First of all Welcome to the NicksFix Group! A group for fans of Stevie Nicks, either it be her writing, her singing, her artistic beauty, no matter what, you want Stevie, you got it!
RULES OF THE GROUP:
1. First of all no SPAMMING!! If you spam this group I will not only ban you but I will track you down and spam you! I HATE SPAM!! Don't clutter up the group with crap!
2.NO ADD ME PLEASE!! If you want to be added as a friend, then please do it personally, this sort of thing is not welcome here.
3.NO HATE! If you can't say something nice, then say it somewhere else. This is a group for fans of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, not a basher group.
4. Show respect for your fellow members.
5.If you have a problem with a member, a post, or anything like that, then please take it up with me personally, you can email my MySpace account, and I will respond with correct action.
6.Do Not post anything that is vulgar and un-called for. In other words if you do post pic's in this group, then please make sure they are Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac related.
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Also I am currently looking for Stevie Nicks graphics, pic's for the background of this group, and little interesting things to put on here! I would love your feedback and ideas!
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Stevie Nicks Tour Dates (so far) 2007:
March 20 Caesars Palace Las Vegas
March 21 Caesars Palace Las Vegas
March 23 Caesars Palace Las Vegas
March 24 Caesars Palace Las Vegas
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Upcoming TV Appearances:
CBS Sunday Morning interview airing Sun., March 25
Today Show on Fri., March 30. Performing "Landslide" and "Rhiannon"
Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wed., April 18. Performing "Landslide & Stand Back"
     
**thankyou chaotic. for the wonderful gif's and pictures!**
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Thankyou King Danny~Q!!!!!! for the great gif's and pic's!! Even though they were happily stolen instead of given to me, I still thankyou ;)
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Art by Luis Enrique Perez
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stevie is scheduled to release "CRYSTAL VISIONS…THE VERY BEST OF STEVIE NICKS" on March 27th on Reprise Records. "CRYSTAL VISIONS" is a collection of songs from her three decade career as a solo artist and member of the legendary Fleetwood Mac.
The CD opens with the original mastered studio version of "Edge of Seventeen" and closes with a live performance of the song recorded last summer with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It includes a live version of "Landslide" (also recorded with the Melbourne Symphony), a knock-out version of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll", the Deep Dish dance remix of "Dreams" and "Silver Springs" from the original master of "RUMOURS."
The DVD component of "CRYSTAL VISIONS" offers 13 Stevie videos with voice-over commentary by Nicks as well as an audio interview by journalist David Wild. Also included on the DVD is a never before seen Stevie Nicks home video which was filmed during the making of the five-times platinum "BELLA DONNA" album. The accompanying booklet will have original Stevie Nicks art work as well as photographs and personal pictures hand-picked by the artist representing a cross section of iconic pictures spanning her entire career.
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Random Info:
Stevie's Birthday is May 26.
Stevie Nicks is known for her use of the Sennheiser MD-441-U. Its interesting appearance has made it synonymous with Nicks's early tours. Also synonymous with Nicks's microphone are the items she chooses to decorate her microphone stand with. Over the years, such items have included roses, ribbons, chiffon, crystal beads, scarves and small stuffed animals.
Nicks has even commented in interviews recently that she never would have dreamed that her trademark "Bella Donna/Witchy Woman" image would have been taken so seriously by her fans, often joking that she doesn't live her private life in her stage clothes and "Stevie garb" as many people seem to think. However, she greatly credits her career/stage image for its role in giving her a trademark that has made her unique and "timeless".
One of the reasons for Nicks' continued career is the devotion she inspires in her fans. Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks, Michelle Branch, Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Michelle Hotaling and Laura Branigan have cited her work as an inspiration. She has participated in duets or provided guest vocals for several of their albums and some have returned the favour, notably Crow and the Dixie Chicks. The Dixie Chicks covered her 1975 classic "Landslide," which became a Top 10 hit (#1 on the Adult Contemporary chart) and a #1 Hit on the Country Chart. The Smashing Pumpkins also covered the song for modern rock radio. She recorded a duet of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" with Chris Isaak on his 2004 Christmas album and sang with Isaak on his PBS Christmas television special. Other successful covers have included The Corrs' "Dreams" , Lindsey Lohan "Edge of Seventeen" and Courtney Love's former band Hole with "Gold Dust Woman." "Edge Of Seventeen" was sampled on Destiny's Child's 2001 #1 single "Bootylicious". Nicks appeared in the video for "Bootylicious" and in an episode of MTV's Making The Video that featured it, in which she expressed her admiration for both the song and the group. Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys has expressed extreme interest in working with Stevie. Deep Dish fulfilled their "dream" of working with Stevie in 2005 when Stevie offered to re-record vocals on a remix of her #1 penned song, Dreams. The Deep Dish version went on to become a top 5 Dance/Club Hit.
