How long has it been?

[LiquidBlue5000]

I thought it might be interesting to see when and how Ledgies first got into Stevie...


How many years or months have u been a fan?
Do u remember what year it was?
Do u remember what song u first heard?
When was your first Stevie solo concert?


discuss!

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

I thought it might be interesting to see when and how Ledgies first got into Stevie... How long have u been a fan? do u remember what year it was? do u remember what song u first heard? how many years or months has it been?

discuss!

The second I heard dreams. Her voice is one of the first things that I conciously remember going ooohhh, what was that, who IS this............

It was 1980 something. (I'm only 24) Which is why I get bitter when people discuss how WONDERFUL the wild heart tour was! the 45 of talk to me was one of the first records I ever bought. Because I missed the 70's, I remember feeling VERY confused by the fact that "Stevie Nicks" was in a band called Fleetwood Mac. OOOHHHH How little I knew!! But that's ok, I more han make up for it with my obsession now.

[strandinthewind]

The second I heard Rhiannon on AM in my mom's Chryser Wagon with non-authentic wood grain paneling on the sides

[StevieNicksEO17]

How long have u been a fan? About a year and a halfish...
do u remember what year it was? 2004
do u remember what song u first heard? Edge of Seventeen.
how many years or months has it been? Year and a half...
when was your first Stevie solo concert? June 19th, 2005. At the Tweeter Center, in Chicago. I went with my friend Krystle, and we got many looks why were so young and at a Stevie Nicks concert, and actually had good seats! (6th row)

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

The second I heard Rhiannon on AM in my mom's Chryser Wagon with non-authentic wood grain paneling on the sides

so that was what, 2, 3 years ago?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

so that was what, 2, 3 years ago?

Actually like 30 I need a drink

[Wild_Heart03]

I've been a fan of Stevie's since 2001, when I heard the hype about her "new album" on VH1 and went to look up more info. I was listening to "Edge Of Seventeen", and it's all history from there.

[realcowgirl]

Landslide. And I was hooked.

I had no idea who sang it, and had to sort of figure out who this Stevie was, and how could she be in a band, and a solo artist, and what other songs where there, b.c I had to hear them. That was only 97, I was only . . .16. I found her and the Mac just in time to miss the Dance tour.

But, I've been addicted every since, and was finally able to see her with the Mac Sept 28, 2003 at Wachovia in Philly. Then Hershey, And then in Camden. And I finally saw her solo just this past July 1, and almost died to realize I was in the front row!! And got a handshake!! Sigh. . .

[GypsySorcerer]

Became a fan when my mom brought home FM's greatest hits album. I think she got it around 89-90, a year or two after it came out. I was about 10.

[David]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

How many years or months have u been a fan?

To me, fan is short for fanatic -- in other words, the point at which I started collecting every magazine article or photo, rummaging through Goldmine & other magazines for ads from vendors selling concert photos of the Mac, buying bootleg audience tapes of shows, taping every appearance off TV & taping every interview off the radio, etc. I started doing all this in 1978. I saw some Fleetwood shows in 1977, but my real fanaticism (fan) was under way the following year.

Do u remember what song u first heard?

I don't remember because I'm sure I heard Fleetwood Mac songs like "Rhiannon" & "Over My Head" before I was a fanatic (fan). In 1975, I was still listening exclusively to AM radio because I was a pop song baby. I had no interest in hard rock, blues rock, cock rock or hippie-dippy shlock rock. In 1975, Elton John was king on my little record player.

