New Mick interview for Rolling Stone

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by DauphineMarie

Yes, thank you... Many seem to forget this fact. For the first time in 40 years Stevie doesn't want to make an album, and she is vilified. Where is the hate for Lindsey and Chris when they refused to tour/left the band altogether?

I know the circumstances are different, but I feel like the hatred is imbalanced.

I don't have any issue with them for leaving because that's what they wanted to do. I would be equally as ok with Stevie doing the same. In fact, Stevie left the band in 1991 as well and that was fine. No one should be in the band if they don't want to be there. Not leaving and forcing them to decide to move on without you or wait for you to get your act together is an entirely different action.

Also Stevie has been against making an album for 13 years and has actively held the band back from doing so multiple times. It was Lindsey's initial desire to do another album following the Say You Will tour, but Stevie was not on board so he went off and did solo albums. They got back together in 2009 and toured with the intention of doing an album but Stevie said no so Lindsey went off and did another solo album. Stevie did as well. They got together again in 2012 with the desire to do an album. They actually recorded several songs without Stevie and were able to get her to agree to sing background vocals on two songs to be included on an EP. The hopes were to use the rest on a future album. They toured on that EP featuring only a 40 year old song from Stevie and zero lead vocals. Then Christine joined and the intention all along was to do an album with her and the first thing that happened was they went in the studio and recorded new songs, without Stevie. Those songs plus the remaining Lindsey songs from 2012 were supposed to form the basis for an album with Stevie that has still yet to materialize due to Stevie's refusal to participate.

[bombaysaffires]

I get that Stevie wants a break after a huge world tour that followed on the heels of a previous huge tour. She's tired, she needs to recharge. I think she has always felt the need to be working, working, working over the course of her career (that said, minus a lot of substance abuse she could have a lot more to show for all that work). She's only in recent years really allowed herself to take vacations-- but even then she goes off on tour with Tom Petty, etc. So I'm conflicted by her conflicting messages... she wants time off, she needs time off, yet she herself is the one who can't sit still (the Petty tour, 24k album, etc) on her time off. It sounded in some interviews like she resented that Lindsey and then Chris got long stretches of time away from working to just "live" their lives or whatever they wanted. I don't begrudge her wanting that same thing. On the other hand, she can't entirely blame FM for not getting that sort of time of, because frankly her competitive, driven personality has been a bigger reason that she never got that kind of time off (except for a spell in the 90s when she was just out of it). You can't have it both ways-- you want two full-on careers, yet complain when you never have time to do whatever it is you want. There's really a stark option for curing that-- give up one or the other. She may want both, but if the demands are killing her, she has to make that tough decision. No one else can make it but her. Demanding that the band put everything on hold for her is unrealistic--- did they just stop altogether when Lindsey left? No, they got new players and kept going. Did they stop altogether when Chris left? No, they reformulated themselves as a foursome and kept going. They shouldn't just stop altogether for her either. That's never been the FM way-- not for Greenie, not for Chris, not for Bob, not for anyone. Yeah, she's a far bigger cash cow than the others (though at the time no one knew if the band could survive without Peter). She needs to stop whining and get some cojones and make a decision. You can't always have your cake and eat it too.

[nicepace]

I am completely, entirely ready for the post-Stevie Fleetwood Mac. With a number of tracks nearly finished, the foursome can put out an album before the end of this year, and then if Stevie makes up her mind they can do another one next year. (I expect an album recorded without Stevie would actually be better, since there would be great enthusiasm behind all the songs.)

This band didn't always make an album at the rate of one per decade. During the Bob Welch years they did five albums in five years. And they were all great albums! Even the 'White Album' and 'Rumours' came out only two years apart.

If they're dinosaurs, it's time to stop behaving like the lumbering Ultrasauros and to decide instead to act like the nimble little Ornithomimids.

[wheart]

Originally Posted by nicepace

I am completely, entirely ready for the post-Stevie Fleetwood Mac. With a number of tracks nearly finished, the foursome can put out an album before the end of this year, and then if Stevie makes up her mind they can do another one next year. (I expect an album recorded without Stevie would actually be better, since there would be great enthusiasm behind all the songs.)

