I've just seen this video of the pre-Clinton inauguration press conference for the first time. It helps to clarify the timeline of
Time a little.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lc7hE9TIr0
At 8:36 Christine confirms that the band will be going into the studio in April (1993). Presumably by then, Billy Burnette had gone and Bekka and Dave were yet to be recruited. I guess this explains their near-total absence from her songs- there's clearly some Billy and Bekka overdubbing done later on, but it's quite subtle, I think.
This article from August 1994 confirmed that Christine was going to appear on the album
http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.ph...2&id=6541&c=18
I think this might knock on the head the theory that the band presented a Christine-less album to Warners and her tracks were then recorded later on to make it more marketable (not that they bothered much, anyway).
I've always liked
Time. With the odd exception, it hangs together better than it should.