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[michelej1]

Columbus Dispatch, October 20, 2014 By Rob Harvilla

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...twood-mac.html


Concert review | Fleetwood Mac: Christine McVie makes singing fun

In sports, one player, no matter how transcendent, can’t single-handedly win a title: Just ask LeBron James. On the crowded classic-rock-nostalgia circuit, even two towering superstars might not cut it: Ask Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

So please welcome back Fleetwood Mac’s not-so-secret weapon, Christine McVie. As evidenced by last night’s transformative show in Nationwide Arena, her adoring fans missed her, but not half as much as the rest of her band.

Sure, the ’70s-chart-smashing pop juggernaut could subsist on the arena-touring circuit for decades hence off the poisonous fruit of the infamously doomed Buckingham-Nicks romance alone, but what fun is that?

McVie, a far sweeter and gentler singer and songwriter, had quit the band in 1998 (she hated flying) and vowed never to return. Thank God she relented this year. The crowd’s huge swell of adoration was palpable from the first few notes of You Make Loving Fun. Exquisitely mushy cloudbursts like Everywhere and Say You Love Me — a typical line of hers is “I'm over my head / But it sure feels nice” — were crucial counterpoints to Nicks’ siren songs and Buckingham’s wiry, pantherlike aggressiveness.

A shadowy back line of five singers and multi-instrumentalists quietly added any muscle the core quintet, rounded out by rock-solid bassist John McVie and incurably hammy drummer Mick Fleetwood, had lost over the years. (Nice gong, Mick.)

Nicks in particular deftly dodged the high notes on Dreams and Rhiannon, though her cuddly-goth charisma helped close the deficit: Nobody on Earth gets more applause just for twirling in a circle.

Still, Landslide, her colossally gentle acoustic duet with Buckingham, can always induce open weeping, and her entrancing Gypsy may be the band’s single most rapturous pure-pop moment. (The lost high notes on that one particularly hurt last night, though she did twirl a lot.)

Buckingham, meanwhile, is the mad virtuoso: His howling, classical-guitar-shredding, one-man version of Big Love (off 1987’s crazy-underrated Tango in the Night) is an awesome, terrifying thing, and his prowling, snarling, opera-length solo on the uncharacteristically heavy deep cut I’m So Afraid nearly knocked the audience unconscious.

Ultimately, though, it was Christine’s night: The show peaked with the Tango-era soft-rock classic Little Lies — featuring the night’s best harmonies by a long shot — and she closed out with the delicately strident solo-piano gem Songbird. Her bandmates appeared to consider carrying her offstage like a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. It’s not a bad idea.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by lovethemac1

I'm not sure what he was thinking............that she was just an old lady with an accordian or something?????

LOL. Sounds like your husband expected Christine to sing badly or not at all.

Loved your review.

Michele

[Josh2003]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

I was on the floor, did anyone hear me yell "Hold Me!"? I think I yelled four times between songs when it was relatively quiet.

I heard someone yell "Hold Me, mother****er!" Tell me that was not you.

[Wdm6789]

Originally Posted by Josh2003

I heard someone yell "Hold Me, mother****er!" Tell me that was not you.

Haha I heard that too. Maybe they heard me and were mocking me.

[wheart]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

Haha I heard that too. Maybe they heard me and were mocking me.

Hold Me has become the new Sisters of the Moon!

[SmthngOfADreamr]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Nicks in particular deftly dodged the high notes on Dreams and Rhiannon, though her cuddly-goth charisma helped close the deficit: Nobody on Earth gets more applause just for twirling in a circle.

I think this is a really funny comment. Funniest of all is perhaps that it's printed in a "news"paper, and from videos I've seen Stevie has been dodging the high notes on dreams and Rhiannon for at least the past 35 years!

[nightbird89]

Was an AMAZING show. Was 33rd row on Lindsey's side but got to sneak up right in front of Chris for a good portion of the show. Seeing Songbird being performed up close was just sublime. Whole night feels like a dream to me.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by nightbird89

Was an AMAZING show. Was 33rd row on Lindsey's side but got to sneak up right in front of Chris for a good portion of the show. Seeing Songbird being performed up close was just sublime. Whole night feels like a dream to me.

I'm so jealous!

[UnwindedDreams]

She had the talent contest cape on in Columbus.

[stevierocks87]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

She had the talent contest cape on in Columbus.

And it looks AMAZING! It's really something how big an effect these little changes can have-why on earth does she not bring out more shawls?

[streetangel27]

Originally Posted by lovethemac1

... Christine's singing, well my husband kept saying over and over "she can really sing, she can really sing, wow, she can really sing." I'm not sure what he was thinking............that she was just an old lady with an accordian or something?????

BAHAHAHA that made me laugh really hard

I'm so excited to see her-AHHHH

[michelej1]

Columbus Dispatch, Year in Review

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...tra-miley.html

Fleetwood Mac, Oct. 19, Nationwide Arena: Stevie Nicks twirled, Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar gently wept, and Mick Fleetwood pulled faces, but, at this greatest-hits bacchanal, prodigal songbird and bubbly secret weapon Christine McVie stole the show. — R.H.

[jwd]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Columbus Dispatch, Year in Review

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...tra-miley.html

Fleetwood Mac, Oct. 19, Nationwide Arena: Stevie Nicks twirled, Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar gently wept, and Mick Fleetwood pulled faces, but, at this greatest-hits bacchanal, prodigal songbird and bubbly secret weapon Christine McVie stole the show. — R.H.

Stevie Nicks does a heluuva lot more than twirl, Lindsey's guitar ROCKS, Mick bangs the **** out of his drums and keeps perfect time. Ah yes Chris, wouldn't say she stole the show, but she definitely stole our hearts! And lets not forget the counter punch to the rhythm section, the ultimate bass player JOHN MCVIE!!!!!!!