Billy Burnette Playing With Mick Fleetwood's Zoo (June 1987)

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Also from that set is “Get An Education” from the movie Summer School: https://youtu.be/SNbonv_b4VY

Incidentally, “Guitar Bug” was on Billy’s 1985 album Try Me, which features Mick and Christine and has the incredible Billy-Christine duet “It Ain’t Over”. https://youtu.be/Pgw1sAgYirw

Yes. Todd Sharpe performed Guitar Bug on Chris's solo tour.


It's June 1987 and Seven Wonders was just released as a single to Big Love. Billy had no idea the phone call he's about to get in a few months.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

It's June 1987 and Seven Wonders was just released as a single to Big Love. Billy had no idea the phone call he's about to get in a few months.

I seriously doubt he was all that shocked or surprised. He was thoroughly in their inner circle by that point and had to have been abreast of Lindsey being noncommittal to doing a tour as well as cognizant of the fact he was the band’s closest friend at that point.

Beyond his work with Mick and Christine (and Stevie, although that was unreleased), Billy had already recorded with Fleetwood Mac minus Stevie on “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and unofficially filled in for Lindsey (with Bonnie Raitt) with the rest of Fleetwood Mac at some type of benefit show that Stevie hosted. (David O was there and there are pictures from the show floating out there.)

So, I’m sure he had some type of inkling in June, 1987, that if Lindsey quit, he’d at least be on the short list to replace him.

ETA: Here’s a photo. It looks like it’s from 1983 or so. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8a/21/78/8...etwood-mac.jpg

ETA 2: Another photo. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-42nUuuq3S...+USLA+1983.JPG

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I seriously doubt he was all that shocked or surprised. He was thoroughly in their inner circle by that point and had to have been abreast of Lindsey being noncommittal to doing a tour as well as cognizant of the fact he was the band’s closest friend at that point.

Beyond his work with Mick and Christine (and Stevie, although that was unreleased), Billy had already recorded with Fleetwood Mac minus Stevie on “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and unofficially filled in for Lindsey (with Bonnie Raitt) with the rest of Fleetwood Mac at some type of benefit show that Stevie hosted. (David O was there and there are pictures from the show floating out there.)

So, I’m sure he had some type of inkling in June, 1987, that if Lindsey quit, he’d at least be on the short list to replace him.

ETA: Here’s a photo. It looks like it’s from 1983 or so. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8a/21/78/8...etwood-mac.jpg

ETA 2: Another photo. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-42nUuuq3S...+USLA+1983.JPG

Thanks for sharing the photos Steve but they only raddled my brain what concert they are from. Its definitely an early 80s Stevie. But she never participated in anything Fleetwood Mac in 1983. She got married to Kim in January, finished Wild Heart and was on the road by May and finished her solo tour in October. Chris once said once the Mirage tour ended they never saw each other for years.
The photos of Stevie with the tambourine are famous. I always assumed they were from the US Festival. But the Mac closed the show and it was dark. Did Billy come out for a sound check with the band? Chris's hair looks very 1980 and not 1982.
What outdoor concert could this have been anywhere from 1980 to 1982? I googled and did not find that Billy was at the US Festival in 1982.
Perhaps David or someone else would know what show this was. Did they play a benefit show in 1981? Chris and Stevie look like they did from the Bob Welch and Friends show in 1981.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Thanks for sharing the photos Steve but they only raddled my brain what concert they are from. Its definitely an early 80s Stevie. But she never participated in anything Fleetwood Mac in 1983. She got married to Kim in January, finished Wild Heart and was on the road by May and finished her solo tour in October. Chris once said once the Mirage tour ended they never saw each other for years.
The photos of Stevie with the tambourine are famous. I always assumed they were from the US Festival. But the Mac closed the show and it was dark. Did Billy come out for a sound check with the band? Chris's hair looks very 1980 and not 1982.
What outdoor concert could this have been anywhere from 1980 to 1982? I googled and did not find that Billy was at the US Festival in 1982.
Perhaps David or someone else would know what show this was. Did they play a benefit show in 1981? Chris and Stevie look like they did from the Bob Welch and Friends show in 1981.

Did some digging and found this: https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/201...ay-8-1983.html

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Did some digging and found this: https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/201...ay-8-1983.html

Thanks for sharing, I don't remember those pics.

The funny thing was that it's been a long time since I read the name Toni Basil.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Did some digging and found this: https://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/201...ay-8-1983.html

Good digging. I actually remember a brief write up in Hit Parade that Stevie and Toni Basil did a concert together for charity. But I never imagined and the article never mentioned Fleetwood Mac performed too.
Anyone attend this? The microphones were definitely more modern than 1980 and 1981 so its a hard picture to guess the year.
Lindsey did not perform. OMG Billy substituted for Lindsey in 1983. I never knew this.

This is the photo I remember in Hit Parade magazine in 1983. Its on Toni's Facebook page. I would love to hear audio but I assume its lost forever. To think it was a premonition of things to come.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...7&locale=ja_JP