FMac Summer Tour Off For Now :(

[Mageboy25]

As of now there will be no Fleetwood Mac tour this summer :( .

But you know, its only February, they could always change their minds again.

(Excuse me if this has been mentioned somewhere else already)

[amber]

spring/summer 2007. bet.


amber "Nostradamus" g.

[Mageboy25]

Yeah, from what I was told they want to go out again. Just not this summer.

It seems like it always boils down to what Stevie wants, just like the old days :).

[Sahara]

Where did this info come from?

[WelshWitchPMD]

Yeah, from what I was told they want to go out again. Just not this summer.

It seems like it always boils down to what Stevie wants, just like the old days :).


Well, good because now we can hopefully get to see Lindsey on his solo tour!
:thumbsup:

[Kelly]

Fall/Winter...if it happens at all.

As for Lindsey.....:lol:

[skcin]

spring/summer 2007. bet.


amber "Nostradamus" g.


I completely agree.


Sincerely,
Pauladamus

[amber]

I completely agree.


Sincerely,
Pauladamus

:laugh: :laugh:

did you predict I'd laugh at that?

[johndoe]

I was under the impression that Lindsey was touring over the summer, and that FM would tour following his tour. Kind of like Stevie, but reversed.

[gldstwmn]

Does that mean Stevie will go out on her own this summer?

[johndoe]

I wouldn't expect it. Steve's pushing 60. A 150 date FM tour then a large solo tour, then an australia, then another solo tour, then a Fleetwood Mac Farewell tour would probably kill her. Thats waaay too much touring with only 3 months of a break.

[DavidMn]

spring/summer 2007. bet.


amber "Nostradamus" g.So you're telling me you dont wat the Miss Cleo title?:lol:

[DavidMn]

Does that mean Stevie will go out on her own this summer?I would be VERY surprised if that happens. SHe'd do well to remember that some of the shows on the Gold Dust tour were much less than sold out. Not that I didnt enjoy them mind you.:nod:

[WelshWitchPMD]

I was under the impression that Lindsey was touring over the summer, and that FM would tour following his tour. Kind of like Stevie, but reversed.

I really hope that happens. I guess we will have to wait and see.

[DavidMn]

I really hope that happens. I guess we will have to wait and see.And I'm fairly certain that youll be front and center opening night, right?:wavey:

[WelshWitchPMD]

And I'm fairly certain that youll be front and center opening night, right?:wavey:

Well, I would like to be but who really knows what is going to happen.:shrug:

I really wish that there was more news about Lindsey. To be 100% honest I am so sick of all the Stevie tour/news that I hardly every go over to the Stevie board anymore. Enough of Stevie.:lol:

[DavidMn]

Well, I would like to be but who really knows what is going to happen.:shrug:

I really wish that there was more news about Lindsey. To be 100% honest I am so sick of all the Stevie tour/news that I hardly every go over to the Stevie board anymore. Enough of Stevie.:lol:Yeah I hear you. Say BTW on the Soundstage where qre you in the picture? I havent been able to find you.

[skcin]

Yeah I hear you. Say BTW on the Soundstage where qre you in the picture? I havent been able to find you.


How can you miss her? ;)

[DavidMn]

How can you miss her? ;)I know.:laugh: I must be getting old and blind...

[WelshWitchPMD]

Yeah I hear you. Say BTW on the Soundstage where qre you in the picture? I havent been able to find you.

David, I will PM you a screen shot from Soundstage and Live in Boston.;)

[DavidMn]

How can you miss her? ;)I really wanted to go to that show too. I was at the Mac show in Chicago a couple days earlier, but I had to get back to Minneapolis to work.

[estranged4life]

it is sad when the Rolling Stones money making tours keep coming every other year or so and Fleetwood Mac has only tour twice since 1997....

Oh, and with the current economy I wonder if the cheap seats for an upcoming 2007 tour will cost a minimum of either $100 or an arm and/or a leg?

[AliceLover]

So they had this little meeting that Stevie and John have mentioned?

John mentioned something about a tour in some of the Q+A questions and Stevie just mentioned a meeting in a recent article from Yesterday.....:shrug:

[DavidMn]

David, I will PM you a screen shot from Soundstage and Live in Boston.;)Excelent! I cant wait to see it!

[shackin'up]

Oh, and with the current economy I wonder if the cheap seats for an upcoming 2007 tour will cost a minimum of either $100 or an arm and/or a leg?

