MacNuggets

[holidayroad]

Originally Posted by michelej1

In the book Time Traveler's Wife -- which is a literary achievement, utterly separate from the book -- the lead character hates Fleetwood Mac. His wife can only listen to them when he's out of the house.

This hurt me, but I could not love Henry any the less for it.

Michele

I'll have to check out that book. Good thing my husband doesn't hate Fleetwood Mac!

[vivfox]

By the way, went to see Fleetwood Mac this week - AMAZING!!

Stevie Nicks is incredible, although sometimes overpowered by Lyndsey - but it was sooooo good!

Never Coming Back Again was sensational and Go Your Own Way blew the place apart - everyone went crazy!!

http://www.minimins.com/lipotrim-for...-24-weigh.html

[hippilil86]

Originally Posted by michelej1

In the book Time Traveler's Wife -- which is a literary achievement, utterly separate from the book -- the lead character hates Fleetwood Mac. His wife can only listen to them when he's out of the house.

This hurt me, but I could not love Henry any the less for it.

Michele

I loved Time Traveler's Wife! What a great book.

[TrueFaith77]

A friend of mine just sent me this:

Legendary Recording Engineer BRUCE SWEDIEN on mixing/making THRILLER


When I finished mixing ‘The Girl Is Mine’ – we were at Westlake Audio in Studio D – it was about 8:00 in the evening. I was busy making safety copies of the ½ inch mix master in the control room of Studio ‘D’ at Westlake. I turned around and there was the entire group FLEETWOOD MAC: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham. Christine smiled and said to me, “We hear that you’re making a hit record over here. May we hear it?” At that very moment I noticed that the studio and the control room were almost entirely full of people. It looked like about 100 people had quietly come in while I was busy making safety copies of the master tapes. AND they were all the most famous people in music people that you could imagine, beginning with Michael and Paul, Ringo Starr, and so on.



All the heavy-duty music recording artists that were in Hollywood at that moment were there in our studio! I played the master mix for them for the next three hours. They were having a great time dancing, acting ignorant and all. Michael hid with me in the control room, but he had a huge smile on his face, because everyone was having a great time!



From the book, “In The Studio With Michael Jackson” by Bruce Swedien pg 25-26

ISBN# 978-1-4234-6495-2

Hal Leonard Books

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

A friend of mine just sent me this:

Great story. Anecdotes like this are nice. Lindsey recently mentioned running into Michael Jackson in a restroom during We Are the World and not wanting to intrude on his sense of reserve.

I'd love to hear the FM members talk about other celebrities. We've heard Stevie discuss a friend like Tom. And Lindsey has talked about Brian, but I'd like more extensive observations -- discussions of moments like this.

I was always sorry that I didn't hear Lindsey's thoughts about Zevon at the time of his death. They were on tour at the time and Stevie participated in the documentary on Zevon, while Lindsey didn't. It'd be nice to have a whole interview where Lindsey went down the line and talked about encounters with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and, of course, those who have been friends to him like Zevon and Stewart.

And Christine too, you know, starting with Steve Winwood and going forward.

Michele

[vivfox]

I guess you want to keep your dealings to benefit your buddies as much out of the public eye as possible.

There’s one other thing that is odd in this story. The Herald story is claiming that the losses from concerts was $499,000. That’s strange because when the financial reports were released last February the Herald reported that number to be $719,000. The Alerus Commission ran a full page ad in the Herald where they claimed that the concert losses were $631,000.

At the time they claimed that they lost that money on the Neil Diamond Concert and two other concerts. Now they did say that they lost $250,000 on the Diamond concert but never accounted for the rest.

So where did the rest of the money go? Was it $249,000 or was it $470,000 or something in between? Did the money to support the Obama/Clinton campaign event? Did it go to payoff a disputed matter concerning the Fleetwood Mac concert? In either case it was inappropriate to sneak that through the event fund.

It’s our money. We have every right to get an exact accounting of that.

I expect that the North Dakota Attorney General will be asked to look into the matter of the secret illegal meetings next week.

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/law...gment_company/

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by hippilil86

I loved Time Traveler's Wife! What a great book.

I know. I cannot tell you when I've felt that way before. I mean, I cried over David Copperfield. I cried over Heathcliff and Catherine. I've been crying since I read Little Women as a little girl. But I felt like Audrey Niffenegger had physically attacked me. I still feel that way. It was an incredible marriage and time travel was a great metaphor for showing the evolution, the see-saw balance, in relationships and in life, in general.

I keep wanting to ask Henry if he ever listened to any solo Fleetwood Mac, before he decided he hated them.

Michele

[vivfox]

If she didn't mean it, it wouldn't work. Stephanie Lynn Nicks may have been working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when Fleetwood Mac found her, and cleaning the producer's toilets to pay for her first record, but the buck-toothed blonde from Phoenix never stopped imagining herself as a Welsh witch goddess.

Thirty-five years on, she hasn't ceased: swishing about in a bat-winged cape and a diamante half-moon pendant, and bleating about a "woman taken by the sky". Mystery-and-magic isn't merely an act for Stevie. She believes it, and bless her to bits for that.

