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Big, big love
A full Oslo Spektrum took Fleetwood Mac lost friends who finally recovered again. It was time that we got to see these guys in town.
"The Mac is back" cried Mick Fleetwood at the end of a nearly three-hour triumph of Fleetwood Mac. To begin with, it's a historic atmosphere of the event. We notice that there is something more in the air than when Bob Dylan stood on the same stage two weeks ago. Dylan is here again and again, while the composition of Fleetwood Mac has never been to Norway before. Now the Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham finally right there, in front of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, and get started with "Second Hand News", the best song from the hit album "Rumours". A 36 year old song, a group with members buoyant ii 60-70 years of age, but still young and challenging in its captivating splendor.
The group challenged his audience not to begin with. The first three songs were from "Rumours". In "Second Hand News" turned the temperature up another notch with "The Chain", which shows that Fleetwood on drums and McVie on bass is not insignificant part of the machinery. Smell Beautiful "Dreams" and "Rihannon" (from the "white" album that came before the "Rumours") continued to ride around in the beloved.
Lindsey Buckingham took the microphone to tell that they like to have some new songs on tour, and they played "Sad Angel", which is as resilient as many of the old songs. And then he held the first of tonight's many speeches, to tell about the music industry's penchant to repeat old successes. And about his own skepticism to be a part of this game is for all who aspire to be artists. Old friends realize that this leads into a section of the album "Tusk", which by many was considered a bit "difficult" letdown compared to "Rumours". The reception of the songs yesterday showed that the time has healed this wound so it holds. Especially the "Tusk" was ecstatic response, which lifted the roof.
Buckingham and Nicks were a proper couple again, and manages to make it look like they still enjoy being on stage, far beyond the commercial aspects of their business. The songs of Fleetwood Mac comes out of the turbulent relationship between the members of which we do not need to know anything about being in a concert. Although Buckingham and Nicks were legally far apart on stage, until they gave each other a good hug after Nicks sang "Sara." Lindsey Buckingham continued good fortune with a powerful performance of their "Big Love," as well as alone. Stevie Nicks to perform "Landslide" in all its glory to follow the same style.
Nicks told sensitively on the background of Buckingham / Nicks before "Without You", one of the "new" songs that took us back to their inception, as it was left on the first tape they recorded. Yesterday this song even a little highlight. The story, too, since it leads to how the two were invited into Fleetwood Mac. And Mick Fleetwood himself emerged from his drum of industrial scale to turn on a small set that looks like paint pail in comparison. Oh, how sweet it was.
The compact pop songs got a break in the "Gold Dust Woman", where the band almost tripped out in 60-tallspsykedelia, while Stevie Nicks danced around the stage as the hippie she has been since his youth. Afterwards Buckingham also allowed to skeie out so held, and then some, in "I'm So Afraid." It was a bit painstaking, but people loved the hard guitar work, especially the elect who had been allowed to hang by the edge of the stage throughout the evening. He recovered in "Go Your Own Way," which sounded absolutely glorious at the end. Extra The numbers began with "World Turning," which Buckingham and Nicks came hand in hand back on stage. Now it lacked just that they kissed each other! So they went off stage again, and Mick Fleetwood did show everything he can. Usually we are the drum solos, but this evening it got going.
Christine McVie was an important third element in the re-creation of Fleetwood Mac as one of the world's greatest band. When her songs are missing, we do not quite feeling of being part of the great pop history. Her "Do not Stop" still tend to end their concerts, but now performed it with a synth accompaniment that is completely different from the sound of the rest of the concert. The sound should not pushover when it comes to Fleetwood Mac. The songs from their heyday was also a production technical triumph. The springy sound on "Rumour" is unmatched. In concert sound is not quite as perfect, but it is higher, and the voltage is kept alive.
So is it even an encore, and the very end tells Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham on how it is getting older and find that dramas like the lighthouse up their songs are gone. Instead, they reflect on the time that has passed, and sing "Say Goodbye" so seductive fervently to each other. And it would have been completely finish, if not Stevie Nicks had held another long speech about how her dreams had been real, and that it is we who have kept them alive all these years. Totally over the top. It is only in quite unusual great concert.