("It was a goodly amount of money, especially then, and especially for two people who had Eventually, giving in to outside pressures, Stevie and Lindsey leave Fritz, and use an inheritance of Lindsey's to record demos for an album.
Stevie composes "After The Glitterįades", to be heard nine years later on her first solo album.
Social life at all, but I had money I got paid at least.")ġ972 - Fritz moves to Los Angeles. ("They were really playing, so it was almost as bad as joining a big rock 'n' rollīand 'cause it was serious, 'you be there' and I was the only girl and I'm always !ate for everything. That group through 1971, playing regularly all over the Bay Area. She joins up with Lindsey Buckingham in a psychedelic rock band called Fritz, and remains with he was somewhat, I guess,Įver-so-lightly impressed, not to let me know it, but he did sing another song with me, which made me know he did like it.")ġ968 - The Nicks family moves to Chicago, but Stevie stays in the BayĪrea attends San Jose State College. Lindsey walked into the room and sat down and started playingĪ song that I just happened to know every word and harmony perfect, 'Californiaĭreaming, and I thought he was absolutely stunning, so I kind of casually manoeuvred my way over. And it wasįun, even I went and I didn't go anywhere. That nobody really went to for church everybody went to get out of the house on a Wednesday night. She meets Lindsey Buckingham, they sing a duet together but then don't see one another again for the next two years. StevieĪttends Menlo-Atherton High School, and in her first experience of peer popularity, is voted runner-up to the homecoming queen. I just can't stop it."ġ965 - Stevie attends Arcadia High School in Los Angeles and joinsĬhanging Times, a four-member folk/rock group fashioned after The Mamas & The Papas.ġ966 - Jess Nicks and family are transferred to San Francisco. Since that day she says, "I've been the mad On that same birthday, she composes her first song, Goya, which had belonged to her music teacher (she took music lessons for all of a month). In Albuquerque, New Mexico five years in E1 Paso, Texas, two years in Salt Lake City, Utah, two years in Los Angeles, several years in the suburbs of San Francisco.ġ964 - On her I6th birthday, her parents give Stevie her first guitar, a The list of places where Stevie lived sounds like an uninspired lyric from a bluesy country tune: baby years in Phoenix a year Where your chest starts, and you're trying to work out the whole stage show, but that's what Iĭid.") As Stevie's father, Jess Nicks, a food business executive, climbed the ladder of success, he and family moved around from one southwestern Working out my routine, sort of, and that's not easy to do when the mirror starts at right So as a real little girl I started singingĪlong with the Beach Boys learning all the words. Russian ballet, so I had to figure out another way to do something wonderful without working at it. I'd pay my brother 50 cents a week just to dance with me just because ! loved to dance so much īut, see, I didn't want to go to ballet school every day, and study, and kill myself either, because I knew I couldn't bluff my way through, say ("I danced around like Isadora Duncan at four years old, and my parents said 'what are we gonna do?' He takes her along with him to perform in gin mills, where she sings and dances as he plays. Mirror on weekends her grandfather A.J., an ardent country crooner, teaches her to sing the female parts ofĬall-and-response country songs. Under, the sign of Gemini in Phoenix, Arizonaġ952 - As Stevie practices song and dance routines at home in front of the
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