For those of you who have met Stevie

[Dove]

Care to share the story? I haven't met her myself but would LOVE to hear stories from those who have!

Sorry if this is a thread already, I'm not sure if it is or not.

[STEVEHEDRICK]

I have met her once after the show in omaha believe it was 2003? it was a meet n greet with fleetwood mac, it was so fast no autographs were allowed just a picture! mick was nice stevie was also and lindsey well not so much!

[Sleepless-Child]

Originally Posted by STEVEHEDRICK

I have met her once after the show in omaha believe it was 2003? it was a meet n greet with fleetwood mac, it was so fast no autographs were allowed just a picture! mick was nice stevie was also and lindsey well not so much!

Oooh, what did she smell like???



No seriously, lucky.

[mikephxaz]

I met her in a gift shop at the sky harbor airport and we chatted for 4 or 5 minutes. We were both reading magazines. She had no idea that I was a crazy fan. She was heading to New York and I had just got home. She was sweet and said she lived in Phoenix (I already knew that) and she said she was just starting a tour (I already knew that). This was the street angel tour and I was amazed how small she was...so tiny , at that point she was supposed to be heavy but she didn't appear that way to me. She was sweet, cute and wrapped in a blanket. That was my Stevie experience!

[Kate]

Originally Posted by mikephxaz

I met her in a gift shop at the sky harbor airport and we chatted for 4 or 5 minutes. We were both reading magazines. She had no idea that I was a crazy fan. She was heading to New York and I had just got home. She was sweet and said she lived in Phoenix (I already knew that) and she said she was just starting a tour (I already knew that). This was the street angel tour and I was amazed how small she was...so tiny , at that point she was supposed to be heavy but she didn't appear that way to me. She was sweet, cute and wrapped in a blanket. That was my Stevie experience!

I think that's really the best kind to have, just a normal, person to person experience

[shehzad]

i met her briefly at this cd signing situation after her London gig last year, and gave her a note with some personal twisted crap written in there and a red rose, which however was half dead by the time I met her, but I'd like to think she appreciates a dead rose... like I do...

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Kate

I think that's really the best kind to have, just a normal, person to person experience

Yes, that is what I would want. I don't want to meet someone as a fan. I want to have something in common with them and strike up a conversation about that. There are some people that I would like to tell how much I admire them, but they aren't people who are stars. They are people who I feel get too little attention, like David Nelson, of Ozzie and Harriet fame. I wanted to say something to him and I did write him a letter. But I would never want to say anything to anyone in FM about FM or their music.

Well, I do have imaginary conversations where I lecture them about things -- but I wouldn't want to do that in real life!

Michele

[mikephxaz]

Originally Posted by Kate

I think that's really the best kind to have, just a normal, person to person experience

I knew that after all these years of following her music that if I ever had a chance to meet her that I didn't want to say the same old thing....you're music means so much too me....you're the greatest....I knew she has heard that fifty times a day, everyday. Instead, she never knew that I knew every word to every song she has ever sung..lol

[UndoingTheLaces]

Originally Posted by Kate

I think that's really the best kind to have, just a normal, person to person experience

I worked in a famous Hollywood hotel for two years and we were instructed to treat the guests like any other guests. It was a very unique place where famous people came to get away from the glitz and glam of the spotlight. I was fortunate to meet many famous people there, many of whom were huge influences in my life or at least people I admired a great deal. And some of my best interactions were when I pretended to not even know who they were and treat them like ordinary people. I had really into Rocky Horror in my 20's when I lived in Pittsburgh and all my friends through the 90's, and the people who got me out to LA in 99, all came from my days at Rocky Horror. So when Richard O'Brien (the creator of the play, the movie and the cult) came to stay with us I was both nervous and ecstatic. But I played it cool and in the end had a really lovely conversation with him that I would have never had otherwise if I had been all crazy fan person. And while Stevie is the one person I've admired over the years, probably the most important celebrity in my life if I had to pick one, that I've never met, I think that's how I would be around her. If I ran into her on the street or in a shop somewhere. I'd pretend not to know her and just casually say hi.

Having said that there is also a very small chance that I would simply go wide eyed, stutter and then pee myself.

