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Dec 19, 1999 · The inimitable, wry Hicks, a drummer for San Francisco rock pioneers the Charlatans, packaged his sly cynicism in a Hot Club de France faux jazz sound (complete with two wonderful female ...
Aug 1, 2020 · The 1970s San Francisco was beautiful, flamboyant and alive. It was the era of hippies, bohemians, buskers, bongo-drum players and jewelry makers. The city was on the forefront of fashion, music and the counterculture movement.
- Chronicle Debut
- First Bay Area Concert with Fleetwood Mac
- ‘Tusk’ at The Cow Palace
- Always The Hippie
- Shoreline Steals Show from Nicks
- Band Shakes Off Rust at Reunion Session
- Hearing Old “Rumours”
- Pop Quiz
- Twirling in The Spotlight
- ‘Trouble’ and Paradise
The first mention of Nicks in The Chronicle arrived in 1974, when the pre-Fleetwood band named simply Buckingham Nicks opened for Hoyt Axton for six days at the Boarding House in San Francisco. (“HOYT AXTON also Buckingham Nicks,” the ad read.) Axton was credited as “a strong live performer,” while Buckingham Nicks was not reviewed.
Nicks played her first Bay Area gig with Fleetwood Mac at Day on the Green in Oakland in early 1975, then returned for three nights at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin’s review on Dec. 1, 1975, the first mention of Nicks in The Chronicle by her full name, hailed the new band and mentioned her “harsher, pi...
Fleetwood Mac played three sold-out nights from Dec. 14-16, 1979, at the Cow Palace for the “Tusk” tour. Selvin called Nicks “the weak link in the entire show,” but she was as always the most photogenic band member. Photographer John Storey’s image of Nicks under the Cow Palace spotlights is an all-time great Chronicle rock photo.
Nicks gave an interview to The Chronicle after the release of her hit solo album “Bella Donna” in 1981, crediting the Bay Area for shaping her as a performer. “My influences were straight out of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix,” Nicks told The Chronicle in 1981. “For me, in terms of what I was going to do on stage, how I was going to sing and write, ...
In 1986, a solo Nicks was the first headliner at Bill Graham’s brand new Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, performing under the tent top that “looks like the world’s biggest brassiere.” “The precious poetic content of her lyrics read more like Hallmark than Dylan Thomas,” Selvin wrote, “but the romantic soap operas she spins obviously find t...
A decade later, Nicks was back with Fleetwood Mac and Selvin dropped in on one of the band’s rehearsals in May 1997. The story was headlined “Fleetwood Mac Thinks About Tomorrow / Band shakes off rust at reunion session”: Stevie Nicks fluffed the opening line to “Dreams.” Twice. She can be forgiven her nervousness. Not only was she filming a concer...
In October 1997, the band’s comeback tour made it to Shoreline. Selvin was not impressed, according to his story headlined “Hearing Old `Rumours’ / Fleetwood Mac about the same as before”: “Nicks looked tired, a fatigue that her heavy layer of cosmetics couldn’t disguise,” he wrote, “but the crowd’s adoration appeared to energize her as the proceed...
In April 1998, Nicks was once again a solo act, touring in support of a box set called “Enchanted” and contemplating her life choices, including that one time she talked about possibly adopting a child. “I don’t really need children. I have a niece who’s 6, who certainly fills my life up as far as a child goes. I’m going to just work on my work. I ...
At her solo concert in support of “Enchanted,” once again at Shoreline, in August 1998, she gave the audience full Stevie. Chronicle critic Neva Chonin noted: She assembled invisible runes in the air with snaky hand gestures, twirled a seemingly endless array of shawls, draped herself seductively over the microphone during “Rhiannon” and stomped he...
With a new solo album, “Shangri-La,” Nicks opened up to me about her substance abuse problems in an interview from 2001: Even though her years of cocaine abuse left a hole in her head the size of a Sacajawea gold dollar, she claims that the Klonopin did far more damage. “It was not my drug of choice,” she says. “I’m not a downer person. I was looki...
The 1970s in San Francisco was a decade full of significant changes that reshaped the city in many ways. This era went beyond the famous Summer of Love and brought its own set of challenges and innovations, influencing San Francisco's path forward.
Feb 18, 2019 · San Francisco artist Vicki Randle is a multi-talented trailblazer in her own right. The first and only woman to be on “The Tonight Show” band with Jay Leno, Vicki Randle played lead percussions on the show for nearly 18 years.
Mar 26, 2017 · There's nothing like the 70s in San Francisco to showcase the city in all its weirdness, and its oddities certainly spilled onto the sidewalks. Street musicians, now largely spotted around...
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