Elmer Gantry

I can't really remember, actually, to tell you the truth.

I mean, we knew he was a bit of a megalomaniac, but our view was that he'd been stitched up by Mick Fleetwood.

Cliff decided we should form a band and he would finance us putting a band together.

That's how Stretch happened.

We auditioned for guitarists and we auditioned for drummers.

People turning up not good enough or not equipped enough, but really only coming in the first thing, oh, tell us about the Fleetwood Mac stuff.

The attitude was, how did you think you could get away with that?

You know, of course, we didn't think we could get away.

We didn't think we were getting away with anything.

We were recording down there, and Kobe turned up with this track.

I didn't like the style of it much.

Yeah, because it was Kirby, Mick Fleetwood and me.

You know, we're the only ones that know the truth.

And it was a track that Kirby had written when he was in that kind of deep despair, trying to make sense of it all, just laying down the truth of the situation, how painful it was.

The damage is much deeper than you'll ever see.

Well, that's certainly true.

So I had kind of gig throat, which was like it adds a sort of bottom dimension to my vocal range.

It was almost like a piss take.

I'm going to do a Barry White on this, you know.

While we were playing it, Jim, who was the drummer, he missed a beat, which he then realized sounded really good, so he repeated it.