“Edge of Seventeen” was solo Stevie—and it became one of the most unforgettable songs of her career.
But even Wachtel didn’t realize how close the riff sounded to another artist's classic song.
“I had never heard ‘Bring On the Night’, and at that session, they told me they were going to do this song based on this feel,” Wachtel recalled. “I had heard something about the Police, but I didn’t know what they were talking about.”
“I had the radio on, and on comes what sounds like ‘Edge of Seventeen’ – and all of a sudden, there’s Sting’s voice!” the guitarist said. “I thought, ‘We ripped them off completely!’ I called Stevie that night and said, ‘Listen to me: Don’t ever do that again!'”
“That rolling and repeating kind of sound,” he said. “It was very intense and dramatic.”
“I liked the atmosphere of the song,” he told Guitar Player in 2022. "I put in that muted opening part before the main verse section. …It wasn’t standard rock at all.”
Wachtel noted that "Edge of Seventeen” also became the longest song in Nicks’ concert set, sometimes going as long as 12 minutes live thanks to that echoing riff.
Forty-five years after it was recorded, “Edge of Seventeen” remains one of Nicks’ greatest solo songs— and one that has always been marked by an incredible energy.
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