Making of Buckingham Mcvie

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

You bring up a really great point. Goes well with someone's previous comment how that video is like happy destiny rules.

Dame through a drink in his face as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

Michele

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by elle

i don't know why, because i have to assume it's all in good fun, but it really annoys me to read these jokes about Neale. i'm sure everyone here knows it's Neale Heywood, he's been with FM and LB solo since early 90s. he is introduced at the end of every FM show. he is not there as any kind of SN replacement and we all should know better than to keep going on with some kind of appearance jokes.

maybe i just had a bad week, if you all feel like this is non-provoked jumping on you, feel free to remove.

I think those jokes are really digs at Stevie, not anything actually about Neale.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Dame through a drink in his face as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

Michele

Madame is not to be trifled with!

[Say You Will]

Originally Posted by BLY

I have to say I would never have thought after 40 years of having this band as the soundtrack of my life I would get new music in 2017 from this group. As disappointed that I am that Stevie isn't on this project .......Thank You Fleetwood Mac! The music sounds fresh with all the elements that made me follow you from the beginning.

Amen to that. Thank you for sharing.

[Elliefw]

Christine interview in express

Christine McVie reveals why she returned to the spotlight with new duet album

FLEETWOOD Mac star Christine McVie reveals why she returned to the spotlight with her band... and a new duet album.

By CLAIR WOODWARD

The new album from Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie feels like a big, warm hug.

The great melodies, intimate harmonies and terrific arrangements are instantly recognisable as coming from two of the band’s songwriters yet they’re new and intriguing enough to make it more than just another side project from an iconic group.

And for Christine, 73 – the understated genius behind the keyboards in Fleetwood Mac and writer of some of their most recognisable songs (Don’t Stop, Little Lies, Say You Love Me, Hold Me and Everywhere) – the sensation of reconnecting with old friends was the inspiration behind the new collaboration.

She officially retired from the band in 1998, after stepping away from touring a few years earlier, and it was her return to it for the 2015 reunion tour that sparked the collaboration with Lindsey.

"We’ve always had a particular musical relationship since he first joined the band – it was immediate,” Christine explains in her warm, honeyed tone.

“The whole band was just chemistry abounding but Lindsey and I, me being the piano player and him the guitar player, understand each other musically without saying anything.

“We’ve always worked well together over the years but never thought about doing an album together until recently and now we wonder why we didn’t think about doing it before.

“The moment I knew I was going back into the band I flew over to Santa Monica to start rehearsals but, before that, I’d sent Lindsey a few demos of stuff I’d recorded and he went into his studio to arrange them. He played them back to me and I said, ‘These sound really great.’ So we decided to go and record them properly. (Fittingly, fellow Mac members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, on drums and bass, also perform on the album.)

"After we finished the world tour, Lindsey got in touch and said, ‘What are we going to do with these songs, they’re too good to just shelve?’ So we decided to go ahead with releasing a duet album.”

Christine’s return to Fleetwood Mac and her new burst of creativity comes at a time when many people thought that, after several years away from the hurly-burly of rock star life, she would never be seen on stage again.

In the intervening years she moved from California where she had lived for the best part of 30 years (she grew up in Birmingham and moved to London after attending art college), and bought a beautiful country home in the village of Wickhambreaux, Kent, which she spent several years restoring.

“I felt very at home in California but the place is prone to earthquakes and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards I felt that every time I sat down I should have put on a seatbelt. It was really bad and I thought, ‘I’m going to get a house in England.’ I got to a point where I’d been in a band for 40 years and wanted to get back to real life.”

Yet being a lady of leisure eventually proved to be not enough for Christine.

“I started to say, ‘OK, now what?’ I had my two dogs there, they were my life. My marriage (to keyboardist Eddy Quintela) fell through, so I was living on my own and felt isolated. Most of my friends were in London or Los Angeles and worked nine-to-five for a living.

“I did have some friends living with me for a while but, eventually, I reached a point where it was time to start changing things.”

The catalyst for this change was Christine’s need to overcome her fear of flying and the intervention of Mick Fleetwood.

“I had a horrible terror that the next plane I got on would crash,” she remembers.

“So I had therapy to get over that, and other issues I’d developed through isolation, and sorted myself out. My therapist and I discussed the idea of me writing songs again and trying to reach out to the rest of the band as well.

“The therapist asked where I wanted most to fly if I could and I said Maui (one of the Hawaiian islands), as Mick lives there and I have a lot of friends there. So I just bought the ticket without knowing if I’d actually go. I’d always stayed in touch with Mick and soon after I bought the ticket he said he was coming to London, so we met up and I flew back to Maui with him. I didn’t even notice the wheels leave the ground. Since then, it’s been great. I’ve even flown in Africa in one of those prop jobs.”

While with Mick in Maui, he persuaded her to get on stage with his local band, gradually coaxing her back into the idea of returning to her musical career.

“Steven Tyler, from Aerosmith, was there. We belted out a few songs and I just thought, ‘This is good...’”

Christine admits that it was performing live that sustained her through her final years before she left Fleetwood Mac.

“When I first left, I didn’t miss it as I was tired of the travelling. The gigs were the only thing that really sustained me.”

And after her long break, being back with her bandmates has given her a new lease of life.

