If could go back...would you..?

[Bryan]

If you could go back in time and change Mac history,which of the following would you do..(if you'd do it at all)? Bare in mind that each option stops Stevie & Lindsey ever joining Fleetwood Mac.

[macfan 57]

I voted to keep the Mystery To Me line-up going. I think MTM was Fleetwood Mac's best album ever & that line-up was just perfect. If only Bob Weston & Jenny Fleetwood hadn't.......

[HomerMcvie]

I voted to keep Bob We..........lch. Because the Bob We........ston option still didn't allow for Bob Welch to not leave the band. I'd vote to keep both Bob We's. MTM is my favorite album of all time.
Sorry, I was enjoying the similarities in their names. Easily amused, no?

[jwd]

Sorry, couldn't do it. As much as I love the other incarnations of Fleetwood Mac, my favorite is still the Rumours lineup. So give me Stevie and Lindsey along with Christine and Mick and John.

[Hawkeye]

Well Bob Welch could've stayed and they STILL would've gotten Stevie and Lindsey on board.

[xdreamsunwindx]

I can't do it, either. If I had chosen one of those options, it would mean that I would have most likely never gotten into Fleetwood Mac, because Stevie Nicks got me into them. I do love the MTM lineup, but nothing'll ever beat the fab five lineup for me.

-Kate

[Johnny Stew]

Interesting question, Bryan, but I couldn't do it either. I couldn't prevent ANY of the future Mac lineups from existing.

In fact, the ONLY thing I would go back and change about Fleetwood Mac's history, is the amount of music they've released... which should have been MUCH more.

[P90pup]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Interesting question, Bryan, but I couldn't do it either. I couldn't prevent ANY of the future Mac lineups from existing.

In fact, the ONLY thing I would go back and change about Fleetwood Mac's history, is the amount of music they've released... which should have been MUCH more.

It would be the 3 W's. Weston, Walker and (sadly,)Welch. If Peter had not
suffered the Demons...FWM would be spoken in the same circles as LZ..with
a better rhythm section! Jeremy and Danny and Peter would have made
Kiln House (with Christine) a watershed Lp ala Houses of The Holy..or Abbey
Road (I get carried away). Buckingham/Nicks would be platinum artists in their own right! Bob Welch...a great guitarist, but to me he never fit the mold. He was too California...too soon. Lindsay and Stevie moved there
at the right time. Mick Fleetwood KNOWS things we mere mortals don't.
What a history!

[wetcamelfood]

Naturally I love all of the members as well but out of this bunch of choices, I'd say they should've stuck with Dave Walker because this was the one that would've been accomplished the easiest.

Peter, Jereny & Welch had all made up their minds (even aside from Peter getting spiked) with what they wanted to do so i ruled those out.

If Mick changed his mind about firing Danny then one of the others or Clifford Davis woud've just done it themselves because they all couldn't bare to work with him any longer by then (sadly).

Even if Weston & Jenny stopped their affair then and there, I bet it would've stil grated on Mick's nerves and that would've come to a head of some description at some point anyways and if the "Penguin" line up got it's problems squared away then this may have nullified the affair happening later on (due to the possible success FM could've obtained which of course would've made Mick calm down about not having money or whatever it was that was taking his mind off of Jenny etc.).

Though Walker had his troubles at the time with drinking etc. I think he would've been more receptive in "toning it down" (if this was in fact the main issue) than it seems to have been decided he would've by the others without even asking him (by all accounts) and Dave said at his Q&A here that he felt he was never really given a chance so that anyways, is why I chose what i did.

These are all good choices and this isn't to say I "didn't want the BN lineup to happen" either but I just wish the politics would've been kept under control but I won't go there.

John

[HomerMcvie]

Mick Fleetwood KNOWS things we mere mortals don't.

Like how to make wise investments.
Never has any individual managed to make so much money off the talents of others! I wouldn't trust that man in my house alone.

[wondergirl9847]

As much as I love and adore Danny, I need my Lindsey. I think history played out very well, although, my wish for Peter and Danny to be well, still stands.

[Bryan]

I think Buckingham Nicks were on to something back in '74.I still think they'd have made it without Fleetwood Mac.And who knows which direction the Mac could've taken!? Still,history has played out pretty well,although there has been great losses along the way.

[Gypsy3]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Like how to make wise investments.
Never has any individual managed to make so much money off the talents of others! I wouldn't trust that man in my house alone.

Sorry but I have to say I wouldn't change a thing!

[chiliD]

I agree with "P90pup"...

Had Peter stayed, Fleetwood Mac would be Zeppelin, Who, Pink Floyd type legendary.

It's my unpopular opinion that Rumours was the WORSE thing to happen to Fleetwood Mac. Look, 27 years later, they're STILL touring to promote it above even their latest material. A damned shame.

[jbrownsjr]

Chili I agree. They are still promoting Rumours in a sense.