Let's show some love for Penguin and Heroes!

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

As a critical premise, it doesn't work. Dave Walker joined to the band, the band did not join him. So as much as you love his work (and I can see why) and as much as you might think the rest of the album iffy the McVie/Welch material was "in place" given the band's direction at that time.

I think Walker as a singer is as good as any big-voiced hard-rocking front man in any number of 70's power bands. FM just wasn't that kind of band. Deep Purple should have hired him after Ian Gillan (sp?) left.

Perhaps.

I've never managed to see how Fleetwood Mac has ever managed to put together an album that sounds like it all belongs together, perhaps with a couple of exceptions - Heroes are Hard To Find and PG's Fleetwood Mac.

Plus, it wasn't as if Dave Walker changed in any way when he came into FM, he sounded the same as his Idle Race and Savoy Brown work. So, my argument is this:

FM hired Dave to do a particular job, give a particular sound. Then the rest of them went and did an album that wasn't going to fit with Dave. Surely at some point they sat down and said "Oh we want to go in this particular direction, Dave Walker will fit in well with that..." It really was the rest of the bands fault if he didn't.

If the band never intended to go in that direction then they would not have hired him... His introduction was designed to change the FM sound, sadly the rest of them didn't move on until at least Tusk...