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[David]

Originally Posted by David A

Fleetwood Mac (1975) & Tour = Great record, sounds a tad dated today, and the tour was a great success

There were multiple legs (at least three) behind that album, & I'm not sure you could say that all of them were great successes. The band certainly acquired an audience & sold an album & got people keyed up for "Rumours," but the early months of touring in summer & winter 1975 were a hodge-podge. The band drove from gig to gig largely by car (station wagons, according to Stevie), playing college towns & hick towns & paying back the buyers when the shows didn't sell well just to maintain bona fides. I think things were a lot more lucrative on the 1976 legs.

Tusk (1979) & Tour = The Tour, I always laugh that the band lost money on this tour. I mean, they played sold out venues everywhere, but I guess when you are racking up a bill that is so large, what you expect.

It's important to make that point. The tour made a heck of a lot of money for the band & the buyers, but the band squandered a lot of that money & so the individual members apparently didn't see much. Still, let's remember that the tour brought in the biggest box office of any tour that year for venues the size of a typical sports arena, according to Billboard. Fleetwood Mac has never done that since then.