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I was s senior in high school and Lindsey was a junior. And we went to a Young
Life meeting ~ which was a religious meeting that simply got you out of the house
on Wednesday nights ~ and um, he was there and I was there and we sat down and
played California Dreaming. I thought he was darling. I didn't see him
again for two years and he called m eup and asked if I wanted to be in a band...
And so, I was in this band with him for three and a half years ~ a band called
Fritz.
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Splitting up has not been an easy thing for either Lindsey or me. I think we
both knew deep down that it was the only thing we could do. We weren't creating,
either of us. …It's much better now. |
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My relationship with Lindsey was tumultuous. |
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He and I were about as compatible as a boa constrictor and a rat. |
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We tangle a lot, but we love each other ~ we'll always love each other. He
and I will never get away from the fact that we were as one for so many years. |
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[Billy Burnette & Rick Vito] come up to my house, and they work
with me [on music]. And, um, you see that is something that Lindsey and
I never did, because he never wanted to be that close to me...anymore. Because
we'd always get back on the subject of why we broke up 12 years ago. |
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When he and I split up in the very beginning, Lindsey was never quite able
to understand what had happened to us, and that in itself had to make day-to-day
living very difficult for him, and it did for me. |
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I cooked and cleaned and took care of him. I mean, I my mom and dad considered
Lindsey and I married. So did I. So did he. Now Lindsey and I don't speak at all.
…It's a sad way to end a long, wonderful reationship. |
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Currently, Lindsey and I have no relationship. …Basically, I think Lindsey
and I had sung our last song. We had taken that relationship as far as it could
go without one of us killing the other. Plus, he had treated me so badly for so
long. I'd walk into a room and he'd become the most sarcastic, unpleasant man
on the face of the earth. I have total respect for him [as an artist].
I don't know if he has any for me. He feels I broke up our team. So, for that,
in his mind, I should be tortured for days and then killed. |
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I haven't talked to him since the inauguration. We're really not friends. We're
really not anything. We did not break up friends, and we have never been friends
since. He is not really able to have any kind of a relationship with me. I just
bug him to death. Everything I do is abrasive to him. He's scary when he gets
mad. |
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Click
the tambourine to hear Stevie talk about meeting Lindsey Buckingham in the 1960s.
I think there was always something between me and Lindsey, but nobody in that
band [Fritz] really wanted me as their girlfriend because I was just too
ambitious for them....[After the breakup of Fritz] we started spending
a lot of time together working out songs. Pretty soon we started spending all
our time together and... it just happened.
Rich
and famous or starving and poor, we went through the same problems. He always
wanted me to himself, but somebody had to go out and earn some money. All he wanted
to do was play his music. When I came home I'd always get a slight cold shoulder.
He wouldn't quite trust me about where I'd been or what I'd been doing. When we
broke up, two years after joining Fleetwood Mac, it was like a living nightmare....Everything
about me seemed to bug him. My laughter, the way I could deal with a lot of difficult
things, all made him want to cringe. So I changed when I was around him. I became
mouse-like and would never dare offer a suggestion.
