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"Trouble In Shangri-La" Tour - Virginia Beach,VA -September 04,2001





The Ivillage interview


"Trouble In Shangri-La" Tour
My Review as found on
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D.R.Roberts Jr. Portsmouth,VA A fan for over 25 years! First time I've seen her solo. I just got back. She was not 100% I would have to say 98.9% she seemed like she was trying to save voice. The song sets were great not as many in the other shows (I was so excited) I belive she skipped two or three songs. During the "Edge of Seventeen" she was not given too many gifts so I was trying to go up . NOT ! The Security would not let me go up (I was so pissed). But, as I was leaving I ask someone how could get these gifts to Stevie they pointed me the right way so I gave them to a man at the alley which lead to where she was (I just hope he gives them to her). With in the gifts I attached a note to her with my email & home addresses, maybe I'll hear from her (I wish) . She did two encores "I Need to Know" & "Has Anyone Written Anything for You?". Yes I'm very Happy to have seen her & would love again someday.


A News Paper Review
Stevie Nicks nails concert from heart
BY MELISSA RUGGIERI
MUSIC REVIEW
STEVIE NICKS
AT: Virginia Beach Amphitheater on Tuesday VIRGINIA BEACH
-- It hasn't been an easy summer for Stevie Nicks. Since her tour behind "Trouble in Shangri-La" launched in July, pop's most renowned enchantress has been repeatedly sidelined by illness. Thirteen dates have been canceled or postponed, including two Midwest stops last weekend after another bout with acute bronchitis. But Nicks' return to the stage Tuesday in Virginia Beach (postponed from July 24) was greeted with lavish adoration by longtime worshippers who have forgiven the drugs, the weight fluctuations and all the other drama that has colored her career - both solo and with Fleetwood Mac. But it's easy to pardon her past, because Nicks' approach to life these days is filled with newfound graciousness and optimism. She seems happy, which makes the audience happy. "I told you I'd come back!" she told the crowd of about 12,000 immediately after the opening "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (with guitarist/musical director Waddy Wachtel handling the Tom Petty role). Though a still-congested nasal cavity af fected her speaking voice, Nicks' singing on "Dreams" and the ethereal, cymbal-crashing "Gold Dust Woman" was her usual combination of distinctive warble and throaty howl. Now 53, Nicks still can pull off the witchy princess look - black layered dress, shawls wrapping her shoulders, flowing blond locks - but her trademark twirls seem to have lost a bit of their natural gracefulness. Perhaps she still wasn't feeling 100 percent as Nicks' stage movements frequently appeared labored. Of course, that didn't restrain fans from shrieking as if Moses had parted the Red Sea again every time she moved in a semicircle or rapped a ribbon-laden tambourine. But the crowd lost its manners whenever Nicks briefly vacated the stage. During the lovely piano solo that introduced "Rhiannon," the audience was apparently cued to begin discussing the headlines of the day, creating an irritating buzz. And while the rhythmic jam prefacing the juicy riff of "Edge of Seventeen" was a tad long even for those who appreciate a well-structured groove, it shouldn't have been a license to chat. Though Nicks dropped a handful of new tunes from the just-less-than-two-hour show - something she's done on "sick" days - there still was plenty from the meaty "Shangri-La," her first album in seven years. Some of it - the pedestrian adult contempo "Everyday" and Sheryl Crow knockoff "Too Far From Texas" - could have also been axed with little complaining. But older tunes just now available to the public - "Sorcerer" and "Planets of the Universe" - are classic Nicks. Both were written during her tumultuous relationship with Mac guitarist/singer Lindsey Buckingham and both contain that magic formula of anger and vulnerability couched in soaring choruses and driving rhythms. Predictably, the biggest cheers of the night erupted for Nicks' 1983 disco-tinged smash, "Stand Back," which she and background singers Sharon Celani and Mindy Stein nailed. Somehow, the song has managed to escape'80s datedness, though one half-hoped for that famous wind machine and treadmill to appear. It's been a long haul for Nicks, but when she sings her songs, it sounds like she's singing from the heart. Good for her for winning the battle.


