Yep. Makes you wonder, eh.

Nope it started on the final leg of the Rumours tour in New Zealand if Mick is to be believed .The kicking .slapping and drink dousing incident happened there on the Tusk tour.

You said it right: if Mick is to be believed. I know the slapping etc. happened during the Tusk tour. I doubt we'll ever know what, when, how etc. You could be right though.

^I mostly take everything that is in Mick's book with a grain of salt also, but Stevie herself has said NZ/Oz also, and the only other time they were there besides the Tusk tour (when their affair was already long over) was in 1977.

I sense that whatever disfunctions persisted in their day to day interactions (and this includes violence against one another) the members of the Rumors line-up have come to terms with that and moved on. And if, for example, any member of the band continued to be violent towards another, I suspect it would be dealt with in a far more mature manner than any of them could have possibly done in 1976.

I think CAH's book will be an interesting read. But I don't think it will be particularly balanced journalism. Mick's book-- for all of its faults (such as crediting Station Man to Chris, insisting "Oh Daddy" was written for him, and taking some of the writing credit for the song "Tusk")--is largely accurate. Bob Welch has vouched for the portions involving him. Anbd LB though claiming not to recall some of the events in the TUTN breakup never fully denied them.

Then remember the part where they are filming after the show and the band is all hanging out in front in the empty hall and she is talking about giving some little girl her diamond poncho and she's clearly feeling no pain and hanging all over some roadie? :laugh: Those Japan tapes are golden.

I know - there is part of that clip in the DR doc or some other thing that aired on VH-1 around that time.