[Enchanted_Stevi]

Originally Posted by mikephxaz

I met her in a gift shop at the sky harbor airport and we chatted for 4 or 5 minutes. We were both reading magazines. She had no idea that I was a crazy fan. She was heading to New York and I had just got home. She was sweet and said she lived in Phoenix (I already knew that) and she said she was just starting a tour (I already knew that). This was the street angel tour and I was amazed how small she was...so tiny , at that point she was supposed to be heavy but she didn't appear that way to me. She was sweet, cute and wrapped in a blanket. That was my Stevie experience!

I love this! So relaxed and not like "OMG I LOVE YOU" kinda thing...super awesome story!

[Aussie W/Heart]

Ive mentioned my random encounter on here before, i love sharing my story so here is the long version..
Back in 1980 my 2 best friends & were on a 3 week holiday on the Gold Coast here in Aust, we were free spirited 18yr olds, spending most of our time learning to surf, shopping for Stevie style dresses & tops & listening to music. My fav song Sara was frequently played on radio, at that time!!!

On this particular day we decided to walk 2km into Surfers Paradise, along the way my friend suggested we should stop at this little cafe, we ordered coffee & crapes then sat at a table on the boardwalk outside. In the distance i noticed a bus cruising along very slowly, i kinda thought it was odd for a bus to be travelling along a quiet narrow street, as it was about to pass us, i happened to look up again when i noticed Stevie looking at us through the bus window. I jumped up & said there's STEVIE NICKS, i took of across the road then to my surprise the bus stopped, & the front door opened. I asked the driver if it would be OK to get Stevie's autograph, reluctantly he said it should be OK, he turned around to ask but i had already made my way up the steps by then at that stage my 2 friends were in a line behind me . As i stood there shocked, it was not only Stevie but the whole band sitting at the back of the bus, tho i didn't recognize the good looking guy with the short dark hair sitting in front of Stevie, which of course was Tusk Lindsey it was just them and the driver. I walked in, smiling Stevie in a real friendly voice said Hello to me, she said what is your name, i told her my name, then my friends names. Stupidly I asked what are you all doing here in on the Gold Coast?, she said we have spent the last couple of hours sightseeing, & that you live in a very beautiful place it reminds me of my home town, i said yes it is so beautiful and that we are only here on a 3 week holiday, and that we live in Melbourne, i think she said we have just come from there. Stevie then asked me enthusiastically if we were going to their concert tonight in Brisbane?, i didn't want to sound stupid by saying we didn't even know you were in the country touring, cause we had been spending every day lazying around on the beach, oblivious to whats going on in the world.. so i told a white lie, and said yeah of course we are, and i didn't want to disappoint her. She said she will look out for us and the show is gonna be really great we will be playing some incrrredddddible new songs from our latest album, i said we are really looking forward to seeing you too. I felt sooooooooo bad, i really wished that i had told her the truth that we had no transport to get there, and i felt ashamed that we couldn't afford to buy the tickets. Stevie said they had to go now as they have rehearsals in Brisbane at 4pm, we then said our Good byes, i thanked her for stopping the bus and said it was sooo good to meet you: lol..... For the entire time our eyes never moved away , it was weird but it felt like we were the only two people on that bus that day, i only glanced at the other band members for a brief second... It was the most amazing experience ever!!!, my heart was pounding so hard i thought i was going to have a heart attack any second, not sure how i kept my cool somehow i did tho... till i got off the bus then i turned to jelly... True Story!!!

[UndoingTheLaces]

