Ann & Nancy Couldn't Match Stevie's Intake

[michelej1]

Excerpt from book review of Kicking and Dreaming
[This should be in Nuggets, but a lot of you like Ann and Nancy, so I thought you'd be interested in the book]
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/26...#storylink=cpy

Kansas City Star by Howard Cohen, September 26, 2012

"Kicking & Dreaming," however, isn't about settling scores, though the gossipy aspects are certainly fun. One such story recalls a crazy night in the 1980s in which the Wilsons spent hours in Stevie Nicks' closet trying on her "millions of shawls and colored tights," only to realize they couldn't keep up with their fellow rocker's voracious appetite for various substances.

[Macfanforever]

The sisters would look great with Stevie's shawls.

[kak125]

i got the book so if i get time later i will type out that section. its not that long.

[fairydust75]

I love them Wilson Sisters....but ofcourse they couldn't keep up...
Stevie was a trained professional....

[sleepless child]

Stevie was one "bad ass" drug user. Growing up in the 70's and listening to her and Fleetwood Mac's music, I really must have been naive. I really never thought of them as this hard partying band. A little weed and alchohol yes, but the drug use was way more than my teenage brain could fathom.

[fumidesigns]

Stevie is a BEAST! No one can keep up..... PERIOD!

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by sleepless child

Stevie was one "bad ass" drug user. Growing up in the 70's and listening to her and Fleetwood Mac's music, I really must have been naive. I really never thought of them as this hard partying band. A little weed and alchohol yes, but the drug use was way more than my teenage brain could fathom.

I was a huge fan from the mid 1970s but somehow we all knew she was a major cokehead then..could be because I grew up in socal.

[michelej1]

Even today, I still don't think of them as . . . well, of course, they used drugs, but in my head I still think of bands like the Stones as much worse than the FMers. If Keith Richards ever says he couldn't keep up with Stevie, I'll keel over.

Michele

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Even today, I still don't think of them as . . . well, of course, they used drugs, but in my head I still think of bands like the Stones as much worse than the FMers. If Keith Richards ever says he couldn't keep up with Stevie, I'll keel over.

Michele

Keith did herion..something Stevie swears she never touched..I think when she was in her tooting heydey she could have matched just about anyone for cocaine consumption.

[rhiannondontgo]

Keith did herion..something Stevie swears she never touched..I think when she was in her tooting heydey she could have matched just about anyone for cocaine consumption.

She was slipped it once though, but never did it again.

[michelej1]

[Nancy, if you think Christine was just an "occasional" vocalist then you and I have a problem]

Excerpt from interview with Nancy Wilson, from Ultimate Classic Rock

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/heart...aming-success/

Heart’s Nancy Wilson Discusses ‘Kicking & Dreaming’ Their Way To Rock & Roll Success

by: Matt Wardlaw

When I spoke with Ann, I mentioned how you don’t take a lot of lead vocals on the songs, but when you do, you really make them count. You’ve had one solo album outside of Heart. Have you ever had the desire to have more of a vocal voice in the group?

Well you know, I’m just one of those guitar players who loves to sing, but I’ve never thought of myself as a lead singer, per se. I just really love singing and harmony singing is my favorite singing. ‘These Dreams’ was sort of a fluke in a way. It was our first number one hit and it was just one of those songs that I could not resist and I fought for the opportunity to be able to do that in our band and then it turned into our first number one song and suddenly there was all of this attention on me as a singer that I wasn’t very comfortable with.

Now, I approach it as a player, so singing is just kind of like gravy for me. It’s the extra fun once in awhile. It’s an extra fun aspect that adds to the dimension of the band. It brings another dimension into the band that I think is good. It’s kind of like in Fleetwood Mac, there’s the occasional [vocal from] Christine Mcvie [in addition to regular vocalists Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham] that gives you somewhere else to go [that’s] probably a little softer, a little bluesier over here and then [it goes] back to Stevie and I think it helps the band be more multi-dimensional.

That’s one of the things about the new record is that I think that there’s some interesting color and hearing you trade vocals with Ann on ‘’59 Crunch,’ I don’t feel like I’ve heard you do that before in that way and certainly, not a lot. Was that something new for you?

