Mick Interview on Rumours at 45 Years Old

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by elle

wow this generated some interesting discussion - glad it landed in my google inbox so i could share!

parts that i find interesting:



basically yes, they are talking about FM and Rumours, but there's a mention of Peter Green and Bob Welch, yet no peep about NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW band. isn't FM ever evolving band with new members? why not mention "current" ones if indeed they are current? oh wait, anyone who looks at FM legally knows better. there is no current FM!

also, sounds like SN is still firmly holding her grudge against LB since Mick right now talks about their relationship / them riding into the rainbow as they currently are.

and, anyone who glances over social media will tell you that Stevie cult has been successful in blaming everything that they don't like about FM or SN on Lindsey Lindsey Lindsey Lindsey! he's such a "horrible guy" they've been managing to amplify and new people just coming into fandom or just hearing about FM or SN think that he's just horrible whereas Stevie is such a "feminist icon" and "innocent great fighter" for "strong women's rights" and it goes on and on. so the Silver Spring being off Rumours? and don't you know that big bad Lindsey cheated on poor innocent Stevie? and she got him with Dreams and Silver Springs? of course it was big bad Lindsey that did it to little poor innocent flower Stevie - taking Silver Springs off Rumours. oh it was because he was always "oh so jealous of her success".

so while the facts may be completely different, you could never tell if you are glancing at general social media. Stevie is a saint. and Lindsey is Grim Reaper. and Mick doesn't even exist.

Social will say he told her what she couldn't wear, he made her feel she couldn't talk onstage, criticized her music, and was a "woman beater"

[Macfan4life]

I do agree with the consensus that IDWTK flows better and sounds better on Rumours. I would just point out it sounds this way because of our comfort in knowing the song and its instantly identified as Rumours. Its a great song after The Chain.
However, if Rumours would have had Silver Springs instead, I would bet the same people would have said it was Rumours sound and could not imagine the album without it. We are all comfortable with things we know. Its all Monday Morning quarterbacking and second guessing after a huge success. Its impossible to do that. Lets be real most any song they did during this era would have sounded great. There were no duds back then. This band was on fire so much that it irked Lindsey to try something different.

Can you imagine that instead of Tusk a double album if it was Rumours. I imagine Silver Springs, Sleeping Angel, Think About Me and others in the Rumours sound.

I try to imagine that I never heard any of the songs before and put Rumours together with the songs they recorded. I seriously may have axed IDWTK and NGBA for Silver Springs. Those other 2 would have been fantastic Tusk additions. I am honest and not playing to comfort/consensus game that Mick is.

[elle]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Social will say he told her what she couldn't wear, he made her feel she couldn't talk onstage, criticized her music, and was a "woman beater"

don't forget about never taking a mic off the stand. or being mr useless. or daring to criticize her tense / person in her gibberish poetry.

[elle]

social media amplification is nowadays integral part of artist marketing and advertising.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by elle

social media amplification is nowadays integral part of artist marketing and advertising.

That’s great. I’m sure their professional PR teams are on it.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by elle

don't forget about never taking a mic off the stand. or being mr useless. or daring to criticize her tense / person in her gibberish poetry.

Why didn't they fire him after Say You Will or even sooner?!

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Why didn't they fire him after Say You Will or even sooner?!

How many albums did they do with Stevie after SYW?

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

How many albums did they do with Stevie after SYW?

How many world tours did they do with Stevie after SYW?

Would you like to comment on the thread subject?

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

How many world tours did they do with Stevie after SYW?

Two in ten years, the second one with Christine possibly retuning as an undercurrent.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Two in ten years, the second one with Christine possibly retuning as an undercurrent.

After the album Say You Will was released, they did four tours.
SYW was a two year tour. Unleashed was a year. Live 2013 was a year. On With the Show was a year.
As The Ledgie, gldstwmn once said If Stevie could fire Lindsey, she would have fired him a million times already


Why do you think Lindsey was fired? I'd be grateful to hear. Thank you.

[elle]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

How many world tours did they do with Stevie after SYW?

after SYW came out?

2003-2004
2009
2013
2014-2015

Musicares 2018

i heard there may have been also so fakey tour in 2019 or so.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Why didn't they fire him after Say You Will or even sooner?!

$he needed FM to be 2/3 of the singers. They did it without Christine. Once Christine returned, Old I'm Not The Bo$$ began sharpening her ax. Now that Christine was back, $he knew $he could get away with it.