26.06.2013 - Des Moines
Song
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Intro
Download
1.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/02...s%20(6.32).mp4 [06.32 minutes, 21MB]
What Was Said
S: When we made this, we put it on cassette and our house at those, in those days our house was full of cassettes. Cassettes ruled. So I probably threw the cassette on the couch and the cassette fell behind the couch and the cassette stayed behind the couch and then somebody else found the cassette and stole the cassette and copied the cassette and brought the cassette back and threw it back on the couch and then Lindsey and I lost it again. So the song was lost. In 2010 some friends of ours who were on, yes, my favourite thing, YouTube, they found the song floating around on YouTube. So I got it and I played it for Lindsey and I said ‘Do you remember this song?’ And he’s like ‘Well, yeah, it’s me playing and you singing and of course I remember it.’ Then I’m thinking to him ‘Why didn’t we record this song?’ or ‘Why did we never show this to Fleetwood Mac?’ in all these forty years. And it’s because it was just lost. So I said ‘let’s show it to the band and see if they want to record it’. So we did and we went to Lindsey’s house last year, the end of the year, and we recorded this song.
S: Lindsey and I sing and play in counterpoint which means we’re like this *off camera* and, like tapdancers. Kind of.
S: Yes! He was looking for a lead guitarist. I know. So, and... *laughs* They know the story already! So I said, what did I, okay now I’m lost. They’re throwing me off. Throwing me, yes, I know. But you’re throwing me off. Let me think here. Okay. *Lindsey laughs* So I said to him “Yes, you’re right, that’s true.” And they weren’t looking for a lead guitarist and his hippie girlfriend. Right, so. Lindsey? Jump in.
L: Oh. Well, yes, Mick called us, called me, and said “Lindsey?” And I said “Yes, Mick?” And he said “Would you like to join Fleetwood Mac?” And I, you know, you have to understand Stevie and I had been down a long road together, we had a lot invested in what we had together as a couple and as a musical entity, and I said “Mick, if you take me, you’re gonna have to take my girlfriend too!” And they did and it worked out okaaay.
S: So I like to take this moment in the show to thank my boys. First of all I’d like to thank Mr Lindsey Buckingham for taking me *Lindsey blows her three kisses* with him into Fleetwood Mac when he could’ve not. Thank you, Lindsey. I would also like to thank Mr Mick Fleetwood for asking Lindsey and me, accepting me, and taking us on this wild Alice in Wonderland ride into Fleetwood Mac for all these many, many years. He has an eye. And an ear, Mr Fleetwood. And I would also like to thank the handsomest, the cutest and the best bass player in the world for probably just saying, when it all became problematic, ‘just take the girl!’Thank you, John.