Neil Finn: New video interview for Variety

SteveMacD · #1 06-28-2018, 05:47 PM

Hard to say what’s going to happen. It could very easily be a one-time thing. The language they’ve been using makes me wonder. However, I could also see it going somewhere. Time will tell.

Hawkeye · #2 06-28-2018, 06:23 PM

I haven’t been anticipating an opening night this much since 2003 and the say you will tour. That was the first tour I was a fan for plus there were so many questions about the set:

1. Which new songs
2.what Chris songs if any
3. What rarities- in hindsight they Fu**ed this up bad in all of the non Christine years. And since I’m talking just say you will tour I’ll give them just beautiful child and much improved Eyes of the World since they had a new album, but boy did they blow an opportunity in 2009 to do a lot more cool things if they put the slightest effort into it.

So there’s a similar up in the air vibe for this tour. And not just “what” they play but “how” they play whatever they’re going to play. I’m really sorry half of those board, but I find Mike Campbell to be a FAR better guitar player then Lindsey, especially live. How much his playing will change these songs is really exciting for me to find out. Plus:

1. How many Lindsey songs
2. How many songs pre-75 (and I’m sorry no offense at all to Neil Finn, this is just a fact that I know is true...He is going to have next to no input on this set list beyond how well or not well he is able to sing a song the rest of the band have told him they’re rehearsing. He’s not or at least I really hope he is not making suggestions considering he was just learning 80 percent of the catalogue after being asked to join which he never actually said exactly but that’s what it comes off as. My whole point in even saying all that is I don’t take this interview with Neil making a prediction as to how many songs will be played from every era. He barely knows which songs are in which era.
3. Are there going to be drastically more songs then we’re used to? Mick keeps talking up how this tour will be quite a bit longer then previous tours. I really hope they follow through, and I’m hopeful since Stevie played a significantly longer set in both song count and time (and that’s more songs WITH all those annoyingly long stories) if the Mac can keep her to a minimum maybe we get a 30 song set? Unlikely I know, but mick keeps pushing this longer set.
4. Plus I can’t wait for the primary discussion on this board to be about the quality of this new Fleetwood Mac. Good OR Bad, but I hope they’re good enough for most to feel good about the new line up eventually. But if not I’d much rather hear discussion about how you feel the band sucks without Lindsey with something to critique, then the endless boring discussion of who fired who and who got who fired or quit and how many tines and how far
Did Stevie shove her broom up Lindsey’s ass to get him fired blah blah blah...

To quote John Mcvie “can they start playing soon?”

Hawkeye · #3 06-28-2018, 06:38 PM

And let me add to that, even just one New song released to Spotify in the next few months can give us something real to judge. The

Storms123 · #4 06-28-2018, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Hard to say what’s going to happen. It could very easily be a one-time thing. The language they’ve been using makes me wonder. However, I could also see it going somewhere. Time will tell.

I feel like Mike Campbell also alluded to that---I think it was in the statement he released? But I could be wrong....time/ticket sales/reception will tell I guess.

SteveMacD · #5 06-28-2018, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Storms123

I feel like Mike Campbell also alluded to that---I think it was in the statement he released? But I could be wrong....time/ticket sales/reception will tell I guess.

It also depends on whether or not the chemistry is good. I think it could be. Obviously, Mick works well with Neil, while Stevie and Mike have a long history of collaboration.

Storms123 · #6 06-28-2018, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveMacD

It also depends on whether or not the chemistry is good. I think it could be. Obviously, Mick works well with Neil, while Stevie and Mike have a long history of collaboration.

Fair point and agree. The wild cards are how Stevie gels with Neil on the songs that have Lindsey's DNA all over them ( they should drop Gypsy, Dreams and Silver Springs) and how Stevie, Chris and Neil all gel together. Mike will hang back a bit I think (a la John) but his presence will be known.

dreamsunwind · #7 06-28-2018, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Storms123

Fair point and agree. The wild cards are how Stevie gels with Neil on the songs that have Lindsey's DNA all over them ( they should drop Gypsy, Dreams and Silver Springs) and how Stevie, Chris and Neil all gel together. Mike will hang back a bit I think (a la John) but his presence will be known.

