There has to be some sentiment there. Stevie is still writing songs about him after all. But on stage I think that a lot of it is an act. They make sure it gets seen. The audiences enjoy it - it's part of what a lot of them go to see.
Christine coming back to the band may have helped. It's probably helped balance them out and it's less of a 'boys club'.
This was part of the Rolling Stone piece from earlier this year. They really are living out 'The Chain'. It sounds a bit like Lindsey was sulking because Stevie was on the Rolling Stone cover on her own, and the rest of the band not included.
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But her assistant had just been called out of the room on other business. “Um, Stevie?” Johnston says. “Lindsey has requested that we turn the music down.”
Nicks rolls her eyes, her expression matching the little girl’s the photograph. “OK, maybe we should go into a different tape, since he’s next door,” she says. “We can go with something that doesn’t have quite that much bang. All he’s probably hearing is the drum, like in a car. This is the first time he’s ever been next door to us. That can never happen again!”
She switches to a new playlist of singer-songwriters (Jackson Browne, Sting) and Lite FM-ish dude rock (Goo Goo Dolls, The Fray)...
After a few minutes, we hear pounding on the wall. The music still isn’t low enough. “Relations with Lindsey are exactly as they have been since we broke up,” says Nicks. “He and I will always be anatagonizing to each other, and we will always do things that will irritate each other, and we really know how to push each other’s buttons. We know exactly what to say when we really want to throw a dagger in. And I think that that’s not different now than it was when we were 20. And I don’t think it will be different when we’re 80.”
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