Member history...

[skuncles]

I've been on this board for several years, mostly in lurker mode. Part of the reason being that there isn't a whole lot of new Stevie information on here for long time fans. So my question for everyone is how old are you and when did you really get into Stevie's music. I don't mean when did you first hear of her, but when did you become a dedicated fan.
For me, I'm 37 and first got into Stevie around 1982 or so. My older sister had the "Bella Donna" album and played it constantly (although I didn't like it that much at the time). I was at my cousin's house and heard the "Rumours" album and was hooked. Was surprised to discover the Stevie Nicks on "Rumours" was the very same Stevie Nicks on "Bella Donna". Been hooked ever since. Began collecting anything and everything to do with Stevie around 1985. First concert was in 1986.

What about the rest of you?

[GODDESS6]

i am hardcore stevie all my life~ i am 40 & first heard of stevie when my aunt played for me her buck nicks lp~ i have been hooked & collecting ever since~

[Musicman408]

Summer of 2003- Family was in vacation and my parents bought Say You Will just for kicks. I didn't think anything of it, but then I gave it a listen, and the rest is history.

[Sahara]

Mum bought Say You Will around February 2004 and played me Peacekeeper, which I loved to bits. But I didn't check out the rest of the album until I heard Running Through the Garden, and I thought, 'Wow, that Lindsey Buckingham girl has one hell of a voice, I need to see what the story is here'. I loved the rest of the album, but I'd say I only became hooked proper when I got the Dance DVD a little while later. Stevie was just such a revelation, I had never seen anything like her in my life and she really got under my skin. Cue obsession. :P

That's my story

[GypsyGirl15]

I'm 20 and I discovered Stevie/Fleetwood Mac only last summer actually (and have been wishing ever since I had discovered them earlier). I came across a video of her performance of "Crash" somewhere and completely loved it. At that time I was on vacation in Italy and believe me when I say it's very difficult to find good music stores there, but by the time I got home I owned three of her albums already. There is no musician that will ever mean as much to me as does Stevie. I love her.
What really got me hooked though was that "Sisters Of The Moon" live video from the Mirage era. This song/performance just touched me so deeply. I think Fleetwood Mac will be my favorite band forever.

[DashingDan]

Originally Posted by Musicman408

Summer of 2003- Family was in vacation and my parents bought Say You Will just for kicks. I didn't think anything of it, but then I gave it a listen, and the rest is history.

That's pretty cool that you got hooked on the latest stuff. It's good to know that can still happen.

My older sister owned the Rumours LP in 1978 (who didn't?) and I always enjoyed hearing it when I was allowed to be in her room. I particularly liked the woman with the quivery voice. A few years later I bought the Leather and Lace 7-inch when it came out. To my surprise there was this really great, long song on the B-SIDE called BellaDonna - I couldn't play that song enough for some reason. The rest is history.

[GypsyGirl15]

Originally Posted by Sahara

Stevie was just such a revelation, I had never seen anything like her in my life and she really got under my skin. Cue obsession. :P

Well put. I agree 100%.

[HejiraNYC]

I'm 39 now and have been a diehard fan since 1981, when I requested Bella Donna for Christmas (along with Styx's Paradise Theatre and Rush's 2112 :P ). I had heard "Stop Draggin' my Heart Around" on the radio for weeks and didn't think much of it. But I remember being in a store once and becoming captivated by this beautiful woman with beaded mudflaps in her hair on the cover of the album- BD, of course. And the back cover with the hand-scripted "...come in out of the darkness..." seemed so haunting and cool. So when the local radio station played the entire album one night, I was intrigued enough to stay up and tape it. I was hooked right from the opening chords of "Bella Donna" and wanted to find/hear everything I could about this amazingly soulful singer/songwriter. Sure Pat Benatar was a better singer in the technical sense... but she seemed like a rock 'n' roll cliche, even way back then. Stevie was 100% original and sang from her soul.

