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Originally Posted by button-lip
That's the part of her personality that's irrefutable. We all saw how she lied on national tv. She said Lindsey refusing to tour was the reason THEY fired him (well, we don't use the word 'fired'). And it turned out it was a lie.
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Maybe not. It depends on when the decision to fire him actually happened.
Buckingham confirms that, at a band meeting in late 2017 —
shortly after a series of shows with McVie to promote their project, Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie —
he asked for “three or four months extra” to do solo dates. There was “stonewalling,” he claims. “I left the meeting because there was nothing else to talk about.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...firing-733460/
The last LBCM show was in mid-November. So, that meeting was probably sometime in late November/early December. I think that was when Stevie, Mick, and Azoff decided Lindsey was gone.
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Originally Posted by cbBen
And then I decided to take this year also to tour all summer, because I did not feel that this record was finished.
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And this is the key difference between the two situations. Stevie was working an album that was already out.
If we’re being honest, their solo careers are not equivalent. Stevie has a legitimate second mainstream career. She can play stadiums and large amphitheaters on her own. She’s part of two large machines and is responsible for the livelihoods of significantly more people. If she felt a certain momentum for one project, she has the right and obligation to see it through. She put the band on hold because there was some apparent momentum for IYD, and then she put her solo plans on hold when Fleetwood Mac had the momentum.
Lindsey didn’t have a true solo career. He tried in the early ‘90s, but it didn’t work out. After that, his solo work was more extracurricular, large machine vs. small machine. His solo tours are more artistic endeavors intended to make an artistic statement more than profit. I think Elle has said on a few occasions that One Man Show was his only tour (at least prior to 2013) that was profitable.
Not that one is better than the other, it’s just the reality of the situation.