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Rumours
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Dreams
- VH1 Storytellers 1998 - So, I'm gonna tell you very quickly what I can remember about the story of "Dreams". Um, when we were first recording the Rumors record we spent two months in Sausalito at the record plant, and as far as I'm concerned that's when we actually recorded the record. It took another eight months after that , but the tracks were all done there. Um, while they're doing all kinds of stuff and there's nothing for me to do, I went next door to Sly Stones studio, within, the building, this big like black and red room with a kind of a stairway that went down into this like kind of tunnel thing where people would set up and play around this like light house sort of setup. And I took my little Fender Rhodes piano in there and I wrote "Dreams". And I spent about an hour in there, and then I went back in to Fleetwood Mac and actually was brave enough to just play, play it for them, cause I really thought it was good, (smiles) and uh, and they liked it and we recorded it that night. That is the story of "Dreams". (Stevie smiles and audience applauds)
- Jim Ladd interview 1998 - Stand Back and Dreams are my two favorite songs to perform on stage.
- John Tesh interview 2001 - John Tesh asks Stevie "Do you have a favorite song?" this is Stevie's response, "probably "Dreams" is my favorite. And that really is about Lindsey and I. And it's the song that's in the set today. It's the one that never gets dropped. So it has that kind of staying power, for some reason. It's always fun to sing, and it's always fun to deliver to the audience, because I can see them being right with me when I do that song. It brings back so many memories for everybody that it's really fun, it has STAYED really fun."
- Radio in Toronto - 2001 - I wrote "Dreams," Lindsey wrote "Go Your Own Way." That was our two different reactions to the same thing that had happened. (they broke up) so his was nasty and bitter, you know, "Packing up, shacking up's all you wanna do." Which was totally not true. And you know, and I was like "When the rain washes you clean, you'll know." It was like, you know, so that was the difference in Lindsey and my songs. I was like, you know, I was trying to be the, have the Indian philosophy about it, and you know, he was like down right angry. So, but those were the, those were the parallel songs.
I Don't Want To Know
- Rumours DVD 2001 - Lindsey "It was actually something Stevie and I were doing before we were in the band."
Stevie "It was on the demo we came to LA with." Lindsey "That would've been back in 1974 when she wrote that. And we did perform that live on several occasions. I think it was slightly inspired by Buddy Holly, after the Buckingham Nicks era certainly. But when we tried to get things going, and we were dealing with indifference from management and label and people trying to get us on the circuit."
Mick "That song often gets forgotten about in terms of it being part of Rumours. I think it's really unique. You get those voices together. And that was their style. That says what it was that we heard that they brought into this thing called Fleetwood Mac. Everything else grew from around that and all the exchanges with Chris and Lindsey and Stevie as writers and me and John playing. It became a unique thing."
Lindsey "We had to make a call on what the album needed. Kind of the group would edit in and out what was working and what wasn't, and that was great. At the eleventh hour to cut in something and have it be so straight ahead, and it didn't require any pondering at all. That's the atypical song on Rumours for sure."
Gold Dust Woman
- Spin Magazine 1997 - Well, the gold dust refers to cocaine, but it's not completely about that, because there wasn't that much cocaine around then. Everybody was doing a little bit--you know, we never bought it or anything, it was just around--and I think I had a real serious flask of what this stuff could be, of what it could do to you. The whole thing about how we all love the ritual of it, the little bottle, the little diamond-studded spoons, the fabulous velvet bags. For me, it fit right into the incense and candles and that stuff. And I really imagined that it could overtake everything, never thinking a million years that it would overtake me. I must have met a couple of people that I thought did too much coke, and I must have been impressed by that. Because I made it into a whole story.
- Spin Magazine 1997 - The black widow, the dragon thing, is all about being scary and angry.
- Spin Magazine 1997 - I know there was cocaine there and that I fancied it gold dust, somehow. I'm going to have to go back to my journals and see if I can pull something out about "Gold Dust Woman." Because I don't really know. It can't be all about cocaine.
- Rolling Stone 1997 - "Take your silver spoon and dig your grave," "we did not realize how scary cocaine was. Everybody said it was OK, recreational, not addictive. Nobody told you that you may end up with a hole through your nose the size of Chicago."
- Rolling Stone 1977 - "On this album, all the songs that I wrote except maybe 'Gold Dust Woman' - and even that comes into it - are definitely about the people in the band.
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