The Cholos

[David]

The Cholos are sort of a fog-beshrouded mystery in the Fleetwood Mac annals. I remember around the time of "Law & Order" that Lindsey teamed up with Mick, Billy & one or two other guys -- Todd Sharp & George Hawkins -- & called themselves the Cholos. Whether they intended to record or just to play live, I don't know, but I do remember seeing an ad in the L.A. Times Calendar for a Cholos show at one of the local clubs here (Gazzaras or the Whiskey or something). Then I hear something somewhere -- possibly a short item in Pop Eye (Patrick Goldstein) ran with it -- that Lindsey & Mick or their management are informed that "cholo" is a derogatory term in the Hispanic community. The next thing I know, the club appearance has been canceled & the Cholos have "disappeared."

Just who were the Cholos, & what did they want?!

Postscript: I just saw on the official Billy Burnette page that the Saturday Night Live appearance in February 1982 was billed as "Los Cholos." Les at Madness Fades also has this factoid. Elsewhere -- namely the Timothy White print interview from Musician magazine the summer Lindsey quit -- Billy says that forming Los Cholos was his idea, & that Lindsey was only thinking of joining. Hawkins, Sharp & Burnette played the SNL appearance, but wasn't Steve Ross part of the short-lived group?