Mojo magazine interview

[David]

Originally Posted by 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.

Michele, I love this post of yours, but I just want to add that Stevie never mentioned this incident(s) before Mick's 1990 book was published. That book is the first time I ever heard any discussion of any such thing occurring, & Mick paints the whole scenario as binge drinking rather than anything emotionally or physically deeper.

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.

It was all so rattlebrained in recent years that I began to wonder whether she & he were remembering separate, unrelated incidences.

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.

I love it! Your description is a hoot.

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.

Again, I have to disagree only with this small point. I don't think there was ever a mention of it until the 1990 "My Life & Adventures." Mick also makes (well, Mick & Stephen Davis, that is) a telling point in his pentimento: He says that after the New Zealand concert in question, there was some sort of run-of-the-mill press conference, & Mick said that none of the reporters who were watching the gig thought anything was wrong. The consensus was that it was part of the act, or just a joke. Now, you have to ask yourself, if the lead guitarist throws a guitar at the willowy lead female vocalist, it would register a little differently on the observers, to say the least.