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What wasn’t to enjoy? It’s not like Stevie was at her best during everything leading up to that era. Bekka brought energy to the shows, and she and Billy sounded amazing together. Their chemistry was every bit as pure as anything Fleetwood Mac ever had. I also really liked how Billy’s rhythm playing meshed in with Mick and John. Looking back, I’d rather they had focused on new material (which I’d be saying now if LB hadn’t gotten booted, BTW) and have gotten Mick Taylor (who I could get how he’d fit in with the band) on lead guitar. (Oh okay, I just wanted to hear Bekka and Billy rock “Gimme Shelter”, and Mick Taylor in the band would have given it credibility…)
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Truth be told, I haven't agreed with Steve's stance on this new lineup, AT ALL, but I do agree with his assessment of the Time lineup. Imo, Bekka IS the greatest singer that FM ever had. She's a freaking powerhouse, with pipes to die for. I truly enjoyed the one show I saw, and it's a shame they weren't given more of a chance to flourish.
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And I can't stand Dave Mason, but her wailing on the end of Blow By Blow was just f*cking phenomenal! Truly AMAZING.
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Yeah, but especially after her TITN songs, the Red Rocks & TITN concert videos, her BTM songs, her listless performances during the BTM tour, the new songs on Timespace, and Paper Doll, I was thoroughly over Stevie Nicks by 1992. The best I can say about her during that time was OSOTM had a few really good songs on it and I liked her backing vocals on that B.B. King song. Now, in retrospect, I know she was dealing with issues that weren’t public knowledge, but I was 18 in 1992, and I don’t know if that would have mattered. Stevie was a far cry from 1975-83.
By 1994, Bekka was a breath of fresh air, and the chemistry she and Billy had was something I thought they could have built upon. Christine was largely checked out and Dave was creative dead weight, but I think the others could have developed the band in a really cool new direction if Mick could have gotten out of “Rumours” mode. The Americana thing was starting to bubble up. Put someone like Mick Taylor in on lead guitar, one of the granddaddies of the country meets blues, rock, and pop, and I think the possibilities would have been endless. Quote:
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When it was rumored that Mike was the new guitarist, I didn’t totally hate it. If it’s not going to be Lindsey, who could they have gotten that was better? I didn’t think they really needed anyone else, and really hated when it came out that there was going to be another guitarist/lead male vocalist. However, they got someone I could totally get behind. Neil is a true artist. To put it another way, when a songwriter who has released over 100 albums thinks highly enough of another writer to make a comp of that writer, that puts Neil Finn’s worthiness into perspective. And, I have long maintained that “Don’t Dream It’s Over” was the best pop song of the 1980s. To be sure, I’m not a fan of what happened, but I wasn’t especially shocked by it. That said, whatever happened had nothing to do with Neil or Mike, so I can’t hold it against them. And, I’m impressed that Fleetwood Mac didn’t completely embarrass themselves this time.
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It's too late for reinvention. They're completely embarrassing themselves doing this. They're gonna look like cheap whores doing this.
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fleetwood mac has announced march 9 2019 boardwalk hall atlantic city and april 5 2019 wells fargo center in philly just read it this morning
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Dates are up on Ticketmaster. They span October 2018 to April 2019. For the Washington, DC show, it says the price range is: 69.50 USD - 229.50 USD
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Awesome. One of your best.
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Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Try the Curried Goat!
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I don't live in the US and haven't attended a concert of any sort in ages, so I don't know much about ticket prices , but are these prices high? How do they compare with On with the Show?
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That was obviously a few years ago, so you have to account for a bit of inflation... but you also have to account for the fact that that tour was the first time the "classic" line-up was touring in nearly 20 years. That's not the case this time around, and yet prices have gone up considerably. |
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He does like his guitars dirty.
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