Fleetwood Mac Ironies

[RockawayBlind]

Having read the Rolling Stone interviews with Lindsey and Stevie, I was struck by some interesting developments. For years, Lindsey wanted to get away from FM and focus on his solo career, which in truth didn't go very far at all. He couldn't even get the label to release GOS, until it was folded into SYW. Then he finally gets a reasonably successful solo career going, and he seems to obsess with doing FM work.

Meanwhile, I would guess that a lot of Lindsey's fans, if not most, would rather he keep doing the solo stuff. When he is doing the "left-side" stuff, he is more creative and, yes, more self-indulgent. And the fans love that about him.

Now, Stevie -- she seems to be the one resisting Fleetwood Mac, even though it would be hard to deny that if anyone is the face of FM traditionally, it is she (even though Lindsey arguably has grabbed a bigger share of the spotlight in the last two tours). She appears to have agreed to the 2013 tour reluctantly, and she doesn't seem interested in doing an album. I really don't think she wants to record with these people, especially Lindsey, which is understandable.

Now, according to Lindsey, she comes into the studio with an old BN song for FM, then they record it and she decides she wants to use it in some BN project instead. This of course follows years of us hearing that she was the one tying up the re-release of the BN album or doing any work associated with it. She has hinted at doing a new BN album, true, but then, she has hinted at many things over the years that contradicted themselves.

So there are a lot of ironies here. While I think Stevie's fans would be perfectly happy with her turning her back on FM and focusing on her solo career, my feeling is her fans are more interested in new FM material than Lindsey's fans. And that is the biggest irony of all.