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\u201cI have a super loud voice,\u201d Stevie Nicks said with a laugh. The world is thankful for it. Her voice is necessary in times like these. The future is up in the air and Stevie Nicks has stepped up to the plate to be the heroine will we need. She is taking the show on the road and it will be unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. The 27-city tour starts on October 25th in Phoenix and will travel to places like Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City and more. \u201cThe 24 Karat Gold Tour\u201d is the next chapter in the mythical career of Stevie Nicks.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post, Nicks went into detail about what fans should look forward to when \u201cThe 24 Karat Gold Tour\u201d comes to town. \u201cI made a list. I went all the way back into my full catalog because the 24 Karat Gold record has a lot of songs. It also does encompass in many ways all the songs from all my solo records. So I\u2019m having to pick. My list ended up to be 31 songs, it\u2019s really ridiculous. I have an amazing opening act in The Pretenders. It cannot be a three hour set like I just finished doing with Fleetwood Mac and I asked, \u2018But Why?\u2019 My musical director and lead guitarist asked if I cut down the set at all yet and I went, \u2018Nope.\u2019 So I said, \u2018Just hand out the 31 songs to the band and tell them they don\u2019t have to learn them all perfectly. They just have to be aware that we need to play these songs because sometimes the songs that you think are going to be the best aren\u2019t and sometimes the songs that you think will never work ends up being some of your favorite things,\u2019\u201d she told me. It was quite clear that Stevie Nicks created an adventurous and exciting air around her latest undertaking.<\/p>\n
Nicks acknowledged that she will have to revisit her classic hits before touching the new material. \u201cOf course there are the songs that you have to do which are \u2018Landslide\u2019 and \u2018Edge Of Seventeen.\u2019 That\u2019s fine. I love all those songs so I don\u2019t care. I wish I could do all new songs but you can\u2019t,\u201d she chuckled. She continued, \u201cI\u2019m going to try to do some title songs. I\u2019m going to make an effort to do an extremely difficult complex song called \u2018Wild Heart\u2019 which may totally go down in flames. The fact is I\u2019m going to try because I always wanted to do it on stage. It\u2019s a very complex and complicated song but I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s going to work. I\u2019m going to do the songs \u2018Bella Donna\u2019, and \u2018Rooms On Fire.\u2019 I\u2019m trying to represent every record. There\u2019s a bunch of songs on 24 Karat Gold that haven\u2019t been played by my band. We have to work through all the songs on 24 Karat Gold to see if they will work. If you miss one syllable you can be lost in the dark. There\u2019s not even time to breathe. My musical director said \u2018Oh my God. Call me when it\u2019s over.\u2019 I said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry it\u2019s going to be okay. It\u2019s all going to work out.\u2019 He\u2019s a nervous wreck. It\u2019s going to be great because we are actually going to \u2018represent\u2019. That\u2019s what people say today, right? This tour is a little bit about the glorious past up until now. These songs are not songs that were ever kicked off records,\u201d Nicks told me. She then explained why the songs were never released. She said, \u201cThese are songs that were pulled off records by me because I didn\u2019t like how they were recorded. Which means I didn\u2019t like the production, I didn\u2019t like the singing, I didn\u2019t like the fact that it was made too much into a rock n roll song or not. These weren\u2019t songs that I didn\u2019t want to go out, these were just songs that weren\u2019t right. I said \u2018No, I\u2019m not going to have a bad experience with this song\u2019 so I pulled them. That\u2019s where 24 Karat Gold came from.\u201d What is old is new again. Fans have been salivating to see these buried treasures played live by the icon.<\/p>\n
When explaining the process of recording 24 Karat Gold, Nicks told me, \u201cWe started with sixteen songs when we went to Nashville. And it came down to fourteen or fifteen, maybe. I said to Dave Stewart who has all my demos, \u2018How can we make a record of these songs and do it while I\u2019m off from Fleetwood Mac, while Christine is moving back to LA, while we are getting her straightened out? How long would that take?\u2019 Dave said, \u20182-5 and 6-10 and then you go home.\u2019 He followed up by saying, \u2018You need to be on time and everything will be charted. And you want these songs charted exactly the way they were on your demos. They will be exact. They won\u2019t be arguing with you. These are the best of the best studio musicians and they play on all different kinds of records every single day.\u2019 We had to be organized and we were. It was so great because I didn\u2019t have to learn to sing any of these songs differently because they were exactly as I wrote them. And they loved them. We recorded live. I was in a booth looking at all of them. The drummer, another guitar player, we had three guitar players and it was all there and I could see everybody. It was like playing in a club. When we were done, we jumped on a plane and flew back to my house. It was really fun. We had another three weeks at my house and then it was done. And it was amazing because the only records made in that kind of time were Fleetwood Mac because we really didn\u2019t have that much money. We had a record deal. It was well known but it wasn\u2019t the time to be self-indulgent. And Bella Donna took three months with a month of rehearsal and a month before that of picking out the songs. Every other record we\u2019ve ever done has taken at least a year. Rumours, all of the records. We have enough money where everyone goes \u2018We can do whatever we want.