Nicks says she doesn't know whether she'll ever be on board with new FM album

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

No. She can tour with them, and they can do albums without her. The exact opposite option should have been offered to Christine when she left. She even offered to record and was denied. That should have been a lesson to everyone.

Fleetwood Mac already tried that. It was called Time, and it didn't work.

The number of hits aren't important.

To the concert goer paying that kind of money to see a show, they're very important. They want songs people recognize. If Christine and Lindsey dipped into their solo work, they could easily put on a show where Stevie's absence would be minimal.

I don't want to downplay the successes of the other two song writers, but, Stevie's songs and stage persona have been the draw.

No. They've been A draw. If they were THE draw, she'd be able to play these venues on her own. If they were THE draw, ticket sales wouldn't be bigger in 2014 as they were in 2013.

It is absolutely undeniable, written about in nearly every single article about the band ever published, that Stevie is the Ace. She is the magnet that draws the insatiable appetites of fans who want more.

Which is why ticket sales and prices went up when Christine came back, less than a year after their last tour ended.

Christine had more hits? Yes. Stevie has more charisma, and it's that charisma that sells tickets to a Fleetwood Mac show.

So? Lindsey has the most charisma. He's the one rocking the hardest these days.

Go back in time to 1975, take Stevie out of the band,

You mean when Fleetwood Mac finally cracked the top 20 with a Christine McVie song that really could have been on any of the five albums she was a member on prior to 1975?

People change. Situations change. Emotions change. Life changes. And it was Mick and Lindsey who said Christine had to tour or go home - that was not Stevie's decision. Stevie parroted it in interviews at the time. I didn't agree with it then, and I don't agree with it now.

But, she didn't disagree with it. And, she didn't disagree with it in 1987.