"Don't Fu*K With My People!"

ricohv · #1 05-10-2002, 05:51 PM

Does anyone know the story behind Stevie freaking out on security at a concert and yelling this, supposedly going off on some tirade. I've heard reference to it in a couple places, and I when I was just perusing the songs available on AudioGalaxy (wishing I knew how the heck you get into that and download those songs!?) I saw that you can download or fileshare or whatever it there. It just seems so out of character for her. Is it available as an easy (not AudioGalaxy or WinMx) download anywhere?
Johnny Stew..help!..I bet you know....

Karen Howells · #2 05-10-2002, 08:54 PM

Hey, you can download HAEWAFY (she starts yelling at the security before this song because they wont let the people come up to the front ) from me at audio galaxy under fmledgies under kak125. It should be labeled "Dont f*ck with my people".

blackwidower · #3 05-10-2002, 09:44 PM

God I hate that clip I head it for the first time and thought how F***ed up was Stevie that night? And the comments rgar she makes about who it was written for is really astonding to me because shes like I wrote it for this guy but he doesnt really matter. And considering that she wrote it for a guy whos daughter died when she was little I find appaling..now if you want a good shock downlaod it but otherwise why bother is just really embarising.

ricohv · #4 05-10-2002, 10:14 PM

So I wonder how much of this dreamer/little girl lost image of Stevie's was real and how much of her was this nasty, coke snortin', foul mouth. I mean she herself talks about how she fired people on a whim and drove people out of her life because of her erratic behaviour (JimmyIovine). I'm sure it's hard being a big-time-rock-n-roll-star but gawd, I'd sure like to give it a shot!!

Sorcerer386 · #5 05-10-2002, 10:52 PM

Well I mean, I think Stevie just meant it in the context that her audience is so much more important than "this guy" aka Joe Walsh. She constantly says how important her audience is...for example, the '83 US Festival, she says "If you ever think you don't matter, I want you to know something, to ME, you're the ONLY thing that matters." Or something to that degree. By this time, however, Stevie was not snorting, she was sucking down the Klonopin. And speaking from experience, sometimes when you're on tranquilizers, you just lose your train of thought, and that might have been what happened. I mean, I'll be in mid-sentence and just completely forget what was going on. Plus, I'm sure she was still mad at him at the time for their breakup, even though it happened so long before this.

wondergirl9847 · #6 05-11-2002, 12:03 PM

I downloaded this and it took me two or three times to hear it! LOL It's wierd hearing her use the dreaded "F" word. I HATE that word, it's just....Harsh.

Hearing her sing, "Sometimes, It's a Bitch" is wierd too. I DO however sing along with her on it, and say "damn your love, damn your lies"...LOL I like SIAB because it's true for EVERYONE, some days are great, some are a beeatch! Regardless if you are a rock star or a Joe Shmoe, we all have good and bad days.

It's cool to know that.

ejof17 · #7 05-11-2002, 12:27 PM

I much prefer our clean and sober "earth mother" "rock n' roll god mother" Stevie than I do the coked up bloated foul mouthed "diva" displayed in that clip.

She was obviously trashed and we shouldn't hold it against her. After all she has "dealt with the road" now and has come out stronger and better.

Rumours · #8 05-11-2002, 12:49 PM

Ah yes yes, the Bristol, Connecticut concert from the Other Side of the Mirror Tour.......

She not only says it ONCE but TWICE!!

"You f*** with my people, I'm gonna get real f**in' angry!!"
At the end of Edge of 17 I believe.....security is being rough with the fans and pushing the crowd back from the stage......she's just apologizing to them all and letting them all know how very important to her that they are.....in her own Klonopin foul-mouthed sort of way!!! LOL

What I like is when HAEWAFY starts, you hear her telling security "I'M WATCHING!!!" I can see her shooting them a look and pointing her finger at them!!! LMAO!!!!!!

Stephanie

Arizona Ranger · #9 05-11-2002, 01:56 PM

Apparently the 5.00 an hour security goons did'nt know the first thing about crowd handling & control. They stepped out of line and made Stevie angry to such a degree that she flew off the handle...

In another incident, Stevie threw a huge pineapple at a Security Goon who manhandled a reporter or Backstage Guest after one of her shows as well....

I understand that Stevie has a proviso or condition in her Concert Contracts that stress the usage of professional Security Agencies from now on. Brother Chris helps see to that whenever he's around.

There is also suspicion that the Security at a Grateful Dead Concert in 1989 at the NJ Meadowlands was responsible for the death of a fan named Adam Katz. The said security people were mistreating the Dead Heads there and drew several complaints about there conduct during that Dead Show.....

So maybe Stevie helped save a few lives at her show !

