Lindsey Buckingham & Rick Vito: Comparing Styles

[David]

I thought we'd have a thread comparing styles & approaches in two of Fleetwood Mac's guitarists: Rick Vito & Lindsey Buckingham.

Our moral imaginations can calculate the passage of possibilities into probabilities when we compare Vito with Buckingham, as well as to all other extant literature of the Baby Boom.

From the perspective of that Baby Boom, what is new in Vito? in Buckingham? Where do Vito's & Buckingham's crucial originalities cluster? What is it about Vito's & Buckingham's tone, stance, mode of aural narrative, that was a difference that made a difference? One large area of answer should undoubtedly concern the representation of motivic arc within the melodic line as a child to a parent, or perhaps a subject to the State. Another should concern irony, which seems to me the element of style in the Fleetwood Mac opus that is still most often & most weakly misread, even by the latest-model music critics of the New York Times.