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vivfox

10-09-2010, 06:23 PM

I wanna thank Michelle of "Stray Cat Blues" for picking this piece of mine as one of her top three at her blog. If you haven´t discovered her blog already, you must cause it rocks. She has a passionate way of analysing music plus she is a huge Led Zep follower, so that´s enough for me. Go and check her blog and the other pieces. Trust me, you won´t regret it. Anyway, there was a contest and the rules were to pick up an album or a band, an artist, a song, a concert and just write about it. I had to go with Fleetwood Mac cause they inspire me too damn much. So, I want to THANK MICHELLE for loving this one and for encouriging me to write more. I´ve realised i hardly write here so I´ve decided i´ll do it more often cause i basically enjoy it. If you have nothing to do, you might wanna read it. Felt like sharing. After all if you haven´t heard this album yet, you don´t know what you´re missing. Enjoy!

"I would have picked the band but nobody would have stopped me with the paragraphs. Let´s see, two couples breaking up while recording an album definitely attracted my thirsty morbid curiosity of wanting to know how that could have turned out. Who would have said that such a painful process would become an exquisite masterpiece in the history of rock?. Ironically, their worst time in life brought out the best as regards music. Every song is a reflection of what they were experiencing, I admire the passion they had while writing and recording each one of those. This whole album was a ****ing bittersweet soap opera with great harmonies around a mix of perfect acoustic and electric instrumentation. These five human beings were so different and yet musical soulmates. I have to admit that the whole “I love you, I hate you” background in those songs is like a turn on every time but when i hear the voices and the instruments combined with those lyrics, I´m in total awe.

In Rumours, Stevie Nicks voice was powerful and melodic. It was perfect, like honey dripped on velvet. She could be sweet like in “Dreams” or take it to the edge like in “Gold Dust Woman”. Christine McVie had a soft but smoked voice and she could handle those keyboards as an extension of her hands. Lindsey Buckingham had an acceptable voice but his real talent was on those guitar strings. No pick, just those fingernails almost bleeding with love, hate but mainly passion. He knew how to set any kind of guitar on fire. For me, he is one hell of an underrated guitar player. John McVie might have been the quiet one but you could tell his bass was part of his body. He never stopped playing it. He just knew when to play it soft but precise or rough like in “The Chain” when he steals the song completely even if it is for a few seconds.

Mick Fleetwood is the last but not least. Even when he seems the lost link of the chain, he was the one who kept all those harmonies together just being an animal behind those drums. He was the essential extra spicy "dressing". In this album, each song is brilliant and has its special taste. I have my favorites like “Go Your Own Way”, “The Chain”, “Gold Dust Woman”, “You Make Loving Fun” or “Dreams”.“Fleetwood Mac” had talented musicians, singers and songwriters who sang from their experiences and emotions, mainly from their hearts. It was a moment in history when bands wanted to sell records and become rich and famous but at the same time it was a time when they gave everything from themselves just FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC. That´s why I love Rumours cause I feel that LOVE and I LOVE this record and these guys. I couldn´t live without it as much as I can´t live without good old rock n´roll.

As said in Almost Famous:
“EXPERIENCE, ENJOY IT. JUST DON´T FALL FOR IT”

http://lovelyboheme.blogspot.com/2010/10/fleetwood-macs-rumours-album.html

vivfox

10-09-2010, 11:57 PM

Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
Posted on October 9, 2010

Three decades after Rumours established itself as one of rock’s most ubiquitous, overarching successes, discussing Fleetwood Mac’s heady 1977 monster (18 million sold and counting) might seem pointless; one might as well deconstruct a Big Mac. But this remastered, double-disc deluxe edition succeeds by offering up a generous, compelling portrait of that overly familiar musical triumph via 18 bonus tracks that include demos, outtakes, run-throughs, and studio jams. Stripping hits like “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Gold Dust Woman” down to their most bare-bones form reveals the sturdy, elemental framework that tellingly lies beneath all the pop perfection.
But tracks like Lindsey Buckingham’s ebullient instrumental “Brushes” (the basic tracks of “Never Going Back Again”) also display a musician whose focused vision is informed by accomplished playing that’s anything but simple. The two brief studio jams included aren’t much more than noisy, disposable fun. But other outtakes of songs that didn’t make the album (Stevie Nicks’s “Think About It” and “Planets of the Universe”; Buckingham’s “Doesn’t Anything Last”) help underscore the contention of Dave DiMartino’s insightful new liner notes: This was a band on the cusp of triumph literally coming apart at its emotional seams, yet one which somehow channeled that personal turmoil into nothing short of epochal musical success. –Jerry McCulley

Rating: (out of 40 reviews)

List Price: $24.98

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Edwin W. Skinner, Jr. says:
October 9, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Review by Edwin W. Skinner, Jr. for Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
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What more can you say about RUMOURS that hasn’t been said . . . a thousand times? One of pop’s greatest statements, RUMOURS endures as nostalgia in the hearts & minds of 70′s teens now all grown up, as well as in the heads of younger musicians and music lovers for its passion & guitar growl. Hey – even grunge embraced the Magic, as Hole saw fit to cover “Gold Dust Woman”.

No need to run down the cuts track-by-track; most of us know the playlist by heart. What is important to remember about RUMOURS is that while it yielded no less than five radio hits, the remainder of the album is probably better than those five songs.

Fleetwood Mac was one of the last 70′s-style FM radio bands to benefit from the free-form nature of the FM format and RUMOURS provides a nice opportunity to contrast the difference between radio yesterday & today: 70′s FM educated people; today’s radio pacifies them. An album like RUMOURS would be impossible today, as radio would never think to offer so many of its cuts up for consumption. Today, all you need is a hook, a gimmick and a video with a little skin & innuendo. After that, it’s onto the ‘ol scrap heap, with all the other flavors-of-the-week. Next!

So hop into the time warp and return to a more trusting time. Let what everyone says about RUMOURS wash over you; give in to the experience. Believe what all those silky-toned 70′s FM deejays said. Forget about that no-talent Lady Gaga (don’t worry – you will soon enough, anyway). Embrace what truly talented and committed musicians have to offer. Buy into the RUMOURS.

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MRT says:
October 9, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Review by MRT for Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
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“Rumours” is FLEETWOOD MAC’S best album. The best two songs on the album are a hit, “Go Your Own Way,” and an album track, “The Chain.” Both fuse good production with a strong sense of drama . “Go Your Own Way” has a bone-crushing vocal hook and “The Chain” is one of the most brilliantly bitter-sounding songs around. “Gold Dust Woman” has some of this drama as well.Other good songs are the bittersweet “Songbird” ,”Don’t Stop” and “Dreams.” The hit “You Make Loving Fun” is a very strong.The rest of the album is a pop rock masterpiece.

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Just Fell In says:
October 9, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Review by Just Fell In for Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
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There isn’t much that can be said about Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours that hasn’t already been said before. 6 out of the original 11 songs on the album went on to become either hits or radio staples. The story behind the making of the album is legendary. It’s surprising that no one thought about making a movie about it.

Riding high on the success of the previous “Fleetwood Mac” self-titled album, the band went into the studio to record rumours. When I say riding high, it is in more than one way, since the band members were purported to be some of the highest consumers of cocaine in the music business at the time.

Also, Stevie Nicks (singer/songwriter) was long-time girlfriend of Lindsay Buckingham’s (singer/guitarist/producer/songwriter)but broke up with him and ran to drummer Mick Fleetwood. At the same time, married couple John McVie (Bassist) and Christine McVie (singer/keyboardist/songwriter) decided to get a divorce. The result was the emotionally-charged, confessional, blockbuster album Rumours. It is currently the 9th best-selling album of all time and definitely Fleetwood Mac’s best ever. It is a combination of blues/folk/rock/pop with a 70s California sound that still sounds fresh today as it ever did. You won’t find many albums with this consistency and appeal. This is one of those albums that is truly legendary and is oversold in any attempt to describe it. If you’ve never heard it and like soft-rock, you owe it to yourself to buy it.

