Dude?!? Are you feeling alright?

Thanks for your concern I m very well bit of a back ache just now and some rest otherwise I don't post much. Time in life is valuable.

My money is on Stevie feeling the peace..she has the genetics.Lindsey's brother despite being an Olympic silver medalist in swimming passed of a massive heart attack years ago .He is living on borrowed time precious time.

Stevie really expects to live a long time, just because all of the women in her family did. I love her confidence. She thinks she's going to be burying them right and left.

Lindsey's brother was younger than his father when he passed away. But Jeff is older than Lindsey. So far, so good.

Mick's mom is still dancing.

Sometimes I think, "Man, even with high blood pressure, my grandma lived to be 87. So, it's safe for me to go ahead and eat this cheeseburger."

Michele

You are quite correct, that she is a cultural icon, and ~almost~ the face of FM(at least to the general public).

And I'm guessing that you also don't see why....ugh...."grounded, normal, realistic people", see things like her spirit catcher:lol::lol::lol:, as sheer lunacy. Something to be mocked. And I'm almost certain that Lindsey and Chris feel the same way.

Only an old hippie could embrace an old hippie...;)

phew.....this thread was quite difficult to get through :shrug: but glad I persevered, some interesting comments over and above the bitching.

Love the Studio picture :D and this :angel:

Sorry to disappoint you. I'm not an old hippie. I didn't even live through the hippie generation. I just happen to believe in respect. People pass through my life every day with ideas and quirks that I neither like nor agree with, but I still try to respect them and their right to have them. And I hope that respect is returned in kind...But to each their own, feel free to mock me.

Obviously Stevie is hippie dippie; that's her schtick, always has been. But she also lived in Arizona for much of her life. Have you ever spent much time in the southwest? Native American culture/art/traditions/beliefs/etc are far more ingrained as a part of the collective consciousness there than the rest of the US. Folks display things like spirit catchers & such with little or no irony. Plus, when it comes to things like that... it's subliminal. If you believe that a particular object will bring good luck/vibes/whatever, that'll be in the back of your & everyone else's minds every time you see it. The spirit catcher could have been Stevie's way of saying "be nice. I'm the only girl left now." Kind of like the way people wearing crosses reminds you of their faith, and the way you should interact with them.

And there's nothing wrong with that. On the other hand, if you don't say: 'be nice, I'm the only girl left now' literally, but expect (male) others to interpret it that way, the risk of not achieving what you try to communicate, is pretty big.

I see why people think that, but I think it's shameful for anyone to mock something that gives another person peace of mind or good vibes or whatever the hell. Live and let live. If someone wants to carry around a spirit catcher then that's all the better for them, who am I to judge? We've all got our quirks.

And I think "grounded, normal, realistic" is maybe a bit of an exaggeration, if we're talking about the rest of FM.

New "Danceable" Christine Song Named Plus More Studio News
 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...#axzz30ZI8kEQL

Christine and Lindsey wrote a new song called "Too Far Gone" during the past few weeks (I should have put Lindsey's name in the thread title, but couldn't go back and edit). Here's the full studio article from the LA Times.

Her fear gone, Christine McVie's muse soars with Fleetwood Mac reunion

photo: Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac are collaborating once again. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Randy Lewis

May 2, 2014, 6:30 a.m.

Christine McVie eases comfortably into the corner of a leather sofa, about a foot between her and Lindsey Buckingham. He leans forward and side by side, they listen to the playback of "Too Far Gone," a danceable new Fleetwood Mac song they've written together over the last few weeks at a West Los Angeles recording studio.

"This was a great collaboration," Buckingham said. "I had a track without any singing on it, and she wrote the song over it."

"We've been doing that quite a bit lately, haven't we?" McVie said.

Helping McVie write songs, Buckingham said to her, "is something you always wanted me to do for you, which was not necessarily the case with Stevie. She's a little more complicated in her needs."

It's a scene that would have been pure rock 'n' roll fantasy barely two years ago.

At that point, McVie was securely ensconced in her 17th century mansion in rural northern England, having retired from touring and recording with a band she'd been part of for a quarter century. Crippled by a fear of flying that made the idea of a trip to Los Angeles — or anywhere else — unthinkable, the '70s rock goddess stopped touring in 1998 and spent much of her time cooking and gardening.

But last week, the woman who wrote and sang many of the group's cornerstone songs, including "Don't Stop," "You Make Loving Fun," and "Little Lies," traded banter cheerfully with Buckingham, who expressed sheer delight at resuming the creative relationship they'd once enjoyed, both saying they've not only picked up where they left off, but agreeing that "it's better than ever."

In fact, it's the same studio they built 35 years ago when the British-American band was starting work on one of the most ambitious projects of the group's storied career, the two-disc "Tusk" album, which followed blockbuster "Rumours," one of the 10 bestselling albums of all time.

After a smiling McVie flashes double thumbs-up to engineer Mark Needham, Mick Fleetwood squeezes his unmistakable 6-foot-5 inch frame through the control room door and starts munching a forkful of salad out of a green plastic container. He grabs a digital camera off a coffee table and points it at his bandmates. McVie obliges him by twisting her mouth into a goofy grimace as he snaps the shot.

