Christine mention in Stevie article

[Gailh]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Sorry, but I've never been under the impression that Christine really wanted to be a part of the SYW process. We've all read and seen the same things over the years. What I came away with is that Christine offered her services to the band, but under a sense of obligation to the band, not a strong desire to work with the band again. I think the only one who might have liked the fact Christine wasn't there was Lindsey, and even then it was more because it let him do things he probably wouldn't have been able to do if she had been there. The others, AT BEST, only appeared to be resigned to the fact she was not there.

Christine has talked A LOT about the pressures that would have been on her had she been a part of that process. The bottom line is that the others went in on SYW under the assumption that they were going to be a working band, which is hard to do if one of the members is semi-retired. It was weird during the "Time" days, and it would have been weird here, too. To put it another way, how is it fair to Mick, John, Lindsey, and Stevie to be giving 100% to the project, but Christine only 50%?

I'm not sure whether Christine wanted to be part of SYW. I'm saying that if she had wanted to it could have been possible to work it out. Lindsey certainly did feel that he had more freedom without her there. Stevie was more than just "resigned" to her not being there, she missed her. That's how this whole thread started because of Stevie's comments about Chris.

If there was another album and if Christine wanted to take part but not tour that wouldn't preclude the others from doing so. They would get bloody well paid for a tour and she wouldn't. That would be fair.

Gail