How You Became A Fan..... Your Stevie Story - Page 2

Rickypt · #16 05-27-2007, 10:52 PM

I think it's great that The Dance brought so many new fans. I wonder if FM thought that would happen. I thought the '97 thing was a wonderful nostalgia trip and gift to longtime fans, but never occurred to me that it would reach a new audience.

JazmenFlowers · #17 05-27-2007, 10:57 PM

^^^
I am so glad they did it because I really don't know that I'd have ever found their music otherwise. at that time I was so wrapped up in Broadway and musicals that I don't think I'd have stepped out of that box into rock.

and you know...it's a testament to their music and power. at the time, I knew nothing of Stevie's "old" voice or the way she tore up Rhiannon. I was in love with her anyway. so, imagine when I first heard those Rhiannons...I experienced things I can't discuss...being a Christian woman and all...

michelle2677 · #18 05-27-2007, 11:21 PM

ok. I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again. My grandparents had never heard of FM. never HEARD of them

I mean, i can understand never being able to place a song of theirs. but never heard of the name?!!

it just baffles me. how could they have lived through the 70's and not heard of them? and they are fairly hip people!!! I just don't get it.

well, they have now! thanks to me

Musicman408 · #19 05-28-2007, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

WOW The Dance really brought in a lot of fans. I never really paid much attention when The Dance came out. My Dad bought it and told me all the names of the members of Fleetwood Mac. I was only 7 but I thought it was absolutely hilarious that there was a man called Lindsey and a woman called Stevie. I was a very strange child.

I was the same way. I think that;s what hooked me.

BlackWidow · #20 05-28-2007, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

^^^
I am so glad they did it because I really don't know that I'd have ever found their music otherwise. at that time I was so wrapped up in Broadway and musicals that I don't think I'd have stepped out of that box into rock.

and you know...it's a testament to their music and power. at the time, I knew nothing of Stevie's "old" voice or the way she tore up Rhiannon. I was in love with her anyway. so, imagine when I first heard those Rhiannons...I experienced things I can't discuss...being a Christian woman and all...

are you clutching your rosary?

Standback383 · #21 05-28-2007, 08:20 PM

My parents...thanks to them I love a lot of the bands that were "big" in the 60s and 70s...and gee...odly enough it's still those bands that are selling out and putting a lot of new bands/artists to shame.

Anyway,...my brother and I grew up listening to the Mamas & the Papas...Fleetwood Mac....Carole King.....Doobie Brothers.....Three Dog Night...CHicago...the Byrds....CSN(&Y sometimes...)......Zeppelin......Linda Ronstadt...and THANK GOD our parents had good taste in music. I didn't realize until I was a teenager that it was Stevie singing all of my favorite songs (I saw her on tv during FM's 97 tour). THe rest is history....I really came to respect Stevie not only for being such a phenominal poet and singer, but also for being a class act........

missdiatribe · #22 05-28-2007, 11:50 PM

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.

#23 06-01-2007, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ryan8472

I listened to Silver Springs off The Dance album. It turned me gay. And I've loved her and the band ever since.

First: HAHA (at Ryan) Love the mommy dearest pic!

For me, I became a Stevie Fan sometime in the 90's. I was riding in the car with a friend and saw this cd and was like, who is that lady with the red hair wearing a blanket?? (Stevie's Timespace cd) My friend told me all he knew about her and how fabulous she was. I said I don't know her music very well, but knew her from Fleetwood Mac. We listened to Stand Back and I think I was hooked on her since then and the Mac of course. I always have some Stevie cd in the car or cd that the bf has burned for me. It immediately puts me in a good mood when I hear that sultry voice

denny23220 · #24 06-01-2007, 09:04 AM

MY TURN!!! My first memory of Stevie Nicks is from when I was about 6 or 7 years old and STAND BACK was always on the radio and my cousins thought it was cute that I sang the wrong lyrics "In the middle of my room I did not give a hoot". I also remember going to the salon with my mom and her telling the stylist she wanted hair done like in the new Stevie Nicks video. So mom was a fan. I also remember getting the single for Rooms On Fire when it came out.

