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Originally Posted by Nicks Fan
What kills me though is that some people are still claiming Lindsey kept them from playing their older stuff which such BS
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I doubt it's true, too. At the very least, it's reductive. Since he joined, he made clear to the band (and the public) that he didn't feel an affinity for the Bob Welch material. But he's never had anything but praise for the Peter Green material. He told Jim Ladd in 1981 that he loved playing
Oh Well, and he played that one in every set from 1975 to 1982. As we all know, too, he did
Green Manalishi for several years.
If you listen to him speak in interviews and get to know him musically, you can see that he isn't just flatly rejecting Fleetwood Mac's catalog 1967 to 1974. His thing has always been to give his own music priority, or the music of artists that mean a great deal to him personally (like
Farmer's Daughter and Brian Wilson). The band decides as a group what to play onstage. These are group decisions based on expediency or what will work best for a particular set. (Example: keeping
Gold Dust Woman out of the 1980 and 1982 sets.) It simply isn't true that one guy, the guitarist, flat-out refused to put anything old into the set for thirty years. Everyone plays a part. (Why didn't Stevie sing
Silver Springs in 1987 or 1990?)