Benmont Tench / Broken Record (Hosted By Rick Rubin)

[David]

Like most of the guys in the Heartbreakers, Benmont had to learn to like Stevie. But he ultimately did — she won them over through sheer perseverance and a great singing voice (and probably cuteness, too).

There’s a funny moment between Benmont and Stevie recorded for local radio with Jim Ladd while they’re all taking a tour break. Ladd asks Benmont whether he prefers the girls on the road or the women in the band. Benmont jokes, “Which girls? The fourteen-year-olds or these”? Stevie immediately gets a little undone and says, “We don’t give him time to think about anyone else,” and then blabs on about how she and her backup friends surround the boys in the band with luxurious creature comforts to keep them from straying, etc.

It must have been sybaritic being on tour with Stevie Nicks in those days. It lends a tantalizing new explanation for how she was able to marshal a bunch of top-dollar players and keep them happy for a few years.