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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
I think they would have waited for her to make up her mind, and once it was apparent she was out, they would have continued on as a quartet.
Probably not. The reason the SYW-era had that staying power on some level was because they didn't bring anybody new into the band. But they would need somebody to fill the guitar player, male lead vocalist void, and that would mean getting somebody else (i.e. Billy Burnette and Rick Vito). That being said, I think they would have had some staying power, though definitely not as much.
More like 1.5 albums when the of the songs from GH, the boxed set, etc. are factored in (and two when the songs that passed up are factored in).
They didn't really leave in 1990. They just announced they wouldn't be touring with the band anymore. Christine retired from touring, not the band, and Stevie refused to be the sole singer from "Rumours" still fronting the band. Stevie actually quit some time in 1991, after Mick wouldn't give her "Silver Springs" (which was already under contract for "The Chain").
Typically, they played 10-12 songs in their setlists:
The Chain
You Make Loving Fun or Say You Love Me
Oh Well (made into a duet)
Blow By Blow
We Just Disagree
Gold Dust Woman
World Turning
Only You Know & I Know or Dear Mr. Fantasy
Go Your Own Way
Don't Stop
Imagine or Dreamin' The Dream
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I love you Steve. You are an addicted Ledgie and know your stuff! But you are slicing and dicing my comments. To say the Mac recorded 1.5 albums after Lindsey left? C'mon now. Why don't you include Greatest Hits and include another .5 albums
Seriously though I think you knew what I meant... full studio album
In 1990 the Behind the Mask tour was in full swing. I had tickets to go in Pittsburgh in July but the tour was cancelled since Christine's dad has passed away. Also during the tour Mick released his book which was the first to mention his affair with Stevie and her out of control coke spins in 1986. Stevie threatened leaving the band and legal action. But the Mac pressed on and announced the "Farewell Tour" in late 1990. I was lucky to attend they made the effort to make up the date in Pittsburgh. The tour songs changed with dropping their only hit from Behind the Mask "Save Me' and putting Say you Love me back into the set. It was the Farwell tour....Fleetwood Mac's last tour. Yes it was already reported before the Farwell Tour started that Chris and Stevie were no longer going to tour with the band. But on December 7, 1990, Stevie took the stage with Lindsey on the Farewell Tour to sing Landslide. She walked off the stage never to work with Fleetwood Mac again until 1997 The Dance. She did have a fight with Mick about Silver Springs in 1991. Fleetwood Mac was dead at that time. No tours no albums, nothing. It is slicing and dicing my comments again to say Stevie left in 1991 just months after her last gig in December 1990. C'mon man!
I did mention Chris left in 1990 but did return for Time. Time did not even make Billboard 200. So again... changing the words of my statements but saying the same thing.
Not being a jerk but just a pet peeve when people quote your post and correct you when you are saying the same thing!
Yes I was wrong about Stevie songs in the sets 1994 and 1995. I saw them at SunFest West Palm Beach 1995. I don't remember any Stevie songs. But they did open for REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar and maybe the main tour did include Stevie songs. I guess because I saw the 1991 Stevie interview that is on youtube where she sort of threatened Fleetwood Mac they better not do any of her songs. Maybe that is why I thought they would not go there.
Just saying