New Book

[jbrownsjr]

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http://www.houstonpress.com/music/hefty-new-book-lets-fleetwood-mac-tell-their-own-story-8458050

[bwboy]

Wow, I had no idea this book existed! I just ordered it from Amazon. Thanks for the tip.

[jbrownsjr]

Wow, I had no idea this book existed! I just ordered it from Amazon. Thanks for the tip.

You're welcome. :)

[Sanne2]

A part of this book can be read on Google Books: https://books.google.nl/books?id=uWwfDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3&lpg=PT3&dq=fleetwood+mac+on+fleetwood+mac+sean+egan&source=bl&ots=xHk_VYSkwW&sig=4Nm8cJelMtlgTc1qW-BRnaLoRcY&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw6sfPwcHNAhUsB8AKHavNBUgQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=fleetwood%20mac%20on%20fleetwood%20mac%20sean%20egan&f=false They're trying to sell this book as something new for true fans but it's really just a rehash of old (and semi-recent) interviews that most of us have read before.

[Macfan4life]

This should be a great read but I already found something inaccurate :eek:
It says Stevie slept on Prince's kitchen floor during a Mac tour? Was it not her Wild Heart or RAL tour? Stevie was off cocaine for the 87 tour and I don't think she knew Prince in 1982 for the Mirage tour.
So isn't that inaccurate? Or am I wrong?

[SisterNightroad]

This should be a great read but I already found something inaccurate :eek:
It says Stevie slept on Prince's kitchen floor during a Mac tour? Was it not her Wild Heart or RAL tour? Stevie was off cocaine for the 87 tour and I don't think she knew Prince in 1982 for the Mirage tour.
So isn't that inaccurate? Or am I wrong?
We've already talked about this in another thread on the Stevie's section a while ago. Basically Stevie remembers wrong because she worked with Prince before/on 1985, that is the date in which she delivered to her studios the tapes of the song that she was working on with Prince, "All Over You". So either it wasn't a Fleetwood Mac tour or she met Prince before Wild Heart and it was the Mirage Tour.
On the Crystal Visions commentary of Edge of 17 she even says that someone told her Prince was backstage at that show.

[BombaySapphire3]

I have a very good memory for past articles and have been reading them since the 1970s so will pass on this one.

[HomerMcvie]

Well Prince wrote the music for Stand Back, so wouldn't they have had to spend time together in 82/83?

[BombaySapphire3]

Well Prince wrote the music for Stand Back, so wouldn't they have had to spend time together in 82/83?

Stand Back was not written until January of 1983 and Prince basically just played keyboards on it. She took part of the melody from "Little Red Corvette"

[HomerMcvie]

Stand Back was not written until January of 1983 and Prince basically just played keyboards on it. She took part of the melody from "Little Red Corvette"

People don't give 50% of the royalties to "just the keyboard player". Nice try, though.

Nicks has often told the story of how she wrote the song. She wrote it on the day of her marriage to Kim Anderson on January 29, 1983. The newlyweds were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara when Prince's song "Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. Nicks started humming along to the melody, especially inspired by the lush synthesizers of the song, and "Stand Back" was born. They stopped and got a tape recorder and she recorded the demo in the honeymoon suite that night. Later, when Nicks went into the studio to record the song, she called Prince and told him the story of how she wrote the song to his melody. He came to the studio that night and played synthesizers on it, although his contribution is uncredited on the album. He and Nicks did agree however to split the publishing royalties on the song 50-50. Then, she says, "he just got up and left as if the whole thing happened in a dream."

[iamnotafraid]

Nicks has often told the story...

That right there sets off warning signs for me.

1. Stevie's known exaggerations.

2. No photo or video of them together.

3. My ears don't tell me Prince played on the song.*

I've read on the internet that Prince shares songwriting
credit with Stevie (ASCAP supposedly). That's about it.

As far as I know, Barry might have played the synth on
Stand Back.

* My ears are more attuned to guitarists than the ivories.

[FuzzyPlum]

As far as I know, Barry might have played the synth on
Stand Back.


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This Barry?

[HomerMcvie]

That right there sets off warning signs for me.


I just swiped that from Wiki.

