Incredible *New* Stevie Interview-The Guardian

[Phoenixgypsy]

"Nicks...... may have remarkable recall for details and dates from her four decades in music"


this line cracked me up! Especially when her stories abut the past change ! Gotta love Mama!

[equeen102289]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Yes that part was very sad. And I think this may be the first time Stevie has admitted that she used drugs as any sort of emotional need. She's always said that her Coke use was strictly for energy, to get thru her hectic schedule, sort of her 5-hour endergy of that time. She's never once said she used it for any other reason, although I htink we all could guess that wasn't true. Here she's saying she couldn't handle going ot the hospital to see Robin that sick unless she was high on cocaine and drunk.

Exactly. It was easily assumed Stevie used coke and alcohol in this regard but I am very surprised that she's openly saying it now when normally she tells the same stories.

Iknow that that 1991 BBC TimeSpace interview was transcribed somewhere, hopefully, we can find it. This was the very first time Stevie actually said Joe Walsh's name ~ stunning us all! Stevie said he was absolutely the Love of her life. She also talked extensively about her failed marriage, Robin, Matthew, etc. Even Klonopinized, Stevie gave an emotional and REVEALING interview. Everyone acted shocked when Stevie was talking about Joe in 2007, but it was OLD NEWS.

So at this point in time no one knew about Stevie being with Joe? Or she had just never spoken about the relationship? As a young fan, it's interesting to me to know how things became known about because ever since I've been a fan all of these "hush hush" things became common knowledge.

Tom's marriage BROKE UP then. Guys, the tabloids GET IT RIGHT almost EVERY TIME! This isn't 1978, when they made up stories; they have lawyers and vet stories like crazy, even in 1995~1996. See, that's a fantastic story, two "old friends" falling in love almost 20 years later. "Forbidden"...

Plus, Stevie was most likely already in love with Tom since Late 1980, when she was recording "Outside The Rain" with him. She tells the BAM interviewer in September 1981 that she wrote "If You Were My Love" during that time. Listen to the lyrics... IF you were my love...

PLUS, Tom is the one who inspired Stevie to get back to writing... "Love Is"... "That Made Me Stronger"...

Does anyone have any copies of these articles in the tabloids? My first thought about the "forbidden" love was either Glen or Carlos, but like you said, why would Glen be forbidden? I know she speaks of Carlos with a lot of fondness so a part of me believes it could be him. But overall, Tom seems the most likely one.

[Bubba Fleetwood]

I guess you can throw me into the, "it was Tom" camp too. However, I remember Stevie saying in an intertview that right before the Dance she was involved with a much younger guy and that she was the one who ended it. Anyone else remember that?

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Bubba Fleetwood

I guess you can throw me into the, "it was Tom" camp too. However, I remember Stevie saying in an intertview that right before the Dance she was involved with a much younger guy and that she was the one who ended it. Anyone else remember that?

yeah, but I thought they broke up becuase of what she got paid for Landslide, he couldn't handle that

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

It's probably written about her pool boy, but who cares, I can't wait to hear it.

Indeed!

[Bubba Fleetwood]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

yeah, but I thought they broke up becuase of what she got paid for Landslide, he couldn't handle that

Maybe that was him.... thought that might have been someone else and the guy she dated before the Dance was someone she had decided was too young for her.....I don't know.....I can not keep up with this woman's love life, Good Lord.

[mikebise]

Originally Posted by equeen102289

Exactly. It was easily assumed Stevie used coke and alcohol in this regard but I am very surprised that she's openly saying it now when normally she tells the same stories.




So at this point in time no one knew about Stevie being with Joe? Or she had just never spoken about the relationship? As a young fan, it's interesting to me to know how things became known about because ever since I've been a fan all of these "hush hush" things became common knowledge.



Does anyone have any copies of these articles in the tabloids? My first thought about the "forbidden" love was either Glen or Carlos, but like you said, why would Glen be forbidden? I know she speaks of Carlos with a lot of fondness so a part of me believes it could be him. But overall, Tom seems the most likely one.

