I'd be more interested in a "What If?" thread on the post-Rumours board along the lines of:
What if in 1991, the band had decided to record a follow-up album to "Behind the Mask" instead of putting out a boxed set.
"Love Shines" and "Paper Doll" surely would have made it onto that one - and Rick Vito probably wouldn't have left had he been allowed to contribute several new songs to the album.
Things might have been different with Stevie because of her prescription drug problem.
And we'll never know if the label would have liked the new band to put out another new album instead of "milking Rumours one more time" with the boxed set. Considering the fact that Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker left Warners some time around 1992, it probably would not have mattered much.
Did John's Lola Thomas album begin to take shape before or after Rick Vito had left the band?
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