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(and even the Peter Green camp, from what I've experienced)...
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And EVEN the Peter Green camp? More like "and ESPECIALLY the Peter Green camp," because if he's not on it, it has cooties.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew
but I've also noticed many Christine fans saying that the lineup on 'Say You Will' and the most recent tour weren't really "Fleetwood Mac" as far as they're concerned, because Chris wasn't there, and, without Chris, Fleetwood Mac is nothing.
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I don't remember that so much as I remember people being upset that SYW could have been either released as Fleetwood Mac or Buckingham Nicks. With Christine, there was a distinction between the two bands. On SYW, that distinction, for many, became blurred. The fact that Lindsey said in some interviews that the possibility of another Buckingham Nicks album was seriously considered didn't help. I seriously doubt that there would have been the resistance if there had been another singer/songwriter (i.e. Billy Burnette) that would have created the distinction.
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So even though there was a Fleetwood Mac before Christine, and one after Christine... they have little use for the band without her.
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There may be a few, to be sure. But MOST Christine fans still bought the album and went to the show, and I'd be willing to be that they even own a few Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac albums.
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As I said, we ALL have our favorite member(s), without whom, Fleetwood Mac wouldn't have quite the same appeal for us.
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Well, my favorite is Mick Fleetwood, and without him, there literally wouldn't be ANY Fleetwood Mac! So, at least I can honestly say that there's no Fleetwood Mac without Mick Fleetwood, and I'd be right 100% of the time.
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I just think... as I've stated many times in the past... that it's a demonstration of some serious tunnel-vision to accuse the Stevie Fans for feeling that Stevie is the best thing Fleetwood Mac ever had, as if her fans are the only "guilty" party.
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Well, they're certainly the most outspoken and, from what I've seen, more apt to slander anybody who says otherwise. You should have seen a lot of the comments that Stevie fans made about Bekka Bramlett. Lots of classy remarks like "little hussie" or "tramp" or "trailer trash" or that Stevie should "hire Bekka to be her make-up lady." I remember when it was learned in early 1996 that Stevie and Lindsey were going to record a song for the "Twister" soundtrack, that one Stevie fan in particular said that this was Stevie's revenge on Mick for not letting her use "Silver Springs," only to find out later that Mick played drums on "Twisted." I sent an e-mail telling the guy that Mick was working with Lindsey, so revenge is probably not the motivation. That dude said a lot of nasty things about me personally on the old FM newsgroup about the e-mail, even though he was shown to have been wrong. I personally don't see some of the catty nastiness from fans of other members of Fleetwood Mac that I see with Stevie Nicks' fans. What's sad is the few who are so nasty tend to be the most vocal, which gives Stevie fans a bad name.