I guess Lindsey did have a job at one time...

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

lol. i'm hoping Catdancer was speaking tongue-in-cheek because that's exactly what Stevie said may times, just it was "smoking dope and playing guitar". i don't think she really bitched about it, but she did say it, over and over again.

but then it turned out he was actually doing guitar gigs, painting, and who knows what else.

We know he toured with Waddy and Warren and was making a little money as a player then (and that's why they were in Aspen when Stevie wrote Landslide, they were staying at a friend's house, because Lindsey was on the road). In that Warren Zevon book a guy said that when Lindsey told him that he'd been asked to join Fleetwood Mac, the guy said, "Why would you want to do that? When you're making $400 a week now?"

Plus, Stevie has said that when she left Lindsey and went back up north, she ran out of money and had to come back and eat humble pie to move back in with him. So, he and Richard were obviously paying the rent somehow in her absence.

And he told Charlie Rose that the money he inherited lasted them a little while, so he didn't spend the whole 10K on music equipment. I think he had money dribbling in, even if he didn't have a consistent job like Stevie did.

Michele