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In Fleetwood Mac I have a persona, I call myself the 'Spider Woman'. I try
to imagine myself putting on a spider mask. I become very subdued and quieter,
I don't move so fast., I'm in a state of suspended animation. The only time you
see that other girl from Red Rocks is in Stand Back. I could never be like
that [video from Red Rocks] in Fleetwood Mac, that's why I have two careers.
I like being in a band, I like being in Fleetwood Mac. It's a whole other deal
where I make up this character every night and she's interesting but she never
gets crazy and she keeps all her emotion very much within herself. Stevie from
Red Rocks really lets go. |
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Oh I've been close to leaving Fleetwood Mac ever since I joined Fleetwood Mac.
But so has everybody else. To be in Fleetwood Mac is to live in a soap opera.
And it has been pretty scandalous and pretty incestuous, and pretty wonderful
in a lot of ways. |
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Fleetwood Mac goes on like a miniseries. It's one of those 'Gone With the Wind'
things that goes on and on; I never really know what's going to happen. …I
never burn bridges, but right now I don't think I'll work with them. |
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The first condition of me joining was that I should only worked for Fleetwood
Mac...that I should only live for the band. Our lives were planned for years ahead.
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No matter how fabulous and big time Fleetwood Mac were, there was always a
really dark edge to it. Fleetwood Mac were anything but a happy soft-rock band.
There was a lot of darkness and a lot of dark stuff going on. And so maybe people
relate to that darkness because they knew it wasn't easy for us and that we went
through the drugs, criticism, the big success and the dropping down and going
back up. |
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At the inauguration, I just realized I wanted it to be back the way it was,
or I didn't want to be in it anymore. I couldn't continue to be in a Fleetwood
Mac that didn't have Lindsey in it. |
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The music is easy. It's the other stuff that's hard. But I realized a long
time ago that there is no Fleetwood Mac without Lindsey Buckingham. If it can't
be with him, then let's not do it. |
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I was always available to give this another try....In an eerie sort of way
it felt as if we had only been apart for a year. Some things you just never forget.
[Lindsey's and my] voice are just good together and we know it. I love
my solo career ~ don't get me wrong. But it will never be quite as exciting as
Fleetwood Mac. There aren't very many women who have ever been in a great rock
and roll band . . . limousines and champagne and all that. Every time the five
of us are out in public together, people look at us like we're in a movie, and
I feel like we're in one. |
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Mick
is the king. He's the head of the band. He comes in and you think you ought to
curtsy. In the studio, Lindsey's word was law. Christine almost always delivered
the hits. She's like an earth mother, and I'm her little sister. John is the other
fixed point around which the band revolves. Sometimes it got really funny, this
giant percussionist and two couples in front of him. Especially when all the relationships
broke up. 