John meets John

[michelej1]

May 17, 2009, Victoria Times Colonist

http://www.canada.com/Entertainment/...013/story.html

Shared name ticket to Fleetwood Mac concert

Judith Lavoie, Times ColonistMay 17, 2009

Victoria real estate agent John McVie knows exactly what's in a name.

Five free tickets to the sold-out Fleetwood Mac concert at GM Place in Vancouver Friday, backstage passes for the entire family, $700 raised for charity from auctioning signed Fleetwood Mac CDs and a series of phone calls and e-mails from the famous John McVie -- the bassist with Fleetwood Mac.

The Victoria McVie was still over the moon yesterday after meeting the musician.

"He's a really nice guy -- genuine and real," said McVie, who is considering wearing his Fleetwood Mac T-shirt to work next week.

The connection started about eight years ago when McVie wanted the JohnMcVie.com web address for marketing, but found it had been reserved by the musician.

Since it was not being used, McVie fired off an e-mail asking if he could have it, without any expectation of receiving a reply.

About three weeks later, he answered the phone with his name, as usual, only to hear someone with a British accent saying, "I am not used to someone using my name."

"I said I am John McVie and he said, 'I am John McVie.' Then we chatted for about 15 minutes and compared notes on where our grandparents had come from," said McVie, who settled for the web address JohnMcVie.ca, but wangled the signed CDs for a charity auction he was doing.

Strangely, the two men had something else in common -- both were tax inspectors when they were younger.

The Victoria McVie asked for the musician's forgiveness for the many times he had impersonated him.

"And he said, 'Milk it for all it's worth,'" McVie said.

Over the years, there were intermittent exchanges and a commitment to meet if Fleetwood Mac was in the area.

The opportunity came with the band's North American tour and, true to his word, Fleetwood Mac McVie came through with the tickets.

"Afterwards, we had a good chat and he had his picture taken with all of us," McVie said. "It was a lot of fun."

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[michelej1]

I wish he had posted the picture that John took with all of them.

Michele

[Moz]

I'd love to meet John.

[gldstwmn]

What a cool story!

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I wish he had posted the picture that John took with all of them.

Michele

That is a cool story. Oh and Michele, thanks for sticking the needle in me with a meeting John story!

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

That is a cool story. Oh and Michele, thanks for sticking the needle in me with a meeting John story!

Perhaps if you changed your name to John McVie the curse would be broken!

Michele

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Moz

I'd love to meet John.

Which one?

[Moz]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Which one?

The English one.

[Steviefan49]

What a wonderful story! I LOVE stuff like this!!!Thanks for sharing it Michele!

Hugs,

Arlene

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Steviefan49

What a wonderful story! I LOVE stuff like this!!!Thanks for sharing it Michele!

Arlene

Yes, I liked it too, especially because we don't hear a lot about John these days and are starved for stuff on either McVie.

Michele

[nailatixela]

Great story. John seems like a really nice guy. Nicest guy in Fleetwood Mac maybe? Anyway this was a sweet story...I wonder if there turned out to be any real relation with the two Johns.