Very Highly Recommended

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Jan2X says:
October 9, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Review by Jan2X for Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
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bought this last week and I’m glad I took the risk. the sound is great and i’m back to loving this album dearly like the first time i heard it years ago, considering the sound quality of the old version is pretty dirty as if caked with mud. the silver springs addition is not bad unlike what others say. i don’t want to know and songbird probably enjoyed the best of the facelift because in the old CD they were merely “fillers” but here due to the sound improvement they contribute better on the album as a whole.

however i think the second disc is unnecesary and so is the price.

http://www.simspremiere.com/rumours-deluxe-edition/

vivfox

10-10-2010, 12:01 PM

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London. The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green, and from 1975 to 1987, with more pop-orientation, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The band enjoyed more modest success in the intervening period between 1971 and 1974, with the line-up including Bob Welch, and also during the 1990s which saw more personnel changes before the return of Nicks and Buckingham in 1997, and more recently, the departure of Christine McVie. Fleetwood Mac earned their Hollywood Star on October 10, 1979.

http://scratchdisk.posterous.com/project101010-02-fleetwood-mac

vivfox

10-13-2010, 08:49 PM

Fleetwood Mac (Deluxe Edition) | browntonbruins.com
By admin
The first Fleetwood Mac release with the addition of singer-writer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham & singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks, this is the one most often overlooked, as it pre-dates The Masterpiece, RUMOURS. ...
browntonbruins.com - http://www.browntonbruins.com/

michelej1

10-14-2010, 07:38 PM

Saw this bit about SnL on a blog advising people on how to help children through divorce.

Um, I don't think the kind of separation Stevie and Lindsey had is one that any child should be exposed to, much less one to be recommended.

http://helpingchildrenthroughdivorce.com/2010/10/13/you-can-go-your-own-way/

Garnet’s Commentary:

In January 1975 Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were lovers. They were broke and didn’t even file income tax because they worked in restaurants and didn’t make enough money to report. Their relationship didn’t last. So what did they do about it? They made magic!!! They were asked to join Fleetwood Mac that year and in 1977 began singing about their experience…together. You Can Go Your Own Way is an absolute brilliant song about relationship and Stevie and Lindsey to this day still perform the song together. They connected and found a way to stay connected. A true testament to the mutual respect they have for each other -- something that all people facing the challenge of divorce or separation should emulate.

kokoro

10-14-2010, 08:21 PM

You Can Go Your Own Way is an absolute brilliant song about relationship and Stevie and Lindsey to this day still perform the song together. They connected and found a way to stay connected. A true testament to the mutual respect they have for each other -- something that all people facing the challenge of divorce or separation should emulate.

Did this person actually listen to the lyrics? Or any of the lyrics from their songs about each other? Yeah, their kind of separation is definitely not recommended. Then again, who knows what things might have been like if they had a kid. Maybe they would have been more civil. Or perhaps less so. :shrug:

vivfox

10-15-2010, 10:26 PM

Fleetwood Mac – The Dance | mp3songsstore.com
By admin
As for Stevie Nicks, she still has her angel voice. She's very convincing when she sings, because her tone and pitch always match the lyrics but never in an exaggerated way. You'll also notice that she dances like a bird flies, ...
mp3songsstore.com - http://mp3songsstore.com/

vivfox

10-15-2010, 10:28 PM

Today in Music History… October 15th « Q105 – WRBQ Tampa Bay
By masondixonradio
Lynyrd Skynyrd released the album “Street Survivors,” with the original cover featuring the band members engulfed in flames. In 1978. Heart released the album “Dog and Butterfly.” In 1979. Fleetwood Mac released the album “Tusk.” ...
Q105 - WRBQ Tampa Bay - http://myq105.radio.com/

vivfox

10-20-2010, 12:22 AM

WNEW | Where Rock Lives: Five Things About . . . October 19, 1977
By jabartlett
The top album on the Billboard 200 was Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. It was the album's 23rd week at the top; it would spend 31 weeks at #1 in four different stretches between April 2, 1977, and January 14, 1978. Other top albums that week: ...
WNEW | Where Rock Lives - http://www.wnew.com/

vivfox

10-21-2010, 06:48 PM

You may have noticed a new advertiser on Obsessee's sidebar, the fabulous vintage ebay store, Sisters of the Black Moon! Sisters of the Black Moon have become quite renowned in the last little while, and serve up some of the greatest and most unique pieces on their online vintage ebay boutique. I decided to ask the lovely ladies, Sara, Rachel, and Alecia a few questions about their store!

How did you three ladies meet?
we all met in austin through mutual friends. it was a magical friendship from the start!

What made you decide to start Sisters of the Black Moon?

The 3 of us had worked in vintage clothing (modeling & sales) for quite some time. We collectively wanted to have our own store at some point, it was a dream in the making. Luckily, the stars aligned and the timinig was right for the 3 of us to start our business journey together. We were more than ready and soon gave birth to our moonchild, Sisters of the Black Moon.

Where did the name originate from?
We were all on a road trip to this little vintage store in the middle of nowhere on the side of I-35 between Austin and Dallas called the Style Station. We were talking about all sorts of things and started to talk about opening our own online vintage store (something we had discussed before but had yet to make that dream a reality). Fleetwood Mac was playing on the ipod, the song Sisters of the Moon came up in discussion, we played around with that as a name for a bit but we were seeking a name that was a little bit more dark and mysterious ... one thing led to another and voila, the name Sisters of the Black Moon was created!

Where do you find the vintage treasures you sell?
We get our clothes from all over. A little bit here and a little bit there. Right now, Rachel and Alecia live in Austin while Sara just relocated to Sweden. We are currently thrifting bi-continentally to find the most epic pieces for our shoppers.

What are your favorite fall trends?
Oh where to begin!? Deep hues, embellishment, layering and the maxi are all musts. A feminine floating dress with a masculine structured jacket. Leather and lace. Southwestern prints and heavy knits. Over the knee lace up boots. Heavy tribal/ethnic jewelry (loving Pamela Loves new line).

Check out some of their favorite vintage pieces in their store currently, as well as pieces hand made Heyoka Leather for the Sisters' new "Lucky 13" line!

Thanks so much to Rachel, Alecia, and Sara!

Be sure to check these lovely ladies out at Sistersoftheblackmoon.com, where you can find their ebay store, and various lovely tumblrs full of everyday inspiration.

http://obsessee.typepad.com/obsessee/2010/10/featuresisters-of-the-black-moon-.html

vivfox

10-21-2010, 06:49 PM

What if punk *really* hadn't happened? | Word Magazine
By Emcee_Fotherington-Thomas
Never forget punk only destroyed for the good hippie stuff; boring blues orthodoxy safe stuff like Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, etc. carried on from strength to strength. The mythologising of punk as a replacement for ...
Word Magazine blogs - http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/blog

vivfox

10-22-2010, 12:06 AM

More Fleetwood Mac please? - Rock Band Forums
By DustinJames89
With the inclusion of the key board and harmonies in Rock Band 3, the possibilities of including more Fleetwood Mac DLC would be awesome. I would love to see a full Rumors, Mirage and Tango in the Night download, but even some scattered ...
Rock Band Forums - http://www.rockband.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3980932&postcount=31

vivfox

10-22-2010, 06:48 PM

Gig review: Plan B at Leeds 02 Academy
Yorkshire Evening Post
Claire Maguire's first on five-piece failed to ignite much enthusiasm in the audience apart from when she covered Fleetwood Mac's Looking Out For Love. ...http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Gig-review-Plan-B-at.6594912.jp

vivfox

10-24-2010, 10:16 AM

GameSpot Forums - Off-Topic Discussion - Fleetwood Mac?
Anyone like this band?Im a pretty big rap fan.I also like Country, rock, and some popBeen listening to a lot of Fleetwood Mac lately.Just wondering.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27488549

vivfox

10-24-2010, 10:19 AM

vivfox

10-24-2010, 10:23 AM

Drama…we all seem to go through some kind of drama…either our own or hearing about someone else’s. I was talking with some friends the other day and two of those friends talked about “not dealing” with someone else’s drama. Of course, it ultimately comes down to how we choose to deal with it. Do we get “dramatic” about it or do we find other outlets to express it? It seems when others have dramas, we become strangely attracted to their troubles. Somehow, we find it nice to know that others have the same issues under duress. We look at their dramas and we can feel better about ourselves knowing that others may have things much worse than we do. That may explain why the general public loves the idea of reality shows and (in this case) music.

