Should Fleetwood Mac try a fan-funded album?
 

Because the problem is a motivated Fleetwood Mac can't find the money to book studio time to record?

Exactly, and God only knows what it cost them to rent that Bel Air mansion for 18 months for the Say You Will album. My guess is over a half million dollars total for the house alone... and that didn't even include equipment, electricity, managers/assistants/attorneys fees/et al.

i agree completely! just imagine how much that cost them! A fan-funded album could be interesting????:shrug:

and Louie, loving the new avatar pic!

Absolutely!!!

Go for it, you guys!

I'd do it, as long as I got my name listed in the "producer" credits of the liner notes. :thumbsup:

Not unrelated to this discussion.

18 months!?!? For sure?

Boy, that was lucky - FM decides to record a new album just as LB needs a rental house that will double as a recording studio while his home is being renovated...*cough* write-off *cough* :wavey:

"I have a message from Mick and John and Christine and Lindsey...we need your money."
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...stage/dc1e.jpg

(Or whatever she said...damned if I'm going to go looking at this time of night.)

ROFLOL!!! :lol::lol:

This and throw in Christine as a FULL member and you can have my savings :)

Fleetwood Mac doesn't need money- they have plenty. It's a creative issue.

:laugh: Exactly. And Lindsey (and Mick for that matter!) has proved it doesn't take a million dollars, like it has FM in the past, to make an album.
Anyway, I think I've funded enough of the Mac's extravagant lifestyle already.

But to the B52s point, is it because it is too expensive to get them all in one place for the amount of time it takes to write and record new music (travel, lodging, amenities, recording facilities)? In other words, the B52s aren't willing to give up their lifestyle and preferred methods of working (unlimited studio time) because they are THAT rich and famous, just not rich enough to afford such luxuries.

Or is it, as many have said here, that the Mac could afford everything they'd want/need but just don't care enough about making more music to even consider a relatively minor sacrifice. In other words, the Mac is worth THAT much more $$$ than the B52s, but don't have the desire?

Umm, I think I've already been funding their albums for years by buying about fifteen million concert tickets, multiple copies of albums, cassettes, cds, multiple sizes of the same concert T's, tourbooks, etc.

Oh, I am pretty sure the B52s made a killing from Cosmic Thing and "Love Shack," which was a monster hit. I know Fred Schneider has a decent apartment in New York and a modest house in the Hamptons (he leered at me in the locker room at Sag Harbor Gym recently... gross!! :eek: ), yet he doesn't seem to work all that frequently. So I would say he is most definitely independently wealthy, if not exactly living large in the Diddy sense. Kate Pierson owns a small hotel in upstate New York, so I would imagine the Cosmic Thing money had something to do with that.

What I don't understand about FM is why they don't just record at Lindsey's house. It won't cost a thing. There's a trailer out back where Mick could sleep and I would assume John and Stevie do not live too far away. Since they are not the type of band to enlist gazillions of guest musicians and vocalists, it's not like they need some kind of large setup. Let's face it- the reason why they don't record is because Stevie and Lindsey simply just won't work together unless they are making bank, and recording/releasing albums these days has become a zero-sum game. To this day I seriously doubt any of them saw a single penny in residuals from SYW.

I have to wonder if they're able to secure a record deal which would suit their terms. After all, they always require HUGE advances so they can rent mansions/chateaus and such for extended times to record. The last time they recorded an album in under a year was 1975, too. I just imagine them trying to pitch their "needs" to a record company these days, and totally being scoffed at. I can't imagine that either Warners or FM really made much (if any) money from SYW... and the business has deteriorated in leaps and bounds since (and their record buying fans are dwindling yearly as well). I just don't think it makes economic sense for them to make another album. It'd have to be something they do for the love of the craft... something they haven't done in the past 30 years.

If the love is gone, then there is no point to a new album. But don't they love me enough to go through it all? :wavey: