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Old 02-08-2020, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Macfan4life View Post
So true. Its also why its hard to sell tickets to a Lindsey show. When I saw Buck/Vie I had people ask me while I was in line who was playing the casino. When I told them Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, they all exclaimed....Who??"
exactly.

so when people go around saying look BuckVie with 2 FM front people didn't sell as many tickets as FM last year with the other 2 front people you gotta wonder whether they are willfully ignorant or just plain ignorant of the branding power.

BuckVie under Fleetwood Mac name is a completely different beast than BuckVie under 2 names nobody knows.

NickVie under Fleetwood Mac name has 2 brands in it - the biggest one - Fleetwood Mac, and the 2nd one - Stevie Nicks.

it's been interesting to watch push and pull in advertising over the last 2 years between Mick and Stevie - Mick trying to preserve really hard a Fleetwood Mac brand separate from Stevie Nicks brand. and Stevie and her people and fans for years tried to make those 2 brands synonymous with Stevie Nicks. i've seen tweets that said - i've seen FM and they sucked! then they corrected themselves and said - actually it was Stevie Nicks solo.

so 2 opposite forces played over the last 2 years -
  • Stevie was happy that with LB ouster she takes a clearly lead role in the band now, and maybe finally can realize that decades long ambition that her fans have been pushing so hard - that FM is SN. with Lindsey there, that would have never happened behind the scenes.
  • Mick has been pushing hard all these different versions of FM and FM is all different members, always changing.; he's trying to keep the reigns of the band being completely handed over to Stevie's people, while simultaneously buttering up and appeasing Stevie (guess he's doing that by mainly spitting on LB whenever wherever he can?) so he can keep cashing in.
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