Christine mention in Stevie article

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

It sounds to me that her not wanting to tour was the deal breaker. I believe they gave her an ultimatum, either all or nothing & she chose nothing. I think if they had offered her a few songs on the album with no touring, she would have said yes, something similar to TITN with Stevie or Time with Chris.

1. I didn't get the vibe that she was at all disappointed with how things worked out. What I got is that she would have liked to work with those people, but not really be in the band. Christine isn't the type to hold back when she's angry. If it had ended badly, she would have said as much.

2. Stevie has never really been a creative force in terms of production with Fleetwood Mac. Basically, she gives her stuff to Lindsey, he does his thing, and she layers her voice. Maybe her being on the road and in rehab weren't ideal, but she would have just been there taking up space. When it came time to work the album, Stevie was there.

3. Look at what happened with Lindsey during TITN. For that matter, read HER comments about the situation during that time. It IS like an army, and she knew the score.

Originally Posted by Aisling

i don't think we would have seen only 50% of chris showing up,

If she wasn't part of the tour, it would have been only 50%, in that she would really only been 1/2 a member of Fleetwood Mac (a part of the recording entitiy, but not the touring entity). It really didn't work during "Time," and I'm not sure it would have worked on SYW, though the album itself would have been better.

Originally Posted by Aisling

RE the idea of lindsey originally wanting her there, no, i don't think that's crazy. all of his talk about masculinity and rocking out and blah blah blah seems excessive (to put it mildly), and it wouldn't be far fetched to speculate that it's just to cover what he felt might be missing with chris absent. i have to believe that with all those two have worked on in the past, if he had really felt repressed by christine's artistic bent, it would have come out much sooner than SYW. all this stuff about being held back and now he can do what he really wants to do? if that's true, why would he have had her work on his solo stuff?

Marketing. But, I've always rolled my eyes with Lindsey's masculinity comments, since he's really one of the most effeminate straight men I've ever seen. His songs might have had a little extra edge, but that doesn't translate into masculinity. Greg Allman...now THERE'S a masculine dude!