Old Billboard Clippings

[David]

I want to post some old Billboard clippings. They're all dated at the bottom.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9193/billboard212774np.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard212774np.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6681/billboard409773rw.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard409773rw.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7835/billboard421901oy.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard421901oy.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1230/billboard425878hc.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard425878hc.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7687/billboard714908vf.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard714908vf.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5316/billboard812788zv.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard812788zv.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9469/billboard911765ip.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard911765ip.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5765/billboard929793vy.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard929793vy.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/316/billboard1106824nb.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1106824nb.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3733/billboard1124908hb.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1124908hb.jpg)

[David]

A few more Billboard clippings....

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2794/billboard1125784se.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1125784se.jpg) http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6553/billboard1126882iz.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1126882iz.jpg) http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7823/billboard1201797aj.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1201797aj.jpg) http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5117/billboard1220755fn.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1220755fn.jpg)

[SortaSavageLike]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5316/billboard812788zv.jpg

Listen To The Wind Blow? You Can Go Your Own Way? :shrug:

Ah well, Rumours was such a rare album I can see why they'd have a hard time with that.

[goldustsongbird]

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Ah well, Rumours was such a rare album I can see why they'd have a hard time with that.

Forget the album name... Who the frig is Fleetwood Mac? Sounds like a failed McDonalds project.

[MacMan]

Thanks David... Interesting Read. Man tickets were cheap back then and they thought that was expensive!

[JazmenFlowers]

the clippings are all so small I can't read them. am I doing something wrong?

[skcin]

the clippings are all so small I can't read them. am I doing something wrong?


If you click on them, they should enlarge (they do for me, anyway.)

Thanks David. :thumbsup:

Highlights for me:

Phili 8/78 - Stevie having voice troubles
St. Louis 7/90 - Stevie was distant & Mick's drum solo too long
MSG 12/79 - Not That Funny turned the audience off

Some things never change, I guess. :laugh:

[HomerMcvie]

MSG 12/79 - Not That Funny turned the audience off

Some things never change, I guess.
That's what I'm talking about! NTF, to me, is about as ANTI-FM, as a song can get.

[skcin]

That's what I'm talking about! NTF, to me, is about as ANTI-FM, as a song can get.


I can tolerate the album version, but I LOATHE it live.

[David]

That's what I'm talking about! NTF, to me, is about as ANTI-FM, as a song can get.I guess you don't like hearing the Mac -- including your beloved keyboardist -- jam? :shrug: :( :mad:

[Richard B]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1230/billboard425878hc.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard425878hc.jpg)
This one is funny..."Mysterious." I think they mean "Mystified." I like their choices for this one. I never understood the mass appeal of Little Lies.

[danax6]

This one is funny..."Mysterious." I think they mean "Mystified." I like their choices for this one. I never understood the mass appeal of Little Lies.First they spell Lindsey's name correctly, only to mess it up again later in the 'article'. :rolleyes:

Thanks, David, interesting reads. :)

[skcin]

I guess you don't like hearing the Mac -- including your beloved keyboardist -- jam? :shrug: :( :mad:


You truly think of that repetitive noise as a jam? OK. :shrug:

[David]

You truly think of that repetitive noise as a jam? OK. :shrug:Oh it's definitely a jam, Paula, & it's an amazing jam, particularly when they bring it down & alternately cruise & creep along on the rock-solid rhythm. If you love the way Mick plays drums, John bass, Lindsey guitar & Christine keyboards, you're in jam heaven during the extended "Not That Funny" & "World Turning" (circa 1980), that incarnation's two greatest, most off-the-wall jams of all time. In "Not That Funny" especially, you're hearing Lindsey, Mick, John & Christine at their most unfettered, most spontaneous, most in-the-pocket best. During some of those Tusk shows, it's the NTF jam when those four people are paying the most attention to one another & to the texture & direction of the riffs. I refer you to the NTF of 9.01.80, recently uploaded to the bit torrent thing -- did you happen to catch that? It most perfectly encompasses the spirit of the album, I think: the musicians go from elephants whomping through the underbrush to little mice scurrying about in the growth.

[HomerMcvie]

I guess you don't like hearing the Mac -- including your beloved keyboardist -- jam? :shrug: :( :mad:
Ah David, putting words in my mouth! I didn't say I didn't care for it. I said it was very UN-FM like. Most friends never cared for it, though. As I've said before, I only watch it when I'm alone. I skip it if someone's here.

Egads, all that screaming......egads! Taste briefly stepped out the door.:rolleyes:

[DavidMn]

I want to post some old Billboard clippings. They're all dated at the bottom.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9193/billboard212774np.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard212774np.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6681/billboard409773rw.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard409773rw.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7835/billboard421901oy.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard421901oy.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1230/billboard425878hc.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard425878hc.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7687/billboard714908vf.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard714908vf.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5316/billboard812788zv.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard812788zv.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9469/billboard911765ip.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard911765ip.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5765/billboard929793vy.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard929793vy.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/316/billboard1106824nb.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1106824nb.jpg) http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3733/billboard1124908hb.th.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=billboard1124908hb.jpg)Danny looks like hes about 12 in that picture.

[skcin]

Oh it's definitely a jam, Paula, & it's an amazing jam, particularly when they bring it down & alternately cruise & creep along on the rock-solid rhythm. If you love the way Mick plays drums, John bass, Lindsey guitar & Christine keyboards, you're in jam heaven during the extended "Not That Funny" & "World Turning" (circa 1980), that incarnation's two greatest, most off-the-wall jams of all time. In "Not That Funny" especially, you're hearing Lindsey, Mick, John & Christine at their most unfettered, most spontaneous, most in-the-pocket best. During some of those Tusk shows, it's the NTF jam when those four people are paying the most attention to one another & to the texture & direction of the riffs. I refer you to the NTF of 9.01.80, recently uploaded to the bit torrent thing -- did you happen to catch that? It most perfectly encompasses the spirit of the album, I think: the musicians go from elephants whomping through the underbrush to little mice scurrying about in the growth.


Alright, you've made me rethink my position. I DO like the band jamming on NTF. But I cannot take LB's howling. So, in the future, I will play the musical portions & skip the howling. :)

[David]

Alright, you've made me rethink my position. I DO like the band jamming on NTF. But I cannot take LB's howling. So, in the future, I will play the musical portions & skip the howling. :)If you listen to NTF from 9.01.80, start at the 3:11 mark. The Mac is in jam heaven (for them). Pay close attention to what Mick is playing as well as the instrumental interplay between John & Lindsey (the way they mimic each other's riffs in varying octaves & the way they both toy with dynamics & funk licks) -- all of which occurs magically using only two chords throughout (the tonic & the dominant, with added sevenths to both)!

Also pay attention to around the 8:14 mark when the jam crescendos & Lindsey lets loose with sixteenths that just explode.

[jbrownsjr]

If you listen to NTF from 9.01.80, start at the 3:11 mark. The Mac is in jam heaven (for them). Pay close attention to what Mick is playing as well as the instrumental interplay between John & Lindsey (the way they mimic each other's riffs in varying octaves & the way they both toy with dynamics & funk licks) -- all of which occurs magically using only two chords throughout (the tonic & the dominant, with added sevenths to both)!

Also pay attention to around the 8:14 mark when the jam crescendos & Lindsey lets loose with sixteenths that just explode.

I like the Mirage tour version better for some reason, (maybe cos it's a real piano)...... i do like the chicken sounding guitar on the live album however

[DZgirlie]

That August 1978 review was such a bummer. Poor Stevie. I mean, you can totally hear her voice crack, and notes cut short back then...But to blatently say, it just wasn't near as good as the album voice was...SLAM...Ouch...

[David]

That August 1978 review was such a bummer. Poor Stevie. I mean, you can totally hear her voice crack, and notes cut short back then...But to blatently say, it just wasn't near as good as the album voice was...SLAM...Ouch...Her '78 reviews were nearly all negative -- from slightly to overwhelmingly. She seemed bored to critics, although it's just about my favorite Stevie year with Fleetwood Mac (despite the fact I can plainly see & hear that she's a bit zonko).

But her 1977 reviews were about 50 percent negative & 50 percent positive, depending on the time of year (her nodes were going in & out of inflammation stage throughout 1977).

Her 1979/1980 reviews were measurably more than half positive, or mostly mixed.