[David]

There are two keyboard parts on Stand Back that Prince could have played, and no one would be able to tell whether it's Prince or not. He was a pretty good keyboardist, but these two parts are so simple and mechanical that they may have even been something he programmed on an Oberheim or a Prophet. The first part is an octave tremolo during the chorus--back and forth on the B--and the second part is the synth bass 16th notes undergirding the whole song. Both parts are very Prince-y, very dance-funk, and very simple. I totally believe Prince added them both, for atmosphere. They're the sort of short synth-dance motifs that he added to his own music all the time, like I Would Die 4 U and You Belong 2 Me and 17 Days.

What Stand Back and Corvette have in common, aside from the synth funk atmosphere that Prince helped pioneer, is modulation. That's why you can sing one while the music to the other one is playing. Stevie's credit gift of 50% or whatever was more of a nice Stevie thing to do, and not really legally necessary. (There's a lot more ripoff going on in Illume than in anything in Stand Back.)

It still feels weird to talk about him in the past tense. :(

[aleuzzi]

Prince played on the song. There's no debate there. Stevie and others who were in the studio attest to it. Yes, she has since worn the collaboration like a badge, and yes, she is prone to exaggeration, but that's beside the point. This was 1983 and she was at the top of her solo game and a huge figure in the public eye. There would have been no reason why this would not be believable.

The only surprising thing is her insistence on 50/50 publishing rights. Any number of her Mac songs have required more input from Lindsey and the rest of the band. It's like giving John McVie partial credit for his game-changing bass line in "Rhiannon." Because of him, a straight-ahead galloping rock tune became a slithering, seductive thing. Where's his royalty ;)

On another note, the title of this thread is "New Book." I'm still waiting for the thread that will read: "New Album."

[bombaysaffires]

Prince played on the song. There's no debate there. Stevie and others who were in the studio attest to it. Yes, she has since worn the collaboration like a badge, and yes, she is prone to exaggeration, but that's beside the point. This was 1983 and she was at the top of her solo game and a huge figure in the public eye. There would have been no reason why this would not be believable.

The only surprising thing is her insistence on 50/50 publishing rights. Any number of her Mac songs have required more input from Lindsey and the rest of the band. It's like giving John McVie partial credit for his game-changing bass line in "Rhiannon." Because of him, a straight-ahead galloping rock tune became a slithering, seductive thing. Where's his royalty ;)

On another note, the title of this thread is "New Book." I'm still waiting for the thread that will read: "New Album."

Prince might well have demanded 50%. Or his lawyers. Stevie loves to spin stories in the most romantic way possible, and the down and dirty of the business side of show business is anything but romantic. So she tends to leave it out. She never even acknowledged the 50-50 part of it until recent years anyway. Then she began telling the story like it was all her idea. Then again, maybe Prince was gracious about it, and didn't call her out for the thief she was like Tom Petty did when she wrote a song to one of his tracks and took it to FMac. According to her he made her tell them she was a thief and didn't have his permission to use his music.

[BombaySapphire3]

People don't give 50% of the royalties to "just the keyboard player". Nice try, though.

Nicks has often told the story of how she wrote the song. She wrote it on the day of her marriage to Kim Anderson on January 29, 1983. The newlyweds were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara when Prince's song "Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. Nicks started humming along to the melody, especially inspired by the lush synthesizers of the song, and "Stand Back" was born. They stopped and got a tape recorder and she recorded the demo in the honeymoon suite that night. Later, when Nicks went into the studio to record the song, she called Prince and told him the story of how she wrote the song to his melody. He came to the studio that night and played synthesizers on it, although his contribution is uncredited on the album. He and Nicks did agree however to split the publishing royalties on the song 50-50. Then, she says, "he just got up and left as if the whole thing happened in a dream."
Not sure what you mean by "nice try"I have heard this story repeated in variations since 1983. I also said that she got the melody from "Little Red Corvette":rolleyes:

[michelej1]

Prince played on the song. There's no debate there. Stevie and others who were in the studio attest to it. Yes, she has since worn the collaboration like a badge, and yes, she is prone to exaggeration, but that's beside the point. This was 1983 and she was at the top of her solo game and a huge figure in the public eye. There would have been no reason why this would not be believable.



And while Prince had some hermit tendencies, in other respects he could be quite loquacious and very protective of his image. If it had never happened, as well known as the story was, I think he (or his people) would have said so.

