'Creem Magazine' - FM Return Without Leaving' (Sept. 1987)

[Villavic]

I guess you are missing those quotes from Mick's book, so her you go!

Since Mr. Buckingham was immersed in his own record, we felt it necessary to bring in an outside producer for the first time in years. First we met with Nile Rogers, but it didn't work out. Then Mo Ostin at Warners gave us some money to hire producer Jason Casaro from New York, who had coaxed such an astounding sound from the pickup band Power Station earlier that year. We booked into Studio One and held a week of glorified rehearsals without Stevie, who at the time was touring Australia with fellow Frontline client Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. (She appeared onstage with them a couple of times to sing "Knocking on Heaven's Door" until the authorities discovered she didn't have the right visa and prohibited her from performing.) Nothing came of these sessions; in fact, it took us about a week to realize that any outside producer who tried to harness the old Mac at that point was going to be in way over his head. So Mr. Casaro went home, and for a while in early 1986 it looked as if this record wasn't going to get made. In the end, to salvage the project, Lindsey and Richard decided to continue the now hallowed tradition of producing Fleetwood Mac themselves.