Aren't We Being A Little Hard On The Band?

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

But what nobody understands is why so many other artists, who have much smaller followings than Fleetwood Mac, and who likely never will sell as many records as Fleetwood Mac, apparently think it's a good business decision to release remastered albums and concert DVDs and whatever else, while Fleetwood Mac doesn't. Either all of these other bands are idiots who are losing money, or Fleetwood Mac is. I'm not inclined to give the Fleetwood Mac organization the benefit of the doubt here.

YES! That's what bugs me. Brian J. would be more knowledgable (sp - duh) than me about what's new with older metal bands, but I know for a fact that many of them are currently putting out DVDs of live shows & videos as well as remastering their old material - honestly, how many copies will Helloween sell? How about Cinderella? One would assume that Mac would be able to sell many more.

LIB is pretty cool, but what really pissed me off was that besides the new tunes, it's almost the same as The Dance. The casual fan will look at the tracks, think "what the hell is Say Goodbye? I've already see the rest of this ****" and put it back on the shelf. There's your less than stellar sales - put out the same material over & over and people won't care.

I'm a casual fan of Cyndi Lauper & I have a Cyndi Lauper DVD - if she puts out another one in 7 years but it's mostly the same songs, I ain't buyin'. One is plenty. Now, that being said, if she put out her older concerts onto DVD, I would definitely consider buying, esp. if there are different songs & bonus material.

People like to relive the past, look back fondly, reminisce. So why not release at least the stuff that was put out on VHS (Tusk Doc, Mirage concer, Stevie's WWD show.) It can't cost that much, plus we all know there's tons of extra crap to put on them - backstage footage, photo shoots, etc. WHY NOT?!?!