Stevie Nicks Says Issues With Lindsey Buckingham Threaten Her Involvement With FM

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I think there is a lot to be said about the passage of time and its ability to focus our lens on the past in sharper detail.

I think more often the passage of time allows you to magnify either the good or the bad, depending on your current perspective and it's easy to do that once 4 years have passed, because memory and fact have conveniently blurred and fewer people are paying attention when you alter them.

The evidence establishes that Stevie and Lindsey did fight during the SYW process, because she made that perfectly clear at the time. She also said that she didn't sit there and take it. She stood her ground then. So, why is she playing the victim now? She said she went up to Lindsey and told him that he had gone in and out of her life and she had learned to do a lot of things on her own since then and she didn't need him to make her music come true any longer. And this was, in fact, the case, as she did produce Bombay Sapphires. So, there's no reason to think she had no say when he allegedly ruined her songs on SYW.

If she stuck up for herself when he wanted to change a pronoun in Thrown Down and told him no way, why would she sit quietly when he butchered an entire song (and not just a sentence in one), if she actually hated it?

In that promo when she practically has him up against the wall yelling at him, "I knew you wouldn't like it. I knew you wouldn't like it because I wrote it!" You can tell she has no trouble giving him a piece of her mind. It's just impossible for me to accept this mousy picture of herself she's painting today, based on what I saw then.

As far as putting a nice face on during the SYW tour goes. Speaking the usual platitudes and non-committal pleasantries would have been putting on a nice face. But going out of your way to praise the relationship at great length seems to be just a little proactive for it all to be a facade. Plus, even before SYW she was saying as they went into the project, "He is a much softer, sweeter man and I love that, because I knew that softer man a long time ago. So I'm seeing my old friend back again." So, it's not as if she just spun that story once she knew they would be stuck on a long tour. She said it before SYW and was still saying it in 2004.

I think like every relationship, theirs has its normal ups and downs, which are only exaggerated when you place them under a media telescope. It's at a down point right now, but not because she's been oppressed. Yet that's how she wants to present it to the public. It's not unlike the way her songs reverse things and make it seem like Lindsey left her in the relationship. She's always the put upon one in lyrics and interviews. It seems to be more of an image she has of herself than a reality.

You could say that St. Lindsey has an image of himself as a tortured artist who eschews commercial success. I'd agree that he does have somewhat of a complex, especially because I can't get him even to stop saying that FM wanted him to use a guitar pick. However, the rest of the band actually corroborates that view of Lindsey in the comments they make. I remember Stevie saying that after all of that time being around Lindsey, she didn't even want anyone to talk to her about a radio "single," because he had hammered that concept out of her head. She said this while promoting a solo album, not FM. So, it's just the impression she and Mick both have of him as aspiring to something beyond the Top 40. Conversely, I don't think anyone in the band has the same "poor little flower" impression of Stevie that she has of herself.

Anyway, talking about SYW, she said it's Lindsey's job to push the envelope and her job to make sure they aren't too out there. She made it seem like Yin and Yang, a balancing act, a push and pull of power between them, not him crushing or conquering her. And if she is as the drawing card in the band? How could it be any different?

How could he crush, conquer or bully her, if she holds all the cards? If there is no FM without her, he can't make her do anything she doesn't want to do. That was true in 2003 and 2004, just like it is today. So, I'm not sure how this victim routine can be credited. She's the most famous one. She's the most talented one. The rest of the band is entirely dependent upon her, but Lindsey pushes her around like a rag doll and she lets him because she is so selfless? Oh, Lindsey's not the one up for martydom here.

Michele