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Originally Posted by David

For the first time in documentary history, I have some hopes for this Frank Marshall production. I saw his Beach Boys film and it was solid . . . you know, actually interesting. But I think Fleetwood Mac could have chosen an even better team to put something like this together. I also saw the Billy Joel doc AND SO IT GOES, which was magnificent on every level — as historical artifact, as streamlined and structured production, as insight into the artist, and as lengthy emotional journey. It was made by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin for HBO, and it obviously had a crack production team behind it, which was given access to all sorts of vaults, and had writers around who built a narrative that was quite powerful — about Joel’s family life, his marriages, his parents, his tortured relationship with his dad, his studio achievements, his musical heritage, his tours, his rise and fall and rise again on the cultural scene.

If Fleetwood Mac gets even one-tenth of that care and passion from Frank Marshall, the doc will definitely be worth seeing.

If only it had been the Joel team doing this . . . .

As for any other stuff coming down the pipeline, a Lindsey solo album and a Stevie solo album and tour are about all. No Fleetwood Mac. However, I’m thinking that the psychobabble hints from Lindsey refer specifically to a single track on Stevie’s album (about ex-boyfriends) that will be produced by Lindsey or will feature a vocal from him.

I feel very cautious about what this documentary will focus on or be about... I have a suspicion that it may focus on the Rumours period of time.. which certainly COULD be a whole documentary and then some. But how do you distill down the 50 years of these people into a couple hours documentary. That said we don't know how long it will actually be, or if it will come out in parts like the Billy Joel one.... but....like others, I have to wonder how honest some of the members will be, and how much the film will have to sort of skim over in interest of fitting it all in. And then, if it is just focused on a particular window of time (say the Rumours era) ...like how many times can we revisit that unless someone is going to break rank and tell stuff we haven't heard a million times over already.... AND...did any of this begin before Chris's death? If it's been in the works truly just a couple of years then...no, she wouldn't have been involved. And that's a glaring omission in my opinion because she had a more objective view of a lot of stuff especially the S&L stuff. And given John's reticence to do ANY sort of interviews for years and years now.... how much did he participate??