Pay no attention to the band behind the Penguin!
 

Getting bombarded with advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. The fact that there is NO band picture and NO band line up is so sleazy IMO.

Also what's going on with the site? Mick's henchman?

Even the local Austin radio stations are hocking ticket sales. I’ve never heard anything like it before, DJ’s are announcing the tour & Austin date while plugging that their station is based on the music of Fleetwood Mac. Obviously FM’s people are deep in damage control mode.

I find this to be rather hilarious. I’ve also received more emails from ticketmaster in the last 24 hours. The spin doctors surely have whiplash at this point

Assuming that the current pre-sales are catering mostly to the die-hards who already know what's going on, I have a feeling general audience sales will stall once the word gets spread.

Or I could be completely wrong, and the more casual fans won't care about behind the scenes drama, as long as they hear the songs and see the twirls... :shrug:

Yea of all the complaints people are making this one actually has a lot of validity to me. Pushing that penguin picture and not a band photo is incredibly dishonest and misleading to those potentially buying tickets and expecting the rumours 5.

They may be bitches. But, they are not dumb bitches! :laugh:

I will bet that had Burnette not posted about Lindsey's firing they would not have revealed Lindsey's departure until AFTER the tickets had been sold. We all know Mick is capable of this tomfoolery.

They have spies everywhere. They knew we already knew and we were only waiting for the inevitable to happen. :( A$$holes! :(

I don't believe that for a second, they definitely would have announced the new lineup first, just like they did back in 1987. Even more so now, because unlike Billy and Rick, whom I loved, were virtual unknowns; Mike Campbell and Neil Finn are not unknown, and have their own fan bases, so of course FM would want to advertise their presence. As far as people still not knowing Lindsey is out of FM, the commercials airing in Ohio for the upcoming tour show and name each member. It's May and the concert isn't until Nov 7, so word is out, and will continue to be as we get closer to the tour.

I saw both Tango (Shaking the Cage) and BTM tours at Richfield, OH.

Most people don't know the members like we do. They could name Tom Petty and people wouldn't blink.

I don't think the penguins are meant as a ruse---it's meant for merchandising. Most people don't want to buy t-shirts with 70 year olds on them. The penguins are a cool throwback IMO.

I think so too, they're the exact same used for the 1975 tour bumper stickers:

https://78.media.tumblr.com/c7487f9b...ugio2_1280.jpg

If Lindsey were still in the band you can be SURE they wouldn't just have a freaking penguin as the band advertisement.

If you saw BTM at Richfield, let me ask you this. Did Billy Burnette sing Rhiannon that night instead of Stevie? I remember reading the review of this concert in Scene magazine and they said he sang it. I have been trying to find someone for years who could say if this was true or not.

Probably, but it's not 1974 when they could send on the road a dummy band without anybody knowing, we're deep in the era of the Web 3.0 and Fear of Missing Out.

Back to the days of Behind The Mask.

That's a very good question. I don't remember. It was an amazing show. I loved Billy and Rick on this tour. They were amazing.

I saw a TV spot today selling the presale tickets.They showed the new line up and announced all 6 names with footage from past Mac shows and clips of Neil and Mike in concert.

Thank you for posting this - I'm glad to hear they corrected this.

I agree but they've used old pictures of the band for merchandise before. I believe the last tour shirt had that one fairly famous picture of the band from 76 or 77. But since there are no old pictures of this "lineup" they have to use penguins.

I think if Billy had sang Rhiannon, you would have remembered:thumbsup:

I thought you were in Australia, did you used to live in Cleveland?

You think you know someone :laugh:

yup. they have no problem hiding their "fresh! new!" band behind some penguins and tiny printed names.

i know, it is so annoying! i saw the add on tv. my inbox is full of presale codes for every which venue under the sun (if anyone wants presale codes - let us know, i'd be more than happy to paste them in one of the threads!). twitter feed is full of sponsored and promoted tweets from Live Nation to go see "Fleetwood Mac". TM has a FM banner on the top when you get on their page. they are pulling all the stops and dumping bunch of money into making sure this sells.

I reported those advertisments on FB and Instagram as scam advertisements. HA HA!

I wanna buy you a drink!:angel:

:lol: - this is gold!

I'll take it if you're ever in LA! BTW fun fact, did you know Stevie has such great skin and looks so young because she stopped going in the sun at 35? :]:]

I heard that somewhere. From a sack full of sh*t! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

I thought it was due to the virgin blood
she drinks.