Michele

[michelej1]

Houston Press TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2016 AT 7 A.M. by Bob Ruggiero

http://www.houstonpress.com/music/hefty-new-book-lets-fleetwood-mac-tell-their-own-story-8458050

To casual rock-book readers, works that compile previously written pieces on bands and musicians into one volume have strong pros and cons. They do provide a fascinating time capsule of the artists at very different points in their career, when they have no way of knowing what the future might bring but that you, the 2016 reader, do. But on the downside, each piece may also serve as a primer on the band’s history – one that gets told over and over and over again.

Fortunately, the insight Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac offers outweighs its frequent repetitiveness. It's great fodder for fans of a band as legendary and with as many members (with strong personalities) as Fleetwood Mac has had over the years.

Consisting of interviews, features and reviews from 1967 to 2014 (though the vast majority of pieces cover the lineup on 1977's Rumours), it’s a whirlwind tour through the Mac’s musical change and soap opera-like personal relationships. How refreshing to hear Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie discuss, say, Rumours when it is a work in progress and not a foundation of the classic rock canon.

Through the years, members’ opinions of their romantic couplings and uncouplings change and develop as their lives progress. One circa-1982 article, ostensibly to promote the Mirage album and tour, becomes a rumination on the white-hot solo success of Stevie Nicks at the time, as well as what that did to the group dynamic and Buckingham's intensely competitive nature.

A number of articles are also from the period of time in music journalism when writers actually got to spend days with their subjects observing and interviewing them — both on and off the record. Not surprisingly, those go far deeper than a 15-minute phoner or a staged round-robin cattle call of interviews.

So the reader feels as if he or she is in the studio with the band as Christine McVie empties another bottle of Blue Nun positioned on her keyboards; or John McVie and Nicks share giggles while thumbing through a copy of Playboy; or a writer shares a joint with Buckingham (and likely more that never made it into print) after a night of partying.

Of all the band members, Stevie Nicks comes off as the most free-ranging, delving into the mysticism of lace and shawls and the “Rhiannon” myth in one talk, and railing against the Shah and the Ayatollah of Iran during the hostage crisis in another.

The recently departed Prince, who played keyboards on Nicks’s solo hit “Stand Back,” even gets mentioned when she remembers how he gave her the music to an early version of “Purple Rain” for a collaboration that didn’t happen. She also recalls spending a (chaste) night sleeping on the floor of his actual purple kitchen one night during a Mac tour.

And the story isn't over yet. The reunited Rumours Five have been touring over the past few years, including stops in Houston in 2014 and a few months later in 2015, and a new album is on the way.

Like most books of this kind, they are really aimed toward a more-than-casual fan of Fleetwood Mac. But with only Mick Fleetwood having served up two autobiographies, and the definitive history of the group yet to be written (though there have been books through the years), Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac largely lets the group members speak for themselves.

Now, about those detailed diaries that Stevie Nicks has kept since 1974…

[MikeInNV]

Prince might well have demanded 50%. Or his lawyers. Stevie loves to spin stories in the most romantic way possible, and the down and dirty of the business side of show business is anything but romantic. So she tends to leave it out. She never even acknowledged the 50-50 part of it until recent years anyway. Then she began telling the story like it was all her idea. Then again, maybe Prince was gracious about it, and didn't call her out for the thief she was like Tom Petty did when she wrote a song to one of his tracks and took it to FMac. According to her he made her tell them she was a thief and didn't have his permission to use his music.

So this 50/50 thing is for sure then? For years I heard stories where she offered him 50% because of the circumstances around the way she wrote it, but he didn't think it was necessary and declined her offer.

[aleuzzi]

And while Prince had some hermit tendencies, in other respects he could be quite loquacious and very protective of his image. If it had never happened, as well known as the story was, I think he (or his people) would have said so.

Michele

If the collaboration never happened, I doubt Stevie would have been allowed to speak of it the way she has. Prince's "people" would have probably stopped her from telling outright lies. Why would she spin such lies anyway? She may be fanciful, but she isn't delusional. There is no reason to doubt her story. Embellishments of that story are another matter entirely.

[iamnotafraid]

If the collaboration never happened, I doubt Stevie would have been allowed to speak of it the way she has. Prince's "people" would have probably stopped her from telling outright lies. Why would she spin such lies anyway? She may be fanciful, but she isn't delusional. There is no reason to doubt her story. Embellishments of that story are another matter entirely.

