MacNuggets

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

http://www.spinner.com/2010/11/03/ti...-second-album/

It's been well documented that digital music has altered the way fans consume songs and albums. For the Ting Tings, that change manifested itself on their second album, a diverse collection that draws influences from TLC, Nancy Sinatra and Fleetwood Mac.

"Traveling for two years, we listened to all our music on MP3 players because we couldn't carry our record collection around with us," the Ting Tings' Jules DeMartino tells Spinner. "We made a lot of our playlists up while traveling and instead of listening to complete albums of bands, we kind of tended to drag two of our favorite tracks in from someone like Fleetwood Mac."

From the second part of the video Interview:

"And we listened to Fleetwood Mac and Tusk and we've kind of got obsessed [with] by them. And it rubbed off..."

"I'd say there was one song cuz our first album there was one song that we got obsessed with that was "Once In a Lifetime by Talking Heads". I think this album was "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac." / "Played it to death."




So the new album will be TLC meets Fleetwood Mac meets Nancy Sinatra meets Pet Shop Boys meets The SOS Band (Jam-Lewis) -- aka MY kinda album!

It's really amazing to hear about so many groups (from the 1990's onward) who have come out to cite the album Tusk as a source of obsession and/or influence. New generations continually find a fascination with it. In some ways, it's left more of an impact than Rumours.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Spikey

Yeah, one of the guys formerly of radio too, Mark Goodman, I was surprised..

I don't know if I consider SW an upbeat tune either. What do you think Viv?

Are you talking about Mark Goodman of MTV fame? If so I can't effing believe it on the screwup!!!

Yes, I would say that 7 Wonders is an upbeat song.

[Spikey]

Yes, that Mark Goodman, it's him, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn and a couple of other hot 80's radio/MTV people on channel "80's on 8".

I guess I'm mixed about 7W. i love the song, but it's, like a lot of SN songs to me, a positive melody but a sadder and maybe more longing (albeit hopeful) lyric.

[vivfox]

The Rock's Backpages Rewind: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

The excellent John Swenson was right on the money in his review of F. Mac's gazillion-shifting Rumours, as published in Rolling Stone on 21 April, 1977--Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages.

Rock and roll has this bad habit of being unpredictable. You never can tell when a band will undergo that alchemic transmigration from lead to gold. The medium of transformation is almost always a hit single, but such turnarounds often swamp a band in notoriety it can't live up to..

But in Fleetwood Mac's case the departure of guitarist Bob Welch - who'd reduced the band to recutting pointless and pretentious versions of old standards - amounted to the biggest break they ever had. With that and the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac suddenly became a California pop group; instead of laborious blues/rock jams they started turning out bright little three-minute singles with a hook in every chorus..

Christine McVie now leads a classic vocal group working out of the oldest popular tradition, love songs. Vocal harmonies are the meat and potatoes of California's pop identity, and Fleetwood Mac is now one of the genre's main proponents, with three lead singers of comparable range. Taken individually, only McVie's voice has much character, but she anchors their vocal arrangements, since Nicks' low range and Buckingham's high range approximate here dulcet, evenhanded timbre..

Despite the interminable delay in finishing the record, Rumours proves that the success of Fleetwood Mac was no fluke. Christine McVie sounds particularly vital on 'You Make Loving Fun,' which works for the same reason 'Over My Head' was a smash. The formula is vintage Byrds: Christine sings the verse simply, with sparse instrumental background, and the chorus comes on like an angelic choir - high harmonies soaring behind her with 12-string electric guitar counterpoint ringing against the vocals..

The Byrds touch is Lindsey Buckingham's province, and it's used most successfully on the single, 'Go Your Own Way,' which employs acoustic guitar backing throughout, with best effect of the choruses. Mick Fleetwood's drumming adds a new dimension to this style. Fleetwood is swinging away, but not in the fluid roll pattern most rock drummers use. Instead of pushing the rhythm (Buckingham's acoustic guitar and John McVie's bass playing take care of that), he's punctuating it, playing against the grain. A touch like that can turn a good song into a classic..

Buckingham's contribution is the major surprise, since it appeared at first that Nicks was the stronger half of the team. But Nicks has nothing on Rumours to compare with 'Rhiannon,' her smash from the last album. 'Dreams' is a nice but fairly lightweight tune, and her nasal singing is the only weak vocal on the record. 'I Don't Want to Know', which is pure post-Buffalo Springfield country-rock formula, could easily be confused with any number of Richie Furay songs..

Buckingham's other two songs here are almost as good as 'Go Your Own Way.' 'Second Hand News', ostensibly about the breakup of his relationship with Nicks, is anything but morose, and completely outdoes the Eagles in the kiss-off genre. Again the chunking acoustic guitar rhythm carries the song to a joyful chorus that turns average voices into timeless pop harmony. It may be gloss, but it's the best gloss to come along in a long time. 'Never Going Back Again,' the prettiest thing on the album, is just acoustic picking against a delightful vocal that once again belies the bad-news subject matter..

