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Old 07-17-2018, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by dreamsunwind View Post
Stevie...by far had the most successful solo career and to most people, she's the main 'recognizable' person that represents Fleetwood Mac.
BECAUSE SHE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO SOUGHT A VIABLE SOLO CAREER!!! Why would Christine invest energy on a solo CAREER when she already had seven top 40 singles with Fleetwood Mac, an entity she was much more invested in and much more successful in as a songwriter than was Stevie?

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Christine coming back obviously was a great thing for lots of people which helped make the last tour such a hit. But the tours without her also did very well.
But not as well with the tours WITH her. Ticket prices and butts in seats say otherwise. I remember hearing how a tour WITH Christine so soon after a tour without Christine would completely bomb. Didn’t happen, and was quite the opposite.

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A FM tour without Stevie would not sell that way.
Not suggesting otherwise. It WOULD have done better than LBCM, though.

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That's why promoters were willing to axe Lindsey if it meant making Stevie stay. Because they can do okay with another member gone again and they did in the past, but they won't sell they way they want without Stevie.
Yes. Who do promoters want, the big name or the guy who only had three hits with the band? Duh.

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And yes they absolutely would lol. All a record company will think about when they imagine an FM album without Stevie is the people who won't buy it and the people who would if it did have Stevie.
You clearly know nothing about branding. Fleetwood Mac is a brand. The most recognizable voice with most of that brand’s best known songs is Christine McVie. She had half of their top-40, and three of their top-5, two being actual duets with Lindsey and the other “Little Lies,” so this notion that Atlantic world rather release LBCM over FM is completely laughable. Eighty percent of the band and eighty percent of the voices of eighty percent of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits did an album together. Sure, let’s call it something else. Because people are willing to give something new a try. And, if Stevie’s right and people don’t buy albums anymore, why would it really matter?

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Stevie is like the Mick Jagger of FM. They wouldn't buy a Rolling Stones album without Mick and so they won't buy a FM album without Stevie.
LOL!!! Mick sang like all but a few RS songs. Stevie didn’t even have the most hit singles with Fleetwood Mac, not by a long shot. That analogy is a complete fail. If anything, she’s the Neil Young of CSNY. Now, CSN is still a viable entity without Neil, just not AS viable.

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but in the end, they don't have to worry about 'This Fleetwood Mac album would've sold way better had Stevie been on it', because they didn't call it Fleetwood Mac and didn't market it as FM either-- probably a big part of why they kept repeating over and over the 'this was never supposed to be a FM album' line.
Sure. Because Fleetwood Mac never released an album without an active, principle member of the band before. Let’s just jam out to Jeremy’s songs on “Then Play On.” Oh, wait…

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And I totally disagree that Lindsey should've just quit the band lol. He's given so much of his life to that band, while he was no doubt frustrated about how things were going, he's like 70 years old and to have left at the point would've just 'tarnished the legacy' as he said.
Not his legacy. He could have just said he refused to compromise. If it wasn’t going to be Fleetwood Mac, ESPECIALLY after all he had done, he was done. EFF a bunch of that!

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And Lindsey was talking about the Classics shows when he said that. I'm not sure what that has to do with any of this.
Really? Promoters (including his now ex-manager) are trying to sell overpriced tickets for a crappy knock-off festival and one of the artists kind of takes a verbal dump on it, saying it’s only about the money, and then plays the show accordingly (per reviews), and you don’t get it?

By agreeing to settle for calling a Fleetwood Mac album something other than Fleetwood Mac, by talking down upcoming Fleetwood Mac shows, by giving less than stellar performance at what had to be Fleetwood Mac’s biggest paydays of the year, and by suggesting a concurrent solo tour, Lindsey had already given up on Fleetwood Mac.
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