taste, integrity, and a band named Fritz

beginning historic path of Fleetwood Mac
and
beginning historic path of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks:

beginning historic path of Fleetwood Mac --
started in England, Mick Fleetwood;
Peter Green was part of it;
(Green came to the conclusion that money was at the root of the world's ills, decided to give his money away, and at one point had conflict with his accountant who charged that Green had threatened him with a gun to get him to stop sending checks...);
F. Mac came to America;
Bob Welch was their guitarist for a while;
when Welch left in 1975, Mick Fleetwood discovered Lindsey Buckingham through an engineer who had worked on the Buckingham Nicks album;
F. Mac invited Lindsey B. to join the band;
Lindsey told them, "Stevie and I are a package deal."
Then -- the Fleetwood Mac album ("Rhiannon");
then -- the Rumours album ("Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow")

(Then -- more albums after that, etc. -- I just wanted to track / trace / timeline the beginning....)

beginning historic path of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks --
1968--Lindsey Buckingham invites Stevie Nicks (whom he had met in high school) to join his band, Fritz.
1968-1971--Fritz works in San Francisco, as an opening act for, among others, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin.  (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you couldn't make this stuff up if you were just sitting there wishin' and dreamin' ...!!!!)
1971--Fritz breaks up; Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are by now a couple, and they set out to do play live dates and record an album, as Buckingham Nicks.
1975 -- They join Fleetwood Mac, which is Now comprised of --
Mick Fleetwood, drums
John McVie, bass
Christine McVie, piano and vocals
Lindsey Buckingham, guitar and vocals
Stevie Nicks, vocals.

Christine, Lindsey, and Stevie are the main songwriters.

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miscellaneous Mac things:

The erstwhile guitarist Bob Welch turns up in two interesting performances on You Tube which I've found (there may be a jillion more):

1.  in the video of "Gold Dust Woman" -- Stevie-Nicks-live-rare-1981-8 minutes, Bob Welch is playing guitar (Lindsey Buckingham isn't there) -- so, Bob Welch was back with his former band as an invited guest, or whatever...

and

2.  typing in Bob Welch - "Ebony Eyes" - Stevie Nicks will get you a flying live outdoor show in CA and really-interesting Comments, if you read them....

= = = = = = = = On the "Classic Albums-Rumours" tape, made in 1997, Mick Fleetwood says (in his English accent), "Fleetwood Mac, in its earlier form, with Peter Green, had some success, with the hit records, the screaming girls -- we'd been there, and -- come back from it.  And, if you like, gone down from it....then we came over to America, and were sort of feeling our way...then in 1975 when Stevie and Lindsey joined, and we made that album -- and boom, here came the success again."


=  =  =  =  1978 Rolling Stone article, by Dave Marsh [excerpt] --
Mick Fleetwood puts it another way.  "You won't catch us selling Fleetwood Mac medallions on our next album sleeve," a thinly veiled jibe at Frampton's "I'm in You" LP, which was as choked with merchandising offers as a late-night TV show.  Fleetwood speaks of maintaining taste and integrity with a passion that seems fresh because everyone else seems to have left theirs in the Sixties.

This quality of humble amazement and the group's determination to remain that way combines quite nicely with Fleetwood Mac's stature as the only self-managed rock giant.

The Eagles are Svengali'd by the redoubtable Irving Azoff; Linda Ronstadt has Peter Asher; Boston is guided by a consortium of music-business experts; Peter Frampton has the advantage of Dee Anthony's twenty-five years as a show business manager, and Stevie Wonder has the Motown organization behind him.

Fleetwood Mac is managed by its drummer.

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