Mojo magazine interview

[michelej1]

Actually, in the past when Stevie talked about this incident, she didn't know WHAT Lindsey did to her. She said he came over and did something to her. Both she and Mick knew he did something to her with his foot, because he had a guitar in his hands. So, he couldn't do it with his hands. So, for years Stevie said he did something to her because she was dancing during his guitar solo. Then, the farther away she got from the incident, the more she remembered. She eventually recalled that he kicked her specifically. So, she talked about that when asked about this subject, pretty consistently.

But then, it wasn't until she and Lindsey did an interview with Mojo for the SYW tour that she remembered that Lindsey threw his guitar at her. She said, "remember when you threw that Les Paul at me?" Since it was a joint interview and he was there with her, I guess he did throw a guitar at her at one point. Although, the way Mojo wrote the story, it wasn't clear who was speaking, Lindsey or Stevie. I didn't know if Stevie threw a guitar at Lindsey or vice versa. So, that was about 4 years ago.

THEN, the story gets more detailed when Stevie goes to Australia last year. She gives interviews and says that Lindsey kicked her and then threw his guitar at her and she ducked and it missed her. Now, in the newest Mojo for this month she says that if she hadn't been so athletic and ducked, that the guitar would have killed her because it weighed so much. This happened about 25 years ago and the story gets more amazing each time I hear it. There's this whole Ang Lee thing going on now. Stevie will have herself levitating in the air in slow motion to miss the flying guitar the next time she describes what happened.

The band has always talked about Lindsey doing something to Stevie on stage with his feet, kicked her, flicked her, I don't know. I think it's obvious that that happened, because they have talked about it consistently for decades. But this addition to the story with him throwing the guitar . . . I'm sure he threw a guitar at her at some point in their lives and Carol says that Stevie also threw a guitar in a fit of anger because Carol interrupted a music lesson that Lindsey was giving Stevie. I'm sure there was lots of guitar throwing over the years, but I don't know if Lindsey threw the guitar the same time he kicked her onstage, because if he had, I don't think Stevie would have waited until 2003 to discuss it for the first time, since she's been telling the whole kicking story for a lot longer than that.

Michele