No. You just have to offer a muslim by then and than you can walk through and freefight for a seat you like ;)

[Rickypt]

SHe'd do well to remember that some of the shows on the Gold Dust tour were much less than sold out.

Then that should prompt her to go on a tour of small theaters or symphony halls to play with various orchestras following the Australia experience.

I doubt she will play any more shows this year, though. I'd settle for a one-off Vegas gig.

As for FM, unless Christine has a change of heart, I'm not that anxious to see them.

[DavidMn]

Then that should prompt her to go on a tour of small theaters or symphony halls to play with various orchestras following the Australia experience.

I doubt she will play any more shows this year, though. I'd settle for a one-off Vegas gig.

As for FM, unless Christine has a change of heart, I'm not that anxious to see them.Well, right. I think her mistake was not nececarily touring, but more the size of the venues her people chose. Vegas was a great example. What an awesome venue that was I loved it!

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Does that mean Stevie will go out on her own this summer?

She should do a new album first...(as if that's going to happen!) :cool:

[Gailh]

As for FM, unless Christine has a change of heart, I'm not that anxious to see them.

Me neither

Gail

[HomerMcvie]

Me neither

Gail
Me neither.

[ThePenguin]

So they had this little meeting that Stevie and John have mentioned?

John mentioned something about a tour in some of the Q+A questions and Stevie just mentioned a meeting in a recent article from Yesterday.....:shrug:


John did tell me they had a band meeting, this was back in November, I guess. I don't think plans were ever on for a summer tour though-- he said Stevie had the Australia thing coming up, and Lindsey had something in the summer -"or so I've been told", were his words....(so maybe he views LB's tour plans w/ the same skepticism as the rest of us....? :laugh: I don't know. ) But anyway he didn't imply there was really a summer tour possibility.

-Lis

[SteveMacD]

it is sad when the Rolling Stones money making tours keep coming every other year or so and Fleetwood Mac has only tour twice since 1997....
I wish John was in the Rolling Stones...

[DavidMn]

I wish John was in the Rolling Stones...Why did Bill Wyman ever leave?

[The Chain]

Why did Bill Wyman ever leave?

to pursue a solo career in opening a small resturaunt chain, cleverly named after one of the Stones' most succesful albums :rolleyes: :laugh: This would probably be around the same time he hooked up with the 13 year old model:eek:

[DavidMn]

to pursue a solo career in opening a small resturaunt chain, cleverly named after one of the Stones' most succesful albums :rolleyes: :laugh: This would probably be around the same time he hooked up with the 13 year old model:eek:DId he get into trouble for any of that? forgive me for being ignorant.

[The Chain]

DId he get into trouble for any of that? forgive me for being ignorant.

Actually, I dont think he did. The mother actually approved of them living together :shocked:
:laugh:

It doesnt matter, Darryl Jones kicks ass :nod: :cool:

[Rickypt]

Based on the interview just posted on the Stevie board, I'm beginning to think it might be a very cold day in hell when FM hits the road again.

[SteveMacD]

Based on the interview just posted on the Stevie board, I'm beginning to think it might be a very cold day in hell when FM hits the road again.
Well, I wouldn't rule anything out, at least as far as Mick and John are concerned. Maybe even Lindsey. But, Stevie was never all that thrilled with SYW, at least in any of the interviews I've read. All that interview did was confirm what most of us already suspected, that the kissing and hand holding was mostly for show. Some of us have been saying that for years, now.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Well, I wouldn't rule anything out, at least as far as Mick and John are concerned. Maybe even Lindsey. But, Stevie was never all that thrilled with SYW, at least in any of the interviews I've read. All that interview did was confirm what most of us already suspected, that the kissing and hand holding was mostly for show. Some of us have been saying that for years, now.

Exactly! :nod:

Christine stay at home in Kent please...just record another album with Dan and I will be happy.

[Rickypt]

All that interview did was confirm what most of us already suspected, that the kissing and hand holding was mostly for show. Some of us have been saying that for years, now.

You mean there are people who think otherwise? :eek:

It's totally obvious; the "tender" moments were just as staged as Lindsey's scripted prattle in between songs and Stevie's SYW lasso.

[gldstwmn]

You mean there are people who think otherwise? :eek:

It's totally obvious; the "tender" moments were just as staged as Lindsey's scripted prattle in between songs and Stevie's SYW lasso.

They're referred to as "shippers" because of their focus on the Buckingham Nicks relationship.

