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I guess we're getting back into Fleetwood Mac.
Oh my God, I'm getting overwhelmed again.
We time traveling back to. So last episode we covered the
70s and the 80s, and today we're going to go from 1990 to
President Day. Wow.
So we got a couple decades to cover.
And to recap where we left off, Lindsay told the band that he
was quitting. Stevie chased him outside and
they physically fought. Then two years later, in 1990,
Stevie left Fleetwood Mac 2 and she quit.
I didn't say this last episode, but I think she quit for a
couple of reasons. One was she got in a big fight
with Mick Fleetwood, who I'll refer to as just Fleetwood for
to avoid confusion because there's John Mcvie.
She got a big fight with Fleetwood about the song Silver
Springs because she wanted to put it on her best hits album.
He wanted to put it on a Fleetwood Mac best hits album.
There was like a whole thing and she felt like it was her song.
And he didn't even put it on rumors anyway, So he also
released that year a tell all autobiography that really shared
a lot of their dirty laundry. So I think she was just fed up
with Fleetwood Mac and was a big star in her own right.
So I think she just felt like she didn't need them.
So she quit the band as well. And then we also talked about
how she did a last performance and did for Landslide, and
Lindsay came up to join her and they seemed like they were
affectionate and happy again, even though they had fought a
couple of years before. Yeah.
So that's where I left off in the 80s.
I just want to kind of catch us up on, like, what's up with
their relationships? Because Lindsay and Stevie are
not together at this point. They are always back and forth
between hating each other and then being sort of sentimental.
You know, Stevie. So she in the late 80s, she
dated the Eagles singer Joe Walsh for several years.
She also dated Don Henley of the Eagles.
So that's crazy. She dated in two guys in the
Eagles and she and dated 2 guys to Fleet with Matt 'cause she,
you know, had that fling with Fleetwood and she's called Joe
Walsh a great love. And then Lindsay Buckingham, he
dated a woman named Carol Ann Harris for many years, I think
like seven years or something. So both Stevie and Lindsay now
have had like other long, pretty long relationships that meant a
lot to them. You know, it's not like Stevie
and Lindsay were each other's only relationship at this point.
They've had other ones. And then after that, Stevie for
a year dated a musician named Dave Stewart.
And then she dated a producer named Rupert Hein for about a
year or less. And then it seems like so now in
1990, since then, it seems like she hasn't really had many long,
serious relationships. So it's pretty.
So what would that be? She would be like 40, I guess
she'd be like 40 in 1990. In 1992, Lindsay actually dated
the actress in HESH, later dated Ellen DeGeneres, which is kind
of interesting. Lindsay and Anne only dated for
about a year. OK.
So that's just like some background about their other
relationships that have been going on.
Take. A breath.
I don't know that much about Anne Hesh, but I'm kind of
interested in her. Yeah, I would love to cover her
and Ellen soon. Yeah, and I know we still have
to do Ellen and Porsche as well. Somebody sent us a voice
recording about them ages ago, and I feel so bad that we still
haven't done anything with it, but I'm sure we will.
OK, so into the timeline now. We're in the early 90s.
In 1993, Fleetwood Mac was asked to perform at Bill Clinton's
inauguration. But Stevie and Lindsay, you
know, weren't in the band, but they wanted them to be part of
this. And Stevie, even though it
seemed like they were on really rocky terms with each other,
Stevie insisted that Lindsay had to return to be part of this
performance, which I find interesting.
And apparently Lindsay found it hard to say no, and so he agreed
to do the performance. So they're back together.
Seemed like it went OK. I don't think there was any
major fighting or anything they performed for Bill Clinton's
inauguration, and I think Michael Jackson was there too.
But this was a rough time for Stevie.
She had been struggling with a Klonopin addiction, which had
gotten really bad. She was taking like 8 doses a
day and she was having trouble tapping into her creativity and
she apparently felt largely indifferent about most things.
So this is just not a good time for her.
In the early 90s, nineteen 94, Stevie checked into a rehab
facility and some Fleetwood Mac fans on forums and such for some
reason believe that Lindsay helped her get set up in rehab.
But I'm not really sure how they know that.
And I didn't really find any actual proof of that.
So I don't know. That might be just wishful
thinking like fan fiction. I'm not sure in 1994.
See This is why it's weird because like the same year
people are saying oh, Lindsay helped her go to rehab but then
in 94 she was asked if Fleetwood Mac would ever reunite and she
said maybe, but not with me or Christine or Lindsay.
Christine and I will always be close.
Lindsay just plain doesn't like me.
Wait, So what? Yeah, she's like, but not with
me like. So then it's not really a
reunion. I.
Know Christine? Is it because of her ex-husband
also? At this point, I think Christine
had also left the band. So in Fleetwood Mac people were
just always coming and going, leaving, coming back.
At this point in the early 90s, Fleetwood Mac actually had
replaced Stevie with a young singer named Becca Bramlett, and
they had other guys that replaced Lindsay.
So it was like a very Fleetwood Mac.
I guess Fleetwood Mac, I mean Christine is gone, but it's back
to Fleetwood and what was. The other guys, John McPhee,
John. McPhee, who are Fleetwood Mac.
So it is technically that band, but everybody, I guess, like
Lindsay and Stevie were like the bigger names from it, even
though they joined later, you know?
So it's kind of ironic in that way.
It is, even though Lindsay and Stevie are so famous, it really
is Mick Fleetwood and John McPhee band, which is weird.
Like they're. We would make get into a
reunion. Meanwhile, they're still, like,
going strong. Like they're still.
I. Know.
I know this was a low time for Fleetwood Mac as well.
They were like opening up for REO Speedwagon and you know,
just playing like kind of depressing shows compared to
their heyday. And I didn't realize this.
Like I think for millennials and Gen.
Z, we think Fleetwood Mac is like so amazing and so cool, at
least like my friends. But I guess in the two, I know
anyone older laugh listening might like laugh at me, but
maybe mom would disagree. I don't know.
But I was reading that in the 90s and like early 2000s, maybe
not early 2000s. At least in the 90s, Fleetwood
Mac was seen as like really not cool.
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