I surely have a collectors gene and I think I have peaked with Prince and Madonna (been a fan / collector since I was a CHILD). My boyfriend brought my attention to Stevie and she is my newest focus that started about a year ago!!

skuncles · #25 06-01-2007, 11:58 AM

Good God I'm old!!! I first got into Stevie back around 1982, I heard both Rumours and Bella Donna and was hooked ever since. Around 1986 VH1 used to show the "Stand Back" video every morning before I left for school, high school!! For those that know nothing of it, back in the day VH1 and MTV were sister channels but never spoke of or to each other. MTV had the exclusive rights to the "Talk To Me" and "I Can't Wait" videos, VH1 only showed the older clips. The people on VH1 would talk about the "Rock A Little" or "Tango" albums, but would only play the older videos. "Sara", "Tusk", "Gypsy", "Hold Me", "Stop Draggin'", "Stand Back" and "If Anyone Falls" were all in VERY heavy rotation on VH1 in the mid-80's.

-Al

kathy1 · #26 06-02-2007, 07:28 AM

i was really young when fleetwood mac came around.i didn't really become a fan until the early 80's when mirage and belladonna came out. and i have been a fan ever since.

jannieC · #27 06-02-2007, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by skuncles

Good God I'm old!!! I first got into Stevie back around 1982, I heard both Rumours and Bella Donna and was hooked ever since. Around 1986 VH1 used to show the "Stand Back" video every morning before I left for school, high school!! For those that know nothing of it, back in the day VH1 and MTV were sister channels but never spoke of or to each other. MTV had the exclusive rights to the "Talk To Me" and "I Can't Wait" videos, VH1 only showed the older clips. The people on VH1 would talk about the "Rock A Little" or "Tango" albums, but would only play the older videos. "Sara", "Tusk", "Gypsy", "Hold Me", "Stop Draggin'", "Stand Back" and "If Anyone Falls" were all in VERY heavy rotation on VH1 in the mid-80's.

-Al

Hm, we may be the same age. I first became aware of Stevie because my parents were really into Rumours when it first came out. I used to dance around the livingroom with my sister to The Chain.

When I was 10 years old in 1978, she did Whenever I Call You Friend, and I used to pretend I was her, singing into a hairbrush.

I became a serious Stevie fan in about 1985 and then I saw her for the first time in 1986(?) for RAL (at Jones Beach- I'm originally from Wantaugh, NY). I've been to every solo show of hers since- except for this upcoming one- *SOB*.

ETA: I *do* remember what you're talking about with VH1 and MTV!

jannieC · #28 06-02-2007, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by missdiatribe

I uttered that same phrase two years ago in the Hamptons and the entire experience led me to meeting Stevie at Jones Beach.

You need to elaborate here...

PenguinHead · #29 06-02-2007, 09:46 AM

My initial major musicial influences came from my older sister. I mated with them for life. (She went on to white trash country music.) First it was the Beatles and The Partridge Family! Then Fleetwood Mac. I became an eager music collector at a very early age. I recall being so proud showing my Sesame Street album to fellow pre-schoolers!

In 1977 I was 11 years old. My sister was a senior in high school. You could not escape Rumours -- it was a dominant force in culture at that moment. There were many parties at my house then. What passed for a sound system was my sister's little record player (a flip top box with a handle!) blasting at the top of the stairs.

At one of these parties, I milled around watching a bunch of 18 years getting drunk (the drinking age was 18 in Massachusetts at that time). I can recall the very moment when I took notice of Stevie's voice echoing down the stairway with Gold Dust Woman. It gave me chills. Fleetwood Mac was on my radar now.

My WT sister predictably soon knocked up and getting married, I inherited her albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Future Games and Mystery To Me. As I absorbed those albums, the big surprise to me was to discover a huge rich history of a band of many incarnations. The obsession began and has never waned.

I wonder, during the Rumours heyday, how many unsuspecting new fans bought pre 1975 Fleetwood Mac albums thinking they were getting the Rumours band. I bet those albums benefitted saleswise from the halo effect.

mike_nh · #30 06-03-2007, 07:45 PM

I think the the year was around 1977 and i was 8 years old and i can remember watching the movie slap shot and there was this one scene where this van pulls up to the sidewalk and the song on the radio was rhiannon. At
the time i didn't know who sang it but i just remembered that voice and I asked my brother who was older than me to find that song for me. So a few weeks later i got the fleetwood mac white album for my birthday and thats when it started for me.