How You Became A Fan..... Your Stevie Story

[missdiatribe]

Okay, this is an embarassing thing to admit, because it's a true reflection of my own ignorance. I had watched the "Behind the Music" for Fleetwood Mac when it first aired, but I overlooked any chance of absorbing the music by thinking to myself, "Wow these people have crappy relationships. They look miserable." I was 15 or so, and then some of you may remember this Meryl Streep movie- One True Thing? I was a diehard Bette Midler fan, and I just ASSUMED the track used briefly in the trailer was her single, "My One True Friend" for the movie. I remember first hearing the song (which I later learned was "Landslide") and thinking 1. Bette's voice sounds so different and better than I ever heard it and 2. This song is gonna be a hit. Of course, it already was a hit some twenty years before, and Bette's single was utter crap.

So flash forward, a year later, I'm in college and this gay male classmate comes over to see my Bette/ Babs collection. He tells me, "Oh honeyyyy I love Babs, but let me TELL you. Check out Stevie Nicks and her Enchanted box set. She's the one woman I'd ever f*** and she could turn me straight in a minute." Thus began my Stevie-addiction and Babs/Bette replacement therapy. And as for the "one woman I'd like to f***," I uttered that same phrase two years ago in the Hamptons and the entire experience led me to meeting Stevie at Jones Beach.

So in short, it had to be "Landslide" that got me hooked. By "Trouble In Shangri-La" I was a diehard.