Mick Fleetwood Print Interviews

[David]

I don't remember having seen these, but they're interesting.

Modern Drummer Online:
http://www.moderndrummer.com/web_exclusive/900001131

Mick talks about each of the Mac albums stretching back all the way to the beginning:

Kiln House is a charming album - such a different, unsnobby type of album. Jeremy was great at doing home demos on Revoxes, with multi-tracking harmonies, so we used a lot of those techniques on the album. If you listen to the drums, they're very closed down, very tight. There may be echo on them, but the source sound employed a lot of close miking. I used towels on the drums to keep them very muted, quite Beatle-esque.

Then Play On and Tusk are my favorite Fleetwood Mac albums.

On "What Makes You Think You're The One," I set about playing very simply. Only Lindsey and I were playing that together, which we quite often do, by the way. But the drum sound on that was Lindsey's old Sony ghetto blaster. We opened the mic's up so that it was recording straight onto tape, and that overload and compression is straight off the ghetto blaster. It gave it that "suck and push" sound.

We made a decision not to work with someone who was conversant with Pro Tools, because we wanted to do this album [SAY YOU WILL] in a very personal way, and that meant literally not having other bodies around. At one point Lindsey said, Maybe we need to take a time-out so I can learn how to use all this stuff. But the decision was not to do it. We're certainly open to using any tools during mixing, for instance, though frankly, a lot of it isn't necessary. We play out things we need to fix, or Lindsey will edit with a razor-blade mentality. Having said that, we're already talking about making the next album, and next time there will be more of a marriage of the technological stuff.

http://www.moderndrummer.com/web_exclusive/900001132