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Originally Posted by dissention
I don't judge him, I just think that all the facts we know about point to him being lazy.
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There's a kid I know, the drummer in a group I'm in. He's fecked up. He's about 26 years old, didn't attend college. He thinks he's an
artist. Know the type? They're rampant among weekend warrior musician types. Anyway, this kid just will not work a job; he says he just isn't "cut out for it." I always smile sort of bemusedly. It's like my grandfather who won't attend funerals after deaths in the family because he "doesn't like them." The rest of us
do, granddad?!
That's what I tell Jason: "Working for a living is what they mean by being a responsible
adult, Jay." He doesn't get it. He tried working last year at (of all places) Guitar Center. Now, if there's anywhere I would think a musician would want to work if he had to, it would be Guitar Center. Jay lasted about a month there. I had a great laugh when he told me he had quit.
I doubt anyone in Fleetwood Mac did -- or would have wanted to do -- much in the way of full-time workplace employment, particularly in their 20s. So many musicians, especially those who have tasted even a little bit of the Big Time, just won't force themselves to trudge off to work every morning & keep it going for years -- like the rest of us. Maybe Lindsey was just like all these guys like Jason in their 20s. They must have been as numerous then as they are now.
As for Stevie, even if she worked full-time (40 hours a week) at some point, it wouldn't have been longer than about 12 or 13 months, would it? She wouldn't have worked before "Buckingham Nicks" stiffed; it would have been after, when they had been dropped by Polydor. That was in early '74 or so (the album was released in late '73). And LB & SN were put on Fleetwood Mac salary starting in early '75, right? Look out! I mean, people make it sound as if it was really something out of the ordinary . . . "Oh my god, Stevie Nicks held a . . . a . . . JOB!!"
There must have been a recession at the time, because otherwise how could two healthy kids not have been able to support themselves in the Los Angeles area without starving?