Rumours Part 2... are you serious?

[Mr Scarrott]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

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For the record, I really like Lindsey's Tusk songs with the exception of NTF and WMYTYTO. That album was right for its time. With SYW, something else was needed, which wasn't quite what we got.

I think what I mean by this is that when Fleetwood Mac was triple-headed, there was somehow more space for Lindsey to do his own thing. Christine could also contribute Songbird effectively as a solo, with minimal guitars from Buckingham. The song styles, after all on Rumours did vary considerably and the them of personal break-ups ironically held the whole thing together. By Tusk when everyone is apart, there is even greater room for sonic adventure.

So they reboot for the Dance but they then lose Christine. They record four years later but that more limited version of the band, with a bit more discipline, could have produced a great Buckingham-Nicks album with a killer rhythm section. Pruned a bit, maybe it has echoes of that.

Perhaps I'm not making much sense. I rarely do, these days.