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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
I tend to think you're right. I just keep thinking back to the early days of the band. Stevie was always in the studio, even if she wasn't doing anything. Case & point, her making coffee during the Tusk documentary. Or her hanging out in Sly Stone's studio during the making of Rumours while she wasn't needed, and crafting Dreams. Stevie was pretty much always around for her first 4 Mac albums. That all stopped for the making of Tango, and we know how her songs suffered because of it.
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That actually stopped before 'Tango.' With 'Mirage,' Stevie was mainly there initially, when they started recording in France. Then, once they returned to the States -- by all accounts -- Stevie would only pop in as needed. Lindsey was quoted as saying, "Stevie didn't come down a lot. She was in the studio, aside from France, maybe a total of ten or fifteen days."
Yet, oddly enough, I rarely hear people complain about the quality of Stevie's 'Mirage' songs or her lack of involvement with the album as a whole.
Really, once Stevie's solo career began, there was no reason for her to hang around making coffee all day. She had other more constructive things to do with her time, and I don't blame her one bit.
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Originally Posted by louielouie2000
Stevie was also only around for the recording of her own songs during Say You Will, and we all know how displeased she was with that album, too. Seems like the woman isn't learning from her own mistakes.
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Two things she has complained about, regarding 'Say You Will' -- the mixing of her songs and the sequencing of the album -- were things she was around for, but got "out-voted" on. So her input seems to have made little difference in that situation.