Dave mentions Stevie's "forthcoming album" in new Billboard article - Page 7

RockAlot · #91 06-30-2010, 11:23 PM

This is the very 1st time I have serious faith this project is coming to life! Friggin Mick Fleetwood is "confirmed" (?) to be recording with Stevie?

tilthefirefades · #92 07-01-2010, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by CADreaming

Is this the first time Mick has been involved in a solo Stevie project?? My memory is tired right now...

First that comes to mind for me is Sable on Blonde

Nathan · #93 07-01-2010, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by tilthefirefades

First that comes to mind for me is Sable on Blonde

Sound right. Of course, he worked on demos with her years earlier.

Stevie, Mick and Tom working out Storms. Living Room demos, weren't they?

Nikolaj · #94 07-01-2010, 01:12 AM

Destiny Rules wrote: Sadly, I don't think radio's going to give more than a cursory mention of Stevie when her new CD drops. They might play her new song maybe once, maybe twice, then they might shift over and play her classics a little bit more.
She'd practically have to go down on every radio exec there is for them to play her, and that just ain't happening.
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Of course, you have the right to your opinion, and could be right, but I disagree. The 'right' songs have seen Springsteen get airplay, and I heard one or 2 of the Stones songs from their last cd, granted they weren't hits. But I think radio will want to welcome Stevie back if the material is great. I mean if Stevie Nicks comes up with 2 or 3 songs that are really loved by both the public and by radio, she has every chance of the biggest cd she's had since maybe 1989. I do think miracles happen, and every now and then, Stevie has come up with a miraculous song, and if she does it on the new cd, I think she'll get way more than a cursory mention or half-baked welcome back, I think she could totally have it go over. I think she has been missed, and would be welcomed back at radio, there hasn't been a major 'comeback' in a long time, and I think Stevie could be the one. In past albums, she hasn't had the right song to bring her back. 'Planets' was close on TISL, but didn't do it.
Bonnie Raitt did it with 2 or 3 albums in her mid 40s, which at the time, was very unusual. "I Can't Make You Love Me" was a career song, and it didn't matter that she wasn't 'a babe' or not 25, she was getting airplay and selling well because the song was just a perfectly captured performance of the right song, at that time. A great song still can find it's way to success, yes, even by Stevie Nicks in her 60s, it could happen.
Look at Dylan's 'Time Out of Mind'- there are people older than Nicks who manage to have some big albums when the songs and timing is right, and I just have a good feeling about it.
As for 'going down on every radio exec'-- I think that sort of thinking went out a way, way, long time ago, it's silly, maybe you meant it that way. We're not still hearing George Michael or Ricky Martin or- I dunno- Belinda Carlisle, on the radio because of superior oral sex skills! Plus, radio is far from the boys club that it once was, no-one too smart will risk millions of dollars in damages awarded because they go around expecting blow jobs to play songs. It isn't the same business as in the 60s and 70s or perhaps even the 80s, and by then, radio was being very closely watched for illicit payoffs of that and other kinds! Come on

Though, if the material doesn't stand out in a major way, I do agree it could just be exactly as your scenario, minus the factor of oral sex having anything to do with it at all! I love that Mick Fleetwood is now involved, too.

wildheart048 · #95 07-01-2010, 03:14 AM

I am totally excited! (And not just by all this talk of bjs!!

) MICK? Who knew

Can't wait!!!!

mikebise · #96 07-01-2010, 06:24 AM

Mick plays drums on "Sable On Blond", as well as on the Trouble in Shangri-la version of "Thrown Down".

CADreaming · #97 07-01-2010, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Mick plays drums on "Sable On Blond", as well as on the Trouble in Shangri-la version of "Thrown Down".

Thanks all.

So, Sable on Blond is the only thing that actually made it on a solo album?

Christopher · #98 07-01-2010, 10:31 AM

This is fantastic news regarding Mick playing on Stevie's new cd!! Hopefully he will appear on more than one song, because it has been over 27 yrs. since he last guested on a Stevie Nicks solo cd with "Sable On Blonde", which brought that hauntingly familiar FM rhythm to the song reminiscent of "Dreams" of course. It would be an interesting twist if he ended up playing on the whole CD in regards to the Fleetwood Mac CD that never was to be following the "Unleashed Tour". Sounds like Stevie is surrounding herself with musicians she respects and trusts on this new outing (and perhaps Lindsey is no longer in that camp) & I'm becoming more confident that she has intentions of putting forth a career CD.

