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Originally Posted by bwboy
I think people who pay $200-$400 for a concert ticket are more than 'tourists.' I know you want to think that 'real fans' wouldn't go to a FM show because Lindsey was fired, but they are going, and they're having a great time. I'm one of them. The concert was incredible, the best FM show I'd ever seen, and this was my fifth tour. This is not a dig on Lindsey, it was just an incredible show. You're right about the fans wanting to hear songs they know and love. What are your thoughts when Lindsey plays Trouble, Holiday Road, Go Your Own Way, or Tusk on his solo tour?
If you're a fan of Lindsey's that can't get over his firing, then let's be honest- nothing FM did from now on would have been good. If they sang a LB song, they were being disrespectful; if they didn't sing a LB song, they were being disrespectful.
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I'm a fan of the band, not a Lindsey fan. On another thread I just posted about this - it's irksome to me that everyone who isn't happy with what happened over the last 12 months is apparently assumed to be a rabid Lindsey fan who is pissed with Fleetwood Mac for firing him. I'm a Fleetwood Mac fan, a Rumours era fan, who is pissed at the rest of the band for firing and replacing him. I am not a Lindsey or a Stevie fan. I like some of their solo stuff, but am in no way a huge fan of one of the individuals whom I firmly believe are better together than they have ever been apart or with others. To me, Fleetwood Mac is the five of them - unless one of them decides to no longer be part of it (a la the Songbird from '98 to '14).
I didn't make a dig about them playing hits. I made a dig at Steve's inference that Lindsey Buckingham is as dispensable to Fleetwood Mac as Ronnie Wood is in the Stones and that firing Keith Richards would be the equivalent of John McVie getting the boot. My dig was that quite honestly the tourists (classic rock concert 'tourists' can and do pay that much, it's 2018, those aren't unheard of prices for a brand like Fleetwood Mac) would likely be fine with John and Mick being replaced altogether because they aren't the Keith and Mick of Fleetwood Mac.