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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid
1. But Stevie hasn't been her best since '83.
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Yeah, but especially after her TITN songs, the Red Rocks & TITN concert videos, her BTM songs, her listless performances during the BTM tour, the new songs on Timespace, and Paper Doll, I was thoroughly over Stevie Nicks by 1992. The best I can say about her during that time was OSOTM had a few really good songs on it and I liked her backing vocals on that B.B. King song. Now, in retrospect, I know she was dealing with issues that weren’t public knowledge, but I was 18 in 1992, and I don’t know if that would have mattered. Stevie was a far cry from 1975-83.
By 1994, Bekka was a breath of fresh air, and the chemistry she and Billy had was something I thought they could have built upon. Christine was largely checked out and Dave was creative dead weight, but I think the others could have developed the band in a really cool new direction if Mick could have gotten out of “Rumours” mode. The Americana thing was starting to bubble up. Put someone like Mick Taylor in on lead guitar, one of the granddaddies of the country meets blues, rock, and pop, and I think the possibilities would have been endless.
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2. I like Bekka and Billy. They are both talented. Just not in FM.
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People said the same thing about Bob and Christine at one point…. However, Peter and Jeremy went away and stayed away, letting the others develop something new. Lindsey not so much. Do you think Lindsey would have ever approached Mick to play on what was GoS if OOTC had been successful, and would Mick have been responsive if the new lineup had caught on?
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3. Come on Steve. I respect you, but that was a bit of a reach.
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They’ve known each other since she was like three. Their dads were friends. There’s a picture of Dorsey and Delaney playing together. They’re cut from the same cloth. Hell, they have the same initials and the same number letters in their names, and comparable portions of vowels and consonants. Bekka once said that she was more familiar with Billy’s albums than Fleetwood Mac’s.