Looking for timeframe of various demos

[David]

Originally Posted by Taurus19

Thanks, Mike and everyone else. So, it's believed that the '78 demos and Sleeping Angel were not part of sessions for any particular album?

I agree with Christopher--it was intended (more or less) for some big project centering on Rhiannon.

I'm puzzled about the Rhiannon 'talking demo' ("Don't you think that 'Rhiannon' is a beautiful name?"). She says, "Richard, I just finished this song and we have to go to a park and record the sound of birds rising. Okay? It's really important."

Why would she have been doing this in 1978 when she had already recorded it 3 years earlier, sang it live for the past 3 years, and speak about it in this demo as though it is a new song that she just finished and envisions the sound of birds rising to be part of the recorded version??

In the same vein, why would she be asking Lindsey if he thought 'Rhiannon', a song they've recorded and sang for 3 years, is a beautiful name?

I think she's just dramatizing her writing process & possibly the process of writing the proposed movie. I don't even think the men she mentions are even present in that place at that time. Maybe she wanted to record a document of the project, much the way that she filmed Bella Donna recording sessions.

Do you remember reading Daisann McLane's Rolling Stone cover story on Fleetwood Mac? McLane spent some time with the band in late 1979, from tour rehearsals through the first few weeks of gigs. At one point, McLane interviews Stevie Nicks at her Vilma Banky mansion in the Hollywood Hills (I guess where Jim Ladd also interviewed her in December 1979). She takes the reporter into her music room & plays some recordings for her, possibly the same recordings we've all heard:

The music room is dark; there are antique lamps draped with shawls, but she does not turn the lights on. And the tapes she ends up pulling out of her library are not rough Fleetwood Mac demos but works-in-progress for her solo project, a film and soundtrack based on the myth of Rhiannon, the Welsh witch. Earlier in 1979, Nicks signed on as a solo artist with Modern records, a label headed by former boyfriend Paul Fishkin and Danny Goldberg. For a while the move prompted rumors that she was preparing to leave Fleetwood Mac.

"The legend of Rhiannon is about the song of the birds that take away pain and relieve suffering," she says. "That's what music is to me. I don't want any pain." She puts a cassette in the deck and sits down cross-legged on the carpet, between the stereo speakers. The music begins; a gentle roll of piano chords. Nicks' own version of "Rhiannon" is softer, more emotional than Fleetwood Mac's. "It's not a rock & roll song," she says, closing her eyes.

You can read the entire article here: http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...v2&id=534&c=18