The Dance We Shared

36

August 5, 2008

"We are sitting here with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks from the Band Fleetwood Mac, and they're with us today just two weeks after the announcement that Fleetwood Mac would be embarking on a tour starting in March of 2009. I know Stevie you've been on a solo tour so what's it like being back together about to go out on a Fleetwood Mac tour because it seems like you never rest." The announcer smiles. 

"I really don't...Lindsey and I are married and have been for nine years but this is actually the first time I've seen him in a long time because I was on tour and I was home for maybe two days and then he went on tour and he has been on tour, I think when was your last date the 29th?" Stevie looks at him

"The 29th of July yeah. And we did that so the kids wouldn't be alone." He responds

"How old are your kids?" The interviewer pops in.

"11 and 9. She's still 9 for what, 25 days." Lindsey looks at Stevie and she nods.

"Yeah, August 30th. So this is the first time, today that' I've actually really been with Lindsey instead of in passing, so that's how...time never stops time doesn't really exist for people that really know each other. So this is it, this is the beginning and we go into rehearsals on January 5th, because Lindsey is going back out on tour next month through October, and I'll stay home with them. Then the trucks leave on February 22nd, for Pittsburgh, we do three days of Production rehearsal and then we do a show in Pittsburgh and we're off for forty-four more shows so far." 

"Who stays with the kids while you both are on tour?" 

"Lori or your mom is, right?" Lindsey looks at her.

"Both of them." Stevie nods.

"What are you most excited about for this tour?" 

"One of the things that's interesting about this leg of the tour or perhaps this period of time in general is we are not supporting a new album, so there's no new material to do. So we thought it would be just appropriate to go in and look at, the body of work that we have and to put something together that you know, we would enjoy playing and not putting us under the pressure to redefine ourselves with new material." Lindsey says.

"When you do a new album, of course, you want to do a whole bunch of new songs and of course the audience is never into a whole bunch of new songs. So you always have to do the songs you know they want to hear. Like when Go Your Own Way came out nobody wanted to hear it either," Stevie can see Lindsey roll his eyes at her so she places her hand on his arm. "It's like new songs it doesn't matter how good they are it's like oh well you know it's new and I don't know it so it's like I want to sing along and I can't. So to go out and do a tour like this where we actually are going to go out and play all of the songs that were huge songs it's like you said to me on the phone the other day, and I'm crying and our kids are like staring at me like I have two heads, I'm going I don't think we're going to have enough rehearsal and Lindsey's like Yeah, we do, we know...Stevie, we know our songs we've been playing them for thirty years, you know the songs. "

"You look at the number of songs that were radio songs, that were hit songs, and that kind of defines that for you right there, You're looking for songs that the most accessible the most familiar, and that you know is going to connect with the audience. And luckily we had a good track record with the hits, so you know that the set more or less writes itself I think." Lindsey says.

"This is our life, this is our beautiful songs that we worked so hard on that you love and for this one time we're going to play all of this for you. Now the next time we're probably going to do a record and you're going to have to sit through some new songs but for this time we're going to actually do Fleetwood Mac's biggest songs."

"So I want to shift gears here, I have something that the studio managed to scrape up," She leans over and pulls up an Album, the Buckingham Nicks Album "What do you remember about..." 

'That shoot?" Stevie finishes her shot.

"This shoot." She nods.

"It was a very bad experience for me. I'm not a stripper and I never was so for me that was hugely embarrassing." 

"Have your kids seen this?" 

"I don't know, if they have they haven't told us." Stevie shakes his head.

"If they have it probably traumatized them because they freak out if I so much as kiss her in front of them." Lindsey jumps in.

"Now his hair is strategically placed, is that a shadow is it airbrushing." 

"Listen that picture was touched up," Stevie tells her.

"It's a good thing I had long hair," Lindsey replies.

"That's a good thing, I have never been so horrified in my life as when that photographer walked up to me said okay I'm going to take your blouse now." Stevie shakes her head. 

"What was it like, around this time, Buckingham Nicks the first years of Fleetwood Mac? And Rumours, you're re-releasing it what was it all like?" 

"There was a lot of arguing but it was a lot of fun." 

"Two couples being in a band, two couples breaking up, two couples singing songs to each other, it was, it was ready-made. You know we would have been eaten up by the tabloids but I mean, look at me and Stevie we made it out okay. I think anyway." Lindsey shrugs.

"Married two kids, I think so too." Stevie nods looking up at him.

"And you're going into Cando for the first time in years what spurred that on?" 

"I just have great admiration for Canada. And we do have fans up there but we don't really get to see them so I think it's going to be special." Lindsey nods.

"And every time I go to Canada I notice people walking around holding hands, And I of course as a writer, I love that because I'm like stop don't move. I don't see that here, I mean Lindsey and I hold hands but I don't see it in the general public and we live in Santa Monica so there's the beach and it's romantic but still no one ever holds hands. I'll be sitting up in our bedroom on the balcony which overlooks the beach and there are couples doing everything but holding hands." 

"We know the tickets for the American shows go out next week, but do you know when they go out in Canada?" 

"Lindsey, do you know when the tickets go on sale in Canada?" 

"I think December 15th?" He states and Stevie just giggles.