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Originally Posted by michelej1

One thing Mick would like to improve is the band's vocals. They have three people who can sing and he'd like to make better use of their ranges. "On future albums we're going to try and come off more as a band rather than three separate entities vocally. Instead of Dave singing a song alone – and then Christine – we'd like to feature them together."

Yet it's taken the band time to adjust to having a lead singer. "Dave is a vocalist, he can't stand around all night doing nothing so we've got to use him. To a certain extent, though, we've found that a little bit difficult. We haven't quite furthered ourselves as much as we'd like to. In that way the material on the album is not as well integrated as we'd like."

"The only time we've been known for one thing and one thing only was when we first started, seven years ago, as a blues band. About a year after reworking old blues tunes and writing new lyrics for them, people in the band began writing themselves. Eventually the writers got away from straight blues influences. From then on the band has always been able to do what they want.

"We never want to be known as 'this' or 'that' particular thing."

"We've always been able to do what we want. We've been fortunate that the band has always had more than one songwriter. If a band has only one the writer tends to reflect just himself.With more than one writer, there's automatic variety. We're lucky.

These are the reasons why I just love Fleetwood Mac!