The more we know, the more I have doubts
about this story. I'm thinking maybe you do
too.

Why would Prince have stopped this story even
if it was embellished (to say the least)? Because
it just adds to his legacy? It's positive?

I have nephews and nieces who believe I have a
genie in a bottle. They've seen the bottle. They
know where I told them I found it. How I became
it's master. And have even witnessed the magic.

Stevie's story might be just a little more real than
mine.

[aleuzzi]

The more we know, the more I have doubts
about this story. I'm thinking maybe you do
too.

Why would Prince have stopped this story even
if it was embellished (to say the least)? Because
it just adds to his legacy? It's positive?

I have nephews and nieces who believe I have a
genie in a bottle. They've seen the bottle. They
know where I told them I found it. How I became
it's master. And have even witnessed the magic.

Stevie's story might be just a little more real than
mine.

Point taken, genie. But then if we are to believe Stevie's story is grossly exaggerated, or even fabricated, then aren't we saying she either believes her own fabrications or is openly lying to the public? She may be many things, but she doesn't just invent stories like this. I can't believe we're even questioning the association with Prince.

[iamnotafraid]

Point taken, genie.

That made me laugh.

____________________________

FuzzyPlum,

Wrong Barry.

[FuzzyPlum]

Mick Fleetwood, Kesha, other speakers added to SXSW music lineup
February 7, 2017 music news, SXSW 2017.
http://music.blog.austin360.com/2017/02/07/mick-fleetwood-kesha-other-speakers-added-to-sxsw-music-lineup/


Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood, platinum-selling rap star Kesha and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic are among a large group of speakers announced today for this year’s South by Southwest daytime conference lineup.

The announcement also included many additions to the SXSW film and interactive events:

Other music additions include Cindy Wilson, a founding member of new wave pioneers the B-52’s, and Sammy Hagar, the “Red Rocker” who later became Van Halen’s lead singer.

Fleetwood’s appearance is related to his upcoming book “Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac” via Genesis Publications.

Kesha will team up on a panel in the conference’s “Social Impact” track with Amy Emmerich of Refinery29, a digital media company specializing in women’s lifestyles.

After Nirvana, Novoselic became known for his political activism. He was SXSW’s keynote speaker in 1996, and currently is the board chair of FairVote, a nonprofit dealing with democracy issues.

SXSW will continue to announce hundreds of music performers each Friday for the next few weeks. The last batch included Sara Watkins, Mark Eitzel and Bright Light Social Hour.

[dreamsunwind]

Mick Fleetwood, Kesha, other speakers added to SXSW music lineup
February 7, 2017 music news, SXSW 2017.
http://music.blog.austin360.com/2017/02/07/mick-fleetwood-kesha-other-speakers-added-to-sxsw-music-lineup/


Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood, platinum-selling rap star Kesha and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic are among a large group of speakers announced today for this year’s South by Southwest daytime conference lineup.

The announcement also included many additions to the SXSW film and interactive events:

Other music additions include Cindy Wilson, a founding member of new wave pioneers the B-52’s, and Sammy Hagar, the “Red Rocker” who later became Van Halen’s lead singer.

Fleetwood’s appearance is related to his upcoming book “Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac” via Genesis Publications.


Didn't Mick release an updated version of his book like 2 years ago? Or maybe this sounds like it will be less memoir, more history of the band. Either way, gotta get that $$$$$$$$$$$$

[HomerMcvie]

Didn't Mick release an updated version of his book like 2 years ago? Or maybe this sounds like it will be less memoir, more history of the band. Either way, gotta get that $$$$$$$$$$$$

I bought it a couple of months ago, and have only read a few pages! It looks(reads) a LOT like the last one.

[bombaysaffires]

Jimmy Iovine in the liner notes to the reissue of WH supports the version that Prince came to the studio and laid some keyboard parts down as told by Stevie. In those same notes Stevie says Sandy Stewart laid down the basic tracks over which everything else was recorded.

[FuzzyPlum]

Fleetwood Mac’s Early Days Recalled in New Book
by Best Classic Bands Staff
http://bestclassicbands.com/fleetwood-mac-book-2-8-17/


Genesis Publications’ Love That Burns-A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac

Genesis Publications has announced the availability of a signed, limited-edition book by Mick Fleetwood, drummer, bandleader and founding member of Fleetwood Mac. Love That Burns—A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac will be published this fall. The book is described in a press release as “Fleetwood’s account of the early blues era of Fleetwood Mac and the musical legacy of the uniquely talented Peter Green.” Green was one of the band’s stellar guitarists in its blues incarnation.

