I am a cliff dweller...

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by catinthedark

Interesting. Cliff dweller to me says someone who likes to live on the edge. Take risks. But I still don't get the "old school" part.

What don't you get? Old school is a commonly used expression.

From the dictionary:

Main Entry: old school
Function: noun
: adherents of traditional policies and practices

She's like a rock star from a different generation. She's a risk taker like most 70s (or old school) rock stars.

[Raeven Skye]

ok..this is my archaeologists brain on overload, but since she lives in AZ, I think the line refers to the Anasazi Cliff Dwellers who built their cities up in high cliffs, and then inexplicably abandonded them...we refer to those civilizations as "cliff dwellers"...and also that she lives on a cliff overlooking the ocean...so I've always thought she was drawing parallels.
*Raeven Skye sits down*

[David]

Originally Posted by Raeven Skye

ok..this is my archaeologists brain on overload, but since she lives in AZ, I think the line refers to the Anasazi Cliff Dwellers who built their cities up in high cliffs, and then inexplicably abandonded them...we refer to those civilizations as "cliff dwellers"...and also that she lives on a cliff overlooking the ocean...so I've always thought she was drawing parallels.
*Raeven Skye sits down*

that's definitely the inspiration for her use of the phrase ... Arizona Indian culture

Stevie sometimes has talked about "going into my Indian phase," & she wrote Gold Dust Woman in one such phase, lying in bed in AZ, sick, playing her guitar & looking up at the Camelback Mountains

But, as Tower said, she probably also uses "cliff dweller" in connection with her West Coast digs: sort of a double meaning.

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

What don't you get? Old school is a commonly used expression.

From the dictionary:

Main Entry: old school
Function: noun
: adherents of traditional policies and practices

She's like a rock star from a different generation. She's a risk taker like most 70s (or old school) rock stars.

What I didn't get was the connection of the two expressions. "I'm someone who takes risks, lives on the edge... from the old, traditional times?" It just didn't make sense to me. But maybe it's as simple as others have speculated - like Ghost_Tracker suggested. That makes sense to me. Anyway, I still love the line... Thanks for the thoughts..

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

What don't you get? Old school is a commonly used expression.

From the dictionary:

Main Entry: old school
Function: noun
: adherents of traditional policies and practices

She's like a rock star from a different generation. She's a risk taker like most 70s (or old school) rock stars.

Well said. As far as the clif dweller statement goes, not only does she live in the clifs of malibu in cali, but here in phoenix, she lives on a mountain too, and some of the houses on camelback mountain are built high around it and into the mountain, she is litterally a "cliff Dweller" just like people from ancient times.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Well said. As far as the clif dweller statement goes, not only does she live in the clifs of malibu in cali, but here in phoenix, she lives on a mountain too, and some of the houses on camelback mountain are built high around it and into the mountain, she is litterally a "cliff Dweller" just like people from ancient times.

I don't think she literally lives on Camelback Mountain - there's an

awesome In Style article on the Phoenix house and she mentions how

she can see it from there. But I always wonder what kind of an

"influence" that area - which she considers her home - is on her music.

For example, there's an Indian reservation right near her home, and

Stevie brought a "spirit catcher" as an ice breaker to the first day of

recording "Say You Will" ( you can see it on "Destiny Rules" ).


"Well I live below...a great red mountain
In the shape of a great huge beast
In a place the indians call...Paradise Valley
Well this has always been my sanctuary
I send that to you...too
There on the other side of the world
In the desert...
Operation Desert Shield?...
Operation Desert Storm??...
Operation Desert Angel!"

GOD she could have STOPPED right there!