Mick Interview on Rumours at 45 Years Old

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Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

It is relevant. The band was playing new songs at the time.
Tear it Up was done while Billy and Rick were doing new FM songs. Traffic songs were done while new songs from Time were played.
Neil and Tom hits were played in an FM set with no new music, and no FM songs that Neil or Mike played on the recorded versions of.
And Mick made it a point to say in the CBS interview that these men don't have calling cards and sure enough, they performed the highest-charting songs by Neil and Tom in the set.

People can come up with whatever rule or justification that suits their particular narrative, but the fact remains that Free Falling was first recorded and released by Tom Petty and Crash Into Me was first recorded and released by Dave Matthews Band, so they're not Stevie Nicks songs.

to be nitpicky, he said they didn't have to have a calling card. Which is a reference to back in the days before telephones etc existed, people had to go around to each other's houses to get in touch with each other. If someone came to your door and you didn't know them or you knew them but didn't want to see them, you had your butler or whoever answered the door say you weren't available and the person coming to see you left one of their cards with their name printed on it (like a modern business card, now also mostly obsolete) to let you know they had "called" on you. Making someone leave their calling card was a form of superiority... 'leave your card and maybe I'll get back to you'. Thus Mick's comment that these two men were famous in their own right and don't need to have a calling card was a way of saying they were not in any way less-than to anyone in FM and were peers and respected as such. So to me part of that respect is not telling either of these guys the stuff they did before FM is irrelevant and less important than FM songs. Why would those guys tolerate that ?

Anyway, sorry, I've been immersed in a history research project for so long now I can't help myself nitpicking details.