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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
Neither have I. The reason SS was dropped in favor of IDWK may have been a bit more delicate. My theory is that in order to balance out the lead vocals in the running order, the group wanted another Lindsey lead vocal on the record, otherwise the album--particularly side two--would have been too "girl" focused. So, although SS is generally regarded a superior song to IDWK, the latter duet provided the right vocal balance that group of songs needed.
If my theory is correct, this would have been a delicate matter for Nicks, who wrote and writes more music than Buckingham.
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I grant your theory strong possibility. It's a theory that makes logical sense to me. But the idea -- expressed elsewhere & frequently -- that the band didn't include SPRINGS to hurt Stevie Nicks is asinine. The idea that a musician or an arranger would sacrifice his own exceptional achievement (and the achievement of SILVER SPRINGS in musicianship & arrangement is very high indeed) for some sort of illogical personal vendetta is preposterous. Those bandmates of Stevie's
loved what they did on SILVER SPRINGS, & they had just as much interest in releasing it as she did.
Furthermore, the vocal harmonies on I DON'T WANT TO KNOW played a huge role in the band's reputation in those years as an amazing group of ensemble singers in the studio. See Robert Hilburn's comments on those harmonies in the L.A. Times in 1977, in which he stated that the Mac's singing far outpaced competitors (namely the Bee Gees & the Eagles) in terms of tightness & style.