To celebrate the announcement, Mick Fleetwood will appear at the SXSW Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 15. Speaking with Rolling Stone magazine’s David Fricke, Fleetwood “will unravel the dramatic history of a band that emerged from the British blues boom,” says the press release. The discussion will be illustrated with rare images selected from the forthcoming collaboration with Genesis Publications.

Each handcrafted copy of the book—limited to 2,000 numbered copies worldwide—will be signed by the artist. In addition to the Q&A with Fricke, Genesis Publications and SXSW are offering an exclusive VIP package to a small group of early book buyers. For more information about this forthcoming edition or the SXSW event, go here.

Fleetwood still likes to return to his first love, the blues, when he’s not busy with the Mac. His own Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, featuring guitarist Rick Vito (who replaced Lindsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac from 1987-91) recently released Live at the Belly Up, a two-hour album featuring 17 tracks. The album features Fleetwood Mac hits like “Oh Well” “Black Magic Woman” and “Albatross” as well as blues-rock standards like “Carol” and blues classics like “You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover” and “Shake Your Moneymaker.” That band also features Lenny Castellanos on bass. The album can be ordered here.

[SisterNightroad]

Kesha, Seth Rogen, Mick Fleetwood Tapped to Speak at SXSW
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bob Odenkirk, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards also set to address Austin fest

Kesha, Seth Rogen and Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood will speak at South by Southwest, set to take place March 10th through 19th in Austin, Texas.
The latest crop of featured speakers boasts an impressive mix of performers, politicians, activists and entrepreneurs including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Senator Cory Booker, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis, Bob Odenkirk, Tinder founder Sean Rad and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
While Fleetwood, Booker and Odenkirk will deliver solo addresses, many of the featured speakers will be in conversation with others or part of larger panels. Kesha, for instance, will speak with Amy Emmerich of Refinery29 and Louis-Dreyfus will talk Veep with other members of the HBO comedy's cast. Rogen, meanwhile, will appear alongside frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg, Sam Catlin and Garth Ennis to discuss their AMC show, Preacher.
SXSW also announced an additional keynote speaker for 2017, Jessica Shortall, the managing director of Texas Competes, a state-wide coalition of companies that uses data to show why Texas should be welcoming to LGBTQ people. Among the other keynote speakers at SXSW this year are Lee Daniels, Gareth Edwards, Zane Lowe, Nile Rodgers and Jill Soloway. Previously announced featured speakers include Nirvana's Krist Novoselic, the B-52's Cindy Wilson, Sammy Hagar, John Cena and Jake Tapper.
A current list of speakers is available on the SXSW website, where the festival's latest film and music lineups can also be perused.


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kesha-seth-rogen-mick-fleetwood-tapped-to-speak-at-sxsw-w465554

[SisterNightroad]

Still ‘burning’: Drummer Fleetwood on book that traces band’s early, bluesy years

Fleetwood Mac has sold out arenas for decades and racked up millions of record sales thanks to hits like “Go Your Own Way,” “Rhiannon” and “Don’t Stop,” but band co-founder Mick Fleetwood would like fans around the world to remember that the iconic classic rock band is, at its roots, a blues group.
Mr. Fleetwood said that the story of how the English band first came to Chicago, one of the hotbeds of blues music, in the late-1960s is mostly unknown to Fleetwood Mac’s legions of fans. But now, thanks to his picture-and-narrative book “Love That Burns — A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac,” that untold chapter in the group’s life is finally being told.
“That part I thought was really important for a musician that loved — and still loves — blues so much as I do,” Mr. Fleetwood told The Washington Times from the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, where he will speak Wednesday and sign copies of his book. “That’s where we came from.
“This covers those early years and pays homage to all the players, especially the original lineup.”
“Love That Burns” offers rare photos of a young Mr. Fleetwood rocking out in Chicago blues clubs alongside Mac co-founder Peter Green. The initial lineup of the later-rotating roster was rounded out by guitarist Jeremy Spencer and bassist John McVie, the latter who still plays bass with the group to this day.
“We got to live out our musical fantasies, playing with all the blues greats [from] Chess Records and recording blues albums,” Mr. Fleetwood said of those halcyon days when he and his British bandmates were all in their early twenties.

