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Originally Posted by jmn3
The Men of Mac would have been a very interesting way to remain active while Stevie was not interested. But also, they’d never do it. I doubt Mick in 1998-9 would want to go back to playing small shows so soon after the county fair circuit before The Dance. Again, you’d risk pissing off Stevie and ending Fleetwood Mac as an arena band.
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Maybe.
I don’t think there'd have been the expectations for something like Buckingham Fleetwood McVie compared to an entity called Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac would still have been an arena rock band in this scenario. Maybe it would have been larger than Lindsey solo/Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, but it would be its own thing.
I also don’t think Stevie would have been threatened by it, especially if she was working on new music. The guys having their own entity would have taken pressure off of her to make more Fleetwood Mac music. Plus, it would’ve been easy to say Lindsey needed a rhythm section and Mick and John needed the work.
In any case, crediting the original GoS to Buckingham Fleetwood McVie would have been more accurate, since it wasn’t quite Fleetwood Mac, but not quite solo, and would have been better than pissing away six years debating if it should be released as a solo album or merged into a Fleetwood Mac album.