[Sahara]

You mean there are people who think otherwise? :eek:

It's totally obvious; the "tender" moments were just as staged as Lindsey's scripted prattle in between songs and Stevie's SYW lasso.

Sad but true.

Cold day in Hell indeed. I think I need to be alone for a while. :distress:

[johndoe]

Somewhere in New York, Billy Burnette's phone just rang...

[David]

You mean there are people who think otherwise? :eek:

It's totally obvious; the "tender" moments were just as staged as Lindsey's scripted prattle in between songs and Stevie's SYW lasso.There are a couple of different ways to look at this. I always assumed the movements--the onstage dancing & hugging & all--were all done every night in virtually the same way because they were part of the show, like actors blocking stage movements. So in that sense, it was scripted (the Tusk dance & all that stuff).

But were there genuine emotions of friendship & accomplishment & camaraderie that drove those scripted dances & hugs? I think there were. The emotion was there even though it was expressed in specifically theatrical, planned ways night after night on tour.

The same is true (for the most part) with playing a set. You play it & sing it in similar ways every night onstage because otherwise it would be too harrowing & too enervating to improvise literally everything. That would be a superhuman feat. But you should still have a general enjoyment of performing & of the songs you & your bandmates wrote & got successful with so that the nightly performance is a ritual reenactment of the excitement you felt when you made the album or released it or made the cover of Rolling Stone. If you can't even work up the pleasure on *that* level, your performance can look really boring & robotic because that is precisely how you are feeling about all of it.

[chiliD]

I wouldn't expect it. Steve's pushing 60. A 150 date FM tour then a large solo tour, then an australia, then another solo tour, then a Fleetwood Mac Farewell tour would probably kill her. Thats waaay too much touring with only 3 months of a break.


Gimme a break :rolleyes: ...how f***ing tough is touring "the Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac" way? Is she freezing her ever expanding butt in an Econoline van from gig to gig? No. Flying first class & staying in 5 star hotels? Yes.
Is she playing 5+ hrs a night, 6 nights a week? No. Is she playing a 90 minute-2 hr set MAYBE three nights a week? Yeah.

The touring schedule and travel accomodations just COULDn't be that strenuous. If they are, then somebody's f***ing spoiled and is out of touch with what a "real musician's" life is.

[chiliD]

to pursue a solo career in opening a small resturaunt chain, cleverly named after one of the Stones' most succesful albums :rolleyes: :laugh: This would probably be around the same time he hooked up with the 13 year old model:eek:

I think she was 18 by then. And, he also has released four or five albums with "Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings"...they're a cookin' hot blues band.

[mylittledemon]

As of now there will be no Fleetwood Mac tour this summer :( .

But you know, its only February, they could always change their minds again.

(Excuse me if this has been mentioned somewhere else already)


I'm actually kinda' surprised that anyone actually thought they would tour this summer.

[DavidMn]

Gimme a break :rolleyes: ...how f***ing tough is touring "the Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac" way? Is she freezing her ever expanding butt in an Econoline van from gig to gig? No. Flying first class & staying in 5 star hotels? Yes.
Is she playing 5+ hrs a night, 6 nights a week? No. Is she playing a 90 minute-2 hr set MAYBE three nights a week? Yeah.

The touring schedule and travel accomodations just COULDn't be that strenuous. If they are, then somebody's f***ing spoiled and is out of touch with what a "real musician's" life is.Ahh the days of sleeping on the equipment trunks during the '75 tour....

[SteveMacD]

Somewhere in New York, Billy Burnette's phone just rang...
Fine by me! I'd rather have Billy up there than Carlos.

[golddustwoman77]

I'm not surprised that they aren't touring this summer. I was thinking next year sometime. :shrug:

:eek: I will be surprised, if Lindsey tours this summer, because he hasn't released the album that he has been promising. :mad: If he does anything this summer, it might be releasing the album, but I bet that is it. I'll be happy, if he follows through on either one.

[Rickypt]

If you can't even work up the pleasure on *that* level, your performance can look really boring & robotic because that is precisely how you are feeling about all of it.

Well, boring and robotic is how I would describe 3 of the 5 SYW concerts I attended.

I personally never witnessed anything that seemed like a genuinely spontaneous moment of intimacy between Stevie and Lindsey during that tour. In fact, in the Bakersfield gig, she seemed downright annoyed with him.

That was my experience; I'm sure other shows were different.

[WelshWitchPMD]

In fact, in the Bakersfield gig, she seemed downright annoyed with him.

