thanks Christy
Thanks for the warm welcome Christy -
I totally agree. Lindsey really has never received the credit he deserves. Let's face it...without him that classic FM sound would've never existed. He was the one who pushed the artistic envelope. Don't get me wrong. Stevie and Christine are great songwriters, and things wouldn't have been the same without them either. But it took Lindsey's keen artistic senseability to transform those songs into the classic sound that we all know and love. I mean, look what happened when FM tried to do Behind the Mask. The songwriting was good, but it wasn't the "classic" sound - Lindsey should get the credit for that.
Although I must say that in kind of a odd and indirect way, he did get some recognition, as both BTM and Time didn't really do that well. Yet the Dance comes along and debuts at number one (without any new "studio" material). At least, I think it debuted at number one (someone correct me if I'm mistaken), but it was at least in the top ten - and it was a LIVE album - lol.
Out Of The Cradle, IMHO, sounded closer to that classic sound than anything FM did after he left. And the same goes for how he did Fleetwood Mac songs on his solo tour during that time (I had front row seats here in Seattle!!) - they sounded way better than when FM tried to do them without him on the BTM tour.
david
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