I remember there were several comments made toward the end of The Dance Tour about LB's drinking. He supposely needed help to leave Stevie's Phoenix Heart show wind up party, according to people who commented somewhere on the Nicks Fix way back then. Please, no haters...I love them all, but it is what it is.
I'm imagining that The Dance Tour was one heck of a reckoning for all members of FM but I'm inclined to believe something might have happened between S&L, Destiny Rules, overseas, "the only time we could be alone and foolish" (?),
and then Kristen got pregnant, Thrown Down, "a decision no one made" (?). Maybe it built while in the states and overseas was far enough away to throw caution to the wind....who knows, maybe I'm just seeing what the song lyrics want me to see? But...
The strain in most bands with major history is almost always apparent, add ex-lovers to the mix and it must get CRAZY! So alcohol abuse or accidentally getting trashed before a show, whatever, on occasion is pretty understandable. These are emotionally high-strung people. I saw two shows during the tour and they were great and no one seemed high on anything. But, LB at Landover, looked like a man on EDGE!
Btw, no shipper here...I have plenty to keep me busy in my own marriage so just calling it like I see it. Love and hate are such strong emotions but a love/hate relationship with the intensity of feeling they've been forced to endure to be in FM is absolutely overwhelming and very difficult for anyone I've known in one, whether it be lovers, children and parents, etc..
