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[translated] by ROBERT Hoftun Gjestad Published: 20.okt. 2013
In everlasting musical therapy
Even with some obvious mistakes, turned Fleetwood Mac.
However, a good deal darker than many probably thought.
"Been down one time, been down two times, been down three times, I'm never going back." Ahh. A score of intense songs about love, relationships, arguments, drugs, betrayal, breakup, hope, faith and fervent despair. Could it be wrong? Of course, the legendary edition of Fleetwood Mac delivered. After each.
It was clearly a musical event of the rare that Fleetwood Mac finally came to Norway for real visits and tickets with prices up to 1300 million swine animal disappeared instantly by sales start. Someone with historical accuracy uttered that this is not the "real" Fleetwood Mac, what once was a psychedelic blues band with Peter Green on guitar back in the 1960s, while a few swear by the band between the period of the early 70s.
But Fleetwood Mac most people know and love is after all the third edition, the more pop-oriented band that was collected when the duo Buckingham Nicks joined in 1974 as one of several classic albums behind one of music history's best-selling, Rumours . Over 40 million sold, impressive enough. Ok, Christine McVie is no longer with, without weakening impression.
For it was often a pure pleasure to see and hear the drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer together on stage in Norway for the first time. It took time to get going, superb songs like "Dreams" and "Rhiannon" disappeared into a porridge lack of empathy and voice of the main character Stevie Nicks, some songs were too tame, and at times one most "Buckingham shows» . That said, for an incredibly formidable guitarist and seduces guy is.
But eventually, after a dark round with "Tusk" and "Sisters of the Moon", followed by a strong "Sara" and a wonderful lie down version of "Never going back again", it loosened. The relationship between the former girlfriends Nicks and Buckingham Today most of the commercial stage, it was not easy to see in the song. Or in any of the others. In fact, one could feel an everlasting musical therapy unfold.
Like I said in the introduction here, this was a twenty songs about love relationships that break down in bickering, accusations, infidelity and more, often in public. Lindsey Buckingham "You can go your own way," which closed the main set after two hours, still no call for Nicks to travel out and discover the world, to say the least.
"I let myself always impressed by people who have the difficult and advanced to sound simple," wrote singer Marit Larsen about Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks especially in Dagbladet earlier this week. The sentence will serve as a summary. For behind both pop and more blues rock-oriented tunes by listening to the plates may sound simple into their sound, there is much darkness. Lyrically, of course, but also musically.
This concert version of Fleetwood Mac was also a darker part in the performance than many probably thought they would be, yours truly included. It's been thirty-five years after that everything was as bad for the band, with star success and marital trouble in blissful union, without having subdued the importance of their music.