Getting Clean

[vivfox]

I remember reading an interview with Mick once where he said he slept on Lindsey's couch all through 1994 or 1995 drunk and homeless. The couch was either in a basement or a studio. That was nice of Lindsey considering he was no longer a Macster at that point in time.

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I remember reading an interview with Mick once where he said he slept on Lindsey's couch all through 1994 or 1995 drunk and homeless. The couch was either in a basement or a studio. That was nice of Lindsey considering he was no longer a Macster at that point in time.

To bad at that time they could not mend things up in time for we can have the 5 some together in 1995 instead of the "Time" album.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

To bad at that time they could not mend things up in time for we can have the 5 some together in 1995 instead of the "Time" album.

If Mick hadn't jumped the gun with hiring Bekka and waited until Lindsey finished the "Out of the Cradle" tour, I think they may have been able to get Lindsey back in the fall of 1993. It would have been cool for them to do an album as a quartet and a tour with just the guys (since Christine was still not touring).

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

If Mick hadn't jumped the gun with hiring Bekka and waited until Lindsey finished the "Out of the Cradle" tour, I think they may have been able to get Lindsey back in the fall of 1993. It would have been cool for them to do an album as a quartet and a tour with just the guys (since Christine was still not touring).

Yes I agree.No offense with Bekka and rest of the Time lineup.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Macfanforever

Yes I agree.No offense with Bekka and rest of the Time lineup.

I've only recently come to that conclusion. While I still think they could have redefined the band's sound with Bekka and Billy (especially by parting ways with Dave and letting Christine retire) and come up with something new and compelling, that was realistically never going to happen. It doesn't work that way now with the classic line-up.

So, since Fleetwood Mac wasn't going to move away from the "Rumours" material, getting Lindsey back and going on as an augmented trio for the shows would have made more sense.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I remember reading an interview with Mick once where he said he slept on Lindsey's couch all through 1994 or 1995 drunk and homeless. The couch was either in a basement or a studio. That was nice of Lindsey considering he was no longer a Macster at that point in time.

I've never heard this. I know he slept on Richard Dashut's couch for part of 1984 after his bankruptcy, but he was with Lynn by 1994 (and had that restaurant in Alexandrea, Virginia) and they got married in 1995.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I've never heard this. I know he slept on Richard Dashut's couch for part of 1984 after his bankruptcy, but he was with Lynn by 1994 (and had that restaurant in Alexandrea, Virginia) and they got married in 1995.

1984, 1994, it's all the same Rhiannon, in the sands of time that go by like a strand in the wind.

[TheWILDheart]

Mick stated quite openly at one of the M&G's in 2013 that the reason no album happened after the Unleashed tour was because he was still drinking heavily and the band didn't want to go into the studio until he cut down.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I've never heard this. I know he slept on Richard Dashut's couch for part of 1984 after his bankruptcy, but he was with Lynn by 1994 (and had that restaurant in Alexandrea, Virginia) and they got married in 1995.

Yes, I don't think that happened. Lindsey didn't even really want him in the trailer during Tango.

Christine talked about Mick sleeping in a basement and how sad it was. It was a damp basement, wet carpet, and he watched soap operas all day. I don't know whose basement it was.

Michele