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We post rare Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac demos, bootlegs, outtakes, master reels, interviews, etc. for you all to download. If you have a request, we will put it up if we have it. ☽ ❤ ☾

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Since we all love Stevie's interviews with Jim Ladd, would you mind sharing all of them? I had no idea she did so many.

I have a lot! I'll start working on getting them up tonight but it'll take me a bit because most are on my computer from CDs and are in a ton of separate parts (that annoy me). So I like to edit them into one file and edit it to make it as clear as possible (some are transferred through cassette). Then it takes like forever to upload to mediafire since some of these interviews are like over an hour long. But I think I have every interview she's done with him and I will upload them all this week. 

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For the anon who requested a piano demo of Gypsy. Here's a short piano demo from 1980. I say short because the other piano demo that circulates a lot is the absolutely ridiculous 18 minute (yes 18 minute!) long Gypsy demo. And here's the mediafire download link. 

I think it's gorgeous and it's one of my favorite versions of Gypsy, along with the rockin' Gypsy from the reel with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers that I posted here and the acoustic live Gypsy with Lindsey that I posted here. 

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I've just read about a Stevie interview with Jim Ladd from 2005. Do you have it?

Yes I do. Here’s the download link. Sorry it took a bit to reply, mediafire was really slow to upload it and it’s fairly long (almost an hour long). I love this interview by the way. Stevie’s always so funny with Jim Ladd, she lets her guard down. And I love how Jim just keeps reminding her how hot she is. “Well… DAMN!” 

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do you have an interview that jim ladd did with the whole band in 1976 i think, and if you do can you post it and share a download link?

Yes I have it. Here ya go. By the way, Jim Ladd is bar none my favorite of anybody who has interviewed Stevie. I kind of like the 1983 Afterview one best. I already uploaded it, check the post out here.  :) 

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My favorite version of Gypsy. From a master reel with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers dated 4/3/80. It's basically Gypsy, if Gypsy randomly started rocking out. I'm in love with the raw vocals and the wicked ending. Here's the download link. Enjoy. 

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Other Side of The Mirror Press Conference

Here's a short press conference (19 mins long) in Holland about the Other Side Of The Mirror.

My favorite part is when one reporter brings up her recent stay at the Betty Ford Center and asks "Did you have a drug problem?", and she answers with "WELL I DIDN'T GO THERE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME!" and everybody cracks up, then she refuses to talk any more about it when he keeps pushing for more info. Sassy klono'd out Stevie is the best. 

And here's the download link...

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Back to ridiculously wild bootlegs from The Wild Heart Tour, here's another fave: Austin, Texas 1983. Her all-round drunkenness is wonderful, but the best part of the show is definitely the saga of the Snoopy stuffed animal that somebody gives her during Dreams. Then during the show she continues to update the crowd on "Gemini Snoopy" and his loyalty to her. 

"Thunder only happens when it's raini- SNOOPY!" 

Other great moments: "Do you know who this is REALLY about? No you don't! But I do!" before Sara, "I love teddy bears!", "I have to leave now. Cause this is like part of the show. So like, just cool out here. It's gonna be cool."

Here's the mediafire download link to the whole Austin show 

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Uploading my favorite bootleg ever tonight, the infamous Dallas show from The Wild Heart Tour. Quite possibly my favorite era ever due to Stevie in her drunken coked up glory ad-libbing lyrics, yelling completely random things during songs, slurring, and her all-round fucked-up-ness (US Fest 83 anybody?) To sum it up, it was WILD.

Here's my favorite show from that tour, with highlights such as: "In the still of the night... I refuse to carry equipment...", "To the floor.... I SLEEP ON THE FLOOR! Either bunk beds, or on the floor.", "They say you're not the man for me. What do THEY know?", "Mick says it's just one more link, Stevie. One more link in the goddamn chain!", announcing the Cowboys football score, and rambling about her 'notable' ZZ Top keychain that 'nobody else has'.

Here's a link to the full show on mediafire. Enjoy! 

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As a follow up to the Leather & Lace early take, this is a scaled down early version of Kind of Woman. It's more than a little bit terrifying.

So here's a daily reminder to never cheat on Stevie Nicks.

Because she will haunt the hell out of you.

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I'm currently a little obsessed with this early take of Leather & Lace, done completely solo by Stevie. The vocals are gorgeous.

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Here's the infamous drunken tapes from Shine Club 2001 in NYC. We're still not quite sure what Stevie and Sheryl ingested before performing this night, but I do know that i'd like some. All I can say, is what the fuck are these women singing and where on earth did they ever come up with these completely wrong unintelligible ad-lib lyrics? Too ridiculous. Anywayyy....

Setlist:

It's Only Love

Leather & Lace

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

The Difficult Kind

Too Far From Texas

And the mediafire download link, if you love them as unconditionally as I do and want these tapes anyway. (Or if you just want to laugh at them).

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As requested by my amazing friend Jessica, here's Stevie's songs from the anti-nuclear charity concert Peace Sunday at the Rose Bowl on June 6th, 1982. She performed a short 4-song set, and came back to sing 2 songs with the rest of the performers at the end. Among the other performers were Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Crosby Stills & Nash, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, etc.

A lot of people claim Stevie got the most applause of anybody at the show. This was a few weeks before Mirage was released.

 The Setlist:

Edge of Seventeen

Sara

I Need To Know

Rhiannon

Teach Your Children (Everyone)

Give Peace a Chance (Everyone)

And here's the mediafire download link ~

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Jim Ladd "Afterview" with Stevie Nicks - 1983

Entertaining little interview with Stevie at Jim Ladd's house. Sharon is there too, but she doesn't talk. And Benmont Tench is there and he tries to talk but Stevie talks over him, (of course.) The highlight of the interview, to me, is when Jim says "They're leaving since they took all my drugs." and Stevie says "And your herbal tea!"  Oh, Stevie.

Here's the mediafire download link! :)

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Just posted this on Youtube so I thought i'd share it with you all too. This is one of my favorite Stevie recordings, because you see how nutty she really is behind the scenes. This is right after she wrote Julia and she's trying to lay down the first piano demo with Shelly at 3am on a Friday night. Robin and Sara are apparently there too. Stevie says "fuck" like 3 times and throws a fit over a "fucking note that is haunting her", then exclaims that she is both "neurotic and schizophrenic". She also threatens to not make "mozzarella and tomatoes" for Shelly. Then she starts yelling to Robin that she needs a line of coke (which she refers to as a "toot"), and when nobody gets her the blow, she walks away muttering "Obviously nobody's going to get me it so i'll just get up and get it myself!"

Here's the mediafire download link if you want to keep it to laugh at her on-the-go like me and Bailie do.

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My all-time favorite rendition of Landslide. From the Rumours tour, September 1977 in LA.

What's most interesting to me about this version isn't only the awesome notes she holds at the end, but the fact that she dedicates it "To 'Beautiful Child'.. where ever you are... This is for you." Now that we know the infamous 'Beautiful Child' is Derek Taylor (the PR manager for the Beatles), we can pretty much figure out that her short-lived affair with him was going on in September of 1977. (Yes, as per usual with Stevie's boytoys, he was married and soon left her and went back to his wife.) But it's ok, because within a month she was dating Paul Fishkin, and then having an affair with Mick while still dating Paul.

Stevie, how do you do it?