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Originally Posted by joe
so, what the hell do we have with fm? with the exception of some peter green era compilations and the video stuff from the 1980s, there is essentially nothing. where are the concerts from the 70s?
They toured so much and proved themselves as a live act. Where is all this great concert footage?
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My theory is that the members of the band (& by extension the people who work for them) don't think very highly of those concert years, so they haven't been interested in either releasing old footage themselves or allowing others to do so. When you read interviews with them these days, they all seem to have a certain amount of nostalgia for those days, but not necessarily for what Fleetwood Mac looked & sounded like in 1977 or 1980. It's a nostalgia for their youth & the state of their personal relationships with one another & their friends & families (which is undoubtedly why we've been getting a steady stream of relationship-centered documentaries, like "Behind the Music" for Stevie, Fleetwood & Lindsey, "Going Home," the making of SYW documentary, "Classic Albums" with its focus on the relationships, "Two Sticks & a Drum," etc. -- instead of extensive concert footage).
I think this lack of strong feeling for their musicianship decades ago -- or even for the historic standing of the band in those days -- combined with the members' obvious misunderstanding of the appeal of old footage for most fans all creates this weird situation. Currently, you have Stevie & Lindsey & Mick, who all want to talk solely about their current music & tour (although they enjoy talking about their 30-year-old selves in personal relationships). Their faces probably go blank with befuddlement if you mentioned something about the White Album tour to them. And John seems not to want to talk about his music or his band at all, or only in the most peripheral way.