This band didn't always make an album at the rate of one per decade. During the Bob Welch years they did five albums in five years. And they were all great albums! Even the 'White Album' and 'Rumours' came out only two years apart.

If they're dinosaurs, it's time to stop behaving like the lumbering Ultrasauros and to decide instead to act like the nimble little Ornithomimids.

I never thought I'd say but I'm with you. I think I would probably love an album written entirely by Lindsey and Christine. I love both their work, both as members of FM and as solo artists. I think it would be magical. I can get my Stevie fix through her solo work, should she continue to make records that is. The Rumours lineup may be together again but I think the magic or whatever it was that existed between Stevie and the rest of the band has long gone. Yesterday's gone...Yesterday's gone...

[AlexD]

Originally Posted by wheart

I never thought I'd say but I'm with you. I think I would probably love an album written entirely by Lindsey and Christine. I love both their work, both as members of FM and as solo artists. I think it would be magical. I can get my Stevie fix through her solo work, should she continue to make records that is. The Rumours lineup may be together again but I think the magic or whatever it was that existed between Stevie and the rest of the band has long gone. Yesterday's gone...Yesterday's gone...

I agree. I'm kind of sick of Stevie and her sequenced gloves.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by wheart

I never thought I'd say but I'm with you. I think I would probably love an album written entirely by Lindsey and Christine. I love both their work, both as members of FM and as solo artists. I think it would be magical. I can get my Stevie fix through her solo work, should she continue to make records that is. The Rumours lineup may be together again but I think the magic or whatever it was that existed between Stevie and the rest of the band has long gone. Yesterday's gone...Yesterday's gone...

She never meant any harm to you.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I'm kind of against the spread of love. People who want joy should not expect it here.

Michele

God, I love you!

Free thought and opinions allowed here. What a concept!

And I'm totally being serious. Too many sites are run by Stevie NUTS, and people banned for posting anything not worshiping Stevie's anus!

[wheart]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

God, I love you!

Free thought and opinions allowed here. What a concept!

And I'm totally being serious. Too many sites are run by Stevie NUTS, and people banned for posting anything not worshiping Stevie's anus!

Well I for one am a Steve NUT but I want nothing to do with her anus.

[~*BellaDonna*~]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

God, I love you!

Free thought and opinions allowed here. What a concept!

And I'm totally being serious. Too many sites are run by Stevie NUTS, and people banned for posting anything not worshiping Stevie's anus!

I'm not really a Stevie 'nut' anymore, and when I was, I was never that nuts!

[aleuzzi]

Not that it will make a difference, but I wrote a letter to Rolling Stone in response to the Mick interview. (It's the first time I've done something like this.) I complained about the lack of new music, the promise of that music two years ago, the band's desire to go out on extensive oldies tours even without new music, etc. etc.. My hope is they will run the letter. Maybe someone from the band or connected to the band will see it. A long shot, but who knows?

[olive]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Not that it will make a difference, but I wrote a letter to Rolling Stone in response to the Mick interview. (It's the first time I've done something like this.) I complained about the lack of new music, the promise of that music two years ago, the band's desire to go out on extensive oldies tours even without new music, etc. etc.. My hope is they will run the letter. Maybe someone from the band or connected to the band will see it. A long shot, but who knows?

wouldn't be better to repeatedly ( by everyone here who uses facebook ) post it on the band's and their individual facebook page

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by olive

wouldn't be better to repeatedly ( by everyone here who uses facebook ) post it on the band's and their individual facebook page

That's next on my list. They've turned me into a grumpy letter writer.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by wheart

Well I for one am a Steve NUT but I want nothing to do with her anus.

And that's all to the best. Stevie has said that no man -- or woman -- has ever touched her behind.

Michele

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And that's all to the best. Stevie has said that no man -- or woman -- has ever touched her behind.

Michele

ever..... lol

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

And that's all to the best. Stevie has said that no man -- or woman -- has ever touched her behind.

Michele

ah, but she didn't say no straw ever did....

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman..."