Interview 10-10-2002


Of course the release of "Say You Will" April 15,2003!
I saw this posted in a newsgroup the week of Sept.09,2003.
"I'm a huge FM-addict and this is what I read (which -by now- everybody will know):On the heel of their latest albums for years comes a dusting off and expanding of the 'Rumours' - era Fleetwood Mac back-catalogue. Both 'Rumours' and 'Tusk' are remastered and expanded to two-disc sets with loads of unreleased tracks, while the 'Fleetwood Mac'album gets the same treatment over one CD. Meanwhile the 'Buckingham Nicks' album is set for its first release on CD, again remastered and expanded. What I want to know is: can anybody tell me what the 'extra' tracks will be on all of the four mentioned cd's? I'm utterly curious about that.... And what will be their exact release-dates? only know of Rumours and Tusk to be released on Oct28."

This was taken from the San Francisco Chronicle.. check out the bold print below: Rock sweetheart, soldiers' angel A small woman walks into the living room of her Southern California house carrying two mugs of steaming Earl Grey tea. A pair of tiny dogs, barely bigger than fur balls, skitter between her stiletto-booted feet. She is dressed in a floaty chiffon blouse and rock-star-tight black pants, her long blond hair worn loose and to her waist. Her expression, as she offers a mug and sits in front of the log fire, is open, unguarded and, as always, a little stunned, as if she'd just fallen out of a little girl's drawing of a fairy princess and hasn't quite got her bearings. She looks, in fact, exactly like Stevie Nicks. In 1985, when Nicks was in the Betty Ford clinic being treated for cocaine addiction -- she was one of the first rock stars, if not the first, she says, to do the now-common rehab thing -- they gave her some homework: Write an essay on the difference between being Stevie Nicks, real-life human, and Stevie Nicks, rock goddess. She says it was the hardest thing she's ever had to do. It prompts a story about going to her 40th high school reunion earlier this year in San Francisco -- Nicks was born in Phoenix, but her family moved West when she was a teenager. One of her close group of high school girlfriends told her, "You know what? You haven't changed a bit. You are still our little Stevie girl." Nicks says it made her cry "because it was the nicest thing anybody had said to me, that I'm still the same. Because I've always tried very hard to stay who I was before I joined Fleetwood Mac and not become a very arrogant and obnoxious, conceited, bitchy chick, which many do, and I think I've been really successful." That this should be said so guilelessly by a woman who will be 60 years old next year, and who has spent a good three-quarters of those years experiencing the rock 'n' roll life in all its often less-than-innocent glories, might sound odd. But with Nicks, what you see really is what you get. Her hobbies include writing children's stories and drawing sweetly childlike illustrations. A couple of her drawings, still unfinished, are propped up in a corner of the room. "They're my Zen thing, what I do on airplanes, what I do when I really think -- think about what I'm going to do," she says. If she could only "organize my time a little better," she says, she would have had an art show by now and published the children's books. "It's like Oprah says: If you wait around, you're never going to get it done," she says. "So I'll see if I can't multitask a little more." To an outsider, Nicks' multitasking skills seem Olympian. For the past three decades she has run, concurrently, two phenomenally successful careers: as a solo singer and songwriter and as a key member of Fleetwood Mac. During a break from touring solo and with the band last year, she spent five months on the road as an unpaid guest member of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers "just for fun." She's been writing a ballet and a film based on the Menologian, the mythology book that inspired her best-loved song, "Rhiannon." Oh, and she also managed to establish the Stevie Nicks Soldier's Angel Foundation, a charity that helps injured U.S. military personnel. She was planning a vacation in Hawaii before finishing the last few songs for a new solo album, when her record company called and told her it was putting out a greatest-hits CD and DVD, "Crystal Visions: The Very Best of Stevie Nicks" ("These records are never your idea," she says). So Nicks dusted herself off, packed her bags and got ready for the solo tour that brings her back to the Bay Area on Thursday. "Due to the fact that I never got married and never had children, I do have this crazy world where I pretty much continually work," she says. "But I love my work, and it's so different all the time that I really can't complain. And when I do get tired and irritable I get really mad at myself and stop in my tracks and say, 'You have no right to complain. You are a lucky, lucky girl.' I always hear my dad, who I lost a year and a half ago, saying, 'Ninety-nine percent of the human race will never be able to do what you have been able to do, to see all the beautiful cities and meet the people that you've met. You're a lucky girl, Stevie.' And I just try to keep that very present in my life." But it must be hard playing the ethereal fairy princess myth at the age of 59, isn't it? She nods. "It is. Because when you go onstage and perform in front of people, you want to be that person for everybody, but you are getting older, and there's nothing you can do to stop that," she says. "That is something I have had really long talks with myself about. All women have to deal with getting older, famous or not famous, and the way I deal with it is, I feel that if you stay animated from within, people don't see the age. I do my makeup and I do my hair and I try to look as fantastic as I can when I walk out of that bathroom, but once I walk out of that bathroom, I don't think about it again. I've never had a face-lift. The idea of having plastic surgery and looking like somebody else or a caricature of myself is so horrible. So I deal with it by just being me." Her aversion to cosmetic surgery might have something to do with her work with wounded soldiers. In 2004, when Nicks was performing in Washington, D.C., her manager got a call from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, asking if she would visit, and she couldn't refuse.

