Posted on 11/09/2021 2:27:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
Stevie Nicks is very particular about certain things in her life. She has to put her mattress on the floor whenever she’s feeling overwhelmed by fame and wants to return to simple times. There have to be rainbow lightbulbs in her home, as well as “fabulous” sheets. A photo of her and George Harrison has to be on her at all times when she’s on tour, as does her expensive massage chair.
However, there is one thing that Nicks is the most particular about, excessive cellphone and computer use. If you’re around Nicks, don’t expect any technology to be around. When she’s talking to you, there are no screens allowed.
Stevie Nicks performing in Santa Barbara, CA, 2010. Stevie Nicks | Dr. Billy Ingram/Getty Images Stevie Nicks thinks technology is ‘obnoxious’ Despite her recent fame on Tik Tok, Nicks isn’t a big fan of cellphones and other technology like computers. During an interview with the Associated Press, Nicks spoke at length about her distaste. She doesn’t like how they’ve “taken over the world.”
“I believe computers have taken over the world, I believe that they’ve really in many ways, ruined our children, I believe that kids used to love to go out and play, I believe that social graces are gone because manners are gone because all people do is sit around and text; I think it’s obnoxious,” Nicks said.
When the interviewer asked what Nicks does when a person she’s with goes on their phone, Nicks said, “I’m going to put my hand on your hand and I’m going to say, ‘Turn it off. For now. Just give me an hour of you. I really want an hour of just you and your heart. I don’t want you talking to somebody else while we’re having lunch.’
“It’s love, you know, it’s relationships. I don’t want love and relationships to be lost, and I feel that’s what’s happening,” Nicks concluded.
Nicks’ views on technology haven’t gotten better over the years. She still dislikes it so much that she doesn’t even own a computer and has no cell service on her cellphone. In 2020, Nicks spoke to the LA Times on a landline. “She has a personal line that she dances around when it rings, wondering ‘Who could it be? Is this a two-hour call? Is this going to be a tragedy?’ and an emergency line to which her assistant attends,” the Times wrote.
“She does not have a computer,” they continued. “She does have an iPhone, but it doesn’t have cellular service and she uses it only as a camera. Despite her distaste for social media, Nicks has gone viral a few times in recent months.” They’re talking about Nathan Apodaca’s viral Tik Tok in which he skateboards chugging a bottle of cranberry juice, listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.”
In 2015, Nicks told Us Weekly (per Music News) that she used to take photos, mostly selfies, using her Canon digital camera, but considered getting an iPhone, not to use as a phone but as a replacement camera.
“Nothing compares to the old Polaroids, but I always have my Canon digital camera. It’s scratched to death!” she said. “I have thousands and thousands of ridiculously unimportant selfies that I took while trying to learn to be a photographer. I might actually give in and get an iPhone, though. Not to use as a phone, I just need a better picture-taker.”
Of course, nowadays, it would be dangerous, especially for a celebrity, not to carry a cellphone. So, Nicks does carry around her little flip phone in case of emergencies.
“I’m super old-school,” she continued to Us Weekly. “I have a red Nokia flip phone for emergencies, I call it the ‘fire phone’ because I had to be evacuated from the Latigo Canyon Fire in Malibu a few years back. I was alone and terrified, so I thought, okay, I need to get an emergency little cell. Otherwise, I’ll only talk on the phone if I’m near a landline and really have the time.”
Still, Nicks is more concerned about having a pen on her than her phone. How else could she jot down everything and anything that comes to her mind? She could be inspired to write the next “Rhiannon” at any moment. If she didn’t have a pen, she’d forget all about it. Maybe someone should teach Nicks that she can write her inspirations down in Notepad.
Four???? Wow. My conscious would eat me alive.
Jess was. He had accounts at a bank I used to work for back in the ‘80’s. He used to visit a friend of mine’s boss when he’d come to the bank on the executive floor.
You should see her dump in St. Thomas USVI.
And then there are The Video Children, whom you hand the balky device to and they have figured out in under a minute.
Stevie Nicks = now officially an old fogey and cranky old lady.
I still have a DSLR and a few lenses but I admit none of the kit has been used hardly in the past couple of years.
A Go Pro is around here somewhere that I had plans for then this virus stuff happened.
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No purple hair, no tat’s, no piercings.
Just how I remember them
I always wondered if the stories were true about her doing coke enemas after she burned a hole through her nose... Pfffft! :P
Given that my wife wears her phone like a third palm, and Stevie wants your attention for hers, i find that wonderful.
My wife will be texting friends when we are out for dinner. I’m a doctor, but leave my phone in the car.
There’s a line in a Jimmy Buffet song, “Don’t try to describe a Kiss concert if you’ve never seen one”.
Well, I attended one of the very early Fleetwood Mac concerts in Phoenix right after Buckingham and Nicks joined the band. It was absolutely amazing. But then again I was young once and only back from Vietnam a few years. I wasn’t born old like many of the folks on FR.
I wasn’t born old like many of the folks on FR.
“…….I’m getting older, too”, but I refuse to get OLD.
Clearly she never experienced thundersnow. It’s fascinating.
I saw Fleetwood Mac the first time in August 1977 in Tucson at the U of A football stadium. I don’t remember it as being that great. It wasn’t that long of a concert.
The shows we saw at the Tacoma Dome on 2013 and 2015 were fabulous. Had great seats and they played for over 2 hours both concerts,
it’s one thing to go after something with horns when you’re hungry. and another to do so when your belly is full. I know I eat sometimes cause I’ve got nothing better to do.
I saw FM at the Garden State Arts Center in NJ, I think in the mid 90s, last of four bands. Dave Mason was with them, they were awful. After they played for awhile, they encouraged the crowd to stand up, looking for some energy. Instead, we got up and walked out.
FM and Rumours are still great albums. I still get chills when Stevie hits those two high notes in Dreams (a three chord song). Their old stuff with Kirwan, Green and Welch was pretty good, too.
I knew a girl who had miscarried 10 times, after doing everything right, who had experienced Hellish anguish, and by her own admission was driven to near insanity because of it.
I was speechless. That was pain beyond any expressions of hollow or genuine sympathy. Fortunately she left right after and all I could offer was a silent prayer.
I can’t even imagine. My sister had a miscarriage and it was awful but 10? Just breaks your heart when we hear something like this.
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