When did Christine join the band?

Penguin Emeritus · #1 08-07-2023, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

I just found an article from a chilean website (in spanish) that mentions Christine joined Fleetwood Mac on August 6, 1970. Is that correct?

Mick mentions in his first book Christine entered briefly during the Mr. Wonderful sessions (1968). Then the most formal date is around august's first date, 1970. But I didn't find anything about a specific event on august 6 (an announcement, a deal's signing, etc.). Does anybody has more info?

Mick's book:
Although Fleetwood Mac was officially a four-piece band when we cut Kiln House, we had help from the retired Christine Perfect. Not only did she draw the cover art, but she also sang and played on some of the tracks. By the time we finished the album, we were about two weeks away from a three-month tour of America, which began the first week of August 1970. We were worried because we were used to a three-man front line and our sound was thin without Pete. So, at the dinner table at Kiln House one night in late July, I asked Chris, "Do you wanna join the band?" She knew we needed to fatten our sound and she knew all the songs anyway, having been forced to listen to them endlessly in rehearsal. So she came with us on the Kiln House tour. Her first gig with Fleetwood Mac was at the Warehouse in New Orleans on August 8, 1970. We did all the stuff on Kiln House on our little Fender twins, and for the second part of the show Jeremy would play blues and some oldies.

That would sound about right to me. I knew about the New Orleans gig on the 8th...so I guess August 6th was the flight to America

I know later on there was some press on how she was just going to the US 'on a holiday with John' and was not really joining as a band member...? so at that point i don't think she'd signed any contracts, she was prob just looking at it as 'helping them out' on the road.

and i love that they all ate dinner together, too.

-Lis

aleuzzi · #2 08-08-2023, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

That would sound about right to me. I knew about the New Orleans gig on the 8th...so I guess August 6th was the flight to America

I know later on there was some press on how she was just going to the US 'on a holiday with John' and was not really joining as a band member...? so at that point i don't think she'd signed any contracts, she was prob just looking at it as 'helping them out' on the road.

and i love that they all ate dinner together, too.

-Lis

And Christine did the cooking :-)

Penguin Emeritus · #3 08-08-2023, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

And Christine did the cooking :-)

absolutely! John fondly recalled her great Sunday dinners...

--Lis

**jbrownsjr** · #4 08-09-2023, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

absolutely! John fondly recalled her great Sunday dinners...

--Lis

To go back in time and be at that table.... uhhhhfffff.. What a dream/fantasy.

WalkAThinLine. · #5 09-04-2023, 07:09 PM

I found a quote from Rock Magazine where Christine mentions the date that she joined.

"I joined five days before they were due to leave for an American tour. I can remember the exact dates. I joined on July 21, and we left for America on July 26, following five solid days of rehearsals."

David · #6 09-06-2023, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

I found a quote from Rock Magazine where Christine mentions the date that she joined.

"I joined five days before they were due to leave for an American tour. I can remember the exact dates. I joined on July 21, and we left for America on July 26, following five solid days of rehearsals."

Very good to know. We should update that info in her Wiki entry, which currently just says 1970. Do you have any more info on that magazine article?

WalkAThinLine. · #7 09-06-2023, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Very good to know. We should update that info in her Wiki entry, which currently just says 1970. Do you have any more info on that magazine article?

Yeah, there is some additional salvageable information from this source. She mentions how around 20% of the audiences were unreceptive to the 1971 lineup without Green. "That gap is very hard to close. Sometimes we just don't make it. I think the audience are wondering what we are going to be like. Before Peter ran the band. Now there is no leader, we just take turns. Obviously, some of the people miss Peter's guitar playing. But then, the sound is different now and other people have said that they don't even notice he's missing."

She also discusses the house in Benifold and how Fleetwood Mac eventually plans on installing a recording studio there in the near future.

Here is the full article: https://web.archive.org/web/20160101...v2&id=1047&c=2