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Originally Posted by tynan88
I thought that Stevie was on Murrow and Red Rover
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If she is, she was glopped on in the eleventh hour as a way to Fleetwood Mac-ize two solo tracks -- essentially the same method used on "Steal Your Heart Away" & "Miranda." Mick & John were already part of those tracks from earlier years.
"Murrow," "Red Rover," "Steal Your Heart Away," "Miranda," "Come" & some of the others were definitely finished as far as Lindsey was concerned when they were submitted to his record bosses -- those aren't demos, they're completed tracks. And they were just ported over to the Fleetwood Mac project virtually intact. I think Lindsey himself even admitted as much in some print interview.
I agree with the ledgies who say that "Say You Will" sounds like a couple of different projects. It certainly sounds that way to me: I can hear not just different styles & production approaches, but different eras in it. It's a real mish-mash to my ears. I'd use Noel Coppage's words from his review of "Tusk" to describe "Say You Will": a "fascinating parade of sounds" (although some of it isn't all that fascinating to me, either).
Some fans are saying that they're hoping for a new Fleetwood album because they want to hear the four members build an album from the ground up, together. But where's the guarantee that it would play out
that way? Stevie's gearing up for more solo careering, as apparently is Lindsey. I see the "Say You Will" situation playing out once again in almost exactly the same way if there's going to be another Fleetwood Mac album. Plus, even if Stevie had an entire year or more to devote to a Fleetwood Mac project (like in the old days), I hope nobody honestly believes that woman would hang out with the other guys in a studio for that long, because there's no way in hell she would.
Taking an educated guess here: I bet Stevie hasn't spent three consecutive months with Fleetwood Mac in a studio since the Village Recorder days in 1978. And three months (a time frame I pick at random) is only about 15 percent of the time they take to complete a project.