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Originally Posted by mylittledemon
I admit, in general I shun them. I like them in a different way. It's a different band to me. Totally different sound other than the staples in the rhythm section. I know ChiliD will be rolling over in his pre-grave at that comment, but I just don't dig the early stuff.
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That wouldn't bother him at all, nor should it. Why would it bother him that you heard some music by Kirwan or Green or Welch & didn't like it? There are undoubtedly other bands whose music you like that he doesn't. Taste varies. That's a fact of life -- who would let himself be bothered by that? How silly.
What irks Steve is the myopia some Fleetwood Mac fans have: the ones who a priori assume that Fleetwood Mac albums without Stevie Buckingham or Lindsey Nicks -- or even Peter Green -- can't possibly be any good or of any use to anyone. He deplores the fans who blithely & arrogantly say that Fleetwood Mac came into being only in 1975, & that its artistic stature was a function only of its commercial windfall in the United States -- thus eliminating any artistic achievements from incarnations earlier than 1975 or later than 1987.
I don't usually speak for Steve, but I've discussed this with him so thoroughly that I feel I know where he stands.