Fleetwood Mac and the Yayo

[zero]

I was reading a review of the Pixies or Go! Team or someone and in passing the reviewer mentioned a Fleetwood Macesque collaboration except presumably with less cocaine snorting off each other's perineum's. This of course led to a google search which yielded nothing: 'Fleetwood Mac cocaine perineum'. Eventually I found this though. Interessante:

While recording their 1977 masterpiece Rumours, Mick Fleetwood and his Fleetwood Mac bandmates snorted so much cocaine that they demanded that their dealer be given credit on the album. Producers understandably demurred. Sadly, the man was killed before the album was released, quickly solving the dilemma.

[Fleetwood later estimated that, over the course of his career, he had spent $8 million on cocaine. And Stevie Nicks? She snorted so much coke that she was rumored to have hired a special "assistant" to administer the drug rectally. Eventually, the band's road manager instituted a form of rationing, handing out one Heineken bottle cap full of cocaine to each member before each show.]

Fleetwood, Mick (1949- ) American musician [noted for various solo works, and for such recordings with Fleetwood Mac as Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumors (1977), Tusk (1979), Tango In The Night (1987), and The Dance (1997) - as well as a succesful solo career: Bella Donna (1981), The Wild Heart (1983), Rock a Little (1985), The Other Side of the Mirror (1989), Timespace (1991), and Street Angel (1994)]

[sources: M. Moser, Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things; Blender, May 2003]

[Jaimoe]

Nicks in many interviews regarding her sobriety said that she quit drugs in the late 80's because her doctor told her that if she had " one more toot ", it could kill her.

She quit cold turkey after that appointment.

[MamaPink]

Seems coke is making a major come-back these days. Lots of people fuckin' up their shit on that junk lately. Makes me sad.

[Jaimoe]

Drug trends have a cyclical history... unfortuantely.

Edited July 9, 2005 by Guest

[elemeno]

coke is just cheaper now.

but i still prefer the taste of pepsi!!

[TimmyB]

coke is just cheaper now.

but i still prefer the taste of pepsi!!

I'm a coke man myself. Coca-Cola that is.

I love Fleetwood Mac drug/relationship stories they are some of the best in rock and roll history.

[The Chameleon]

If it doesn't make you hallucinate it's probably bad!

[zero]

Here's a link that sets the record straight on a variety of rumours including apparently the 8 million up the nose. In hindsight that would seem like a death blow amount for anyone.

[Jaimoe]

Here's a link that sets the record straight on a variety of rumours including apparently the 8 million up the nose. In hindsight that would seem like a death blow amount for anyone.

Given the life expectancy of abusive rock stars and the retroactive damage of coke, the death blows may not be too far off for Mick and company.

[elemeno]

ya 8 million is a wack of coke.

even if you paid $40usd per gram and did 7grams a day for a 10 years, thats only just over a million.

if anyone has 8 million and they want to try doing it all in coke. that would make for a great reality tv show.

[zero]

Has anyone heard the story about when Gary Busey hit rock bottom? He was doing blow on his glass table and his dog came by and knocked his whole stash which was undoubtedly substantial off the table the bulk of which landed on the dogs back and tail, so Busey is trying to comb it out, and is sticking his face into the dogs hair and huffing away, he's picking out the dog hair and tics and what not. Then I guess he checked himself in.

[Jaimoe]

Busey also had another incident when he was arrested out front of his house dressed only in a housecoat, wired on mushrooms and crack. I believe it was at the same time as Weezer's Buddy Holly song hit the charts.

Way back I wanted to do a parody of that Busey incident incorporating that Weezer song:

" Oeew wee oeew just like Gary Busey/

whacked out on his crack and mushroom hoard... "

Edited July 10, 2005 by Guest