[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Well, why would Stevie say 1000 different times he was playing the guitar? She's kind of daffy, but that would be a little much, even for her. And since they went there mostly to socialize, despite the religious nature of the gathering, I could see him bringing his guitar, just to get attention -- and it worked!

I wasn't aware that Stevie mentioned the guitar so many times. I think she's generally most reliable the earlier in life you catch her: for example, in radio interviews that predate the release of her first solo album, she used to say she wrote RHIANNON & LANDSLIDE "around Halloween" in 1974 -- a few months before joining the new band. As she got older, RHIANNON'S composition date moved sinisterly backward. I think at this point she believes she wrote it in 1973 or even 1972. Of course, she also can't remember the exact years of specific tours in the distant past; she's often a year or more off. In recent years, she has claimed that she joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974.

At any rate, in one of those old radio interviews -- Source or Denny Somack or something -- does she not say that Lindsey was at the piano, playing & singing CALIFORNIA DREAMING, & that she thought he was "darling"?

Also, even though he was a teenager, he was still Lindsey. He probably did a lot of weird things. Having already loved his guitar for 10 years, he probably toted it around with him everywhere he went.

I don't know how weird he was in general, but I've known a lot of kids who love their guitars (including my own oldest sister). Doesn't usually mean that the guitars get toted around here, there & everywhere. My Nord Electro in its case is smaller than most acoustic guitars in cases, but I don't tote it around with me here, there & everywhere. I love it, but I don't do that (although I do take it out of town when I go).

Aside from Angel, we have also seen him playing the piano and singing, "when you find your girlfriend in the arms of your best friend, that's when your heartache begins."

That's bare minimum: just chords. CALIFORNIA DREAMING would have been no different from that stuff. In fact, it's the Stevie Nicks style: A minor, G, F, w/a bit more variety than she usually manages in her own tunes. I think the most impressive piano biz I've ever heard him do is his arpeggio arrangement of SEPTEMBER SONG on his first album. I mean, it isn't that impressive in an absolute sense -- only relative to him & Stevie on piano in general. (In fact, methinks that he was playing some old sheet music of the song, or perhaps an arrangement by one of the doo-wop groups of the '50s.)