There are many albums that (as a listener) I’ve heard so much that I know it from beginning to end to the point that it’s practically embedded in my DNA. I know that I’m not alone in this either. I actually read that Jason Bonham(son of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham) used to travel with his dad to Motocross competitions and listen to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours on his dad’s state-of-the-art 8-track player for the duration of the trips. I don’t know the first time I heard Rumours. But, I know that it’s something I’ve known for 33 years of my life and it wasn’t until my own marriage ended that I was able to relate to it in a lyrical sense to the themes of heartbreak, jealousy and betrayal. These are all things that come when a relationship ends and yet you must continue to communicate with the person who hurt you and caused this heartache and pain.

Released in 1977, Rumours was the work of 5 musicians and songwriters in a state of personal and emotional turmoil. Fleetwood Mac originally started as an off shoot of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers where the rhythm section of bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood formed a band to showcase the guitar prowess of Peter Green. Various personnel changes led to the recruitment of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham and his girlfriend/vocalist Stephanie “Stevie” Nicks. They recorded the band’s 1975 self titled (white album) and brought the band to the forefront of 1970’s pop-rock hierarchy. Soon after that “white” album, Stevie and Lindsey broke up as did keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie and husband John McVie. Even drummer Mick Fleetwood experienced marital strife with his wife Jenny when she moved back to England with his two kids.

At the time of the release of this album, I was 10 years old. One of the things my sisters contributed to my musical growth was exposing me to some great music of the time(they also exposed me to some real stinkers too) In 1977, one of the formats to experience music through was the 8-track cassette. Looking back, the 8-track is a rather amusing format to explain to someone who was born in the mid to late 80’s that has never experienced them. My sister Kathy owned Fleetwood Mac Rumours on 8-track and one of my memories of this album was my sister washing the family station wagon while Rumours blared on her portable 8-track player. My sister was also a fan of watching all kinds of music TV and Awards shows. This is before MTV and so we would watch all the American Bandstand performances and variety shows. She would stay up late and watch the Midnight Special on NBC. I was too young to stay up and watch them. Occasionally, she would wake me up to watch (maybe) Steve Martin do a bit of his comedy act on Midnight Special. But, not more than that. We would watch the Grammy awards and the American Music Awards and stuff like that. I can remember watching those awards shows the year that Fleetwood Mac seemed to sweep the awards. Every time an award was announced, the camera would be on Stevie, Lindsey, Christine, John and Mick and they would stand up to make their way to accept yet another award.

After the success of Rumours, the band (obviously) grew in popularity and released 3 more albums with the same lineup until early 1988 when Lindsey opted out of a tour and ultimately left to pursue his own solo career. In that time, they released Tusk (1979), Mirage(1982) and Tango in the Night(1987) and I remember distinct memories and small discussions about each of those albums. I remember visiting my cousins the summer of 79 or 80 and they had a cassette copy of Tusk as I recall thinking it was a strange and amusing title for an album. In my early high school years, I remember seeing the video for Hold Me in wide rotation on Friday Night Videos, TBS’s Night Tracks and HBO’s Video Jukebox. The image of the band walking through the desert and the pile of guitars in the middle of a sand dune is embedded in my memory. The entertainment media definitely made every album out to be a big event and I even remember seeing bits of pieces of an HBO concert that was recorded too. My friend John even made some comment about Mick Fleetwood being so stoned and out of it during the HBO concert. Looking back at the band’s trouble with drugs and alcohol, it’s not a big surprise and he was probably right. In 1987, they released Tango in the Night and the first single was the (very 80’s sounding) Big Love. I’ve heard that Lindsay basically did that song all himself because of the colossal addictions of the other members. This was yet another album and it was definitely another media event and yet another topic of conversation that would usually start with the question “have you heard the new Fleetwood Mac album and what do you think?”

In early 1988, Lindsey announced he was not doing the accompanying tour and was leaving the band to pursue his solo recording career. The band soldiered on with two new members to replace Lindsey. Soon the drama was gone and the media (and the public) didn’t want to really hear about Fleetwood Mac any more. Stevie Nicks continued to make her own solo records and it just didn’t seem like a big deal like it was in the 70’s and early 80’s.

In 1992, Lindsey finally released his first solo album 4 years after leaving “the Mac” called Out of the Cradle. I was working as a manager of Tape World in Omaha’s Crossroads Mall and we received a promo CD copy of this album. We were always receiving promo copies of some kind. I took the CD home and put it in my home stereo and the production just floored me. The vocals and instruments would swoop from one speaker to the another across the room and take me on an aural adventure. It was incredibly inventive and performed with excellent musical prowess. But, the songwriting was very catchy and very pop oriented. But, It was so good that I went back to work and my assistant manager and I would talk endlessly about how good this was. Then, we would start talking about Fleetwood Mac to the point of obsession. In those days, the record companies were always coming up with a reason to release some kind of box set and Fleetwood Mac was no exception. Warner Brothers released a Mac box set called the Chain. My assistant manager-Kevin bought it and made cassette copies of it so we could listen to it on the store.

Also at this time, was the big 1992 Presidential election year where Bill Clinton was using Mac’s Don’t Stop as his campaign “theme song”. I’m not the kind of person who likes it when a song is associated with something or someone other than the original theme of the music. Eventually, Clinton asked the band to reunite and play for his presidential inaugural ball. Music fans and Mac fans took notice and it was once again…a big event. But, this was definitely a reason to take notice of some great music. With the combination of the exposure through Clinton’s campaign, Lindsey’s Solo album and the new box, my interest in “the Mac” was blooming. I even woke up one morning listening to Omaha’s Z-92 as my alarm went off to the sounds of the lead off track Second Hand News. By this time, I decided I would no longer wait to own the one album I had vaguely known since I was 10 and just buy it. I would dub it onto a cassette for portability purposes and had it with me almost all the time.

Fast forward from 1993 to the summer of 1997. The band regrouped with Lindsey, Stevie, Christine, John and Mick for a full fledged reunion concert and MTV special called The Dance. Once again, this was an event. There was a concert video, DVD and CD released. Everyone I knew that was a fan of pop music was talking about the reunion concert. Guitarists and musicians were bowled over by Lindsey’s guitar picking style during his solo turn on Big Love. We talked about Stevie’s emotional rendering of Landslide and the maniacal look on Mick Fleetwood’s face as he provided the unique backbeat to all the songs.

1997 was also the 20th anniversary of Rumours. VH1 highlighted the album on their new Classic Albums Revisited show. Of course, I was excited to see this show and suddenly saw(as they pushed the faders up and down) the intricacies of that album. John McVie is truly a genius of the bass guitar. His bass line break in The Chain and Go Your Own Way are so incredible and undeniable. Christine McVie takes a bluesy shuffle like Don’t Stop and turns it into a pop music classic. The fantastic vocal harmonies of Christine McVie, Lindsey and Stevie compliment each other flawlessly. But, what still floors me every time is the layered guitar sounds that Lindsey constructs during the intro to Go Your Own Way.

I’ve watched the documentaries and the episodes of Behind the Music about Fleetwood Mac countless times.

The Lazarus-like renaissance and transformation of a London-based blues band into the cutting edge Los Angeles-based world champions of Adult Oriented Rock is one of the greatest stories in rock’s rich history.

I’ve heard the stories that Stevie and Lindsey tell of each other. After the dissolution of my own marriage, I try to relate how these guys somehow make it work in a civil sense. They are forever linked with this band and the music they’ve written and made for this band. In a sense, the music is the offspring or children of their creative union. So, they are connected through those songs much like I am connected to the mother of my son whom we are both very proud of.