Stevie began writing songs at age sixteen after receiving a guitar for her birthday, and occasionally provided entertainment at school functions at Menlo-Atherton High. The first band Nicks was in, called The Changing Times, was heavily influenced by the harmonies of the Mamas and the Papas. She met Lindsey Buckingham during her Senior year of High School-- he was a Junior-- and the two, along with friends Javier Pacheco and Calvin Roper, formed Fritz Raybyne Memorial Band. Upon graduating, Stevie attended San Jose State University, where she studied Speech Communication. Since the other members of Fritz were still in High School, Stevie had to commute back and forth almost nightly in order to make the rehearsals and gigs.
In 1968, Fritz began their professional career in the Bay area, opening for acts such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and CCR. Watching Janis perform made quite an impression on the young songwriter: "You couldn't have pried me away with a million dollar check...I was absolutely glued to her. It was there that I learned a lot of what I do onstage...I said, 'If ever I am a performer of any value, I want to be able to create the same kind of feeling that is going on between her and her audience.'" While Fritz's manager kept trying unsuccessfully to get a them a record deal, the male members of the group were beginning to feel a little uneasy with all the attention their attractive female singer was receiving. Stevie recalls, "Those guys didn't take me seriously at all. I was just a girl singer and they hated the fact that I got a lot of the credit. They would kill themselves practicing for ten hours and people would call up and say, 'We want to book that band with the little brownish-blondish haired girl.' There was always just really weird things gong on between us. I could never figure out why I stayed in that band. Now I know it was in preparation for Fleetwood Mac."
Stevie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 12, 1998 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
By 1979, Nicks became concerned with an increasing backlog of songs, dating back to her Buckingham Nicks days that she was unable to record and release with Fleetwood Mac, due to the demands of three different songwriters. During the making and touring of the Tusk album, Nicks began working on demos for a planned solo record, for which a deal was negotiated to set up her own record label, Modern Records, exclusively for solo material—while still maintaining her commitments with Fleetwood Mac.
Bella Donna was the first album to feature Nicks' two back-up singers, Sharon Celani and Lori Perry. Nicks met Perry in the mid-1970s while working with her then-husband, producer Gordon Perry. She asked Perry to lay down back-up vocals for the tracks that she was working on, and the two became friends. During a trip to Hawaii, Nicks met Celani in a club where Celani was performing. The two bonded onstage during a rendition of "Poor Pitiful Me." Celani later accepted Nicks' invitation to join her forthcoming solo project. Sharon Celani and Lori (Perry) Nicks (now married to Nicks' brother) have become staple vocalists on all of Nicks' albums. Celani continues to tour with Nicks, while (Perry) Nicks retired from touring in the early 90s to raise her daughter, Jessica. (She made an unexpected return to the stage in 2005, joining Nicks for a series of concerts in Las Vegas. She remains an occasional backup singer for Nicks.)
In the spring of 1983 Nicks worked on her second solo album. Inspired in part by the death of her close friend Robin Anderson from leukemia in late 1982,[2] the album was recorded mostly live and retains a rock-inspired, live quality.
A variety of songs were recorded for the album, but only ten made it to the final version. These included a host of new songs, but the album also featured "Enchanted," originally written during the Buckingham Nicks era and tested for Mirage in 1982[citation needed], and the melodramatic "Beauty and the Beast," written during the Tusk era. The title song, "Wild Heart," was partially written during 1981, and footage exists from a Rolling Stone magazine cover photo shoot where Nicks, while getting her make-up done, sings the work-in-progress to the instrumental line from Lindsey Buckingham's "Can't Go Back" (from Mirage).
Nicks released The Wild Heart in June 1983, a year after Mirage and two years after Bella Donna. The album featured much the same cast of musicians and producers, but it also introduced songwriter and performer Sandy Stewart who lent a synthesized sound prevalent in early 1980s rock music.
