Superbowl Mac '93 video

[David]

Originally Posted by sjpdg

Those of us who really liked the Vito/Burnette era are apparently a minority on this forum in general.

Be proud of your minority status! You are a select group, an exclusive enclave! That's a spine-tingling sensation!

It seems that for many people here, if it's not Buckingham/Nicks, then its crap, which is reeeeeaaallllyy ridiculous!!

You didn't read my post above, did you? Or did you, & simply chose to ignore its truths?

It's as if no other era of the Mac ever existed prior or since and no other era ever should. To be completely honest, it makes me sick!!

I guess that Fleetwood Mac followers have their own version of the Hanslick Syndrome.

I've always thought the Vito/Burnette era had the possibility of a sort of "new beginning" for Fleetwood Mac, much as the Buckingham/Nicks era had ushered in the same thing at that time. Certainly nothing as earth-shattering as "Rumours" was going to come out of the Vito/Burnette era, but great music was certainly a possibility.

Great music is always a possibility. But you have to write better songs than "Stand on the Rock" & "Freedom" (a dumb ripoff of lines & phrases from Wilde's "Dorian Gray").

Overall, I think BTM is a great disc. It holds together well, the songs are generally good, and all the singers contributed to it.

You said "overall," which implies that you do in fact have some criticisms of the album. What are your criticisms? What do you think of the sonic qualities of the album? What do you think of the level of songwriting on "Stand on the Rock" or "Freedom"?