If Stevie on a British stage is what really sends the hackles tingling for the faithful, then it's only in the context of a truly stunning Fleetwood Mac concert. Her foil and sometime lover Lindsey Buckingham, spindly-legged and still offensively handsome, is a fast-fingertipped phenomenon on guitar. His solo spots for "Big Love" and "Oh Well" are breathtaking; the title track of his 1979 folly Tusk is so berserk you can almost taste the Hollywood A-grade in your septum.

Together, they conjure such an electricity that the rhythm section John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, whose British blues band was transformed by the Buckingham-Nicks takeover in 1974, can only stand and watch. "I think I had met my match," she sings in the sublime "Sara", and she looks at him with lazy eyes. He catches the glance, and bites his lip. As the song ends, they waltz and he kisses her hair. It must drive their current partners insane. Because it sure as hell sends a shiver through everyone else.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...r-1812613.html

[vivfox]

By John Meagher
Friday October 30 2009

They may have been on the road to make yet more millions off their old songs, but Fleetwood Mac put in a performance at The O2 last weekend that took cynics such as me by surprise.

For two-and-a-half hours Stevie Nicks, a remarkably youthful looking Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie played with an enthusiasm and verve to appease anyone grumbling over the high price of tickets.

Hearing Nicks sing their finest song, Sara, was especially lovely as was the obvious joy Buckingham derived from the middle aged folk in the front rows.

What wasn't nearly so pleasant was having two loudmouth gentlemen in the row behind, both of whom were incapable of keeping their mouths shut during the performance and utterly oblivious to the furious glances of those around them. The situation was made all the worse by their cretinous friend from Cork who came over to them several times to crack schoolyard, homophobic jokes about his county's hurling goalkeeper Dónal Óg Cusack.

If any of you three laminate-wearing buffoons are reading this, stay away the next time someone offers you a freebie -- and give the tickets to someone who would really appreciate them.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainm...9-1929139.html

[michelej1]

This is from an article about Chris Cornell. I wonder why they mention that the guy Jordan is a friend of Lindsey's.
http://kissrocks.com/blogs/rock_repo...er-2-2009.html


"I heard some 'Black Hole Sun' greatness deep within some of the songs," he told me, "I also got to know Chris as a friend. I ended up calling Jordan Zadorozny [of the Canadian indie band Blinker the Star and co-writer of song with Courtney Love and friend of Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham]." I flew him down to LA and had him listen to some of the tracks in hopes that he could remix them somehow."

[vivfox]

Circles of Concrete: Colton Ford loses his religion
By Concrete Circles
Quite the career change. His newest album, Under the Covers, is a collection of song made famous by others remized and performed in Colton's style. Tracks include Alicia Keys' "No One," Nirvana's "Lithium," and Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams." ...
Circles of Concrete - http://concretecircles.blogspot.com/

[vivfox]

Posted by: Stephen Foster | November 2, 2009 Experimental muso blogging:

Now here you go again you say……you want your freedom, well who am I to keep you down? It’s only right that you should play the way you feel it, but listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness, like a heartbeat, drives you mad, in the stillness of remembering what you had, and what you lost, and what you had, and what you lost…

Fleetwood Mac are on back on the road. So there’s a sudden rash of television specials about the band, a couple of which I’ve seen over the past few days. The lines above are from Dreams, the second track on the first side of Rumours, the album that transformed Fleetwood Mac from a reasonably successful blues/rock outfit into a global phenomenon. The tenth bestselling album of all time, at it’s peak, Rumours was shifting 200,000 units a day. It’s sales top 40 million to date. Stevie Nicks, lead singer, wrote Dreams in a corner of the studio while they were putting the album together. The song is about her disintegrating relationship with fellow band member Lindsey Buckingham. Californian hippy-type college sweethearts, Nicks and Buckingham were recent recruits to the line-up, indeed, it was these two who were responsible for the newly emerging identity of the group as ‘relationship crisis specialists’ (though, in fact, and in the spirit of the times, all the band members were making and breaking up – sometimes with each other, sometimes with each other’s best friend’s wives, and so on – both during the course of the recording of Rumours and for most of the years afterwards). That’s the material, that’s the album. (Picture of my replacement copy below, bought second-hand in Notting Hill; my first girlfriend took my original when we split up.)

Rumours came out in 1977, when I was fifteen. I first became aware of it when I saw a girl carrying the sleeve with its rresting balletic cover along the corridor at school. As she passed by a boy in the group I was with commented that he’d ‘like to **** that Stevie Nicks.’ The boy was the best fighter in the place, which was saying something; I thought it was especially tough of him to come out as gay while he was about things. It wasn’t until later, when I had bought the album myself, that I learned there was such a thing as a girl called Stevie. Rumours arrived just before punk had really penetrated into the provinces (at the time I mainly listened to Genesis, Yes, Led Zep and, I’m sorry to say, the double album, Kiss Alive! by Kiss). Later that day I asked the girl with the Rumours album what it was like. She couldn’t really define the sound. ‘Groovy,’ was her answer.
‘Groovy?’ I said, ‘What the hell does that mean?’
‘Just Groovy,’ she replied.
When I asked if I could borrow her copy she said, No, because she wouldn’t get it back and that if I wanted to ‘be hip’ I’d have to buy it myself.

