![]() Then Mick goes, “There’s this gentlemen named Billy Thorpe. He just said, “Hey, do you want to sing in my band?” We were outside. Mick went, “How about her? I want her.” And that was it. I was like, “I’m going to get up and sing with my daddy.” Mick and Billy were there. My dad was playing at Trancas, which is a long shot over Pacific Coast Highway. The rock & roll vibe had left the building. It was cool, but it was not really in my wheelhouse. I was like, “Heck yeah, man.” Not to mention, some of the coolest songs ever. But it was an honor and a gift that was just handed to me from some cool guys. He’s a great guy, a cool Jersey dude I met in Jersey when I was out with the Moody Blues. He even had Eddie Van Halen in the Zoo at one point. Well before me, I don’t know how many entities of the Zoo he had. People would actually take a minute and stop everything and regroup. When someone is getting healthy or getting off whatever they’re doing.… Fleetwood Mac was a lot. ![]() How did you wind up joining Mick Fleetwood’s band the Zoo in 1992?īecause Mick never wanted to stop working. They were playing this place called the Baked Potato and became friends when Billy was just 18. To move on to happier topics here, tell me how you met Mick Fleetwood.īilly Brunette. At some point, they’ll have to reach out. I don’t know his kids, but it definitely belongs to them one day. I’ll tell you what, I think about him all the time. Then he got arrested for being drunk in public. Once he’s admitted, he’s ours.” It was a terrible thing to have that be the last time I saw him. But they were like, “You can’t stay the night with him. He had nothing else in his blood, they said. It didn’t seem like it could just be booze. I still didn’t know if it was booze or drugs. Then he escaped in the hot, gnarly, pouring rain. At some point, I was going to send him cash for the little store. I thought he was going to spend it on snacks and sweats. I was like, “This is for sweats.” It was all the money I had on me. Then we went to Waffle House and got some pancakes. I stayed with him all night until the morning. I was like, “What would his mom do? What would his dad do? What would his sister do? What would I do?” I took care of him. I was like, “Who is this guy now?”īut he became just Jani again to me. Then he puked purple all over the guest bedroom. He wound up drinking a bottle of cooking Sherry, which is not good. “I’ve lost Jani!” I went, “You what?!” He found him.
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