After 12 plus years. Excited to hear Christine McVie

[bwboy]

How do we know they would be losing money? Smaller profits, sure. But losing money? I imagine the band splits the money 5 ways, generally, and I'm sure Chris and Lindsey would get a bigger portion. So let's say they get 35% each, and John and Mick get 10% each, and the other 10% goes to everything else. Obviously I made those numbers up, but the point is, they can make money. Unless they are bound and determined to take individual private jets, then yes, they will lose money, but surely they can downsize the lighting and staging etc enough in order to make money.

And I've never heard of a band or musical act touring with the knowledge they would lose money. Interesting!

[elle]

Originally Posted by bwboy

How do we know they would be losing money? Smaller profits, sure. But losing money?

the word on the street is that every Lindsey solo tour except his last one (One Man Show, in 2012) was money-losing proposition for him. the word on the street is also that he uses money he makes with Fleetwood Mac to finance his solo projects.

but you are right, i don't know that for sure.

[dreamsunwind]

I don't get why this John/Mick thing is being overthought. At first I also was slightly disappointed that they wouldn't tour with them but then I realized it makes total sense because this isn't supposed to be a Fleetwood Mac project. It's something separate and they probably made that decision to do something different when it was obvious Stevie wasn't going to chip in. As far as I know from what I saw on Twitter way back, John and Mick contributed as a rhythm section in the studio anyways knowing that it would not be "Fleetwood Mac". Same as whenever band members contribute to any other project one of their bandmates is working on.

[elle]

Originally Posted by dreamsunwind

I don't get why this John/Mick thing is being overthought. At first I also was slightly disappointed that they wouldn't tour with them but then I realized it makes total sense because this isn't supposed to be a Fleetwood Mac project. It's something separate and they probably made that decision to do something different when it was obvious Stevie wasn't going to chip in. As far as I know from what I saw on Twitter way back, John and Mick contributed as a rhythm section in the studio anyways knowing that it would not be "Fleetwood Mac". Same as whenever band members contribute to any other project one of their bandmates is working on.

exactly!

mostly just one person who insists on some kind of devious plan being behind all this and wouldn't let go is overthinking the whole thing - instead of letting this to be a nice positive thread celebrating Christine and incredible chance we'll get to see her this year.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

the word on the street is that every Lindsey solo tour except his last one (One Man Show, in 2012) was money-losing proposition for him. the word on the street is also that he uses money he makes with Fleetwood Mac to finance his solo projects.

When you say "word on the street" like that, you remind me of Prince's Fury, a song that kind of makes me think of Fleetwood Mac.

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

Prince toured small venues like this, and his prices were bouncing all over the place, with being practically free sometimes, but i believe most times they ranged from $200-250 for every seat in the venue through $500+ for the first 5-10 rows.

Maybe that's what killed him.

Michele

[nicepace]

I wish we could have a thread to talk about the McBuck project without every second post bringing up Stevie. I am really excited about the McBuck project and I want to read people's thoughts about it, in a positive way. I just get annoyed when Stevie fans keep bringing her into the discussion. Can't they just go off on their own somewhere else and talk about Stevie, if that's all they care about?

By the way, just because John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are the rhythm section on a song, it doesn't necessarily make it a Fleetwood Mac song. If it did, Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" would be credited to Fleetwood Mac Featuring Warren Zevon.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by nicepace

By the way, just because John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are the rhythm section on a song, it doesn't necessarily make it a Fleetwood Mac song. If it did, Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" would be credited to Fleetwood Mac Featuring Warren Zevon.

Warren Zevon wasn't in Fleetwood Mac. Christine and Lindsey were/are.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Warren Zevon wasn't in Fleetwood Mac. Christine and Lindsey were/are.

True, but it makes no difference if the project is a "duet" album. And from what I hear, they chose not to tour. Mick has his own projects going on, and I'm haven't heard what John is doing.

The point is, if it morphed into a duet album and Mick and John didn't want to be a part of that, than what's wrong with calling it a duet album, or Buckingham/McVie? Otherwise, the could have called it Fleetwood Quartet.