CHURCH OF stevie

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y'all have hit this one out of the park.... This interview is just...

I was traveling when I saw the article and was looking forward to seeing the reactions on this site.. They're all on the mark. Thanks for posting the full text jbrownsjr.

THIS is who she is now. This is NOT who she was back in the good old days, and while we all change and grow and get molded by our experiences in life (good and bad)....she has just...lost.the.plot.

Someone else mentioned Bob Dylan and it's so hilarious because she is in NO position to talk about him or anyone else famous being "nuts" when she is the chief nutjob.

I agree now that her parents are gone Lindsey is one of the few, and yes maybe the only, person who will push back on her nonsense. And yet.....his behavior in the last few years seems to suggest even he is not above capitulating and kowtowing to her.

Chris said in an interview back in the SEVENTIES that Stevie had changed drastically from who she was when she joined FM, and said something like "she now lives in a fantasy world that I'm not part of". Fame messed with Stevie the way it messed with Peter Green (before he took acid) in a curious and opposite sort of way. It messed with his head because he saw the danger of it and it scared him. She, on the other hand, fully embraced it and dove in headfirst.

I shudder to think what her new music will be. After years of nonsense and "albums are done" and "no one buys music" bullsh*t.... she's gonna do an album?? And if she trots out that tired old chestnut "this is the best song I've ever written" one more flipping time.... NO, Stevie, nothing you will write from here on will ever be your best song. That ship sailed a long, long time ago. The thing her solo career revealed is that she doesn't have the trove of "amaaaazing" songs she thinks she does. She has a LOT of songs, and she had a backlog back in the 70s up to Bella Donna because that was her most prolific and frankly the most hungry and creative. Even by WH her trove was thinning out. And then she stopped putting in the same effort.

And her bs regarding Christine's death is just.....the cherry on the top of the nut cake. What forking "right" did she have to be angry about anything?? I'm sooooo glad they c*ckblocked her on that one.

As for John, it's sad to hear how rough going it is for him after losing his wife. I think Stevie and John had a good working relationship. I always did wonder if he was in fact the only one in the band she didn't sleep with at some point... And I always found it interesting how she just clung to his arm throughout that "we didn't fire Lindsey" interview where they debuted the band with Mike and Neil.