Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac are collaborating again. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Christine McVie facilitates comfortably in the corner of a leather couch, about a foot between her and Lindsey Buckingham. He leans forward and side to side, playing
"Too Far Gone”, a new song from Fleetwood Mac dance they have written together in recent weeks in a recording studio listening to West Los Angeles.
"This was a great collaboration," Buckingham said. "I had a clue without singing in it, and she wrote the song about her. "
"We've been doing a bit lately, is not it?" McVie said.
Helping songwriting McVie, Buckingham told her, “is something you always wanted to do for you, which was not necessarily the case with Stevie. She is a bit more complicated in their needs."
It is a scene that would have been pure fantasy of rock ' n ' roll, just two years ago.
At that point, McVie was safely installed in his 17th century mansion in rural areas of northern England, having retired from touring and recording with a band that had been part of a quarter century. Paralyzed with fear of flying which made the idea of a trip to Los Angeles - or anywhere else - unthinkable, the '70s rock
goddess stopped touring in 1998 and spent much of his time in the kitchen and gardening.
But last week, the woman who wrote and sang many songs of the cornerstone of the group, including "Do not stop “, "You Make Loving Fun" and " Little Lies " happily traded jokes with Buckingham, who expressed great satisfaction at the resumption of the creative relationship that had previously enjoyed, both saying they have not only picked up where they left, but agrees that "it's better than ever.”
In fact, the same study it was built 35 years ago , when the British - American band was starting to work on one of the most ambitious projects of the legendary group's career , the disc double album " Tusk " , which followed the blockbuster " Rumours" one of the
10 best-selling albums of all time .After a McVie smiling flashes with arms raised engineer Mark Needham, Mick Fleetwood tightens the unmistakable under 6 feet 5 inches through the door of the control room and begins to chew a bite of the salad bowl green plastic. He grabs a digital camera of a coffee table and pointing to his bandmates. McVie forces him crookedly in a silly grin as he adjusted the shot.
"There was some concern about whether it was a good idea to come here
," Fleetwood, 66 said. “It might be better to go to a new place, a place that had not worked before. But since I started working here could not be more fantastic."
The observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald that "there are no second acts in American lives," however, it seems that the Grammy winning quintet is positioning just that.
Of the five members of the band, Stevie Nicks is not only on site, busy attending to other commitments, they say. While Christine McVie and Buckingham were signed in the finishing touches on "Too Far Gone”, John McVie and Fleetwood worked on other facets of the new material.
McVie’s return to the fold for an upcoming reunion tour full band, announced in January, was enough to surprise music fans that had been secured by a decade and a half had checked out McVie Fleetwood Mac and would not to return. But things began to change a couple of years ago, when he began to reconsider.
She continued writing in his self-imposed retirement, and
makes a solo album in 2004 attractive, "meanwhile”. It was this project that helped plant the seed for his eventual return.
"I had some good songs on it, but it was especially bad," said McVie, 70, still looking the part of the quintessential rock 'n ' roll singer and songwriter in his brown leather jacket on a white shirt and tight black jeans. “I did it for the wrong people the wrong way , I did not fly, I did not want to promote it. As I did in my garage and nothing happened to her. This caused a certain amount of trouble, and then I stopped”.
After a couple of years ago, she sought out a therapist to help with fear of flying.
"He asked me," If you were to go anywhere in the world, where are you going? ' I thought about it for a while, and I said ' Hawaii ‘.
"I said: ' Buy your ticket. ' Then he said. ‘You do not have to use it just buy it,'" he said. Buckingham laughs at his revelation, saying.
"Little did I know that part "After a period of being gradually desensitized to the idea of flying, said Fleetwood took her home to meet her, and together a plane to Maui was taken. There he and her former husband, John McVie, joined the performance of his blues band.
"I did a couple of songs there, I felt good on the stage, and then I thought , I 'm really missing something , something that is mine, that only I have given , and I 'm not paying respect to my own gift ," said . "I saw that if I want to start playing again, there's only one band that I want to play, and that is Fleetwood Mac."
That led to his first appearance in 15 years with Buckingham, Nicks, McVie and Fleetwood
when editing 80 % in the group performed at the O2 Arena in London last year, a meeting of a night that set the stage for his return to the band.
