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Originally Posted by David
Hi, Louie!
I think you're right. He found himself in a band full of musical reactionaries, & his pipe dream of rewriting the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys history was dashed. (Lindsey says that Wilson's desire to try new styles of music marginalized him in his band, which ultimately stranded him.) I think that, for a short time at least, Lindsey had genuine confidence in Fleetwood Mac's future as an experimental band--a band that refused to follow the commercial dictates of the mass audience (always wanting more of the same), but in so doing, a band that would be able to reshape the audience's preferences, to actually improve the audience's taste & sense of adventure.
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In the core, this is what made me a lifetime Fleetwood Mac Fan. During Tusk I discovered the backcatalogue of FM pre-BN, and since Tusk really teached me about what art is, or what it could be, I believed in this huge band as a musical innovative monster. I had heard Then Play on, Future Games and Mystery to Me and concluded that this band had always had an edge of experiment in it's roots. To this day, I believe that they still have it in them, as long as Lindsey gets the room to build it in dialogue with enough good material that he did NOT write and with the counterinfluences of the two ladies and the rythmsection. But they have to BE there and fight him!!!