Elmer Gantry

He could have come out before the second gig or third gig, you know.

We weren't given any phone numbers for him.

So, yeah, we were kind of hanging on.

That was kind of nasty, nasty stuff.

And we thought, this is really bad.

Because of the publicity in the media and the press, that kind of stuff, the worry was going on stage and were you going to get hit by a bottle before you even started playing?

I could hardly speak.

You know, I reacted really badly to air conditioning.

I mean, the fact that I smoked and there was an amount of fags as well.

You know, an instrumental set, no matter how good it was, was not really what the audience had come to see.

And I felt bad for the other boys because I just figured, you know, we need to do this together.

He said, I am Fleetwood Mac.

We took that with a pinch of salt and went nuts.

That kind of belief that, you know, if you've got a bit of paper that says you've registered the name, then you're entitled to do that.

And he saw no problem with it at all.

That we got caught in the crossfire between the Mac and Cliff.

That they'd been wronged and we were, you know, a bogus band trying to trade on their success.

I knew absolutely that he was lying.

If Mick at any time had phoned up and said, look, I don't want to do this, I'm not going through with it, it would have ended.

You know, it would have ended during rehearsals.