There is no evidence SN was ever there, we do know the other four where off and on.

No. 99.9% sure she wasn't involved.
Unless she really was involved and all this fuss has really been one big ruse all along.

Lindsey unambiguously said in the other interview that Stevie has not involved herself nor has she agreed to involve herself in their studio engagements. She wasn't there.

She herself said that she hadn't even heard what they'd written. If she'd been there, I think she might have heard a song or two or at least a few snippets.

Michele

and that's what is so effed about this whole thing. Your band has started working on songs, your long lost sister bandmate returns and has new music, and you've heard NONE of it????:eek:

been here in Nashville since Easter Sunday rocking out with @stevienicks ! http://t.co/cIJJq70laX

— Dave Stewart (@DaveStewart) April 29, 2014

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As far as we know from this point on she was working on "24K"
And on 4/26/2014 Mick was attending a Jenny Boyd book signing where he told a "Ledgie" that...

"(Mick) "Uh she's making, uh Stevie's making an album... I think it's gonna be a first for her where she's doing that Nashville thing where they go in and all the musicians just play the songs and get it all done really quickly... were hoping."

(Me) "Well I heard that she's there with Dave and that Christine was there too. Are they doing something together?"

(Mick) "Dave's producing it, uh and she's using the wrecking crew down there, to my knowledge where they all just come in and jam out the songs in two weeks"...

So I don't think Stevie was ever there...

No, she wasn't, but for the record they were in the studio about a month prior to her going in with Dave.

Who says Stevie needs to write new songs anyway? She could always record some of those demos that are on youtube. Still hoping this album comes out with all 5 of them, otherwise I will not buy it. I will still stream it though. Just saying.

I'm not sure what you're "just saying". It doesn't make much sense unless it's some sort of protest against the band for continuing on with Stevie, obviously not the band's fault if it happens. You obviously enjoy what the other members do or you wouldn't be interested at all.

Yepppppppppppp.

Right. I'm sure that Mick (and maybe Lindsey) are afraid that if they play this the wrong way, it will be the end of Fleetwood Mac.

But I think they're wrong. Stevie will be mad for sure. And I am sure she will throw it in their faces for the rest of their lives. But I just don't see her being so mad that she'll never tour with them again. She'll stop talking to them for two years and the third year they can all kiss and make up, which would put them right on the time line for the Fleetwood Mac goodbye tour. And three years is probably when she would have worked with them again, if they hadn't gotten on her bad side anyway.

Stevie loves the drama of a reunion and she'll have had time to miss feeling like Robert Plant, the superstar aura that she says FM brings with it. Even if she says, "I'll never work with any of them again. Instead, I'll focus on my painting," I don't think she'll hold to it, especially if the others start begging her in a couple of years.

I think Mick should roll the dice or set the bird free and let it return ... I don't know what the metaphor is. This is Hadrian's Wall. Walk it. Pulling the trigger on an album without Stevie won't be the end, Mick. Even if she says it is.

Michele

Hard to follow? I'm saying I won't purchase another album without the entire group on board. Have you not heard of streaming? I rarely buy music anymore since Spotify. I do continue to buy new albums from the veteran acts I love. I want it to be a real FM album. These 5 people. Period.

What if you love what you hear from the other 4? You're still going to put your foot down? Shouldn't it be about the music? Seems like an arbitrary restriction.

^I would still stream it! I would still give it a chance.

Artists get some money from streaming, even if it's not a lot. I never purchased 1995's "Time", and after playing that recently on Spotify, I wasn't missing much. Even the Christine lead vocal songs were sub par. For those who may not recall, this album had no Lindsey and no Stevie.

It's like INXS without Michael Hutchence and Journey without Steve Perry. Those bands went on, I basically checked out after.

You gave an example of an album you didn't like, my point is what if you streamed it and loved it? You still would not buy it on principle? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Also the two other examples you mentioned are band's with one singer. Not applicable to Fleetwood Mac. Stevie sings much fewer than half the songs. In this hypothetical situation she wouldn't even be replaced,l like those other bands did.

And I don't know your motivation here so did you stand the same ground when they released an album without Christine or is it only Stevie whose absence you take a hard stand on?