Brett Tuggle Dishes the details to Rolling Stone

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Originally Posted by SteveMacD

He said it in an interview after the tour, IIRC.

Honestly, though, I don’t think anything would have changed either way. Fleetwood Mac wouldn’t have brought back Lindsey if Mike passed on them, they would have just found someone else. Fleetwood Mac needed a guitarist, there was no chance they were asking Lindsey back, and Mike didn’t have anything significant on the horizon. Why wouldn’t he take the gig?

hard to tell. there were some theories at the time that they knew / made sure Mike was on board before they ousted Lindsey.

also, there were many theories at the time that they hoped Mike would be able to actually replace Lindsey. then they figured out he cannot and they have to find a guy who can sing Lindsey's FM songs too.

which is weird in itself, if they were going for a full-on coup, they should have just not cover Lindsey's songs, like they only covered Don't Stop of Christine's which was easy since Lindsey was sharing lead with Christine there anyway. i guess it was azoff-style coup.