Fun Story

[danax6]

I translated this from Dutch. It was posted on the Top 2000 website, where people send in their stories pertaining to certain songs. This is what Ron sent in about 'Go Your Own Way'.

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I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1989 and I was working in a 5-star deluxe hotel in Düsseldorf. During my time there I had the opportunity to greet a lot of famous people. A lot of bands also stayed at this hotel when they had shows in that particular region.

That's how it happened that during my time there, working Roomservice, I got to meet Pink Floyd, and the band this story is about: Fleetwood Mac.

Normally I would have been on the phone, taking orders from guests. However, that day the hotel was fully booked, so the chef was taking orders himself, and every other member of the staff was running around delivering them. That day a few orders came in from the tenth floor, which was the floor Fleetwood Mac had booked for a few days.

With a trolley full of food and hard liquor I got sent up to one of the rooms. With my heart beating out of my chest, I knocked on the door. From somewhere far away a voice called out to me, telling me to enter. At first I didn't see anything, the room was pitch dark. But when I entered with my trolley, a light was switched on, and voila, there was Stevie Nicks on the bed, with the guitarist.

They didn't let me linger around and I was sent out of the room almost immediately, with a 20 DM tip. I have my own theories as to what was going on... Those two didn't come across as the very energetic bandmembers I knew them to be. I wasn't even downstairs before I got called up again, this time to one of their other rooms.

Humming one of their songs, 'Go Your Own Way', I knocked on the door. What a difference with the last room! The door was opened quickly by Mick Fleetwood himself. He invited me in and even told me to sit down, but we weren't allowed to do that. I had trouble understanding what he was saying, because the TV was on very loud. There was a western on, one with a lots of noise and lots of shooting.

Imagine my surprise when Fleetwood jumped on the bed and started to reenact the scene that had just been shown on TV. Right before my eyes he started shooting, jumping and tumbling through the room, as if he was the leading man himself. After a full minute of watching him, speechless, he pushed a tip into my hands and I left the room.

Afterwards I had a good laugh and to this day I'm reminded of Mick Fleetwood when I hear that great song, 'Go Your Own Way'.

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Obviously, the 1989 date is wrong. It could be that he meant 1988, when Pink Floyd was indeed also touring Europe. That would mean though that a. Stevie was sleeping with either Rick or Billy, or b. Lindsey flew in for no good reason. I'm inclined to believe the former first, but hey, stranger things have happened. Also, not many people even knew who Rick and Billy were, so for him to reach the conclusion that it was the guitarist, and that he wasn't as energetic as he normally was, leads me to believe it was someone more familiar. Maybe it wasn't the guitarist, maybe it was John?

It could also be that he mistakenly typed a 9 instead of a zero, which would make it 1980 and Pink Floyd was touring Europe then as well. Somehow I find the 'Stevie Nicks in a pitch dark room in bed with the guitarist' story easier to take when placed in that timeframe.

Mick Fleetwood as Dirty Harry? I can picture that very easily.