They can keep Dreams but Gypsy and Sara most of all have got to go. And I'm already positive Silver Springs will never be performed again. Not by any FM lineup or by Stevie herself.

gldstwmn · #8 08-12-2018, 08:39 PM

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And I'm already positive Silver Springs will never be performed again. Not by any FM lineup or by Stevie herself.

I agree. She has never performed it without him. Not once.

StevieandChris · #9 06-30-2018, 12:02 AM

This is mean for obvious reasons, but I think it would be hilarious if Stevie finally did Fireflies on this tour.

**SisterNightroad** · #10 07-14-2018, 08:23 AM

Neil Finn Says He Needed Convincing To Join Fleetwood Mac: 'How Do I React To This?'

Following his shock appointment to the Fleetwood Mac line-up this past April, Neil Finn has revealed he needed some convincing to join the legendary band.
Appearing on last night's Interview with son Liam, the Crowded House frontman recalled getting the call from Mick Fleetwood about possibly joining Fleetwood Mac as he was heading off to sound check for a concert in Auckland that night.

"I just had this big goofy grin on my face and said, 'I'll have to let you know tomorrow, Mick. I've got to do a show.'"

He continued, "I was kinda nonplussed initially thinking, 'How do I react to this?'"

Liam said of convincing his Dad, "I was like, 'You've gotta go and see this out. This is amazing.'"

Finn revealed it took two days of jamming with Fleetwood Mac for things to click.

"… We had two days playing and it was, you know, I wasn't sure," he said.

"The first day, I kinda thought well… but the second day everyone came in a very more relaxed mode and we just sounded good straight away.

"The voices sounded good together and I'd done a little bit of homework and I knew the songs that they'd ask me to sing. It didn't feel that strange even. It felt like being in a band."

Finn again reiterated that he is indeed a permanent Fleetwood Mac member and will continue on with the group following their US tour.

"I've joined the band, I'm a new member. It's a new band. That's how they're seeing it, anyway," Finn explained.

"It feels like they're up for it. They're really hungry to make new music, they're hungry to be as good a band as they can possibly be and above all, they're hungry to have fun."

As TV Tonight reports, Interview was watched by 483,000 viewers. Watch last night's episode here.

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2018...-i-wasnt-sure/

mitzo · #11 07-14-2018, 08:45 AM

Let's hope it's true that they continue after this tour, and make new music.

jwd · #12 07-14-2018, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Neil Finn Says He Needed Convincing To Join Fleetwood Mac: 'How Do I React To This?'

Following his shock appointment to the Fleetwood Mac line-up this past April, Neil Finn has revealed he needed some convincing to join the legendary band.
Appearing on last night's Interview with son Liam, the Crowded House frontman recalled getting the call from Mick Fleetwood about possibly joining Fleetwood Mac as he was heading off to sound check for a concert in Auckland that night.

"I just had this big goofy grin on my face and said, 'I'll have to let you know tomorrow, Mick. I've got to do a show.'"

He continued, "I was kinda nonplussed initially thinking, 'How do I react to this?'"

Liam said of convincing his Dad, "I was like, 'You've gotta go and see this out. This is amazing.'"

Finn revealed it took two days of jamming with Fleetwood Mac for things to click.

"… We had two days playing and it was, you know, I wasn't sure," he said.

"The first day, I kinda thought well… but the second day everyone came in a very more relaxed mode and we just sounded good straight away.

"The voices sounded good together and I'd done a little bit of homework and I knew the songs that they'd ask me to sing. It didn't feel that strange even. It felt like being in a band."

Finn again reiterated that he is indeed a permanent Fleetwood Mac member and will continue on with the group following their US tour.

"I've joined the band, I'm a new member. It's a new band. That's how they're seeing it, anyway," Finn explained.

"It feels like they're up for it. They're really hungry to make new music, they're hungry to be as good a band as they can possibly be and above all, they're hungry to have fun."

As TV Tonight reports, Interview was watched by 483,000 viewers. Watch last night's episode here.

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2018...-i-wasnt-sure/

I say **** all of you! Time for that is over as far as I'm concerned.

#LINDSEY!!