\u2019 And I think sometimes that really doesn\u2019t work that well for you because you really don\u2019t need to book every studio in the city to put five thousand overdubs on music that is already really good. You are trying really hard to use your time wisely. You get better stuff and it is a lot more fun getting the stuff that you do get.\u201d Nicks has had a lot of fun throughout her career and doesn\u2019t plan on stopping anytime soon. Just when you think you have seen it all, Nicks makes sure that you haven\u2019t seen anything yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going out to promote this record to sell records because I know people don\u2019t buy that many records now. I have a really good record, and I can go up on stage and do as many of the songs that I can get away with doing,\u201d Nicks told me. She continued, \u201cThis will be a very theatrical show. We have a lot of great pictures. This is something I have not mentioned to anybody else. The guy who took the cover of Rumours, Fleetwood Mac and all of my covers, Herbert W. Worthington III, died last year and he left me everything. He left me every picture he ever took, all the way back to Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy and all the Fleetwood Mac stuff. All of the press photo sessions. I have an immense amount of amazing photographs taken by this great photographer who was a dear friend of mine that I can now use. When he was alive, he was like \u2018You can have that one picture but it\u2019s going to cost you $5,000.\u2019 I would go \u2018Herbie come on! Nobody is going to pay that much money! Are you crazy?\u2019 It\u2019s never been seen. So we have these photographs to use and to put up behind me. There\u2019s a picture for every song. A picture tells a thousand stories so that\u2019s really exciting too. I\u2019m going to try to make the beautiful art book that he always wanted to make but never got the opportunity to do.\u201d Stevie Nicks is all about making opportunities that were once not possible\u2014including another Fleetwood Mac tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will go out again. We will probably go out in another year and a half,\u201d Nicks said while shaking her head. She followed up by saying, \u201cWe have to for Christine. Because she\u2019s like \u2018Oh my God. I just came back to the band after sixteen years and you are going to break up now?\u2019 We can\u2019t break up now. We gave Christine her 120 shows and she flew through them. She\u2019s five years older than me and you would just never know it. She looks great. You\u2019ll get to see that show. She will never let us off the hook for that.\u201d Stevie Nicks made sure to not let the next generation off the hook when she spoke about what it takes to succeed in the world today.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s very hard now. That does not mean that it can\u2019t happen,\u201d Nicks said, endearingly. She continued, \u201cLook, it happened for Adele. Adele is certainly someone who writes great songs and has an amazing voice. Why did it happen for Adele? It\u2019s because the stars crossed exactly at the right time, who knows. Whatever it was she worked very hard at it. I think that\u2019s the thing. You have to figure out a way, if you\u2019re eighteen or moving out of your parents house because you have to figure out a way to play and also support yourself. If everybody is like how my parents were, oh boy, I went to college for five years. I stopped after five years and had three months left to graduate. I called my parents and I said \u2018My boyfriend Lindsey and I are going to LA.\u2019 They said \u2018Well, that\u2019s fine we totally believe in you and support your theory in what you\u2019re doing.\u2019 I said, \u2018Mom, we have to go now. It\u2019s now or never.\u2019 She said, \u2018Cool, however, we will be withdrawing all financial support.\u2019 And I said \u2018I know that and it\u2019s okay. We are going and I will be okay.\u2019 And it was okay. Lindsey and I went to LA in 1971 and we worked out butts off. I had lots and lots of jobs. We didn\u2019t really play shows because Lindsey didn\u2019t want to play covers. We could have made a thousand dollars a week if we did three days a week. I wouldn\u2019t have had to be a cleaning lady, a maid, a waitress or any of that. But the fact is, is that it made me a well-rounded person to be able to do that. We never gave up. You just have to keep working. I watch all those shows like The Voice, the end of American Idol, America\u2019s Got Talent. I watch them all because I think they are all really fun. I\u2019m a musical person and I love to watch people sing. If that\u2019s what Lindsey and I had to do, if it was now, I would be dragging him tooth and nail to do those shows. Because if that\u2019s the only way you can get people to see you now, then go on those damn shows. If you don\u2019t get on them this year, go home and get better and practice and go back and do it again next year. If this is what you want to do, you have to be absolutely organized. And devoted and determined and you can\u2019t listen to anybody tell you what you can and cannot do. Nobody knows what you can do except you. You have to prove the world wrong, period. If you\u2019re really good…And I think most people could actually say they are really good at something. I did. I would look in the mirror and would go \u2018Lindsey and I are excellent singers and we don\u2019t sound like anybody else. We can captivate an audience and we can write great songs. So I don\u2019t care if I\u2019m a waitress right now because I\u2019m not going to be a waitress for very long.