Do we really want a new Fleetwood Mac album?

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Exactly...I love Stevie's music dearly, but I want her to be involved in this album - not just mailing demos to be fleshed out while she plays dress up with Sharon and Sulamith, on vacation.

I don't even mind if Stevie brings old lyrics and demos, so long as she is part of the process of building those demos into fully realized songs instead of expecting Lindsey, John, Chris and Mick to do all of the work, only to have her complain later that she was unhappy with the results. She does have hundreds of demos from years past, and there's no denying that many of her unused demos are stellar examples of her best songwriting.

I don't think she's likely to do that if they get to recording right away. In the past, it has happened out of necessity when the band began recording a new album while she was on tour promoting a solo album (Mirage, Tango, and SYW all happened this way). If they put recording on their collective calendars now, they can all be present and involved. And I think Stevie very much wants to be involved in the crafting of her own songs. For me, that was one of the takeaways from the IYD documentary; she has very specific ideas about how her music should sound.