Fleetwood Mac's change from British blues to California folk-rock is not as outlandish as some might think. The early '60s blues scene in England had as much to do with rural American folk music as the urban blues sound, which was predominantly a guitarist's passion anyway. Christine McVie is much closer to a singer like Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny than to any of England's blues shouters. Without altering her basic sensibility McVie moves easily into the thematic trappings of the California rock myth. She's always written love songs, and sings here ballads with halting emotion. 'Songbird,' her solo keyboard spot on Rumours, is elevated by its context from what would have been referred to as a devotional blues into a pantheistic celebration of love and nature..

So Fleetwood Mac has finally realized the apotheosis of that early-'60s blues crusade to get back to the roots. It's just that it took a couple of Californians and a few lessons from the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Eagles to get there..

http://new.ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/...-macs-rumours/

[vivfox]

Fleetwood Mac saw mad success in the 1970s and 1980s with “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” and “Hold Me,” but after recording 1987’s Tango in the Night, the band splintered. In 1997, Fleetwood Mac returned with a live album, The Dance. Mac was back, and with baby boomers willing to pay, the band was right on time. A successful arena tour followed, which kept Mac on the road throughout much of 1997. The band came back in 2009, sans Christine McVie, with the Unleashed Tour. Stevie Nicks made headlines in May when she announced Mac would tour in 2012 and release new material, and to say the upcoming reunion is one of the most anticipated of the decade is far from a hyperbole.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyl...ted-0615-2011/

[michelej1]

Excerpt from an interview with Nick Jonas, Time Out Chicago Kids
http://timeoutchicagokids.com/things...onas-interview

TOCK: You seem like a classic rock kind of guy, who is your favorite band from the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s?

NJ: Ohh [laughs] that’s a tough one, especially when you break it down like that. I’ll just tell you some of my favorite bands. I’d say the Beetles are one of my favorite bands, the Bee Gees, and Fleetwood Mac is also one of my favorite bands of all time.

[mezzoforte]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Excerpt from an interview with Nick Jonas, Time Out Chicago Kids
http://timeoutchicagokids.com/things...onas-interview

TOCK: You seem like a classic rock kind of guy, who is your favorite band from the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s?

NJ: Ohh [laughs] that’s a tough one, especially when you break it down like that. I’ll just tell you some of my favorite bands. I’d say the Beetles are one of my favorite bands, the Bee Gees, and Fleetwood Mac is also one of my favorite bands of all time.

Mistakes like this are why everyone hates interns.

[michelej1]

Excerpt from an article mocking themed headphones and thinking of 10 new ones that could be manufactured:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/top-10-out...-of-the-future

Fleetwood Mac Dreamphones – These rugged headphones don’t sound that great, but their manufacturer guarantees they’ll last over 40 years. Of course, they break apart once every couple of years, but an inexpensive kit will always snap them back together. Includes special tambourine-boost mode.

[vivfox]

As the drummer for now-defunct Australian rock band The Saints Iain Shedden spent many late nights in the spotlight, rubbing shoulders with the stars. These days, as a music writer and critic for The Australian newspaper, he’s still rubbing shoulders with the stars – but it doesn’t always go as planned.

A few years ago he interviewed Fleetwood Mac members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

“The two of them were sitting together on a sofa in a Sydney hotel,” Iain said. “I knew they had a fiery relationship: the album Rumours was about their break up. They seemed fine and were chatting away, when Lindsey said something about which month it was when he left the band. Stevie said ‘No, that’s not right’ and it set them off. For 10 minutes, the two of them were hoeing into each other while I waited for it to subside. Eventually she said ‘Sorry, we’d forgotten about you’.

“Clearly it had brought up a lot of bad stuff that had been simmering for a while. You don’t get those moments very often and it’s a nice bit of colour that’s outside of the ordinary interview that you can use, as long as it’s not defamatory.”

http://www.echonews.com.au/story/201...word-go-round/

[vivfox]

KDKB-FM was in its infancy when Fleetwood Mac dropped by the Mesa studio to introduce its newest members, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

Dennis McBroom, an on-air personality at the time, recalls the scene:

"This was when Lindsey and Stevie were still known as Buckingham Nicks. And until Tucson picked it up later, we were the only station in Arizona that played their music.

"So it's Friday and I'm coming in to do a show. . . . In the hall, I see John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. . . . They wanted us to listen to their new album, entitled 'Fleetwood Mac.' Of course, it went on air that night, before it was released - before anyone else in the country could hear it.

"They brought it to us because they knew KDKB would not only be interested, but that we would play it Side A, Side B, track-to-track, all the way through, right now."

That was 1975, when the rock station (93.3) was in only its fourth year.

This month marks its 40th anniversary.

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/...ary-rocks.html

[Moz]

Lindsey Buckingham hints at a possible Fleetwood Mac tour, album in near future
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...128429308.html

Fleetwood Mac could be back on the road soon.
Lindsey Buckingham says the band is considering another tour and even recording a new album in the near future.
The guitarist, songwriter and producer says there have been "a lot of rumblings" about another Fleetwood Mac tour, but that nothing is on the books yet.

[Moz]

Can I post ebay links in here?

Giant Tusk promo poster (48" x 48") 3 in stock!

[PastelGravel]

OK so I can't for the life of me figure out how to post this picture...but go to this http://www.mendelsonarchives.com/John-McVie.htm link. It's GOLD! Oh John

[PastelGravel]

I don't think I've ever seem this one before...

[Spikey]

Wow.. what era is that from, 1976 maybe?