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Originally posted by tommer
okay. Gift Of Screws is a finished project which warner declines to release for several years now, probably because they don't really like losing money over LB again. if they didn't need him for FM's sake they would have let him 'go his own way' a loooooong time ago. (and no, i don't have a WB exec to testify this in a court of law, these are just circumstantial evidences, but quite solid ones i'd say) recording his music with fleetwood mac is the only option he has to release his music at the moment (oh...truth bitter truth...). indeed so.
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Conjecture, sheer conjecture. The truth is we truly don't know exactly what went on, except for Lindsey admitting that he was considering releasing the material as a Fleetwood Mac album so it would get more exposure. That Out of the Cradle did not sell is a sad reality that I blame on the label. At best, their marketing muscle being the record was half-hearted. Let's see how much more promotion will go on when the new record comes out.
By the way, since the grammar dispute over "did" originally referred to something I wrote, just to clarify: "Did" was the grammatically correct use of the tense in the sentence in question. I am not a native English speaker either, but I make my living off the English language.
Lastly, I agree with David's assessment of Stevie's dedication to Fleetwood Mac after 1981. And I would add that in light of this, her villification of Lindsey Buckingham when he decided to walk out in 1987 was doubly gallling. Not only did he put his own album on hold to reluctantly work with the band and dress up her bottom-of-the-barrel songs, he had way bigger hits on that album than her sad excuse for a song, "Seven Wonders."
Tango was as great as it was because once again, Lindsey Buckingham was fully in control. It was successful in spite of Stevie Nicks.
Peace