Favourite Member Of Fleetwood Mac

Shoulda included Harold.

I voted for Nicks. The others are good, but she's weird.

i just spent twn minutes searching for a jpeg of harold. let me tell you, if you GIS "fleetwood mac" "dildo" you get some pretty hardcore results.

can't decide which jeremy spencer to vote for

Should have included Kirby Gregory.

Seriously, I think I like "Why did you do it" more than any other Fleetwood Mac track, including "Tusk"

Stevie vs. Peter Green

can't decide which jeremy spencer to vote for

DAMMIT

new thread, or do jeremy's fans agree to vote only the first Jeremy?

He was never the same....

Actually, the second one was the one that did "Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonite", how about that?

There are some days I could listen to just Christine McVie songs. What a ho.

Lindsey. Any one of The Five would be an acceptable answer though. I'd maybe even narrow that down to one of The Three, but Mick's such a rascal.

One of the three?

"Peter Green's"
"Fleetwood"
"Mac"

Lindsey for his insistence that the band not make 'Rumours vol. 2'.

Heh. I meant the two Jeremy Spencers and "Rick Vito" obviously.

Peter Green. Though I really like Buckingham as a guitar player.

I really liked the Oh Well Part Two.

Not Peter Green, I know, but wiki tells me nothing.

i think oh well pt 2 *is peter green?

Lindsey is a hell of a guitar player. Is it like a "challop" to find him kind of annoyingly insincere and creepy in terms of his personal manner though?

i like his sincerity, i don't find him annoying or creepy, but ymmv and happy trails to you

my brain says lindsey, my heart says stevie, my gut says the two guys who the band is named for. i think the rhythm section elevated this weird collective of smart singer-songwriters into something much more than a weird collective of smart singer-songwriters.

Peter Green – vocals, guitar, harmonica, violoncello on "Oh Well, Pt. 2"[2]
Danny Kirwan – vocals, guitar
John McVie – bass guitar
Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
Jeremy Spencer – piano on "Oh Well" {Pt 2}
Additional Personnel

Christine Perfect – piano (uncredited)[3]
Big Walter Horton – harmonica (uncredited)
Sandra Elsdon – recorders on "Oh Well (Pt 2)" (uncredited)[4]

This is the closest I have got to 'credits', I'm certain that it's Danny Kirwain who did the majority of OhWellPart2, but remained uncredited.

there's something in mick fleetwood's biog about it, but a) my copy is lent out, b) i can't remember the exact details and c) i got the impression mick's recall was a little sketchy/impressionistic throughout. a great read, though, and it makes you love him just a bit more, even though he's a pretty awful self-obsessed goof at times.

voted christine, the poor thing

^^^^^ sorely missed on the otherwise excellent Say You Will.

Say You Will *is* really good, isn't it? Far too long though - she'd've broken it up nicely (turned it into a triple!)

Her presence would have forced the excision of several blah Buckingham and Nicks songs.

Should vote Lindsay, voted Stevie.

stevie stevie stevie

nix nix nix

^^^^^ sorely missed on the otherwise excellent Say You Will.

Made more cruel by her audible presence in a lot of the Buckingham songs on that record.

I always get confused and think Stevie is the man and Lindsay is the woman.

LB

Lindsey w/o a second thought.

Christine. Her material is always underrated on ILM in all the pre-poll results banter but usually finishes at/near the top.

if I made a fleetwood mac pox stevie would probably do the best, but voted buck

i mean, i just wanna spread it around a little, so i voted for bob welch, because FUTURE GAMES is a really important song to remember here. i could have easily voted for peter green, mick fleetwood, christine mcvie, lindsey buckingham, or stevie nicks, though.

my brain says lindsey, my heart says stevie, my gut says the two guys who the band is named for. i think the rhythm section elevated this weird collective of smart singer-songwriters into something much more than a weird collective of smart singer-songwriters.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, September 20, 2010 3:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^a really important point

Mick and John really do deserve some credit for keeping the thing going. Seems like there were a few different periods where they could have hung it up, but they didn't.

