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Lindsey compliment of Christine
I read this interview with Lindsey at http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/...ast-tour/10650 in which I think he pays a tremendous compliment to Christine.
Finally Lindsey, can I ask you where, in your many years on the road have you enjoyed visiting the most? The heritage of the band is, of course, British. So I have immense and deep fondness for the UK. I was recently reminded that when Stevie Nicks and I were asked to join the band, we were also asked—in some sense—to become honorary Brits. I don’t mean this in any derogatory way, but I firmly believe that Christine McVie’s very British blues sensibilities kept us from sounding like just another version of The Eagles. When I joined, they would take me to the public houses of SoHo, and show me places like the 100 Club on Oxford Street where my heroes The Rolling Stones and The Sex Pistols played. Then back again to the famous Soho pubs like the Coach And Horses on Greek Street where I was ‘converted’ by a time-honoured tradition of of drinking many, many pints of Guinness in the name of the British Empire! When I visit these places again today, the memories are overwhelming. I love that everyone calls it Tin Pan Alley. Even Bill Clinton’s favourite pub—The Portobello Star—brings it all back, especially as seems like only yesterday when we played at his inauguration. I find touring in Europe so rewarding. |
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That was a fine complement--and a well-earned one. This might be the warmest text I've ever read from Lindsey. He seems genuinely nostalgic about England!
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He also seems to be treading more carefully on the subject of Christine's resignation:
.......................... Surely modern methods of communication meant that you were never far from each other’s thoughts? Of course from time to time I would email Stevie or Mick especially pictures from the kids’ summer holidays. We’re always interested in how our families are growing up. It’s good to just reconnect as human beings. Christine (McVie) wasn’t involved in any shape or form, as she pretty much took permanent leave of the performing world. I don’t want to say that she burned her bridges, but she certainly closed her book on her contact with all of us over here on the west coast, including selling her house in Los Angeles. She moved back to England and lives somewhere out in the country, I believe. From what I hear, she’s completely changed her life, and to be honest, she never really enjoyed touring anyway. I think she feels like she had said what she wanted to say within the confines of Fleetwood Mac, whereas the other four of us feel that our artistic lives are still evolving. |
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Well basicly he explains what he meant with his earlier remarks. I never thought he said something wrong or hostile against her. It was easily negatively interpreted though. So he chose his words differently this time. At least he's showing that you can learn around 60.
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It's just that most of the time he doesn't explain (or the interview is so short that that part is not there). So, we just get the "burned her bridges" part. And I don't know why he keeps saying that, since he must know what the connotations of that phrase are. But I suppose that's how he keeps himself amused. Michele |
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I don't know. I half wonder if he's playing with the song she wrote--"Temporary One," where the "bridge will bring us back together." Kinda like, "HA! The bridge won't bring us back together--you burnt it!"
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I cant believe that Lindsey has never been to visit Christine in England. Would you not have visited a long time friend especially when you can easily afford the first class trip?
I also cringe a bit whenever an interviewer asks a question where the answer would involve saying how good Stevie, and to a lesser extect, Christine are at writing songs - LB always brings it round to how he managed to turn the raw material into something great. He so rarely compliments them on their songwriting skills. |
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I am sure he saw her in 2003 when she came to their Earl's Court show. As to visiting her house, I heard (on here) that all but Lindsey went to dinner at Christine's a day after or before the show. Who knows why he didn't take up her invite if this is true?
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But.. never enjoyed touring? Yes, I have heard and read that several times. But if that's true, I would consider Christine the most miserable and fool person in the whole wide world. Because, after almost 30 years in a band, now you say you never enjoyed touring?? Didn't you want to do any other things in your life?? She became millonaire with Rumours, then she could have done anything she wanted. I don't buy the "Fleetwood Mac was like being in the army, you have to be there". Stevie consider it so because deeply she always wanted to be in the band, with all those nightmares on the way, but, it was the best for her. At least during the 70s-80s. So I think Christine enjoyed, too. Not now, but she did in the past. If you have money and don't want to do something with your life, you just don't do it and don't wait to be in your 60s to change.
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She liked the band and believed in their music. It was a 2nd family. So, sometimes when you weigh the pros and the cons, the cons don't seem that heavy -- at least not for awhile. So, she soldiered on for a few decades. Maybe she enjoyed it once she got on the stage. Maybe she liked playing, if not the steps you had to go through to get up there. Between the traveling and the stage fright, touring really took its toll, especially once she stopped taking controlled substances to ease the burden. She said she had to drink to get to sleep in the hotel at night. I guess that made it bearable for many years. Once she was no longer willing to do that, that's when she knew it was time to end life on the road. It's funny, because when Lindsey left the band, Christine said he never enjoyed touring too. I think both of them were right about each other, but the reasons Lindsey disliked it then and the reason Christine disliked it in general are different. Michele |
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everybody was already burned even during the first Tusk tour rehearsals. That's why he accepted to record Tango but didn't want to tour. Later he agred to tour for few weeks, and later he refused to tour at all, and all that became in leaving the band that dark august evening.
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Don't forget that he had a firm interest in british music around the punk/new wave periods.
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fine complement, and interesting info.
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