Prior to that Late 1991 BBC interview, Stevie had never once mentioned Joe Walsh as her TRUE LOVE, or even a lover, period. She did the 1989 Reflections From The Other Side Of The Mirror interview, talking about writing "Long Way To Go", but she never said Joe's name. Never, until that BBC interview. We had no clue that Joe was the man who had inspired Stevie to write so many of her heartbroken songs in the Rock A Little era until then. And this was the only interview in which she talked at length about him for many years. She said it was Joe, not Mick or Lindsey, that she would have given up everything for.

After that 1991 BBC interview, even in the US, Stevie never talked about Joe openly until that interview in 2007 during the Crystal Visions promotion. In 1994, Stevie gave a hilarious radio interview while promoting Street Angel, talking about the Big Time Rock and Roll Star who inspired "Love Is Like A River", recalling, "You think MY life is wild?! MY life?! What about YOURS?!?!" But she never named Joe.

Someone here on The Ledge posted their copy of The Star article about Stevie & Tom from 1996. I have my copy of it, as well as The Globe's story, in one of my Stevie scrapbooks back at my mother's house. I'm sure someone here will post it again.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Bubba Fleetwood

Maybe that was him.... thought that might have been someone else and the guy she dated before the Dance was someone she had decided was too young for her.....I don't know.....I can not keep up with this woman's love life, Good Lord.

neither can she, her belts must look like macromay with soo many notches

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by joe

Yeah, her saying this is a bit far left. It's pretty well known that they were on the rocks when they joined FM. This statement make me think she feels slightly envious/jealous about Lindsey's personal life now. Why else would she say this when she's been saying all these years that they were pretty much almost breaking up when they joined FM? I think it's her way of trying to reconcile or forgive herself for some of the choices that she made.

Well, what the piece actually says is:

Nicks and Buckingham met at high school in California and started out as a duo. Had Fleetwood Mac, fame and drugs not entered the picture, she believes, the couple would have stayed in San Francisco and had success anyway. "And we would have married and had children, 'cause we were headed that way. We didn't really mess up till we moved to Los Angeles. And that was when the whole world just ripped us apart."

Which, to me, is consistent with the idea that SnL were in not too bad shape when they struck out on their own together post-Fritz, but that the two/three years in LA during which they made the BN album, and it failed, was what put them on the rocks by the time FM came round. Moving to LA and joining FM are years apart.

Loz

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Hasn't Rick been married for 25 years or some such? Not that it means anything...

That's why it would be forbidden.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by mikebise

I'd almost say Rick, "Forbidden" not only because of his marriage, but also breaking his ties to Fleetwood Mac and standing by Stevie. Plus, ALL of those LOOKS Stevie gave him on~stage on the Street Angel tour!

Watch them in the Skies The Limit video some time.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Watch them in the Skies The Limit video some time.

I just watched it. I guess they looked friendly enough, but my main conclusions would have to be:
1. Stevie has been doing dodgy hand gestures for ages.
2. That song sucks some serious bottom.

[Bryan]

I didn't particularly like this interview.Combing through the same topics again,mentioning Glee (yuck) ..mentioning Twilight (eurgh!) just say nothing and give me the music,thanks.

Also...June 27th?! HA,they better not be marketing the album specifically just because of the Hyde Park show..dumb.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by jellyman10

I just watched it. I guess they looked friendly enough, but my main conclusions would have to be:
1. Stevie has been doing dodgy hand gestures for ages.
2. That song sucks some serious bottom.

There's a scene in the limo where they are looking at each other...it's just that look.
Yes, even if you go all the way back in the early FM videos a lot of Stevie's moves are the same.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

There's a scene in the limo where they are looking at each other...it's just that look.
Yes, even if you go all the way back in the early FM videos a lot of Stevie's moves are the same.

I remember her saying how Rick would come over to her house and write songs, which is something she said that Lindsey did because if he came over they'd get into fights about what went wrong 10 years ago. She did express enjoying spending time at her house with Rick. Professionally, anyway.

Michele