"You put on a gown and gloves and they say, 'Well, this guy's name is John Jones and he was injured in a blast and lost both legs. He's had a bad day, but he's very excited to see you.' And you go in and I just say, 'My name's Stevie Nicks. What happened?' Because they would like to talk about it. I was there from 2 in the afternoon until almost 1 o'clock that night. When I walked out of that hospital, after having seen about 40 guys and girls who've lost arms and legs, I was completely blown away by it all, and by how these kids' lives had been completely changed."

It changed her, too. She went back, armed with iPods she'd filled with music for the patients. She and her girlfriends dropped by with movies and popcorn and sat and watched the films with the soldiers.

"I'm not a mother, but I feel incredibly motherly to all these kids," she says. "They are so young."

She phoned her musician friends and asked for their help with a foundation she was planning. And when she learned that a new facility for amputees and burn victims was opening in San Antonio, Texas, she set up her tour "so that I can hub out of San Antonio and go there and figure out what they need," she says.

"I'm very, very dedicated to this. It's nothing that I would have ever in a million years have dreamed that I would have ever become involved in," America's rock sweetheart says, smiling, "but I feel like it's probably the best thing I've ever done."


Thanksgiving Eve 2004
Dear all Armed Forces Members~
On this Thanksgiving Day Eve~ here in Phoenix, my family and I are preparing to have a big celebration tomorrow~ and we are having lots of fun tonight getting it all ready. Pies are being made (most important) and all the food is being made ready tonight so tomorrow won’t be quite so crazy. We are having 25 people here so it seems to have turned into a party somehow. I am excited. It smells like Thanksgiving, and probably that is the best part about it. These particular smells cause memories to be made~ and memories to be remembered. That pumpkin pie makes me remember so many Thanksgivings gone by. I know each of you feels that, probably more than any of us here will ever know. So as I go about my duties as party planner for several different generations tomorrow, I think strongly about all that you have given up to be there. I can honestly say that before 9-11 I really never thought that there would ever be another real war, but on that day that childlike innocence drained out of my body. That morning in New York changed every thing. The oceans had failed to protect us. The Gods cried.
Many many times in my life when I have been sad or unsure about what I was doing, my Mom would say, “You are on a mission Stevie, you always have been~ it is your destiny.” So what is happening seems to be our destiny, yours and mine. It is what is happening to us now. Again I say, I wish the guardian angels to stand at your side~ I wish that you remain safe~
“And down the glorious pathway flew three singing birds. One was white, and one was green and one was gold as morning. Their singing was sweet, the thundering of hooves was loud~ the sound flowed like cool delicious water over his tired aching body. Words of his old nurse came back to him: The birds of Rhiannon…They wake the dead and lull the living to sleep. When he awoke, the battle was over. The pain was gone and all that remained was the song. In it’s tender radiance the Birds of Rhiannon hovered and sang.” This is the legend of the great Welsh Queen Rhiannon and her birds. I send you this. Tomorrow I will hum Rhiannon to myself and think of you…
Thank you so much
For everything that you do~
All my love,
Stevie Nicks


