Saturday, August 13, 2011

[67 Photos] Stevie Nicks Taken By The Wind in Sturgis...

An amazing amount of photos of Stevie Nicks live in Sturgis August 11th... That wind was something else!... But it really made her performance of Soldiers Angel more dramatic... 

Photos by: mastrfshrmn
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Stevie Nicks in Grand Prairie, TX... Setlist changes

Stevie is kickin' it in Grand Prairie, TX as I write this... There have been a few deviations from the opening night setlist at Red Rocks... Between the first couple of songs tonight, Nicks apparently called out a few in the front row for filming her asking them to stop that it was distracting... The video screen behind the band is similar to previous tours.. There doesn't seem to be any sign of the new footage that was shot for any of the videos or the documentary... and I find that odd!  Especially when there apparently is footage for multiple videos from In Your Dreams.  But she did mention the new For What It's Worth video with Dave Stewart.. which should be making it's debut real soon.

Photos courtesy of Cristyintexas 1 | 2 | 3

The setlist so far:

01 Stand Back
02 Secret Love
03 Dreams
04 Sorcerer
05 Moonlight
06 Gold Dust Woman
07 Soldiers Angel
08 Annabel Lee
09 For What It's Worth
10 Rhiannon
11 Landslide
12 Ghosts Are Gone
Band Intros
13 Leather and Lace (with Steve Real - Stevie's vocal coach since 1997)
14 Edge of Seventeen
Encore
15 Love Is

Thanks to @cristyintexas and @MarioTarradell for the setlist updates!

Photo by Michael Insuaste - Jam Magazine

Stevie Nicks Live on "Good Morning America" Concert Series August 26th - New York City

"Good Morning America" announced its sizzling 2011 Summer Concert Series lineup with the hottest chart-topping acts in the country and the biggest names in music.

Stevie Nicks - August 26th.

The Summer Concert Series will be held for the third year at the Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. 

Viewers interested in joining "GMA" in Central Park are encouraged to arrive at Summerstage Rumsey Playfield via the 72nd Street entrance on Fifth Avenue at 6 a.m., when the park opens to the public. With the exception of Lady Gaga being a free, ticketed event, all concerts are free and open to the public and will take place live during "Good Morning America," Fridays from 7 to 9 a.m. ET.

Good Morning America

[Video] Stevie Nicks at Buffalo Chips Sturgis 2011 almost getting blown off stage

Stevie Nicks in an amazing performance 11th August 2011 not giving in to a thunderstorm....Jeff Bridges and friends



Does Anyone know what her setlist was at Sturgis? In order or not... Stevie's set was apparently only 4 songs.. one of which was Soldiers Angel, and she opened with Landslide.




[Article] Stevie Nicks: She’s a “Soldier’s Angel,” a fairy godmother with the gift of music

Stevie Nicks is a big-hearted woman who has found a way to comfort ailing  soldiers. She sings about it on her excellent new album, In Your Dreams.
The Dallas Morning News
August 12, 2011



Thursday, August 11, 2011

Stevie at Sturgis....

Lee Woodruff tweeted this photo of Stevie.. her dog and 3 of the 4 Woodruff boy's... How cool is that! 

Stevie's in Sturgis, SD tonight to perform at the American Thunder Music Festival along with Jeff Bridges and John Fogerty - an all star benefit concert in support of the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

Update:  From what I've read, Stevie's portion of the show opened with Landslide... Stevie did perform Soldier's Angel... and a storm was brewing in the midwest last night.... That crazy wind followed her from Colorado... Jimmy Paxon said it was really something and that the wind at Red Rocks was nothing on this.  Drums blown over, lights swaying... But they soldiered on.

Stevie Nicks braving real-life heat for In Your Dreams

Illness brings reversal on her no-summer-shows stance 

Stevie Nicks swore she would never play the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion again. Then, she got pneumonia.

Chron.com
By: Joey Guerra - Music Writer

"On the day my record (In Your Dreams) came out, my precious record, I was really, really sick with pneumonia. I couldn't even go and do anything. I just thought, 'It's the grim reaper. He's haunting me here,'" Nicks says. "I made a decision from that second onward, that I was just going to do anything I could do to bring this record to the people.

"I'm doing outdoor shows that I swore up and down that I would never do again because it's just too damn hot in the middle of the summer. I called my manager at the beginning of the year and said, 'I take it all back.' I will do whatever it takes to get people to listen to this record, because I don't know if I'm ever going to make another record that's this good."


In Your Dreams pairs the Fleetwood Mac songbird with Dave Stewart, who knows his way around iconic females. (Stewart and Annie Lennox made the Eurythmics one of the biggest acts of the '80s). It's Nicks' first solo record in a decade and has earned some of the best reviews of her storied career.

Were you worried about fans accepting new music after such a long wait?

It's not just tough for me. It's tough for everybody. This is the (age of the) Internet. Piracy follows us like the grim reaper. Finally, in 2009 December, I was in Australia, and I ended up writing the song Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream), and when I finished it up in Brisbane, I said, "I'm ready to do a record, and basically, I don't care."

