[Mr Scarrott]

Originally Posted by David

That’s what drives me nuts about that entire incident. Nobody worldwide knew anything about it (except that some people at the actual concert noticed something “weird” happening) until Stephen Davis wrote it up in Mick’s 1990 book. Nobody else in the band had ever talked about it or probably even remembered it until it was in print, and the print version is never consulted (except possibly by Villavic!). Mick/Stephen only said in the book that Lindsey had been hitting the bottle and was playing deliberately out of tune on some things and then pulled off some shenanigans during “Rhiannon”: pulling his stage jacket up over his head like chiffon, flicking his foot at a crouching Stevie during her witch dance, and doing something very unclear with tossing his guitar in her direction. Mick talked about it again that year when he appeared on Graham Nash’s TV interview show, and Mick stuck to the Stephen Davis story.

Somehow, out of that, it grew into this violent psychodrama of throwing heavy equipment at poor Stevie and kicking her and going completely off the rails, and the story is so third-hand and fourth-hand and fifth-hand by now that it’s all you hear about in every comment section under every video.

On the old newsgroup, someone in the audience popped in to tell everyone what he saw: he remembers Lindsey being a little drunk and acting nutty. In rock and roll?! Gosh, who would have thought?

Here's the ladies' thoughts on it. As someone once said "recollections may vary"

https://youtu.be/FfE5fHeBWEg?t=2810