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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
Mick and John are the only constants and the band’s name is a portmanteau of their surnames.
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But that isn’t Al’s point. His point was butts in seats, and John McVie doesn’t put any more butts in seats than Lindsey would have. For the people Al is talking about, John is no more integral to a Fleetwood Mac concert than Lindsey or Mick is. Nicks is the only one who fills the arenas, if that’s your reasoning.
My own opinion about a “reunion” is that Lindsey would find any configuration pointless that didn’t consist of him, Stevie, and Mick at this stage. Without that trio, he probably wouldn’t consider a reunion meaningful — after all, there’s no Fleetwood Mac legacy with Sheryl Crow or other outsiders. Assuming Lindsey wants to reunite with this band at all, he wants to reunite with Stevie and Mick (if John were still working, he would want John too). I doubt that Lindsey wants to form a largely new band and then call it a Fleetwood Mac legacy move. When he refers to the legacy, he’s referring to the music that they made for the white album,
Rumours,
Tusk, etc. Isn’t that obvious by now?