New Stevie Impersonator

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by Phil

Fleetwood Mac should hire this chick to take Stevie's place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJOcCTyw9I

Well, she sounds nothing like Stevie. At all.

But she does have the look down. Almost eerily so. If you showed me a still shot, I'd probably think it was Stevie (not film, though, because I actually don't think her mannerisms are all that on point - she's actually doing a little too much, in my eyes. I guess I'm picky).

[WatchChain]

I think that if FLEETWOOD MAC should ever play a show on April 1st (April Fools Day), they should have NEARLY NICKS or one of these impersonators come out at the beginning of the set. She would be playing tambourine and harmonizing on "Second Hand News"..........THEN, see how long it would take the crowd to start throwing a fit........How long would it take mutiny to ensue????

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by WatchChain

I think that if FLEETWOOD MAC should ever play a show on April 1st (April Fools Day), they should have NEARLY NICKS or one of these impersonators come out at the beginning of the set. She would be playing tambourine and harmonizing on "Second Hand News"..........THEN, see how long it would take the crowd to start throwing a fit........How long would it take mutiny to ensue????

I think they should ask elle to do it.

[WildHearted]

If they're going to do an April Fool's joke.. they should just play an entire set of Peter Green, Bob Welch, and Christine tunes.

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Well, she sounds nothing like Stevie. At all.

But she does have the look down. Almost eerily so. If you showed me a still shot, I'd probably think it was Stevie (not film, though, because I actually don't think her mannerisms are all that on point - she's actually doing a little too much, in my eyes. I guess I'm picky).

Originally Posted by Phil

Fleetwood Mac should hire this chick to take Stevie's place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJOcCTyw9I

This girl sounds great.She got Stevie's moves. Also cute too.

The band sounds great too.

She reminds me alittle bit of Paulette Carlson of Highway 101.

[secret love]

I watched the start of the Nearly Nicks video...then just thought, "Ack, I have to listen to real Stevie." Listening to Gypsy from Live in Boston 2003 now - much better.

[michelej1]

[click to see the impersonator's picture. From the angle, she does look like Stevie, but the expression is harsh. I bet when she softens her features, the resemblance is diminished]

http://www.pembinatoday.ca/2013/09/0...mes-to-winkler

Dreams: A Rock Fantasy comes to Winkler Morden Times

Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:04:09 CDT PM


It wasn’t the real Stevie Nicks on the phone, yet her voice, well, it was hauntingly familiar.

It was Julie Myers, and she was telling me the origin of her Nearly Nicks tribute act.

“I didn’t pick this life, it picked me,” she said from Winkler, where she moved two years ago to be with her husband, Ralph Fehr.

Myers, who grew up as an entertainer in Memphis, brings her new show Dreams: A Rock Fantasy to Winkler for performances this weekend on September 6 and 7.

She was a dancer and backup singer for Legends in Concert in Las Vegas, but that came to a sudden halt one night in the early 1990s in Lake Tahoe. She was working a show Girls of Rock and Roll when she was injured after falling off some scaffolding.

She had a lengthy recovery and spent much of her 30s in Florida, where she helped her mom care for her ailing father.

She missed the stage, though, and an idea came in the most unusual way after her father died.

She was at the airport in Florida and frantically trying to catch a flight to Memphis for her father’s memorial. Passengers and staff tried to help her, all the while thinking she was Stevie Nicks.

She caught the flight and eventually launched a career as Nearly Nicks.

“Then it started happening all the time. People were coming up to me in restaurants and asking to have their picture taken with me,” she said.

The idea took time to grow on her.

“I always thought the people who did the tribute stuff were weird,” she recalled of the Vegas shows. “And some of them really were weird. The Judy Garland one really thought she had the yellow brick road in her back yard, and some of the Elvises ...”

Closing in on her 50th birthday, Myers does several shows a year, mostly American tours.

A gig in Florida meant she wasn’t able to see Nicks and Fleetwood Mac Sunday at MTS Centre.

Fehr, who owns Elias Woodwork in Winkler, has been constructing a new stage that “will blow everybody’s mind,” Myers said.

She’s hoping to land more Canadian gigs, including one at Winkler’s P.W. Centennial Concert Hall in September.

“I love what I do,” she said. “It’s a lot of fun and if you’re going to be in the business, who better to tribute than the queen of rock and roll?”

And who better to do it than a woman whose mom went to high school with the king of rock and roll?

“It’s a family joke whenever we take mom out to dinner,” she said, adding they will guess how long it will take before their mom informs the server of her claim to fame.

“It doesn’t even matter if the waitress can’t speak English or doesn’t know who Elvis Presley is.”

It’s not easy to capture Nicks’ unique and powerful voice, especially when it has changed so much over the years, Myers said.

Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the album Bella Donna and is in her 60s, but is going strong after overcoming a cocaine addiction.

“She’s lucky to have a voice and a life at all, so more power to her,” Myers said. “Stevie will never retire unless she is physically unable to walk on the stage.”

As for Myers, who was once chased near Times Square in New York by fans who thought she was Nicks, she’s content to have a regular life out of the spotlight.

“I wouldn’t want to be a rock star, I just want to play one,” she said with a chuckle.

[Macfanforever]

If I try to impersonate anybody .I probably will get shot at and sued at the same time But I'm great in imitating sound effects.LOL.... Thats what my friends say.

[michelej1]

AOL Apr 21st 2015 11:48AM

[There's a video and you can see the Stevie impersonator at the very start of it]

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/04/2...-fil/21174710/

Celebrity impersonators shine in new documentary film

By CHELSEA HUANG

One stranger's exclamation changed Shannon Michael's life forever.

"Oh my God, you look like Bret Michaels!"

A cheap wig and a few swipes of eyeliner later, a star was born.

"We get in the parking lot, and it was just like, 'Hey Bret get out of the car!' People were screaming. Some guy was like who would've thought Bret would be driving a PT Cruiser," he said.

Michaels (no relation to his famous counterpart) is just one of many celebrity impersonators finally getting their shot at the spotlight in a new documentary film.

"Just About Famous" takes a look on the overlooked side of celebrity -- the lookalikes who take advantage of the culture celebrity worship.

"People go crazy. They love seeing them, they love taking pictures and then Facebooking or tweeting about 'who' they just 'met.' It's both surreal and fascinating to be in their company," co-director Jason Kovacsev said.

With a "star-studded" cast that includes Elvis, Obama, Lady Gaga, Robin Williams and more, the film takes a trip into the enlightening -- and surreal -- life of impersonators as they enter one of the premiere celebrity tribute artist conventions.

Check out an exclusive clip starring Bret Michaels, Stevie Nicks, Robin Williams and Sean Connery above.

"Just About Famous" is now available on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon. Visit justaboutfamous.com for more information.

[Stealing Nicks]

There are a few good Stevie/FM tributes out there - I am in one of them called Stealing Nicks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Uh08QQ9CE