new Dashut blog - Truth & Consequences (My Times with FM)

[michelej1]

Since Christine is the most disinterested party, I tend to believe what she says about Lindsey and Dreams. Of course, he worked on it with the other producers, but I believe his initial reaction was probably along the lines of what Christine said it was. I think that's why the band has given him credit for its sound. Of course, I'm sure he thinks he's amazing himself, but in this case, he wasn't even the first one giving himself credit.

Before we recorded Dreams, Stevie played it on the piano and Stevie is a self confessed non-musical person. She knows four chords on the piano, I think and as Lindsey always says, rightly, “yes, but they’re the right four chords” and she played the song for us and I thought to myself, 'I don’t know this sounds a little bit tedious to me it’s just going “ting, ding, ting ding” all the way through the song' and Lindsey, I suppose, in his great hindsight said, “no this is going to be wonderful. We’ll record it and build each section differently so that those four chords run all the way through.” Actually I think she only used three chords for this one but although they are the same three chords it doesn’t sound like it. It was actually our first number one, our only number one single in Fleetwood Mac history.