If the band was a democracy, as Stevie always said it was, the other four should have taken the initiative as a “voting” bloc and told Stevie to limit the anecdotal break to a few minutes in order to keep the momentum going. A concert needs pacing (that quality missing from the 1980 live album). That way, Lindsey wouldn’t have to bear the brunt of Stevie’s selfish airhead wrath. A band always has work to do that isn’t directly related to music, and Mac used to be so good at that in the Seventies but really got terrible at it. It caused a lot of problems over the years. You need a united front to solve the little problems, or they’ll fester.
Had the no-nonsense John Courage managed the OWTS tour, Stevie’s anecdotage would have been immediately dealt with. Her overlong stories would have been “tale-docked.”
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