Jan 8th Fleetwood Mac Paris Hotel Ballroom Las Vegas Monster Retailer Awards Concert
 

Anyone going to tonight's invitation only event at The Paris Hotel in Vegas? There have been invitation only tickets on craigslist today for reasonable prices, some as cheap as 15 bucks, most 50-100, others as high as 3 for a $1,000.
If anyone does go please post the set list and any photos you may have taken. Have fun and enjoy!

@kevinwattles 24m
Sound check for #fleetwoodmac . #Lindseybuckingham killing. @ Paris Hotel & Casino http://instagram.com/p/i7j9S9TLM5/

Mike hope you are in, if not look at this:

@tmakworld 45s
Scalpers have shown up and only want 40 bucks to see FM at the private party. #DealOfALifetime @Nickslive https://twitter.com/tmakworld/status...381952/photo/1

Behind the scenes with @fleetwoodmac and @HeadMonster Noel Lee before an epic party! #MonsterCES pic.twitter.com/Nwa9sKXbR5

— Monster Products (@MonsterProducts) January 9, 2014

so setlist was interesting... a bit different from NYE event -

Landslide out and Eyes in (the only not widely known song in the set yesterday... well i guess ISA too but we already know they'd never drop that one). also ending with Don't Stop. guess Monster asked for a more "muscular" show, at least that's how the reviews out so far refer to it.

and leather jacket was back in. (on a personal note, very happy i got to [finally] see in person 2 shows in the suit jacket this tour. maybe not as muscular looking as leather but definitely more gorgeous, plus slick and sophisticated. some reviews called it his "Sting-like look".)

someone on twitter talked about SN speech being repeatedly interrupted. i wonder which speech was that (considering her longest speeches are before Landslide and WY, and neither of these were performed).

What!! Had I known, I would have considered the 3 hour drive. God knows I had nothing better to do! Lame. :rolleyes:

Stevie's hair looks nice and rock wild in that picture tweet.

Michele

Stevie said a few words at the request of Monster after the show on stage. She thanked everyone for coming and how this was their 64th show and the end of the tour etc...

ah thanks. i'm assuming these were positive interruptions then - like "love you" "you guys are great" type?

and lol, they keep ending that tour for several shows already, now.

setlist - https://twitter.com/tmakworld/status...76578853568512 and here - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

some pics and short vids:

http://instagram.com/p/i8HunprZcn/

http://instagram.com/p/i8s_6FN1x8/

https://twitter.com/MonsterProducts/...796160/photo/1

nice guitar banging - https://vine.co/v/h3iDWpZDagK

can see people sitting at the tables here http://instagram.com/p/i8HzUimVMf/

review
 

http://www.soundandvision.com/conten...e-monster-show

Fleetwood Mac Blaze Through One Monster Show
By Mike Mettler • Posted: Jan 9, 2014


"We knew this was a bunch of people who love music," said an appreciative Stevie Nicks about the Monstrous crowd at Fleetwood Mac's muscular 75-minute set, which capped Monster's 2014 Retailer Awards at the Paris Ballroom in the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on January 8. The mighty Mac were the headliners for a night that saw Monster celebrate its 35th anniversary with style and class.
And no one was prouder of the night's events than Head Monster Noel Lee, who has featured A-list artists at previous Retailer Awards ranging from Ray Charles to Rod Stewart to Diana Ross to Alicia Keys. And on Wednesday night, Fleetwood Mac was in the house to put a fine exclamation point on what also served as the final night of their year-long tour.

I had the perfect A/V vantage point for the show, perched at the front of a riser just to the right of the soundboard. It took a few songs to get the mix dialed in properly — "every night is an adventure!" I heard one of the board engineers chuckle about 10 minutes into the set — but once both band and sound were in sync, their special mesh of ferocity and finesse came to the fore, especially noticeable during the second half of "Rhiannon" and all of "Tusk," and the intensity level stayed high to the end.

Lindsey Buckingham's furious solo take on "Big Love" was a fingerpicking guitar clinic. When Stevie Nicks took over for "Gold Dust Woman," serious magic was in the air, and the band turned in the best performance of that song I've ever seen them do. Drummer Mick Fleetwood commenced the haunting song with clear, clinking chimes and stark cowbell hits, and bassist John McVie locked right into the groove with Fleetwood's kick drum. Stevie's echo-laden vocal wails and improvs beautifully played off and around Buckingham's delayed and left-right panned riffs.

"I'm So Afraid" opened with Fleetwood and Buckingham jamming together, followed by an ominous organ fill from secondary bandmember Brett Tuggle (who also plays in Lindsey's solo band). Buckingham went into a zone during his lengthy guitar solo, stomping across the stage like, well, a monster, occasionally leaping into the air to punctuate some seriously squealing riffs. After the song ended, the crowd roared, and Buckingham let out a few primal screams in response (as he is sometimes wont to do).

More Buckingham showcase jamming came during his signature Mac tune, "Go Your Own Way." Nicks donned a top hat and brandished a tambourine, and the former yet forever-linked lovers turned to look directly at each other when they sang the telling lines, "packing up/shacking up/is all you want to do." The right amount of crunch and sustain came through in the solo, and Buckingham jumped up on the drum riser to bash a cymbal with his hand to further accentuate the endgame vibe.

Closing the show with a triumphant run through "Don't Stop," Fleetwood Mac's final tango in the night was clearly the perfect bookend to one Monsteriffic anniversary celebration.

Photo courtesy of Barb Gonzalez Photography. From left, McVie flanks Fleetwood, who's making eyes with Nicks (back turned). Buckingham (not shown) is somewhere off to the right, smokin' through yet another amazing solo.

I was there. They sounded and looked great of course. But they need to stop playing for unappreciative crowds. People sat. I could not get close as I did not have the right ticket. It is odd to see this amazing band play and people sit.

Eyes of the World is killer!

Too many zeroes to really care.

A variety of factors kept me from making it to this show, but congratulations to those who got in....it sounds like it wasn't too difficult. I remember when I went to Stevie's ReMax show last year, I was expecting an abbreviated greatest hits set, so I was really happily surprised when she did her full 1 hour 45 minute show. These 70 minute Fleetwood Mac sets from last week are more what I would expect from corporate/private shows. I guess it just depends on what the corporate guys ask for. :shrug:

Glad you got in. I wonder how much those special tickets that let you get to the front cost.

Michele