Lindsey Buckingham on reunion with Fleetwood Mac: "Maybe we’ll manage to see clear to have one more nice run out there.Christine McVie in 1983. Making Rumours: The Inside Story Of The Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel is available now. Eventually, we said, ‘Just break the glass,’ and we fit it all in.” He tried to do it on cue, but it was difficult. He just went mad, bashing glass with this big hammer. He was wearing goggles and coveralls – it was pretty funny. To accentuate her vocals, Mick went into this room we had miked up, and he broke sheets of glass. She had become this witch she was always writing about. “Stevie had a lot of Courvoisier in her, and she did this incredible coyote-like howling at the end. We marked the keyboard with tape so Mick could play the right notes. We weren’t looking for musicality, we were looking for accents, mood. I called over to SIR and they send over a bunch of weird instruments, like an electric harpsichord with a jet phaser – that created a cool, whooshing sound. Stevie had a lot of Courvoisier in her, and she did this incredible coyote-like howling at the end It became a ‘my way or the highway’ thing with him, which he perfected on the Tusk album.” This was the start of him really calling the shots. Lindsey had a grand plan in his head, and he got his way. It took him a while, but eventually, while John was on vacation, he put down his own bassline, one that was very simple, just quarter notes. “Originally, John McVie had an amazing, flowing and melodic bass part. The minute Lindsey would start singing his lyrics, Stevie stormed out and the session would end. Stevie hated when Lindsey got even a little literal. I didn’t know exactly what was happening at the time, but words were flying around, particularly Lindsey’s, about their breakup. “A lot of Lindsey’s lyrics sparked fights with Stevie. I always thought he’d turn it all into a song. “We called it ‘Strummer.’ Before Lindsey had the structure and the words, he would strum his guitar very very hard go these chords. Lindsey had a grand plan in his head, and he got his way You even remember where you were when when you heard it. "But that's the kind of record Rumours is: You remember your first time hearing it. "It's one thing to remember cutting a number one song, but to think about what I was wearing that same day, that's incredible. "It's amazing how everything came flooding back to me once I started the book," says Caillat. In his forthcoming book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story Of The Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel recount the producer's year behind the glass in brilliant, page-turning detail. Everybody saw those movies, and everybody during that time bought a copy of Rumours." "The record was like Jaws and Star Wars combined. "Like Richard Dashut, I went from being a mid-level engineer to a Grammy-winning producer in one year," says Caillat. Released on 4 February 1977, Rumours hit like a meteor, permanently altering the landscape of all involved. (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)ĥ unsung classic songs guitarists need to hear by… early Fleetwood Mac During the making of Rumours, they became a real band, one that was very intuitive, musically and otherwise.” "Basically, you had two teams: Christine, John and Mick, the three Brits, were pros, and the two Americans, Lindsey and Stevie, had their shorthand, but they were still new to the group. The record was like Jaws and Star Wars combinedĪlthough 1975's self-titled release was rising up the charts during the making of Rumours, Caillat says that the band was still learning how to play together. If there was a rule book, nobody game me one." When everything was insane, I had to be sane. But I had to be a therapist and record producer. "There were fights, breakups, drinking, drugs. The soap opera that attended the making of Rumours has been extensively documented - married band members John and Christine McVie broke up, as did lovers Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks even Mick Fleetwood's marriage dissolved, as well - and Caillat confirms that 1976 was a wild ride. A record label would have shut us down after two weeks." Something like Rumours could never happen these days. Lives were changed, people changed, everything became different. "We spent a year and a lot of hell working on it. "Records like Rumours don't happen anymore," Ken Caillat told us back in 2012, who along with Richard Dashut and Fleetwood Mac produced the 1977 mega album that has sold a mind-boggling 44 million copies.
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