If this poll had a right answer the band would be way less interesting.

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Pretty hard to get past the Stevie/Lindsay/Christine triumvirate, and I'm not voting for him, but can I just...
http://www.fleetwoodmac.org/images/bob-welch.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Lindsey Buckingham for his insane banjo-esque fingerpicking skills and confident tenor (I do not include his weird warbling on the reunion album)

Lindsey

mcvie!

er christine that is

lindsey

Well, Welch was in charge for my favorite album of theirs (M2M) and Kirwan was in charge for my second favorite (BT). Probably have to go with Kirwan, as he seems kind of crucial in helping them bridge the gap from blues to...other stuff.

The purists who prefer their 60s work are not around here, obv...

both jeremy spencers shutout

LB = SN + 33? There's some faulty math for ya...

Poor Jeremy Spencer. He didn't get a single vote even tho he appears twice on the poll.

Oh same thing for Billy Burnette.

wow LB by a landslide! I voted for him, but am surprised. this poll is good, because FM were definitely a *band* comprised of separate personalities-- emphasizing one over another really does change the equation, and maybe says something about you in the process! like a facebook quiz!

Seriously, I think I like "Why did you do it" more than any other Fleetwood Mac track, including "Tusk"

― Mark G, Monday, 20 September 2010 14:37 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Do I take it back and like "Oh Well" more?

I think I do.

Awesome showing for Christine McVie. Really glad to see dudes turn out and vote for her.

Think the guy's a talent and all that but the ILM hero worship of Lindsey B. is kind of embarrassing

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/83/angrymob.jpg

Fine long interview with Mick. Sad Mick is sad!

“The news that this tour might never happen was devastating to me,” Fleetwood says. “We have been through so many ups and downs and false starts that, really, it’s almost a part of our process. Nearly every Fleetwood Mac album going back to the mid-1980s began as a Lindsey Buckingham solo project that we’d all end up playing on, until before our eyes it was transformed into a Fleetwood Mac album.”

This time was different, however, even though the motions, at first, seemed to be the same. “We all played on both Lindsey’s and Stevie’s records, so I thought nothing had changed. But as time stretched on, something didn’t feel right. Still, I was not prepared for that blow: essentially the realization that I no longer had a band. I’ve had a band—this band—since 1967. With all else coming apart in my life, it was not something I was prepared to stomach. But like the other guys, I’m getting over it.” He takes another of the long, thoughtful pauses that characterize his speech. Fleetwood is a man who talks easily, but before he says anything of significance, he weighs his words deliberately, his dulcet baritone rolling out in crisp, clipped King’s English. “The act of getting over this shock has proven to be a great catalyst in changing my life for the first time in decades. It inspired me to say, finally, ‘Enough is enough.’ For the first time ever I have refused to do what I’ve done in the past—anything it took to make a Fleetwood Mac album and tour happen. I was always the one to jump through hoops, to get down and beg, to play the fool or be as charming as I could. I literally did whatever was needed to keep the band moving forward. But not anymore.”

It's starting to seem like we'll soon have to refer to Fleetwood Mac in the past tense.... :-(

“It is certainly a blow to all of us financially,” Fleetwood says wryly. “I don’t care what you have and what money means to you, we’re talking about a very sizable, profitable tour. We’re talking about being paid well to do something that, unless I’ve misread things in this band for the past 30 years, we all love to do, because we’ve continued to do it even during our most difficult times individually and as a group. As a band we don’t work very often, so we never became some big moneymaking machine like the Eagles. The Eagles are absolutely brilliant—they work relentlessly, they put on a great show and they have all the money in the world to prove it. We just never fucking did that.” He turns to look down the mountain at Maalaea Harbor, resplendent in the afternoon sun. “Fleetwood Mac could have been that and still could be today if we choose to, but we’re not and we won’t. Instead we are the worst-run franchise in the rock-and-roll business.”

