New Australian Interview - "Truth and Rumours" - Aug. 09

[RockALittle250]

It's been a while since we've heard from Stevie, and we all love her interviews, especially when we can hear them, so here is a brand new interview Stevie did with Simon Collins in Australia...Nickslive posted the audio download:

http://nickslive.blogspot.com/2009/0...truth-and.html

STEVIE NICKS INTERVIEW: Truth and Rumours
Thewest.co.au
by: Simon Collins


Exceprts from exclusive interview with The West Australian's Simon Collins. DOWNLOAD

The kiss-offs are in the lyrics, the choruses and - most brutally - the titles. On Dreams, in between Buckingham declaring that he feels like Second Hand News and that he’s Never Going Back Again, Nicks warns her former beau that (other) “women, they will come and they will go”.

Later on side one, in arguably the greatest break-up song in pop history, Buckingham counters by telling her to Go Your Own Way. Which they did at the end of 1976 before these unguarded moments propelled Rumours to the top of the charts.

More than 30 years after those tumultuous times, Fleetwood Mac are still together - albeit without Christine McVie, who retired a decade ago - performing those classics on their Unleashed greatest hits world tour, which comes to Australia in December.

Speaking from her home in Santa Monica, California, after finishing the 53-date North American leg of the tour, Nicks says the songs still summon strong memories.

“We all really time-travel back to those days - drama, drama drama,” the 61-year-old says. “That’s why we’re able to sing them now and sing them with a lot of heart because we never lost the value of why they were written or the fact that they were real.

“It was real hearts being broken like bowling pins going down.” Despite the dramas, Nicks says that the Rumours sessions were a lot of fun.

In particular, the three months of recording at The Record Plant Studios in Sausalito across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco provide some of her fondest memories.

“The Record Plant was looking out over the ocean, so it was very romantic and beautiful,” she says.

“Then when we went back to LA that was fun too because we probably recorded in every studio in this city. Sometimes we had two or three running at the same time. So, it was huge and it was a lot of fun and it was very exciting - and the songs were brilliant. We were just having the best time ever doing it.”

The five stars of rock’s greatest soap opera were having the best time but falling apart because of the volatile cocktail of drugs and passions.

Somehow the creative bonds outlived the emotional ones, and the band forged on to prove (putting to one side Buckingham’s departure from about 1987 to 1997 and McVie’s retirement a year later) that you can never break the chain.

Today, Nicks is looking out over the same ocean, albeit from her Santa Monica condominium where she lives with her Chinese crested-Yorkshire terrier cross, Sulamith (named after fairy-obsessed German fantasy illustrator Sulamith Wulfing).

When she’s not on tour, which is not very often, Nicks prefers to live at her modest apartment rather than her big property in the Pacific Palisades up in the Hollywood hills.

“When I walk into my really beautiful little condo, I feel like an international star and when I walk into my big house, I feel like an old woman who can’t figure out what to do,” she says.

“I’m keeping my big house because I have my pianos, I can record there, but I really live in a very small, albeit very beautiful place. I’m looking straight at the ocean right now and I just love it.

“I have a little dog. I bought this big house and she and I would look at each other and go, ‘What the heck are we doing?’”

While she claims that the rigours of touring, either for solo shows or with Fleetwood Mac, leaves little time for socialising, Nicks has become a mother hen figure to a group of younger female musicians, including Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch and the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines.

And while Nicks has had high-profile affairs with Mick Fleetwood (a secret liaison while the band were touring Rumours), Eagles’ members Don Henley and Joe Walsh, and record producer Jimmy Iovine, she still considers Buckingham the unattainable love of her life.

“Lindsey and I have that bittersweet thing,” she says. “He’s married, has three kids, he’s very happy in his marriage. I’m very happy for him.

“He’s not like me. I’m happy to grow old with a bunch of friends and dogs, and he was not. He never really wanted to have kids . . . (but) all of a sudden he had this beautiful little boy and I think his whole life changed.

“I chose purposely - my choice - to not be married or have children so I could follow being a true artist,” Nicks continues.

“So I can turn around and say to my little dog, ‘We’re going to New York tomorrow’. We don’t have to ask anybody if we can go and we don’t have to have anybody mad at us because we don’t know when we’re coming back. I chose that and I’m very happy with that choice.”

But when Fleetwood Mac start playing those classics, Nicks gets back on that rollercoaster of love and heartbreak.

“When we walk on stage, it’s no longer these two ruffian kids,” she says. “We still have that love. We’ll always have it. We go back way too far now to not be appreciative of what he and I dreamed up and actually made happen.”

