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Originally Posted by danax6
Not for anyone in particular, I think he was there for himself. Yes, to maybe make amends.
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Yes, I don't think he was there for any one person. I think he was there for the band as a whole. I imagine they reached out to him over Greg and he reached back.
Strandinthewind, if he had wanted to come back in 1990 they would have taken him back. When Stevie said that they were all hoping and praying he would return, I think she spoke the truth. If he had wanted to rejoin the band for 1991 to springboard preparations for OOTC, they would have let him do just that in a heartbeat - or heartbreak. So, whatever he was hoping for for his dormant career, he chose not to use FM to revitalize it, when he easily could have.
David, from what I've seen of the first night, Stevie was trying with Lindsey. She tried to walk with him during GYOW, but then his microphone got stuck. Then, she tried to hug him at the end and while he let Christine fondle him to her heart's content, he pretty much stilled Stevie's hands, with his own and cut that embrace short. I think they both thought they had gotten the cold shoulder from the other. I thought the songs with Billy and Rick though went kind of nicely.
Landslide, "need I say more," awkward, but so powerful.
The next night, Stevie said that touching thing during Landslide, but then she proceeded to ruin
GYOW by distracting the audience during the song, cuddling children and creating a spectacle. It was one of those upstage tactics that worked fine when they were in the band together (because Lindsey did it to her too), but was a knife in the back when he was there as a "guest." However, if she hadn't perceived him as cold to her the night before, she might not have done it. Also, the speech Stevie did for Greenpeace (or whatever) did not make things any less artificial up there.
First night the thing where Lindsey thinks John doesn't want to shake his hand and then John reaches out, boy, goose bumps.
Overall, those BTM nights, seeing one on tape and one in person, I felt all kinds of tension and . . . I was never thinking that the band had lost whatever kind of magic and chemistry they had once had and that they no longer belonged together. I was thinking that the reasons Lindsey left in the first place still remained and that fate was doing a disservice to me (most especially), the world (coincidentally) and the band by allowing the obstacles that keeping these five people apart from persisting. I didn't know that Stevie was on Klonopin. I probably thought it was still cocaine. But, whatever, I knew that she was high and I felt that if she could be more "normal" that things would be different. I thought that I was witnessing a chance at reconnection and seeing them miss that train, right before my eyes. It's like being there when they reached in a fork in the road and went down the wrong path.
Mick and Lindsey? Well, Mick is the person who would spend all night in the studio with Lindsey, concocting inspired drum licks that they would never be able to recreate, exploring African beats and experimenting. I think they have an affinity towards each other that transcends all the soap opera activities, which is why Mick is the one person Lindsey never stays mad at.
And yes, I think Lindsey has got to appreciate Mick's ability to think outside of the box. . In fact, it's because he knows Mick can that he feels most betrayed by him (more than the other band members) when Mick can't and won't and chooses the commercial route instead. He thinks that Mick has led him on. Lindsey likes knowing that Mick can pull a marching band idea for
Tusk out of thin air. He admires that. He probably even gives him a nod for Mrs. Scarrot's thoughts.
Michele