Is it hard for Stevie and Lindsey to be around each other? Is it hard (or tense…or uneasy) for any divorced or separated couple to be around their former love? I can only speak for myself…..and my answer is…….well….er….um……..YES! If you’ve never been divorced, I’m not sure you would know. I have and it’s hard to know that the person who was your everything is suddenly not. Now, Imagine you are on the world stage like Lindsey and Stevie and your “drama” is a “Big event” to your fans and the media for years and years after the breakup. By now, I don’t feel like my drama is anywhere near as big as theirs. But, for myself, the music of Fleetwood Mac-Rumours helps me to get through my own breakup and heartaches knowing that someone can express their feelings through music and somehow I can relate to it.

Even as I write this, I have stopped and started this blog many times to try and figure out how to express my appreciation for an album that I first heard as a 10 year old boy and that grew into a love for the music and eventually as a tool of therapy for myself as a 43 year old man. All I can say is that I hope that I’ve conveyed those feelings as I’ve written this blog.

Thank you!

http://davesmusicandmemories.blogspot.com/2010/10/1001-albums-pg-3841977-fleetwood-mac.html

vivfox

10-24-2010, 08:41 PM

Angus and Julia Stone @ BIG TOP, October 23 - cmj.com | new music ...
By mtedder
Julia Stone's voice quiets a crowd with the intensity of Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, supplying gusts of passion and delicateness but with a more wistful delivery. Her pacific coolness is simultaneously shy and delightfully serene. ...
CMJ Staff Blog - http://www.cmj.com/relay/

vivfox

10-26-2010, 09:05 PM

Silkworms Ink: Swamp | Poetry | Interview with Niall O'Sullivan
By Silkworms Ink

Niall O’Sullivan: Mick Fleetwood was a good recent one, well he wasn't actually Mick Fleetwood but he looked like him. He made a lot of noise leaving when I was reciting a poem, so I stopped and made a Fleetwood Mac joke. He then proceeded to have a complete mental breakdown for the next ten minutes. It's on youtube.
http://silkwormsink.blogspot.com/2010/10/swamp-poetry-interview-with-niall.html

vivfox

10-26-2010, 09:06 PM

I call the Giants receivers FLEETWOOD MAC cuz Manningham and Nicks ...
RT @pareene: I call the Giants receivers FLEETWOOD MAC cuz Manningham and Nicks make LOVING FOOTBALL FUN. MattOrtega is following 551 and has 2109 followers ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t/i-call-the-giants-receive_28750164752.html

vivfox

10-27-2010, 08:51 PM

Why ex-Arsenal flyer could be the answer to West Ham's struggles ...
In the Arsenal programme for the Champions League match with Shakhtar Donetsk last week, there was an interview with John McVie of the legendary Fleetwood Mac. He was a described as a great "base player". A misprint, surely. ...
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/steve-stammers/Why-ex-Arsenal-flyer-could-be-the-answer-to-West-Ham-s-struggles-Steve-Stammers-Column-article613921.html

vivfox

10-28-2010, 08:38 AM

"Go Your Own Way" by Lindsey Buckingham
How Bitter Is It? 8 of 10. The song seems more bittersweet than straight bitter, until you remember that Stevie Nicks had to sing backup vocals.

Sample Lyric: "Tell me why everything turned around. Packing up, shacking up, is all you want to do"

Backstory: At the end of a debauched and dramatic two months in Sausalito, California, recording Rumours, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks split. Nicks tells Rolling Stone that Buckingham told her, "You take the car with all the stuff, and I'm flying back." And he did, and went to the Sunset Strip and recorded "Go Your Own Way." And for years the two of them sang it together onstage. Says Nicks, "I very, very much resented him telling the world that ‘packing up, shacking up' with different men was all I wanted to do. He knew it wasn't true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come out onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him."

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/52597768.html

vivfox

10-28-2010, 08:40 AM

Song Of The Day - "You Do Or You Don't" by Lindsey Buckingham from the album "Out Of The Cradle"

OK...I'm going to infuriate lots of people with this one...Fleetwood Mac was (or IS depending on their moods) Lindsey Buckingham. Without him...there is no band. You can keep Stevie Nicks...especially today's version of ol' croakin' Stevie. With the exception of a few classics ("Rhiannon," "Landslide") she really doesn't offer much to the band in my opinion. I'm sure there are lots of witchy woman lovers out there that are preparing for my lynching now. Lindsey's "Out Of The Cradle" album from 1992 is chock full of great songs that probably could have been big Fleetwood Mac hits, especially this one. I saw him touring behind this album at Town Hall in New York City with the band shown in this video. He was amazing...and he is still amazing today...

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/booth-reviews/fleetwood-mac/

michelej1

10-30-2010, 04:54 AM

From article snatch, quoting from Mick's comments to Rolling Stone

http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Many-Famous-People---Especially-Rock-Musicians---Have-To-Cope-With-Tinnitus/1535383

Hearing loss is wide-spread in the industry. Kevin Shields, guitarist/singer for My Bloody Valentine, says “I did the damage to my ears listening to mixes in headphones at very loud levels without giving my ears time to recover.” Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac had a similar experience, “I was a major glutton for volume: ‘Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.’ Sooner or later you’re going to pay the reaper.”

vivfox

11-07-2010, 10:57 AM

Favorite Fleetwood Mac song?
mine would be, never heard of them, ew i hate fleetwood mac.
http://www.sodahead.com/fun/favorite-fleetwood-mac-song/question-1320875/

TerraRhiannon

11-07-2010, 11:06 AM

Favorite Fleetwood Mac song?
mine would be, never heard of them, ew i hate fleetwood mac.
http://www.sodahead.com/fun/favorite-fleetwood-mac-song/question-1320875/

ew, i hate fleetwood mac.

:laugh:

vivfox

11-12-2010, 07:55 PM

TUSK - Fleetwood Mac experience at WPU
Friday, November 12, 2010
Clifton Journal
WAYNE — TUSK, the amazing recreation of the music and stage show of Fleetwood Mac, will perform on Saturday, Nov. 13 at William Paterson University in Wayne. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Shea Center for Performing Arts.

TUSK covers all the great hits of Fleetwood Mac, including "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Say You Love Me," "Hold Me," and "Tusk," in a memorable performance that recreates the entire stage show to perfection.
Kathy Phillips, singer/songwriter, captures the essence of Stevie Nicks with the voice and looks that will impress even the most diehard fan. The band consists of Scott McDonald in the role of Lindsey Buckingham on guitar and vocals, Tom Nelson as Mick Fleetwood on drums, Randy Artiglere as John McVie on bass, and Kim Williams as Christine McVie on keyboards and vocals.
The event is presented by Blue Raven and part of William Paterson's WPLive Vistas Series designed to serve the University's students and faculty, as well as the surrounding multicultural community. Funding for the Vistas Series at William Paterson University has been made possible, in part, by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.

Tickets to the show are $25 for gold circle, $20 for orchestra, and $16 for loge.
For ticket information, call the Shea Center box office at 973-720-2371 or order online at www.wplive.org. Discounted tickets are available for the William Paterson community and senior citizens; call the box office for details.
WAYNE — TUSK, the amazing recreation of the music and stage show of Fleetwood Mac, will perform on Saturday, Nov. 13 at William Paterson University in Wayne. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Shea Center for Performing Arts.

The event is presented by Blue Raven and part of William Paterson's WPLive Vistas Series designed to serve the University's students and faculty, as well as the surrounding multicultural community. Funding for the Vistas Series at William Paterson University has been made possible, in part, by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.

Tickets to the show are $25 for gold circle, $20 for orchestra, and $16 for loge.

http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/107398813_TUSK___ultimate_Fleetwood_Mac_experience_at_WPU.html

vivfox

11-12-2010, 08:00 PM

Playlist: by Summer Camp | Indie Rock Reviews
By Bear
3) Fleetwood Mac – Over & Over Christine Mcvie was always our favorite member of Fleetwood Mac. In its ultimate 70s AOR fashion, this song just crushes your heart with its meaty emotional punch.

http://www.indierockreviews.com/2010/11/playlist-created-by-summer-camp/

Amlyn

11-12-2010, 09:04 PM

vivfox

11-13-2010, 09:05 AM

Wow..this is a hop, skip and a jump from my office and another 20 minutes from my house. Not sure I'll make this though......but thanks for the heads up Viv!

