In The Studio w/ Redbeard, July 25

[michelej1]

Stevie joins Redbeard in the Studio, to air on July 25, 2011. You can listen to a preview here: http://www.inthestudio.net/

Here's an excerpt [quite a ramble!]

http://www.inthestudio.net/interview-blog/stevie-nicks

After a Spring tour with Rod Stewart , Stevie Nicks has announced additional solo dates in support of her latest album In Your Dreams , coinciding with the 30th anniversary of her 1981 solo debut Bella Donna that made her a superstar on her own . Here’s just a portion of her classic rock interview In The Studio.

Redbeard:” What about expectations of you without the safety net of a band like Fleetwood Mac ? ”

Stevie Nicks : ” I learned a long time ago never to expect. Because I think that was something that was instilled in me when I was really small,” Don’t expect anything”. Not that you can’t be confident about it. But just don’t expect the greatest things and then you won’t be disappointed. And then if great things do happen, you’ll be much more excited and happy about it. If you just said ,” I know it’s hit record” , and then what if it isn’t ? Then you’re devastated. And I don’t particular love being devastated , so I just thought a long time ago that I would take in my stride whatever happened, especially with my solo records . Being that they were solo records , that means that yes, of course they’re more personal. Of course I’m giving away a whole lot more of myself , as my mother says to me, “too honest for the world sometimes”. So I never know exactly how people are going to take them. But every time I do a solo record I get more… convinced that the more honest I am with everybody, with what happens in my life and what has happened and what has gone on, and how I’ve managed to get to this point and still have my sanity, the better. And the more people understand it, that this is real and these aren’t made up songs , and that I’m really trying to do a whole lot more than sing songs to people . That I’m trying to give out a little experience to people, I think . Maybe run by them, in a fantasy sort of way , experiences that I’ve been through that may save them a little bit of time. A little bit of hard time. Just help a little bit. I have to really feel that the song itself is important because I feel long after the singer is gone, and the songwriter is gone, that the song will remain. “

[Morgana]

From The Nicks Fix:

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna/ In The Studio
In The Studio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands celebrates the 30th anniversary of Stevie Nicks solo debut "Bella Donna" with the radio broadcast of an intimate interview with Stevie. Stevie Nicks Bella Donna/ In The Studio will air the week of July 25- July 31. To find out where to hear this show or to stream it online, visit www.inthestudio.net. Stevie is the Featured Artist of the Month on the In The Studio website.

Stevie will be on In the Studio next week:
http://www.inthestudio.net/
Go to the left side, click on preview.

[Macfanforever]

Thanks for the heads up.Must be next weeks show .I record the show weekly anyway.The Allman Bros were on tonights show.
Also I think we better monitor Uncle Joe Benson's Off thr Record also Rockline for a new show.

[randydesertrat]

I just listened to this interview and was extremely disappointed. Redbeard is talking all about Bella Donna but the interview segments of Stevie are from a The Other Side Of The Mirror interview. While Redbeard is referencing Bella Donna songs, Stevie's responses all reference TOSOTM songs like Two Kinds Of Love, Rooms On Fire, Juliet, and Doing The Best I Can. Not that Stevie's dialogue isn't interesting but it mostly has nothing to do with Bella Donna. Anybody else notice this discrepancy?

[michelej1]

http://www.inthestudio.net/this-week...stevie-nicks-2

Stevie Nicks is heading back out on tour of major North American cities through mid-October, then heading for shows in Australia in late November ,where several live performances with a symphony orchestra from her last tour there have been compiled on Crystal Visions, the very best of Stevie Nicks. The inclusion of such gems as the Fleetwood Mac B-side, “Silver Springs”, shows that a lot of care and thought was put into the package , and the commentary by Stevie herself about her videos on the DVD is worth the price of admission alone. But as you will hear in this In The Studio classic rock interview , long before she became a star as a solo performer; before she and her musical partner( then lover) Lindsey Buckingham helped to transform the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac into one of the top-selling groups of all time ; even before her professional recording debut in 1973 on the album Buckingham Nicks , Stephanie Lynn Nicks was living a real- life version of the Glass Managerie.

