Why Hasn't Stevie Been Asked About The New FM Record?

[ragrsrocalot]

Originally Posted by elle

i think the only timeline for FM album we know was given in 2 interviews - Billboard interview, and then the very next day we got that audio from lindsey.

Billboard:

• Christine said the plan is for the new album to come out in 2015
• Lindsey said - yeah, unless there's tons of clamor, then we might revisit that by the time rehearsals start and the album may come out sooner.

day later:

• the audio showed up in which Lindsey seemingly completely reversed what he said to Billboard, and stated that they never ever had any plans for the album to come out before the tour.

questions that remain:

• would a date like october 2014 be before or during the tour? how about march 2015? is that during the current tour?
• what do they consider to be a current tour? just dates released so far, or they also have 2015 dates that are still considered *this* tour?

i think it's clear that according to the newest info we have from lindsey, there will be a 2014 tour, then they are supposed to get stevie in the studio (when? jan/feb 2015?), finish the album, and get it out when? summer 2015? while on the 2nd leg of the current tour? after the 2nd leg of the current tour but before another tour in 2015/2016?

lots of unclear stuff.

the only thing that is clear is that in the course of the 2 days lindsey said 2 completely different things. so something happened in between the billboard and that radio interview? clamoring / billboard interview worked to get SN on board and promise some firm dates? anybody's guess. and i have no doubt people will keep guessing.

Thanks for the breakdown, I appreciate it.
Total agreement

[secondhandchain]

Let's face it, they are all getting older and would love to get that album out sooner then later....only one thing is stopping them.

[BlueLight]

A few more notes of clarification:

Rolling Stone reported back in March (well before the Billboard article), that "[t]he group spent time in mid-March working on new songs, though they don't plan on releasing anything until after the world tour."

So I don't think the band ever had any plans to release something before the tour.

And at around the same time, USA Today reported:

"The timetable for new singles and an album depends in part on when Stevie Nicks rejoins her bandmates in the studio, Buckingham says.

"Stevie's been not sure how she wants to approach recording or when," he says. "Mick, John and I have cut great stuff with (producer) Mitchell Froom and now I'm producing Christine's stuff."

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As far as I'm aware, no one has ever stated that Stevie was reluctant or holding out; only that she was trying to figure out how to approach recording and when. Which seems entirely consistent with her plan to knock out her solo album first.