Positive about LB ouster from FM?

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by elle

why that didn't happen? Stevie Nicks put her solo career ahead of the band - again.

Look, I really hate that I have to defend Stevie here, but TISL came out in 2001, four years after The Dance. Enchanted was just a box, and the tour was short. They could have easily had an album out by 1999-2000 if they wanted. Lindsey could have easily released it as a solo album in 1998-99. But between fatherhood and feeling out the developments at the label, the album was delayed for reasons that had nothing to do with the band itself.

[elle]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Look, I really hate that I have to defend Stevie here, but TISL came out in 2001, four years after The Dance. Enchanted was just a box, and the tour was short. They could have easily had an album out by 1999-2000 if they wanted. Lindsey could have easily released it as a solo album in 1998-99.

exactly! instead of going to the studio with the mac right after the Dance.

right, her tour was short? unlike LB solo tours which are usually 2 months. but FM could wait then right?

yet now - even if lies Mick and Stevie are spewing were the truth - they don't justify them not waiting for him, considering how many years mac has been waiting for Stevie.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by elle

exactly! instead of going to the studio with the mac right after the Dance.

Was that even on the table? Lindsey was still talking about it as if it was a solo album, he became a father, and they were waiting to see if Christine was really retired. Maybe Stevie waited as long as she could. TISL was her first album of new material since 1994.

right, her tour was short? unlike LB solo tours which are usually 2 months. but FM could wait then right?

Once it was decided GOS would become a Fleetwood Mac album, she got on board.

yet now - even if lies Mick and Stevie are spewing were the truth - they don't justify them not waiting for him, considering how many years mac has been waiting for Stevie.

They have a 75 year old and a cancer survivor in the band. It’s perhaps a little more urgent than even seven years ago?

[elle]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Once it was decided GOS would become a Fleetwood Mac album, she got on board.

that was decided before the dance recording.

you are making up stuff to justify what's not justifiable.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by elle

that was decided before the dance recording.

you are making up stuff to justify what's not justifiable.

No I’m not. It was definitely not decided before The Dance, otherwise Lindsey wouldn’t have referenced his solo album they were working on. And even if it were, Christine’s retirement, which somehow blindsided the others (which also speaks volumes), would have thrown a monkeywrench into that plan.

I think you’re the one making up stuff to feed into your anger.

[elle]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

No I’m not. It was definitely not decided before The Dance, otherwise Lindsey wouldn’t have referenced his solo album they were working on. And even if it were, Christine’s retirement, which somehow blindsided the others (which also speaks volumes), would have thrown a monkeywrench into that plan.

I think you’re the one making up stuff to feed into your anger.

you are funny.

watch Lindsey's behind the music. his producer / WB head at the time says it there - how they decided to do the dance and turn his solo album into FM album because he was inactive for a long time as a solo artist. Dance and SYW were supposed to happen almost simultaneously.

any anger (it was really sadness and the strong sense of justice, right and wrong, not anger) has completely dissipated tonight. he is one amazing man.