Lindsey Boston Globe Interview

[SteveMacD]

That's why I always liked how the McVies handled themselves post-divorce. Once their marriage was over, they were able to have a cordial, friendly, and professional relationship without having to relive the drama night after night. Yeah, we all knew they were divorced, but we could easily see them still hanging out at the bar after the show, as friends would.

[johnnystorms]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

That's why I always liked how the McVies handled themselves post-divorce. Once their marriage was over, they were able to have a cordial, friendly, and professional relationship without having to relive the drama night after night. Yeah, we all knew they were divorced, but we could easily see them still hanging out at the bar after the show, as friends would.

that's why Stevie and Lindsey are the "STARS" . they wear emotions on their sleeves , and people relate to that and LOVE the drama.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

That's why I always liked how the McVies handled themselves post-divorce. Once their marriage was over, they were able to have a cordial, friendly, and professional relationship without having to relive the drama night after night. Yeah, we all knew they were divorced, but we could easily see them still hanging out at the bar after the show, as friends would.

I think the McVies (or John) had a very difficult time after their divorce. They have both spoken of it. Christine has said that for awhile they could not communicate at all and then when they were friendly she was afraid that he'd take advantage of the soft spot she still had for him. She said she didn't want him to know how much she still cared. In fact, Christine even said that Stevie and Lindsey got along better than she and John did, because they still shared their music and could be quite friendly with each other, when working on that.

Even as recently as The Dance, 20 years after the divorce, after John had remarried and raised a child, he was still said to be drinking because of Christine in the Rolling Stone interview. The audience isn't privy to all of that at a concert, but fans can certainly read about their strife.

The difference is, as Lindsey pointed out, John doesn't write songs. John also doesn't sing, so it's not like they have to play out their relationship on stage. It stays behind the scenes, but it's not because they easily became buddies who put the break up behind them. I mean, maybe they have now, but when they were working together, they still had problems. Or one of them had problems.

Michele

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I think the McVies (or John) had a very difficult time after their divorce.

Maybe for the first year or two. However, they clearly got past it. Hell, John came up with the bass line for "Love Will Show Us How" for Christine's solo album, and she wrote "The Challenge" for him (or his boat), so there was clearly an easing of tensions. Also, there were those videos of Chris in her house for the ITM sessions, where there were pics, probably from the "Rumours" photo shoot, of Mick and John on her walls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu39ZX5hHmA

What are the odds that Stevie and Lindsey have pictures of each other on their walls? They've always they kept any issues they may have had between them in the public eye.

As for any issues around "The Dance", I don't recall John ever saying that he was drinking because of Christine (I suspect he fell off the wagon around BTM), only that she told him to "***ban worthy word, which happens around here*** off" before they got to the bar during one stop of the tour.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Maybe for the first year or two. However, they clearly got past it. Hell, John came up with the bass line for "Love Will Show Us How" for Christine's solo album, and she wrote "The Challenge" for him (or his boat), so there was clearly an easing of tensions. Also, there were those videos of Chris in her house for the ITM sessions, where there were pics, probably from the "Rumours" photo shoot, of Mick and John on her walls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu39ZX5hHmA

What are the odds that Stevie and Lindsey have pictures of each other on their walls? They've always they kept any issues they may have had between them in the public eye.

As for any issues around "The Dance", I don't recall John ever saying that he was drinking because of Christine (I suspect he fell off the wagon around BTM), only that she told him to "***ban worthy word, which happens around here*** off" before they got to the bar during one stop of the tour.

Stevie had a blown-up print from the BN photoshoot displayed on her piano. There's a picture from a magazine floating around somewhere.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

As for any issues around "The Dance", I don't recall John ever saying that he was drinking because of Christine (I suspect he fell off the wagon around BTM), only that she told him to "***ban worthy word, which happens around here*** off" before they got to the bar during one stop of the tour.

John didn't say he fell off of the wagon because of Christine. Uncut (not Rolling Stone, as I'd said) said that they he was seen drunk in a bar during the 1997 tour and was mumbling about Christine. Clearly, he still had a flame for her. This prompted Stevie to say that John and Christine would still be together if he could have stopped drinking.

John and Christine's . . . well, John's baggage over losing Christine lasted for at least 20 years after the break up. I gather that Christine didn't have a problem with him and moved on, relatively quickly.

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

What are the odds that Stevie and Lindsey have pictures of each other on their walls? They've always they kept any issues they may have had between them in the public eye.

I don't know if Lindsey hangs any pictures of FM on his walls. But seeing as how he put pictures of the whole band -- and LOTS of Stevie (including a shot where his eyes blended into hers) -- in the SYH video that he made himself (with a handheld camera) for his solo album, I think he doesn't have a particular problem looking at her picture.

Michele

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I don't know if Lindsey hangs any pictures of FM on his walls. But seeing as how he put pictures of the whole band -- and LOTS of Stevie (including a shot where his eyes blended into hers) -- in the SHY video that he made himself (with a handheld camera) for his solo album, I think he doesn't have a particular problem looking at her picture.

Michele

He did have that big framed pic of himself, Mick, & John in his studio at the old house.

[michelej1]

Awww. I was reading the long Rolling Stone article, in thinking of Steve's comments, but then I saw a shorter "catching up" article from 1997 in Rolling Stone and Christine said,

"Just to hear your voice with mine and Stevie's," says Christine McVie to Buckingham. "It just blows me away. I get goose bumps the size of chickens' eggs."

I love that. I know she said it about Lindsey when they did that Disney Coming Home special, but I forgot she said it to him in an interview. Dying here.

Michele