It’s been like 30 years since the record Tusk came out. Here’s a morbid ‘celebratory’ interview with Buckingham and Nicks (recorded, it seems, apart from one another because the sight of him seems to makes Stevie ill). Can you even fathom if after thirty years, you still kept venom in your heart for an ex-lover? Whatever, I still play Beautiful Child like seventeen times a day.
The contrast between a seasoned Lindsay and a somewhat eerily paralyzed Nicks will remind us all that people who make beautiful art give no promise of being even intrinsically TOLERABLE human beings. It’s about as comfortable as I imagine sitting through a ten minute cut of Woody Allen getting self-righteous on behalf of Roman Polanski or something. All I’m saying is, might take you a while to fully recover your affections.
In the Studio with Fleetwood Mac
Here’s a ghoulish exercise: imagine if Stevie Nicks was your MOM. She’d be like driving you to school when you missed the bus one morning and the two of you would sit in the parking lot fogging up the windows a bunch while she made you slog through her ninety six minute demo “edit” of some unicorn epic about being a magical and unknowable force much akin to the moon, which might have made you inwardly laugh if you had known at the time that they’d be blowing it up pretty soon cuz scientists are pretty sure its just an old bloated bag that we keep around for posterity. But still you’d be like sitting there in the parking lot watching Stevie Nicks’ entitled mouth push out all these self-congratulatory puffs of meaningless shit and you’d have to nod like you’re listening because she’s your mom and nobody really likes making their mom cry, but at the same time privately you’d be like, Fuck, I bet somebody’s asking some super fucked up question about their pussy in health class right this very moment and I’m gonna catch such shit at lunch for not being there. I’m never living this one down.
And in case there was any doubt to with whom the magic truly did lie, from his most recent solo album that gives me great hope of getting older without getting boring:
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