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

December 7, 1981, at this old place, the renovation of which was completed just a few weeks before Stevie opened her L.A. engagement:

[LongBlackScarf]

I am a fan of Fleetwood Mac, the entire band. Stevie comes along with this territory. She's not the star of the show to me though. She's only part of it. Christine to me is THE female voice of this band. Mainly because, she HAS a voice. Warm and resonant. Stevie and her reedy croak have gotten her far in life, and she has a definite place in this outfit, but her execution of her songs is surely an acquired taste. Anyway, I've been a fan since the 70's. When I was in High School. I discovered Stevie's solo work quite late in life and quite by accident when someone gave me her Enchanted Boxed set. I had a listen, and decided some of the songs were actually quite good. And some, were, as Chris McVie would say, "rubbish." It all seems to come together. I find her an interesting person, even if she's as nutty as a fruitcake at times. Like most interesting women I know and read about, she's fun and she's a complete flake. If Tasha Tudor could get up and rock, she'd be Stevie Nicks.

[ragandbone]

Originally Posted by David

December 7, 1981, at this old place, the renovation of which was completed just a few weeks before Stevie opened her L.A. engagement:

Oooh, love that theatre! David, Is that the Wiltern? Oh wait, the Fox Wilshire?

I don't know if I can really answer these question as a "Ledgie" since I am new to this board, with no intro (should've been more polite, like 53yearoldpixie), and only one post before this one.

I have been a fan for 30 years, ever since I first sang along with "Dreams" into my hairbursh. I know I had heard Rhiannon before, on KHJ, but it was just part of my 70's soundtrack. The fandom began when I bought Rumours, 1976,with my own money, and spent all that time trying to see into the photos in the insert. At that time I was equally into Christine, for her voice, but my ten year old self wanted to be Stevie!

I didn't see Stevie until 1983: Inglewood Forum October 2, 1983, and then
September 17, 1985 Mulholland Tomorrow, and...that's it. I wish now that I had seen more. I stopped seeing any stadium shows in my early 20's, got all snobby and would only see acts in small clubs, medium-sized venues.

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by ragandbone

I didn't see Stevie until 1983: Inglewood Forum October 2, 1983, and then
September 17, 1985 Mulholland Tomorrow, and...that's it. I wish now that I had seen more. I stopped seeing any stadium shows in my early 20's, got all snooby and would only see acts in small clubs, medium-sized venues.

One could only hope that Stevie decides to go the way of the small club/medium size venue route on future tours.. will you see her then?

welcome to the ledge, btw

[David]

Originally Posted by ragandbone

Oooh, love that theatre! David, Is that the Wiltern? Oh wait, the Fox Wilshire?

The Fox Wilshire!

I know I had heard Rhiannon before, on KHJ, but it was just part of my 70's soundtrack.

93 KHJ was my radio station! My AM pop radio station extraordinaire. Remember when they played "One Tin Soldier" every afternoon at 4 -- practically on the button?

I didn't see Stevie until 1983: Inglewood Forum October 2, 1983

Well, you saw the greatest Stevie Nicks concert of all time, as far as I'm concerned. It's never been equaled. I have a rough old tape of it, but I keep hoping a really great recording of it comes to light. Remember how she twirled out onstage during the slow intro to "Gold Dust Woman" & the first thing she sang was that amazing yelp/yowl? And she just kept yelping/yowling the whole night, & chattering in her manic high.

and then September 17, 1985 Mulholland Tomorrow

She came onstage, overweight & dressed in a trench coat, during Petty's set for "Stop Dragging My Heart Around," & at the end of the song, said, "Tom said to tell you that I'll be back later." Remember the guy who climbed up on the edge of the stage at the end of the concert when they all took their bows & grabbed her "Stand Back" cape? I knew that guy! He was a real rat -- he lived in a dingy apartment in La Habra. He was the reason "Battle of the Dragon" got kicked off Rock A Little & put on that dumb soundtrack instead.

I still have my Mulholland Tomorrow shirt! Did you buy a shirt, an ugly gray shirt with purple logo & lettering?

[WelshWitchPMD]

Been a casual fan since 1975. Been a fanatic since 1977. I've been a fan since I was in middle school.
It was Stevie's voice that got me. I got Fleetwood Mac and Rumours in 1977 and I was hooked by the whole band. Now of couse it is mostly about Mr. Buckingham.