Mick Fleetwood Open to Reunion With Lindsey Buckingham - Rolling Stone

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I agree. But it really would not be any different from the last several tours. She could not stand him and he loved to tweek her when he could. It was a beautiful tit for tat situation. Sadly people bought the phony B.S. for so many years and would write here and other places that when they looked at each other on stage, you could tell they were in love.
I tell this story all the time but I saw Stevie get so pissed at Lindsey on the OWTS tour in Miami. She was telling her LONG Gypsy story and was rambling in the old and early days they opened for CCR and they could not get to the gig because their car broke down. Lindsey clearly was thinking...you need to cut this long and rambling story off so when she said the car broke down, he somehow made his guitar honk like a car horn. Stevie stopped mid-sentence and looked at Lindsey and said......did you just do that? Why did you do that? My story is too long? She abruptly stopped the story and just walked away when the music to Gypsy started. The rest of the night she never even looked at Lindsey and it was one of the shows where Stevie did not come out to talk to the audience after the concert.
I get frustrated because literally EVERY show is on youtube but for some reason not much of Miami OWTS and I just wish someone captured this moment because it was jaw dropping and gave an insight to the friction between them. Never saw a verbal confrontation on stage before. She was pissed.

This shows how wacko she is. For 99.9% of people in this world this would just be a bit of harmless fun...a bit of banter. Laugh it off. Smile. Give a menacing but playful stare. Shake your finger. Giggle a bit. Move on.
Not her.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

This shows how wacko she is. For 99.9% of people in this world this would just be a bit of harmless fun...a bit of banter. Laugh it off. Smile. Give a menacing but playful stare. Shake your finger. Giggle a bit. Move on.
Not her.

I agree but when you don't like someone sometimes you take the bait and do something you regret. As much as Stevie and Lindsey may be in a cold war on stage, this was the first time I saw her confront him vocally in front of a crowd. Asking him if he did that. Then WHY did you do that? Then inferred it was because her banter was too long. The pot boiled over that night. Other nights it still exists but they can hide behind the microphone and performance.

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

This shows how wacko she is. For 99.9% of people in this world this would just be a bit of harmless fun...a bit of banter. Laugh it off. Smile. Give a menacing but playful stare. Shake your finger. Giggle a bit. Move on.
Not her.

Would he play a guitCar horn when Bob Dylan was talking??!??! How dare he!?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jmn3

Would he play a guitCar horn when Bob Dylan was talking??!??! How dare he!?

$he is so full of herself that it's ridiculous. If her Mother could only see her now.


Shows are supposed to be FUN. Get over yourself, you old hag!

[BigAl84]

I've always found it hilarious that practically EVERY NIGHT on that tour (OWTS) Christine and John would sit on an amp and have an entire conversation while Stevie rambled on about Gypsy....yet a few hand gestures at Music Cares sent her into a Chernobyl meltdown....or Lindsey's added sound effect Miami caused a riff.

I wonder if all of her anger and resentment comes from knowing deep down, almost nobody in that bad appreciates her 15 minute soapbox story times between songs.

It's like Nelly from Little House on the Prairie. She knew she was disliked, but it didn't stop her from continuing the same behavior.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

I've always found it hilarious that practically EVERY NIGHT on that tour (OWTS) Christine and John would sit on an amp and have an entire conversation while Stevie rambled on about Gypsy....yet a few hand gestures at Music Cares sent her into a Chernobyl meltdown....or Lindsey's added sound effect Miami caused a riff.

I wonder if all of her anger and resentment comes from knowing deep down, almost nobody in that bad appreciates her 15 minute soapbox story times between songs.

It's like Nelly from Little House on the Prairie. She knew she was disliked, but it didn't stop her from continuing the same behavior.

I would have chopped off my middle finger just to hear John and Chris's conversation just for one night sitting on those amps during this story time. They were engaged in deep conversation and it drove me nuts not knowing what they were saying.

Maybe:

Can this story get any longer?

Nice hotel but the coffee sucks

I always loved playing this town

Are Stevie and Lindsey not speaking again?

That bloody cheap bastard Mick charging fans to say hello

I cant wait for this tour to be over

[David]

If the band was a democracy, as Stevie always said it was, the other four should have taken the initiative as a “voting” bloc and told Stevie to limit the anecdotal break to a few minutes in order to keep the momentum going. A concert needs pacing (that quality missing from the 1980 live album). That way, Lindsey wouldn’t have to bear the brunt of Stevie’s selfish airhead wrath. A band always has work to do that isn’t directly related to music, and Mac used to be so good at that in the Seventies but really got terrible at it. It caused a lot of problems over the years. You need a united front to solve the little problems, or they’ll fester.

Had the no-nonsense John Courage managed the OWTS tour, Stevie’s anecdotage would have been immediately dealt with. Her overlong stories would have been “tale-docked.”

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by David

If the band was a democracy, as Stevie always said it was, the other four should have taken the initiative as a “voting” bloc and told Stevie to limit the anecdotal break to a few minutes in order to keep the momentum going. A concert needs pacing (that quality missing from the 1980 live album). That way, Lindsey wouldn’t have to bear the brunt of Stevie’s selfish airhead wrath. A band always has work to do that isn’t directly related to music, and Mac used to be so good at that in the Seventies but really got terrible at it. It caused a lot of problems over the years. You need a united front to solve the little problems, or they’ll fester.

Had the no-nonsense John Courage managed the OWTS tour, Stevie’s anecdotage would have been immediately dealt with. Her overlong stories would have been “tale-docked.”

$tevie IS FM now. There's NO WAY Mick would vote against his big paycheck.

Do you really think $tevie wouldn't have gone all Lindsey on the Colonel? "Mick, he dared to tell me to do something!!! It's him or me!!!"

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

Had the no-nonsense John Courage managed the OWTS tour, Stevie’s anecdotage would have been immediately dealt with. Her overlong stories would have been “tale-docked.”

Look, Greenpeace may have been for a good cause but when they would take up donations for it, it was the most boring thing on earth. The audience would go from being excited at the prospect of one last song to wanting to run for the exits. And Stevie would prolong it by rambling and kidnapping little girls to pull onto the stage.

For myself, by contrast, I kind of like anecdotes to an extent. I want to hear about her car and her deceased dog and her waitressing skills, within reason.

People always get on Lindsey for his speeches (which Stevie finds very boring) but I am open to those too.

[button-lip]

Originally Posted by BigAl84

I've always found it hilarious that practically EVERY NIGHT on that tour (OWTS) Christine and John would sit on an amp and have an entire conversation while Stevie rambled on about Gypsy....yet a few hand gestures at Music Cares sent her into a Chernobyl meltdown....or Lindsey's added sound effect Miami caused a riff.

I wonder if all of her anger and resentment comes from knowing deep down, almost nobody in that bad appreciates her 15 minute soapbox story times between songs.

It's like Nelly from Little House on the Prairie. She knew she was disliked, but it didn't stop her from continuing the same behavior.

The hand gestures were never the issue. The issue was who did them and who was with him at that time. The Buckinghams were not welcomed by Stevie that night.