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Ken just agreed to do a Q&A and Bekka did earlier today. This is amazing!

Wow--a coup! Can't wait to ask Bekka questions, in particular...

I have a few for Ms. Bramlett, too.

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Ken answered a few questions

I found this interesting. Ken still seems to be a bit "anti-Lindsey" in some of his responses. Anyone know who Ryan Tedder is?

Tedder's most well-known for his work as the frontman, singer and writer in OneRepublic. He's also written for other people including, whatdoyaknow, Colbie Caillat...

http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...pop-who-doesnt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...by_Ryan_Tedder

Ahhh, it all makes sense now.

Odd that he said Richard wouldn't. I thought he said that he would if asked?

I think that whatever happened with Richard, a few months ago(didn't he go meet them at a show, right before he stopped all his FB posts?) has soured him, for the most part.

It's too bad, because he was a complete sweetheart about everything. Something BAD happened, IMO.

Ken has been pretty consistent in his belief that Fleetwood Mac will not put out another record. "Maybe an EP" is not cutting it for me--and for so many people who have waited and waited. Sure the market has changed, and sure a new album would not gross what Rumours or Tango grossed, but I DO think a New FM record would do pretty well on the charts. A lot of people attending the recent shows are people under 30. They, as well as the longer-in-the-tooth fans would pony up for new music.

Even though it was 2007, The Eagles last album sold 7 Million. I'll bet they're afraid that it might stiff(in this non-CD buying day and age), and it would be an embarrassment to them. I hope I'm wrong.

Yes, that is a remarkable achievement but Long Road Out of Eden was a double album and so it needed to sell 3.5 million copies to achieve the 7xPlatinum award. That's still incredible I think because in 2007 sales still weren't great.

However, if the Mac released an album next year, it would have to be #1 for a very long time if it had any chance of selling anywhere near that. Anyway, it doesn't because nobody actually buys albums anymore. Ah well.

Ryan Tedder has been called the "diva whisperer" , writing Beyoncé's Halo, and several other HUGE hits for female artists... I think LB would feel threatened by a guy so focused on the "girls"

It may have had to do with Richard's health. He said several times he doesn't travel, and that the band wouldn't come to Vegas to record, so it wouldn't happen. He expressed his love of the idea of collaborating with them again, but the logistics were against it.

If Tedder made Stevie feel good in the studio, then that would be "production" right there. I don't think Lindsey would care too much about whether Tedder enhanced his songs, as long as he got his share of space on the album, he'd be content to have his songs left alone by the outside producer.

Michele