Stevie Nicks, Musical Legend and Inspirational Pioneer Nearing 60 and Timeless With the Release of 'Read Between My Lines', the First Ever Complete Compilation Biography of Stevie Nicks, Tours and an Anticipated Greatest Hits CD, We Are Reminded of the Impact Nicks Has Had on Rock 'n' Roll History DALLAS, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Motivating, captivating, innovative. These words among others describe the impact rock 'n' legend Stevie Nicks has had on music and popular society. Nicks has continued to fascinate audiences worldwide with her natural ability to influence and touch the hearts and minds of fans globally. After three decades in the music industry and countless musical accolades, Nicks still regularly performs to sellout concert crowds. Sandra Halliburton, author of Read Between My Lines: The Musical and Life Journey of Stevie Nicks, the first complete compilation biography of Nicks in over 20 years, chronicles her journey and provides an in-depth look into her impact on music history. Nicks' legendary addition to Fleetwood Mac was instrumental in launching the band to international superstardom. Nicks' femininity, beauty and powerful stage presence including her recognizable voice, helped fuel the group's popularity. Nicks contributed her songwriting talents to establish multiple sounds, creating musical depth and notoriety on their albums. Through her music, Nicks is able to reach out to fans worldwide. Loyal and strong in number, her fans support Nicks through thousands of web sites and chat rooms created in her honor. Nicks' music allows her to reach out to people as if she were their personal friend, writing and performing songs with lyrics about themes of love and hardship. By speaking candidly about her personal struggles, many fans credit Nicks as an inspiration to lifting them to overcome their own challenges. Nicks' musical uniqueness has continued to define her identity to this day. Throughout her distinctive image, ability to produce and sing heartfelt songs, or using her fame to promote charitable causes, Nicks has and continues to stamp a lasting impression on music and society. For the complete Editorial Release on Stevie Nicks and information about the book, visit "http://www.StevieNicksBiography.com" Sandra Halliburton, author of Read Between My Lines: The Musical and Life Journey of Stevie Nicks, currently serves as an in-depth interview source on the life of Stevie Nicks. Halliburton is scheduled to begin her national media tour, including interviews and book signings across the US. SOURCE Sandra Halliburton

