Will there be a comeback tour?

[Mr Scarrott]

Originally Posted by David

That’s what drives me nuts about that entire incident. Nobody worldwide knew anything about it (except that some people at the actual concert noticed something “weird” happening) until Stephen Davis wrote it up in Mick’s 1990 book. Nobody else in the band had ever talked about it or probably even remembered it until it was in print, and the print version is never consulted (except possibly by Villavic!). Mick/Stephen only said in the book that Lindsey had been hitting the bottle and was playing deliberately out of tune on some things and then pulled off some shenanigans during “Rhiannon”: pulling his stage jacket up over his head like chiffon, flicking his foot at a crouching Stevie during her witch dance, and doing something very unclear with tossing his guitar in her direction. Mick talked about it again that year when he appeared on Graham Nash’s TV interview show, and Mick stuck to the Stephen Davis story.

Somehow, out of that, it grew into this violent psychodrama of throwing heavy equipment at poor Stevie and kicking her and going completely off the rails, and the story is so third-hand and fourth-hand and fifth-hand by now that it’s all you hear about in every comment section under every video.

On the old newsgroup, someone in the audience popped in to tell everyone what he saw: he remembers Lindsey being a little drunk and acting nutty. In rock and roll?! Gosh, who would have thought?

Here's the ladies' thoughts on it. As someone once said "recollections may vary"

https://youtu.be/FfE5fHeBWEg?t=2810

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

Here's the ladies' thoughts on it. As someone once said "recollections may vary"

https://youtu.be/FfE5fHeBWEg?t=2810

Haha! Now I'm watching this instead of working. And it started exactly where you wanted it to start for me.

[Mr Scarrott]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Haha! Now I'm watching this instead of working. And it started exactly where you wanted it to start for me.

Christine doesn't confirm that Lindsey threw his guitar at Stevie, though, at least not in that clip...

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

Christine doesn't confirm that Lindsey threw his guitar at Stevie, though, at least not in that clip...

I've also heard that Christine threw a chair at Stevie once. And that everyone but Mick was pretty violent at one time or another. (My source is pretty good, but I don't want to spread stuff like that because I didn't see it for myself)

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I've also heard that Christine threw a chair at Stevie once. And that everyone but Mick was pretty violent at one time or another. (My source is pretty good, but I don't want to spread stuff like that because I didn't see it for myself)

From what I heard it was during the Tango sessions when Chris was trying to get her attention when she was staring at the stairs.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

From what I heard it was during the Tango sessions when Chris was trying to get her attention when she was staring at the stairs.

She chaired at the chairs! There are many things to chair at these days!

[DownOnRodeo]

And somehow Lindsey "flicking his foot" playfully (but drunkenly and inappropriately) at Stevie has become "Lindsey KICKED Stevie".

Perhaps the "chair he threw at her" was from a Lego set?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I've also heard that Christine threw a chair at Stevie once. And that everyone but Mick was pretty violent at one time or another. (My source is pretty good, but I don't want to spread stuff like that because I didn't see it for myself)

In Christine's defense, I'd have a hard time not throwing running chainsaws at her.

[mylittledemon]

I'm not sure if these have been posted in this thread, but here's a few more recollections about the New Zealand incident:

https://buckinghamnicksinfo.tumblr.c...t-sorry-im-new

https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/200...980-worst.html

[David]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I'm not sure if these have been posted in this thread, but here's a few more recollections about the New Zealand incident:

https://buckinghamnicksinfo.tumblr.c...t-sorry-im-new

Consider the enormous variety of memories, several of them contradictory.

Stevie 2005: “We were on the last song of the set ... that is the first and only time we have not done an encore.”
Carol Harris: “The band had only been playing for a little while.”
Mick 1990: “Halfway through the performance, he snapped.”

Mick 1990: “He started to kick Stevie while she was trying to salvage the number [“Rhiannon”].
Rolling Stone 1997: “He came over—might have kicked me, did something to me, and we stopped the show.”
2009: “After their team meeting, Fleetwood Mac did return to the stage.”
Carol Harris: “The whole show fell apart.”

Mick 1990: “It turned out they [the audience] either didn't notice it or thought his behavior was part of the act, or just a joke.”
Carol Harris: “The audience was stunned.”
2009: “Street Talk was the support act that night ... as Fleetwood Mac deteriorated in front of our eyes, I remember a chant starting up—‘Bring back Street Talk.’ ”

2009: “It was March 1980 in Wellington ... that night in Athletic Park” [March 20, 1980].
Mojo 2003: “Playing to 60,000 in Auckland, New Zealand” [March 22, 1980, in Western Springs Stadium].
2009: “Hammond [opening act Street Talk] said the gig that followed at Western Springs was a good concert but Wellington was most definitely ‘meltdown night.’ ”
Mick 1990: “In mid-March we flew off to New Zealand to play in front of sixty thousand fans in Auckland.”

Did this happen in Auckland or Wellington?
Did the audience notice or not?
Did it happen during “Rhiannon” or the end of the show before the encore?
Did Fleetwood Mac return to the stage or not?
Did Lindsey kick or not?
Did Lindsey throw guitar or not? Why does Stevie call it a black Les Paul, when Lindsey was playing a Turner on every song that Stevie was onstage for?

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

https://youtu.be/FfE5fHeBWEg?t=2810

Thank you for posting this. It's one interview I never actually saw before.