\u2019 That\u2019s the attitude you have to take.\u201d<\/p>\n Nicks continued to share words of wisdom for aspiring entertainers. \u201cIf you can\u2019t have that work ethic about what you do, you might as well just try to go to school and learn to do something where you can get a job that you can get paid for. Rock and roll, music, acting, being a dancer. It\u2019s all fleeting unless you never look away. You can never, ever get out of the line. You have to stay in the line because somebody will jump in there and take your place,\u201d she said in all seriousness. Passionately, she exclaimed, \u201cOne thing I remembered when we first moved to LA\u2014we played for people. A lot of people were like, \u2018Yeah you guys are really good…But who are you? What are you? Are you rockabilly? Are you folk singers? Are you going to add members and become a rock n roll band? A country rock n roll band? Are one of you going to become a preacher? Are you going to be with the Everly Brothers?\u2019 We would be like, \u2018We don\u2019t know. We just know that we are going to be really famous. And we are really good at what we do. We don\u2019t put ourselves in any specific box. You can put us in a box and tell us what we are if you want and maybe we will believe you. But the fact is\u2014what we know is\u2014that we are really good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Nicks then proceeded to give career advice for young women in this day and age. \u201cIf this didn\u2019t work out for me I would have probably been a disc jockey or maybe an editor. I would have done something that was really, really fun. If this didn\u2019t pan out for me and I finally started thinking 10 years down the line \u2018Well maybe this isn\u2019t going to work,\u2019 I would have done something else and continued to do music in my leisure time. There is something also to be said about that. I think I could have been a great disc jockey because I love music and I love talking and I love telling stories. I think I could have been great at doing something like that. I always had something like that in the back of my mind even when I was sixteen when I told my parents that I was going to be a singer-songwriter and that\u2019s that. And my mom\u2019s like \u2018Well you are going to take short-handed typing. Because you are going to be able to be an independent woman. You are going to be able to stand in a room with really smart men and hold your own. You are never going to feel like you are behind while the whole room of men are going to look at you like some stupid girl.\u2019 My mom was seriously independent and she always had a job. She wanted that for me from the very beginning. To have my independence. I think that\u2019s important when talking to kids, especially women. Assert your Independence. Christine and I knew that we would never be treated like second class citizens when standing in a room with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. All of the famous men. If anybody ever treats us with anything but total respect we will just walk out and it is their loss. And that was implanted in my head by my mom long before I graduated from high school.\u201d Mom always knows best. So does Stevie Nicks.<\/p>\n Nicks hammered the point home by telling people to always put in their best effort and to never be afraid of being different. She said, \u201cYou could be a really good photographer but guess what? Your 5-year-old is a really good photographer. The bar has been set so high now with everything. I think I\u2019m a good photographer. But then I see these little kids taking these pictures and they are phenomenal. So you have to go back and say \u2018Well I\u2019m going to be better than that. The bar is raised and I\u2019m going to jump over that bar. I\u2019m going to be a better photographer than all the 5-year-olds and all the 25-year-olds.\u2019 The bar has been raised in everything because of this tech world we live in. I don\u2019t have a computer. I don\u2019t have an iPhone. I have a camera that takes really good pictures and I have a flip phone in case of a fire. That\u2019s it. I don\u2019t live in that world but I see everybody around me that lives in that world. Sometimes I feel like I am an alien. Everybody is sitting with a silver computer on their laps and crying because the Internet went down. That\u2019s really how people are and I don\u2019t live in that world. Maybe we should talk about kids being truly creative, who want to be a performer or a writer. They can\u2019t live in that world. Get out of that world. Start writing by hand. Life is beautiful. Buy a notebook, take out a pen and write it out instead.\u201d In true Stevie Nicks style, she had one last thing to say to everybody.<\/p>\n \u201cWhatever you do just don\u2019t be sitting next to somebody and talk to them on your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n You can purchase tickets to \u201cThe 24 Karat Gold Tour\u201d by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kyle Stevens The Huffington Post 19th Sept, 2016 Legend. Icon. Storyteller. \u201cI have a super loud voice,\u201d Stevie Nicks said with a laugh. The world is thankful for it. Her voice is necessary in times like these. The future is up in the air and Stevie Nicks has stepped up to the plate to be … Continue reading Stevie Nicks Talks About Empowering Women, Fleetwood Mac and her Next Tour | Huffington Post<\/span> ![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fleetwoodmac-uk.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-18-1474219711-2769634-14388_H_Fleetwood_Mac_3631-thumb.jpg?resize=380%2C570&ssl=1\")