"The band didn't want to appear in the cover picture, so Mick Fleetwood suggested that I create a sort of spiritual proxy band."

http://www.dgorton.com/FMac.jpg

worst spiritual proxy band EVER.

I always thought the fake Stevie was cuet.

"fuck, i can't put these guys on the cover, what the hell do i do...?"

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/images/greg3fleetwoodmac.l.jpg

tbh I can't remember a single song from this album, though.

donuts and soda pop on a table being held up by bricks.

i'm actually listening to this album right now.

billy burnette does a fake lindsey on the 3rd track.

i never took a close look at this sleeve; used to think fake Stevie was their new singer.

now this "jefferson starship" going around with kantner/frieberg + weirdos is some pretty awful proxy rock.

http://991.com/NewGallery/Fleetwood-Mac-Behind-The-Mask--536933.jpg

Those were the days! A tossed off Mac album could still sell half a million copies.

fm had a real proxy band in 1973, shoulda just put their picture up there

http://bonanzleimages.s3.amazonaws.com/afu/images/8983/3300/_b9wqepgewk___kgrhqiokkyezldvy___bm5hnw0yew___12.jpg

"save me" was the big hit and i always kinda felt like it was christine by the numbers. and "affairs of the heart" is stevie by the numbers. and the production is so smooshy and late-80's bad.

Fleetwood Mac needed a late-80s unabashed-pop hit, their "Second Hand News"-type "Love Shack."

Ladanyi co-produced the Behind the Mask album with Fleetwood Mac. He also co-produced, engineered and mixed Don Henley's first two solo albums I Can't Stand Still and Building the Perfect Beast. He won a Grammy Award in 1983 in the Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical category for Toto IV by Toto. In 2007, he partnered with Starr Andreeff and Mike Renault to form Maple Jam Music Group.[2]

His most recent work involved producing Ligion's new album, External Affairs. He was also the main producer on Anna Vissi's album, Apagorevmeno, which was released on December 9, 2008 in Greece and Cyprus.

Ladanyi died in Cyprus on September 29, 2009 after falling 13 feet just before Vissi's performance at Nicosia's GSP Stadium , suffering a fractured skull.[3]

producer/co-producer

* Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980) - Warren Zevon
* Hold Out (1980) - Jackson Browne
* Stand in the Fire (1980) - Warren Zevon
* I Can't Stand Still (1982) - Don Henley
* The Envoy (1982) - Warren Zevon
* Lawyers in Love (1983) - Jackson Browne
* Building the Perfect Beast (1984) - Don Henley
* Victory (1984) The Jacksons
* A Quiet Normal Life: The Best of Warren Zevon (1986) - Warren Zevon
* After Dark (1987) - Cruzados
* Sirius (1987) - Clannad
* In the Spirit of Things (1988) - Kansas
* See the Light (1988) - The Jeff Healey Band
* Starfish (1988) - The Church
* Stealin Horses (1988) - Stealin Horses
* The End of the Innocence (1989) - Don Henley
* Behind the Mask (1990) - Fleetwood Mac
* El nervio del volcán (1994) - Caifanes
* Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits (1995) - Don Henley
* Bajo el Azul de Tu Misterio (1999) - Jaguares
* Apagorevmeno (2008) - Anna Vissi

Oh shit, I haven't thought about that Stealin' Horses record SINCE 1988. I wonder if it holds up. (Probably not, but now I'm gonna look for it.)

worst fake lindsey thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1cA8GwcUbA

Yeah, that's pretty square even by 1990 standards.

i like the separation here. actual band on the left, hair dudes on the right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37uF3CsqtRA

http://www.dgorton.com/FMac.jpg

is that jason segel on accordion over there?

lol

slight derail, but yeah that Stealin' Horses song still sounds pretty good to me.

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