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Certainly, in interviews, he honors Mick and the bond that formed between them. I’m thinking of that interview he did with Nile Rogers which was all about how he and Mick had a special musical connection. That he has enlisted Mick many times for his solo projects confirms this.
He knows John and Christine’s worth, too, but has often underplayed what each of them brought to the table. Even when he has spoken of the “magical” connection between him and Christine, he still has not given get her full due for the success of Mirage and Tango. He admires her “commitment to craft” but almost never speaks of her singing voice, never talks about her keyboard skills, and doesn’t credit her attention to studio arrangements. She was “always at the boards” with him when recording albums. He taught her a lot, but she certainly taught him, too. |
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This was also the era of her being the "baby sister" in interviews. She's projecting her insecurity. And what is she doing? She's on the road as an old woman something she claimed she did not want to happen.
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Edit: I actually hear some Tango elements with her vocals on this album.
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I don't think he realized it since The Dance. Fleetwood Mac filled arenas without him during Tango tour. And rejoining the band was more than certain that they would fill stadiums again, and if it weren't for Christine the tour would have been longer and worldwide. The 90s was the reunions decade, with Eagles and other bands precedents, there was no surprise.
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In 1978, Buckingham believed he was in a band of edgy artistic allies. It was a failure of intelligence on his part, and the truth hit him probably even before the tour was over, as the backlash set in (probably from label executives even before the members said anything). This is why his talk about legacy this past decade is so out of character for him. It’s not that I don’t believe him, but it’s definitely an about-face from his attitude about the band for forty years. He had some bizarro awakening about how good the band really was.
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In the 70s' 80's you could see a concert for $15.00 or less almost what an album would cost. Today the cheapest tickets are well over $200 with many closer seats selling for thousands. Tours can gross over 1 million for one night. Money changes everything.
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I agree. The Cleveland crowd at the BTM tour was full house and ravenous for them. I remember thinking, wow they actually really gel "as a band" and not some individuals stroking their own egos. Stevie was sedated of course.
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I saw them at the Capital Music Center in Grove City and it was packed. It was a great show, the highlight being “Stop Messin’ Round” for me.
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I'm super impressed with some of the songs on this bootleg -- Heartbreaker is really so good. It's a shame it never found a home on any of the subsequent FM/LB releases. And you can see how Frozen Love really sticks out as a fully realized song. But you do see how BN might never have found an audience without the addition of Mick, John and Christine -- the BN songs don't always have a finished sound to them, especially when played live. FM brought a rounder sound to BN, and also the chemistry they had as a group musically was an X factor that you couldn't get from either entity separately. The two forces uniting really was a Reese's peanut butter cup moment.
As for Stevie saying BN was better rehearsed than FM -- I'm sure they were. It's literally all they did. But in 1984, she was riding a huge wave of solo success and was not keen on FM at all, so she was also trying to say that FM weren't all that -- if she hadn't hit rock bottom during RAL, maybe she would have just gone all in on a solo career at some point. TITN being a big success was a big incentive to stick around (a cycle that would repeat with the success of The Dance and relatively poor reception of Street Angel). Lindsey clearly has a complex about not feeling appropriately recognized for his contributions to the band, and it has manifested itself as him being less vocal about the contributions the other members of FM made to the band's success. It's not right, but it's a character flaw that has been apparent for a long time, and it's not likely to change. Not when Stevie is out there co-headlining auditoriums and having the market power to boot him from FM. Their twisted dynamic has done neither of them favors as human beings. I do think LB has done more work (therapy?) and been forced to deal with more of the real world (family/marriage), so is not cray-delulu, but neither of them is a role model for kindness or humility. |
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I got to see them sing “When the Sun Goes Down” with Chris on accordion and see Stevie swish around in a short-short skirt. This was during the June leg, up in Northern CA. But I was bored, bored, bored. This was my Alban Berg phase.
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