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Originally Posted by tommer
sometimes, when i do manage to put sentimentality aside, i think that chris did the band a favour when she left, leaving them to find back their edge.
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"Say You Will" is a lot edgier than "Tango in the Night" or "Mirage," but that isn't because Christine left. She didn't have that much influence over the band's direction, quite frankly, & she certainly never shanghaied the shows. If earlier albums with the five of them aren't edgy enough, I think it's unfair to blame Chris. Blame them all. "The Dance" was presented & packaged by ALL of them & ALL their managers & producers as a very stately, precisely performed & essentially immaculate affair.
Besides, quite a bunch of the songs on "The Dance" are also on "Live in Boston" -- so it's a good bet that the "Live in Boston" participants, being on the second go-round, as it were, were just a little more fired up themselves & in the mood to stretch a little (the way that song arrangements evolved & performances got more brazen from the Rumours tour to the Tusk tour).
"Boston" is a different agenda from that of "The Dance." If Christine had been along on the tour the last two years, Lindsey & Stevie would have still performed just the way they did perform.