What lineup made you a Fleetwood Mac fan?
 

What Fleetwood Mac lineup was the reason of becoming a fan?A specific lineup or the sum of all?

Don't Stop, Dreams, and Gypsy were my first three FM songs I heard. So yeah Rumours line up for me was first.

After that, I have to go with Post-Rumours. The first album I got was the '88 GH. I really liked No Questions Asked and As Long As You Follow, so I branched out into the Post-Rumours lineup based on my liking those two songs.

Several months later I got the '92 box set and discovered the 4th disc with Peter, Jeremy, Danny, Bob Welch, and Christine's songs. The fact that Christine was present for all eras helps feed my love of Fleetwood Mac. :cool:

It was the Rumours line-up for me, although I do enjoy the Welch period as well. I was playing with my parents 8 track player at the time and put in Fleetwood Mac followed by Rumours and simply fell in love. By the time Stevie started the solo career I was obsessed with her. I bought Mirage on Vinyl when it came out and later had to beg my Uncle to take me to the concert. Still can't believe my childhood favorites are still touring...LOVE IT.

I can't imagine this NOT being a 90+% Rumours win. Although many of us discovered the other versions of the band, after falling for the mega selling version....

It's tough to say for sure, my parents played The Dance a lot when I was a kid and when I was getting into music I definitely thought of those recordings as great but didn't own anything by the band but then I heard some cuts from Bare Trees and Future Games and was absolutely amazed by this other phase of the band. So I went out to buy their records but the store didn't have those aforementioned two at the time, so I bought Tusk and Rumours. I gotta say I was blown away by Tusk. Still am to this day. But I had no trouble buying half a dozen more FM albums in about a month and was definitely a hardcore fan of Welch's contributions in particular on some of those "transition period" records.

Rumours. Although they're number two now. Simply because they were/are freakin' EVERYWHERE.

Mick

It was Rumours era for me. I became a fan with Tango. I was already a fan of Lindsey (since 1984) and Stevie (since 1985), but I had no idea at the time that they had ever been in a band together.

It was Stevie solo first for me. My mom's been obsessed with her since she was 16 years old and filled my mind with what a goddess she is since I was born. I was like 3 years old and Stevie Nicks was like a tooth fairy/easter bunny character to me. lol. I only got really into the rest of FM stuff when I was around 8 or 9. But it'd be Rumours after that.

Now, that's very interesting.

Michele

It's the very first time I read something like that. Very interesting indeed.

Rumours line-up for me as TITN was when I first fell in love with them.

I lost interest in them a bit after Lindsey left so ended up listening a lot to the Peter Green era stuff which is amazing.

Neither of my parents were into the band, I discovered them all by myself and am so happy I did:D

How old is your mom now?

First one I listened to was Greeny era, Rumours era made me a fan

first one i knew was Peter Green era.

hearing Second Hand News drew me in, about 5 or so years after having been originally disappointed with GH '88. in 2003 i heard Peacekeeper on the radio a lot, and thought that combination of LB/SN voices is what i liked. 6 years after that i bought The Very Best of FM and Lindsey's Soundstage to finally sample them out, in addition to listening to FM and LB solo stuff on youtube and rhapsody. i expected to like Lindsey just in combination with Stevie / Mac, and not on his own. wrong! i became a fan of most of the stuff that Lindsey was involved in, whether solo or with FM.

I started in 1987 and was actually digging "Mystery To Me" and a few of the Boston Tea Party tapes within a couple of months of buying "Tango". I'm embarrassed that I knew MTM by heart before I ever heard "Rumours."

In 1976, as a child, we used to drive down the road in my mother's chevrolet, you know, the one with the amazing installed stereo/8 track tape player. My mother was a FM fanatic who used to blare The White Album from her car (vinyl copies were also available inside the house for backyard listening). When Rumours was released, we went bonkers !! Suddenly, we were driving 200 miles to see FM play at a city arena. So, my first concert at 7 years old was Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS lineup. Though Mother had been a fan since the Bob Welch era. The Mystery to Me/Bare Trees/HAHTF albums were also in the house but didn't receive near as much spin time.

As an adult, I have learned to delve into FM's back catalog. I have developed a keen appreciation for the PRE-Buckingham/Nicks lineups. There are some BEAUTIFUL recordings on those early records. Christine McVie's "Come A Little Bit Closer" is such a lush and layered recording. "Why" is simply sublime. Bob Welch's "Hypnotized" is the BIG FLEETWOOD MAC HIT THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN......simply put, it's a rock-n-roll classic. YES, I am all about the RUMOURS LINEUP, but I would strongly suggest that everyone venture back and give those early recordings due respect.

I was a Peter Green fan before Fleetwood Mac even existed.

(yes, I'm THAT old)

I started with the Rumours lineup. My parents were my age when F Mac were their most famous, so my parents liked some of their songs. My uncle was a bigger fan, and he got me started on the band. I then discovered the other eras by myself and the internet :D:cool:

Now that's really cool.

chiliD must be groaning at this poll's results. ;)

Pre-Rumours I have to say.I remember hearing "Rhiannon" "Over My Head" and
"Say You Love Me" on the radio and American Top 40 with Casey Kasem and wonder who has that pretty voice and a nice sounding band.

Casey did shed some light on who she was and rest of the band was.After that I went into country music and by the time Rumours came out .I was a hard core country music fan and starting to go to the country concerts.
I wish I had a chance to see them in that era live in concert.

