Originally Posted by RockALittle250
Ok, so it wasn't too long ago, but it is definately old news. The writer, Alan Sculley, wrote this article on June 8th with a different title, but identical information. He basically cut and pasted his own article and just changed the title and date. Thanks to Stevie-Nicks.info for having the article.
Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks at PNC
By Alan Sculley
Ashbury Park Press
June 8, 2007
Stevie Nicks says there's only one drawback to having an artist like Chris Isaak open for her on her summer tour. She has to scale back the kind of set she would normally do.
"I'm very happy to have Chris come with us, but I didn't realize that meant I was going to have to shorten my set," Nicks said in a recent phone interview. "With his hour set and the 30-minute changeover, we won't go on until somewhere between 9:15 and 9:30, and curfews are 11 o'clock, and you'd better be done because if you're not, they'll pull your power."
Cutting three or four songs from what has traditionally been nearly a two-hour set is about the only thing that draws a complaint from Nicks these days. Her life and career have recovered from a period when there was reason to wonder if Nicks could continue to be a vital force on the music scene.
As Nicks herself said, her life today is fantastic. The last decade saw Nicks, after a seven-year split with her Fleetwood Mac bandmates, do a highly successful world tour behind the group's 1997 live CD, "The Dance." That was followed by her 2001 solo CD, "Trouble in Shangri-La," which was seen as her strongest solo effort since the mid-1980s.
Then came a second reunion with Fleetwood Mac — this time without keyboardist/singer Christine McVie — that resulted in the 2003 studio CD "Say You Will" and another blockbuster world tour.
Now comes a Nicks' greatest hits CD called "Crystal Visions," and for the second consecutive summer, an extensive solo tour of amphitheaters. It's a CD, Nicks said, that symbolizes her creative renewal.
"I guess if I could say anything about this "Crystal Visions' thing, (it's that) I've never lost that sparkle of doing these songs, and I've never lost the sparkle for writing new ones," Nicks said. "The sparkle is so lovely and so wonderful, and I get to experience it every day. My life is really, truly fantastic."
Life was anything but fantastic for the 58-year-old singer/songwriter in the years leading up to the Fleetwood Mac reunion for "The Dance."
In the mid-1980s, Nicks kicked a longtime cocaine addiction, only to be put on the anti-depressant Klonopin. It was a fateful move that Nicks now says nearly killed her.
"It just makes you not care," Nicks said of the drug. "And when you don't care, you don't write songs. You don't write anything. You don't write in your journal. You just don't write, period. So that was a very sad eight years for me."
Nicks didn't stop making music during this period. She remained in Fleetwood Mac until 1990 and also released two solo albums, "The Other Side of the Mirror" (1989) and "Street Angel" (1994), that were critical and commercial disappointments.
It was Nicks herself who realized that Klonopin was taking a huge toll on her life.
"One day I woke up and called up my best friend and said, "Come and get me and take me to a hospital because I cannot do this anymore,' " Nicks said.
Now a fully recovered Nicks is obviously optimistic about her future, hinting that she's eager to return to making new music after this summer's tour.
Another round of recording and touring with Fleetwood Mac isn't out of the question, either, although she would dearly love to see McVie — who essentially retired from music after "The Dance" tour — participate if there is another reunion.
"She was such a strong personality," Nicks said. "It was kind of like Chris was the boss. So when she wasn't there, it was like we were all, "Where's Mom? Where's the person who tells us what to do?' It was a little bit like we were a bunch of kids let out of recess with no teacher."
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06-29-2007, 06:23 PM
that sounds like something I would do. ( I am being sarcastic).
followed by the second single... "No Decision Made Yet"
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