Toronto Sun review... was trying to convince this woman via twitter to snap a pic of Linds sitting on the stage during WT, but didn't work. was also trying to convince her that Sara is boring
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/17...f-chops-at-acc
Veteran rockers Fleetwood Mac show off chops at ACC
BY JANE STEVENSON ,QMI AGENCY
FIRST POSTED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 09:14 AM EDT | UPDATED:
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Fleetwood Mac brings world tour to Air Canada Centre
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Legendary rockers Fleetwood Mac brought their World Tour 2013 to the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday to a packed house. (JACK BOLAND/Toronto Sun)
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Fleetwood Mac
4.5 stars
Location: Air Canada Centre
TORONTO - Well hasn’t been broken yet.
In fact, it looks stronger than ever.
Veteran rockers Fleetwood Mac, touring again for the first time in over three years in support of the 35th anniversary of their juggernaut album, 1977’s Rumours - 45 million albums sold and counting - came to the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday night for a sold-out show in front of 17,000 fans.
And thanks to the consistent, but friendly, game of musical one-up-manship going on between former lovers and current bandmates Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham on stage for two and a half hours, it turned out to be a really good thing.
The couple are powerful alone - as they both took their turns often in the solo spotlight - and pretty much unstoppable together as they proved on such acoustic standouts as Landslide (with Buckingham kissing Nicks' hand at the very end) and the evening’s poignant closer Say Goodbye, the latter which Buckingham wrote about Nicks a decade ago.
“Much of what we had experienced was behind us although, obviously there is much left to do. But even so, it’s about healing, faith, hope and it’s about closure,” Buckingham said.
Fleetwood Mac now consists of ethereal singer Nicks, 64, mad genius singer-guitarist Buckingham, 63, wild-eyed and open-mouthed drummer Mick Fleetwood, 65, and low-key bassist John McVie, 67, who’ve long been a foursome since keyboardist-singer Christine McVie gave up touring in 1998. (They also have a touring keyboardist Brett Tuggle, second guitarist Neale Hayward and longtime backup singers Sharon Celani and Lori Perry Nicks.)
“We are indeed pleased to be back with you tonight,” Buckingham said after the British-American band opened strong with Rumours lead-off song, Second Hand News, with Fleetwood on drums before Lindsey’s guitar kicked in.
“Every time we come together - it’s different. It sure is this time. That’s the beauty of this band. There are still chapters to be written.”
In fact, aside from Rumours classics like The Chain and Dreams which came early in the set, the group also played the new tune Sad Angel which Buckingham said was from a soon to be released EP online before an eventual hard copy release.
And Nicks offered up Without You, an old new tune from 1970-'71 that she had written for Buckingham but resurfaced in 2010 when she found the demo on YouTube.
“We were crazy in love and waiting for something to come ‘cause we knew something was coming,” she explained of when Buckingham Nicks (as they were called as a duo) would join Fleetwood Mac in 1975.
But for the most part it, was when either singer showed off their individual chops on older songs that Fleetwood Mac, playing on a stage dominated by large video screen that showed striking, often abstract visuals - or in the case of Tusk a marching band - seemed to really shine with major nods to the group dynamics along the way on such classics as Go Your Own Way and Don’t Stop.
Nicks, in head-to-toe black including her trademark suede boots and various shawls, was at her best singing seductively or twirling slowly on her signature tracks Dreams, Rhiannon, Sara (tucking her face into Buckingham’s shoulder before leaving the stage), Gypsy and Gold Dust Woman, or kicking it up a notch with her own solo hit Stand Back.
“One lovely gorgeous angel,” as Fleetwood called her during band introductions towards the end of the show.
Buckingham, meanwhile, expertly and maniacly wailed away on his guitar on Big Love, World Turning - also featuring a drum solo by Fleetwood - and I’m So Afraid or took a more gentle turn on Never Going Back Again.
“We appreciate that you’ve stayed with us all these years and when you walk out tonight, know you did something for us,” said Nicks.
And vice versa.