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Originally Posted by PenguinHead
The only instance of Christine recording songs for a Fleetwood Mac album but not touring was with the Time album. {snip}She contributed those songs, presumably, to help make the album more appealing. Most of them included session players. {snip}
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Actually, the album was done while the band was in mid-tour, even submitted to the record company with the title
Another Link In The Chain. The powers that be insisted (some say they were contractually bound) that Christine be on the album, so they went back and got her to add her songs. the album eventually retitled
Time wasn't even released until the tour was well over. And, "the session players" on Christine's songs was only session guitarist-extrordinaire Michael Thompson. Mick, John, Billy and even Bekka participated in her songs, as well. Chris just didn't want Dave Mason near her songs, apparently (there was mucho bad blood between Chris & Dave from way back in the 60s). And, she appears sparingly, if at all, on the other tunes (which mostly were recorded before she became involved in the project); touring keyboardist Steve Thoma did the keyboard parts on a majority of the non-Christine songs.
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Originally Posted by LukeA
re: Chris quitting the band after the tour... I still blame the idiocy of the handful of concert promoters on the Fall '97 tour who booked outdoor amphitheaters for shows on dates where the average nightly temperature is in the low 40's. I'm positive it contributed heavily to her attitude towards touring that it became the last straw (even though the Spring '98 leg would have been all arenas).
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Well, yeah, I can see your point, Luke. Those were really idiotic venues to book at that time of year (I'm surprised many of them were even OPEN for biz during those months!). You've got to remember that Christine has NEVER liked touring to begin with (her 1972 song "Homeward Bound", as a big example...plus her reluctance to join the band in 1970 to begin with, she was pretty much strong-armed into that, as well. And, even as far back as 1969, when she quit the music biz completely, mainly because of the travel). Plus, Christine only committed to the first 40 dates of
The Dance tour. When they tried to extend the tour, she flatly said "no".
PEOPLE, PEOPLE, Christine has been out of the band for over 11 years! She's gone, she's not coming back. Get over it.