Lindsey leaving

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All accounts say Lindsey flipped his lid at that meeting and "went for her" as if he were mad. But context is everything. Here's a guy who wrote half of the new album, produced and arranged it, fit three of Stevie's songs in at the last minute, and then is being told, by Stevie that he's welching on his commitment to the band, that he cares for no one but himself: I can see why he might have snapped.

Under much less intense circumstances, Bob Welch left the band feeling similarly drained and frustrated, as if his commitment to FM was keeping him from creating the music he really wanted to make. Peter Green left too, because he was beginning to feel trapped (the drugs couldn't have helped)...

Lindsey' meltdown at Christine's house has to be understood in this context. I'm sure he's no picnic to work with, but he also gave A LOT to a band of people who, to him, must have seemed, at the end of his first tenure, grasping, greedy, and mercenary.