[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by michelej1

. . . There are a few reasons for that. Certainly after Out of the Cradle there were a number of times where there was an intention to put out a solo work. One of those was in ’97 when I basically had some material. It wasn’t finished, but it was in a maybe a half-finished state and I was working on it.

Then the band came in and said, “Well, we want to do a live show and tour around a live CD,” which was The Dance, the Fleetwood Mac live CD. So that stuff got shelved in ’97, and the touring and everything that followed took us into close to 2000. Then I picked it up again and I worked on it in my slow methodical way.

By the time I was pretty much finished with that, there was suddenly another call from the band saying, “We want to do a Fleetwood Mac studio album.” Those two are not the only times, but those are probably the most prime examples of what might be called interventions on solo work. The body of my material got folded over into the 2002 album that Fleetwood Mac did, Say You Will.

Cut to a little while later…I said to the band, “Look, I want to take about a three year period and I don’t want anyone knocking on my door. My intention is to try to get two albums out in a relatively short period of time for me, and to tour behind both of those albums. When I’m done we can talk about Fleetwood Mac again.”

It was the boundary I put around that period of time. In that time, I was able to get out Under the Skin and Gift of Screws. I am about two weeks away from beginning a tour for Gift of Screws.

There is one other reason is that in the last ten years I’ve gotten married for the first time, and I have three children. It just provides a whole other sense of stability and sense of self, that maybe I had been lacking before. I think that’s reflected in not only the work itself, but maybe in the clarity to follow through on getting it done.

No mention of the Warner's issue in 2000. Interesting.

Originally Posted by michelej1

Question: Could you address the rumor about Sheryl Crow. Was she seriously considered to be a member of the group?

Lindsey: I can give you a capsule version of what happened, at least from my perspective. When Fleetwood Mac was out touring behind Say You Will in 2003, Christine McVie had already taken leave of the band. She’s kind of burned all her bridges and moved back to England.

Lord Child - the CM'ers are gonna lambbaste him for saying this again

Originally Posted by michelej1

On that tour in 2003, we pretty much divided the material right down the middle. I had half of the material to work with for myself. I had a great time because it gave me that much more room to be a “guy” on stage and to present that kind of energy. Stevie probably was not as comfortable with that divide, as she was with having a female counterpart to temper that energy.

So, not just La Nicks saw/agrees with the male - female thing going on.

Originally Posted by michelej1

. . . She had made a choice to announce something which had not been even decided, which was in itself inappropriate.

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by michelej1

I think that what happened out of that particular episode has all been good. Stevie and I have been talking a lot and have been having some really wonderful conversations about how to approach next year, and how to do it in a manner in which everybody’s mantra is about acknowledging the love that we have for each other and the road we’ve been down, and to try to keep any individual agendas to a minimum and get out there and rock and have a good time.

Cool!