Dave Stewart Producing Fleetwood Mac EP...

[WildHearted]

I, for one, would rather Stevie write sans-Dave for an FM album. I think even moreso than Stevie and Lindsey's styles would be different or clashing, is that the Dave/Stevie combo would be stylistically very seperated from Lindsey's.. because Stevie's stuff on her own will end up being fixed up by Lindsey anyway, but if she writes with Dave I don't see that being the case.

I actually don't think SWS (At least the live versions) and Stevie's IYD stuff are that far away from each other on the spectrum... they certainly seem to be on similar pages more than their previous solo stuff has. Hopefully that will crossover to a mac album and we can get a nice cohesive sound.

[Peestie]

Douglas Dean
@Hirsute_Pursuit
@DaveStewart what's this about u producing an EP 4 Fleetwood Mac??? When? Do u have time in ur busy schedule? How many hrsaday do u sleep?


DaveStewart
@Hirsute_Pursuit I've no idea if I am

Looks like it might have been a bit premature? Could this be a Sheryl Crow situation all over again?

[jellyman10]

Who do you think would win a fight between Dave and Lindsey?

[Peestie]

Originally Posted by jellyman10

Who do you think would win a fight between Dave and Lindsey?

Dave. Lindsey just doesn't look like the kind of person who'd know what to do in a fight at all. Out of the five Rumours Macsters I'd say Lindsey is the least likely to win any fight.

[jellyman10]

^^^ Yeh. Gotta say, Dave looks like he could fell a buffalo with a single fart.

[MacShadowsBall]

Well there's talk of a radio interview on the nickslive blog linked on the original post about this whole thing, so who knows?

[elle]

Originally Posted by Peestie

Looks like it might have been a bit premature? Could this be a Sheryl Crow situation all over again?

i hope not but it almost sounds like it... i actually think it would be great if they test the waters w/ EP. at this point it doesn't sound like there's a choice between EP and LP, since the talk about new FM CD gradually changed into talk of just another FM tour in 2012. so i think the choice is probably more like EP/tour or just tour. in that case i'd love to get EP before a tour.

and Peestie - you know i'm with you on lindsey just doing his thing instead of FM, but he does seem to want to do another FM record, and will be probably touring w/ FM once his solo tour is finished anyway so we might as well get something out of it!

re dave stewart co-writing songs with lindsey - i don't see that working out, at least not to my taste. lindsey doesn't need any help, he's doing great on his own these days! but dave can co-write songs w/ stevie all he wants as far as i'm concerned (as i said before, i can listen to stevie's IYD songs, unlike her SYW songs, and more than half od IYD was co-written by dave so i have to give him credit for that). and then lindsey and dave can mash it all together and co-produce the whole thing.

[MacMan]

I think it will happen... Whether it's a full on album or not or an EP... But I think something with Dave Stewart will happen...

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

I, for one, would rather Stevie write sans-Dave for an FM album. I think even moreso than Stevie and Lindsey's styles would be different or clashing, is that the Dave/Stevie combo would be stylistically very seperated from Lindsey's.. because Stevie's stuff on her own will end up being fixed up by Lindsey anyway, but if she writes with Dave I don't see that being the case.

I actually don't think SWS (At least the live versions) and Stevie's IYD stuff are that far away from each other on the spectrum... they certainly seem to be on similar pages more than their previous solo stuff has. Hopefully that will crossover to a mac album and we can get a nice cohesive sound.

I agree with everything you said.

IAWEYS

In other news, I predict it will be EP-Tour-Maybe album? Bands such as Roxy Music have even said they may not do another album again, but a single or EP is not unrealistic. I just wish someone could explain the whole EP thing. Example: There's a singer I really like who released a four track ep in december. a 6 track ep in like may. and like two singles in between. um... why didn't she just release a 12 track album in may? Like: what is the business reasons for such a thing (actually i think she used money from the first ep to pay for the second one).

In MY opinion, EPs are best released as a theme work (e.g., Crackers International was Christmasy, ABBA-esque was abba covers, Mini was all car-themed songs, etc). Wonder what theme the Mac would devise?