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Originally Posted by chiliD
I was speaking strictly from a musical standpoint. Just because Jimmy McCulloch had a smack problem doesn't mean Danny would have, too. Being that he was having to FRONT Fleetwood Mac magnified his insecurities (that and having the "I'm a white man who SHOULDN'T be playing the black man's blues" syndrome). Being a sideman in Wings where the spotlight would rarely be on him, and playing POP music rather than "the blooze" probably would've HELPED his situation rather than been his downfall.
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I'd agree with that - Danny was never born to be a frontman. The pressure of carrying the band musically certainly exacerbated his problems, though I don't think he would necessarily have developed a smack problem. If he was likely to, he'd have done it by then. Had he joined Wings, or Wishbone Ash or someone like that, he could have stayed quietly out of the limelight and carried on contributing his songs and ideas, without them being the "only" songs and ideas. Someone would have had to help him with his stagefright though, and I'm not sure Macca would have had the patience for that.