A lot of these people are old-fashioned and look at the web suspiciously - at least I think that's why we have Stevie's "MySpace is the devil" stance. But I will say this - Stevie had an official site long before most of her peers. It was, interestingly, a converted fansite.Originally Posted by AmarilloByMorning
As you can imagine from the above, she takes a very tolerant view of her fansites - as you may know, there are MANY more Stevie/Mac fansites than in the Eagles fandom, where there are very few even if you throw in fansites for the Eagles solo as well. Check out my plentiful links page for Stevie! http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/site/links.html#stevie - In fact, there might be more, since I haven't updated in a while.
By contrast, look at my sadly bereft Glenn/Eagles link page, for instance: http://www.glennfreyonline.com/links.htm - where most of the links are just related and even some of the links I categorize under fan sites are part of larger sites like Rolling Stone. If you count only active Eagles/solo members sites (excluding my network), you are down to a handful.
Lindsey Buckingham doesn't have many sites, but he is so internet-savvy he made videos with webcams and posted them to YouTube (before the record company made him take it down - I kid you not!!) His official site is also a converted fansite. He also took enough notice of my BuckinghamNicks.net site to grant me an autographed album and two free comp tickets to one Fleetwood Mac show of my choice - admittedly this was only because his niece brought the site to his attention and asked him to do so, but it was still nice of him. (I chose the Atlanta show since they had already finished touring in my area). Obviously he is tolerant of fansites as well, to say the least.
The Penguin is not the official site, but John McVie has granted it interviews and actively uses it to promote the band. They have also been given comp tickets multiple times.
So, despite Stevie's occasional EXTREMELY old-fashioned statements, she and Lindsey are basically cool with fansites, at least. Stevie's real phobias are social networking and certain kinds of modern technology. She does own an iPod though, as she has confessed!