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Title: Fleetwood Mac Post by: Andy on October 03, 2023, 10:38:31 AM Following Christine McVie's death, Mick Fleetwood said that that was the end of the band, essentially.
Stevie Nicks has now reiterated this, so I guess that is indeed the end. Their very different legacies, from the 1960s with Peter Green and from the 70s onward with Buckingham & Nicks, are both memorable. Title: Re: Fleetwood Mac Post by: davidmjs on October 03, 2023, 12:15:43 PM Following Christine McVie's death, Mick Fleetwood said that that was the end of the band, essentially. Stevie Nicks has now reiterated this, so I guess that is indeed the end. Their very different legacies, from the 1960s with Peter Green and from the 70s onward with Buckingham & Nicks, are both memorable. There's a big chunk of very underrated music made in the intervening period as well. Title: Re: Fleetwood Mac Post by: Dan O. on October 03, 2023, 02:44:48 PM Agreed, post Peter Green and pre Buckingham Nicks, there are 6 albums bearing the name Fleetwood Mac, and there's definitely some good music there that gets overlooked, a lot of it composed by Bob Welch and Christine McVie.
However, Danny Kirwan is really the unsung hero in the Fleetwood Mac story - it was arguably Danny's input that steered the band away from being a blues-based outfit. They started playing that soft rock, AOR, Americana, whatever pigeonhole it goes into, music long before Lindsey & Stevie's recruitment. In fact, when Bob Welch quit, and Mick Fleetwood was hunting around for a new guitarist, he initially chose Lindsey Buckingham on on the basis that his style reminded him of Danny Kirwan's. The fact he came as a pair with Stevie was an added bonus - Christine agreed to her joining on the condition that the two of them were going to get on ; thankfully, they liked each other from the first time they met. |