And so I did. I must have worn two styluses out on that disc. I listened to Dreams thousands of times over the next few months – it was my favourite track, the one I pulled the arm back to over and over again, for Mick Fleetwood’s extraordinary delicate yet at the same time emphatic backbeat (I wanted to be a drummer), and much more so for Stevie Nicks’ plaintive, damaged vocal. I was a more sensitive soul than the (as it turned out) non-gay tough: though I too wanted to sleep with Nicks, first things first I wanted to ride in on a white horse and rescue her. Rumours is, of course, the classic divorce album. I guess the reason it resonated so powerfully with a fifteen year-old boy was that all around everybody’s parents were splitting up. At ground level, divorce is just a messy, sometimes violent, and always chaotic business. Rumours made disintegrating relationships appear to be inevitable, elemental and poetic activities that were at the same time pregnant with the possibility of renewal and redemption. If we only knew it, the album also stood as an advertisement and prophecy of what our own futures would be like. We didn’t believe that then, of course, as we stood under street lamps necking with our first loves. Then we believed it would always be Songbird, the Christine McVie-penned closer on side one: …the songbirds keep singing like they know the score-or-or, and I love I love I love you like never before. For one part of my final piece of O level art I produced several pencil studies of the photograph of the band from the back cover.

Rumours was that rarity, an album without a filler, without a duff track. Post-Rumours the band set about re-writing the rules of rock star excess. Their cocaine (ab)use is well-documented; stemming from there were episodes (as seen in footage on last night’s BBC 2 documentary) that I was particularly taken by. At one point it was costing $25,000 a day to keep Fleetwood Mac on the road. This was because they flew everywhere in a private jet and when they landed they stepped into individual limos (to keep the paranoia intact) so that they travelled alone, with nothing to say, separate from colleagues whom by now they couldn’t, like, deal with. Bottled water – Perrier – was just arriving onto the supermarket shelves of the USA; in a cosmic gesture of oneupmanship the band eclipsed the novelty of paying for water – their dressing-room rider included personal oxygen tanks and masks. That’s doing it in style. These lame-ass vegetarian eco-decaff bands you get these days could learn a thing or two from the Mac.

http://walkingollie.wordpress.com/20...edom%E2%80%A6/

[vivfox]

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979)

This album, the much anticipated follow-up to the multi-platinum Rumors, sounds like Lindsey Buckingham completely turning his back on commerciality. His sense of abandon can be heard all over. The only things reminding you this is a Fleetwood Mac album are the vocal appearances of McVie and Nicks. I can't stand the title track, and can't stop listening to the rest.

http://healthryder.blogspot.com/2009...lor-young.html

[vivfox]

Fleetwood Mac have re-united for a new British tour, revealing some secrets behind their troubled past.

Fleetwood Mac have one of the lengthiest and most complicated back stories in rock music. Beginning as a British all star blues combo, they were led by mercurial guitar virtuoso Peter Green.

However the guitarist dropped out after over indulging in hallucinogenic drugs, with drummer Mick Fleetwood helping to steady the ship. Gaining the the acquaintance of a few American singers, Fleetwood Mac enjoyed a stunning resurgence.

Hit albums such as 'Rumours' belied the personal pain the band were going through. Divorce, drug abuse and much more followed, often influencing the way Fleetwood Mac wrote.

Re-uniting for a recent British tour it seems that Fleetwood Mac have managed to put their troubles behind them. However according to vocalist Stevie Nicks the new found calm is a long way from their past.

Somebody’s playing a song, and everybody in the room is going, that’s about me right?" she revealed. "And of course it’s about you, but what you have to do is let that go, ‘cos if you don’t let that go, you can never play these songs for anybody.”

Speaking to BBC 6Music, the band's songwriter Lindsey Buckingham revealed that reforming wasn't as easy as it may appear. “It was kind of an exercise in denial that really was the only way to get through it, you really had to put your feelings over here and get on with what needed to be done in the rest of the room.”

Fleetwood Mac's new 'Best Of' entered the British charts at number six on its release last month. The band are due to finish their ongoing tour with a show at London's Wembley Arena on Friday (November 6th).

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/fleet...-on-rocky-past

[vivfox]

In a half-awake daze, I glanced at the listings in Time Out. Sure enough: Whitney Houston's in the Top 10, Michael Jackson is the nation's top box-office drawer, and Fleetwood Mac are touring. I think I know what's happening here. As a new Conservative regime hurtles towards us, in an act of collective self-hating fatalism, we've looped back to 1983. In the most dismal way imaginable, history is repeating itself. We're stuck in a moment we can't get out of.

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?bl...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1