For the record, I never said that I am not a Stevie fan. I am. I’m just not a big enough fan to spend absurd amounts of money to see her from twenty feet away. However, due to my roommate’s status as an uber-obsessed almost-groupie, I did see her from twenty feet away—and I had a great view of Stevie’s rhinestone-studded platform black Reeboks.
Highlights of the show included a rocking-out cover of a Led Zepellin song, whose title is escaping me at the moment, complete with a feather-adorned hat that would have shamed a peacock and Stevie Nicks in a rare moment of wearing pants; several shawl changes, most notably to a stunning gold one for, duh, Gold Dust Woman; and Stevie introducing her musical director and former lover Waddy as “the love of my life, but he married another woman, what can you do?”
My roommate, with her persistent ‘innocent pretty girl’ schtick, managed to flirt her way passed security to stand right at Stevie’s feet for Edge of Seventeen and the ensuing encore. She gave the worth-more-than-my-seat Stevie flower bouquet (“Stevie” because it featured belladonnas, prepared specially by the dude at the flower shop who was himself a huge fan) to the goddess herself, and even managed to shake her hand, make eye contact and say, “Thank you. I love you.”
Alright, I’m at work, and then when I’m done with that I’m going to my other job, hooray for 14 hour days! Tomorrow evening I’m flying out to Portland for a mini college reunion, organized and hosted by my partner-in-procrastination Rebecca, also known as Reebers, who dedicated hours and hours of allotted thesis-writing time with me in the coffeeshop crafting limericks about all of our friends. Plane ticket from ABQ to PDX: $434. Amount of money lost by taking time off from work: $150 (including tips that I probably wouldn’t have gotten anyway). Reliving my college days… priceless.
As was seeing my roommate shake hands with the White Winged Dove.
Edit: Ernay was right: the Led Zep song was, indeed, Rock and Roll.
14 responses so far ↓
1 chublin // Aug 3, 2005 at 8:31 am
hmmm.. interesting, so it was a landslide of coke that brought her down, eh? I never thought of the song that way before. brilliant.
2 jaki_o // Aug 3, 2005 at 8:38 am
Glad to hear you had a good time. And the trip sounds like it’s going to be amazing! Didn’t you just get back from a trip??
3 Jay_galk25 // Aug 3, 2005 at 9:07 am
Lol, all this talk about white remind me that I need to call my friend Cokehead Rachel
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Jay “I Love Kat Rawr”
4 rainingheart // Aug 3, 2005 at 10:03 am
Glad to hear you had fun!
5 Cindy_B // Aug 3, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Dropping by to say hi!
6 TimsHead // Aug 3, 2005 at 12:32 pm
So did you bask in the glow of your friend living her dream? That must have been interesting to watch, standing apace and looking at it all quite objectively.Portland has always seemed like a really cool place. Hope you have a great time!
7 thinlizzy17 // Aug 3, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Sounds like a great time. As I said, I’m not a Stevie Nicks fan, either, but it would have been fun to go, and fun to see your friend have such a great time.
8 StigmataMartyr42 // Aug 3, 2005 at 1:01 pm
Wow, that must have been awesome for her. I am a Fleetwood Mac fan, haven’t heard too much of her solo stuff. I have seen the person who I idolize, Ozzy Osbourne, twice! The tickets were too damn expensive though, even if I did get to see other cool bands. Hey, take care!
9 Didya_evawonda // Aug 3, 2005 at 3:53 pm
I saw “The Mac” at the Rosemont Horizon in 1988…great fun. My sources (ain’t the internets grand?!) say that the Zep song was “Rock and Roll.” I can see how the title would be easy to forget…
Waddy kicks ass…he’s from Queens, co-wrote Werewolves of London with Zevon, and pretty much played with or produced anyone who was anyone in the 70s-80s California rock scene. I believe, though, that any dude who was remotely connected to mucis in the 70s was a “lover” of Stevie’s…
Enjoy Portland.
10 doctorperky // Aug 3, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Never been into Stevie Nicks, personally. All the people I badly want to see from 20 feet away are cheap. Or, rather, their tickets are. They’re still playing clubs so you don’t pay more, you just have to want it more. And they’re just happy you give a rat’s butt and showed up. Well, maybe when the Monkey’s a little older…
11 MaximaBella // Aug 4, 2005 at 8:52 am
sweet, im 10 minutes from PDX!!!
12 MaximaBella // Aug 4, 2005 at 9:24 am
u might be moving here? sweet! Lets go procrastinate or sumthin…
OMG Coke Zero…Im a diet coke addict, but I also like reg. coke..as far as full calorie cola’s go..its like a once a month dessert~so there was C2, it was ok, but had about 80 calories, then this Zero started showing up..and me, being a ‘try any new fancy marketing pop scheme’…had to test it out..its coke, w/out the calories, and it tastes like REAL COKE…not as sweet, and NO DIET taste…its amazing, im hooked!!!!
13 kierplablo // Aug 4, 2005 at 9:49 am
Did you go to PSU? I always suspected you had spent some time in the Northwest… You’ve got that organically hip vibe to your xanga.
14 DavisMcDavis // Aug 10, 2005 at 5:06 am
Stevie has a lot of men that were the love of her life, I think – and she’s written a song for every sinlge one of them. Tell me, has anyone ever written anything for you?
Although Gold Dust Woman is about cocaine ["Take your silver spoon and dig your grave"], Landslide may very well just be about a mountain for all I know.
A belladonna bouquet is haute – your roommate sounds like my kind of crowd. Ask her to show you “Silver Springs” on “The Dance” DVD which she probably owns – the part at the end where Stevie is shrieking at Lindsay is the most dramatic performance on stage I’ve ever seen by anyone ever.
“NEVER GET AWAY!!!!!” is what she’s shrieking, and she’s right, because he hasn’t.