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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
Except Bella Donna came out about two years after Tusk, was recorded in three months, she didn’t quit the band to make it, nor did she ever claim that it was anything other than another outlet for her music.
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More apples to oranges. When you say that BD took three months to make, that's misleading. First, the recording sessions, which were off and on, actually lasted longer than three months, but no biggie. Second, Stevie worked on her songs and demos with other musicians (like
Tom Moncrief, Mick Fleetwood, Sharon Celani, and
Jorge Calderón) off and on over a period of at least three years—from spring 1978 through late winter 1980. Many of those sessions included all the members of the Heartbreakers (Stan, Mike, Benmont, and Ron) in many hours of work (recordings of which surfaced from the old Modern storage unit). So Stevie was working on material for BD off and on over a period of three years. It's misleading to say that it took "three months"; it even took longer at the actual sessions at Studio 55 and Goodnight L.A., but many of the songs had already been worked on and worked out well beforehand.