[louielouie2000]

I'm 26, and first became a huge fan at the age of 11... in 1993. I was in the car with my Mom, and our local classic rock station was doing one of those Two For Tuesdays things, and they played Gold Dust Woman and The Chain back to back. My socks were completely blown off. I had always loved the mystical... and loved stories about magic, witches, and such. I just couldn't relate to the music of the day... Pearl Jam and Nirvana were so big then, and they were just too dark for me. Mom promised me in the car that day that she would pull out the Fleetwood Mac albums we had when we got home, and let me listen to them. It turns out she had Rumours and Bella Donna. I knew as soon as I saw the cover of those albums that I had found the band I would follow for the rest of my life. Stevie looked every bit of the part she sounded... and more... she was finally the real deal I had wanted to find. I've pretty much slowly collected all things Mac since then, and acquired every bit of knowledge about the band and it's solo members as I could. 16 years and counting now!!

My first concert was Fleetwood Mac during the Time tour in 1994, and I was thoroughly disgusted. Then I saw Stevie during the Enchanted tour, and was more pleased. My favorite concert had to be my first Say You Will concert in 2003... it was the first time I had seen what I considered to the the 'real' Fleetwood Mac (they canceled their NC show for the Dance tour, I was heartbroken). They were ON FIRE for their Greenville South Carolina SYW show... it was one of the first 10 they played on that tour. I guess it was before they got totally burned out and were fighting constantly. Since then I've seen the Mac 2 more times in 2004 (which weren't nearly as good), Stevie in 2005 (excellent!), and Stevie with Tom Petty in 2006 (which I thought was an extremely cool concert, it was Tom's opener for that tour, the first time they had sung Insider together in like 25 years). I would have seen the band, and Stevie and Lindsey's solo concerts more often, but money is always tight. There's my little Mac story!

[JeannieKartis]

Originally Posted by skuncles

I've been on this board for several years, mostly in lurker mode. Part of the reason being that there isn't a whole lot of new Stevie information on here for long time fans. So my question for everyone is how old are you and when did you really get into Stevie's music. I don't mean when did you first hear of her, but when did you become a dedicated fan.
For me, I'm 37 and first got into Stevie around 1982 or so. My older sister had the "Bella Donna" album and played it constantly (although I didn't like it that much at the time). I was at my cousin's house and heard the "Rumours" album and was hooked. Was surprised to discover the Stevie Nicks on "Rumours" was the very same Stevie Nicks on "Bella Donna". Been hooked ever since. Began collecting anything and everything to do with Stevie around 1985. First concert was in 1986.

What about the rest of you?

In my junior year of high school I got schooled on FM's Bare Trees album (this was before Stevie and Lindsey joined) and the rest is history. When I first saw FM during the Rumours tour I was mesmerized by the whirling gal in all black. I'm sure I was not as high as she but from then on I was hooked. (I'm 52)

[Steviefan49]

Originally Posted by JeannieKartis

In my junior year of high school I got schooled on FM's Bare Trees album (this was before Stevie and Lindsey joined) and the rest is history. When I first saw FM during the Rumours tour I was mesmerized by the whirling gal in all black. I'm sure I was not as high as she but from then on I was hooked. (I'm 52)

Hey Jeannie... You have me "LOLing" over here.. about your "high as she was" statement.. I first got "hooked" on FM when I heard Rumors at my Cousin's growing up, back in 1977. I knew then, Stevie's voice captured me like no one else's. I also loved Christine's voice, but there's just something about Stevie. My first time to see them in concert was the Tusk tour - 81 I believe?? I can't remember.. it was either 80 or 81, and I wish I could make the same statement about me "not" being as high as Stevie was! LOLOL.. I was a hair dresser back then, and I ran around with a "party" crowd! LOLOL.. I'm right behind you girlfriend, as I'm turning 51 in 10 days! LOL

Hugs,

Arlene

[Glittermoondust]

I'm 40 (ugh!) and first got into Stevie and the Mac around '77 or '78. Once I heard the Rumours album I was hooked I remember getting the album for my birthday and I was in 5th grade at the time........ I started collecting what I could around that time too--mostly magazines and stuff--anything my parents would buy for me!! LOL!! The chicken coop poster was the very first poster I ever got of the Mac and is still a fav today. My first concert was in '82 for the Mirage tour........ my brother saw the Tusk tour in '79 but wouldn't take his little sister and took some girl instead......... at least he bought me a concert shirt!!! I can still remember my dad trying to talk him into taking me......... he tried to take some pics for me too but they look like little ants!!LOL!! Well he tried and I still have the pics to this day!! ha ha Is he still with the chick you ask??? NO!! See he should have just taken me!!!

