Boston, Mass 04/18

[olive]

Originally Posted by ragrsrocalot

This looks like it was a great show!!! Nice loud crowd, showing the love.Thank you to whomever took the videos, and thank you ViV, for posting the videos, not just this thread but all of them. I wonder who Stevie pointed to, and blew a kiss to during Sara, just as she was walking over to Lindsey's mic. Very cool for Boston!!

Vincent the soldier from Boston she use to visit a Walter Reed they were seated in front of us , (they had planned to bring him on stage but at the last minute decided not to ) who was in a coma and was thought was not going to make it . also I have never seen her as animated during a show unless the show was being filmed

[kak125]

Originally Posted by rhiannondontgo

ha ha that was hilarious! i needed a good laugh tonight. i think that was the fastest i have ever seen her move!

[bombaysaffires]

thanks for posting, they sounded amaaazing

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by kak125

ha ha that was hilarious! i needed a good laugh tonight. i think that was the fastest i have ever seen her move!

Right? I haven't seen her run that fast since she was catching Lindsey at the AMA's.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

This has got to be a hard (and scary) show for the band to do tonight.
Big Love to Fleetwood Mac and to all the fans in Boston.

Kudos. They did it.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Second Hand News



Rhiannon



Don't Stop

Thanks Viv. But this? Is f*cking awesome! It made my night.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Right? I haven't seen her run that fast since she was catching Lindsey at the AMA's.

Hil-a-ri-ous!

[vivfox]

Sister's of the Moon



I'm So Afraid



Landslide

[vivfox]

Go Your Own Way



Rhiannon



Gold Dust Woman

[vivfox]

Sara



Never Going Back Again



Gold Dust Woman

[Fireflies]

jesus, that image stabilization is making me sick.


awah! form sara:

[michelej1]

Boston Globe April 20, 2013 1:30:06 AM

URL http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/musi...GmK/story.html

Fleetwood Mac offers rock, respite from unnerving week

By Marc Hirsh

Two songs into Thursday’s Fleetwood Mac concert, Stevie Nicks related a conversation she once had with her mother. What could she do to help, Nicks asked, in hard times? Her mother’s response: Sing. A simplistic solution, perhaps, but mere days after the Marathon bombing (and hours before the chaotic manhunt for the suspects would shut the city down), 2½ hours of music seemed to serve the near-sellout TD Garden crowd just fine.

In that time, Fleetwood Mac (who swing back around to the Comcast Center on June 21) covered quite a bit of ground: hits, a told-you-so segment focused on the once-misunderstood/now-cultishly-adored “Tusk,” a song that so predated Nicks’s and Lindsey Buckingham’s Mac days that they’d forgotten about it until stumbling across the demo on YouTube and a new song. And more hits. So many hits.

And only one of them — the optimistic “Don’t Stop,” inevitable even before the week’s events — by Christine McVie, who hamstrung the set list by having annoyingly left the band 15 years ago. But it was hard to know what would have been cut to make room for her. Buckingham spat through the clamorous new wave garage rock of “Not That Funny” with vigor and rode out the pained, lumbering “I’m So Afraid” with an increasingly intense guitar solo. “Sara” found Nicks singing to Buckingham, then taking his microphone before peeling off into a small but sweet dance with him.

Save for the riff setting up the coda of “The Chain,” bassist John McVie did all he could to avoid calling attention to himself. Mick Fleetwood took a drum solo during “World Turning,” but he hardly needed it; the off-kilter thumps pushing each song forward and the fervor with which he attacked them were spotlight enough. He seemed to know it, too, capping a ferocious “Tusk” — its glowering paranoia writ arena-sized — by leaping to his feet and throwing his arms into the air.

But songs like that one, “Big Love,” and “Gold Dust Woman” notwithstanding, Fleetwood Mac wasn’t just about tension. Buckingham and Nicks harmonized ebulliently on the chorus of the fine, upbeat new “Sad Angel,” while the rolling drums gave “Eyes of the World” a headlong drive. And the elegiac “Silver Springs” helped draw the show to a close with its slow rise and reset, and slow rise again. As Fleetwood Mac knows quite well, singing together can get people through plenty of difficulty.

[michelej1]

Metro US
http://www.metro.us/newyork/entertai...boston-strong/

By Stephen DavisPublished: April 19, 2013
Fleetwood Mac is Boston Strong

Fleetwood Mac has a long history in Boston. When the young English blues band arrived in America in 1969, they were hired as the house band at the Boston Tea Party, the city’s legendary electric ballroom. And when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band in 1975, Boston radio stations were the first to put the new-look Fleetwood Mac into heavy rotation.

“Boston is part of our Fleetwood Mac family,” an obviously emotional Stevie declared from the stage of Boston Garden (ok, TD BankNorth Garden), where the current FM lineup played to a packed house on Thursday night as the city recovered from the Marathon bombings three days earlier. “And you know, we feel that we’re part of the Boston family as well.” As the cheering grew in volume, she stepped to her microphone and shouted, “Boston Strong!”

Fleetwood Mac is now a quartet, Christine McVie having retired to the English countryside. The band is augmented by keyboards, a second guitarist, and Stevie’s longtime backing singers, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks. Drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie still serve as a bedrock rhythm section behind Lindsey Buckingham’s lead guitar and vocals, with a willowy, golden-mane Stevie Nicks holding her own stage left.

The band took the stage in the dark to the sound of chirping crickets, a nice touch. They roared into “Second Hand News,” indicating that the back-story of Stevie and Lindsey’s broken love affair would be the evening’s main subtext. This was confirmed in the set’s second song, “The Chain,” a bitter lover’s complaint.

Before slipping into the soft-rock classic “Dreams,” by way of consoling her audience, Stevie said: “In times of trouble, my mother would say, ‘Sing to them.’ So tonight we’re going to sing two and a half hours of kick ass rock and roll for you.”

The concerts paraded through a long career of hit singles (“Rhiannon,” Landslide”), Buckingham’s quirky songs (“Not That Funny,” “Never Going Back,” “So Afraid”) and Stevie’s crowd-pleasing classics (“Sarah,” “Gypsy,” “Gold Dust Woman” backlit with a luminous golden shawl). “Stand Back” paid tribute to Nicks’s solo career, and got the biggest crowd response of the evening.

Fleetwood Mac also other introduced two new songs, always a risky bet in a jukebox greatest-hits concert. The first was hard rocking “Bad Angel,” shortly to be released on Ep according to Buckingham. The other was an early demo, “Without You,” that dated from the early Seventies, when Stevie and Lindsey moved to Los Angeles in search of their big break. The “big” part of that break, Stevie told the crowd, was when 6’6” Mick Fleetwood stumbled into the studio where they were working and heard the song. “We were crazy in L.A., and crazy in love with each other,” she added.

Stevie Nicks put on her trademark black top hat for the finale, which as always was “Go Your Own Way.” When Fleetwood Mac crashed to a rumbling halt, Stevie Nicks again reminded us: “Boston strong!”

Stephen Davis wrote the best-selling Fleetwood (1990). His new biography of Stevie Nicks will be published next year.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Fireflies

awah! form sara:

That was so cute!

[Baretrees]

Has anyone recorded the Boston show from thursday night and have it on MP3. It was a very special show. Very glad I was there.