Why was Stewart the right fit for In Your Dreams?

We don't have an ego. When we wrote the first song, I realized he knows thousands of chords, and he's very knowledgeable of just musicianship. And I really know six chords — which has served me very well through the last 30 years. However, when you actually work with somebody that knows that many chords, it allows you to go places in melody that you would never go if you were just playing your six chords. You may say, "Why didn't you do that with Lindsey (Buckingham)?" The reason is that Lindsey and I lived together as a married couple for five years, played in a band for three years. Lindsey and I have so much drama and baggage. We have total ego. When we sit down together, the ego is sitting in between us.


How challenging was it to give up some of the control?

I have a lot of poetry, which Dave read. Who does that? He read 40 pages of poems about love affairs, fairies, angels, death, life, babies — everything you can imagine. When he came to my house, he picked a poem out and said, "I like this poem. Why don't we start here?" It was You May Be the One. I was a little bit like the deer in the headlights. "Does he really think we're going to write a song together? Here? In my house?" He did. And we did. I never wrote with Lindsey. If I wrote a song, I'd put it on a cassette in the early days, and I'd put it by the coffee with a note that said, "Here's a song. You can produce it, but don't change it."

What were the advantages of recording at home?

Dave and I made it at my big, two-story house in Los Angeles. It was like making a record with Led Zeppelin in the 1960s at the (Headley) Grange outside of London. It was all those things that you would want if you were making a real rock-n-roll record. We had dinners every night — dinner for 12 — in my dining room, where we would break for an hour-and-a-half and talk about the world, talk about politics and gossip and then go back to working. It was just so unbelievable.

Texas is a special place for you, isn't it?

I love Texas. I actually lived in Texas once when I was making (1985's) Rock a Little for several months. I (also) lived in Texas for five years in El Paso, from fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade. I have a real love for Texas. It's going to be hot, and I might drop dead of heat exhaustion. But I'll get back up.


[Video] Stevie Nicks gets ready to rock hard this Summer



Lindsey Buckingham Live in Studio C KBCO Boulder, CO - FRIDAY!

TUNE IN at 4pm Friday, August 12th and listen to Lindsey Buckingham in Studio C at Boulder, CO's 97.3 KBCO. Or listen on-line at kbco.com to hear his performance.  Plus... there is a ticket giveaway to see him at Gates Concert Hall at Denver University on September 14th. 

Lindsey's in Boulder this week to promote his upcoming album Seeds We Sow which will be released in North America September 6th.  He's scheduled to appear at the FMQB Triple A Conference this Saturday Morning for a performance.

KBCO website to listen live

Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart Update:

Stevie's In Your Dreams continues to rise on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart.  After re-entering the chart last week the album, in it's 14th week of release in North America and 12th non-consecutive week on Billboards Top 200 jumps up 20 places to # 161 from # 181 last week. Sales for this week were 3,442 in the US an increase of 269 units over last week when sales were 3,173 (8.5% increase).  Total US sales so far are approaching 140k.  This chart placement is for the week ending August 7th and Billboard issue August 20th.

The album also moves up on Billboard's Top 200 Current Albums Chart to # 137 from last week's # 151.

On the Top Rock albums chart, the album drops a few places from # 42 last week to # 47 this week.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

[VIDEO] Stevie Nicks August 9th "In Your Dreams" Tour - Red Rocks

Chart Updates for Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams Week 6 UK

Fleetwood Mac continues charting on multiple charts in Australia this past week placing 4 titles on 3 charts.  In the UK Rumours remains about midway up the Top 40 Catalogue Chart and Stevie's In Your Dreams continues to slide down the Top 100 Album Chart.  In it's 6th week on the chart In Your Dreams is at # 91 in likely it's final week on the Top 100. In Ireland Fleetwood Mac's Live in Boston DVD from 2004 is a new entry on the Top 10 DVD Music Chart at # 4 in it's 4th overall week on this Chart in Ireland.  Previous weeks numbers are in parenthesis.

UK
FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS
# 19 (15) UK - Top 40 Catalogue Chart - Week ending 8/13/2011

STEVIE NICKS - IN YOUR DREAMS
# 91 (74) UK - Top 100 Albums chart week ending 8/13/2011 (Week 6)

IRELAND
FLEETWOOD MAC - LIVE IN BOSTON (DVD)
# 4 ( -) Ireland - Top Music DVD Charts August 4, 2011


AUSTRALIA
FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS
# 75 (61) Australia - Top 100 Albums Chart - Week ending 08/08/2011
# 20 (17) Australia - Top 50 Catalogue Chart - Week ending 08/08/2011

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF
# 04 (06)Australia - Top 50 Catalogue Chart - Week ending 08/08/2011

FLEETWOOD MAC - GREATEST HITS
# 29 (37) Australia - Top 50 Catalogue Chart - (week ending 08/08/2011)

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE DANCE (DVD)
# 22 (21) Australia - Top 40 Music DVD Chart - Week ending 08/08/2011