Rumours of Lindsey leaving the band? - Page 32

David · #**466** 04-09-2018, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jools

Whilst i may not agree with this, bands do change

Yeah, but this guy was fired twice.

Nobody else in Fleetwood Mac has been fired twice. In fact, has anybody else in any major band been fired twice?

MikeVielhaber · #**467** 04-09-2018, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Yeah, but this guy was fired twice.

Nobody else in Fleetwood Mac has been fired twice. In fact, has anybody else in any major band been fired twice?

Well, he left the first time.

David · #**468** 04-09-2018, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

Well, he left the first time.

I don't think so. I think he was fired. He didn't want to tour at that time (after waffling). The band tossed him out, and went out to tour.

brad975 · #**469** 04-09-2018, 05:49 PM

They should pack it in. I can't imagine the tickets will sell anywhere close to the same levels as before. When LB left in 1987, at least Stevie was still near the peak of her fame and they had a hit album to promote when they hit the road. I had to give away my ticket for that tour because I discovered my SAT was first thing the next morning. But I still bought one.

But what's the draw now? It seems like they've really milked the market with two back-to-back tours from 2013 to 2015 and then Stevie solo from 2016 to 2017. The Christine-is-back factor is no longer fresh.

Unless they are completely contractually bound to go through with this, it just seems kind of pointless. What's the real future with this lineup? I'm sure Crowded House has lots of nice material and is better known overseas, but for most of us in the U.S. that can even remember, it was essentially a two-hit wonder in '86-'87.

I think they should just stay home and send out holograms of themselves from 1977. Sheryl Crow can open.

FuzzyPlum · #**470** 04-09-2018, 05:51 PM

Lindsey: I want to push the start of the tour back a bit so I've got time to promote my solo album.
Mick: No, you cant do that. We gotta tour.
Lindsey: But we waited and waited for Stevie to make an album when we were ready to go and do Fleetwood Mac stuff.
Mick: No, you cant. We gotta tour.
Lindsey: But we waited for Stevie when she went on tour.
Mick: We gotta tour.
Lindsey: But we waited on Stevie when she kept extending her tour.
Stevie: I can't stand him. Mick, its either Lindsey or me. You choose.
Mick: Lindsey, your fired.

NotonRodeo · #**471** 04-09-2018, 05:51 PM

If I remember Mick's book in the late 80's correctly, he made it explicitly clear that Lindsey was fired, because Lindsey seemed to want to give the impression he left on his own accord, so Mick contradicted him. I may be wrong, but that's the impression I have had all these years.

Macfan4life · #**472** 04-09-2018, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Lindsey: I want to push the start of the tour back a bit so I've got time to promote my solo album.
Mick: No, you cant do that. We gotta tour.
Lindsey: But we waited and waited for Stevie to make an album when we were ready to go and do Fleetwood Mac stuff.
Mick: No, you cant. We gotta tour.
Lindsey: But we waited for Stevie when she went on tour.
Mick: We gotta tour.
Lindsey: But we waited on Stevie when she kept extending her tour.
Stevie: I can't stand him. Mick, its either Lindsey or me. You choose.
Mick: Lindsey, your fired.

How did you get the secret transcript?

NotonRodeo · #**473** 04-09-2018, 05:52 PM

@ Fuzzy Plum, love your new siggy

porkpie · #**474** 04-09-2018, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by sands of time

You are so profoundly out of your element. Go somewhere you can actually grasp the context of what is going on. You're embarrassing yourself.

And we have a winner for the biggest moron here. “Grasp the context of what is going on”? A bunch of old aged white dudes and getting wound up and abusive at a woman who is almost 70 because someone was fired from a band. Sands of Tiem are certainly running out for you my friend. Now go sink another beer and scratch the Stevie tracks off your vinyl.

NotonRodeo · #**475** 04-09-2018, 06:06 PM

Imagine the new vistas that can open for Fleetwood Mac now that Lindsey is gone. They can play When I See You Again, with gurgling! The sixteen minute version of Sara! An 8 minute rendition of Rhiannon with the icon on the piano going plonk-plonk-plonk! Gypsy also on the piano! Landslide dedicated to everybody on earth except him! No Questions Asked! Gold Dust Woman with 20 minutes of dancing! I am enjoying this tour already.

And Neil Finn is going in for this?!

ricohv · #**476** 04-09-2018, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by David

One of the comments on TMZ says:

I don't think I can take "The Fleetwood Mac Grandparent Drama Tour"

Emotionally, it's a replay of 1987. (What was the name of that movie where the person kept waking up and reliving the day over and over?) Next year, we'll get a Greatest Hits CD with a couple of lame new songs on it and an orange blossom on the cover, followed by a full album produced by a heavy metal guy with a tin ear, followed by a world tour with several of the members on steroids and putting on weight. The band will go out with a slow-motion explosion and a wing nut, probably playing the second-tier stage at the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.

Love really is dangerous!

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SH*T I'VE READ IN THIS ENTIRE THREAD!

brad975 · #**477** 04-09-2018, 06:12 PM

Stevie should join the Heartbreakers instead. I might actually go see that. Stevie & the Heartbreakers.

ryan4136 · #**478** 04-09-2018, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by NotonRodeo

Imagine the new vistas that can open for Fleetwood Mac now that Lindsey is gone. They can play When I See You Again, with gurgling! The sixteen minute version of Sara! An 8 minute rendition of Rhiannon with the icon on the piano going plonk-plonk-plonk! Gypsy also on the piano! Landslide dedicated to everybody on earth except him! No Questions Asked! Gold Dust Woman with 20 minutes of dancing! I am enjoying this tour already.

And Neil Finn is going in for this?!

Don’t forget Edge of seventeen, Stop Dragging my Heart around

button-lip · #**479** 04-09-2018, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Personally I know I wont like it because I just don't like them anymore. You just have to treat people better than that. Lindsey deserved better. Its hard to like music by people that just aren't very nice.

Exactly! If Lindsey has left on his own terms, like in 1987, I'll be fine with it. But what they did to him (alll of them) is disgusting.

And it's more disgusting that they want us to believe the story that he left.

button-lip · #**480** 04-09-2018, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by tango87

So many bad decisions, missed opportunities, so little new product over all those years...

What a farce. And the worst thing is that it's not even that surprising really. This band was never going to hold hands and stroll off into a golden sunset, with all the drama left behind. It wouldn't even surprise me that much if Stevie rediscovers her creative muse, and we suddenly get a new 'official' Fleetwood Mac album (as opposed to the real one we got last year).

But, to coin a phrase, that's all for me. I like Crowded House a bit, but Neil Finn singing Lindsey's songs? I feel sorry for him.

What a waste of all that energy we invested in the band, checking The Ledge for news, hoping for new music or a tour from the 5. I wonder if they will know how we feel about this? Will they even care?

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised either. She didn't want to work with Lindsey. Period.