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Originally Posted by David
By now, Lindsey ought to realize (if he doesn't already) that no matter how big & splashy a Fleetwood Mac tour is, it's not going to mean diddly to sales of his own albums. It's mistaken to believe otherwise, I say, based on the faulty premise that the millions who go see Fleetwood Mac are going to like Lindsey's solo albums. They're not -- they never have. Lindsey's fan base likes his solo work, but nobody else does. The situation isn't equivalent to that of Sting & the Police in the 1980s, when the Police fans bought Sting's first solo work.
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I wonder how much of it has to do with the possibility that more mainstream listeners perhaps got over-Mac'd in the late 70s. Other styles of music were becoming more popular at that time, and as much as I love Lindsey's early pop newwave punk spices, the records don't really fit in any category that would reach the average listener.