eh, I choose to believe the words we heard come straight out of the songwriter's mouth than some secondhand claim by an unknown journo.:shrug:

If there were conflicts between Lindsey and Christine during 1975 recording sessions, probably it wasn't big deal. Or were overshadowed by those between John and Lindsey; those differences were mentioned in the Classic Albums Making of Rumours video, but more detailed in Mick's first book, all about J&L, but nothing between L&C:

And all did not go smoothly in the studio. Lindsey was full of ideas about how his new band should sound. He's a record producer at heart, and felt strongly about the way the music should come across. He'd sit down at the drums and suggest rhythms and parts. "Hey Mick, try this. " But when he started doing that with John McVie, he ended up in a whole heap of trouble. John has always been a bit overprotective of his own ability and never liked suggestions. So John and Lindsey got straight to loggerheads. That was the start-off, and of course Lindsey couldn't win. (McVie is a consummate game-player, and Lindsey just didn't know. If he wants, McVie can get me on my knees, exhausted, begging for him to stop.) Bloody-minded, John would growl, "I'm not sitting here being told what to do by someone who's just joined the ****ing band!"
There was a pecking order, and Lindsey had to be taught some tact or McVie would attack him. John would say, "Hang on a see, you're talkie' to McVie here!"

All this, I thought, was very healthy in the long run. At one point they told each other to **** off, and that was it. After that, there was a balancing situation between their personalities. Lindsey was confronted with the fact that although he had been dominant in Buckingham Nicks, now he was in a band, one which did things by consensus. Fleetwood Mac has always been a democracy.

Well, that last sentence, I'm sure it's far from accurate. :rolleyes:

It was a democracy until $tevie became the cash cow....err, goat.

No, it happened long before. I don't think the Tusk album was a product of democracy. They granted Lindsey many of his requests in favor of not leaving the band. That is not genuine consensus nor democracy.

The result was that some of Lindsey's things were recorded in his basement at home. Some of the rhythm tracks are Lindsey banging on shoeboxes. Some of the vocals were overdubbed on his hands and knees in his bathroom. I understood what Lindsey was going through, but neither John nor Chris really appreciated this method. It was felt that this kind of segregation away from the caldron of traditional Fleetwood Mac group creativity in the studio was . . . unhealthy. Lindsey himself later speculated that he might have been selfish.

You're correct. Lindsey is what made them superstars, with his vision on Rumours. How could you let that leave?

Lindsey would be correct- it was selfish of him to record FM songs on his own. He should have made a solo record instead. But here’s the thing- the band LET Lindsey do that. They could have said no, it’s a group album so we’re going to record it as a group, but they didn’t. So if anyone was unhappy, they were just as much at fault for letting it happen.

I don't agree that it was just him. I think FM had many aspects and attributes in their music and personalities that made them become a super group.

I think with Lindsey he was the one that resisted any corporate entity taking over what they should or should not do in terms of art. I really respect him for that. As you know, the other members were more than happy to keep going down the mgmt. road of being told what to do.