Here's hoping, as Nikolaj pointed out, that Stevie has a killer song or two up her sleeve to get some positive attention to this project. Because I also feel that as good as TISL was as a whole, it did not have a killer single/song to carry it. "Everyday" was a killer video, but a middle of the road song. They would have probably done Stevie a favor by just releasing POTU as the 1st single & video and not confusing people by releasing 2 singles initially to different radio formats. Even "Sorcerer", "Fall From Grace" or "Love Changes" would have made fantastic 1st singles, but overall even as great as these songs are, none are killer out of the box attention grabbers in the vein of "Stand Back", "SDMHA" or even "Talk To Me". Now if she had decided not to pull her TISL version of "Thrown Down" with guest appearances by Lindsey & Mick off her cd, That version would have been a killer, attention grabbing 1st single!!

nailatixela · #99 07-01-2010, 12:17 PM

New tweet from Dave

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still in LA working on Stevie, Nashville next week on my own album

RockAlot · #**100** 07-01-2010, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by nailatixela

New tweet from Dave

Just saw this too, we have 7 songs!!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AGPrjH5BwH...the+Studio.jpg

nailatixela · #**101** 07-01-2010, 02:09 PM

Oh, I didn't even realize those 2 tweets were connected.

Christopher · #**102** 07-01-2010, 03:22 PM

This last enthusiastic tweet from Dave has me excited, but also a little bit nervous. Though 7 songs is a huge advancement towards a finished product. Stevie would still have to complete arguably between 3-5 more songs to make it complete (6 if she were to make another 13 song cd). With Dave leaving next week to Nashville along with his newly formed band to begin to work on his solo cd, that leaves Stevie to complete the CD by herself, or Ugh another producer (insert cynicism)! If Stevie's past history with multiple producers becomes another time held tradition of delays and shelved material, then there is justification in having some trepidation.

RAL - delayed over a year while producers came and went, changing direction several times shelving an entire cd worth of material in doing so.
Street Angel - delayed almost a year while Stevie detoxed after which she re-produced along w. Thom Panuzio and changed the song selections for final release.
TISL- delayed over a year while producers came and went, with Stevie changing direction at one point recording with R&B producers Dallas Austin & rumored Rodney Jerkins.

wheart · #**103** 07-01-2010, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Christopher

This last enthusiastic tweet from Dave has me excited, but also a little bit nervous. Though 7 songs is a huge advancement towards a finished product. Stevie would still have to complete arguably between 3-5 more songs to make it complete (6 if she were to make another 13 song cd). With Dave leaving next week to Nashville along with his newly formed band to begin to work on his solo cd, that leaves Stevie to complete the CD by herself, or Ugh another producer (insert cynicism)! If Stevie's past history with multiple producers becomes another time held tradition of delays and shelved material, then there is justification in having some trepidation.

RAL - delayed over a year while producers came and went, changing direction several times shelving an entire cd worth of material in doing so.
Street Angel - delayed almost a year while Stevie detoxed after which she re-produced along w. Thom Panuzio and changed the song selections for final release.
TISL- delayed over a year while producers came and went, with Stevie changing direction at one point recording with R&B producers Dallas Austin & rumored Rodney Jerkins.

Yeah, that 7 songs business was a little bit of a buzz kill for me. Maybe the 7 songs he's talking about are songs that he and she cowrote and that he produced. Perhaps she will go into the vault of previously written tunes (and we know she's got loads) and pick a few to fill up the rest of the CD or perhaps a few she's recently written by herself. Maybe she's got another producer already lined up or in mind to produce the rest of the songs...OR maybe she'll produce them herself. There are many possibilites here. Just because Dave is exiting the picture doesn't mean this isn't going to happen, although I do worry when Stevie is left to her own devices. She needs adult supervision.

I also think that she knows that time is of the essence and perhaps, in her maturity and wisdom, she will be doing things differently this time around. I also keep thinking in the back of my mind that if FM has agreed to do something in the near future, she's on a deadline.

LukeA · #**104** 07-01-2010, 04:21 PM

Who says it will be a "full length" album? It could be an EP.

louielouie2000 · #**105** 07-01-2010, 04:40 PM

Yeah, their only having 7 songs in the can AND Dave exiting has me a bit nervous. All of the past album delays Christopher mentioned have been fresh in my mind since we first heard rumblings about Stevie recording. That's why I've been trying not to get excited... because Stevie's track record shows us we're in for a speed bump or 3. But wait, wasn't the album supposed to be released last MONTH?