The Wild Heart went double platinum, reached #5 on the Billboard 200, and featured three hit singles: "Stand Back" (Billboard #5), an originally Prince-inspired track which ended up being co-written by him and receiving synthesizers played by the musician, though uncredited; "If Anyone Falls" (#14); and "Nightbird" (#33). In addition, several promo only singles (songs released exclusively to radio) placed on the Mainstream Rock chart: "Enchanted" (#12); "Nothing Ever Changes" (#19); and "I Will Run to You" (#35), another duet with Tom Petty[3] A lesser-known track, "Beauty and the Beast" featured lyrics devoted to Mick Fleetwood with whom Nicks later admitted to having a short love affair in the late 1970s.
In 1988, after the Fleetwood Mac tour ended, Nicks began work on a fourth solo album with producer Rupert Hine. At age 40, Nicks recorded the album in part as an ode to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The recording features imagery of castles, princesses, and burning houses.
After several months of recording and mixing, Nicks released The Other Side Of The Mirror in May 1989 to mixed reviews. It spawned a major hit single, "Rooms On Fire" (#16 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on the Mainstream Rock Radio Chart), but this was the only song to make the singles chart; the rock-inspired "Whole Lotta Trouble" and fast-paced "Long Way to Go (#11 in Rock Radio)" achieved some Mainstream Rock radio play. Although sales were not as solid as previous releases, the album nevertheless went platinum. It also includes the single "Two Kinds of Love," a duet with Bruce Hornsby and "Juliet", a new version of the instrumental b-side to Fleetwood Mac's 1987 "Seven Wonders" single, "Book of Miracles". Nicks' voice was more powerful and melodic than on her previous two recordings (solo and with Fleetwood Mac), but it also developed a nasal quality attributed to her cocaine abuse and subsequent dependence on tranquilizers[citation needed].
The album's other material found Nicks in melodic mood, with the likes of "Ghosts" and the jangly "Fire Burning," and the record also featured the epic Lewis Carroll-inspired "Alice" and a dark, cautionary tale about the end of her drug addiction on the dramatic "Doing the Best I Can (Escape from Berlin)." Nicks also included a whimsical version of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes)."
A tour of the U.S. and Europe from August to November 1989 was modestly successful. Dependent on Klonopin, Nicks later admitted she could not recall much of the tour at all, and the years 1988–94 are widely recognised as Nicks' "wilderness years."
Upon being asked in a question forum on her official website about playing the tambourine, Nicks stated that she began playing the tambourine upon joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, feeling the need to do something onstage during songs that featured Lindsey or Christine. Like her microphone, her tambourine usually features scarves and/or streamers. Stevie's trademark tamboruine since the early 1980's is in the shape of a black half-moon.
One of the more persistent rumors which has trailed Nicks through the years is that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca. While she admits to have a high regard for the mythic and gothic, she denies any solitary dedication to any one religion, including Wicca. She speaks about this erroneous image in a 2006 interview. Though her work is copyrighted under the name Welsh Witch Music, some allege that the name is a retrospective reference to the name Rhiannon and does not provide any proof or suggestion that Nicks, herself, is a witch, while others would disagree with this characterization and mention simply that the name speaks for itself. In a Yahoo interview on April 28 1998, Nicks said of the infamous rumor: "I have no idea what precipitated those rumors...I am not a witch. Get a life!"
Of her lifestyle today, Nicks stated "I am a very different girl from the girl that was so wrapped up in rock and roll and the drugs and everything else. I'll never take it all for granted again, ever. Because I also now really realize how quickly that it can go, and that you can be the darling one year, and be nobody the next year. So you have to learn to accept and deal with that." (VH1 "Behind The Music, 1998)
Stevie currently resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix in a home she built in 1981 and shares with brother Chris, his wife Lori and their daughter Jessica. She also owns a home in Pacific Palisades, CA.
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I love a woman who isn't afraid to show her funny side...
Or to be a little sexy...
Who am I kidding, I love Stevie!!
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The Chris Nicks Collection:
Vintage tour merchandise is now available through Stevie's brother, Chris, at www.chrisnicks.com. Check out his private reserve of shirts and tourbooks of Stevie's tours from the 80's, 90's and 2000's.
Summer Tour:
Stevie will be touring this summer with Chris Isaak. The tour will start in mid-May on the west coast. More details coming soon.
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