Trivia Questions
 

[Here are trivia questions that appeared in the April 21, 2001 newsletter. I'll post answers later this week]

1. At the beginning of which FM track (on the CD version, but not the album version), can Lindsey be heard whispering the "F" word in frustration?

2. In which 2 Lindsey songs does he use the lyrical phrase, "faces of liars, faces of glass"?

3. What cover of a Fats Domino song did Lindsey cut, but never made it to an album?

4. What did Lindsey ask second engineer John Boghosian to go out and record for background noises in "Bang the Drum."

5. Lindsey sang and played guitar on a track on what raspy-voiced blonde's album in 1985?

6. Which Eagle has Lindsey collaborated with?

7. On which 1984 Christine McVie US top-10 single did Linsey play guitar?

8. What did Lindsey fail to break on his first attempt for FM's "Hold Me" video?

9. Which of Linsdey's songs was covered by the punk band Limp on their album, "Pop and Disorderly" in 1997?

10. In 1984, Lindsey was contacted about starring opposite Linda Ronstadt on Broadway in what musical production?

wow, these are interesting! when i saw the title i thought i'll know them all, no problem, like it usually happens with most FM related questions you see in various radio polls, but i would know the answers to just 1, 2, 3, and 8, and even needed some re-confirming on those.

musical with Linda Ronstadt? definitely interesting!

Number 8 is the only one I know.

oh come on, i know you must know #1! i've seen it happily discussed on these boards before.

Since you only know 4 out of 10 you must not be the LB fan you claim to be.:laugh::p:D

yeah, with the other Q's it makes me starting doubting I know the A's to Any of them LOL.

yup, obviously not a big fan! :shrug:

do i really claim that though? :laugh: if i remember correctly, you claimed i am (LB obsession may have been your exact words?), i never did! ;) :D

I had the same thought and quickly got put in my place too, after reading them! I, too, am most intrigued by #10 , as I always wondered why Lindsey was never approached for movies, TV or modeling, etc.

I only know 1, 2, and 5. #3 I realized I knew after Elle told me, but I guess that doesn't count ;)

I assume that Lindsey himself would be stumped by the answer to #2. He was asked about it in a fan question and kind of burst my bubble since I like to think there's a meaning behind repeated lyrics.

Michele

you are actually better than me. really, i cheated by saying i knew #3 because i too realized i knew it only after i heard the answer, even though i have that Blue Monday version on one of my car CDs (but i always skip it b/c it's boring).

really? interesting! i have those lyrics on 2 of my lindsey-lyrics/request t-shirts, along with some other lyrics from the later song. :cool:

and for some additional trivia, i believe there is a member here whose ledge name is facesofglass. i bet he'd know where the phrase was used! :thumbsup:

Yeah, that was Gaius' question that he answered on video right after he answered mine. Did anyone downloaded these? I"m especially looking for the first Q he answered (mine, "gerald from the netherlands"), and the second one: The faces of glass Q you mentioned.....

ha so it turns out that facesofglass was asking Lindsey about faces of glass ;) :cool: - and Lindsey didn't know the answer?! :D

and i second what Gerald asked - i've never had a chance to see those vids - does anybody have them?

Lindsey was kind of like Urkel. His reaction was rather: Did I do that? Interesting.

Michele

:lol: Hehe, I can see that happening :)

Really interesting Q's! I'm most stunned by the Broadway offer!

Here are the answers

1. At the beginning of which FM track (on the CD version, but not the album version), can Lindsey be heard whispering the "F" word in frustration?

THE CHAIN

2. In which 2 Lindsey songs does he use the lyrical phrase, "faces of liars, faces of glass"?

THE LOVING CUP, ON THE WRONG SIDE (this is from 2001, so add Down on Rodeo)

3. What cover of a Fats Domino song did Lindsey cut, but never made it to an album? BLUE MONDAY

4. What did Lindsey ask second engineer John Boghosian to go out and record for background noises in "Bang the Drum."

KIDS PLAYING AT A PLAYGROUND

5. Lindsey sang and played guitar on a track on what raspy-voiced blonde's album in 1985?

KIM CARNES
6. Which Eagle has Lindsey collaborated with?

DON HENLEY [You Can't Make Love is a great song, by the way]

7. On which 1984 Christine McVie US top-10 single did Linsey play guitar?

GOT A HOLD ON ME (pretty obvious. How many top-10 solo songs did she have in 1984)

8. What did Lindsey fail to break on his first attempt for FM's "Hold Me" video?

THE MIRROR [wish we had the outtakes]

9. Which of Linsdey's songs was covered by the punk band Limp on their album, "Pop and Disorderly" in 1997?

HOLIDAY ROAD

10. In 1984, Lindsey was contacted about starring opposite Linda Ronstadt on Broadway in what musical production?

LA BOHEME

As for the play, this is from a November 1984 interview Lindsey gave Rock Magazine:
Here is a thread on the subject. http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=20657

Michele

La Boheme?????? wow.

