2016 - what will LB do?

[secret love]

Originally Posted by elle

i actually agree with everything you wrote, and when i was clicking to add my vote for album being wrapped before 2016, i had to work hard against my more cynical (or realistic?) nature. but i am willing it to happen in 2015!

and i agree, that we'd be lucky if he gets any solo work underway by the spring 2016, and FM album etc doesn't spill well into 2016.


agree (again!) with everything you wrote. still choose to be optimistic that other / solo stuff will also happen in 2016. it's a year away!

yeah he's been pushing this new FM album since 2009. in 2010 SN said no, not interested in making new music with FM, and did a solo album. so LB had some unexpected time and filled it with recording SWS. in 2012, SN again said no to FM album, but by the end of the year agreed on issuing some of the new LB songs plus her very, very old song as FM EP. and in 2014, she said no for the third time, once again putting a solo project ahead of FM, even though now Christine was back and very willing to work on new FM album.

it's interesting that SN's output since 2010 does not seem to have any new music written by her (please correct if wrong, i'm obviously not that well versed in her output, this is just what's on wikipedia). so maybe that's main roadblock for her, worry that she will not be able contribute any new music to FM (in DR doc she was very proud of writing bunch of new songs for SYW - is that batch the last new music she wrote that was released?), and she feels she should? and unlike Christine and Lindsey, she's not, for whatever reason, open to collaborating with either one of them and co-writing some new songs as a band.

I'm quite sure that In Your Dreams album contained a stack of new songs, not just old, unreleased demos. Some examples are For What It's Worth, In Your Dreams, Everybody Loves You, You May Be The One, Italian Summer, Cheaper Than Free...which I think were all written in 2010

The lyrics to the song I Don't Care on 24 Karat Gold were, except for the chorus, written this year by Stevie Nicks.

I don't think we can really explain away Stevie's non-participation so far as a classic case of writer's block because she is quite proud of the fact that she writes something new every day of her life - not necessarily complete songs, but poems or general thoughts that later turn into songs.

Given all the hype Lindsey and Christine have created about a new Fleetwood Mac album...all the talk about at least 8 new songs...and given how little work Stevie Nicks would need to contribute to this new studio album, I really do think she will be participating eventually. I also think that she will delay her studio work with Fleetwood Mac as long as is reasonably possible.

If they give her an ultimatum that they will release a new album without her featured on it, if she chooses not to participate...then I'm sure she would get into the studio with them as quick as a flash.