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Originally Posted by David
Haven't many of us loved but not really liked someone?
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Yes, I think of it as knowing you could strangle someone with your bare hands, yet also knowing that you'd be devastated if anything ever happened to them. They have both noted that they were never really friends, even when they were lovers. I think with Fleetwood Mac in general -- not just Lindsey and Stevie -- there's this sense that you don't have much in common, you wouldn't choose these people to hang out with, yet you're connected to them and there's almost a feeling of frustration stemming from that perrenial connection that you never really chose.
It would be easy to say that the music was the only bond, but I think when you take away the music, the tie is still there. It would be more apt to say that the music is the only thing that made them able to fully appreciate the bond. With that gone, they don't really know how to relate.
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Originally Posted by David
Yes, I think she consequently does walk on eggshells around him. The two of them have always struck me as mutually brittle & wary. They're a funny pair -- they seem to be ok snuggling against each other during a soft acoustic song, but the minute they start talking -- about anything -- you can almost see one warily eye the other & that strange wall go up between them. That's what always made me say that, although they may have loved each other back when, they didn't seem to like each other.
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I think she avoids confrontation sometimes and invites it at others. She has discussed how they'd get into a fight at the studio and she'd storm out, think about what she should have said, go home and practice speeches and return the next day to get into it again.
Then, you know around The Dance she would say how no one wanted the whole thing to blow up over a little inconsequential thing. So, I think they were especially ginger in their dealings then. I think it goes back and forth. Sometimes jab, sometimes touch with gossamer wings.
I would say not only with this band, but with couples in general, any couples -- Martin and Lewis, Lucy and Desi, Siskel and Ebert . . . it's fascinating to me when they fight, but it's even more fascinating when they
don't fight. I mean the fights get all the attention, but the way they tolerate each other is overlooked and I think the greatest secret to the relationship is found in the tolerance, rather than the friction. It's the things you give each other permission to do, without objection -- no matter how nutty -- that fascinate me.
I think so many people like the Tusk footage and a lot of that fondness has to do with the way Stevie and Lindsey are
not fighting during
Angel. It's kind of mesmerizing.
Michele