EDIT: i see from that old thread there may have been some misinfo in there somewhere.

I just listened to "You Can't Make Love" - In what way did he collaborate with Henley? Did he provide guitar parts, some backing vocals (I couldn't tell)? I never knew about this, that just seems so bizarre to me lol

Collaboration with Henley
 

Yes, guitar riff and backing vocals. Some of LB's best work collaborating outside of FM, in my opinion.

And Walls (Circus) with Tom Petty just sounds great. Tom says he just let Lindsey do whatever he wanted with the background arrangement. Spectacular.

Michele

amazing, I actually really like You Can't Make Love - better than some of the other songs on that album, but they overplay The Boys of Summer even to this day imho...

yeah wasn't there some very recent punkish version of the boys of summer being played on a radio few months ago? sounding much better than Henley and his hollow voice of course :D :p

Haha! I didn't hear this new version, but I can imagine it sounded a bit more fresh than the worn and tired soft rock standby ;)

I'm a baby, so forgive me, but does anyone know how such a collaboration would have even happened? I'm not really aware of Lindsey's relationship with any of the Eagles. Is this like Eric Clapton and George Harrison being friends? :lol: My brain just can't conceive of such things, if it was my life lol - But hey, maybe they are all a lot more healthier than me :p

You know, Lindsey and Don weren't exactly rivals. I don't think he was ever friends with Henley, but FM and the Eagles always traveled in the same circles, on parallel lines, so to speak. They were at Stevie's Arizona Heart Institute fund raiser together too. Don had participated before, but that was the first time Lindsey was there.

Michele

Oh yeah, I don't mean to say there was any real animosity, and I totally get that they ran in the same circles, but still...I guess I just see them as being very different people, musically and otherwise, so to find they collaborated is surprising to me. I'm a bit less thrown by Tom Petty for some reason, maybe because of Tom's involvement with different artists, as he did with The Traveling Wilburys.

I guess it's easy to get Lindsey to work with you. Like if you're Vanessa Carlton and he's working in the studio right across from yours, you just pull him in and he'll play guitar. So, Lindsey did it when people asked, but who are the people he might have loved to work with, but they didn't ask and he was not the type to make the first move. Except for John Stewart, I don't think he got to really work with people whose work he liked the most.

Unfortunately, Brian wasn't in the right state of mind. But what about the Stones. Lindsey went through that phase. While he was recording all of those covers of theirs, what if he'd actually worked with them? I can't imagine what kind of creations might have emerged.

Lindsey did a little scottish accent, laughing at what Donovan Leitch's reaction to LB's "Try for the Sun" might have been, but what if Donovan had been so taken that he'd called Lindsey up and asked to work with him? It definitely would have been interesting to dream of the collaborations of which he could have been part.

Michele

Haha, aw true! We know how hard it is for him to put down that guitar. I forgot about the Vanessa Carlton thing.

If he had gotten the chance to collaborate with more people he looked up to, I think amazing things would have come from them. Like you said, I think he needs to be asked. I love that video of The Kingston Trio Family & Friends, he seems so in his element! I feel happy for him that he was able to do that, and got to work with John :) It's too bad about Brian, if his health had been better, ugh I don't even want to think about the missed possibilities :distress:

I just get this underdog vibe from him, that maybe he partly enjoys. He said that the one man show was something he's always wanted to do; I think there is something about being a loner artist type that just doesn't set him up for collaborations with say The Stones.

Remember that scene in CAH's book when she describes Lindsey's introduction to Mick Jagger? Perhaps that is the reason MJ would never have wanted anything to do with LB.

Side note, I'd really love to hear this cut of Blue Monday! :nod:

try this http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0kkltcn3q757j4m (that's the only one i can find among my files)

OMG I love it! Thank you so much :xoxo: :blob2:

i have to take this back partially - i did say to Lindsey "you need to know that you got many of your biggest fans right here" and pointed to Lindsfan, McTrouble, Nico, Jackie, when we were at Pittsburgh m&g.

he has many huge fans who are primarily FM fans, or LB & SN fans, but those people who got together at his show in Pittsburgh would be perfectly happy (or even happier! :p ) if there were no Big Machine or BN.

Blue Monday reminds me of him playing with his voice (trying to make it deeper and a little bluesy or Elvis wobbly, is perhaps what he is going for) on the tour video when Lindsey is banging at the piano, singing, "if you find your sweetheart in the arms of your best friend, that's when your heartaches begin".

Michele

happy to be able to share - you are more than welcome! :)

:lol: Hehe, yes! I love that bit of film :)

:D:nod::thumbsup::xoxo: