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Old 10-09-2009, 06:03 AM
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Now, now, now. Don't lump all of us into one pile!!

I'm not anti-Time, nor really anti-Dave Walker. I just don't think Time lives up to its potential given the personnel/talent present. (Dave Walker is a topic better left for another time.)

I personally very much like Dreamin' The Dream and would agree with you that it fits into (but not as good as) Songbird and Beautiful Child (one of my all time favourite Stevie songs with or without FM). See there? We agree again!!
I've been listening to Time again today (damn this thread I've listened to Time five times in three days now (as well as working through all of my Heart albums on the way to and from work), and really really starting to like the album (not that I ever disliked it).

I've come to the following conclusions:

1. As mentioned in my previous post, Dreamin' The Dream is one of the most beautiful FM songs since 1975 if not never
2. Christine's songs are really good on here (except for All Over Again ), they aren't the usual saccharine commercial pop crap that Christine produced post '75. (sorry Christine fans).
3. I Wonder Why is probably the best Dave Mason song he had done up until that point (and gave us a hint of the great stuff to come years later on 26 Letters, 12 Notes)
4. ChiliD is absolutely correct about the guitar solo at the end of I Wonder Why. As much as I love Bekka she spoils the end of the song.
5. Billy Burnette is sadly under-represented on this album
6. The best thing about being a Fleetwood Mac fan is the ever evolving, ever changing band, 42 years, 16 members, all contributing to the single most amazing band of all time, a rich tapestry of music.
7. Lets hope the current lineup isn't the last. What new and exciting talent and music can Mr Fleetwood and Mr McVie offer us in the future?

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Old 10-09-2009, 08:56 AM
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I've been listening to Time again today (damn this thread I've listened to Time five times in three days now (as well as working through all of my Heart albums on the way to and from work), and really really starting to like the album (not that I ever disliked it).

I've come to the following conclusions:

1. As mentioned in my previous post, Dreamin' The Dream is one of the most beautiful FM songs since 1975 if not never
2. Christine's songs are really good on here (except for All Over Again ), they aren't the usual saccharine commercial pop crap that Christine produced post '75. (sorry Christine fans).
3. I Wonder Why is probably the best Dave Mason song he had done up until that point (and gave us a hint of the great stuff to come years later on 26 Letters, 12 Notes)
4. ChiliD is absolutely correct about the guitar solo at the end of I Wonder Why. As much as I love Bekka she spoils the end of the song.
5. Billy Burnette is sadly under-represented on this album
6. The best thing about being a Fleetwood Mac fan is the ever evolving, ever changing band, 42 years, 16 members, all contributing to the single most amazing band of all time, a rich tapestry of music.
7. Lets hope the current lineup isn't the last. What new and exciting talent and music can Mr Fleetwood and Mr McVie offer us in the future?

Those are all fascinating and helpful responses. I would especially like to touch on the Christine comment. While I don't consider her post-75 songs to be "saccharine commercial pop crap" (), I know what you mean. The Rumours+ songs are different than her pre-Rumours songs. And I agree that her songs here seem to be a return to her pre-Rumours approach in terms of subject matter, tone, "narrative" approach. So that's interesting to think about. How, exactly, did Christine's music change and why. . . (thoughts for another time)

As for whether this is the last Mac line-up. I, perhaps controversially, agree that it is a shame that currently the whole thing revolves around Stevie and Lindsey's willingness to participate. I would really be interested if during one of these interviews, John and Mick were confronted with this fact: why is that? Don't get me wrong. If Stevie and Lindsey said to Mick and John: "We want to record an album every year for the rest of our lives with you guys" then that would, for me, be the best possible scenario for the band. But since they don't seem to be willing to, I wonder if John and/or Mick also don't want to record new material with any regularity under the Mac name (Mick seems to keep himself busy during the off years/decades ). I wish they could say to Lindsey/Stevie: "Feel free to come knockin' any time you want and we'll include you in the fold; in the meantime, we'll be recording and performing gigs with Chris Isaak, Iris Dement, An Pierle, and Koen Gisen."
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Old 10-09-2009, 09:17 AM
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As for whether this is the last Mac line-up. I, perhaps controversially, agree that it is a shame that currently the whole thing revolves around Stevie and Lindsey's willingness to participate. I would really be interested if during one of these interviews, John and Mick were confronted with this fact: why is that? Don't get me wrong. If Stevie and Lindsey said to Mick and John: "We want to record an album every year for the rest of our lives with you guys" then that would, for me, be the best possible scenario for the band. But since they don't seem to be willing to, I wonder if John and/or Mick also don't want to record new material with any regularity under the Mac name (Mick seems to keep himself busy during the off years/decades ). I wish they could say to Lindsey/Stevie: "Feel free to come knockin' any time you want and we'll include you in the fold; in the meantime, we'll be recording and performing gigs with Chris Isaak, Iris Dement, An Pierle, and Koen Gisen."
On this point I wonder whether the reluctance is more on the part of Mr McVie than Mr Fleetwood to carry on with FM. In the very beginning of Mick Fleetwood's Blues Band we saw John McVie as the bass player but that very quickly changed. Perhaps John, now that he is 65 (if memory serves me correct) has done a Christine and decided to seek retirement. Perhaps he came on this tour because it was Stevie and Lindsey coming back with them, but maybe he doesn't want to do anything new.

It isn't something I keep up with (I leave that to John - wetcamelfood) but have Fleetwood or McVie actually made guest appearances on other people's albums any time recently?