You better run for your life said the mad hatter, all the way to that gig so you can give us a review.:laugh:

vivfox

11-13-2010, 09:06 AM

The Brits Awards are a highlight of the music calendar.

While the Mercury Music Prize is a sombre affair, fittingly presided over by a professor of music, the Brits are pure showbiz both on stage and behind the scenes. When Fleetwood Mac received a special award they requested that their dressing room be painted beige. For medicinal purposes, I gather.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/david-lister/david-lister-have-the-brit-awards-really-run-out-of-lifetime-achievers-2132876.html

BTFLCHLD

11-18-2010, 05:16 PM

http://www.atlanticcityweekly.com/arts-and-entertainment/features/QA-With-Shinedowns-Brent-Smith-108766939.html

Q&A With Shinedown's Brent Smith
More from AC Weekly’s interview with Shinedown’s lead singer. A member of one of hard rock’s most tireless bands, Smith talks about the vinyl re-issue of Shinedown’s last studio album, going to Iraq and the importance of Fleetwood Mac.

You started writing lyrics when you were in school?

I started writing lyrics when I was 10 years old and I started writing poems and what have you. Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks was a big influence lyrically. Lindsey Buckingham, he’s a brilliant guitar player. All of Fleetwood Mac, even Christine McVie, great lyrics. I would be lying and a fool if I didn’t tell you that John Fogerty wasn’t in my Top 10 — great vocals and just great lyrics. So those are some of them.

vivfox

11-19-2010, 10:07 PM

WNEW Rock News: Zep, Mac and Doors Gear Up for Auction
Posted by The Archivist - WNEW Staff on November 19, 2010

Chunks from the wall of rock and roll history are currently up for auction to benefit The Horse Sanctuary, a U.K.-based charity dedicated to the care of ex-racehorses.

Deborah Bonham - sister of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham - performed a benefit show last week and is speaheading the auction, which runs through November 27th.

Among the items currently available for bid are a drum head from Led Zeppelin’s 02 Arena show, signed by all 4 members of the band (with bidding starting at £1,500).

Also available: a platinum disc for the Doors debut album, John McVie’s Tour Jacket from Fleetwood Mac's 1977 Rumours Tour, Paul Rodgers Signed CDs and a drum skin from the John Bonham LA Memorial that includes the drummers of AC/DC, GNR, Red Hot Chillis, Tool, The Firm, Foreigner, Ozzy, Whitesnake, Bonham and Dio.

Bids can be made by email at [email protected]

http://www.wnew.com/2010/11/1119-wnew-rock-news-zep-mac-and-doors-gear-up-for-auction.html

Artemis

11-24-2010, 03:09 AM

Fleetwood Mac mention on Glee!

Kurt: "I've been planning weddings since I was 2. My power Rangers got married and divorced in so many combinations they were like Fleetwood Mac."

vivfox

11-24-2010, 06:17 PM

The Crossed Pond » Thumbed Down
By Brad
Same with my single Disco station, which it seemed like I had to thumb down a lot of songs for that first day to calibrate it right. Also: **** Godsmack, 50 Cent, Danzig, and Fleetwood Mac, the repeat offenders on the list. ...
http://thecrossedpond.com/2010/11/23/thumbed-down/

vivfox

11-26-2010, 10:54 PM

Looking back on 1977, it was a canonical year in music. Many releases eventually found their way to a number of greatest-albums-ever lists, but perhaps a lot of the music was simply overrated. In retrospect, iconical may be a better term, as career-defining more aptly describes a lot of the music from 1977. In fact, if you asked 100 people to list their top 5 albums from 1977, you would get 100 different answers with only Fleetwood Mac's Rumours making the majority of the lists.

Playlist Adds For Friday Flashback 1977

01. Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Pink Floyd
02. Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
03. Estimated Prophet by The Grateful Dead
04. Janie Jones by The Clash
05. Dreams by Fleetwood Mac
06. (Your Love Is Lifting Me) Higher And Higher by Rita Coolidge
07. She's Always A Woman by Billy Joel
08. That Smell by Lynyrd Skynyrd
09. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John
10. Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads
11. Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett
12. Got To Give It Up by Marvin Gaye
13. Livin' Thing by Electric Light Orchestra
14. Lido Shuffle by Boz Scaggs
15. Smokin' by Boston
16. I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick
17. Jungle Love by The Steve Miller Band
18. Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton
19. Baby, What A Big Surprise by Chicago
20. Give A Little Bit by Supertramp
21. Barracuda by Heart
22. Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
23. Doctor's Orders by Carol Douglas
24. Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson
25. Black Betty by Ram Jam
26. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (live) by Foghat
27. Help Is On It's Way by The Little River Band
28. Your Smiling Face by James Taylor
29. You Make Loving Fun by Fleetwood Mac
30. The Core by Eric Clapton
31. Southern Girls by Cheap Trick
32. The Load Out >> Stay by Jackson Browne
33. Late In The Evening by Paul Simon
34. Aja by Steely Dan
35. Love Alive by Queen
36. We Will Rock You >> We Are The Champions by Queen
37. Heard It In A Love Song by The Marshall Tucker Band
38. Heroes by David Bowie
39. Going For The One by Yes
40. Alison by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
41. You're In My Heart by Rod Stewart
42. Just The Way You Are by Billy Joel
43. Black Magic Woman (Gypsy Queen) by Santana
44. Terrapin Station by The Grateful Dead
45. Couldn't Get It Right by The Climax Blues Band
46. Three Little Birds by Bob Marley & The Wailers
47. Rich Girl by Hall & Oates
48. If I Can't Have You by Yvonne Elliman
49. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
50. Watching The Detectives by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
51. New Kid In Town by The Eagles
52. Peace Of Mind by Boston
53. Gold Dust Woman by Fleetwood Mac
54. Telephone Line by Electric Light Orchestra
55. The Things We Do For Love by 10cc
56. Star Wars Theme >> Cantina Band by Meco
57. Night Fever by The Bee Gees
58. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker by The Ramones
59. Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel
60. Come Sail Away by Styx
61. A Farewell To Kings by Rush
62. One Love/People Get Ready by Bob Marley & The Wailers
63. Running On Empty by Jackson Browne
64. Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac
65. Flashlight by Parliament
66. Let There Be Rock by AC/DC
67. Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas
68. Life In The Fast Lane by The Eagles
69. Year Of The Cat by Al Stewart
70. Staying Alive by The Bee Gees
71. Don't Leave Me This Way by Thelma Houston
72. A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy
73. Deacon Blues by Steely Dan

http://sonicbytes.blogspot.com/2010/11/friday-flashback-1977.html

vivfox

11-28-2010, 08:00 AM

We have to keep relatives together, so we’ll put John and Christine MCVIE of Fleetwood MAC at Table One. (Yes, I’ve heard of Fleetwood Mac, but before today the only band member I could name without prompting was Stevie Nicks. I would have tumbled to Mick Fleetwood if given enough hints.) I’m guessing artists would like to mingle with other artists, so let’s add to their table poet NIKKI Giovanni, Welsh actor and songwriter IVOR Novello, and NCIS actor David McCallum, who apparently plays a character called “DUCKY.”

http://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2010/11/27/sunday-112810/

vivfox

11-30-2010, 08:16 AM

By Stephen Rowland 30 November 2010

I knew about the Ark before anyone (except Swedish people). I know more about the Ark than anyone (except for a Swede here or there).

And this makes me sad. I’ve spent years running about, proclaiming to everyone, “The Ark are the best band working!” People ignored me, but their response was irrelevant. I held the secret. I had the key. These glorious Swedes were the best band working.

Obligatory lesson: 1991, band formed, everyone hated them (I’ve heard some of their early stuff, and trust me, it is bad). Ola Salo started transforming the band, much like Lindsey Buckingham turned Fleetwood Mac from a total bore into an if-you-don’t-own-Rumours-you-just-might-die empire (that exists, to this day, literally in every single record or thrift store in the entire United States of America). Anyway, Ola the palindrome was not only a monstrous showman, he was a superb songwriter. He played Jesus in a Swedish production of Jesus Christ Superstar and has composed his own symphonies, for Christ’s sake. Yet pop has never been beneath him.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/131889-the-ark-in-full-regalia/

APerfectLie

12-01-2010, 01:33 AM

"Even if Fleetwood Mac can stop
Thinking about tomorrow can not stop."

http://www.regretsy.com/2010/11/22/stop-making-sense/#comments

vivfox

12-01-2010, 07:47 PM

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk | Surprisingly, the first time I heard this song was at the gym. It was in a dance aerobics class at the Gold's in Ballston and the song came on as we were cooling down. I had been meaning to check out this album because I was really into some of the earlier Fleetwood Mac stuff in high school and though I hate to admit it, the interest was sparked by Hole's version of "Gold Dust Woman" from the Crow City of Angels soundtrack. Yea, I loved Hole.

Then I grew to love Stevie Nicks and thought '**** Courtney for killing such a great song'. Anyway, I love this song because it's 'real savage-like' as Lindsay Buckingham says at the end. At least, I think it was him that said it. Funny, you wouldn't expect to hear a considerably obscure Fleetwood Mac song after Beyonce's "Deja Vu" or Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" in a BodyJam class.

http://vinyldistrict.blogspot.com/2010/12/tvd-takeover-carol-bui.html

vivfox

12-03-2010, 08:47 PM

Downloading an expensive music lesson | Standard-Examiner – Ogden ...
By dgibson
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that Harper should pay the record companies $27750, or $750 each, for 37 wrongly downloaded and shared tunes, such as Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" and Mariah Carey's "We Belong ...
http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2010/12/03/downloading-expensive-music-lesson

vivfox

12-03-2010, 08:50 PM

I have witnessed the misery this loophole has created. Family businesses, many who have been trading for years, are closing down, people are losing their homes, people are suffering nervous breakdowns, and in one case a customer of mine took his life so depressed was he about losing his businesses. Yet this should all have been avoided.

On so many occasions I have seen people come to the counter of a record shop, ask about a new CD – then telling the owner that they will order it off of Amazon or Play VAT free. Can you imagine how frustrating this is for the shop owners?

One of my customers had a man ask to see all the Fleetwood Mac CDs he had in stock. He had 8 different titles. The man took his mobile phone out and took a picture of each one. He then sent the pictures to his wife, telling her to order these CDs from Play.com as they are bound to be cheaper. The record shops just cannot compete in this unfair marketplace.

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2010/12/03/the-human-cost-of-vat-abuse/

vivfox

12-03-2010, 09:03 PM

The Silver Seas: Château Revenge – review
The Guardian
The influence of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac has spread through American indie music in the last few years, and the second album from Nashville's Silver Seas ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/02/silver-seas-chateau-revenge-review

vivfox

12-05-2010, 10:28 AM

Undated -- On December fifth, 1968, the Rolling Stones album "Beggar's Banquet" was released.

Also in 1968, Graham Nash quit The Hollies because the band wanted to do an album of Bob Dylan songs.

In 1975, the self-titled album "Fleetwood Mac" was certified gold in the US It was the first one with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

In 1992, Ice Cube became the first hard-core rapper to have an album make its debut at number one on the "Billboard" album chart, with "The Predator."

In 1996, country singer Montana Slim died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, two months after being diagnosed with a stomach tumor. He was 91.

In 2003, actress Gwyneth Paltrow married Coldplay singer Chris Martin in Santa Barbara County, California.

In 2005, actress Valerie Bertinelli filed for divorce from Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=151160&catid=204

vivfox

12-06-2010, 06:25 PM

Say You Will was issued during April of 2003 and to date is Fleetwood Mac’s last studio album. It was a moderate commercial success by Fleetwood Mac standards as it reached number three on The American music charts and has sold just shy of one million copies.

The big change for the group was the departure of Christine McVie. It was their first album in three decades not to have her as an active participant. Her only contributions were on “Steel Your Heart Away” and “Bleed To Love Her” which had been previously recorded for a Lindsey Buckingham solo album.

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham each wrote or co-wrote 9 of the albums 17 tracks. In a way, the differences in style and approach made the album seem almost like two solo albums which have been fused together into one Fleetwood Mac project.

While Buckingham and Nicks combine to create a lot of good music, Christine McVie is missed. She always occupied the middle ground and her down to earth pop inclinations were the connecter between Buckingham’s more experimental songs and Nicks’ flights of fancy. Without her, their music is more exposed and stands on its own with both positive and negative results.

Buckingham’s contributions run the gamete from pop to rock to pushing the envelope on both styles. Even when the songs may not be the best, his always underrated guitar virtuosity saves the day.

“What’s The World Coming To” is one of his better pop creations. “Murrow Turning Over In His Grave” is one of those tracks where he just shines on the guitar. “Miranda” is a reminder of his old Buckingham-Nicks duet days and has a nice funky feel. “Red Rover” has him exploring an English folk sound. While he is playing a guitar, it almost sounds like a mandolin. “Bleed To Love Her” is the studio version of the song which first appeared live on The Dance.

Stevie Nicks also creates a somewhat eclectic group of songs. “Thrown Down” is typical of her most commercial work with Fleetwood Mac as it is very good guitar based pop. “Destiny Rules” is sparse in structure but the background vocals fill in the holes. “Running Through The Garden” is a rocker with the best vocal performance on the album. The title track is another catchy pop tune.

Say You Will is an acquired taste. It does not have the consistantcy of their best work but there is some good material, if you take the time to seek it out.

Fleetwood Mac is one of those iconic groups that will continue to sell out concert halls as long as they desire to stay together and at this point any new material is a bonus for their fans.

http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-fleetwood-mac-say-you/

vivfox

12-07-2010, 03:21 AM

Melodic Rock AOR 0day: VANGOUW - Passion Rules (2010)
By 0dayrock
They have re-worked Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' into a pounding rocker with big guitars and strong keyboards. More acoustic guitar and layered synths precede the big power ballad 'When You Think Of Me', a classy number guaranteed ...
http://0dayrock.blogspot.com/2010/12/vangouw-passion-rules-2010.html

vivfox

12-09-2010, 07:50 AM

Thursday, December 09, 2010
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” (1979)

I believe that the true power in this world is love. There's obviously a strong universal relation to the longing of the soul. I also believe that Fleetwood Mac just might be the best musical representation of love. I could probably write about any Mac record, making similar points, TUSK just happens to be living on my turntable at the moment.

It's not a perfect album by any means, but when you dive deep into this band, it all hits the spot. TUSK is the double-LP follow up to their multi-platinum break up monster, Rumors. Of course there's no way Tusk could ever have been nearly as much of a commercial success, but that's what's nice about it for me, there's at least one full-length records worth of killer pop "anti" hits that still satisfy the listener in the same way, beautiful vocal coloring over lindsey buckingham's percussive strumming and driven home by that wonderful snare crack that mick fleetwood perfected in the pop years.

