what next for LB?

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Ha. If Stevie "messes up" Lindsey's songs it's only because he lets her.

This much is true. The only example that comes to mind where Stevie DID ruin one of Lindsey's songs with her vocals is Peacekeeper. I thought it was far superior without Stevie's overly reedy backing vocals.

But there are a hundred instances where her backing vocals had the exact opposite effect. Songs like I'm So Afraid just seem bare & almost one dimensional without Stevie's presence.

[McTrouble]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

This much is true. The only example that comes to mind where Stevie DID ruin one of Lindsey's songs with her vocals is Peacekeeper. I thought it was far superior without Stevie's overly reedy backing vocals.

But there are a hundred instances where her backing vocals had the exact opposite effect. Songs like I'm So Afraid just seem bare & almost one dimensional without Stevie's presence.

I'm So Afraid is absolutely amazing on this current tour - best version I have EVER heard. He certainly does not need Stevie anywhere near it!!!!!

I've seen/heard it 14 times now since May and it gets better and better!

[redtulip]

Originally Posted by McTrouble

I'm So Afraid is absolutely amazing on this current tour - best version I have EVER heard. He certainly does not need Stevie anywhere near it!!!!!

I've seen/heard it 14 times now since May and it gets better and better!

Agree, totally. I don't think Stevie and Lindsey's voices mesh as well as they used to and Stevie's voice doesn't sound anywhere near as good as it did say, 20 or even 10 years ago. I much prefer Lindsey's current solo version of I'm So Afraid to any version he's done previously, with or without FM.

I understand this is a big cash grab for them and I've never seen Fleetwood Mac live before, so fine, go out and do this tour and make some money. I'll go to a show just so I can say I've seen them once. While they are at it, throw some Buckingham Nicks songs in the set so we don't have to sit through that tour next and Lindsey can get back to where he belongs, doing his solo work.

[McTrouble]

Originally Posted by redtulip

Agree, totally. I don't think Stevie and Lindsey's voices mesh as well as they used to and Stevie's voice doesn't sound anywhere near as good as it did say, 20 or even 10 years ago. I much prefer Lindsey's current solo version of I'm So Afraid to any version he's done previously, with or without FM.

I understand this is a big cash grab for them and I've never seen Fleetwood Mac live before, so fine, go out and do this tour and make some money. I'll go to a show just so I can say I've seen them once. While they are at it, throw some Buckingham Nicks songs in the set so we don't have to sit through that tour next and Lindsey can get back to where he belongs, doing his solo work.

This!

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

But there are a hundred instances where her backing vocals had the exact opposite effect. Songs like I'm So Afraid just seem bare & almost one dimensional without Stevie's presence.

Always thought the slow, low key way Stevie walks off the stage at the end of her ISA vocals is so amusing. She probably wanted to hitch up her dress and run off the stage full speed screaming. Poor girl has had to live with that thing since the BN days. It is like Lindsey and Rhiannon. I love Christine on the song live.

Thought Stevie's vocals on Mirand were especially nice.


Michele

[Peestie]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

This much is true. The only example that comes to mind where Stevie DID ruin one of Lindsey's songs with her vocals is Peacekeeper. I thought it was far superior without Stevie's overly reedy backing vocals.

But there are a hundred instances where her backing vocals had the exact opposite effect. Songs like I'm So Afraid just seem bare & almost one dimensional without Stevie's presence.

I think every single track that ended up on SYW is better in the GOS1 version without Stevie doing harmonies. It doesn't mean I don't love SYW (probably my 2nd favourite FM album) but GOS1 was finished and didn't need them to tack on some more harmonies for the sake of it, making them more cluttered. I totally understand why they did it and Lindsey was the one directing it but, like many others here, I wish they'd been released in the original format as part of a Lindsey solo album. Say Goodbye is one that I think the sparser solo arrangement works so much better.

In the end I can't complain too much because we've got the Stevie-fied SYW versions and the original GOS1 versions so that means both options are there to pick between

[holidayroad]

I understand why quite a few people want LB to stay solo. Still, a lot of people who are here have been Fleetwood Mac fans for a long time. I think a lot of them would feel that there needs to be at least one more FM album. If Fleetwood Mac doesn't want to record as a band after that, I would try to understand. There needs to be some sort of closure to the music as a band.

[redtulip]

Originally Posted by holidayroad

I understand why quite a few people want LB to stay solo. Still, a lot of people who are here have been Fleetwood Mac fans for a long time. I think a lot of them would feel that there needs to be at least one more FM album. If Fleetwood Mac doesn't want to record as a band after that, I would try to understand. There needs to be some sort of closure to the music as a band.

Well, SYW did have Say Goodbye and Goodbye Baby

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by redtulip

Well, SYW did have Say Goodbye and Goodbye Baby

Well, if I have to be critical - then I hope they could come up with a better way to say goodbye.

[McTrouble]

Originally Posted by redtulip

Well, SYW did have Say Goodbye and Goodbye Baby

I hope SYW remains the final FM album!

I also love how happy and healthy Lindsey is right now! He is having a blast and the time of his life!

I HATE the thought of him going back into the stress that is Fleetwood Mac!

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by McTrouble

I HATE the thought of him going back into the stress that is Fleetwood Mac!

LOL. And I think Lindsey hates the thought of not going back into that stress. Well, he might not want stress, but I think he wants the benefits that FM brings. He walked away from it for 10 years and I was glad he could, but he doesn't want to now, in my opinion. I miss the autonomy he used to have, but I am excited to see FM again.

I am also very happy that Stella will be so big. Nine is old enough. She was too young before and I'm glad that all of his kids will be old enough to remember seeing dad play arena audiences long after he's dead.

Size does make a difference. I'm not into Mick's drum solo. I love intimacy. I am a SITTER. I don't like crowds in general, but when I turn around and see that sea of people reacting to Mick's World Turning shenanigans -- not to mention a stadium singing GYOW or a California group of thousands chanting Tusk -- I am overcome by the enormity of FM, the way I was when I was a teen and realized it for the first time.

And I get a kick out of Lindsey's kids knowing what a big star their dad was in the context of FM (maybe they know it already just from Glee and pop culture references to the band). He had them so late in life, especially the last one, that I worry about it. His mortality. My own.

Michele

[elle]

Originally Posted by michelej1

LOL. And I think Lindsey hates the thought of not going back into that stress.

i think he's probably very ambivalent about FM.

from everything he says, he definitely wants it but then he seems to try and brace himself for [un]expected consequences, especially considering he has priorities other than FM too.