Mike Campbell talks about FM in New interview

[elle]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

It's a two way street. She wasn't exactly viable at the time of the dance reunion. People somehow forget that. She was playing on a stage that was a converted semi truck bed in st pete beach the year before. Not exactly killing it at the local amphitheatre.

and that was after Smashing Pumpkins and Hole covers.

btw i still think Hole cover of GDW is the best version of that song. (sorry LB and glass breaking, still not as good as Hole!)

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by elle

and that was after Smashing Pumpkins and Hole covers.

She only did three shows in 1996. One was a private show and the other two were festivals, which often pay more than concerts. It’s not like those were tour dates.

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

She only did three shows in 1996. One was a private show and the other two were festivals, which often pay more than concerts. It’s not like those were tour dates.

Yeah exactly. She wasn’t even able to book a full tour in 1996. Bingo.

[David]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

She only did three shows in 1996. One was a private show and the other two were festivals, which often pay more than concerts.

Has my memory let me down? In 1996 she played AHI (private show), St. Petersburg, Columbus, and Boston.

[David]

Here’s my 1995–96 recollection. There was a lot happening in Stevieland. The internet was driving a Stevie revival in the fan base. The music mags were starting to talk about her in more positive terms — just a year or two before, rock writers were lampooning her as an embarrassing child-woman who never grew up (with comparisons to literary characters in Dickens), but their tone changed and you saw more articles about Stevie being an influence to a new generation. You see these articles begin to appear in 1994–95. Lifetime cable channel started negotiations with the Stevie camp to film a documentary and concert. She booked appearances in 1996 in public, and her fans went nuts, videotaping all of them and circulating them on the net. Fanzines about Stevie kicked up (one of the dozens of them was called “Mirror Mirror,” created by Mike Bise). Trading in Goldmine ramped up, too, for concert tapes and pictures and tourbooks and other Stevie items. The modern fan base for her was regrouping and adding more and more to its ranks, again thanks largely to the internet. In the immediate years following her unhappy 1994 tour, the air was electrified, and Stevieness was accumulating power and speed, like a tsunami made of meat and chiffon!

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by David

Has my memory let me down? In 1996 she played AHI (private show), St. Petersburg, Columbus, and Boston.

I didn’t see Columbus listed on setlists.fm, but yes to the other three.

[David]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I didn’t see Columbus listed on setlists.fm, but yes to the other three.

Steve. Steve.

I’m your setlists.fm.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by David

Steve. Steve.

I’m your setlists.fm.

True!

[BigAl84]

Ok...I was a kid at the time and I remember both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins being a really big deal. However, I don’t ever recall hearing about their Fleetwood Mac covers AT ALL until well into the dance era.

Is it possible we’re over inflating the impact of those two covers as some sort of spark that began an inevitable comeback?

I call bullsh*t. That’s just my opinion lol.