"more truffle fries, mick?"

yeah that was the interview's "'I got that kike by the balls,'" said Lou Reed, who is Jewish himself" moment.

mick's gotta be in the top 5 "moneymaking machine" non-singing drummers of rock, right? charlie watts, lars...who else has a lockdown on more green than him?

Bill Berry?

even if bill has a little more songwriting royalties coming his way, guessing the last few fleetwood reunion tours since bill left REM would put mick over him

farm vs resplendent Hawaiian island

Pizza Hut commercials have helped Ringo

he also sings more than he drums at this point (we're also not going to count dave g, don h and phil c)

he should reunite the original line-up and do a tour of nursing homes and mental institutions

Hereby bumping this because the FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS POLL will launch in the very near future... This favorite-member poll was so difficult, I can barely fathom how difficult narrowing down my list of favorite songs will be.

Los Angeles (CNN) - Fleetwood Mac co-founder John McVie has been diagnosed with cancer, forcing the group to cancel upcoming shows on its world tour.

:(

what a shitty day.

Tom, delete ILX now please.

srsly

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/22/christine-mcvie-wants-to-rejoin-fleetwood-mac

If they were to ask me I would probably be very delighted … but it hasn't happened so we'll have to wait and see.

Her remarks were made in a Guardian interview with her and Nicks to be published later this year. During the interview, in which they discuss their friendship, their decadent 1970s lifestyle and experiences of sexism in the music industry.

!!!

That's great for her and fans, but it's kind of a shame she waited until they had to cancel their tour because John has cancer. Hopefully the band comes out at the end intact. This is one farewell reunion I'd be really excited about.

Could it be whispers about her rejoining brought on McVie's cancer?

^ha I felt that one coming.

While we wait for that Guardian interview, this silly little video is a pretty good document of their friendship and "decadent 1970s lifestyle":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZSp9TjVlKM

That video is lovely.

Amazed.

holy christ they're so fucked up

People will react to that differently, but for me, not all that different than another interview a few months earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raEXGXw5VJM

Creepy, not especially fun to watch.

Christine
So smooth...

Christine is the beating heart of the band, which is why I adore Tango in the Night and her contributions to it so much

Peter Green will always be my favorite (and even then, I think Danny Kirwan may even edge him out as their best guitarist). Lindsey Buckingham is also close behind (and IMHO, he's also had the best solo career of any member by a good margin).

But Christine is amazing. After they blew up commercially to gargantuan proportions, I think she and Buckingham probably wrote the best material, but she also wrote the best tunes after Peter Green left and before Buckingham & Nicks came on board - almost single-handedly, she made that stretch of time worth hearing. You can make a great LP out of the dozen best cuts she sung and wrote during those years. "Spare Me a Little...," "Remember Me," "Dissatisfied," "Did You Ever Love Me," "Why," "Heroes Are Hard to Find," "Come a Little Bit Closer," "Show Me a Smile," "The Way I Feel," etc.

“keep on going”, “prove your love”...

I’m posting in the wrong thread but that ‘03 doc just goes to show that Fleetwood and Mc are peripheral players to the whole deal

Nicks wuz robbed.

I made amends: her best Fleetwood Mac tracks ranked.

I would have voted Nicks in the past.. and still would tbh… but I just ran through the ST-Tango run again and it’s not so clear cut…

That is a ranking I mostly agree with. I would put “crystal” and “sisters of the moon” high up in the SOLID category

Well done, Michael Gambino. Well done.

woof at that #1

Hahahaha, bow down to a master - he even asked if FM would play together again! I wouldn't relish that...

LOL at guy saying it never happened. Dude, there’s a picture of them arm in arm together.

love the idea that him and Stevie ostensibly hate each other but every once in a while recommend landscapers to each other.