Quotes from The Record, 1982...OUCH. LOL.

[Les]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sulamith
Well Les, I pretty much agree with everything you said, imagine that? haha!

Gasp! LOL!

He could have phrased some things differently to soften them, or avoided some of these topics totally, but I don't think Lindsey was being mean to Stevie for the sake of it or because his album didn't sell as well. If you listen to Lindsey's interviews about Law and Order, he never expected his album to sail to the top of the charts. He knew that Trouble was the only really commercial sounding thing on it. He also said that he knew that audiences didn't know him very well and so he wouldn't expect the same reaction to his album as Stevie's.

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Interesting little note - when Christine was doing some press for Mirage, she did one of those call-in radio shows. Don't remember which one off the top of my head. Maybe Rockline?? Someone calls up and asks if there is a big rift between Stevie and the rest of the band. Christine says that, sure they all have their problems and always will, but that some aspects have been greatly exaggerated. She then actually singles out this particular Record Magazine interview and says that she thought it was very purposely edited and shaped to leave the impression that there was a war going on, but that it wasn't really representative of the whole, true picture.

[sulamith]

Oh yes, in regard to the magazine articles at the time, I am very sure quotes were taken out of context, and I'm sure they were all baited heavily by journalists just looking to sensationalize an already juicy story. They had to make it look like one of them was being a total ass.

One of the things that is a real shame is that Lindsey and Stevie had such a hard time communicating during those years. Because they weren't having any real conversations with each other, I'm sure many of these articles only aggravated each's impression of the other. It is amazing they have any regard for each other today, based solely on what is in the press.

Now, here is where I know everyone doesn't agree with me, and that is perfectly fine........but there's alot that keeps them "chained together". Being an artist myself, I can begin to understand that kind of creative bond with another person. It's not something you can throw away very easily, and it's not something you want to live without. It's something that you keep coming back around with, or "cycling" through, to quote Mr. Buckingham.

You can compare them to other similar bonds, like the Beatles, but the thing that has made me such a fan is that whole male/female dynamic they have going, that whole physical attraction. It definitley adds a layer of interest that isn't there in alot of other working relationships.

[David]

Originally posted by Les
Interesting little note - when Christine was doing some press for Mirage, she did one of those call-in radio shows. Don't remember which one off the top of my head. Maybe Rockline?? Someone calls up and asks if there is a big rift between Stevie and the rest of the band. Christine says that, sure they all have their problems and always will, but that some aspects have been greatly exaggerated. She then actually singles out this particular Record Magazine interview and says that she thought it was very purposely edited and shaped to leave the impression that there was a war going on, but that it wasn't really representative of the whole, true picture. [/B]

David Gans wrote that Record article, didn't he? Gans is an absolutely splendid writer on Fleetwood Mac; he has always been one of my favorites. He used to review the band's San Francisco Bay Area shows -- always very favorably -- & often voted for the band's studio albums as year-end bests in BAM (Bay Area Music) magazine. I wrote to alt.music.fleetwood-mac a few years ago about how I would want Gans to write a Mac bio, instead of nonentities like Leah Furman. I'd love someone like Gans or Ken Tucker or the guy who went to the NY Times to cover jazz (who loved FM) to write a really big, serious book on the Mac.

However, the thing with Gans is that he is less in love with Nicks & her songs than with the other members of the band, particularly Buckingham, whom Gans really thought was brilliant. I've always had the opinion that Gans "shaped" this particular article in such a way as to focus disproportionately on the fact that Nicks wasn't hanging around the studio much at Larrabee helping with "Mirage," & that Gans was attempting to wring a little drama out of the atypically very calm "Mirage" sessions.

One note to one of the posts earlier in the thread: Robin, Stevie's friend, didn't actually die until about six months after "Mirage" was released.