Sorcerer386 · #10 05-11-2002, 08:07 PM

You guys are cracking me up, okay. Like, a lot. I can see getting a little disturbed by Stevie saying HAEWAFY was written "about a guy, but he doesn't really matter," cause that is a little harsh and cold considering that she wrote it after he showed her his daughter's fountain and grave or whatever it was. But first of all, Stevie got pissed PROTECTING us as fans...saying not to mess with us because we matter so much to her. Second of all, okay, everyone gets mad, and I'm sure even now, sober as she is, Stevie gets angry and says that naughty, naughty F dash dash dash word. She IS a human being, she gets happy, she gets mad, she gets sad. And from what I can tell from this thread, I wonder how anyone even became a fan of Stevie's. No one can stand her when she was doped up, coked up, sedated and drugged, yet she was that way for 18 years of her career, 10 on cocaine and brandy, 8 on klonopin. If you hated her so much when she was like that, then what do you like about her? Her last 5 years from The Dance to TISL must be all you liked. I'm sorry, but this thread upset me, and I think some need to take a step back and realize that 18 years of Stevie's life, she was on some type of drug. So she was outrageous at times...but remember too, a lot that was the 80's, all excess and nobody cared. The only thing I can say that I didn't like was the klonopin years, and THAT was only because of how tired she seemed. But I look past all the drugs and everything, and even with the drugs, the coke and klonopin, Stevie had many great performances. Yet, all I can see these days is everyone putting her down because she was drugged up. Maybe the drugs DIDN'T make Stevie say "You mess with my people and I get real f****** angry," maybe that's something she'd say nowadays because she got angry. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, it just seems like Stevie's only got 1997 to present going for her on this board.

highpriestess53 · #11 05-11-2002, 10:17 PM

When you are doped up on tranqs...and then antidepressants into the mix...well that is a recipe for being a little zombified....or totally mellow i know I have been there.....and it takes a whole lot to really piss you off.....you really don't care that much

I would personally say owning that clip, having played it loads off times and loving Stevie through every moment of it...it is nothing more than Stevie getting genuinely pissed off at Security for their treatment of her fans...
be thankfull we are fans of someone who really cares that we come to her shows....there are other rockstars that just see their fans as the dollars they earn...

sara1998 · #12 05-12-2002, 01:51 AM

I, personally, love that clip myself.....

I have to agree with Sorcerer386; Stevie has her faults with the coke.... hell, I've been there too. And it's a tough one....
If you don't like the coke years, then what do you like? If the drug problem was never there, would we have the same Stevie?? I suppose not. She is not a perfect person, and none of us should expect her to be.

Maria

Gypsy-Rhiannon · #13 05-12-2002, 02:44 AM

I like that clip too. Good for Stevie sticking up for her fans!! And while it was obvious to us her whole demenour changed when she was coked/drugged up but I'm sure she is no angel when it comes to swearing. Heck...I don't often swear but when I do you know I am really pissed!!

Pip

sodascouts · #14 05-12-2002, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by sara1998
If you don't like the coke years, then what do you like? If the drug problem was never there, would we have the same Stevie??

Maria

I don't understand the defensiveness on this issue. Surely we all believe that coke use is something one shouldn't do, right? Aren't we all glad she's off it? Does anyone really think that she NEEDED that stuff to be the person we all know and love? That it was a good thing she got so hooked on it that she got a hole in her nose, which not only was detrimental to her singing voice but also nearly killed her?

I know the answer must be no, so what's the problem?

And did anyone really mean that they hated Stevie during the years she used coke - or just that they didn't like to see what she became when she was controlled by it? When her true personality was suppressed by it? I don't see how not liking it when she nearly falls off the stage because she's so high means we don't like Stevie.

Just my opinion.

ERigby818 · #15 05-12-2002, 09:35 PM

I actually find it extremely cute and funny and I'm not offended in th least. I'm not fazed by the f word at all.

Every now and then I feel a little resentful of Stevie for the coke (because it's BAD) and for the cigarettes (because I think her voice would sound significantly better today if she didn't have the habit for like 10 years)...but I always come back around to that conclusion. Stevie wouldn't have been the same without all her experiences.

I listen to a lot of early, early Stevie demos and Buckingham Nicks stuff. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of those songs were written before the cocaine "problem"...I think. They are among the greatest words (i.e. Landslide, Rhiannon, Sorcerer, Nomad) and melodies she's written down, I think and it goes to show cocaine didn't help her songwriting one bit, even though they were part of many of her most sucessful years. I would go as far as to say Klonipin hurt her songwriting because it slowed down the creative juices in her brain big time.
Those songs I mentioned are songs she's performing again, now that she's totally substance free...and I kinda like the full-circle that's come around here. I guess I don't really have a point except that I'm glad she wrote like a zillion songs before she started putting that stuff up her nose.
-Sonia