Fleetwood Mac Did Drugs!

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, July 2, 2007

It must be a slow news day at Page 6, which is touting the news that Lindsey Buckingham got drunk and stoned when he was fronting the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s!

A NEW Fleetwood Mac kiss-and-tell could be nicknamed “Blow Your Own Way,” considering the massive amounts of cocaine and other drugs that were consumed during the legendary band’s heyday. In her book, “Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac,” Buckingham’s ex-girlfriend, Carol Ann Harris, tells how the rocker had indulged in lots of beer, shots of Jack Daniel’s and “California gold” when he was “unwittingly” slipped a Quaalude during the 1978 American Music Awards, The Post’s Kyle Smith reports. In addition, “vials of cocaine were dumped on the backs of wrists whenever the lights darkened.”

When the group won Album of the Year, Harris says, Buckingham approached the stage “looking like a character from a B-movie who’d been shot . . . his superhuman effort was leading him to the opposite side of the stage.” Harris rushed backstage to find the “reeking” guitarist-singer sitting on a couch in host Dick Clark’s office, looking at a puddle of his own “disgusting biohazard” vomit, which had been freshly hurled upon the “foot-deep carpet.” Clark “was staring at Lindsey as though he were something nasty that he just scraped off the bottom of his shoe,” Harris writes. Hustled out by Clark’s security, Buckingham continued to “projectile vomit” all over the back seat of the limo on the way home.

Um, wasn’t it pretty widely known back then that the Fleetwood Mac gang was doing drugs? Indeed, the list of prominent 1970s rock bands not doing drugs would likely be countable on one hand without resorting to the use of the thumb. Or three of the fingers.

At the Grammys the same year, Buckingham saw country great Kenny Rogers walk by and called out, “Oh, my God! Look at the [bleep]in’ pancake makeup! It’s gotta be four inches thick.” When Rogers turned and glared, Harris thought, “I really didn’t want to have my fairytale night spoiled by a fight between Kenny Rogers and my man.” Meanwhile, Buckingham was just getting started, saying, “Kenny, hey, Kennnnny! Man, love your makeup! Really, you look great, cowboy!” Rogers elected not to fight.

So, let’s get this straight: A drunk rock star made fun of Kenny Rogers?!

And that Rogers, at the time a mature man of 40 perhaps most famous for “The Gambler” and “Coward of the County,” which counseled the need to know “when to walk away and when to run” and “Walk away from trouble if you can,” respectively, didn’t decide this was worth getting into a fistfight at the Grammy’s isn’t exactly earth shattering news, either.

Fleetwood Mac Did Drugs!

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