What if Stevie had left in 1980?

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Uhmm, I realize it's more complex than this and that they all love each other and so on but - - - how's this for an answer? Just for "food for thought."

- - - She did.

1982: Mirage. Songs:

"That's Alright." - I've never heard of it, and I'm a "long-term fan."

"Gypsy." Brilliant, I agree. Maybe even Stevie's best. But Lindsey wrote the guitar solo and produced/arranged most of this, and Stevie really wrote it as more of a solo song to honor Robin anyway, not for Fleetwood Mac.

"Straight Back" - not exactly memorable..

Five year delay. Lindsey has left the band. Stevie's "not too sorry to see him go," to use Mick Fleetwood's phraseology.

"Tango in the Night."

Stevie has three songs, only one of which was a hit, and that was "co-written" with Sandy Stewart.

Three year delay.

1990: "Behind the Mask." Four songs, none of which are hits.

For all intents and purposes, the band breaks up. SEVEN year delay.
"Five camera reunion, onstage" - for all the world to see - as that Producer
mentions in "Destiny Rules" - because he knew that Lindsey's solo album
was going to bomb unless he had the rest of Fleetwood Mac to back him up.

1997: "The Dance." One new song, never heard from again.

SIX year delay.

2003: "Say You Will."

FOUR new songs (count carefully.) Cuts back tour drastically after horrible fight with Lindsey over the running order.

So the running total since 1980, of good, quality songs, of the calibre she's capable of - in the last TWENTY FIVE YEARS - has been five. FIVE.
Anyway, it's one way to look about it. I'm not saying that they don't all care
VERY deeply for one another and make great music together, still, but they really have more of a "loose association" now, and have kinda struck out on their own. "Sometimes, to be near you, is to be, unable, to FEEL you (my love...)"

Gypsy was written before Robin even got sick and it is about STEVIE..

And Stevie did not cut the tour back over the running order...she did 135 dates. That DR doc is edited to Kingdom come to present a certain image of this band.

The Dance? Lindsey didn't even want to DO the Dance.... "you said you wouldnt do this for very long, the applause from it all was so defining"...