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Originally posted by 4Buck
[B]From Rolling Stone Issue 945 April 1, 2004
...they provide a fascinating glimpse into the wheelhouse of one of rock's most undervalued visionaries.
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It's true that the whole band desreves credit for these albums. I justb think it's great that someone with a vision, gets credit for the vision, even in retrospect. And the mac didn't learn from it as a band: they did not accept the vision of a double-album for SYW. Give them credit for giving LB a position he deserves, although it sounds over the top, to call these albums "his" albums, he was hired as a guitarist and "musical art-director" of this band and he succeeded monstruously. So that he gets credit for that on these reissues is great: McVie had all the singles and made the band a brand. Nicks gave the band the "bigger-than-life image" and a (almost) human face. The rythm-section brought in the history and backbone of the band: musically AND concerning the Story....
and now.... the man with that vision: sometimes brilliant, sometimes destructive, sometimes selfish, sometimes idiotic, sometimes empathic....but always challenging and consequent in his vision gets the credit in RS, although that frickin' Mag is not such a icon anymore, I'm very glad with it..........
gerald