[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

ah interesting. sounds like yet another one of those "he says / she says" issues. unless Lindsey was claiming he was leaving the band (seems that's not the case, but exactly the opposite?) i'd probably tend to believe more some neutral opinions like that Christine interview where she said Stevie was nowhere around the band at the time.

Ok, it was the Australian 1984:

"Things are better now than they used to be," says Nicks. "In the old days we were angry with each other and didn't like each other. We had to go on stage and play. It was all about dirty looks and not having much fun. That's partly to do with why Lindsey left the band in '83."

"Eighty-seven," interjects Buckingham and, as if on cue, there follows a few minutes of intense discussion between them about just when the guitarist was in the band and when he wasn't.

"But honey, you really left in '83, you only came back to do [the album] Tango in the Night in 1987. You didn't tour."

"No, no, I was in the band until 1987," he insists, and suddenly it's as if only the two of them are in the room. "I was there for the whole thing. I produced the album and then I pulled out for the tour because it was just too crazy."

Nicks gives this a few seconds' thought.

"I thought you pretty much left. Oh, I can't even remember," she concedes.