The Works magazine interview with Christine
 

Here's that interview with Christine we've been waiting for:

http://basca.org.uk/members-area/the-works-39/

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


thank you!

thanks - since it's all about FM i checked there / posted in the Rumours forum before seeing your post here.

That's OK. I thought about posting in the Rumours forum, but decided to post here instead.

Great interview! Lots of information about the new album. And, she thanked her therapist in her acceptance speech.:)

Wow, I'd also never heard her Ivor Novello acceptance speech.
She was given a really nice build up/introduction and it was good to hear Sir Tim Rice's recollections of buying I'd Rather Go Blind. Its high praise to be handed the award by him.

Could someone please post the article? I am having trouble seeing it. Would love confirmation that Fleetwood Mac are coming to London, before I start selling all my worldly goods to get the tickets. Thanks. xx

'...I think we're doing four nights at The O2 around Spring time next year, you know, around April that kind of date. If I'm wrong on that then I'm gonna get hung drawn and quartered'

This is so exciting, thank you fuzzy Plum. xx :]

it's here http://basca.org.uk/the-works-issue-40/

Really great interview! Thanks for sharing it, MacFan.
Christine's excitement is infectious. This is definitely a great time to be a Mac fan! ;)

ONLY 5 million? HAHAHA
she's hilarious

I have nothing to add except to say this makes me happy!!!

Yeah, this made me laugh. She's got that droll humor. Love it.

I loved how she diplomatically stated that she can't co-write with Stevie. :laugh:

I wonder if Stevie can't co-write with women?

She co-wrote with Sandy Stewart.

I would love a co-write between Christine & Stevie. I do believe this is the first time either of them has ever mentioned having tried. What may need to happen, is for one of them to start a song and then have the other help them complete it. Co-writing completely from the ground up, might be a little too tricky because of their different approaches.

Did Stevie say something about it?

No, just Christine.

I rarely hear either talk about it.

I just think it's coz Stevie doesn't have a musical vocabulary… I was listening the other day to some of her demos and the Rock a Little songwriting tape of her with Mick and she says things like " maybe this part should go with that part, you know, the other part" and Mick tells her to play the parts she means for him because really, her referents are so vague you can't be sure what she's referring to. Or she says things like "it needs to be more airy" (Outside the Rain working tape) and on and on. Lindsey has a better grasp of what she means by stuff like that (or he did).

Chris says things like "keep it going til the B-flat" (Oh Daddy on the Rumours 35oth… oops I mean 35th edition)

So I think that Stevie just can't articulate what she wants in a song and it falls to her collaborators to interpret her somewhat vague comments, and Christine being a trained musician probably struggles to work with that.

They've had plenty of opportunities to collaborate (I'm thinking especially during the Behind the Mask era) but I'm assuming it's because their approach to music is so different. Stevie has a truly individual approach to music and needs someone who can help her clarify what she's looking for. As Bombay offered, Christine's musical vocabulary might be too technical. But I also get the sense that Christine in her collaborations is eager to stretch out, be sparked musically from a "build the song up" perspective, which Stevie, despite her lack of musical vocabulary, is not very interested in doing: she seems to have clear, predetermined ideas of where she wants her songs to go, even in their most rudimentary stages.

In short, Christine wants a collaborator to DISCOVER more musical opportunities; Stevie wants an interpreter to realize her vision.

Umm...

A Woman is the Blues- with Stan Webb
Close To Me- with Richard Hayward
Did You Ever Love Me- with Bob Welch
Love in Store- with Jim Recor
Hold Me- with Robbie Patton
Wish You Were Here- with Colin Allen
Ask Anybody- with Steve Winwood

with Eddy Quintela- multiple
with Lindsey Buckingham- multiple
with Todd Sharp- multiple
with George Hawkins- multiple
with Billy Burnette- multiple
with Dan Perfect- multiple

...bit of a pattern here. perhaps Christine can't write with women!
(have I missed anyone?)

Let the record speak for itself! lol

Wow! Such a profound and insightful statement. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.:wavey:

As she said when she reminded Lindsey that he left the band. She told him she'd had to get along without him and she did. In 2003 she declared, 'I don't need you to make my music come true, anymore.' And that's what she'd needed in the past, someone to make her music, like her dreams, come true.

Michele

Aww, thanks! Both approaches are fine, but as a writer and amateur visual artist, I find myself more in synch with Christine's approach.

That's why Chris had the hits. Let's make this into the best pop ditty that we can!