Crystal Visions Tour

June 28,2007
Norfolk,VA









10/26/2007
Stevie tapes Soundstage Posted by admin in Soundstage, set lists, Crystal Visions, concerts, concert reviews Stevie taped her first performance for Soundstage on Thursday night. She reprised the set played at last Friday's Rosemont show—adding "The One" and "Circle Dance" with whom she performed with special guest and Stevie's girl-pal-apprentice Vanessa Carlton. She also covered Dave Matthew Band's "Crash into Me" once again, during which she played up the "skirt hiking," a reference to the song's lyrics. Musical standouts included "Circle Dance" and "Beauty and the Beast," which were both recorded with an orchestra. According to the physical set list, "Landslide" was recorded a second time with the orchestra after the audience was dismissed. Another surprise (though performed at last week's Rosemont rehearsal show) was "Sara," which was fulfilled request of Soundstage show director/producer Joe Thomas. Fans who attended the taping report that Stevie was very talkative and comfortable in her surroundings. Wearing some serious boots, she was animated and donned a top hat and scarf during "Rhiannon." Vocally strong, Stevie seemed to tug at the crowd's heart strings during "Landslide," which Stevie dedicated to her father. The Mac classic was especially moving in the intimate setting of Grainger Studio. On a sad note, Stevie revealed that Soundstage would be her last concert taping (take that with a grain o' salt), and that the audience should support Vanessa Carlton and other younger singer-songwriters who represent the future because she would not be around forever. (Yikes, Stevie... That's kind of deep.) The studio audience consisted of approximately 400 guests—50-75 of whom were invited by Citi Mastercard, who sponsored the taping. (Some guests were reportedly turned away because the show was overbooked.) The other guests included music industry, friends and family of Stevie, and models, yes...attractive men and women who were hired to mix in with the audience for the taping. (Man, our culture is really shallow!) Security was particularly tight, as all guests were required to pass through metal detectors and check in their electronic devices. The taping ran for approximately four hours from 8:00 p.m. to midnight (CST), during which there were many long breaks. Stevie performed for approximately two and a half to three hours. Soundstage announcers informed the audience that Stevie's performance would be broadast during Season 6, which resumes January 2008. A DVD release is also planned for sometime in 2008. Huge props to Brad, Brett, Cam, Elaine, Mark, and Megan for sharing their Stevie experience, and especially rock star Brett, who schmoozed with the camera crew to get the official set list.
More on Soundstage
Intimate visions behind most famous Fleetwood and solo songs Stevie Nicks WTTW's "Soundstage" Studios Chicago, IL Oct. 25, 2007 The relationship between Stevie Nicks and WTTW's famed "Soundstage" series was further fortified with the Fleetwood Mac front woman's first taping of her very own episode. But prior to stepping up to the solo filming plate, the laced adorned gypsy of sorts previously appeared on a full band special and served as special guest on Lindsay Buckingham's broadcast. Though she certainly tipped her hat to prior collaborations, the mythical singer/songwriter , also unloaded much of her fiery solo arsenal during a nineteen song show, which aside from airing on television, is also slated for DVD. This appearance is one of many for Nicks since her spring CD release Crystal Visions (Reprise), a comprehensive career retrospective that exhaustively addresses her own material, several Fleetwood tunes and even a Led Zeppelin cover. She started out the blistering set on her own high heels with the guitar charged sounds of "Stand Back," complete with her signature twirls during the elaborate bridge with her lacy shawl spinning wildly. Indeed Nicks has evolved into a fashion icon all her own since the 1960s and it's a trademark that's stuck with her ever since, but she also packed plenty of substance beyond merely those trend setting styles. "If Anyone Falls In Love" took advantage of her high harmonies with a trio of background singers, while a magical take on "Sorcerer" was riddled with her unmistakable and surprisingly well preserved wails. Nicks also dusted off the Mac's mega-smash "Dreams," sharing a story about writing it in Sly Stone's black velvet-adorned studio. She later emerged with similarly textured costuming (in an evening that featured several outfit changes), while also unveiling her infatuation with Bonnie Raitt's "Circle Dance" (an earthy tune about the road's toil on families, performed with guest Vanessa Carlton). Though far less enchanting of a duet partner than Buckingham, Carlton also sat behind the piano for the new ballad "The One," though it was one of the more pedestrian affairs of the evening. A cover of Dave Matthews Band's "Crash" also fell flat, simply because Nicks' voice is so much better suited to more stylistically parallel remakes or her own feisty material. That fact was confirmed on a revamped version of "Rhiannon," extended with updated instrumentation to strip away its previously dated effect. Of course, Nicks' velvety touch was also welcome during the band's signature songs "Landslide" and "Sara," the latter of which is rarely performed, but based on an impassioned audience reception, should become a permanent fixture. A take on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' "I Need To Know" achieved equal attention in rock n' roll contexts, further showcasing the songstress' versatility and continued confidence even at 59. And speaking of recent birthdays, this taping marked the official kick off for the fifth season of "Soundstage," slated to air in early 2008. During intermission, an announcement was made signaling a future taping with Matchbox Twenty and the promise of a full forthcoming calendar, though for complete details on upcoming sessions and airdates, log onto www.wttw.com/soundstage.
VIA "http://www.stevie-nicks.info/" By Steve Baltin Spinner (New York) March 13, 2008
Move over Stevie: Sheryl Crow is planning to join Fleetwood Mac.
"We definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we'll see what happens," Crow tells Spinner. As to when fans might hear those collaborations, she says, "I think that's going to be next year."
And what songs would she ideally like to perform onstage with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham? "I'd love to do 'The Chain' and 'Second Hand News,'" she says. "There's so many great songs that I absolutely love, and just to get to sing harmonies on them is going to be a thrill."
For Crow, who is just beginning to tour in support of her recently released 'Detours' album, the opportunity to join the legendary group (and fill the shoes of Christine McVie, who retired from touring in 1998), is a chance to work with her close friend Nicks. Perhaps more important, it will help keep the band alive, as Nicks had previously gone on record as saying she was unwilling to carry on Fleetwood Mac without McVie, who had been one of the constants of the often-evolving group since she joined in the early '70s...


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The 2010 TIME 100 In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world Taylor Swift By STEVIE NICKS Time.com 4/29/10 When I first got the call from Taylor Swift about performing with her at this year's Grammy Awards, I really didn't want to do it. She's 20 years old, 5 ft. 11 in. and slender; I'm 40 years older and, to be frank, neither of the other two things! I was not about to stand next to this girl on national television. But her little face just lights up like a star, and I couldn't say no. Taylor reminds me of myself in her determination and her childlike nature. It's an innocence that's so special and so rare. This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John. She sings, she writes, she performs, she plays great guitar. Taylor can do ballads that could be considered pop or rock and then switch back into country. When I turned 20 years old, I had just made the serious decision to never be a dental assistant. Taylor just turned 20, and she's won four Grammys. I still walk around singing her song "Today Was a Fairytale." All of us girls want that boy to pick us up and think that we look beautiful even though we're in jeans and clogs. We want it at 14, and we want it at 60. Taylor is writing for the universal woman and for the man who wants to know her. The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business. Nicks is a multiplatinum-selling solo artist and a member of Fleetwood Mac



Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks To Tour North American Arenas In March January 12, 2011 – Touring | Rock & Pop By Ariel Watkins Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks will come together for the upcoming the Heart and & Soul Tour, a series of North American arena performances scheduled to begin March 20 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Thirteen dates had been confirmed at press time, including visits to such major-markets as New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa and Montreal. Stewart and Nicks will play hits from their catalogs, as well as new material. "We haven't begun rehearsals but I can already tell you this, with Stevie on board our audiences are in store for an evening of pure rock 'n' roll music," Stewart said in a news release. "I'm already thinking about which of my old favorites to bring back and vocally, I think we've both begun thinking about which songs might be great fun and well-suited for a duet or two." Nicks is touring in support of her forthcoming album, "In: Your Dreams," due May 3. And Stewart is coming off of a series of successful concerts, which included sold-out appearances at Las Vegas' Colosseum At Caesars Palace and a 33-date European tour. In 2010, he released "Fly Me to the Moon…The Great American Songbook, Volume V," which has sold 286,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Tickets for the Heart and & Soul Tour go on sale beginning Jan. 21 through ticketmaster.com. Tickets for the April 1 show in Montreal will be available through evenko.ca and tickets for the April 5 Philadelphia date will be available through comcasttix.com. American Express card members will be given the chance to purchase tickets early on Jan. 17. Here are the upcoming North American tour dates for Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks: March 20: Bank Atlantic Center (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
March 23: St. Pete Times Forum (Tampa, Fla.)
March 24: Philips Arena (Atlanta)
March 26: Madison Square Garden (New York)
March 27: Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, Conn.)
March 30: TD Garden (Boston)
April 1: Bell Centre (Montreal)
April 2: Air Canada Center (Toronto)
April 5: Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia) April 9: United Center (Chicago)
April 10: Joe Louis Arena (Detroit)
April 15: US Airways Center (Phoenix)
April 16: Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles)






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