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The Mystery of 1974's 'Fake' Fleetwood Mac [Highlight From Episode 336] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Author Tim Durling is back on the show his latest
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  Speaker 1: book titled The Sound That Haunts You. A Beginner's Companion
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  Speaker 1: to Fleetwood Mac, Bob Welch had problems with the record
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  Speaker 1: label or were they changing labels. There was some reason
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  Speaker 1: that he left that he wasn't happy with the future
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  Speaker 1: of the band contractually. And then there was this fake
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  Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac band that the manager was going to try
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  Speaker 1: to put put out there.
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  Speaker 2: That's another story unto itself, and a fascinating one. And
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot going on with seventy three seventy four.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing is is that most people, most average
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  Speaker 2: Fleetwood Mac fans kind of know the story of the
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  Speaker 2: drama with Lindsay and Stevie, with John and Christine, with
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  Speaker 2: Stevie and Mick, with you know whatever, the whole thing, right.
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  Speaker 2: But the odd thing is is that was their most
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  Speaker 2: stable lineup once once Lindsay and Stevie joined, that was
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  Speaker 2: their most stable line because the fact that it was
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  Speaker 2: successful kept it together. Think you know, also, I mean
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  Speaker 2: creatively it was great. Obviously it was creative. That's what
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  Speaker 2: led to the success. But up until then, just about
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  Speaker 2: every album had a different lineup because you had a
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  Speaker 2: guitar player named Bob Weston come in after Kirwin left. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he has an affair with mixed wife Jenny. That's Jenny
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  Speaker 2: Boyd by the way, who was the sister of Patty Boyd. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, so you read about that, you go
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  Speaker 2: down all these rabbit holes, like suddenly it makes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sense, but anyway, or does it.
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  Speaker 1: Lots and makes a story of fleeting back. So fascinating
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  Speaker 1: the history of this band.
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  Speaker 2: But there was already plenty of drama before Lindsay and
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  Speaker 2: Stevie came along. It's just she didn't hear about it,
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  Speaker 2: right because they weren't They weren't a high profile band.
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  Speaker 1: You were not on Warner Brothers. They were there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they were on Warner Brothers from then, play
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  Speaker 2: on onward, Reprise, Warner all the same kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In the early days, it was confusing because in the
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  Speaker 2: UK they were on this label called Blue Horizon. They
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  Speaker 2: came out in North America on CBS and yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: then want to reissue them. But seventy three, seventy four, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they put the album Penguin out, which had that singer
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  Speaker 2: Dave Walker on a couple of songs who came from
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  Speaker 2: Savoy Brown, who sounded nothing like he belonged in Fleetwood
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  Speaker 2: mac He was a raspy blues singer and if Black
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath fans know that name, he was the guy that
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  Speaker 2: was in Black Sabbath for like a second in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy eight when Ozzie briefly left before Never Say Die.
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  Speaker 2: So you can see like a BBC clip of them
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  Speaker 2: doing I don't know, I'm not up on my Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: but I think one of the songs that ended up
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  Speaker 2: on Never Say Die with this Dave Walker on fold
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  Speaker 2: while he was in Black Sabbath for a second. So
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  Speaker 2: and then he didn't last. So it was just constant
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  Speaker 2: and they weren't getting anywhere, you know, really commercially. The
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  Speaker 2: albums were charting higher every time, I think, probably because
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  Speaker 2: they just kept putting them out. But yes, there was
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  Speaker 2: a situation, and I think the Bob West, Jenny Boyd
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  Speaker 2: Fleetwood situation had much to do with it. Mick did
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  Speaker 2: not want a tour, but their manager Clifford Davis, who
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  Speaker 2: my understanding was a real snake of a manager sounds
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  Speaker 2: like it already had a tour booked, so he put
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  Speaker 2: these guys together that were in an English band called
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  Speaker 2: Stretch and put them on tour as Fleetwood Mac.
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  Speaker 1: Or as the new Fleetwood Macer.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how it was built exactly. But the
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  Speaker 2: odd thing about that is that this band, Stretch, eventually
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  Speaker 2: recorded a cover of show Biz Blues, and I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that where I talk about all the cover versions. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear this, and I'm giving a plug
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  Speaker 2: to another author because recently on my show, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you've talked to him or not, but a
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  Speaker 2: guy named Steve McLean. No, he's from the UK. He's
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  Speaker 2: actually a stand up comedian, but he's also an author,
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  Speaker 2: and he put an excellent book out called Stealing Deep Purple,
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  Speaker 2: which is about original lead vocalist Rod Evans putting together
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  Speaker 2: a version of Deep Purple in nineteen eighty and touring
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  Speaker 2: North America before it got shut down by management. It's
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  Speaker 2: a story that I used to think was fake, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not. It actually happened