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Aisling

01-26-2006, 06:12 PM

hi guys,
sorry if this has been discussed before (i'm a little slow on the uptake), but today i was surfing around wikipedia and on the entry for say you will, they credit her for keyboards and additional vocals on murrow turning over in his grave. i always assumed her credit on SYW was for bleed to love her & steal your heart away. maybe i'm just daft, but i can't hear chris or her keyboards on murrow, no matter how hard i listen.

does anyone know if this is true? i've noticed that wikipedia's information isn't always 100% correct.

thanks,
-ailish

DavidMn

01-26-2006, 06:35 PM

Songbird4

01-26-2006, 06:38 PM

As far as I know, Chis is only on SYHA and BTLH. I used to think that she was on Murrow, but then one day I was listening to the DVD-A really loud and realized it is just Lindsey. I can only comment on the vocal portion. Keyboard wise I can't tell.

~Kim

DavidMn

01-26-2006, 06:41 PM

macfan 57

01-26-2006, 06:57 PM

As far as I know, she's only on "Bleed To Love Her" & "Steal Your Heart Away". But in several of her Dance interviews, she mentioned that she contributed vocals and or keyboards to 5 of Lindsey's Gift Of Screws songs. So who knows which other songs she played on. I've heard that she did backing vocals on "Miranda".

Aisling

01-26-2006, 06:58 PM

thanks for the responses everyone! if there's anyone out there who thinks she is on this song, or knows she is, if you could give me some time spots in murrow that i can skip to so i can hear her? i think hearing her contribution to this song would be interesting!

jbrownsjr

01-26-2006, 07:25 PM

i heard mick say she was on murrow... and yes i think she's also on miranda as well

Brwn_eyes0511

01-26-2006, 07:26 PM

i heard mick say she was on murrow... and yes i think she's also on miranda as well

She is on both.

Where did you hear Mick say this at, just wondering?

ontheEdgeof17

01-26-2006, 08:27 PM

Where did you hear Mick say this at, just wondering?

He came over for dinner one night and we chatted about SYW.

HomerMcvie

01-26-2006, 08:43 PM

He came over for dinner one night and we chatted about SYW.
Did he steal anything?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Brwn_eyes0511

01-26-2006, 08:46 PM

He came over for dinner one night and we chatted about SYW.

Jolly good things to say about Chris I'm sure! Since he talks to her more than any other band member. :thumbsup:

on edit: I just said jolly!

ontheEdgeof17

01-26-2006, 09:53 PM

Did he steal anything?

20 bucks for the cab.

jbrownsjr

01-26-2006, 10:11 PM

He came over for dinner one night and we chatted about SYW.

he was naked and sticking his ribs out at me

jbrownsjr

01-26-2006, 10:12 PM

She is on both.

Where did you hear Mick say this at, just wondering?

my memory is horrible for sources... it was in print... hmmm it was around the time that CM's solo album came out and they asked him about it... in the same interview..

sorry i can't remember.. :(

Aisling

01-30-2006, 11:06 PM

my computer is broken so i just had the opportunity to read all these responses. again, thanks for the info (and the laughs) everyone! i'm going to go put murrow & miranda on repeat now to see if i can root out any little bits of christine in them.

Songbird4

01-31-2006, 01:06 AM

I found this little blurb from Interview Magazine 6/03. Don't know how factual it is, we all know Stevie changes her stories often. :nod:

MD: I know Christine McVie decided not to be a part of the reunion, but did she contribute to the album in any way?

SN: She did. We used some recorded parts she performed in 1996 [for Lindsey Buckingham’s solo album]. She does some ooh-ooh-oohs on one of the songs, and she plays a little keyboard on another. It’s all very subtle. In a million years, she would never have thought that those little parts would end up being on a record in 2003. It was hard for me when I went back in there was no Christine. Did I miss her? Every day. Did I wish she were there? Absolutely. But she did not want to go on the road. It’s not that she wouldn’t have done this record; she would have. But if she couldn’t go on the road [to promote it], what would we have done if her songs had been the singles? We all tried to talk her out of her decision. Each one of us did. But there was a point in time where she looked at me and said, “I don’t want to be a road dog, ever again.” It’s that look in somebody’s eyes, when you know it’s for real. Her eyes said, “I can never go back.” So I said, “Okay. I release you.”

Then I found this from Classic Rock Magazine 6/03:

“After that, Lindsey really took the reins in lieu of the fact that Chris wasn’t there as musical partner, and with John’s and my support he got a very clear picture of where he wanted to take things. Chris it still there on one of the older tracks though – she’s singing and playing organ on Bleed To Love Her.”

~Kim

macfan 57

01-31-2006, 06:31 AM

MD: I know Christine McVie decided not to be a part of the reunion, but did she contribute to the album in any way?

SN: She did. We used some recorded parts she performed in 1996 [for Lindsey Buckingham’s solo album]. She does some ooh-ooh-oohs on one of the songs, and she plays a little keyboard on another. It’s all very subtle. In a million years, she would never have thought that those little parts would end up being on a record in 2003. It was hard for me when I went back in there was no Christine. Did I miss her? Every day. Did I wish she were there? Absolutely. But she did not want to go on the road. It’s not that she wouldn’t have done this record; she would have. But if she couldn’t go on the road [to promote it], what would we have done if her songs had been the singles? We all tried to talk her out of her decision. Each one of us did. But there was a point in time where she looked at me and said, “I don’t want to be a road dog, ever again.” It’s that look in somebody’s eyes, when you know it’s for real. Her eyes said, “I can never go back.” So I said, “Okay. I release you.”

Thanks for the quotes. I'm assuming that Stevie is referring to "Steal Your Heart Away" & "Bleed To Love Her". But the keyboard could maybe be "Murrow" since it does sound like there may be a keyboard on that track.

By the way, this is that ridiculous quote from Stevie about not allowing Chris to record because she didn't want to tour for Say You Will. That's just nonsense, in my opinion.

Then I found this from Classic Rock Magazine 6/03:

“After that, Lindsey really took the reins in lieu of the fact that Chris wasn’t there as musical partner, and with John’s and my support he got a very clear picture of where he wanted to take things. Chris it still there on one of the older tracks though – she’s singing and playing organ on Bleed To Love Her.”

I don't hear an organ on "Bleed To Love Her". I certainly hear her voice, but no organ.

Gailh

01-31-2006, 09:53 AM

By the way, this is that ridiculous quote from Stevie about not allowing Chris to record because she didn't want to tour for Say You Will. That's just nonsense, in my opinion.

I agree. If she had participated in the album then there would have been say 6 of her songs that they couldn't do instead of the 30 that they already couldn't do!

I never saw the problem at the time and I still don't.

SYW lacked balance (Christine) and was too long for two songwriters. Now three songwriters would have been a different matter.

Gail

Aisling

01-31-2006, 02:53 PM

thanks for the articles kim. . .

i know this has been discussed before, but i just had to reiterate that i never understood that logic at all. if we take stevie at her word, and it's true that they wouldn't let chris be on SYW because she didn't want to tour, that is total insanity. i mean, it's ok for lindsey not to tour behind tango, but not ok for christine? what a double standard.

and while i love SYW, i would have been in love with it if christine had been a part of the record.

ok back to the salt mines for me!