We know that Stevie is probably at the end of her useful career life, although as her fans we think she can give us so much more, I'm not sure she wants to now. Lindsey will undoubtedly turn out more solo albums, as much as I don't personally like his solo work that much, he seems to have found a new creative energy in his senior years.

Mick of course did write in his book (I think) that he would still be doing this when he was 80. I have no doubt that while is still healthy he'll keep turning up in various bands, perhaps because he loves the music or perhaps because he loves the money. That too is an argument for another day.

We know that there will be more from the MFBB and Island Rumours Band (well if Rick is to be believed and who would doubt him), but beyond that, who knows?

Oh, and to address your comment about it being a shame that the whole thing revolves around Lindsey and Stevie's willingness to participate - I just think it is a shame the whole thing revolves around Lindsey and Stevie

(You'd never know I love Miss Nicks would you?)
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:41 AM
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It isn't something I keep up with (I leave that to John - wetcamelfood) but have Fleetwood or McVie actually made guest appearances on other people's albums any time recently?
Mick does the odd one or two a year but John doesn't really do much of this at all, let alone recently.

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Old 10-09-2009, 04:35 PM
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That is probably what the Peter Green and Bob Welch fans said in 1975
Some of them still are in 2009.
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And my Time would be something like this

1. Blue Denim
2. Talkin´ To My Heart
3. Sooner Or Later
4. Honey Love
5. Love Is Like A River
6. Walk Another Mile
7. Rose Garden
8. Nights In Estoril
9. Intuition
10. Poor Souls In Love
11. Street Angel
12. All Over Again

Interesting. Here's what I'd propose, without Stevie and Dave Mason, but with Rick Vito.

Walk Another Mile (from Rick's "King of Hearts")
Hollywood (Some Other Kind Of Town)
Talkin' To My Heart
Desiree (with Rick/Bekka instead of Stevie) (from "King of Hearts")
Dreamin' The Dream
Sooner Or Later
Poor Souls In Love (from "King of Hearts")
Winds Of Change (should have been the first single off this album in my opinion)
Nights In Estoril (Rick would kill the solo on this one)
Intuition (from "King of Hearts")
I Got It In For You (would be much better with Rick playing the slide solo)
All Over Again
These Strange Times

That would be my "dream" "Time" line up and I think it would have gone farther as an incarnation of the band as well but that's all just supposition on my part.
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Old 10-09-2009, 08:08 PM
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Here's another thought about this album that I'm sure some of you have already thought of and perhaps even discussed at some point prior to my joining the forum.

There is a ton of "forshadowing imagery" in this album. Take the following examples: Cover art of an adult and a penguin chick. Bekka's "Winds of Change", Christine's songs "Do It All Over Again" and "Hollywood (Some Other Kind Of Town)", and Mick's "These Strange Times". All of these are forshadowing in one way or another. All talking about change. Mick paying tribute to the history of FM, Christine doing the same as well as saying "I'm done." and Bekka saying "this band has changed, but we are still Fleetwood Mac".

I think it was an attempt to move the band from the "old" Buckingham/Nicks era, into a "new" one, albeit with Dave Mason and Bekka instead of the BTM line-up minus Stevie. I would agree that Billy is poorly represented on the album, the guitar solos are not anywhere near where they could be and the Dave Mason material is weak. It does not sound like a collaborative effort by the band, but a compilation of songs created individually and put together to create an album.

Any other thoughts on this idea?
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You have also just described most of the albums Eric Clapton has released in the past twenty years too...

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Say WHAT?!?!?!? Au contraire!!!!! Maybe his albums in the '70s after 461 Ocean Blvd (through Another Ticket) he purposely shunned "Guitar God" status, but from Behind The Sun onward, Eric was SMOKIN' through those vinyl grooves and digital bytes in the studio...and especially on his albums since & including Journeyman.


AS I HAVE JUST TAKEN A LOOK AT THE CALENDAR, HAPPY 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF TIME!!!
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Say WHAT?!?!?!? Au contraire!!!!! Maybe his albums in the '70s after 461 Ocean Blvd (through Another Ticket) he purposely shunned "Guitar God" status, but from Behind The Sun onward, Eric was SMOKIN' through those vinyl grooves and digital bytes in the studio...and especially on his albums since & including Journeyman.
I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on Clapton because we can do that elsewhere, but I offer you Pilgrim, Reptile and the Rush Soundtrack (all post-Journeyman) and ask - are you sure we are talking about the same guy? I'll grant you this though, August and Journeyman were two of his better albums.
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I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on Clapton because we can do that elsewhere, but I offer you Pilgrim, Reptile and the Rush Soundtrack (all post-Journeyman) and ask - are you sure we are talking about the same guy? I'll grant you this though, August and Journeyman were two of his better albums.
I just found this picture on the Dave Mason page on Facebook. So that is the problem with Time. Dave and Billy should have been out promoting the damn album and they were gambling away their earnings...

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I just found this picture on the Dave Mason page on Facebook. So that is the problem with Time. Dave and Billy should have been out promoting the damn album and they were gambling away their earnings...

hahahahahaa!!!
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I just found this picture on the Dave Mason page on Facebook. So that is the problem with Time. Dave and Billy should have been out promoting the damn album and they were gambling away their earnings...


Nah...they were gambling with their "per diem" money...trying to get upgrades from the casino/hotels for better meals & accomodations.

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I bought the cassette tape at Goodwill last week for fifty cents. I still haven't took it out of the bag. It makes me feel like a dirty traitor! Odd huh?

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hmm. "dirty traitor" or "dirty trader"?
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hmm. "dirty traitor" or "dirty trader"?
LOL! I see your point!! Fixed it, though
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