radio, Mark & Brian, etc.) & she was a real pistol. She had it all back for that short time. I guess, as we've learned in retrospect, she wasn't all that pleased with her then-recently finished album, but she was dying to get on the road & was quite the dickens, playing her keyboard & singing along on all these radio shows, joshing around with callers & DJs, etc. I hadn't heard her be quite so fun since 1986.

That was a personality high point for Stevie. Otherwise, she's been fairly morose.

I agree 100%. Some of those radio shows are classics. The Mark and Brian one is Stevie at her most playful. And the John Boy and Billy show cracks me up. They're so rude and she plays with it completely. She was great back then.

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by David

Maybe it did. I really loved how youthful & funky she was during the press for "Street Angel." She did a series of interviews on radio (Jim Ladd, WNEW, Museum of TV & Radio, Mark & Brian, etc.) & she was a real pistol. She had it all back for that short time. I guess, as we've learned in retrospect, she wasn't all that pleased with her then-recently finished album, but she was dying to get on the road & was quite the dickens, playing her keyboard & singing along on all these radio shows, joshing around with callers & DJs, etc. I hadn't heard her be quite so fun since 1986.

That was a personality high point for Stevie. Otherwise, she's been fairly morose.

I haven't heard all those, but the 1994 Mark & Brian interview was really great, especially the Greta part. Some others more recent that I liked a lot are Letterman 1998, 2001 and on Destiny Rules her humour is one of the highlights, IMO.

Romy

[jbrownsjr]

I have heard her and her posse on the Jim Ladd show so many times. And those interviews were wild! They sounded high.

[David]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I have heard her and her posse on the Jim Ladd show so many times. And those interviews were wild! They sounded high.

Everybody was high in those days. A big CD-R compilation of all the Jim Ladd interviews would be a cool idea. As far as I know, Stevie did the following:

1976 with Fleetwood Mac
1979 alone (Fleetwood Mac two-parter)
1981 alone
1982 with Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac two-parter)
1983 alone (solo two-parter)
1985 phone call to Phoenix
1986 alone
1994 alone
1998 alone (with two rehearsal songs)

I was the one who taped both the '83 "Afterview" thing & the '85 phone call for fans' collections. Any more Jim Ladd on-air stuff?

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by David

Everybody was high in those days. A big CD-R compilation of all the Jim Ladd interviews would be a cool idea. As far as I know, Stevie did the following:

1976 with Fleetwood Mac
1979 alone (Fleetwood Mac two-parter)
1981 alone
1982 with Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac two-parter)
1983 alone (solo two-parter)
1985 phone call to Phoenix
1986 alone
1994 alone
1998 alone (with two rehearsal songs)

I was the one who taped both the '83 "Afterview" thing & the '85 phone call for fans' collections. Any more Jim Ladd on-air stuff?

David,

I remember one where he was on her couch and Lori and Sharon were there with her. The were trying to speak French, i.e. enchanted. I was really young at the time.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I have heard her and her posse on the Jim Ladd show so many times. And those interviews were wild! They sounded high.

Especially the Rock A Little one. It makes no sense whatsoever.