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by michelej1

[Nancy, if you think Christine was just an "occasional" vocalist then you and I have a problem]

Excerpt from interview with Nancy Wilson, from Ultimate Classic Rock

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/heart...aming-success/

Heart’s Nancy Wilson Discusses ‘Kicking & Dreaming’ Their Way To Rock & Roll Success

by: Matt Wardlaw

When I spoke with Ann, I mentioned how you don’t take a lot of lead vocals on the songs, but when you do, you really make them count. You’ve had one solo album outside of Heart. Have you ever had the desire to have more of a vocal voice in the group?

Well you know, I’m just one of those guitar players who loves to sing, but I’ve never thought of myself as a lead singer, per se. I just really love singing and harmony singing is my favorite singing. ‘These Dreams’ was sort of a fluke in a way. It was our first number one hit and it was just one of those songs that I could not resist and I fought for the opportunity to be able to do that in our band and then it turned into our first number one song and suddenly there was all of this attention on me as a singer that I wasn’t very comfortable with.

Now, I approach it as a player, so singing is just kind of like gravy for me. It’s the extra fun once in awhile. It’s an extra fun aspect that adds to the dimension of the band. It brings another dimension into the band that I think is good. It’s kind of like in Fleetwood Mac, there’s the occasional [vocal from] Christine Mcvie [in addition to regular vocalists Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham] that gives you somewhere else to go [that’s] probably a little softer, a little bluesier over here and then [it goes] back to Stevie and I think it helps the band be more multi-dimensional.

That’s one of the things about the new record is that I think that there’s some interesting color and hearing you trade vocals with Ann on ‘’59 Crunch,’ I don’t feel like I’ve heard you do that before in that way and certainly, not a lot. Was that something new for you?

Umm, yeah, that's weird. I'm pretty sure the lead singing was split up pretty equally among the three vocalists. Odd thing to say...

[WildHearted]

I'm assuming Nancy didn't say the stuff in the brackets - that's stuff the writer added to give it context, which to me made it come off weirder than it would have been otherwise, like if you just read it as; "It's kind of like in Fleetwood Mac, there's the occasional Christine that gives you somewhere else to go that's a little softer, a little bluesier over here and then back to Stevie and I think it helps the band be more multi-dimensional."

It's kind of unclear whether she's talking about switching vocalists between songs, or switching vocalists within a song, but I can see what she means. Aside from the use of 'occasional' as an adjective (which really doesn't entirely make sense) then she's just alluding to the fact that Christine's songs often served as a counter to the more intense songs by the others - "Christine the popstar, Lindsey the gnarly gnome, Stevie the miserable, philosophical fairy", etc. Isn't that what so many people missed on SYW?

[NoFear♥OnlyLove]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

I'm assuming Nancy didn't say the stuff in the brackets - that's stuff the writer added to give it context, which to me made it come off weirder than it would have been otherwise, like if you just read it as; "It's kind of like in Fleetwood Mac, there's the occasional Christine that gives you somewhere else to go that's a little softer, a little bluesier over here and then back to Stevie and I think it helps the band be more multi-dimensional."

It's kind of unclear whether she's talking about switching vocalists between songs, or switching vocalists within a song, but I can see what she means. Aside from the use of 'occasional' as an adjective (which really doesn't entirely make sense) then she's just alluding to the fact that Christine's songs often served as a counter to the more intense songs by the others - "Christine the popstar, Lindsey the gnarly gnome, Stevie the miserable, philosophical fairy", etc. Isn't that what so many people missed on SYW?

This is the conclusion I came to as well...but only after I read it a couple of times.

[QueenStevie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Excerpt from book review of Kicking and Dreaming
[This should be in Nuggets, but a lot of you like Ann and Nancy, so I thought you'd be interested in the book]
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/26...#storylink=cpy

Kansas City Star by Howard Cohen, September 26, 2012

"Kicking & Dreaming," however, isn't about settling scores, though the gossipy aspects are certainly fun. One such story recalls a crazy night in the 1980s in which the Wilsons spent hours in Stevie Nicks' closet trying on her "millions of shawls and colored tights," only to realize they couldn't keep up with their fellow rocker's voracious appetite for various substances.

Why do they have to say that they couldn't keep up with Stevie's voracious appetite for various substances, or drugs? That just makes Ann and Nancy look as if they're trying to make themselves look better by putting another person down.