Lindsey Buckingham Sues Fleetwood Mac
- Thread starter teal'c
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Not quite sure I would agree with this comment, if anything I would think more great art was created by starving artists than rich ones. Just a cursory thought.
onepixel
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I wouldn't put it that way. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are two of the founding members. Most everyone else has been transient. Except the 1975 class has gotten together more often. 1987 to 1995 was a completely different band.
c.coyle
Fighting the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Maybe.
I have the album somewhere after Lindsey left the first time. They replaced him with two guys if I remember correctly. It was not a bad album really, it just sounded like Stevie Nicks' backup band.
onepixel
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I have all of their original releases, including most of the individual solo albums.
The guys your are talking about are Billy Burnette, Rick Vito and Dave Mason. The female vocalists were Christine McVie and Bekka Bramlett. I like the two albums that came out during that time. I don't think they sounded like Stevie Nick's backup band.
He was just pulling my chain for providing a blinding glimpse of the obvious in an earlier post.
Okay, then -- four different bands. But they still all had the same bass player and drummer.
IPADave
Turning a whiter shade of pale.
Buckingham brings a certain sound to guitar as well as lyrics. The other members were fine musicians but they were not Buckingham. It was decent rock but hardly distinctive. Any of the Nicks written songs sound just like her solo albums. Buckingham added his own twist to Nicks songs with his guitar work.
onepixel
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Lindsey is definitely talented and I love what he has brought to the band. But he just doesn't play well with others.
He does, and he doesn't. Glad to hear them when he did.
damacman
Resident Psycho
Oh boy ...
armyslowrdr
I don't want one..LOL
Buckingham and Nicks are ok---when it comes to music. They are both ego laden asses though. Nicks won't record an LP and Nicks don't want to be on the same stage (again) with Buckingham. Buckingham does tend to think he is the gift of gab and tries to take over the show. They should have curtailed that long ago. Actually they probably should have fired her. But of course that won't happen. I was glad to see Christine come back. I understand the Tulsa show was a tremendous success and look to the Austin show next year. What exorbitant ticket prices? They were average when I bought mine on the day they went on sale. Bottom line is I am glad he is gone and wish Stevie was too. And finally I liked Tusk; it was a fine followup. Also I liked the Buckingham/McVie record. Ok I'm done now.
Steven Tate
CEO Flat Forehead Soc.
I agree completely. What does it take to make a song real "art"? Does it have to sound like crap and have lyrics that give you nightmares? Give me a song with some nice guitar licks, a memorable melody line and some good harmonies, and I'm happy. So it goes double platinum and some think that disqualifies it as art -- that's their problem. I loved the early SN/LB version of FM when those albums were released and I still spin them now and then and enjoy them just as much. On the other hand, I kind of understand the internal animosity of groups made up of young, immature musicians who got too much too quickly. But these guys should have matured a bit with age. All of this angst at this age is a big turn off. Grow up, Fleetwood Mac!
Both LB and Stevie seem to have large egos and maybe / maybe not deserved. I would say Stevie gets more allocates / attention than maybe deserved and Christine McVie less than. Christine has a very good voice and is very talented in her own right. Get a copy of this and give it a spin.
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teal'c
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Not really proving your point since there are so many more starving artists than rich ones they would obviously produce the majority of art, both great and crap.
And as far as the original post goes-
Lindsey Buckingham Confirms Stevie Nicks Wanted Him Out Of Fleetwood Mac
Also says lawsuit has been settled
MCM_Fan
AK Subscriber
He plays well with them. He just doesn't play nicely with them.
FM was around before L.B. and will probably continue to be. Not sure about your math, they added Heartbreaker Mike Campbell and the House is less crowded with one of the Finn bros now singing for FM. Doubt Campbell came just for the hell of it, don't know about Finn.
