Christopher Cross' Encounter with FM
 

[Excerpt from an interview with Christopher Cross]
Austin Chronicle, By Margaret Moser, Fri., Jan. 20, 2012

http://www.austinchronicle.com/music...ant-celebrity/


By 1970, the JAM Factory was in full swing. Cross reveled in his position with Joe Miller, now paying off in opening gigs for Led Zeppelin, rounding up equipment for a snowbound Three Dog Night, and being sole witness to Eric Clapton's warm-up before a Blind Faith performance.

"I picked up Fleetwood Mac and delivered them to the hotel," mentions Cross. "I was changing from drums to guitar, so it was cool to meet Peter Green, the old English guitar god. That night, the roof leaked and blew out John McVie's amp. They got him another bass amp.

"Years later, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks heard the record and took me out with Fleetwood for their Tusk tour. I was in the bar one night and told John and Mick about how I'd picked them up in San Antonio. They didn't believe it! I told them I was serious. I'd driven them around. 'What a bunch of crap,' they said. They weren't buying it!

"Suddenly, I said to John, 'You blew out your amplifier and had to get another one.' You should have seen the look on his face.

"'I remember that. I remember my amp blowing up in Texas,' John McVie said. 'But I don't remember you.'

"But they started to believe me."