Stevie Nicks: “I remember exactly what it was like to be 20. I mean, I was cleaning lady, I was a waitress, I had, problems… I mean Lindsey and me together trying to figure out how we’re going to make it in the music business. And this is the only thing that either of us wanted to do. And what if we didn’t we make it ? I had to go to school. And he didn’t so… that, ya know, he had all this time. I didn’t have much time. I mean I was I was an emotional wreck at 20. “

Redbeard: Really?

SN: “Oh, yeah. I was an emotional wreck at 18 because that’s when I started singing in a band with Lindsey and we played three and ½ solid years up and down the San Francisco peninsula and opened for all the big huge bands in that special moment in time that was Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco. Where everybody came. And so I got to stand and watch from the side of the stage. Everybody. You name ‘em, we opened the show for ‘em. So I got like first hand experience, it’s the only reason I was able to walk into Fleetwood Mac without having a nervous breakdown. And walk out center front stage to the center mic and not just, ya know, collapse and faint, because I had already played in front of 75,000 people. Standing in the middle of the stage as lead singer. It was a big adjustment and a lot to take. I was very young. Well, I wasn’t very young, I was 27, but I felt very young and it was like it was overnight, overnight, hugely successful. And it was hard for my little brain to accept that kind of fame that fast. And to go from being that poor and having all these little jobs that I had because Lindsey didn’t know how to do anything else except play music, and I could do anything. And did, to keep us going so that we could do it. Because at that time I had realized that we were going to make it if it killed me . And ya know working solidly to getting the Buckingham-Nicks deal and doing that record and having that record dropped and being just crushed. Because it’s one thing to be working towards it, and another to go into a big studio with a big producer and do a big record with all the 24 track board and everything and having the taste of the big time . And then be just be dropped like a hot potato, and go back to wondering if I should go back to school or if I should just work and let Lindsey pursue the music career. And I should just step out.”

RB: And that really did cross your mind?

SN: “Oh, yeah. . Because by that time I was to the point where… ya know I’m very loyal and I certainly was Lindsey’s biggest fan and I thought he was the greatest guitar player in the world and had the most beautiful voice. He was one of those people that… I walked into a room once and he sat there and played a song and it was rooms on fire. He’s one of those. He was one of those men. And… whatever I had to do to keep him going was ok because it was more important for Lindsey than it was that I make it. Because I knew I could do a hundred other things and nobody could ever take my music away from me. I could still write songs and play. And, I could take my music in anything I did. I could go back to school. I only had a year to go to finish to get a masters. I could go back to school for three years and get a PhD. I would be fine. I knew that. I worried about him. I didn’t know what he would do. And because I was so in love with him there wasn’t any question in my mind that I would I stick in there until if we didn’t both make it, at least I got him up there. . And when you love somebody and you see the pain in their face, when they even consider the fact that you might not make it… it’s like, “Don’t even think that we’re not going to make it. We are.” And in my heart I’m saying to myself,”If I have to comb this town, I will find somebody to listen to us that will understand how good we are, or that God willing, at least know how good he is.”

RB: What about expectations of you without the safety net of a band ?

SN: “I learned along time ago never to expect. Because I think that was something that was instilled in me when I was really small. Don’t expect anything. Not that you can’t be confident about it. But just don’t expect the greatest things and then you won’t be disappointed. And then if great things do happen, you’ll be much more excited and happy about it. Then if you just said,” I know it’s hit record.” ,and then what if it isn’t. Then you’re devastated. And I don’t particular love being devastated ,so I just thought a long time ago that I would take in my stride whatever happened, especially with my solo records. Being that they were solo records that means that yes, of course they’re more personal. Of course I’m giving away a whole lot more of myself , as my mother says to me, “too honest for the world sometimes”. So I never know exactly how people are going to take them. But every time I do a solo record I get more… convinced that the more honest I am with everybody, with what happens in my life and what has happened and what has gone on, and how I’ve managed to get to this point and still have my sanity, … the better. And the more people understand it, that this is real and these aren’t made up songs… and that I’m really trying to do a whole lot more than sing songs to people. That I’m trying to give out a little experience to people I think. Maybe run by them, in a fantasy sort of way ,experiences that I’ve been through that may save them a little bit of time. A little bit of hard time. Just help a little bit. I have to really feel that the song itself is important because I feel long after the singer is gone, and the songwriter is gone, that the song will remain. “

[michelej1]

Ok, I'm leaving ROF for Rupert Hines, but I can't help but notice the use of the term here.

