Question to Marty about McVie

[Villavic]

Just curious, don't know if you told before.
Marty, how did you get contact with John McVie for th Q&A forum? Was it difficult to contact him? Was it thru his manager?

anyway, it was great!

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Just curious, don't know if you told before.
Marty, how did you get contact with John McVie for th Q&A forum? Was it difficult to contact him? Was it thru his manager?

anyway, it was great!

Hi there-- I will answer since this whole Q&A has been brought about by yours truly. No, there was no manager involved. John and I used to write occasionally years ago, back when the site first started. Obviously as the years passed and he was busy w/ the Dance tour and I was busy w/ my kids etc we sort of lost touch. I've had his e-mail address for years but never wanted to bother him before now. I'm glad I did!

FWIW, we have been pretty much contacted first by all the guests on the Q&A's, and then we have used previous contacts to verify identities in some cases. We're proud of our reputation and try to retain everyone's trust. We did meet John in '97 and verified it was him that wrote us, no imposters!

Hope you enjoy the Q&A!

-Lis

[MacMan]

Well isn't that cool!

Thanks for contacting him. He's been really great, and he's hilarious. Really enjoyable reading.

[mylittledemon]

Yeah it's been great. I didn't get my question answered though!!! And I didnt have a five parter like many people did, and still got them answered anyways.

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Yeah it's been great. I didn't get my question answered though!!! And I didnt have a five parter like many people did, and still got them answered anyways.

I'm sure it's early days yet and John will answer lots more questions.

Were all questions submitted to John?

Pip

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

I'm sure it's early days yet and John will answer lots more questions.

Were all questions submitted to John?

Pip

No, all questions were not forwarded. In the initial Q&A's the guest received all questions in those emormous bunches every day, and there ended up being lots of repeats, and a few guests almost begged us to stop forwarding them to give them a chance to catch up.... they were getting overwhelmed by the volume. I think the way we do it now, w/ just a few going out at a time, seems to work better. The guest can certainly choose not to answer ?'s also, and that obviously is out of our control.

I have the difficult job of choosing the ?'s that go out. I try to avoid repeats, and to get ?'s from all the different 'eras'. I think we got a great variety of questions for John. The one we got the most of is 'what is your favorite song to do onstage/what's your fave song from the SYW tour' types...and he has pretty much said a few times already that he has no favorites, so I'm not sure how many more of those types wll go out...but otherwise I still have a *large* bunch to be forwarded. I sorted through the entire group of remaining ?'s the other night and I ended up crying a little, there was just so much love expressed there, it was very moving!!

He seems to want to really keep at it so hopefully lots more answers will come in within the next couple of months. I kind of like the 'no time frame' idea, that way there's no pressure to get X amount of ?'s answered by a certain time....he can just do it when he feels like it; when i get some answers back i just send a few more ?'s out-- so in the end we probably get way more replies than if we had a 'please be done by this date' arrangement.

Wow that got long. Sorry! Hope now everyone has a better idea of the process. Thanks!

-Lis

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

No, all questions were not forwarded. In the initial Q&A's the guest received all questions in those emormous bunches every day, and there ended up being lots of repeats, and a few guests almost begged us to stop forwarding them to give them a chance to catch up.... they were getting overwhelmed by the volume. I think the way we do it now, w/ just a few going out at a time, seems to work better. The guest can certainly choose not to answer ?'s also, and that obviously is out of our control.

I have the difficult job of choosing the ?'s that go out. I try to avoid repeats, and to get ?'s from all the different 'eras'. I think we got a great variety of questions for John. The one we got the most of is 'what is your favorite song to do onstage/what's your fave song from the SYW tour' types...and he has pretty much said a few times already that he has no favorites, so I'm not sure how many more of those types wll go out...but otherwise I still have a *large* bunch to be forwarded. I sorted through the entire group of remaining ?'s the other night and I ended up crying a little, there was just so much love expressed there, it was very moving!!

He seems to want to really keep at it so hopefully lots more answers will come in within the next couple of months. I kind of like the 'no time frame' idea, that way there's no pressure to get X amount of ?'s answered by a certain time....he can just do it when he feels like it; when i get some answers back i just send a few more ?'s out-- so in the end we probably get way more replies than if we had a 'please be done by this date' arrangement.

Wow that got long. Sorry! Hope now everyone has a better idea of the process. Thanks!

-Lis

Sounds like you're handling it very well. How wonderful of John to do this for us! And thank you for managing the process and everything else you do for fans.

~Susan

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Sounds like you're handling it very well. How wonderful of John to do this for us! And thank you for managing the process and everything else you do for fans.

~Susan

You're very welcome.

And it IS wonderful of John to do this for/with us.

-Lis