Originally Posted by Aussie W/Heart

On this particular day we decided to walk 2km into Surfers Paradise, along the way my friend suggested we should stop at this little cafe, we ordered coffee & crapes then sat at a table on the boardwalk outside. In the distance i noticed a bus cruising along very slowly, i kinda thought it was odd for a bus to be travelling along a quiet narrow street, as it was about to pass us, i happened to look up again when i noticed Stevie looking at us through the bus window. I jumped up & said there's STEVIE NICKS, i took of across the road then to my surprise the bus stopped, & the front door opened. I asked the driver if it would be OK to get Stevie's autograph, reluctantly he said it should be OK, he turned around to ask but i had already made my way up the steps by then at that stage my 2 friends were in a line behind me . As i stood there shocked, it was not only Stevie but the whole band sitting at the back of the bus, tho i didn't recognize the good looking guy with the short dark hair sitting in front of Stevie, which of course was Tusk Lindsey it was just them and the driver. I walked in, smiling Stevie in a real friendly voice said Hello to me, she said what is your name, i told her my name, then my friends names. Stupidly I asked what are you all doing here in on the Gold Coast?, she said we have spent the last couple of hours sightseeing, & that you live in a very beautiful place it reminds me of my home town, i said yes it is so beautiful and that we are only here on a 3 week holiday, and that we live in Melbourne, i think she said we have just come from there. Stevie then asked me enthusiastically if we were going to their concert tonight in Brisbane?, i didn't want to sound stupid by saying we didn't even know you were in the country touring, cause we had been spending every day lazying around on the beach, oblivious to whats going on in the world.. so i told a white lie, and said yeah of course we are, and i didn't want to disappoint her. She said she will look out for us and the show is gonna be really great we will be playing some incrrredddddible new songs from our latest album, i said we are really looking forward to seeing you too. I felt sooooooooo bad, i really wished that i had told her the truth that we had no transport to get there, and i felt ashamed that we couldn't afford to buy the tickets. Stevie said they had to go now as they have rehearsals in Brisbane at 4pm, we then said our Good byes, i thanked her for stopping the bus and said it was sooo good to meet you: lol..... For the entire time our eyes never moved away , it was weird but it felt like we were the only two people on that bus that day, i only glanced at the other band members for a brief second... It was the most amazing experience ever!!!, my heart was pounding so hard i thought i was going to have a heart attack any second, not sure how i kept my cool somehow i did tho... till i got off the bus then i turned to jelly... True Story!!!

Thank you for sharing this most wonderful story. I especially enjoyed it because Sara is also one of my favorite all time Stevie songs and my absolute favorite version is from the Melbourne show of the Tusk tour. So to think this happened to you right after that had been performed is like a special little connection for me. So thank you for sharing.

[vivfox]

Aussie W/Heart, I love hearing that story and enjoy it more each time you tell it.

[poetinmyheart]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Aussie W/Heart, I love hearing that story and enjoy it more each time you tell it.

Me too! It's one of my favourites.

I met Stevie last summer at the London signing.It's all a bit of a blur really. I remember that I got quite upset in the line - I was just completely overwhelmed that I was going to actually meet her. Once I got to the front, my rehearsed speech went completely out of the window. I was pretty shell shocked - but she handled it like a pro, obviously used to people acting a little odd when meeting her. All I can remember is telling her that I've been listening to her music since I was little. She thanked me, but her main concern was the sunburn on my neck from the concert the day before (it had been extremely hot and I had sat out in the sun all day to get a good spot!)

Anyway, was a great weekend. One I'd like to re-live. Oh and you think Stevie looks good in photos? She's even more beautiful in real life - and so tiny too!

[Aussie W/Heart]

Originally Posted by poetinmyheart

Me too! It's one of my favourites.

I met Stevie last summer at the London signing.It's all a bit of a blur really. I remember that I got quite upset in the line - I was just completely overwhelmed that I was going to actually meet her. Once I got to the front, my rehearsed speech went completely out of the window. I was pretty shell shocked - but she handled it like a pro, obviously used to people acting a little odd when meeting her. All I can remember is telling her that I've been listening to her music since I was little. She thanked me, but her main concern was the sunburn on my neck from the concert the day before (it had been extremely hot and I had sat out in the sun all day to get a good spot!)

Anyway, was a great weekend. One I'd like to re-live. Oh and you think Stevie looks good in photos? She's even more beautiful in real life - and so tiny too!

Thank you Poet, Laces & Vivfox, tho its fascinating to think why on earth did The Band hire an ordinary bus, and not hire a limo? but most intriguing is the fact they were alone together on the bus, without their friends or partners. I read CAH book recently and mentioned that she arrived in Melbourne or Sydney and that she was in Brisbane too... So I wonder why their circle of family and friends were not invited? on this so called ""sightseeing"" trip!!! The plot thickens...