Stevie Nicks Says Issues With Lindsey Buckingham Threaten Her Involvement With FM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

She wasn't even working on SA yet in January 1993.

Later she commented: At the inauguration, I just realized I wanted it to be back the way it was, or I didn't want to be in it anymore. I couldn't continue to be in a Fleetwood Mac that didn't have Lindsey in it.

When Stevie says today that, but for the Klonopin, there might have been one more good FM album, I think she is saying that if she had been healthier there probably would have been an earlier band reunion than the one that emerged in 1997.


Michele

I believe she had started the process. I mean seemingly she did not hire poducer(s), rent the studio, produce that record, go to rehab for like 47 days, then spend a couple of months trying to redo SA, and then release it for packaging, etc. - all in a year. Who knows though - maybe she did. But, seemingly SA must have been at least in her mind and in its infancy in late Jan. 1993 That is why I think the earliest a FM reunion could have occured was at the beginning of 1995 assuming she was contractually bound to see SA to its fruition. I am not saying it would not have accurred then, but it did not. Rather, the rest of the band around that time (1995 or so) was working with LB in some capacity on GOS and then LB worked with La Nicks on Twisted around then as well.

Here is a quote illustrating generally the timing - the inital record was finished by November 03 - surely she must have been working on it in Jan. 03 - but maybe not though she says it was "in the last two years of the Klonopin --

TONY: What was blocking you?

Stevie: Well, I know what was blocking me. First of all, in the beginning of 1994, I went into rehab to stop taking Klonopin, which I'd been taking for almost eight years. Street Angel was done in the last two years of the Klonopin, when it had really kicked in to the point that it took away my soul and creativity. The record was finished in November; I went into rehab on the 12th of December and got out on the 27th of January. So I listened to the record--I'm off all the drugs--and I knew it was terrible. It had cost a fortune. I tried really hard to fix it, but I couldn't. So I had to go and do interviews for it, just like I'm doing right now, and it was everything I could do not to say to the interviewers, "I hate this record." When I had dinner with Tom, I was having a hard time getting over the Street Angel experience. I was just really sad. That dinner made all the difference. I give Tom all the credit in the world for this record.

http://www.nicksfix.com/interview_ti...ny_apr2001.htm