Stevie Nicks Headlines the Santa Barbara Bowl

The Santa Barbara Independent Summer Arts Preview: Pop, Rock, and Jazz: "The ladies continue to rule the scene come August, when singer, songwriter, and all-around icon Stevie Nicks headlines the Santa Barbara Bowl on Wednesday, August 4. It’s rumored the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman is currently working on new material, but we have no doubt she’ll deliver on the classics. (“Dreams,” anyone?)"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK FLEETWOOD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MR. MICK FLEETWOOD

Born on this day in 1947

LISSIE MAURUS - THE "NEW" STEVIE NICKS...

Lissie Maurus featured here in Classic Rock Magazines Summer 2010 issue has the distinction of being referred to as the "NEW" Stevie Nicks. Not such a bad comparison if you ask me. Personally, I'm not really hearing it... What I do hear is an interesting and unique voice and singing style from which the comparisons to Stevie are surely drawn from.  I really like her music, she's got some killer live videos on youtube that you should check out... She's no doubt a talented girl that possesses a lovely rich soulful voice, but she's no Stevie Nicks - she's herself... Hit the image for the full article.

You can check out some of her tunes on Myspace, or Facebook, or Youtube.

HRH MAGAZINE - SUMMER, 2010 FEATURES STEVIE NICKS PHOTO BY NEAL PRESTON

Stevie Nicks Photo Featured in 12 page

Neal Preston Photo Spread

HRH Magazine Summer, 2010 edition

Link to online digital version 

See page 64 for the full article and photo spread.

Lindsey mentioned in the last paragraph of the article.

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WOLFGANGS VAULT.... VINTAGE FLEETWOOD MAC PHOTOS 75, 77 & 79

A really amazing collection of photos at Wolfgangs Vault in the photo section.  If you've never been to the site, it's a must!   Loads of really vintage photos (which are a little pricey) and live shows to stream from the concert vault - or buy (at a reasonable cost).  And not of only Fleetwood Mac, but pretty much every band to come along since the 60's & 70's. Just a great site all around. You'll learn a lot and hear alot!

I noticed they've added more photos to the site since the last time I visited, which was sometime ago... Fleetwood Mac in New Haven, CT - 1975 & 1979 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Hartford, CT at the Civic Center - 1977.  Here are just a sample... There's more at the site.

Photographer, Joe Sia, captured moments by focusing on the faces of the performers, the crowd, and by giving the background, whether simple or wild, the importance it deserved in defining the artist and event.

ELLE MAGAZINE: STEVIE NICKS ROCK STAR UNIFORM FEATURE JULY, 2010 ISSUE

THE ROCK STAR UNIFORM

Stevie's style still influential

Elle Magazine

July, 2010 issue

Page 44

STEVIE NICKS CONFIRMED FOR SANTA BARBARA AUGUST 4TH

STEVIE NICKS

Santa Barbara Bowl

SANTA BARBARA, CA

Wed, Aug 4, 2010 07:00 PM

Ticket Price Range:

US $39.00 - US $109.00

Onsale to General Public

Start: Sat, 06/26/10 11:00 AM PDT

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There are likely pre-sale tickets available this week leading up to Saturday's general public on-sale.

STEVIE NICKS | FLEETWOOD MAC: UK & AUSTRALIA CHART UPDATE

 

AUSTRALIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE CHART: WEEK June 21, 2010

Week 7 on Australia's Top 50 Catalogue Chart for the week June 21, 2010 - puts Stevie's 2007 "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks" at #18 down from #16 last week.

UK TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART: June 26, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC'S "THE VERY BEST OF" is inching it's way up moving from #87 to #84 marking it's 214 non-consectutive week on the chart.

FLEETWOOD MAC "DREAMS" No.1 JUNE 18, 1977 ISSUE - BILLBOARD MAGAZINE

On this date in 1977 in it's 10th week of release, "Dreams" officially hit's No.1.  Taken from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album, it would be Fleetwood Mac's only No.1 single to reach the top of the Billboard's Hot 100.  This was the second single from Rumours which at the time was also sitting at No.1 on the Top 200 Albums Chart.

The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording Rumours. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Bass player John McVie was separating from his wife, keyboard player Christine McVie. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explains Buckingham to Blender Magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other."

Nicks wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in early 1976. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers singer Stevie Nicks to Blender, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes."

"I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me," continues Nicks. "I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me."

When Nicks played the song to the rest of the group, they decided to record it the following day. Only a basic track was recorded at Sausalito. Recording assistant Cris Morris remembers that "all (they) kept was the drum track and live vocal from Stevie — the guitars and bass were added later in Los Angeles."

Christine McVie described the song as having "just three chords and one note in the left hand" and "boring" when Nicks played a rough version on the piano. McVie changed her mind, after Lindsey "fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing."

"Dreams" was the second single from the Rumours album in the US, and it reached the number one spot on June 18, 1977, and held it for one week. It went to #24 in the United Kingdom as the third single, following "Go Your Own Way" (#38) and "Don't Stop" (#32). A performance of the song on stage was used as the promotional video. Fleetwood Mac would not begin to make concept music videos until 1979.

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HEY HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS.... STEVIE NICKS IS ON TOUR THIS AUGUST

WHO'S GOING??

04-Aug - Santa Barbara, CA (SB Bowl)
06-Aug - Lake Tahoe, NV (Harvey's Arena)

25-Aug - Verona, NY (Turning Stone Casino)

27-Aug - Atlantic City, NJ (Taj-Mahal)

28-Aug - Mashantucket, CT (Foxwoods)

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UK CHART UPDATE: FLEETWOOD MAC "THE VERY BEST OF" 2009 RE-ISSUE

Chart week: June 19, 2010
FLEETWOOD MAC'S "THE VERY BEST OF" continues to move up after Re-Entering The UK Top 100 Albums Chart last week - jumping to #87 from #98 last week. This marks the 213th week on the chart, which is an accumulative total of the 2002 single disc version along with this 2009 double disc re-issue.

STEVIE NICKS CHART UPDATE: ARIA TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUM CHART

Week 6 on Australia's Top 50 Catalogue Chart for the week June 14, 2010 - puts Stevie's 2007 "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks" at #16 down from #13 last week.