Uh, Mick? Ahem....

[Livia]

From the January 1980 issue of Creem - I just recently purchased this on Ebay, but found the whole article already transcribed right here on the Penguin. I don't mean to keep drudging this sh*t up, I intended to post this a couple weeks ago when I was freshly po'd....I found this portion to be ironically disturbing....

As band manager, Fleetwood's decisions are not always so preemptory. He's more like a benevolent dictator, patiently explaining to the rest of the Mac Attack the importance of a tour schedule or the financing of a new recording studio. He learned the hard way-Fleetwood Mac's original manager was fired after, unbeknownst to the group, he booked a fake version of the band on a lengthy 1974 American tour ruining, as Fleetwood puts it, "a lot of good faith we'd built up over the years of touring here. It took us almost a year to persuade people that we were actually still a band after that."

That sordid affair left an indelible imprint on Fleetwood's managerial strategem. "I don't really trust anybody," he said grimly. "I don't assume that anyone will do anything right. So I'm a compulsive worrier-even if something doesn't go wrong, I'll still be worrying about it."

Managing the band himself, virtually unprecedented in the annals of rock, allows Fleetwood to exercise total creative control over every aspect of the Mac's sprawling musical empire. "Human beings are not fail-safe," he explained. "I just don't want mistakes being made on my behalf. I'd rather make the mistake myself. All too often being successful means drifting into a lifestyle where you can be completely naïve to what decisions are being made. You just can't let control of those things slip out of your hands."

Uh, Mick? I hate to break it to you dude, but 23 years later, you should have learned from your mistakes! Your instincts are right-on!

[estranged4life]

Originally posted by Livia
"Uh, Mick? I hate to break it to you dude, but 23 years later, you should have learned from your mistakes! Your instincts are right-on!"

Thanks Livia...It's sad but very true. He has yet to learn from past mistakes 23 years later...Brian J.