Diary - Page 8

catinthedark · #**106** 07-23-2005, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghosty

The line about "she is dancing away from you now -she was just a wish" also always makes me think she was thinking back to her old self, her younger self, and then as the memories fade, her old self and that feeling are dancing away from her..... Again, probably just the spin it took in my mind.

Nope - not just you. That's exactly how I've always interpreted it, too. I always thought it was about Stevie herself, thinking about her own life, and her life without Robin.

Here are some quotes from Stevie herself about Gypsy:

For me to be a gypsy; for me to write about the gypsy - and for me to live the life of a gypsy that I love - I sort of almost have to be almost cold and insensitive to be able to remain that gypsy. It's not easy to be a hippie-gypsy when you're rich and when you're a rock'n'roll star.
~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1983

Gypsy is about um ...going back to the gypsy that I was prior to Fleetwood Mac.
~Stevie Nicks, Rock's Family Tree

Yes in my uh Doheny house - in my English house. I just uh.. I went through an experience that wasn't particularly pleasant and I moved out of my big English bedroom into the little back bedroom that was all...the lady that owned this house had put all this French wallpaper up that was flowers and it was beautifully, beautifully done. It's just a little tiny room and put my bed back on the floor, moved my JBLs [speakers] in there, all my plants... all my junk, everything I had into this tiny little room about as big as this sofa, you know and I just lived in there for about 3 months. And I, it was really like living back in my apartment before I joined Fleetwood Mac...it was ...I'm very comfortable living in one little room with my bed on the floor and kind of lace tacked up at the windows, you know.

[A place where you felt secure and safe or comfortable?] And back to me, back to ...you know, uh back to learning to live alone again. Back to the gypsy.
~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1982

The song Gypsy isn't a real happy story. Gypsy is a lot about returning to San Francisco. And Gypsy was written when my best friend [Robin] died of Leukemia and uh ...about the fact that she wasn't going to see the rest of this: I still see your bright eyes, it was like she wasn't ...going to make it. And uh, I was like the lone gypsy ~ this was my best friend from when I was 15 and so I was a solo gypsy all of a sudden and it was very sad for me and that's sometimes when I write my very best songs.

Robin had been on the road with Fleetwood Mac for five years. As my speech therapist and also management, an incredibly efficient helper. I still miss your bright eyes ~ that's why we don't do it on stage ~ it's because it's really too hard for me to sing. Lightening strikes maybe once, maybe twice... that means one time in your life you find a very good friend, and maybe if you're incredibly lucky, you might find a second. It all comes down to you, means but you have to look very hard.
~Stevie Nicks, video interview for Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits (1988)

Does anyone have quotes where she talks about it being about Kim? That's the first I've ever heard this - and when I look at the lyrics of the song, I just can't see where. I'm not saying that interpretation is wrong. I just have never seen it.

jwd · #**107** 07-23-2005, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

If you could read just one diary entry of Stevie's and have her explain it to you in full, which one day in her life would you ask to read about?

Excellent question.

For me it would have to be the day she decided to check into Betty Ford. What was going through her head when she had that moment of clarity, realizing her days of drug abuse was slowly killing her.

darklinensuit · #**108** 07-23-2005, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jwd

Excellent question.

For me it would have to be the day she decided to check into Betty Ford. What was going through her head when she had that moment of clarity, realizing her days of drug abuse was slowly killing her.

Great choice. I'm sure it was a lot of anger, given past statements about the intervention and management people. Not to mention some embarrassment, having fallen off stages.

- Jake

tynan88 · #**109** 07-23-2005, 12:10 PM

Which rehab stint are you talking about, I think klonopin one would be more interesting.

I would however choose the day they played at the Clinton farewell without Christine for the first time, it would be interesting knowing the variety of emotions experienced on the day I think.

jwd · #**110** 07-23-2005, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by tynan88

Which rehab stint are you talking about, I think klonopin one would be more interesting.

I was referring to her rehab from the "illegal drugs". Did she go to Betty Ford for her klonopin addiction?

tynan88 · #**111** 07-23-2005, 12:32 PM

I thought she did...she went so some rehab place I am guessing.

littlecricket2 · #**112** 07-23-2005, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

not that i so much want them to have hooked up.. but Prince basically hooked up with every straight woman he worked with back in the early 80's... i would not be surprised if Stevie was yet another...

it seems awfully intimate for her to be in bed, while Prince is standing over her while she's asking for cough medicine.. dont cha think?

Actually, Stevie has specifically said in an interview that she never let anything happen between herself and Prince. I think it was in an Esquire or Details interview.

She did describe the cough medicine incident, and he made the trip up to her hotel room specifically to give her the cough medicine because he knew she was sick--he probably had other things in mind, though.

He fed her the cough medicine from a spoon himself, and when Stevie asked for more, he said (it sounds rather dramatically) that he didn't want her to get hooked on yet another substance, and walked out. So he wasn't there very long.

LiquidBlue5000 · #**113** 07-23-2005, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by littlecricket2

Actually, Stevie has specifically said in an interview that she never let anything happen between herself and Prince. I think it was in an Esquire or Details interview.

She did describe the cough medicine incident, and he made the trip up to her hotel room specifically to give her the cough medicine because he knew she was sick--he probably had other things in mind, though.

He fed her the cough medicine from a spoon himself, and when Stevie asked for more, he said (it sounds rather dramatically) that he didn't want her to get hooked on yet another substance, and walked out. So he wasn't there very long.

yeah, ok, but doesn't that seem kinda like an odd story?? like it's missing a few pieces here and there?? i think there was alot more to that story than what she told in that interview or what she even remembers...

StevieRox2 · #**114** 07-25-2005, 04:09 PM

I think it's in the SYW tourbook, the picture of Stevie and Liddy sitting on the floor talking - would love to know what was being said there!

Kelly · #**115** 07-25-2005, 04:20 PM

I would ask her what the his and her tile looks like in the new house.

Serrart · #**116** 07-25-2005, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Kelly

I would ask her what the his and her tile looks like in the new house.

A new house really? Nice, I've never heard of a new house, when did she buy it?

Romy

WelshWitchPMD · #**117** 07-25-2005, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

I'd quite like to read about when she discovered she was pregnant and how that all unfolded. I know it's grim, but it's events like that that really shape people's characters. I think we'd learn a lot about Don Henley from that too.

I think is what I would pick, too. I really don't want to hear about Mick or even Lindsey. Hey, I would like to know if she has ever been with John?

We never hear enough about him.