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Originally Posted by michelej1
I always knew that Lindsey felt that way about YMLF, even though I never heard him say it. You can tell by the way he plays it on stage. He gets so into it. You'd think it was his song.
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He mentioned YMLF as a track somewhere or other -- the VH1 documentary on making Rumours or in one of those 1998 guitar player magazines. Also, during one of the old tours, he'd sometimes say something like "Isn't that a helluva song?" afterward. His view of it as a composite of superbly balanced parts makes great sense to me. The engineering on it is craftsmanship that was almost never heard in rock in those days.
I do wish Lindsey had answered the question asked, though. The interviewer wanted to know which songs were Lindsey's favorites, not which tracks or which orchestrations. Lindsey so rarely -- if ever -- discusses the other writers' work in Fleetwood Mac on that level that we missed an opportunity there.
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I understand that FM might want to work with a producer who has some recent credits out there. Yet, I do think it's best that Lindsey's role not be obscured. Controlled, regulated, balanced maybe, but not obscured, which is why Ken, Richard and Keith worked so well.
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I don't think Keith brough anything of genuine value to the table, but Richard & Ken certainly did. The role of producer covers such wide ground in the music world that it's hard to say just what a new Fleetwood Mac producer would actually do: Take a bird's-eye view & steer a big rudder in wide swaths, or examine details microscopically the way Lindsey himself does? I hope a new guy improves the sound field on the next project over the unpleasant distortion of the last one.