[David]

Originally Posted by skuncles

So my question for everyone is how old are you and when did you really get into Stevie's music. I don't mean when did you first hear of her, but when did you become a dedicated fan.

Stevie was the last of the three songwriters in the band whose songs & singing I liked. This was with RUMOURS. I loved GYOW & YMLF, but I didn't care for Stevie Nicks at first. I didn't think she was a poet, & the sound of her voice bugged me. But I guess it wasn't long before I really started to dig her & her look. A Fleetwood Mac show back in those days wouldn't have been complete without the Stevie Nicks shtick of the top hat & all. Her mystique infused virtually every aspect of the experience in those days -- even something as inconsequential as the music the crew used to play before showtime (the Tubular Bells theme). Fleetwood Mac was Stevie Nicksish.

I went to all the concerts in those days, all the way through the '80s. I would have hated to miss those people at that time. It was always the entertainment highlight of my year.

[OldTimer]

Originally Posted by Steviefan49

I'm right behind you girlfriend, as I'm turning 51 in 10 days!

Ooooh, good to see some more oldtimers! (Well we're not really old, of course). I'm only 3 years younger than Stevie herself, and I discovered the Mac in the late seventies with the Rumours LP, and their songs on the radio, especially Rhiannon. We didn't have youtube then, so I just grabbed all the music magazines I could find to get pictures of this incredible band. Here was this girl at the front of the stage, twirling with her capes and shawls, she was magic, she was like something from another world. I had long blonde hair and bangs, and I tried so much to look like her. She was everything I dreamed of being. I even named one of my earlier cars Rhiannon . With her sexy boyfriend singing and playing guitar, and this crazy tall drummer, I knew this was the coolest band ever. For me, there's never been a singer who's even come close to Stevie.

Fast forward a couple of decades plus, and my adoration of Fleetwood Mac has even turned out to be intergenerational! Both of my kids, now in their twenties, love all the old stuff, Mac, Beatles, Clapton, Pink Floyd. In 2001, my daughter and I were so excited to get tickets for the Trouble In Shangrila Tour (my daughter was 21 then), and I saw lots of other moms & daughters! Stevie was tired that night and her light was a little dimmer, but she was still our beloved magical lady, and the crowd was crazy for her.

So if they come to the west coast this year, both my son and my daughter are dying to see the Mac with me! I get to re-live my past, and share it with the kids who understand and appreciate it -- hopefully not getting too embarassed at Mom yelling and dancing in the aisle. It just doesn't get any better than that.

[marinnette]

in my case, it happened like 2 years ago, when I realized FM and Stevie Nicks had been with me all my life.
When I was almost a baby (2 or 3 years old) I wouldn't eat. so my uncle, who had the typical 80's band (he played synthesizers) had to play for me so I would open my mouth in admiration. then, my dad has a pub and he's got like zillions of albums, and I would spend like an hour a day there, and he'd play the beatles, the rollings and stuff I can't remember but now, sometimes, when I hear an old song, sounds so familiar to me...(probably because I had been listening to it at the pub). i remember the cover or rumours, and TITN too. and I remember that some stevie's songs like rooms on fire and talk to me had a lot of air-play at that time (late 80's). plus, I always loved Little Lies video (I'm a 87 child!!)

then, like 3 years or 4 ago, a friend of mine send me edge of seventeen in mp3. ohh I loved that song. some months later, I was looking for a track called family man, by hall and oates (mike oldfield did a version of it too). but instead of getting hall and oates song, I downloaded LB's. and I downloaded a lot of songs by them. I like them so much, but I wasn't really in love with the Mac and Stevie Nicks. but something happened to me. I had an unhappy love affair. I was devastated, but Dreams really gave me the strength to go on. and the rest...just came with the time, so it's been 2 years of FM and SN and LB addiction.
ah! and my best friend, I made him become addicted too. he would listen to them everynight, but he wouln't recognize it. I saw he was hooked the other day when he said: I'll go to your "hoouuussee on the hilllll" (I live on a hill) and latter mentioned our relationship was bittersweet. he had been watching all FM and LB videos on youtube. I was stunned!