“I liked Fleetwood Mac before Buckingham/Nicks joined the group. But the music took on a whole different aspect once they joined.”
Oh yeah!
Look into the making of the Tusk album, the one right after Rumours. Lindsey had been trying to get the band to experiment a little. With their personal lives in turmoil and everyone dog tired they handed Lindsey a bunch of songs and told him to go play with them.
Lindsey took the same approach Brian Wilson did for Pet Shop Sounds and went and experimented with vocals and instruments in different places producing different sounds. He then tried to reproduce the sounds he really liked in the studio. Definitely a different sound!
Too bad the band was on it’s last legs.
“Lindsey took the same approach Brian Wilson did for Pet Shop Sounds...”
Uh, you are talking about one of my favorite albums. But the name of the album is PET SOUNDS; there is no “SHOP” in the title at all. Brian Wilson would have you publicly flogged for that!
But your comparison is not out of order: There are similarities.