I was to busy being a country bumpkin and googly eyes at Dolly Parton LOL and other country artists at that time.

Um, well, for 99 percent of us the answer is readily obvious. But I am glad I came to the band and explored beyond the Rumours lineup. The various incarnations, particularly the music the band made between 1969-1974 has given me endless I hours of enjoyment. I still remember the joy I felt when I first heard Penguin. Those Christine songs were terrific gems almost noone knew about. Night Watch fascinated me for years.

I remember, too, the rush of excitement I felt when I first heard Kiln House. It was so unpretentious and incredibly spirited!

The last album I bought from the 1969-1974 period was Future Games, and I remember being entranced by that spacey, hypnotic music.

The Rumours lineup cemented my fandom, but the BTM lineup (Tango tour video, and BTM) really got my attention first.

I think the first FM songs I heard were "Go Your Own Way," and then "Little Lies" or "Everywhere," and "Rhiannon." I was a major Chris fan at first, but then I transitioned into being mostly a Stevie fan, if I had to pledge allegiance to one member.

I had first heard of Lindsey in the summer of 1984. I was 9 years old (would be 10 in Sept.) My parents were hoping to relocate, so we were living with my uncle in South Carolina.

We didn't have cable at home. My uncle had MTV. When I saw the video for 'Go Insane', it really made a major impression on me. I could tell right away that this was someone I'd be a fan of for a long time.

Then in late 1985/early 1986, when I started hearing 'Talk To Me' and 'I Can't Wait' on the radio, I became a fan of Stevie. I loved these two songs!

I was 12 when I first saw the video for 'Big Love' and realized that Lindsey Buckingham was part of a group called Fleetwood Mac and that one of the other members of the band was Stevie Nicks.

After I bought more FM albums/solo albums, I realized that I'd heard plenty of these songs over the years and liked them. Being reasonably young, I just didn't realize who had sung them.

Very interesting. Even before Peter Bardens' "Peter B's Looners" ??

The first thing I ever knew about FM was a promo poster from "Tusk", back in 1979, when I was 15 years old and in London with my schoolclass. I then heard the single "Tusk" on the way back to germany and that basically was it. I listened to Rumours a few weeks later and knew all singles from hearing, I had not realized that they were all from one band.

After that, I was a Rumours lineup fan. But what made me stay with the band for all this time is the pre-Rumours lineup with Bob Welch. There is a laid back quality in the Welch years music that still fascinates me and makes me happy. Christine did some of her best work back then, my absolute favorite FM music must be the bootleg "Bermuda Triangle". While I hear and respect that LB is one of the best guitar players in the world, the Welch-years live music gives me the chills, because I listen to masters at work in all details.

This actually makes sense as you were growing up in the mid-80's. We gotta remember that FM didn't do anything from 1982-1987, yet all three vocalists were putting out albums and touring. :cool:

Yes, I had heard plenty of FM songs before I bought an album and I didn't connect the songs with a band, much less with the same band. But I became a fan before they had solo albums, so I was not introduced to them individually.

I believe that I was interested enough in Leather and Lace, EO17 and SDMHA to have bought Bella Donna if I did not know who FM was. But I don't know if Trouble would have made me like buy Law & Order. Of course, I love Trouble, but that's because I already knew who LB was.

But I distinctly remember listening to Casey Kasem when he spoke of both Stevie and Lindsey being in the same band when they were on the charts and maybe if I'd heard Bella Donna and then heard Casey's broadcast I might have said, "Now, who is that fellow who is in a band with her?" Maybe I should check him out to see if they have similar solo brands. Or maybe I would never have found Mr. B at all. As my beloved Scully said: "What I would have missed."

Michele

The Rumours lineup. I was 10 or 11 when The Dance premiered and I remember seeing Stevie sing Silver Springs. I was mesmerized, but for some reason I wasn't able to get the name of the song or the singer. I didn't learn the name of the song until I was 13 and flipping through the radio. After that I became a huge fan of the band and started to love the earlier FM lineups just as much. I wouldn't say that I love the BTM and Time lineups, but I do like those lineups.

Same here! I remember hearing Don't Stop performed by the Chuck E Cheese's band every weekend lol. I also heard Gypsy, Go Your Own Way, Little Lies and Everywhere. I liked those songs, but I didn't know who performed them.

I'm glad the success of the Rumours era lineup made it possible for me to get into all the other lineups, this band has a pretty rich and twisty-turny history.

I got interested in Fleetwood Mac because I got to like Billy Burnette's songwriting for other artists, e.g. "All I Can Do Is Dream You" for Roy Orbison.

At the time, there was no internet and any information on non-mainstream pop music was rather hard to come by in the rural area I lived in. Somehow, I found out Billy had been (or maybe still was then) playing guitar and singing for Fleetwood Mac. So I went to a record store but couldn't find any Billy on their records. At another time in a record store, I found a newly released CD by a guy with the strange name of Lindsey Buckingham who, as it said on the sticker on the cover, was a member of Fleetwood Mac. So I had a listen and liked it. The album was "Out Of the Cradle".

So because of Billy, I clicked on "post-Rumours lineup" but actually, I had a Buckingham solo album first and only after that, I was able to find a Billy Burnette CD. "Behind the Mask" was only my 3rd FM-and-related CD.