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[vivfox]

Colbie Caillat
By ladybugg
He co- produced two of the biggest albums in history, Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and Tusks. Ken Caillat now runs his own record label. She learned a lot about music from Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. When Colbie was 11 she wanted to pursue ...
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[vivfox]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Colbie Caillat
By ladybugg
He co- produced two of the biggest albums in history, Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and Tusks. Ken Caillat.

That probably should have been the name of the album considering it was a two record set.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by vivfox

That probably should have been the name of the album considering it was a two record set.

And that there were 3 men in the band.

Michele

[michelej1]

From an article about a remodeled bungalow:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...n1.e43811.html

Specifically, leopard-print-upholstered walls, a garden trellis-clad foyer, even an eye-popping tangerine dining room with green brocade drapes bedazzled in hand-sewn felt flowers.

Put another way, McKinley and Nussbaumer are Buckingham-Nicks in this home-decorator version of Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy."

[vivfox]

Monday evening, an 80-year-old Staten Island man, apparently jaywalking, stepped in front of a jitney on Pacific Avenue and was killed.

So why am I telling you this? Well, something struck me about the quote we had from Joseph Taranto’s daughter. “My dad loved Atlantic City,” she said. “He came down at least four times a week.”

No complaining, no demands for restitution, justice or some kind of explanation for the unexplainable. Just this: “My dad loved Atlantic City.”

Thank God for 80-year-old guys from Staten Island who love Atlantic City. They might not be the most exciting demographic in casino marketers’ eyes — but to borrow a line from an old Fleetwood Mac song, they built this city.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/b...cc4c002e0.html

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by vivfox

but to borrow a line from an old Fleetwood Mac song, they built this city.

Sara, Sara, storms are brewing in your eyes...

[vivfox]

This is the old Neve mixing board( at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, CA) that’s been installed since 1972. I had a heady moment on our first day in the studio, looking down on the board and seeing all the numbers rubbed off these faders with age, and thinking about all the famous hands and records that contributed to that. Then I started thinking about how much of Stevie Nicks’s stash probably fell into the fader pots. Then I went to find a straw.

http://www.jroddy.net/2009/12/30/ste...91405-edition/

[vivfox]

'World Turning' - Fleetwood Mac
Posted by The Archivist on December 31, 2009

As the world prepares to finish one more revolution around the sun, here is World Turning by Fleetwood Mac, which comes in at spot #481 on the 1991 Firecracker 500 ...

World Turning appeared on the band's self-titled album of 1975 which, unlike many albums bearing a band's name was hardly their first. In fact, it wasn't even their first eponymous album. That had been released in 1968.

It says a lot for the album's staying power that World Turning made the Firecracker 500 even though it wasn't one of the three Top 20 singles launched by the LP (those would be Rhiannon, Say You Love Me, and Over My Head). Of course, it says even more about the album's staying power that it managed to hang around on the charts for nearly a year before finally making it to the #1 spot, a record that would stand for 14 years until broken by Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl.

It was also the album that catapulted Fleetwood Mac from music stardom to true music super-stardom, with more than a little of that fact attributable to the appearance of Lindey Buckingham as the group's guitarist, and Stevie Nicks as its new vocalist.

http://www.wnew.com/2009/12/video-cl...twood-mac.html

[vivfox]

Thursday, December 31, 2009
35 years ago today over Mexican food, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and John McVie invite Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks accept the offer, which turns out to be a good move for all five of them.

http://dreamsong14.blogspot.com/2009...ago-today.html

[vivfox]

so much to tell you: just relax
By zoe
Mine were glorious: I turned 25, received amazing gifts, saw Fleetwood Mac, drank champagne, lazed at the beach in the sunshine, rode bikes, read Kafka on the Shore and didn't write a thing for two weeks. I hope your holiday break was ...
so much to tell you - http://www.somuchtotellyou.co.nz/

[michelej1]

From an American Songwriter Interview with Rickie Lee Jones [well, I think Stevie believes you can be like both Fleetwood Mac and Bob Dylan]:

http://www.americansongwriter.com/20...kie-lee-jones/
When you start a song, do you start with an intention of what the song is about?

I don’t think I ever do that. I think it’s always just coming out of me. I never know where it’s gonna go or what it’s gonna be. I don’t watch my process, but I probably write a line or two and then know where I’m gonna go right away. Do I want to do a rhyme scheme or a rhythm thing, or do I want to write free verse? It will usually tell you a direction to go. And what the subject is will be revealed. But it doesn’t have the conscious in it. I just get out of my way—following, not leading it, not thinking about it at all. I can take the pen and write you eight lines right now. When it’s done, it’ll probably make sense, rhyme, because the part just behind my consciousness knows just what it is doing. If my consciousness gets in the way, then that unconscious part goes, “OK, you take care of it.” [Laughs] And then my ego enters, and the flow stops. So I have to not guide it, but just trust that I know what I’m doing. And again, not bothering with it.

