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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
Thank God Bob Welch was a bit kinder.  |
All this silly stuff about having to hire two guys to replace one guy is just . . . silly. It's not even true. They hired ONE guy to replace Buckingham: Rick. Rick was the ONLY guy who played lead guitar in the band during his tenure. Billy NEVER played lead guitar in Fleetwood Mac -- EXCEPT during "Landslide." And that was probably just a novelty idea, something that he & Stevie wanted to try.
The REAL problem with whom the band hired after Lindsey left was that they didn't hire ANYONE to replace Buckingham in the engineering/production department. So the band suffered for that, relying on a guy, Greg, who had a reputation & a CV, certainly, but no real brilliance & no vision. The sad result was that he botched the new tunes on the '88 album & botched the entire '90 album.
Fleetwood Mac should have replaced Lindsey with Daniel Lanois Thomas Dolby or someone with studio genius.