and that hip spinner dance move in
Sister Fate cant be good for your back either....

Its amazing the hell these musical people
put themselves thru to give us ungratefuls
a little joy.....



Wheres the new album?

I don't know anything about any drug abuse, but the acupuncture story is certainly true, it came from Sheila herself:

Sheila: I had actually met Prince in 1978; we've been friends for the entire time. In 1991, I finally quit his band and the whole organization. I was totally exhausted. So, I went to Japan with my band to do a tour and when I came back, my neck was really bothering me. I was stressed out and totally exhausted, mentally and physically. I went to get acupuncture and they punctured my lung accidentally.
That really turned me upside down, because I was so used to being able to do whatever I wanted to do. It just knocked me down. At first, I didn't even know. I was walking around for three days mixing my record and I kept saying, "Something is wrong, I just can't breathe," and I almost passed out. One of my managers back then, whose sister worked in a hospital, said, "You better go get some X-rays." I went and they determined my left lung was 80 percent collapsed. They told me, "You're lucky to be alive - you could have died." I was so scared.
I stayed in the hospital about a week, and mentally, that shut me down. I've been through a lot in my entire life, my life has been up and down, but that just really messed me up. I thought, "Man, I'm not invincible," you know? "I'm not in control. Lord, please help me, what am I going to do?"
When I got out of the hospital, about a week later, I flew back to Minneapolis. While I was there, I was taking medication and it made me really sick. It was making me lose weight. And I had happened to turn around to sneeze, and my back went out. I fell to the ground and my legs gave out. I couldn't walk, so they had to carry me around, and I was temporarily paralyzed for two weeks.



Janet: What was that from?
Sheila: It was actually from playing drums. I had worked myself for 10 years nonstop on tour, not getting any sleep, traveling the entire time and not resting. Plus, playing in five-inch heels for eight to 10 hours a day, it shortened my calf muscles and messed up my back.
I had left Prince's band anyway because I really felt his direction was wrong, I was uncomfortable, you know? I was changing and I knew something was missing, but I didn't know what. I knew that my life had to change and I didn't want to live that way anymore or be in that environment, where it was always so negative. It was just wrong.
So anyway, when my body shut down, I couldn't walk. I had to fly my doctor in from Los Angeles into Minneapolis. He stayed there to work with me, but it took a long time, and plus the medicine was making me sick. I got to the point where I was 85 pounds. I was thin; I couldn't eat. My cousin was spoon-feeding me. It would take me 20 minutes to eat a spoon of mashed potatoes because my body had no energy. I actually thought I was going to die. My body shut down, I shut down, I was really scared.
It was then that I decided, "You know what, Lord? If you just give me another chance, I'll do whatever you want me to do." I got the Bible and I started reading and I kept it on my chest. I slept with it and never took it out of my hand for weeks.
I had been stuck in the house because I couldn't get up. And I was afraid. Fear had overtaken my body. I was afraid to get in the elevator to go downstairs because I thought that I was going to die, that something would happen if I left my comfort zone.
Finally, I got in the elevator and got downstairs and I walked outside. I hadn't been outside in a month. As soon as I walked outside, I saw this crack on the ground and I bent over and touched it. I just cried. Then I went over and I touched the grass and I just couldn't believe the feel - to touch and feel grass. Then, I walked over to a tree and I just hugged the tree. I looked up at the sky and it was so blue. I laid on the grass on my back and said, "Lord, look at all these wonderful things you've given us that we just take for granted. I thought that I needed this and I needed that, but I only need you." That was the turning point.

for the sake of argument. what is everybody thinking when the term drug abuse is used? what drugs y'all thinking about?

She said in interviews that she was a WORKAHOLIC and got sick basically because she Never slept.