Your Thoughts Fleetwood Mac EP?

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by elle

Tango was BuckVie 0.1.

I'll buy that.
Interesting that Christine was the only one that LOVED making Tango. John had trouble getting his groove to play. Stevie was in rehab or never there or showing up drunk. Lindsey was pissed at Mick buying drugs in his driveway and trying to just get the process over with. Christine says she loved this experience making Tango with Lindsey. So you are correct, it sort of was BuckVie, the early years.

[jeets2000]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I'll buy that.
Interesting that Christine was the only one that LOVED making Tango. John had trouble getting his groove to play. Stevie was in rehab or never there or showing up drunk. Lindsey was pissed at Mick buying drugs in his driveway and trying to just get the process over with. Christine says she loved this experience making Tango with Lindsey. So you are correct, it sort of was BuckVie, the early years.

Doesn't hurt that the songs she wrote for that record were all monsters, (Mystified aside, perhaps, although if anyone wants to argue that point, be my guest).

Tango as BuckVie 1.0 is an interesting notion. And given all of that parallels/similarities, that might be the way people should look at it in the history books. All the same people, essentially, just a different name on the cover.

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by jeets2000

Doesn't hurt that the songs she wrote for that record were all monsters, (Mystified aside, perhaps, although if anyone wants to argue that point, be my guest).

Tango as BuckVie 1.0 is an interesting notion. And given all of that parallels/similarities, that might be the way people should look at it in the history books. All the same people, essentially, just a different name on the cover.

I believe Mystified was originally a Lindsey song that he "handed over" to Christine because her vocals fit better, no? I remember him doing a solo demo of it.

[David]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

I believe Mystified was originally a Lindsey song that he "handed over" to Christine because her vocals fit better, no? I remember him doing a solo demo of it.

I didn't know that, Matt, but that kind of makes sense and seems believable. Mystified is built on what they call a pentatonic (five-tone) scale. It's a musical scale that's redolent of Oriental music. Lindsey went through a pentatonic phase around this time: Make Me a Mask, the guitar opening of Surrender the Rain, and so on. There's lots of little pentatonic filigree all over Tango, including Mystified's essential figure, the big guitar+synth riff that opens Little Lies, bits of the Tango title song on the chorus, and You and I Part I. It's not that an entire song is pentatonic; it's more a case of patches of pentatonic harmony here and there (some of it very noticeable in terms of the song's character). Claude Debussy incorporated pentatonic harmony and figures in his music, in a very famous case of world influence in Western music. One of his Book 1 piano preludes, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, would fit perfectly on Tango or Out of the Cradle with some lyrics added to it.

[WeepingWall]

Originally Posted by David

I didn't know that, Matt, but that kind of makes sense and seems believable. Mystified is built on what they call a pentatonic (five-tone) scale. It's a musical scale that's redolent of Oriental music. Lindsey went through a pentatonic phase around this time: Make Me a Mask, the guitar opening of Surrender the Rain, and so on. There's lots of little pentatonic filigree all over Tango, including Mystified's essential figure, the big guitar+synth riff that opens Little Lies, bits of the Tango title song on the chorus, and You and I Part I. It's not that an entire song is pentatonic; it's more a case of patches of pentatonic harmony here and there (some of it very noticeable in terms of the song's character). Claude Debussy incorporated pentatonic harmony and figures in his music, in a very famous case of world influence in Western music. One of his Book 1 piano preludes, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, would fit perfectly on Tango or Out of the Cradle with some lyrics added to it.

great post -- thank you!