Um...excuse me...but, Lindsey and Stevie were not the only "pretty white" members of the band....they were the only ones selected by Keith Olsen. And I don't believe for one second that they manufactured a relationship in order to get in the biz (which is not something that Javier said...but, I'm just tossing it in). I do know that I have been a fan of theirs for quite some time and I believe them...I believe in what they sang and wrote and am not letting someone with sour grapes in his system influence my way of thinking to that extent.
The fact S and L wrote all their own material in Buckingham Nicks shows they did have the talent to make it as artists in their own right. If they were going to go the formulaic, tried-and-true route, those pretty white people (which, by the way, sounds a bit like reverse-discrimination to me...suggesting their race and looks had more to do with their success than their talent--but of course, it is well known that ONLY white people can be racists--so, I must be wrong) would have sung the songs of some popular song writer and to hell with their own ambitions in that area (and, they probably would have been more successful as Buckingham Nicks had they gone that route).
Does discrimination exist? Of course it does. Was it a part of this equation? I doubt it. Wasn't Javier the person who said that he wanted his work to be a lot more socially relevant than the other members of the band? When you are that far apart musically--and bickering as much as he said they were--something has to give. And, if the drive and overwhelming ambition is there...why couldn't the members of Fritz pick up and go on without Stevie and Lindsey, or on their own? Others have done it.
I think once in awhile, the blame game has to stop and one has to take responsibility for one's own destiny.
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