Joe Walsh on His Romance With Stevie Nicks (2012)

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s of your life was Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac and I this was very discreet even during your crazy years, yes, but she says you were the love of her life and she probably still is, she It's special, have you ever written together? She helped me make the Confessor album, no joke, she wrote shotgun with me on that one and gave me some instructions and she's very good at the art of songwriting, which means sitting down and really putting it down. A pen on paper and I actually try to figure out the lick and all that after my own devices.

I will have 85 sheets of paper with a couple of words on each one. You two became this couple and she says you are the love of her life. Those songs were about Joe, she wrote one about me, yeah, which one was the biggest one about you? uh uh, I'm trying, I'm embarrassed, was it a Fleetwood Mac song or was it one of her son's solos, one of her solos? albums yeah yeah, has anyone ever written a song for you? Hell no, I want you, no, that's how the song goes, oh what are you doing to write a song about me?

Listen to these lyrics, oh don't you know she'd rather be? alone and without you you were in love with her like a sister, really God, she was. I mean, I imagine it's the '70s, right. I mean, she's like a soulmate. You know, you still talk to her from time to time. I mean, she was there. a woman more beautiful than Stevie Nicks and all that talent. I mean, you'd think that's the whole package that didn't work out. All I'm saying is that we were seeking refuge in each other's presence because we were both on drugs at the time, yes there was that part, but we were on the road, we had careers, we're both alone, why didn't you ever marry her? ?

Did the thought cross your mind at any point? No, you never thought that. Even in terms of a power couple like oh my god, there are two incredibly powerful people in Rocky, maybe that would have been a little too cool if the relationship emerged and ran its course like rock and roll relationships do. Does it become competitive? You sit? there and she was in Fleetwood Mac at the time I guess no, she wasn't, she was a solo artist, well the next one was in Buckingham, yeah, and it gets competitive is that the problem is you could never marry another singer-songwriter because you two They sit there and go crazy about that race stuff.

No, I don't think either of us could have committed to a long-term relationship in this state we were in. Yes, what made it possible was that we toured. together, so when you toured together and we spent all that time together, but you weren't monogamous with her because no one knew in those days that you weren't going to be limited to one drink and no women, you were an addict, we were. we were both monogamous for that summer, that's quite a long time, yeah, so you felt something good about rock and roll, that was uh, 10 years, that's a long time when we stopped touring, uh, we grew apart.

I had to do it, yes, yes, I had to do it abroad.