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Originally Posted by michelej1
I agree with this small part of your post, although I'm not sure that FM sees the set this way.
Even so, Christine performing didn't have to change the precious setlist. She could just play on the songs that she knows and has played on 1000 times before, most especially World Turning, but Second Hand News, The Chain, etc. as well.
I would make the argument that her sitting there for most of the set like a yeoman would have created LESS of a disruptive media splash than her coming out to one song, Don't Stop, with great star fan fare did. Just come out there like one of the guys and the media would note that is what she did, but wouldn't harp on it.
With Lindsey in 1990, he just appeared very subtly behind Stevie for Landslide. She didn't say who he was. She just said something like, "need I say more?" He wasn't announced until MUCH later in the show. They could have done that with Christine and I think most people in the audience wouldn't even realize that she hadn't been part of the regular band for 15 years.
Michele
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I agree with this. I thought that there would have been no harm for her at the very least, to have come on for Go Your Own Way, then to have done World Turning and Don't Stop.
Whilst I was beyond delighted to have seen Christine perform with FM, I too find it frustrating that she was only given a one-song slot.
The other stuff which has been brought up in the light of Stevie's Mojo interview is ambiguous. I always thought that there was more to Christine's departure, or what happened shortly before and in its wake, than we know. I cannot fathom why Lindsey would not want her on the cover of a magazine covering the making of an album to which she contributed so much. I will inevitably shot down by his fans, but that request seems to me the product of pettiness and a complete failure to see the bigger picture.