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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
So I don't think it mattered, timing-wise, that her more flattering comments were made before the tour. She was presumably still angry when she talked to Performing Songwriter. And I do still think that, overall, she was pleased with the production of her songs -- just not pleased with the battles that followed.
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In 2009 the Sunday Express interview said:
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By the time of Fleetwood Mac’s last tour, 2003’s Say You Will, Stevie’s relationship with Buckingham had become so fraught that, unless he treated her better this time around, she threatened to walk away “so fast that palm tree tops will fall on his head”.
Now, she says the underlying problem was how much she hated the Say You Will album.
“It was five years ago now so I can say I didn’t like it at all; I didn’t like making it, I didn’t like the songs, so that tour was very hard for me.”
On a Greatest Hits tour, however, there is no new material to quibble over.
“Doing all the very famous material is actually more fun,” insists this born entertainer. “It’s been a breath of fresh air for us to not have to worry about trying to sell [new] songs.”
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With five platinum-selling solo records to her name, Stevie is easily the most successful member of Fleetwood Mac. Wasn’t she tempted to walk away during Say You Will?
“Well, I’m a peacemaker and I didn’t want us to break up because the music didn’t go my way. If I’ve learned nothing else in my 61 years it is that four years down the line you’re over it.” She sees the remaining foursome touring for another seven or eight years.
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I think she had a problem with the SONGS and the MUSIC.
As far as it being a
band's album, then you need to act like you're part of the band and be part of the process. When you're on vacation, you just don't get as much of a say.
We don't know what the sequencing fight was. We know what the sequence
is and from the way the album starts off, it seems that Lindsey got his way, but we actually don't know. It's a conclusion we make because of the first 3 songs. No one thinks that Stevie would have chosen those to lead the album. So, that's our assumption. Still, if the first two songs were Lindsey's idea, it doesn't mean the entire 18 songs were sequenced his way. Even the finished sequence can be part of a compromise. Maybe that's why RTTG and Silver Girl are back to back. Maybe that wasn't Lindsey's idea. They haven't actually talked about the sequencing fight for us to know WHAT it was, whose views were what.
Michele