Mick is sick 10 year anniversary
 

Its been almost exactly 10 years since one of the coolest moments in rock history took place. Mick played sick until he couldn't and the drum tech came out to perform Go Your Own Way. Really incredible. Many bands would have just called it a night. OMG so much has happened in 10 years! Sadly 2 people on that stage are no longer with us :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQ5dHysPe0

I didn't know about that episode. So cool the video included Songbird.

I know it's a complete different situation, but watching four of the five guys lineup, reminds me the april 2009 concert when they said goodbye in a similar hug. Only that time it was Christine who wasn't there. I'll always be a fan of that five people lineup.

The band never did go back and make up for half a show. Mick has played through some incredible pain so Stevie is right when she explains how bad he must be. The band resumed the night show without issues. This tour Mick never took a night off when his mother passed either. I guess it was true when they said ON WITH THE SHOW.

Lincoln, Nebraska was also the tour stop where Mick told the McVies he could no longer play with Bob Weston and he was fired. Weston went back to England and the tour stopped in 1973.

I love that clip... john's hand on chris's shoulder as they're talking is so sweet. poor mick must have really been a mess. i figured they'd never go back for another show though.

--Lis

Yeah but they gotta say that to keep the crowd happy.
Really remarkable how they plotted a way forward for at least another song. For a drummer to step into another drummer's set and perform is risky. He did a great job and only missed the beat once but they carried on which is really cool.
I wonder if Mick has ever watched this and what he thinks.

He sure will include his thoughts about this episode in his third book. ;)

You're actually eager to see if it'll fit, aren't you? :p

Actually if a third one appeared, I wouldn't buy it, as I didn't the second one. I think I have read the first one just twice (not like you who read it lot of times :) ). As I told in the past, some ledgie (I can't remember who) shared the txt file, and I downloaded it, so it's easy to look for, and find a specific episode, info, and that's why I often share quotes from the book, just to comment about some anecdote mentioned here.

I did enjoyed Mick's book, back in the early 90s. However thru the years I learned many events reported are of dubious credibility, but it's useful to quote them sometimes, just to compare.

We're the same on them. Once I figured out he's a WORTHLESS LIAR, I have little interest in anything else from him.

I am going on another cruise in a few weeks, and I'm tossing the 2nd book into my bag, and if I'm bored enough, see if I can get through some of it.

So funny. I went on a cruise last January and brought his second book…..I read one chapter.

That is funny! I had it laid out for my last cruise, but(it was my first cruise) I took it out at the last minute, because I was taking too much with me. I'm leaving dress clothes at home this time. I'm not carrying dress shoes for one fancy dinner. Plus, I wear size 13 shoes, so they take up a LOT of room in a suitcase! So I'll have room for the book this time.

By the way, what cruise line? This is my second with Norwegian. They usually have a FM Rumours tribute band night. Only one night, but two shows. Both were standing room only, this past Feb. I gave up on the first one, because the line was too long, but hunkered down with two glasses of Cab for the second one, and stood in line for an hour. Success!

They did Rumours in sequential order, with Silver Springs as their encore.

That is so cool! I would have gotten such a kick out of that! was the crowd into them?

--Lis

Oh yeah, it was a huge attraction. And the players would reset the stage(move their mic stands around between songs), moving out of the way for who was singing lead next, while a member gave a little narrative about what the next song was about.

I'd say the only lame part was that the guitarist couldn't finger pick NGBA. So the bass player played along with him, playing Lindsey's "thumb parts". At the end, one of the other members told the crowd how difficult that song was to play.

The same band played the rest of the cruise as a regular cover band, and they did EO17 and SDMHA in those bands.

His second book is very boring. I think he wrote it as some sort of therapy assignment because it's all very positive and sort of an apology tour. I am not saying a positive book cant be good. But when someone writes a book its expected things will be revealed to the public for the first time. In Mick's first book he admitted to the world about his affair with Stevie, about his lifelong stalker, how the Australians always thought he was smuggling in drugs, and Stevie's bat s**t crazy antics. If you remember he revealed so much that Stevie threatened him with civil litigation.
Nothing is revealed in the second book and things we know about are not even discussed. For example when the first book ended Stevie had just started her tranquilizer addiction that no one knew at the time. Mick never discusses it. Stevie is hardly even mentioned in it. It was wonderful to read about is praise of Bob Welch. He really explains how Bob transformed the band, etc. But it sort of made me sick for what he did to Bob and Bob is no even alive to read it. I wanted more about the BTM era but it sort of was glossed over. Mick has no gripes or enemies in the book. I had a hard time finishing it because it was so boring. Unlike his first book where he describes in detail the fight at Christine's house when Lindsey left, I dont think he mentions much of it. Everything is so glossed over. Like I said, the book reads like a therapy lesson where he was forced to write a book to apologize to people he wronged to put his self guilt to rest. I tried to sell the book on Ebay several years ago for rock bottom price and it had no interest and took it off market. If you were here in the states I would gladly mail you a copy. It may be useful for keeping a table level in your house ;)
I could be wrong because its been so long since I've read it but I think the only revelation in the book is about regretting him and John continuing on through the Time era. That's it. In that giant book it was the only thing new revealed other than his glossy propping up those he wronged in the past.