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Maybe it "counts" as Fleetwood Mac without Christine ... but to me the band is now missing its heart and soul. I think that may have been the point the person who wrote that post was trying to make.

By the way, this is not my feeling about the PRE-Christine Mac. I like the early Peter Green band just fine. But I think of them as virtually a different band, for which the name "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac" can be used. That was a blues band (with some pop/rock elements) that ended when Peter left the band. Then the band recreated itself, and the sound of the band made a fairly abrupt turn toward pop/rock. Christine has been present for the band's entire pop/rock history up until the last album, and in my thinking she is an essential ingredient of the band in its long-enduring pop/rock incarnation. Something is very seriously missing without Christine.