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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr
You're reading my mind. And I'm all good with him using that as an excuse to pull Mick to him and throw darts at goat and irritate her. But love Peter Green? Next Christine is gonna say Dave Mason was pretty good for that era (looking back).
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I see it a bit differently. Lindsey has always professed respect for Green’s contributions to the band, though it’s clear LB was not in any real way influenced by him. Now that he’s older and Green has died and he faces his own old age, he’s thinking back on Fleetwood Mac and its entire legacy—and he’s seeing his own achievement as tied to the most renown portions of that legacy. So, while he’s paying some amount of bs lip service to Green, I do suspect he’s feeling a genuine need to connect the Mac he led with the Mac Green led.
What saddens me time and again is how Lindsey completely ignores Bob Welch’s legacy. Mick and the McVies have enabled this through selective memory. Lindsey only ever mentions Welch’s music (and even then rarely) in a negative context. “Future Games” and “Hypnotized” are as important to the band’s history as “Second Hand News,” “Tusk” or “Big Love,” maybe even GYOW, too.