Elmer Gantry

But it wasn't really.

It wasn't like, oh, my God, why did you think of us?

I mean, that never occurred to me.

It was obvious why we would have been thought of, because of who we were and what we were doing, what we'd been doing, you know.

That was definitely known.

I mean, it may not have been famous, but I was notorious.

and he had a kind of guitar, and yet he did wonderful things with it.

You know, we had this old secondhand beaten up old truck and literally the front was held on with gaffer tape.

It was that kind of, you know, that kind of struggle and having a whip round to see what we could afford on the way home from a gig to eat.

It was that kind of stuff.

And is there enough money to pay for the gas, you know?

It was like, oh, God, we're going to actually have roadies.

We're going to have, like, decent equipment.

Well, at last, there might be a possibility of getting kind of some regular income.

Would you like to join Fleetwood Mac?

Yeah, obviously, who wouldn't, you know?

We went through a whole load of numbers to include in the set, and he said, well, there's no problem.

I obviously know all those.

Ah, well, there'd been something like 12 lineups of Fleetwood Mac up until that point.

He seemed kind of enthusiastic.