The closing track on the Lindsey Buckingham/ Christine McVie album is called Carnival Begin, written by Christine and with its lyrics of “I want it all... a new merry-go-round” it is clear that she has a strong appetite for change. Fleetwood Mac’s famously colourful previous life, where sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll made for a potent combination, is now a thing of the past and they are enjoying better personal relationships and new respect from audiences.

“Underlying the band now is a great sense of affection,” reflects Christine.

“We bind together my style, Lindsey’s style and Stevie’s (Nicks) style as songwriters, and it’s a democratic band in that we make sure everyone has the same amount of songs to sing both onstage and on record, although I have to say, it’s Lindsey that really directs the band.”

Next month, Christine and Lindsey are touring the States with the new album and she is looking forward to it after Fleetwood Mac’s triumphant world tour in 2015.

"We had such a great range of ages in the audience, from people who bought our albums the first time around to their children and grandchildren.

“I think we’ve become a hip band to the younger generation. After being seen as middle-of-the-road, we are now fashionable again.”

Christine is now living in London and when she gets back from touring in America she will decorate her new house, which is currently “an empty shell filled with cardboard boxes”.

Who looks after her beloved dogs when she’s away, I ask?

“They passed last year. They were very obliging,” she laughs.

“My other house was for sale. They were 16 and had had a good life. It was sad but things came together at the right time. Everything is for the good in the end.”

The single In My World is out now; the album Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie is released on June 9 on Rhino Records.

[aleuzzi]

"...it’s a democratic band ... although I have to say, it’s Lindsey that really directs the band.”

We know this to be true when the band makes new music and arranges old music for new tours. We also know that Mick holds the whole unit together through persistence, endurance, and his personal connections with each member. But in other ways, it appears Stevie has been directing what the band does these days. The mere fact that this album ISN'T being called a Fleetwood Mac album is because of her considerable leverage in the band politics.

For Christine to say what she said suggests that she is primarily focused on the musical end of things.

[lennonfan]

I love that they're making music in a happy frame of mind, they are reflecting where they are as artists today. They could call it Blue Cheese Dressing and I'd still love it....that sound together...Carnival Begin!

[elle]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

"...it’s a democratic band ... although I have to say, it’s Lindsey that really directs the band.”

We know this to be true when the band makes new music and arranges old music for new tours. We also know that Mick holds the whole unit together through persistence, endurance, and his personal connections with each member. But in other ways, it appears Stevie has been directing what the band does these days. The mere fact that this album ISN'T being called a Fleetwood Mac album is because of her considerable leverage in the band politics.

For Christine to say what she said suggests that she is primarily focused on the musical end of things.

i thought that was interesting too, that Christine actually said that. at one of the Mick's meet and greets during a recent FM tour, some Stevie fan asked him a similar question, fully expecting he will say Stevie. Mick said Lindsey. and yes, i do think both Mick and Christine meant directing stuff in the studio and on the tour, not who has the most outwardly commercial pull.

[dreamsunwind]

Originally Posted by elle

i thought that was interesting too, that Christine actually said that. at one of the Mick's meet and greets during a recent FM tour, some Stevie fan asked him a similar question, fully expecting he will say Stevie. Mick said Lindsey. and yes, i do think both Mick and Christine meant directing stuff in the studio and on the tour, not who has the most outwardly commercial pull.

wasn't that how it always was? lindsey's the musical director. i remember i read a stevie interview from a few years ago, i think elle 2013, while they were on tour and she said how she's happy he does all that kind of stuff because she doesn't like doing it. that's why in her solo career she has waddy as musical director.

[elle]

Originally Posted by dreamsunwind

wasn't that how it always was? lindsey's the musical director.

yeah pretty sure that's the case. i think it extends beyond just musical.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

i thought that was interesting too, that Christine actually said that. at one of the Mick's meet and greets during a recent FM tour, some Stevie fan asked him a similar question, fully expecting he will say Stevie. Mick said Lindsey. and yes, i do think both Mick and Christine meant directing stuff in the studio and on the tour, not who has the most outwardly commercial pull.

They've always said this. Stevie said that Lindsey ruled the band and for her it was the "back of the bus." Christine once said that they all formed a bed for Lindsey to roll around on and do whatever he wanted during The Dance tour. Stevie is not happy that Lindsey still has this influence over the band on stage and in the studio, but if he didn't, who would? She can't substitute for him in those regards.

Michele

[elle]

its interesting to dechipher in that video which parts were filmed back in 2014 when they still assumed they are making a FM album and which parts were filmed mid 2016 and finally duriing the wrap up sessions in late 2016 when they finally decided they are going to release it as a "duet" album. "nice first day" i would assume had to be back in 2014, for example.

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by elle

its interesting to dechipher in that video which parts were filmed back in 2014 when they still assumed they are making a FM album and which parts were filmed mid 2016 and finally duriing the wrap up sessions in late 2016 when they finally decided they are going to release it as a "duet" album. "nice first day" i would assume had to be back in 2014, for example.

I assumed it was first day in the Tusk studio which was only during winter 2016.

[elle]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

I assumed it was first day in the Tusk studio which was only during winter 2016.

no, first day in Tusk studio was in April 2014.

i think in some scenes Cristine is even wearing that hear clip she was wearing when she first rejoined.

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by elle

no, first day in Tusk studio was in April 2014.

i think in some scenes Cristine is even wearing that hear clip she was wearing when she first rejoined.

Is that right? Wow. So many years in the making!