Yes, the phrase Elmer Gantry quoted from Mick book is right.
To this day I don't know the names of the musicians involved, and I don't wanna know. Years later, the singer of the group contacted us to apologise. He swore that the musicians had been told that I would be joining them on the road after a few shows, so they went ahead. Eventually they formed their own band and recorded a single, "Why Did You Do It," that was said to have some bearing on the case.
So he stated that he still doesn't know their names, including the one (the singer) he spoke to? Come on, this is the first time I've read about someone having a very delicate and serious conversation with someone whose name he doesn't know and doesn't want to find out.
But there's something I don't agree in this interview, with promoter Rich Engler:
It actually went rather well. “[T]here’s no MTV, no social media, no internet,” Engler said. “Unless you were a big fan of Fleetwood Mac, and if you only knew them from the radio, you might not know that this wasn’t them… [T]he audience was going wild and loving it. They weren’t Fleetwood Mac, but they were actually really good.”
Yes there was no MTV in the mid 70s, but if I used to listen Mac songs on the radio, and if I bought some of their albums, I'm pretty sure I'd know there as a girl in the band, a female voice, even with singles. Did no one wonder where she was? Fleetwood Mac wasn't a hugely popular band, but I'm sure their tours generated some magazine articles. Critics who weren't that familiar with the band must have wondered where the female singer was, anyway.
Cause according to Google, the "fake" lineup was:
Elmer Gantry: Vocals
Kirby Gregory: Guitar
Paul Martinez: Bass
John Wilkinson: Keyboards
Craig Collinge: Drums
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