“We were just a bunch of funny white English kids playing with Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy and Otis Spann,” he said with a laugh, “and it sort of got forgotten that that all happened” in the band’s history, he said.
Mr. Fleetwood’s publisher, Genesis Publications, has previously put out similar rock compendiums such as Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page’s self-titled autobiography, and it was this model that finally made Mr. Fleetwood say yes to the Genesis device.
“Jimmy Page put out a beautiful book,” Mr. Fleetwood said of his fellow Englishman. (Mr. Fleetwood now lives in Hawaii.) “It [inspired] me to do a book on the first part of Fleetwood Mac, the early years,” which remain largely unknown outside of the band’s extremely dedicated chroniclers.
When Mr. Fleetwood began work on “Love That Burns,” which will be out in September, he was unaware that, by happy coincidence, August will mark the 50th anniversary of his band.
“It became really relevant and part of the story [that] this book comes out on our 50th birthday,” Mr. Fleetwood, 69, said of the band’s golden jubilee.
While “Love That Burns” covers only the first few years of the classic rock act, Mr. Fleetwood says the title is appropriate given the often-tumultuous relationship of the individual band members, especially during the later 1970s. Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, a singing duo and couple in real life, joined the group in 1974, but severe internal friction was not far off. Fleetwood Mac recorded the seminal album “Rumours” in 1976 as Mr. Buckingham and Miss Nicks were breaking up — at the same time as Mr. McVie and fellow Mac singer Christine McVie were divorcing.
“Go Your Own Way,” one of the great breakup tunes, came from “Rumours.”
Accordingly, Mr. Fleetwood said that the name “Love That Hurts” “seems a very apropos title because [in] the history of Fleetwood Mac, not all of it has been hugely happy,” he said. “I won’t say it’s totally unique, but it’s fairly unique — this strange survival of this band throughout all these years.”
Additionally, “Love That Burns” is one of Mr. Fleetwood’s favorites of the songs written by Mr. Green, lending it another special meaning.
Mr. Fleetwood is a photographer in his own right, but said that many of his old negatives have been lost during his frequent moves over the decades. Accordingly, he had to turn to his friends, historians and, in some cases, even complete strangers to help fill in the pages of “Love That Burns.” He said that the era of social media allowed him to track down certain photographers — or, if they were deceased, their relatives — and crowd-source rare images and stories that even the rock ‘n’ roll drummer had forgotten about in the half-century since the time shown in his tome.
“It just is a lot easier than it was 30 years ago,” Mr. Fleetwood said of curating information in the 21st century. “I remember reading an article about Jimmy Page, and he said, ‘If it wasn’t for all the people who coughed up all these incredible pictures,” then his own book, “Jimmy Page,” wouldn’t have turned out as well as it did.
Unsurprisingly, there are photographs that came forward that Mr. Fleetwood had forgotten entirely, as well as snaps of long-departed friends like saxophonist J.T. Brown, with whom he played in Chicago. There were also shots of Brown playing alongside steel pedal great Elmore James.
“Seeing that type of shot was just the wildest thing,” Mr. Fleetwood said.
Mr. Fleetwood wishes to impress that “Love That Burns” is not “the Mick Fleetwood story” even if he does in fact play the role of historical rock narrator. Rather, it pulls back the curtain on Fleetwood Mac’s early years as a blues act and its original founder, Mr. Green.
“There’s a very good reason to have a special focus on the man who started this band,” he said of his former bandmate. (Mr. Green left Fleetwood Mac in 1970.)
Mr. Fleetwood is signing the first pressing of “Love That Burns” at SXSW this week, the only place the limited 2,000 copies are available until the book comes out in the fall.
He remains thankful that, as a young man, he was able to rub elbows with the Chicago blues greats, nearly all of whom — with the notable exception of Buddy Guy — have since passed on. Some of the jam sessions with his heroes were even recorded for the album “Blues Jam at Chess” in 1969.
“We got to play with our heroes in such a profound way,” he said.
Mick Fleetwood will speak at SXSW Wednesday at 5 p.m. CST. “Love That Burns — A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac” will be available from Genesis this fall. For more information visit FleetwoodMacBook.com.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/14/fleetwood-mac-book-love-burns-will-be-signed-mick-/