No Hi-tech for Nicks aritcle

skcin · #1 11-04-2005, 12:37 PM

Got this thru the Stevie Nicks Chain - sorry if it's been posted already.

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Herald Sun (Australia)

November 3, 2005

Section: Hit1 - FIRST

No hi-tech for Nicks

Claire Sutherland and Nui Te Koha

FLEETWOOD Mac rock chick Stevie Nicks has revealed that she despises, and refuses to join, the computer age.

Nicks, 57, says computer games, text messaging and mobile phones have turned the new generation into social morons.

``I don't have a computer, I don't have a cellphone and I don't have an iPod,'' Nicks tells The Back Room.

``I don't like them.''

Nicks says her 14-year-old niece is a teen caught in a technology trap.

``She is the closest thing I have to a daughter and I hate it when she's slumped over her computer.

``I'll ask her something, and she'll raise her hand: `Excuse me, I'm busy!' I hate that,'' Nicks says.

``That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her.

``And I tell her: `You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games.

```Don't you want to stand tall, and be beautiful, and have something to say? You won't if you're slumped over that box!'''

Nicks, who wrote her biggest tunes, including Dreams, on cassette, acknowledges the wonders of the world wide web.

``If this new wave had stayed the information superhighway, I would have been happy.

``Gosh, doesn't life fly by fast enough without wanting to sit in a dark room with a monitor and keyboard? It creeps me out.''

But why doesn't music legend and femme-rock pioneer Stevie Nicks have an iPod?

``I have 300,000 CDs. Believe me, there is plenty of music in my life,'' Nicks answers.

``But I will admit I sunk to doing my last demos on (a computer-generated) 16-track pro-tools. I didn't run it, though, I wouldn't know how,'' Nicks says, laughing.

Nicks performs, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, at Rod Laver Arena on February 18. Tickets go on sale on November 15.

300,000 CD,s huh?

bikerchic · #2 11-04-2005, 12:50 PM

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's

jannieC · #3 11-04-2005, 12:56 PM

Can you even imagine shooing Aunt Stevie away so you could IM with your friends?!

jkmaletic · #4 11-04-2005, 12:57 PM

See - she's not afraid to "waste" $15 on CDs either!

I guess from this article that Stevie is OK with internet use for information purposes, but for anything else it's a waste. This article made me laugh out loud. Can you imagine her standing there with her hands on her hips trying to get Jessica's attention while she's playing on the computer? Too funny.

Thanks so much for posting this article!

I've had a bad morning so far and it made me laugh.

strandinthewind · #5 11-04-2005, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by bikerchic

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's

Well, they are using them when they cannot do anything else but saty in bed or walk around on a limited basis

Also, my FAV is "That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her. " ATTA GIRL

I also totally agree with this: "And I tell her: You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games." I HATE it when the youngin's talk non stop on their cells while at dinner, etc. I mean why go to dinner with someone just to talk on the phone with somone else. That is just so insulting.

I feel old

LeighB04 · #6 11-04-2005, 01:01 PM

[QUOTE=jkmaletic]See - she's not afraid to "waste" $15 on CDs either!

You don't really think she PAYS for her CD's, do you? Heck, I have thousands as well - one of the joys of being in radio....

macfanken · #7 11-04-2005, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bikerchic

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's

Hmmm... Stevie saying something that contradicts something she said or did earlier? I'm shocked!

reebokandlace · #8 11-04-2005, 01:11 PM

Well...at least we know Jessie probably visits the ledge....

danax6 · #9 11-04-2005, 01:13 PM

I so want to go through her 300.000 cd collection!

And as I already said at SW: I thank Stevie for accussing me of having no social skills.

Jyqm · #10 11-04-2005, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by bikerchic

So I guess she considers the troops she gave those ipods to, moron's

I think her only objection to iPods was that she just doesn't need one as she has so many CDs. That was my justification too, until I moved and couldn't take my CDs with me.

(I just realized today, somehow in the process of ripping all my hundreds of CDs, I skippsed TOSOTM. Blast.)

skcin · #11 11-04-2005, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Well, they are using them when they cannot do anything else but saty in bed or walk around on a limited basis

Also, my FAV is "That's the moment I want to take the computer, throw it out the window, and slap her. " ATTA GIRL

I also totally agree with this: "And I tell her: You and your friends have no social skills, you don't know how to talk to anybody because you're always text messaging, you burn your eyes and hump your back playing these stupid computer games." I HATE it when the youngin's talk non stop on their cells while at dinner, etc. I mean why go to dinner with someone just to talk on the phone with somone else. That is just so insulting.

I feel old

I do too. But I guess we are. Well, you are anyway.

And Jessie's, what, 14? I'm thinking she's not browsing The Ledge, for some reason.

Not exactly where the cool kids hang these days.

strandinthewind · #12 11-04-2005, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

I think her only objection to iPods was that she just doesn't need one as she has so many CDs. That was my justification too, until I moved and couldn't take my CDs with me.

(I just realized today, somehow in the process of ripping all my hundreds of CDs, I skippsed TOSOTM. Blast.)

LOL - I took me hours, but I did it one Sunday afternoon. Interestingly, a friend of mine actually went online and downloaded the cover art for the like 500 CD's she put in itunes - now THAT is going too far