"There was some worry about whether it was a good idea to come back here," said Fleetwood, 66. "Maybe it would be better to go someplace new, someplace we hadn't worked before. But since we started working here, it couldn't be more fantastic."

F. Scott Fitzgerald's observation that "there are no second acts in American lives" notwithstanding, it appears that the Grammy-winning quintet is positioning itself for precisely that.

Of the band's five members, only Stevie Nicks isn't on the premises, busy attending to other commitments, they say. While Christine McVie and Buckingham signed off on the latest tweaks to "Too Far Gone," John McVie and Fleetwood worked on other facets of the new material.

McVie's return to the fold for an upcoming full-band reunion tour, announced in January, was surprise enough to music fans who'd been assured for a decade and a half that McVie had checked out of Fleetwood Mac and wasn't coming back. But things began to change a couple of years ago, when she began to reassess her decision.

She continued to write in her self-imposed retirement, and put out an appealing solo album in 2004, "In the Meantime." It was that project that helped plant the seed for her eventual return.

"It had some good songs on it, but I went about it all wrong, " said McVie, 70, still looking the part of the quintessential rock 'n' roll singer and songwriter in her brown leather jacket, over a white tank top and tight black jeans. "I did it the wrong way, with the wrong people, I didn't want to fly, I didn't want to promote it. I just did it in my garage and nothing happened with it. That caused a certain amount of angst, and then I just stopped."

Then a couple of years ago, she sought out a therapist to help her with the fear of flying. "He asked me, 'If you were to go anywhere in the world, where would you want to go?' I thought about it for a little bit, and I said 'Hawaii.'

"He said, 'Buy your ticket.' Then he said, 'You don't have to use it. Just buy it'," she said. Buckingham laughs at her revelation, saying, "I didn't know that part."

After a period of being gradually desensitized to the idea of flying, she said Fleetwood drove to her home to meet her, and together they got on a plane to Maui. There she joined him and her ex-husband, John McVie, at a performance by their blues band.

"I did a couple of songs there, it felt good onstage, and then I thought, I'm really missing out on something—something that's mine, that I've just given up, and I'm not paying respect to my own gift," she said. "I saw that if I want to start to play again, there's only one band I want to play with, and that's Fleetwood Mac."

That led to her first appearance in 15 years with Buckingham, Nicks, McVie and Fleetwood when the 80% edition of the group performed at the O2 Arena in London last year, a one-night reunion that set the stage for her return to the band.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...#ixzz30ZK2IWmC

and part 2 -

That would have been reason enough for Fleetwood Mac fans to celebrate, but as McVie put it, her return wasn't simply for the full-group reunion tour now scheduled to start in the fall.

"I committed to join the band hook, line and sinker — recording, everything," she said.

Having overcome her flying fears, a new sense of liberation is manifesting in McVie through an outpouring of songwriting, much of it with Buckingham. Over the last eight weeks, Buckingham said they've written and recorded eight new songs, which will help populate a new Fleetwood Mac album along with seven or eight more the band recorded about 18 months ago while gearing up for a 2013 tour.

Another McVie-Buckingham collaboration they previewed, "How I Feel," is a buoyant number with all the markings of a hit.

"There's a lot of pop in what we've been doing," Buckingham, 64, says with a giddy smile, his signature shock of kinky hair still shooting skyward even as it has morphed over the years from dark brown to salt-and-pepper shades.

Following this round of recording, the album will be shelved while they gear up for the new tour, which opens Sept. 30 in Minneapolis and includes three nights at the Forum in Inglewood.

"I think we both came in with a certain level of ... not anxiety, but acknowledging that there were certain unknowns as to how this was going to go, or where it was going to go, or whether it would only get so far and then hit the wall," Buckingham said. "It's almost like the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, which was always a way to describe Fleetwood Mac.

"When someone takes such a long hiatus, you don't know if that was a moment in time; if that [working relationship] is still there," he said. "You know the potential is still there, but are the tools for getting in touch with it still there? But actually, it's better than ever, wouldn't you say?"

"Absolutely," McVie said instantaneously. "You've heard what the tour is called?" she asks, as if to underscore the theme of rejuvenation for the new chapter in the continuing story that is Fleetwood Mac. "On With the Show," she said, answering her own question.

Working together again, Buckingham said, "has been a really profound couple of months. I can't think of anything better for the next act for this band."

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...#ixzz30ZKvqYdp

Considering how much is already done (16 songs according to this article), I wonder why they're shelving it. :shrug: There's plenty of time for rehearsals later.

Release it so they can do the promotion for it before and during the tour.

Jamie

So many wonderful tid bits of information from that article but this is my favorite quote:"I did a couple of songs there, it felt good onstage, and then I thought, I'm really missing out on something—something that's mine, that I've just given up, and I'm not paying respect to my own gift," she said. "I saw that if I want to start to play again, there's only one band I want to play with, and that's Fleetwood Mac."
It is very nice to know there will be a bunch of Bucky-McVie co written songs. How lovely they gave us 2 titles to think about. Elle, you were correct in your prediction that Lindsey is using the remaining songs originally recorded for the EP. I wonder though, besides the songs he's written with Christine if he has written any new songs by himself since Chris' return that he might contribute to the FM record. I'm sure this makes a lot of you want this BuckVie album released immediately.

They probably want to perfect it over time. We all know they like a year to make music great.