By STEVE MASCORD
GUITAR whiz Richie Kotzen has recalled the time he visited Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks at the start of the 1990s and she have him a look around her house, recalling: “the tour ended in her bedroom”.
Kotzen was speaking to Hot Metal to promote the new album he has released with Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith, Black Light/White Noise, and was discussing his relationship with his adoptive home city of Los Angeles.
“Whereas some people come here to try and get into the scene, I was moved here by a major record company with major connections,” Kotzen, 55, says.
“I remember going to a party at Stevie Nicks’ house and I’m there with a couple of people.
“She opens the door. She sees me. We had the same manager at the time, Howard Kaufman …. she says ‘hey let me give you a tour of the house’.
“And she gives me a tour of the house. The tour ended in her bedroom. And I was 20 years old, 21 possibly, very young.”
Nicks is now 76, meaning she would have been 40 or 41 when the encounter occurred.
Kotzen continues: “In my mind … I knew who she was, (she) was not super on my radar, you know, as far as the music that I listened to.
“I remember saying to her ‘wow, you have a lovely house – I’d better go find my friends’.
“I have many stories like that, in my first couple of years in LA. I moved here and I was immediately in that kind of a thing.”
Kotzen also revealed during his chat with HM that he almost joined industrial rock pioneers Nine Inch Nails.
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