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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
You have to consider that FM had many years jump start on BN, so of course FM would have had the most extensive network of resources. It's just an artifact of having been around longer and having more experience at making a living with music. Also, for whatever reason, FM just happened to be able to put lightning in a bottle with their first albums. Who woulda thunk that blues would become such a sensation during Beatlemania? I think it had more to do with sheer luck than with making good records.
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No...they had the best white blues guitarist in the world...and who was on his way to making Eric Clapton irrelevant, had LSD not gotten in the way.
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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
Christine was always just one of the boys in the band, but Bob Welch was just a stoner who wrote stoner music and sang stoner songs.
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Who DIDN'T write stoner music in the '70's?? The entire
Buckingham Nicks album is "stoner music", too (mainly because Lindsey was as much, if not MORE of a "stoner" than Bob Welch ever was
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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
Unless you have box office data, I would find it hard to believe that anybody but the most hardcore potheads would be attending FM concerts in 1974.
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That's a fallacy. Unless you consider, or buy into, that just about ANYBODY WHO WENT TO ANY CONCERT (from the ages of 15-40) back in the '70's was a "hardcore pothead". Every concert hall & amphitheatre was one big incense bowl of marijuana in those days.
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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
I recall hearing in interviews that each album released during that era sold 250-300 thousand copies, which hardly sounds like they were "developing momentum." If anything, they were slowly creeping towards obsolescence; they were really at their commercial peak (in the UK) in the late 60s and were just spent creatively and commercially by 1974. Without BN, they would have gone further into the abyss.
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Again, as SteveMacD pointed out, they didn't keep an incarnation together for more than 18 months. And, yet again, I testify that
had Bob Weston & Jenny Fleetwood not had their affair, the MTM incarnation of Fleetwood Mac would've eventually released an album, either the one that would've followed MTM or one after that, that would've sold in maybe not in Rumours-like numbers, but at least "white album" numbers. The legal wranglings of the post-"bogus Mac" fiasco is really what burnt out the band, and Welch in particular. They were just starting to get the notariety and promotion that the 1975 incarnation of Fleetwood Mac got.