Fleetwood Mac Billboard Article 5/7/2014

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Originally Posted by brickney723

I have always wondered about this. At the beginning of the Say You Will tour there are several quotes he made about being about keeping the FM thing going- no talk of solo work. Then at the end of that tour he talked about having to put up a fence for 3 years so he could focus on his solo work. I've always wondered what the massive turnabout in the interim was about. Maybe it really wasn't his choice. Who knows.

you know i was thinking about that too, considering his apparent tour-album-tour current plans for FM.

he laid out somewhat similar long-term plan in DR doc, during SYW recording. he wanted to put out an FM album, then tour it, then put out another album, and tour that one. he was talking about 4-5 year FM run.

i guess at the time, once he started he was planning on folding all his GOS songs into FM (some of them are still waiting to be released!). maybe some of the band members nixed that plan, and that's why he reverted to one album (but double) and a tour. and they essentially did put out [almost] a double album. then during that tour he started recording new solo material, and considering others were not on board with his album-tour-album-tour 4-year plan anyway, maybe he just basically asked them not to change their mind again, considering he was now working on a solo material that he actually planned to release as a solo material.