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Originally Posted by CADreaming
According to Keith Olsen, Mick actually called him and then he called or went over to tell Lindsey and Stevie and they had a long discussion:
"Anyway, I was working on some band that I can't remember what it was. Then I met Mick Fleetwood and he wanted to hear… because he was looking for some place he could make an album really cheap. And so I said, well you know there's this studio called Silent City. You can make pretty cheap albums out there, we'll make a deal with them. And he asked me to produce the record. And on New Year's Eve he called me and says, 'Well Keith I got some good news and bad news. The bad news is, Bob Welch has left the band so we won't be starting that album in February'. And I went, 'Here we go.' (laughs). 'But the good news is, you know those two kids, who were they? Lindsey and Stevie? Do you think they'd want to join my band? Could you go and find out?' And I took 12 hours of constant pounding on them to try to convince them to join Fleetwood Mac on a trial basis only. And they joined Fleetwood Mac as a trial basis and they said they'd do it just for 6 weeks. Then they got better, then they found out that they were making money, just because her brother's paying their salary at 500 bucks a week. They said, well this is great. We went into the studio, 3 months later we came out with that album." - Keith Olsen interview
Olsen remembers the phone call from Fleetwood from a Los Angeles airport on New Year's Eve 1974 about locating Buckingham and Nicks, and the duo's initial hesitation about joining: "[Mick said] 'Keith, I've got good news and bad news. Bob Welch just left the band, so I guess the recording in February is off. But do you think those two "kids" you played for me in the studio might want to join my band? Could you go and see if they might want to try it?' I went to Stevie and Lindsey's apartment, the one they shared with Dashut, and spent the whole night trying to convince the two of them to give up Buckingham Nicks and join Fleetwood Mac. Neither one of them really wanted to join. But after hours, they decided to give it a couple of weeks trial." http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/olsen.htm
So, then they set up the meeting at the Mexican restaurant and their joining was contingent upon Christine liking Stevie. The official offer must have been after Mick & John had a chance to get Christine's opinion... |
Stevie's recent BBC Radio interview with Roger Day, she commented about the dinner with FM:
"So they invited us to dinner and we went to have Mexican food at a crazy Mexican food restaurant in Los Angeles and at the end of dinner I think Chris and Mick walked over to me and Lindsey and said, 'So, we'll start rehearsing day after tomorrow at CMA, 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Don't be late.'"
I thought they began rehearsing in someone's garage or basement the first few times? Of course, I know Stevie gets her memories mixed up a lot.