Rock a Little Announced Nov. 1983 - What About Mirror Mirror?

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Reconsider Me - Stevie says how much she hated this song. I think Jimmy made her do it and she was backed up vocally by Don Henley. I think once Jimmy walked out, she tossed this song immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNoaIr2OJNk

well…just to focus on that point for a moment, did he really walk out? It's often been said (including by her) that she fired him. And if I recall it was something about her being upset that he was giving more attention/spending more time/more focus on Tom and other projects than on hers…. but maybe someone here will remember better. Later she said (on her BTM among other places) that it was her drug use and the craziness of the entourage and all the people she'd have hanging around in the studio etc. that drove him away. Jimmy did a great job on BD of keeping the entourage out and keeping her focused on work. (He had the power then because she hadn't had all the solo success yet and was very nervous about how it all would go and was willing to listen to him).

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Later she said (on her BTM among other places) that it was her drug use and the craziness of the entourage and all the people she'd have hanging around in the studio etc. that drove him away. Jimmy did a great job on BD of keeping the entourage out and keeping her focused on work. (He had the power then because she hadn't had all the solo success yet and was very nervous about how it all would go and was willing to listen to him).

In one interview she said:

"In order to do an album with him, I had to change. I couldn't be Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. I had to be much stronger and much more in control of myself because he would not waste his time working with a flaky out of control girl singer from Fleetwood Mac. He had no reason to be in the studio with that person and it was made very clear to me from the very beginning that if I was going to do this, I was no longer the coddled, dependent baby of Fleetwood Mac. I had to go up and be very strong or we couldn't do this album."

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by michelej1

In one interview she said:

Wow. That's a rare moment when she self-assessed herself with a level of clarity and objectivity.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

In one interview she said:

ha, yes I recall her saying in a tv interview somewhere that he told her that this [BD] wasn't FM and that she had been spoiled in FM, that she had been protected "like the little baby egg" in FM and that wouldn't be the case on BD. She was so clearly coked out in that interview as well. Maybe Entertainment Tonight ? I can't recall, but probably have the video somewhere in a stack of VHS tapes. One day it would be fun to go back and watch those old interviews and compare the stories of events then to how she tells them now.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

well…just to focus on that point for a moment, did he really walk out? It's often been said (including by her) that she fired him. And if I recall it was something about her being upset that he was giving more attention/spending more time/more focus on Tom and other projects than on hers…. but maybe someone here will remember better. Later she said (on her BTM among other places) that it was her drug use and the craziness of the entourage and all the people she'd have hanging around in the studio etc. that drove him away. Jimmy did a great job on BD of keeping the entourage out and keeping her focused on work. (He had the power then because she hadn't had all the solo success yet and was very nervous about how it all would go and was willing to listen to him).

That sounds pretty accurate. I never knew those details of what went down between them.