Fleetwood Mac play ME Bank Stadium on December 11 and 12. Tickets go on sale September 4 from Ticketmaster outlets.

[vermicious knid]

I assumed the big house had already been sold. It was supposedly for sale back in 2007.

I am not believing that canard about keeping the house so she could record in it. As if!

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by vermicious knid

I assumed the big house had already been sold. It was supposedly for sale back in 2007.

I am not believing that canard about keeping the house so she could record in it. As if!

I think she simply can't sell it in this market. If you look on Google Maps, you can clearly see a for sale sign in the yard (their Street View was taken sometime in 2007). I think Stevie's just trying to make the most of her real estate surplus, and put some sort of a positive spin on it. You know our girl!

[galestreet]

Thanks for the article!

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I think she simply can't sell it in this market. If you look on Google Maps, you can clearly see a for sale sign in the yard (their Street View was taken sometime in 2007). I think Stevie's just trying to make the most of her real estate surplus, and put some sort of a positive spin on it. You know our girl!

No, the house did sell. That picture view was taken a long time ago. She sold it for 3 million in cash if I remember correctly. I'm sure you can find the thread by searching for it.

She must own another house in CA that she is still holding on to? That must be what she is talking about here.

[enchanted]

That house that sold for $3 million was her house in Phoenix.....she still owns house in Pacific Palisades....worth alot more than her Phoenix house.

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by enchanted

That house that sold for $3 million was her house in Phoenix.....she still owns house in Pacific Palisades....worth alot more than her Phoenix house.

My mom's a real estate agent... I wonder if she could get this type of information off the MLS.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

My mom's a real estate agent... I wonder if she could get this type of information off the MLS.

This was Stevie's Phoenix house:
http://www.luxist.com/2007/08/05/ste...te-of-the-day/

I can't find her Pacific Palisades place for sale... maybe it's off the market now.

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I can't find her Pacific Palisades place for sale... maybe it's off the market now.

When was it ever on the market? Only the Pheonix one was, and that was sold.

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

When was it ever on the market? Only the Pheonix one was, and that was sold.

Chances are she did everything through a private buyer.

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

Chances are she did everything through a private buyer.

Well she could have done that - but she is saying that she still owns the house, there never was any buyer.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

When was it ever on the market? Only the Pheonix one was, and that was sold.

Perhaps not, what I thought was a real estate sign in the yard was in fact a yard sale for a neighbor . The way these kind of upscale listings work though, is that they're not always on public MLS websites and such. Only realtors know some of these properties are for sale, and I'm guessing you have to be an exclusive one to boot. Sometimes these exclusive listings don't even have list prices... the listing agent will give a range of offers the seller is expected to entertain. All that being said, I don't think Stevie's Palisades home is quite in that stratosphere... it's certainly not a double digit millions property (probably more like $3-6 million). It's a big house, but it's not waterfront, or even water view. It's not even on a huge lot. I don't know why she gave up her last Palisades place with the incredible architecture and view. Maybe I just don't care for her current 'Tara" inspired house because I'm a Southerner, and big white columned clapboard houses where I live are cliche to the point of insanity.

[nailatixela]

You're missing my point, louie. I'm just trying to say she is not selling the Palisades house at the moment. I don't have to be an exclusive real estate agent to know this - I just read this line of the article:

“I’m keeping my big house because I have my pianos, I can record there, but I really live in a very small, albeit very beautiful place. I’m looking straight at the ocean right now and I just love it."

All I was saying what just that she still ownes the place, and from these words we know it isn't on the market at the moment.

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

You're missing my point, louie. I'm just trying to say she is not selling the Palisades house at the moment. I don't have to be an exclusive real estate agent to know this - I just read this line of the article:

“I’m keeping my big house because I have my pianos, I can record there, but I really live in a very small, albeit very beautiful place. I’m looking straight at the ocean right now and I just love it."

All I was saying what just that she still ownes the place, and from these words we know it isn't on the market at the moment.

Well, you actually asked the question - "When was it ever on the market?"

Anyway... The word was likely thrown out there that she was interested in selling if there were any takers, at the time - Dec, 2007.

Here's the Real Estate blog that initially posted about the house being on the market.

Realestalker

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Well, you actually asked the question - "When was it ever on the market?"

Anyway... The word was likely thrown out there that she was interested in selling if there were any takers, at the time - Dec, 2007.

Here's the Real Estate blog that initially posted about the house being on the market.

Realestalker

I remember seeing that now that you posted the link. I was wrong that it was never on the market. I am guessing she either couldn't sell it, or took it off the market just because she changed her mind.

Oh, and when I asked when it was on the market I wasn't really asking, because I thought it never was.