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Originally Posted by soul_drifter333
The success of Rumours was really the end of the band because it showed Stevie and Mick how much success and money they can make and Lindsey saw it as a trap to lock him into sounding the same on future work simply to make money. In the end, that is what broke up the band.
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That downplays Mick’s role in the creative process. By all accounts, Mick was just as hell bent as Lindsey that they weren’t going to do Rumours II and he had Lindsey’s back during the making of that album.
Things like the marching band on “Tusk,“ The Visitor album, and evening that silly MIDI vest show that Mick wasn’t averse to taking creative risks. However, after Tusk, Mick understood that Fleetwood Mac was about mainstream, commercial music and that solo projects were for the quirkier, less commercial stuff. Sort of like big machine-small machine.
Also, ironically, after Go Insane, Lindsey locked himself into sounding the same on his subsequent works.
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So when people on here argue that Stevie has sold more albums and tickets and has more commercial success it is true because that was her intention from the start. She (and Mick) determines their success from the amount of money and attention they get while Lindsey judges his success from creating new music in the studio and prefers to stay in the background. This is not to say that there is not so overlapping, but this is the core of how they judge their success.
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The reason Stevie’s success is brought up (as well as Christine’s) is in response to comments like Lindsey was responsible for their/her success or that Lindsey made them/her superstars. That’s like giving Eddie Kramer credit for Jimi Hendrix’s success or Al Kooper credit for Lynyrd Skynyrd.