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This is what Stevie said to the Los Angeles Times on June 14, 1987: Quote:
As for taking Lindsey's word as law, I just don't see everything as polarized or adversarial as that. I don't think he's a saint and she's a sinner, in any category, but I won't think the reverse either. I've heard Lindsey say that he only wrote one song for a movie and I know that's not true. He's prone to dementia at time. However, in this interview, your interpretation of Lindsey's "word" is so different from what I think he said, that I wouldn't even know how to take that as law. He talked about the band, being full of unique individuals in their own right, who come together. He didn't say that he had any kind of sovereign power and wasn't even talking about himself. It was a communal commendation he offered. What I liked about this interview is you don't have to take one person's word over another. No reason to choose your side of the battleground. I mean, they were getting along when the interview was conducted and to me it seemed like a rather funny, domestic little exchange. I liked it's spousal quality, because there was even a loving familiarity to the bickering. And because they were comrades at the time, there was no one upmanship. They were both offering a fair and balanced assessment of the way they mutually push the other's buttons. So, I really didn't see an opportunity for side-taking at all, until you did. Michele |
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I am just stating that I think LB had no interest whatsoever with working with FM after Mirage. So, as I said, I think La Nicks was somewhat correct even though LB did not officially leave until after TITN was finished. I think the interviews at the time he left show that. He talks about reuniting with FM and morphing his solo stuff into TITN and then once he was back, the craziness was too much for him to do the tour. To me, that sounds like he came back to the band even though there had been no official parting of ways. Maybe burned out is a better phrase than left the band, which is why I said "La Nicks is mostly correct here."
As for the article you posted - of course FM is going to say that to sell the record I mean they can't very well say "we are so fukcing sick of each other we want to puke, but we want to market this record so we're going to pretend to be happy" can they Quote:
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I'd posit that if they thought they were broken up, Mick would have replaced Lindsey after Mirage and not waited five years, letting all the tour money they could have reaped in that interim go to waste. As Stevie told the London Times, they lost "jillions" of dollars because Lindsey didn't want to record and tour. If the band thought that Lindsey had left, I think they would have moved earlier to replace him, rather than waiting for Christine to do an Elvis song that would bring them back together. Michele |
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I disagree in that I think CM and La Nicks were always wanting to go back to FM. Stevie certainly said this in interviews at that time. I can't recall LB ever saying that. I think LB did not want to go back to FM after the truncated Mirage tour. Again, he also discusses the TITN sessions as a return. To me, that sounds like he had all but left after Mirage. I also think he agreed to TITN because the sales of Go Insane were disappointing and FM could give him a needed boost, then he remembered why he "left" in the first place. Just my opinion though. But, yes, based on what we know from the press, La Nicks was incorrect in saying he left the band in 1983. That is why I termed it as mostly correct - maybe effectively correct would have been a better phrase. Last edited by strandinthewind; 05-17-2008 at 12:26 PM.. |
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Again, I think that if Go Insane had been a big hit, he would not have rejoined, returned to, reconvened with, recorded with, etc., FM again. I think he has since Rumours resented working with a group that does not do exactly what he thinks they should production wise. Just my opinion though. |
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Put it this way, the TITN album was couched in terms of reuniting You really don't think that LB had all but unofficially walked away from FM after the Mirage tour? To me, it's obvious - though I readily admit he publicly did not officially leave the band until 1987. I think this is why Stevie went ful steam ahead in the solo market. I think she thought that there was no use waiting for FM and IMO LB to get back together and in the studio. And, she realy did not need them anymore as a vehicle to release her songs, though she remaind loyal to them. Would any of us have gone back to a hostile work environment when we did not need to? So, I think she went back out of loyalty. Others may disagree, but that is my opinion. As an aside, what if La Nicks' comment about 1983 was a slip and indeed was a rare glimpse into what really went on in 1983. On edit -- was FM under any kind of record deal in the 80's that bound them to produce a certain number of records? Last edited by strandinthewind; 05-17-2008 at 08:32 PM.. |
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The thing is, Tango was not just a cursory appearance by Lindsey, like you could say Chain was. He was intricately involved in every aspect of Tango, production, songwriting, videos, press. To say that he was, indeed, in a band that he was working diligently with throughout the Tango process, is not just lipservice. It can't be said he had "all but left" the band and he just made it "official" in 1987. His integral band involvement did not stop until the album was complete, the publicity for it was done and he actually left. From 1982-1987 he wasn't out of the band any more than anyone else was out of it. The whole band was on hold. As for your comment that Stevie did not need the band, had a successful solo career and did not have to come back, yeah maybe. But that has nothing to do with whether Lindsey left the band. It sounds like arguments you could make explaining why Stevie left the band from 1982-1987, but I don't think she left it either. Michele |
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Actually, now is a similar situation to the 1983-87 era. Is FM currently broken up? Will we get another record from them? Only they know I supose. Last edited by strandinthewind; 05-17-2008 at 03:12 PM.. |
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What would Lindsey have been walking away from, incidentally? Inactivity? Quote:
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"Lindsey refuses to come back & work with Fleetwood Mac, so I'm gonna have a solo career! Muaahahahahaaahaaa!!"
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