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Originally Posted by lagringader&r
There's no way in hell I'm ever going to turn my friends on to them or her. To everyone else, other than FM diehard fans, they're a washed up, 70s band trying to capitalize on their *once* success and set up their retirement funds. Come would be laughable I think to someone other than a big fan.
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"Come" is pretty laughable to the typical teen today. Our perspective as Mac fans is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo different from that of the half-naked kids jammed together on the beach, wriggling to 50 Cent or Trick Daddy & Lil' Kim while MTV cameras are filming another installment of "Spring Break."
"Promotion" is not just a single blanket term with the same equivalence in all instances, either. Promotion is a bunch of different things: Fleetwood Mac shooting a video of "Peacekeeper" is promotion & Gwen Stefani baring her ripped abs in a performance on the Grammys is also promotion. Which "promotion" do you think is going to translate into substantial sales? I mean, d'uh, George, right?
In fact, the "Spring Break" context is a far more accurate gauge of popularity & sales among the key music demographic than whether Fleetwood Mac is appearing on the Morning Show or something. If a performer or a band sounds hot to the wriggling, skanking naked kids on "Spring Break," then it's a hit! So all you folks who keep talking about "Well if they had done this to the album, or if they had kept that person in the band, or if they had gotten some more airplay on the Adult Contemporary stations, or if they had appeared on Howard Stern, they'd have sold a lot more," try to imagine how far four aging, paunching 55-year-olds singing "Peacekeeper" would have gotten on that beach stage on "Spring Break" with the audience out there.
Puhleeze.....
Everybody who
wanted "Say You Will"
bought "Say You Will." Fleetwood Mac was hot in 1976-1978. Every year after that, even if they had a #1 hit album, they were widely considered yesterday's news. Today, they aren't even yesterday's news -- they're like something out of the primeval pools of petroleum. It isn't called "dinosaur rock" for no reason.
but WE love 'em -- & that's really all that matters.