Lindsey was fired. RIP Fleetwood Mac.

[David]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Fleetwood Mac has survived for 51 years, don't reckon Lindsey going will be the end.

The notion of survival doesn't mean all that much to me. The planet is filled with bands that have survived, but who wants to listen to them? I drive down the 215 and see a billboard for yet another Journey concert at one of the north county casinos, and I think "Good Lord." Journey survives — but what's the point? Another year playing casinos and fairs milking the old hits made famous by the original singer? It really is just a paycheck at that point. If Fleetwood Mac wants to "survive" and tour with strange new members, milking old hits made famous by the departed, it is just a paycheck. No interest to me. Those who find it interesting are in luck, certainly — but I wonder whether they're kidding themselves.

The music will live on, the crowds will still flock to see them, the money will roll in.

I'm not so sure that the music will live on. Behind the Mask and Time are as dead as the next album in the cutout bin. This latest (and I hope last) incarnation will leave no lasting music, no legacy. The crowds will still flock, probably, and the money will roll in. The band just wants a paycheck, and they'll get a paycheck.

We don't know why, it will come out in the end but hell the facts are still muddied about the Weston sacking and I wasn't even born then.

I was trying to remember all the members who've been sacked: Danny Kirwan, Bob Weston, Dave Walker, Lindsey Buckingham (twice), Billy Burnette? Lindsey's distinction — a two-time sacking — must hold the record. How embarrassing. (Would you say that Brunning was sacked? Or was he hired only for one gig, which was made clear to him beforehand?)

I don't get too caught up in the personalities, just hope we get some new music, and a new album.

It's the personalities that make the music. Why not get "caught up" in them? Who do you think made Black Magic Woman and Sands of Time and Tusk and Sara and Come a Little Bit Closer and the Derelict?

I reject the sociological view of Fleetwood Mac. It isn't a neighborhood, where people can move in and out without affecting the particular character. Fleetwood Mac, to the contrary, has had so many people move in and out since 1967 that it has several characters, some memorable and some utterly unmemorable. The revolving door policy has certainly generated a bunch of very different audiences, many of which have been at each other's throats.