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Originally posted by baugh
...as far as Stevie goes, sitting in your room high and righting lyrics, well, anyone could come up w/ something interesting....
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Alrighty, smarty-pants
, first of all, it's writing, there's no such thing as righting. And my lord, by saying what you have just said, you have just taken away all validity and legitimacy of talent from most if not all artists in the history of music. Cuz let me tell ya something, THEY ALL GET HIGH AND DRUNK. Then, they write & play. That's the way it's been, that's the way it'll always be. If you think otherwise, then I'm really sorry, I don't know how to help you realize the truth. So, if you're statement is true as you believe that it is, then no musical artist has any talent in them at all and it's just the drugs and booze talkin'!!!!!
I just don't understand how anyone can say oh yeah I love Fleetwood Mac, they're my favorite band.....then sit there and have nothing but negative things to say about any of the individual members. I mean, for goodness sake, it doesn't ALL have to be positive, but find SOME good contributions....commenting to simply FLATTEN somebody is just irritating.
Oh mercy (deep sigh)......Stevie would not just have a sheet of lyrics......SHE does the basic track as well as the words to her songs........and might I just say that, sometimes, the same thing can be said about Lindsey--he's never been much of a lyricist....might he have wound up with just a sheet full of notes at times???? While the man is a genius and a guitar god, I've seen him be very short with words at times....repetitive at times as well. Hell one of his songs didn't even have a name until Stevie told him to use her name as the title!!
Jo & Jensen, I will agree with you there, Stevie can play when she wants to and needs to.....it IS more than simply fiddling....she just will never be one of the best guitar or piano players, is what I was trying to get at.
Carnevaca, by the way you are talking, it does not seem to me that you WANT to be exposed to anything that might give you the impression that Stevie did fine with her songs before Lindsey's influence upon them.........just my opinion. I do however agree with you on the point about Lindsey turning away from the "Fleetwood Mac" thing on his solo work and being more experimental on it, hence the reason for not as much, popularity, I guess you would say. But also, in his work with Fleetwood Mac, wouldn't you say that in order for him to do great things with the music, he had to start out with wonderful stuff--it's pretty hard to fashion something spectacular out of crap, don't you think. So the music he was getting from Stevie (and from Chris too) must have been pretty good.
My musical tastes have really changed as well......and it was really Stevie, her image, her writing, yes her singing, her everything, who initially brought me to this band.........she must still have something, because I am not alone in this.
I'm done reading threads with people that insist on pitting one member against another......it's the same damn band........they're all in it......
Stephanie