SN: The Dogs Are Out (NY Daily News)

[GoS]

Originally Posted by michelej1

"When we got off the road in 2004, I told everyone, 'Just don't knock on my door for three years,'" says Buckingham, whose desire to work on a solo album intensified after songs from an earlier solo project got rolled into the last Fleetwood Mac album, "Say You Will." "I get most of the sense of growth and aspiring to be an artist, keeping the sense of religion about the work, from my solo work."

The rest of Fleetwood Mac was supportive of Buckingham's work, which became last year's "Gift of Screws." Nicks remembers the meeting clearly: "He was like, 'The years are ticking by here, and I need to work on my solo work - you, Stevie, have been working on your solo work since 1981. I need a couple years and I'm gonna do a couple of CDs and I'm going to tour behind them and then I'd be ready to do another Fleetwood Mac tour.' And we were all like, 'OK, cool.'

Two things. One, I guess that conversation actually happened. I thought that was just Lindsey making things up, stretching the truth, telling a tall tale. But I guess that wasn't figurative and actually happened.

Two, I love how they talk about Say You Will and Gift of Screws as if they're different, or at least, the solo albums side of it. (For me, there are three Gift of screws. GoS I [Demos] GoS II [SYW] & GoS III [The Released version]).