That was my experience; I'm sure other shows were different.

You should have been at the Tampa 2003 show. She was pissed!:shocked:

[David]

Well, boring and robotic is how I would describe 3 of the 5 SYW concerts I attended.

I personally never witnessed anything that seemed like a genuinely spontaneous moment of intimacy between Stevie and Lindsey during that tour. In fact, in the Bakersfield gig, she seemed downright annoyed with him.

That was my experience; I'm sure other shows were different.I attended I think the first night of the two 2003 shows at the Arrowhead Pond. Front row. Lindsey struck me as desperately manic, trying to infuse some punk ardor & energy into what was essentially a slick & fogeyfied production that had more in common with Yanni than with Fleetwood Mac circa 1978, so his antics just seemed out of place & sadly comical.

Stevie was distant, from both her band & the audience. If she was standing stage right, a Molotov cocktail could have exploded stage left & I don't think she'd have been aware of it. Her eyes were glassy & vacant (my drug-savvy companion swore Stevie was on painkillers or pot), & she sang low & toneless & seemed not to bother keeping up with the tempo most of the time.

It was a really unsatisfying concert to me. I consider it my final Fleetwood Mac concert. That's okay. For me, it was mostly a great run: 1976 - 2003. But I'm done. I wiped off my hands, dusted my seat & trotted elsewhere.

[SteveMacD]

I'll still go if and when they tour again. I don't really give two sh*ts about the drama. I mainly go for McVie's bass playing.

[HomerMcvie]

I'll still go if and when they tour again. I don't really give two sh*ts about the drama. I mainly go for McVie's bass playing.
That's one hella expensive bass solo!!!:eek:
The Dance was it for me. I'm done with em. UNLESS they'd restart again, with Bekka and Billy.

[SteveMacD]

That's one hella expensive bass solo!!!:eek:
The Dance was it for me. I'm done with em. UNLESS they'd restart again, with Bekka and Billy.
Yeah, it's an expensive bass solo, but what can I say? John's one of the best. He's one of the few that I don't think can be improved upon too much. He does exactly what is needed for the song, not too much, not too little, JUST RIGHT! And, with as much live music I hear throughout the year, the value of that, for me, is surprisingly high.

And, I'd really love to see the band fronted by Lindsey, Billy, Bekka, and Rick (or Bob). Lots o' GEETAR!

[HomerMcvie]

Yeah, it's an expensive bass solo, but what can I say? John's one of the best. He's one of the few that I don't think can be improved upon too much. He does exactly what is needed for the song, not too much, not too little, JUST RIGHT! And, with as much live music I hear throughout the year, the value of that, for me, is surprisingly high.

And, I'd really love to see the band fronted by Lindsey, Billy, Bekka, and Rick (or Bob). Lots o' GEETAR!
I'd KILL to see Bob back in the band(and Bekka!!). OH, to hear him do 5 or 6 of his songs.:blob2: :blob2: :blob2:

[madformac]

Well, good because now we can hopefully get to see Lindsey on his solo tour!
:thumbsup:

I don't think even Nostradamus would put money on that happening.. He's had 14 years to sort out a solo album.. 14 YEARS!!!!!! You could have your own grown up kid before Lindsey gets an album out let alone a tour.. :shocked: :( :laugh:

[madformac]

Well, boring and robotic is how I would describe 3 of the 5 SYW concerts I attended.

I personally never witnessed anything that seemed like a genuinely spontaneous moment of intimacy between Stevie and Lindsey during that tour. In fact, in the Bakersfield gig, she seemed downright annoyed with him.

That was my experience; I'm sure other shows were different.

The first London show in 2003 was great... First time they had been back in many years... Stevie was happy and enjoyed it. Lindsey played the best version of I'm So Afraid of the entire tour and then proceeded to totally destroy his Turner (never seen that before or since). The second night in London was more "standard procedure". As was the first night in Manchester but the second was eventful as Lindsey stopped a fight during Tusk and let the obcenities fly. :laugh: :thumbsup:

But I'm not gonna be paying $180 per seat again thanks.. Micks pension fund must be nicely topped up now and he doesn't need any more cash from me.

[madformac]

I think she was 18 by then. And, he also has released four or five albums with "Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings"...they're a cookin' hot blues band.

I bet old Bill was a bit of a Rhythm King between the sheets as well then.. Dirty bugger. :eek: :laugh: Maybe that's how they got the name.....