Stevie & Lindsey Intimacy

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

1992
"And there are times I wonder what would have happened if, say Stevie and I had continued on whatever path we were on, with that little cult thing going on down South."

Yes, I think he wonders more about Alabama than he does about him and Stevie, because he knows that he and Stevie had problems. He thinks they might have worked them out, but she says that being in FM probably made them last longer than they otherwise would have and I think he probably realizes that too.

She says he wouldn't have been so torn up about their break up if they hadn't been in the same band and she may know from experience. When she left him to move back up North and fell in love with someone, she doesn't say he was breaking her neck trying to get her back. Instead, I gather he was in Southern California, smoking and continuing to make music with Richard and figured Stevie would come back when she came back, wagging her tail behind her.

The fact that he knew she was tired of working as a waitress and cleaning lady, but he still wouldn't agree to play steak houses tells me that he wasn't really that interested in doing just anything to keep her. If they worked steakhouses, at least their careers would have bound him to her and kept her at his side for the money, despite domestic conflicts, but he didn't want it that way.

He was concerned with some sort of musical integrity without compromises even then. So, I think the idea of being in BN and making their own musical choices really appeals to him. On the other hand, I can't think of a lot of examples of duos that made it (of course there are Dave and Annie) and I think part of him wanted to "make it." I think he likes that he got to do Tusk. He likes that he got to spend 13 months and all of that money on Tusk. Even if he doesn't say he loved having money, the money that the first two albums brought him, I think he would admit loving to have the power that FM had to make Tusk come true.

Today, with digital technology, it would not cost that much money to make Tusk, but back then it was a triumph and I think he was happy to be in a position to make that triumph happen, even if it means being saddled with "the big machine."

So, I do imagine he wants to know how far BN would have gone, but unless they went nowhere and they gave up music and returned to northern California, I don't think he believes BN would have led to a future with Stevie. If they gave up music and started a family, yes, but if they continued on the BN path, they probably wouldn't have had the longevity as a pair of some kind that they have had in FM.

Stevie wrote Kind of Woman about his temptations on the road, but men would have hit on her too, the more they performed and I think monogamy would have always been a struggle.

Yes, everyone gets tamed and I think the life that Lindsey is living now is proof of that, as are the compromises that he makes musically which don't happen as grudgingly as they once did.

Michele