Plus this seems to be the point where Buckingham really took over the production and, for lack of a better term, went insane. So the arrangements are wacky as hell at some points and he must have played at least 50 different stringed instruments on it, but what's love without craziness? Give this a chance if you haven't already. For lovers only. –Alex

http://jivetimerecords.blogspot.com/2010/12/fleetwood-mac-tusk-1979.html

vivfox

12-10-2010, 09:35 PM

‘Sisters of the Moon’ is a Stevie Nicks song from the Tusk album (1979). According to Mick Fleetwood’s autobiography, this song was written during the first FM tours with Stevie and Lindsey, though she has not confirmed this. For me [Villavic], is one of those classical dark, mystic Stevie’s songs. A masterpiece. “Intense silence As she walked in the room…” The lyrics are about Stevie herself and how lonely she felt when she became famous. The ‘room’ could be the studio, but since she was talking about the tours, the room probably is the stage or the general Fleetwood Mac environment. So there is a crowd out there but she hears an intense silence. She feels alone, and the tour has started to take its toll on her. She is dressed in black and looks very thin: ‘ A black widow spider makes more sound than she..’. She is suffering. This could be a feeling from early years, not necessarily just from the Tusk era (so Mick could be right), but she wasn’t prepared for fame, non-stop tours and loneliness. The ‘cruel people’ mentioned are the fans, the public. In some way they love Stevie, but since they ask her for more and more, they are also cruel to her. And she tries never to dissapoint them. Besides, nobody knows her closely. None of those fans are actually her friends. She has no one so she has to rely on herself. Nobody likes her for who she really is. Does anybody know (her name) who she really is? “She asked me– Be my sister,” Stevie is looking for a real friend. She …

http://brothersandsisters.4cq.net/brothers-sisters-season-1/fleetwood-mac-stevie-nicks-sisters-of-the-moon-piano-demo.html

elle

12-12-2010, 01:44 PM

Notes on Kanye West and…Fleetwood Mac
By Alan
What Kanye West’s new set of songs remind me most of–and this might be highly idiosyncratic on my part–is Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 classic album, Tusk. Easily their best in my opinion. It blends together the manicness of Lindsey Buckingham’s jangling pace and spooling intricacies with the serene, ethereal harmonies of Christie and Stevie. ...

http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com/2010/12/notes-on-kanye-west-and-fleetwood-mac/

vivfox

12-16-2010, 08:28 AM

December 15, 2010
'The Sing-Off' mini-recap: Down to the finals
Unfortunately, I'm fighting a huge headache, and I just don't have it in me to do a full recap of tonight's Sing-Off. But here's generally what went down:

For the first round, the remaining five groups had to sing "superstar medleys." On the Rocks had Elton John, Committed had Usher, Street Corner Symphony did the Beatles, the Backbeats sang Lady Gaga and Jerry Lawson and the Talk of the Town had Otis Redding.

The groups all did a nice job with the medleys, but at the end of that round, On the Rocks was sent packing. (O NO!) Bummer. But at this point in the competition, everyone is just really, really good. I didn't envy the judges having to make that decision.

For the next round, the final four groups sang judges' choice songs.

Committed killed Al Green's "Let's Stay Together." So good. They did this thing, passing along the lead from person to person seamlessly.

Street Corner Symphony was assigned Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Down on the Corner" and turned it a little funky and a lot of fun.

The Backbeats gave a very emotional performance of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," to the point that Courtney was crying when it was over.

Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town did the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" and turned it into a gospel song, Ben said.

Then it was time for a tough cut ... which the judges totally copped out on, cutting no one and putting all four groups into Monday's finale.

Who do you think is going to win?

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/realitycheck/blog/2010/12/the_singoff_minirecap_down_to_the_finals.html

vivfox

12-24-2010, 03:52 AM

Time, travel, and fruit
Friday, December 24, 2010
By DARREN PALTROWITZ
COLUMNIST Here are some more quick picks for you, the loyal reader:

MUSIC: Mike Viola and Kelly Jones "Melon" – In an age when most artists think economically, it is rare for artists to go "deluxe" on a creative project. In mid-2010, Mike Viola and Kelly Jones –- two renowned songwriters based in L.A. with roots in New York –- opted to record a vinyl-only, live-in-the-studio, acoustic. Now, "Melon" can be found on iTunes and Amazon MP3. "Steal Your Heart Away" (a Fleetwood Mac cover) and "There Goes My Baby" (a re-working of an earlier Viola-produced Jones recording) must be heard. (kellyjones.com)

http://www.northjersey.com/shopping/keeping_up/112416634_Time__travel__and_fruit.html

vivfox

12-24-2010, 03:59 AM

Goin' Mainstream
By tad
So did Fleetwood Mac -- try "Murrow's Rolling Over in His Grave," or much of TUSK. & have U heard Queen's "The Prophet's Song," or Blondie's "Angels on the Balcony" or "Victor"? I'll pick this up again later, but most "mainstream" acts ...
http://tadsbackupplan.blogspot.com/2010/12/goin-mainstream.html

vivfox

12-24-2010, 04:01 AM

Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the '80s, Part 32 | Popdose
By Dave Steed
This is one of those tracks that I would never have attributed to Christine McVie because it just doesn't sound anything like what I was used to hearing from her either solo or with Fleetwood Mac. Although Lindsey Buckingham and Mick ...
http://popdose.com/bottom-feeders-the-rock-end-of-the-80s-part-32/

vivfox

12-24-2010, 04:23 AM

The Sing-Off: Recap For December 15, 2010
By [email protected] (Sammi-T)
Nicole requests Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. Now, I love Fleetwood Mac, in fact they are part of the reason that if I have a daughter one day her name will be Rhiannon. Hence, it is hard for me to judge anybody else singing their songs. ...
http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php/nbc/142-the-sing-off/10019-the-sing-off-recap-for-december-15-2010

vivfox

12-24-2010, 04:37 AM

YouTube - Stevie Nicks is the most badass bitch ever!
"This is a ****ing ROCK STAR! If you don't like it, there are plenty of pantiless wannabes waiting for you to buy their prefab, soulless CDs! ROCK ON, ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG1AfqjiDaM

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SuperFleetwood

12-24-2010, 09:14 AM

Lol! i have that show she is a badass lol!!

YouTube - Stevie Nicks is the most badass bitch ever!
"This is a ****ing ROCK STAR! If you don't like it, there are plenty of pantiless wannabes waiting for you to buy their prefab, soulless CDs! ROCK ON, ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG1AfqjiDaM

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vivfox

12-27-2010, 05:57 PM

TAD's Back-Up Plan

Monday, December 27, 2010
Readership's up!

Not trying 2 blow my own horn here (no more than usual), but according 2 Blogger's statistics, readership is apparently WAY up 4 the Holiday Season here at the Back-Up Plan -- about double the usual amount.
Ghod Knows why -- mayB people R looking 4 strange music&book gift ideas 4 Xmas? I'm not doing NEthing diffrent, & in fact have lately bn a little more difficult & self-involved than usual.
Nevertheless, visitors have included folks from a Fleetwood Mac fan site called "The Ledge" (www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/), which picked-up on my recent mention of that band occasionally performing some rather "strange" stuff. I hope those folks realize that I meant strange in a GOOD way -- that The Mac's periodic strangeness is 1 of the many things that I thot made them so great. I've bn considering doing a write-up citing specific Xamples of their stranger work -- TUSK would B merely Xhibit A -- but I assume NE real music fan is already pretty familiar with their best stuff. The Mac has bn doing great, unusual, brilliant, unique, off-the-wall stuff since as far back as "Oh Well" & "The Green Manalishi."
NEway, that write-up -- along w/ a long list of Great Strange Music By Famous People -- will likely B coming along soon ... unless I already posted it at some point in the past. I'll havta check. I hate getting old....

http://tadsbackupplan.blogspot.com/2010/12/readerships-up.html

vivfox

12-30-2010, 10:55 AM

Too many people underestimate the totality of Christine McVie’s role in the dynasty that is Fleetwood Mac. While many of her songs are FM [and F.M.] classics, the importance of her contributions as an over-all factor is sometimes lost on the hordes of Stevie Nicks fanatics (of which I am one): in the classic Mac lineup, she was the middle ground – tying together the wispy, fairy god mother mysticism (and at times, flakiness) of Nicks and the avant-gardism of Lindsay Buckingham. Hers were the straight-Pop gems – predominantly love songs, nothing more, nothing less…sung in her honey-dipped husky contralto – one of Rock ‘N Roll’s absolute sexiest voices.

In her 40+ decade career, McVie recorded only three solo albums, and only one while still technically in Fleetwood Mac (1970s CHRISTINE PERFECT, 1984s CHRISTINE McVIE, and 2004s IN THE MEANTIME).

