What if LB didn't go back to save the Mac in 97?

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Originally Posted by SteveMacD

The reality is that OOTC didn’t sell much better than Time, and Street Angel was Stevie’s worst selling album. The combined sales numbers of all three would still have been a disaster by Fleetwood Mac standards. Be under no illusion, they all needed that reunion. The Dance didn’t save the band, it revived everyone’s failing careers.

i'm not talking about sales or commercialism. the Dance saved Fleetwood Mac as a brand and a commercial entity, no doubt there.

LB needed that reunion if he wanted to be commercial again. but for his opus, that reunion screwed him up. so it depends what you mean as a career. his creative career got stifled and screwed, not saved by any means.

(you are the one talking about Richard Thompson all the time. and you seem more than happy with him having largely non-commercial career in recent decades. so i don't get why you think LB needs a commercial career?)

early 90s was the time of grunge. i'm not saying that LB's inertia and propensity to wait didn't add to all this. once when he decided he's not going for commercial anymore, which happened seemingly around the time of his Soundstage release or maybe right before Under The Skin, he became free and started releasing stuff... in the holes of time Mac allowed him.

Lindsey would have been just as unknown as he is now.

FM would have been playing fair circuit or not exist and would not have today's legendary status.

Stevie - hard to tell, she's always been a climber. she may have stayed a laughing stock or maybe she would have done eventually stuff like AHS anyway. but she most probably would have been far from a legendary icon she is now.

LB being back with the label now is once again screwing him up now. he should have taken the money he made with FM in the past and started his own little indie label. nurture some artists he cares about.