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Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus
They did object. but obviously they didn't object enough to leave the tour or do something that would make stevie leave, either, because again, why shoot themselves in the foot for a problem someone else was causing? and I bet if they HAD caused stevie to leave, they'd be blamed for that, too. They were not in a good position. it must have been irritating to know the princess held all the power.
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That's what I never understood. Why J&C would put themselves through a tour rife with that level of irritation. (I recall how John stonily pulls his hand away from Stevie's in that TV interview, and Chris is clearly clearly mortified while trying not to contradict Stevie and Mick's cockamamie confabulations.) But now I think I understand how the level of irriration they had to deal with over the decades with the S&L dynamic must have been even worse than this by comparison. As inexplicable and disappointing as Lindsey's ouster was to the fans, J&C might have seen the upside in a bad situation -- a less angsty time on the road for one of their final tours.
Obviously there were other considerations as to why J&C were complicit -- legal/scheduling reasons, John's loyalty to Mick, Chris' increased frailty and apparent reduced bargaining position -- but the personal element had always seemed incomprehensible to me.