You look at how the Splinter Group disintegrated after Peter left them, and think how easy it would have been for the same thing to have happened to Fleetwood Mac 35 years ago.....
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Originally Posted by Kyoshi
....what are middle aged guys going to do with their lives without Greeny to give them credibility....
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You are spot-on with this observation, Kyoshi. As much as Peter leaned on the other members of SG to take some of the spotlight off of him, their very existence depended entirely on Peter's presence in the group. You could argue that at the beginning, FM was the same way, but by the time Peter left in 1970 the rest of the band had grown and developed musically to the point where they could survive without him. To me, SG never showed any real musical growth or development so it's no surprise that the band fell apart without Peter.