Fleetwood Mac, (The Band) What's Left?
 

What do you think will come after the Stevie tour if anything?

Buckingham/Nicks: I won't rule it out because I never thought we'd get Christine back. But these are slim chances.

Buck/Wood: I believe Lindsey and Mick do love each other. The chances of them doing something together is bigger, (in my mind).

NIcks/Wood: Does Mick even like her? I know $he rules him but when is enough enough?

Finn/Wood: This is possible too. But I'd rather (obviously) see Buck/Wood.

Fleetwood/McVie/Buck/Nicks: Memorial show for Christine McVie. John would need a bass to play. :lol:

I think Stevie will do another year of shows in 2024. Heaven forbid she should ever release an album of new music, which I thought was coming this year considering she released lyrics for her song about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, she’ll tour that into 2025.

I didn’t think Lindsey would ever be on the same bill as Stevie again because it would project that the tour in 2018 was a mistake. However in his most recent interview Mick spoke of Lindsey as if he was still in the band, and in Stevie’s current tour, she has Lindsey on her screen 3 times: Stop Draggin, Gypsy, and Landslide (no photos of Neil, Billy Burnette, or Rick)
BUT
I think another FM Tour will happen, but I would probably say it would be Mick, John, Stevie, Neil, Mike, and Sheryl.

god, let them be DONE. Because it's over.

If I had to swallow anything, I'd take a Lindsey and Mick project, but I hope that doesn't even happen. Because it's over. Let it go. Stick a fork in it.

I feel like Mick might play on a few Lindsey solo tracks - maybe one might pay tribute to Christine - possibly John too? I think Stevie will do some sort of solo release next year, whether that's live album/rarities. I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was another album of 'new' songs. If she does this I feel like they might market it as 'the final studio album', like Sheryl did with Threads.
It doesn't feel likely that the four (John, Mick, Lindsey, Stevie) will record again. Which is sad.

I see Mick may possibly play on a Lindsey solo project thats about it. “Fleetwood Mac” is done. I don’t see Stevie releasing any “ New music” If she releases the Rhiannon project I hope the original recordings is whats used.

Move Neil over to keyboards and put Lindsey back in the band. Maybe add Colbie Caillat to sing Christine’s songs, given her familial association with Fleetwood Mac and Christine. Kind of like Derek Trucks in the Allman Bros. While I’d prefer Bonnie Raitt, I think she’d fall under the Steve Winwood category.

Never…ever!

Talk about beating a DEAD horse...

Let's wait until they're all dead, and use holograms.

Let's wait until they're all dead, and use holograms.[/QUOTE]

A much better choice.

Begs the question why hasn’t there been one for Buddy Holly? The Buddy Hologram Show would be awesome.



Okay, why all the crickets.

You've been waiting in the wings to use that for some time now, haven't you? :laugh:

I still think Stevie and Mick will figure out a way to be Fleetwood Mac again but if that never happens I think Stevie touring with equally good bands like she did with The Pretenders is a smart idea. Imagine an Alice Cooper/ Stevie Nicks tour or a Heart/Stevie Nicks tour or a Steve Miller Band/Stevie Nicks tour? Those would be great double bills IMO.

100% agree. They’ve been done before but now they’re DONE.

If Stevie and Lindsey ever get on the same stage to play music.
Ever ever ever.
All my albums, cds ephemera, books etc will be in the bin.

I sort of feel the same way. I'll throw all my stuff out! Except Christine stuff.

Because the Chain is about to start...:):woohoo::shocked:

I agree Fleetwood Mac is done. For several reasons. But I'd like a memorial show for Christine McVie, not with the remaining members of the band, I mean not necessarily just with them. If them want to join, good for them, but the point would be with special guests, ala Freddie Mercury tribute show (I don't think it would fill Wembley but it would be a good show anyway, hoping there would be great performers).

About the other possibilities, frankly my dears I don't give a damn. They all are over to me. I tribute show would be the only thing I'd be interested in.

I’ll just stream everything…..hahaha

Fleetwood Mac is never done. There are many touring bands out there with only one remaining original member in them. I know we're all still mourning the great loss of Christine but the show must go on.

I think Mick is the thread that keeps them together. I see Lindsey and Mick working together, but I think John is done. Stevie and Mick will work together if she goes back into the studio which I doubt. I would love a Christine memorial concert and the band playing with special guests. That would be great. And a final farewell to all.

Just my opinion, but I think the best way of proceeding would be to make a final album using anything from LBCM sessions, new songs from Lindsey, new songs from Stevie. Do no more than 10 shows. Every show includes at least 8 Christine songs from her entire FM catalogue. If asked about 2018, just say we needed a break.

Will this happen? No. But I’d love it to.

This isn't Foghat. It's a group known for their FIVE personalities.

Yeah, idiots will still go to see the old goat, but they're truly dishonoring the legacy of the band, by carrying on as Fleetwood Nicks(or anyone else). It's over.

Another Stevie tour!

After that, anyone left should mount a production of Hedda Gabler on Broadway (out-of-town tryouts in Boston or Upstate), with Stevie Nicks in the title role, Mick Fleetwood as Hedda’s husband George, Sharon Celani as Thea, Lindsey Buckingham as the judge, and Jimmy Paxson as the servant Bertha.

My favorite line from Only Murders in the Building is when a Martin Short’s character says “As I said to Paula Abdul in my production of Hedda Gabler…”. I died.

Stevie already ruined the ending that WE ALL DESERVED.

For me, 45 years of following the same band, only to have the end be some f*cking cover band. Thanks a lot, you old miserable goat...karma's coming for you.

I agree. And there are some who say get over it, but I can't. it was so screwed up what happened. And for Stevie to put out a statement following some of Lindsey's comments in articles, where she says she has years of reasons for not working with him again, I mean please. Enough with that. How many times do you say you've gotten over it and then rehash it again. I just don't understand why the group didn't stand up to her. Lindsey was so spot on when he said it wasn't really about whose fault it was, because we all know whose fault it was, but it was about the finish line of the band and the legacy left behind. The legacy was ruined by her actions. And she talks about how important the band was to her. I don't buy it.

That’s the thing, though: the show must not need go ahead—and it shouldn’t. Those bands touring with only one original member are often sad unironic parodies of their past. Fleetwood Mac was already in this territory by 2017, but the return of Christine, the hope for new music, and the novelty of the ongoing LB/SN feud made the whole tour interesting…

I think what some of y’all are missing is that Stevie’s narcissism demands the drama and attention her professional relationship with Lindsey and FM brings. She can’t walk away from it because it would starve her of the fuel she runs on. She’ll inevitably get bored of the sycophants she’s surrounded herself with in her solo career and need a fresh shot of hysteria that can only be provided by Lindsey. Now the wild card at this point is all their health. I’m terrified of John dropping dead. But if that happened Stevie would still concoct something, even if it were a FM tribute tour with Mick and Lindsey and other musicians or a Buckingham Nicks tour. Mark my words, it’s not over until she or Lindsey dies.



PS- RIP Christine. This is my first post since her passing. Her death was so unexpected and hit me harder than I would have ever imagined. She was the center, glue, heart, and soul of this band.

They could do the Legends spot on Sunday afternoon at Glastonbury…
Just one last throw of the dice….
It’s an amazing spot to do..and Rumours would top the album chart…again

Blondie are on at the moment they are very good and Debbie Harry looks amazing.

If they did anything, they’d need Lindsey. If Stevie made amends with him NOW, after the prospects of music from all five of them is impossible, I’d be more pissed than I already am. They had it all right there in front of them and she quashed it. She had her reasons, but then if she reunites with him in the context of the band, she’d need to eat some crow and acknowledge her part in that missed opportunity. I’d rather not see or hear any such configuration of the band.

She mentioned his name right after the second song in Chicago the other night. For someone who states she made it all on her own and that Landslide shot Fleetwood Mac in the stratosphere, I don’t know why she mentions him so much. Wasn’t he just a moment in her story?

She also said she isn’t ready yet to talk about what losing Christine has been like. I take Christine’s word when she said she and Stevie didn’t talk when tours were over.

Addition: They had all the time to make new Fleetwood Mac music before the 2018 Tour, during it too, and after but Stevie didn't want to; it wasn't Lindsey she didn't want to record with - she didn't want to contribute new music to Fleetwood Mac at all. If Lindsey was Cujo in the studio, she would have never done Extended Play... she just didn't have the goods to bring to the group.

She can, but not yet and over some wine. Or maybe she meant, whine>. :xoxo:

As Christine said about Stevie in 2014/2015: She's self-obsessed, but I love her.

When did she say that!? I must have missed it.

Stevie’s RollingStone cover piece in 2015. Christine, Waddy, Petty, and HAIM all contributed.

I’ve already said if the two of them ever appear on the same stage ….all my Fleetwood Mac stuff is in the bin…gone.
But I still see Glastonbury as a goodbye…(maybe)(possibly)

Same. If he'd go back, it would show how fake all the drama was. I've HATED their hand holding and kissing for decades. So f*cking ridiculous.

Yes, it’s over…I’ll never get away……never get away……

What exactly did she say?

I don’t see anything happening again. Stevie doesn’t need Fleetwood Mac anymore and let’s just all say, she holds the cards. People are willing to shell out good money to listen to her croak through the same tired setlist whilst Waddy tears through Lindsey’s parts on her FM songs with the nuance of a nuclear powered chainsaw. If she had no drawing power solo, I could maybe see something at some point but not anymore and not at their ages. I also don’t see her giving a rats behind about Mick or his need to make money via another rehashed Fleetwood Mac tour if that situation were to come up. I don’t think she cares. And I don’t think she’d ever entertain bringing Mick into her solo band either. Maybe a one-off but not permanently and I doubt Mick would do it either.

The only likely things would be some Mick and Lindsey collaboration and a Christine tribute concert. And even then I could see both L and S taking part but given how tribute concerts can work, they may never see the stage at the same time.