Like “Bonfires” was about 12 verses. There were a lot of beautiful verses, but I felt that I was going to lose the impact. What I was thinking about when I wrote that was Bob Dylan’s first record. I was thinking of how he played his guitar. This is where I am right now; it’s simple. And that’s how I wanted to deliver it. I didn’t want it to be like Fleetwood Mac; I wanted to be like Dylan. Knowing there’s no other way to survive heartbreak than to give love.

[vivfox]

On Maui for the holidays, Alice just rang in the New Year at Mala Wailea at a benefit show which also featured an incendiary performance by the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, joined by British blues legend John Mayall, and members of Nickelback.

"It's become a tradition to do that show, and it's always great to turn something like that into a charity event," he notes. "These people are here already, so why not put them to work."

Backed by Mick Fleetwood on drums, Rick Vito on guitar and vocals, bassist Lenny Castellanos, keyboardist Mark Johnstone, and Eric Gilliom and Gretchen Rhodes of Island Rumours on vocals, Alice belted out his classic hits "Schools Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy."

"Mick Fleetwood is such a great drummer," he continues. "You forget Fleetwood Mac was a real rock band and he was one of the best drummers out there, and Rick's a great blues guitar player. And then you have John Mayall come up, how great is that?"

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content...id/527436.html

[vivfox]

More Fleetwood Mac

Although the band covers rock music from the 1960s through today, the Mood Swings now performs five songs from the Fleetwood Mac repertoire.

“While we are not a Fleetwood Mac cover band,” Sweeney observed, “we do have somewhat of a Fleetwood Mac ‘cult’ following, and we have many fans that come from far away to sing and dance along with these songs.”

Two of the Fleetwood Mac songs the band has performed in its earliest sets are “Rhiannon” and “Gold Dust Woman.” Now the band has added “Dreams,” “Second Hand News” and “Gypsy” to its set list.

“I feel that lead singer Beth Turkel’s rendition of ‘Gypsy’ is fabulous and betters the Stevie Nicks version,” Sweeney remarked.

“Several songs that Beth sings are show stoppers,” Sweeney enthused, “such as the Beatles’ ‘Ticket to Ride,’ Creedence Clearwater’s ‘Proud Mary’ and Todd Rundgren’s ‘I Saw The Light (In Your Eyes)’.”

http://www.recordernewspapers.com/ar...a748445915.txt

[vivfox]

For those interested, this book (written by Cath Carroll) has a nicely detailed account of the (tumultuous?) making of the Rumours album, including some good descriptions of the sessions and studios at the Record Plant in Sausalito:

Sample passage (writer John Grissim describing the attempts of a female agent vying for management of the band):

After a few minutes of conversation, John McVie shows up, and I introduce them, explained who she was. And she said to John, "Would you like a line?" And she brings out this Tiffany silver- it was like a bolt- and she unscrewed the top and produced a small mirror and lays out this really good quality line. And she produces a four-inch long, top of the line Tiffany silver straw, and she hands it to John, who says "Thank you very much" and he snorts the line. He's holding his nostril and she looks at him and says, "Now that I've turned you on, I'd like to hit you up for mangement." He laughed so hard he snorted the coke out of his nose.

ah, the 70's.

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB3/vie...?f=6&p=1051309

[vivfox]

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
January 11, 2010 by Andrew Watt
Filed under Song Of The Day

This is probably the song that best defines the phenomenon that Fleetwood Mac became in 1977 with the release of Rumours. Written by Lindsay Buckingham, it wasn’t their biggest hit although it probably wasn’t far away from it.

It opens apologetically with the line “Loving you isn’t the right thing to do” and in so doing encapsulates the sexual and emotional politics that had entwined the band. You can almost visualise the members casting knowing looks at each other as they perform the song.

Musically it’s an absolute tour de force with each member contributing essential ingredients. It’s a Buckingham lead vocal but the harmonies of Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie are what provides the song with its angst. It’s a great Mick Fleetwood drum track – his incessant and tribal beat serves as the driver for the song. But more importantly it sends the message that this machine has a momentum now that cant be stopped – no matter how many hearts are being left broken in its wake.

Buckingham’s lead guitar is also perfect for the song. He teases the lead break and when he does almost reluctantly takes centre stage he provides a few bars of almost pained playing that underlines the tension in the song.

In 1977 when adults were openly questioning the relevance of concepts like fidelity this song became more than a chart topping hit – it became the catalyst for an examination of relationships – its little wonder Fleetwood Mac was so right for that time.

http://www.heyheymymy.com.au/2010/01...fleetwood-mac/