The Ballad of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Stevie [Nicks] wasn’t playing with them at the time, so I said, ‘Why don’t you just join our band and get the heat off of me?’ I never wanted to be the front guy – I got that job and I’ve been stuck with it ever since.”[/I]

I don't find any sense in this. Tom asked Lindsey to join the Heartbreakers because he didn't want to be the front guy of a band called Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers? Would they change the band's name? Did this happen when Fleetwood Mac was already famous and Tom thought Lindsey would leave that band? Or was it in 1996 when Lindsey collaborated on Heartbreakers' song "Walls", but also when the seed of The Dance was beginning to germinate?

Or did he just asked Lindsey for one night session, for a jam or something like that?