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Originally Posted by Ulpian
No offence, but I'd rather chew on my own arm until it fell off. I am all against this 'hits only' nonsense FM is peddling, but let's not pretend that Lindsey is fighting it kicking and screaming. He's just as commercially aware (i.e. money-grabbing) as the other members and does not need to participate if he doesn't want to.
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He is absolutely in this for the money, and said so.
And I never would have brought up his name or this issue at all if the original poster didn't imply that it was somehow Lindsey's ego that kept Sheryl from ruining--uh, excuse me--joining Fleetwood Mac.
At least Lindsey's not trying (yet) to sell us a bill of goods that he's doing us some big fat favor by letting us hear all the hits that we've been listening to for thirty years for the First Time Ever in one place! and not making us listen to some boring old new stuff that we're all apparently too stupid to process because we don't know the words and can't sing along to it, or whatever the hell they are saying. Kind of like Stevie and Mick's ...uh, Sheryl is a mother and for the sake of her child we told her to stay home! Life on the road is tough with a child, in case you didn't know after your years of touring, Sheryl. Well, geez, thank you very much, Mr. and Mrs. Good Housekeeping.
Lindsey's not fighting it at all. He may even join in the party-line soon about how they are NOT in it for the money and love and respect each other and the cycles will keep on turning and all that crap that I wholeheartedly believed once and don't think I believe at all anymore. But, at the end of the day, while Stevie, unfortunately, will probably talk about the music industry being dead and how her fans are ripping her off by bootlegging tapes stolen years and years ago (while we would lick her boots for one new song and spend a fortune buying the same material, sung over and over and over again, umpteen times), Lindsey will probably finance new music with the money he's making on this tour. And, for those of us who are fans, we are grateful.
But, hey, I bought a ticket already, so I'm part of the problem, not the solution, as far as this tour is concerned. They talk crap, it's somewhat offensive to me, and I still love them and will stand there cheering my damn fool head off when the time comes.