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Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber
Stevie may be loyal but she's shown a strong resistance to studio work since Say You Will. On a few occasions the band has gotten together to try to start recording an album and Stevie has quashed that idea.
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Fact is, Stevie was the only one in FM with a active ongoing record contract. After SYW, Stevie still owed a Warners THREE albums! Why would Stevie record with FM while not only did they NOT have any active contract (and still do not) on top of the fact she didn't entirely enjoy working w/ Lindsey in the studio during SYW after Lindsey acted like his usual bratty self.
You can look at SYW two ways, as there are 2 sides to every story.
It's enlightening to look back today at SYW with this perspective & knowing more of the facts and see how Lindsey did sorta sabotage & poisoned that project for Stevie by not compromising enough. Obviously Stevie finally had it! Stevie had compromised & conceeded with FM her entire career, even before going solo. The difference was that she was no longer in the position to have to anymore after SYW.
Besides, after SYW, Lindsey got his solo ya-yas out, releasing 3 solo records w/o ANY band interference. Surely realizing that commercial, or chart success would always be elusive, he needed the "big machine", even lobbyied for it! Stevie on the other hand didn't. And it's clear for many reasons why she didn't want that. First and foremost she needed to fulfill her record contract. So, obviously Stevie was going to set onward solo with Dave Stewart and her posse in 2010. And while doing so she had such a huge "ah ha" moment of not only enlightenment, but appreaciation -- creating music WITHOUT struggle and conflict. All the while, reinvigorating her creative spark and legacy by releasing another top-notch record with "In Your Dreams."
So, Lindsey & Chris (along w/Mick & John??) went into the studio for a few weeks last Spring and worked out @8 songs which "they" say are great. But who knows if they really are? What I do believe, however, is that if Stevie is not on-board with a new FM record, those songs will be either be released as a EP under Lindsey and/or Christines names, or perhaps a couple of them
may be included on a career spanning FM compilation in the future. But they wont be released on an new album under the Fleetwood Mac name. Not as long as Stevie is still a member of FM, and not retired from the band. I don't believe Stevie will ever officially quit FM. She'll just let it sail into the sunset.