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What is Fleetwood Mac:
a) A popular 1960's british blues band, led by Peter Green b) A new band headed by Christine Mcvie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Peter, Christine, Lindsey and Stevie all have on thing in common - they are unique. Thats what made the Mac the Mac. You cannot just take them away - and call it the same.
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I guess I just fail to see how the Time chapter qualifies as forward movement or natural progression. To me it just seems utterly formulaic.
"A pretty blond front woman brought us fame before? Let's get another!" "Bluesy music is how Fleetwood Mac got started? Let's capitalize on that!" To me, the entire Time era just seems utterly contrived. If it was truly a step forward and a new beginning, the Time lineup would have come out with a new sound, a new look, they wouldn't have recruited random past members, or put a pretty blond girl out front in a shawl to sing Gold Dust Woman. I guess I just fail to see how a certain subset of folks on this board pan chiffonheads for their blind allegiance to Stevie, when they give the Time incarnation of the band the exact same latitude. It's pure hypocrisy. The whole Time experiment failed because it wasn't genuine, period. Yes, Fleetwood Mac is known for it's lineup changes... but by the time Time was released their image and persona was frozen in the public's mindset. There were no rebirths left in Fleetwood Mac. The bottom line for me? Fleetwood Mac's namesake members have dismissed the Time incarnation... that's all I need to hear.
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The only part of "contrived" was Dave Mason...Mick was looking elsewhere for a lead guitarist and Dave just bugged him until his defenses were down and Mick relented. The problem is that once again (just like when he had the choice of making less money but keeping Peter Green or going for the "green" and eventually LOSING Peter Green), Mick went for the almighty dollar over doing something more creative with a new lineup of Fleetwood Mac. Instead of possibly reinventing Fleetwood Mac into an entity with integrity, he went for the quick payday and sold out to "what had already been"...you can't recreate the past...but, Mick tried, got his payday, but lost a whole lot of respect in the process.
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Peter had 6 Top 40 hits, and if you count re-releases, it was 8. Actually, all of his singles went Top 40. Quote:
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If the Behind The Mask and Time lineups were so progressive, unique, or even great, why didn't they last? Because the fans wanted Stevie, Lindsey, and Christine, hence The Dance's success. No matter what anyone says, without Stevie, there is no Fleetwood Mac. In the real world, outside of The Ledge, and outside of hardcore fans, the only song that people will always know is Landslide. Then you have some people that know Dreams, Gold Dust Woman, and Go Your Own Way. Then you have even less people that know Don't Stop and maybe Gypsy or Hold Me. I know this because at my job, Gypsy or Don't Stop will play and I'm all "omg!!!" and they give me blank stares. I say "Fleetwood Mac?", and their response is "Oh..". I am in no way saying that Stevie is the most important, most talented, or most anything other than that she has become Fleetwood Mac.
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i kinda liked btm and time, i liked christines song, nights in estoril!
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Everywhere? Little Lies? The Chain? Tusk/USC? SHN seems to be used as a background for everything and everywhere these days... |
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According to the charts you qouted, Christine was the biggest hit-maker of the band providing all those slick pop songs (I've heard somebody's opinion that she is McCartney of the Mac), and I haven't seen that refelected in the battle of the songs so far - although it seems that Little Lies finally has a chance. |
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to replace Stevie with another hot blonde (notice I did say hot - talented too) was a big mistake. If I wanted to see an impersonator I could pick one of the thousands of Elvi (yes, Elvi) to go and see. It would have been better to not sing the Stevie hits with Bekka. What puzzles me is that when Lindsey quit the band before they headed out on the Tango Tour, what happened to the concert goers who didn't have the benefit of knowing Mr. Buckingham had called it quits? I remember hearing about it on Entertainment Tonight. You know the days before the internet! I think I would have been both mad and sick to find out at the show the creative driving force behind the Mac wasn't showing up. Even though at the time I was more a Stevie fan than Lindsey. Same situation with the other light version of the Mac. I believe I heard they were coming to New Orleans to put on a show (or somewhere in that region). Again I would have been sick to find out that Lindsey and Stevie weren't apart of this. Wonder how many people walked out after they found out the stars weren't there? |
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As far as the "Battle of the Songs" goes, Christine is doing very well in the Pre-Rumours era and won the Behind the Mask battle. So she is providing good competition. Actually she might end up with more winners that Stevie! Poor Lindsey though - he'll have at least 1 song maybe 2, if he wins the Say You Will battle. |
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