[Red Badger]

Fleetwood Mac existed well before Lindsey and it will exist well after Lindsey..............

[SoCal Pubbie]

When I told my wife that my favorite Fleerwood Mac song was Hypnotized she looked at me and said “Huh, what are you talking about?”

[chickenlips]

I think it was at its best when Bob Welch was a member.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Fleetwood Mac existed well before Lindsey and it will exist well after Lindsey.............."

There were basically two completely different Fleetwood Mac bands - the original modestly-successful blues-oriented band that included Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, and Danny Kirwin, and the later super-successful pop band with Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie.

[HamiltonJay]

Very true, but there is no denying that the addition of Buckingham And Nicks are what allowed the band to become what it became....

Without them they are not the band they became.. there is no Rumours, there is no Fleetwood Mac Albumn, there is no Tusk.. or at least not as they were...

These songs never likely get recorded if Buckingham and Nicks didn’t join:

Monday Morning,
Rhiannon,
Landslide,
I’m So Afraid,
Second Hand News,
Dreams,
Never Going back Again,
Go your own way,
I don’t want to know,
Gold Dust woman.

And that just on the first 2 albums after they joined... doesn’t include any cowriting credits by them or arrangement or production input they both provided to other songs etc.

Reality is, without Buckingham being asked to join, and him insisting if you take him you take Stevie Nicks too... Fleetwood Mac would likely never become what it became.

And to be fair, Buckingham has to take the fall for the hard fall that was TUSK as well.. but even that, mirage, and Tango in the night were still multi platinum albums.

it was only the albums completely without Buckinghams involvement where Fleetwood Mac Studio Albums dropped once again below platinum