Posted on 08/26/2006 5:57:16 PM PDT by Huntress
Singer Steve Nicks is doing her part to support U.S. troops by donating hundreds of iPods to soldiers wounded in Iraq. The former Fleetwood Mac star regularly visits soldiers at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
She explains, "I refuse to be pulled into the politics of war. But once these soldiers sign up, go to war and come back to a hospital, I will do whatever it takes to make them better." Nicks has provided iPods loaded with her music, along with fellow artists Aerosmith and Elvis Presley.
She has also sent baby clothes to war widows, joined bedside vigils and with the United Service Organization (USO), hopes to provide every returning soldier with a music player. She adds, "Any one of them could be my own child. You can't help falling in love with every one of them."
But she has the class and dignity not to bring it up. Good for her!
"Here ya go.. 'Rhiannon' on Midnight Special "
Any idea what year that video is from? Those were good times, for music.
So who will the RIAA sue, Nicks, Apple, or the troops? My money's on all of them.
Uh, try BOOR.
Ya know...I don't care what her politics are. She may be a liberal, but, unlike most of that ilk, she is TRULY "supporting the troops". I'm going to buy a few of her songs on Music Match to support HER. God Bless her...
That must have been the early or mid 1960s. Would luv to see that.
at last, someone with humor
It's hard to believe it, but Stevie Nicks is 58 now. How time flies.
FYI, I think the first two Fleetwood Mac albums with Buckingham and Nicks, the one with the white cover and "Rumours," stand up against any rock albums before and since. And Stevie's early solo stuff was pretty good. But with a couple of exceptions, I don't think anything they've done in the 30 years since rivals those two albums.
FYI again, I saw them in concert during the Rumours tour. They stank. I think they were all drunk that night.
April 9, 1976 (says so right at the start of the video)
I was 12 and super horny and an idiot and she was my Goddess! (keep in mind, all I had was her voice; cable TV wasn't available yet, and MTV was even further down the road).
Yay 12 year-old imaginations! She turned out to be just as hot as I'd imagined!
/stops being 12
Gld to oblige.
a boringly boorish bored borg boar
Ooops. gld = glad.
Off subject
You mean to tell me I have to worry about 12 year old boys. My daughter is 11. This is disturbing. :0)
Almost forgot, I have an "unofficial" recording (nicer than the B-word, LOL!) of an 11-song set Fleetwood Mac did in 1975 before a radio studio audience in Connecticut, may have been one of the first times the band with Buckingham and Nicks was recorded in a stage setting. They did "Station Man" and "Green Manalishi" and "Hypnotized" from the earlier Fleetwood Mac era, along with stuff from the white "Fleetwood Mac" album. There's an extended version of "Rhiannon" where Stevie's voice is absolutely incredible, one of the best female rock performances I've heard. Of course it was 31 years ago and there was less wear and tear on her vocal chords and she hadn't done as much dope or smoked as many cigarettes, etc.
It was clearly the purpose of your visiting this thread.
She missed me, but hey the line is getting much shorter...
Unless your 12 yo boy is 42, I'd guess you have nothing to worry about. haha
Thank you for posting it.
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