How legendary is Fleetwood Mac?

[On Ice]

I think you nailed it Bombay....it is difficult to consider the Mac in the league of the Stones, Floyd and Zep when we're only talking about essentially two ground breaking records. Keeping in mind that the triumphant Tusk was considered a "failure" at the time. That said, Tusk does reverberate in the sound of some of the new bands out there. Sadly, the band most definitely lost its chemistry after Tusk. To me, that can be chalked up to too much time on the road, too much time together and too many drugs. Had that been scaled back a bit, I believe we would have seen at least two more albums in the calibre of Rumours and Tusk. The early 80's was also an awkward time for producing great music, many bands lost their direction a bit in that period and despite Mirage's high points, it's hardly a classic. Tango in the Night did not have the band's chemistry in tact when its strongest link, Nicks, fell flat with low quality material and poor performances. I think if we had a few pre-White albums that had been monster sellers, then the Mac would be in the Floyd category. Certainly Mystery to Me, Bare Trees and Then Play On are all high quality albums, but they weren't commercial successes, hence the difficulty in keeping the band up there.