She was one year away from getting her Masters??

Wow, Lindsey was not only one step away from obscurity. He faced the ruin of his entire life, because there was nothing else out there for him. I'm glad she fought so hard, for so long just to make sure he survived.

Michele

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Ok, I'm leaving ROF for Rupert Hines, but I can't help but notice the use of the term here.

She was one year away from getting her Masters??

Wow, Lindsey was not only one step away from obscurity. He faced the ruin of his entire life, because there was nothing else out there for him. I'm glad she fought so hard, for so long just to make sure he survived.

Michele

So does this mean Stevie has a Bachelors degree? Or is she just terribly confused and meant 1 year away from her Bachelor and 3 years away from her Masters?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

So does this mean Stevie has a Bachelors degree? Or is she just terribly confused and meant 1 year away from her Bachelor and 3 years away from her Masters?

She claims she could go get her PhD. Based on that, I think she's actually trying to say she was one year away from getting her Masters, which . . . if I were her, I'd keep my high school diploma under lock and key, because they might take that away from her.

Michele

[Neal]

Originally Posted by michelej1

She claims she could go get her PhD. Based on that, I think she's actually trying to say she was one year away from getting her Masters, which . . . if I were her, I'd keep my high school diploma under lock and key, because they might take that away from her.

Michele

Lol! And they say public education isn't what it used to be...

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Ok, I'm leaving ROF for Rupert Hines, but I can't help but notice the use of the term here.

She was one year away from getting her Masters??

Wow, Lindsey was not only one step away from obscurity. He faced the ruin of his entire life, because there was nothing else out there for him. I'm glad she fought so hard, for so long just to make sure he survived.

Michele

Oh, that was all so rich! Especially loved the rooms on fire. I mean, I knew she's single-handedly to thank for Lindsey's success.

Thanks for posting.

[Heartboy]

I love the advice she gave about watching how you say things to people & how you might come to regret your actions! People can learn from that!

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Oh, that was all so rich! Especially loved the rooms on fire. I mean, I knew she's single-handedly to thank for Lindsey's success.

She was in rare form. No wonder she was worried about Lindsey. Sounds like he would have thrown himself under a bus if she hadn't rescued him.

I like the fact that "he's one of those" ROF men and then she says, "He was one . . ."

Michele

[elle]

Originally Posted by michelej1

She was in rare form. No wonder she was worried about Lindsey. Sounds like he would have thrown himself under a bus if she hadn't rescued him.

yeah, good she saved him, poor helpless guy incapable of living.

while we are talking about all her good deeds, we should also remember that she single-handedly put women on the r'n'r map (never mind Janis, Suzi Quatro, Crissie Hynde, etc...).

talking about Chrissie Hynde, excerpt from her interview in the guitarworld -
http://www.guitarworld.com/dear-guit...chrissie-hynde

Q: As a female guitarist, I’m encouraged by your ability to make it in a male-dominated genre. I’m wondering, what were the highs and lows of being a female guitarist in the music industry back when you started? —Christine
A: It was never a problem for me. I had good tunes, and I always brought out the best performances in the people around me. I never thought about it too much. Even during the punk days, it was never too much of an issue. Anyone can pick up a guitar and go. I never felt any discrimination. Actually, I think it was easier back then for me, being that I was the odd one out, or the “novelty".

[Phoenix]

Did anyone else see this on facebook? Some sort of a special interview. What is in the studio is it the tv show? Anyone?

[darklinensuit]

From main page on Nicksfix:
http://www.inthestudio.net/

- Jake