Fleetwood Mac in 1975 (Los Angeles Times)

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

But that's no excuse for calling the guitarist Steve Nicks. As a reporter, if you don't want to do research, just read the doggone liner notes from their first album, for heaven's sake.

But the reviewer function in a metro daily (like the L.A. Times, where I guess Cromelin was working at the time) is a lot different from the reporter function with regard to research. The pop music reviewer goes to the concert, gets back to the newsroom, & writes a (in this case brief) review. He ain't sitting there bothering to pull out liner notes & what-have-you all for the sake of what he & his paper consider a little filler concert review. I was friends with several music reviewers at the paper I worked at, & for concerts that weren't all that noteworthy or interesting to them or the readers, they just wrote a quick jobber.

Still, I guess not knowing that Lindsey was the guy & Stevie the girl means that, even as late as the end of November 1975, the first single from the album wasn't yet quite household. Obviously, the band wasn't on the tip of everyone's tongue until the following year. The album wasn't a Top 10 album until well into the following year, right?