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Originally Posted by Sugar Mouse
So it is on record now before all the truth comes out, each of you believes that Lindsey never asked to delay the Mac tour until next year. Please confirm.
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No. I believe that Lindsey wanted to do dates in between FM shows since he thought that would work out best. I think that was his real aim and looking at how spread out the tour dates are, it makes sense why he would go for that. And I think the reason he wanted to do solo dates was because he had hoped that the next FM tour would be behind a new album but obviously that didn't happen and I think the weirdo artsy creative person that Lindsey is couldn't handle another greatest hits tour playing the same damn songs so he would have needed some other 'outlet'. He probably asked before that to delay the tour but when it became clear they weren’t gonna agree to that, that’s when he started planning to do his double tour thing instead but they didn’t like that so they fired him anyways. That video of him telling the fan his plans for the year right after the MusiCares event was very shortly before Mike Campbell got the call so that version of events really makes the most sense. Or it’s possible that he was planning to do a double tour thing for most of the time but they shut him down sometime after that video, very last minute and then he tried asking to delay the tour and then they fired him because they figured it would just be easier to bring in their replacements. And yes I do think Stevie encouraged bringing Mike Campbell into the fold, I’m not saying that it’s a big conspiracy about her wanting Lindsey out but it’s too much of a coincidence that HER friend Mike, the bff of the late Tom Petty also her friend whose death she has been grieving got the call so quickly. I think it was said that Neil didn't get the call until later but Mike was almost right away. The whole point is that the band is painting a very colored/one-sided version of the story, making it look as if control freak Lindsey just didn’t want to tour for a year for whatever reason and insisted that the band go along with it and didn’t budge when in reality he was actually trying to make things work but they unfairly shut all his plans down and threw him out anyways.