Stevie X-Mas Interview 1994

[mikebise]

Does anyone have this to post?

It's Mary Turner Off The Record. Stevie talks about being on the plane with Don Was, who tells her to NOT listen to the record companies and just write her own songs (I assume this was when the recorded "SomeBody Stand By Me" and "Lay Down Your Arms" in Late 1994).

Stevie also talks about Street Angel and how all the songs were old to her.

I think maybe she talks about Smashing Pumpkins' remake of "Landslide", which was HUGE at Holiday 1994.

Anyone?

[skuncles]

My favorite interview, I'll upload it now.

From December 19, 1994

She also talks about the abortions and why she doesn't like Street Angel (which is interesting since that was the album she was there to talk about!!)

[skuncles]

Here is the link for the show, it's the complete show (with commercials) straight from the original CD.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9pb93okdb9zsc

[mikebise]

Thank you very much!!!!

[Nathan]

can I be a terrible gypsy beggar, and ask for utube?
for the mobile users?

there was a time, when I had a fffabulous imac like
chancellor bise. there was a time -- when everything
was...

: D

thank u, u guys r terrific in advance.

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by skuncles

Here is the link for the show, it's the complete show (with commercials) straight from the original CD.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9pb93okdb9zsc

Thank You .I think I got this on cassette and the deck had dinner with it years ago.

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by Nathan

can I be a terrible gypsy beggar, and ask for utube?
for the mobile users?

there was a time, when I had a fffabulous imac like
chancellor bise. there was a time -- when everything
was...

: D

thank u, u guys r terrific in advance.

It's already on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqy_yTqiHqI

[Tango]

"Off the Record" radio interview, with Mary Turner, from December '94:

Announcer: "...Street Angel, the 1994 solo album that Stevie won't be putting in anyone's Christmas stocking"

SN: "No, I've really walked away from it. It's really over for me. It took...it was started in the summer of '92, I hope I get this right, and it went...um...we recorded through 'til after Christmas in '93, when the inauguration was, and then we went back and worked for like another six weeks on it, and then we finished it, basically. And then...all the English people that were involved went home to England and I listened to it for two months and I didn't like it.

And so I went back in, with Thom Panunzio, to try and fix what I was not happy with. And I didn't fix it while I was working with the person that I was working with [Glyn Johns]...who dosen't like to be talked about because he's not speaking to me, um...I didn't like it when he was there, and he knew it, and basically he told me to...like, in no uncertain english, very rough terms, to shut up and deal with it and this was the way it was going to be.

So I waited for him to not only leave, but be gone for two months, before I summoned up enough courage to say well, I know this isn't right, this is just not me. This is not my record. So I went back in for about eight weeks and I didn't mess with the vocals, which I should have. But I was so sort of overwhelmed with trying to fix the things that I didn't like about the music, which was like...there was no percussion, there was no Waddy Wachtel. Because I was told that the last thing that I would need was Waddy Wachtel. And I, you know...I mean, to that comment I was so speechless that I just didn't do anything, I said ok. So when I went back in, I had Waddy come in and play, and I had Peter Michael come in and put percusssion on, and Michael Campbell came back and put some more guitar on it, and we re-mixed everything, and we did a lot of other things besides that.

I should have gone back in and really worked with the album, with the vocals. Because that's something that...I guess that was the last thing that I knew was wrong with it, and after being in two months trying to fix everything that I thought was wrong about the music and the mixes, it was almost kind of like, you know, maybe you just need to let this go and go on. I mean, this is three years now. And this record should have been out a long time ago. It may be new for everybody else, but it's really old for me.

And, it's not my favorite record anyway, so, maybe it's just time to stop. So I did stop."

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transcribed by: [email protected]

[mikebise]

Lynne Moon!!!! BLAST FROM THE PAST!!!!

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by equeen102289

It's already on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqy_yTqiHqI

thanks, ur a doll. : )