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Originally Posted by sharksfan2000
You look at how the Splinter Group disintegrated after Peter left them, and think how easy it would have been for the same thing to have happened to Fleetwood Mac 35 years ago.....
You are spot-on with this observation, Kyoshi. As much as Peter leaned on the other members of SG to take some of the spotlight off of him, their very existence depended entirely on Peter's presence in the group. You could argue that at the beginning, FM was the same way, but by the time Peter left in 1970 the rest of the band had grown and developed musically to the point where they could survive without him. To me, SG never showed any real musical growth or development so it's no surprise that the band fell apart without Peter.
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And you're spot on yourself Sharkfan. We al apreciate that Peter needed SG as much as they needed him, but for different reasons. We all know that Peter is a genius, but an ill genius. We al know the group were OK musicians but not up to his standard. Thats OK with me as it was with all of them. Its probably an unfair comparison but if you take like for like illnesses and compare Peter to Brian Wilson you can see that Brian travels the road with a group of musicians who are, no doubt, delighted to be playing with him. Same goes for splinter and Greeny. But theres always an endgame and unfortunately because of his illness Peter is in the control of the court, which incidentally it was Watson who placed him in their care in the first place, which holds complete sway, and their view was that he was best out of splinter, gawd knows why, but there it is. Its done. People can discuss around and around with so called insider info and draw a zillion conclusions, but there's only one truth.