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[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by David

As usual, pal, your reply is utterly irrelevant to my point.

My point was that Billy was getting the attention of industry insiders, so it's not like he was a nobody who just happened to be hanging out with various members of Fleetwood Mac. I never said he was a superstar, just that he wasn't a complete unknown.

Originally Posted by David

Pishposh. "Overshadow"? What does that even mean, in concrete terms? Drop the abstractions.

You KNOW what I'm talking about. JCM was as big a hit machine in the '80s as the Mac were in the '70s, which means that his big hits were much more recent and relevant than the Mac hits. More people would be interested in just seeing JCM than seeing Fleetwood Mac. And, really, don't we already have enough of that with the Stevie factor as it is? Plus, when a career is THAT big, I don't see the potential new guy being a team player, especially as JCM is one of those guys who has a thing about female musicians (the only two he likes are Joni and Rickie Lee). Given everything that the band went through with Lindsey, they weren't necessarily interested in dealing with another big ego. JCM is a megastar. If you think they could have gotten JCM in 1987, why not go for Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, or Elton John? It's not realistic to expect somebody who is THAT huge on their own to give up total control, and significant profits, of what they're doing to join Fleetwood Mac.

Originally Posted by David

It would have been a wonderful conjoining of two powerhouse acts, each of which had more than a little in common musically with the other.

Not if it meant that the new guy was bigger than the band. It's not like when Sammy joined Van Halen. Van Halen had a lot of hits. Sammy only had a few at best. Yeah, he was a name, but it certainly wasn't bigger than the band he was joining.