While McVie never toured as a solo act, she has performed dates to promote her solo work. In this series of clips, McVie was promoting her (at that point) upcoming 1984 self-titled album. The lovely pop-infused record was released in January of 1984 and was a modest success. The album spawned two Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits (the #10 “Got A Hold On Me” and the #30 “Love Will Show Us How” which was released with a terrific video) and the LP peaked at #24 on Billboards Top 200. This concert was recorded on December 16 1983 at the Country Club in LA. Assisted by guitarist Todd Sharp, (future FM guitarist) Billy Burnett, bassist George Hawkins and drummer Steve Ferrone (all musicians who also played on her album) – along with special guest Mick Fleetwood – she performs a lively set of new songs and a few FM classics.

CLICK ON THIS WEBSITE TO VIEW THE PERFORMANCE VIDEOS
http://mynewboyfriend.com/2010/12/30/rock-n-roll-woman-christine-mcvie-live-1983/

vivfox

12-31-2010, 05:25 PM

1974 Mick Fleetwood phones Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, inviting them to join Fleetwood Mac. 'He called us up sight unseen. We could've been the two heaviest jerks he'd ever seen', says Nicks
http://retrorebirth.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-31-today-in-rock-music-history.html

Look Back: Hit-Making Lineup Of Fleetwood Mac Formed 36 Years Ago
12/31/2010
(RTTNews) - The most famous lineup of the band Fleetwood Mac was formed on December 31, 1974, when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were asked to join the group.

Band co-founder Mick Fleetwood had been impressed by a little-heard offering from the duo, "Buckingham Nicks," and had asked Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. The guitarist said he would only consider the offer if Nicks, his girlfriend and partner, was asked to join as well.

There was some worry about how Christine McVie, a keyboardist and vocalist for the band and the wife of co-founder John McVie, would feel about another woman in the group. But the merger was decided at a New Year's Eve party, where the future band mates got to know each other.

The new lineup would put out a self-titled effort in 1975. The LP, the tenth released by Fleetwood Mac, which had been putting out albums since 1968, would feature six songs credited to either Buckingham or Nicks, including the hit "Rhiannon." The band would go on to put out "Rumours" in 1977, one of the biggest albums of the 1970s. It would feature hits like "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way" and "Gold Dust Woman."
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/EntertainmentNews.aspx?Section=2&Id=1516915&SM=1

vivfox

12-31-2010, 05:29 PM

Thursday, December 30, 2010
I'm the fool paying the dues.
(Inspired, at least somewhat, by Clicks and Pops' post about Lindsey Buckingham's tossed-off "Holiday Road."

I've spent a fair amount of time this year rubbishing Christine McVie for what I perceive as a certain bloodlessness in her music.
Much of her oeuvre seems the same to me -- a long string of mid-tempo love/relationship songs, not too soft but certainly not too loud.
I said at one point that no one had ever written more love songs but invested them with less actual passion than Christine McVie.
(Passion. No ordinary word, that.)

I've also been somewhat cynical about Lindsey Buckingham's reputation as a pop genius, which I think is almost undone as much by "Tusk" as it is bolstered by "Rumours."
Recording vocal tracks on your hands and knees in the bathroom, or hiring the USC marching band to record a rhythm track at Dodger Stadium, doesn't make you a Brian Wilson-style savant.
It might just mean that you're doing too much cocaine.

There is, however, one song on which the two of them bring out the absolute best in each other -- a pop song with a perfect arrangement and a simmering, complex romantic soul.
And it's been in the back of my head, here and there, ever since it went Top Five in the late summer of 1982.

"Hold Me" is a McVie co-write with outside songwriter Robbie Patton.
Not being deep into Mac lore, I don't know who first suggested making it a duet between Lindsey and Christine, rather than having Christine sing it alone.

Whoever it was deserves their weight in fine, uncut Turkish hashish.
Their voices mirror each other marvelously in the verses, and build gorgeous clouds of harmony on the chorus.

I love the frustrated growl that leads into the line, "I'm just around the corner if you got a minute to spare."
And then the next line, they come back with a quieter, subtly gentler phrasing that suggests higher hopes:
"I'll be waiting for ya, if you ever want to be there."
They may be pissed off, but when the other one gets their act together, all will be forgiven.
After all, "you and me got plenty of time."

(While we're breaking down the lyrics, I also love the imagery of "slip your hand inside of my glove," which I interpret as a metaphor meaning "give of yourself unguardedly, even though I might not do the same."
And because they're both singing the line, it's like they're both being just a little bit duplicitous to each other.
Which is delicious.)

Ironically, I think Buckingham and C. McVie may have been one of the only Fleetwood Mac romantic pairings that didn't happen ... and yet, they work so marvelously as cat-and-mouse lovers on record.
Once again, though, I'm not up on my Mac lore, so maybe they did hook up some sun-kissed California day in 1979 and just never bothered to tell me about it.

The instrumental arrangement is just about perfect, too. Just to cite a few of the highlights:
* The rhythm section keeps it simple as usual; it sounds like Mick Fleetwood is just using his snare and kick-drum 95 percent of the time.
* Dig the chiming 12-string acoustic guitar that pops up in the first chorus; shows up again partway through Buckingham's guitar solo; and helps carry the quiet interlude immediately after.
* Love those flurries of -- what are they, 64th-notes? -- Buckingham fires off right before the fade. A little instrumental flash is permissible in the service of perfect pop.

Stevie Nicks, as best I can tell, is completely left out of the equation, unless she's adding her voice to the "Hold me"'s.
Sorry, Stevie; the others get along pretty nicely without you on this one.

This song was kept from Number One in the States by "Eye of the Tiger" and "Abracadabra," a pair of songs that, in my humble estimation, are not equipped to carry its jock.
Somehow it didn't chart at all in the UK, which I am powerless to explain.

Fewer than 25 hours left in this year, and here I am, listening again and again to the cool vocal interplay, the simple pulse, and Buckingham putting on a clinic on how to deploy guitars on a catchy pop single.

Did I say something about all being forgiven?

http://kinkypaprika.blogspot.com/2010/12/im-fool-paying-dues.html

vivfox

12-31-2010, 05:36 PM

The New Magnificent 7 at The Boardwalk
December 30th, 2010

The Magnificent 7 are set to ride again as Centrestage presents a brand new take on their immensely popular hit tribute to 7 of the greatest bands of all time.

The best in music and comedy will combine with Gino Fabbri playing a series of hilarious linking characters in between proceedings, some new musicians in the lineup, some different song selections and a few different bands in the mix too.

With Wayne Kallis in the musical directors chair, this new rocking jamboree promises as much fun and excitement as the original smash hit production, which was seen by over 100 000 people!

Roxette, Fleetwood Mac and Smokie are the new-comers to the esteemed lineup, joining The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Abba and Queen to complete the 7 band lineup.

The Centrestage All-Star Band re-invents itself 7 times over the course of the evening to present an authentic, high-energy, harmony filled interpretation of each of the individual performance styles of the bands, complete with changing costumes and audio-visual backdrops for each segment.

The exact sounds and arrangements of the original songs will recreate the experience as if you were to see these sixties, seventies and eighties bands live on stage today.

Throw the hilarious comedy of Gino Fabbri into the mix and you have a winning recipe for a show which just cannot be missed – Fabbri will play an alien space anthropologist and body snatcher from the future, who takes over the bodies of a variety of victims to try to understand how this pivotal music of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, affected the development of our culture.

New songs in the show which join the old favourites include The Beatles’s I Saw Her Standing There, I Want to Hold Your Hand and Twist and Shout, Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way, Second Hand News, Don’t Stop and Tusk, Abba’s Ring Ring, Waterloo and Gimme Gimme, Queen’s Under Pressure, Roxette’s The Look, How Do You Do and Dressed for Success, Smokie’s Oh Carol, You Think You Know How to Love Me, Alice, Needles and Pins and Stumbling in.

Donna Africa and Eloise Potgieter are the fronting females and backing vocalists for the show, Pieter Kruger is on bass, Alan Kozak on lead guitar, Russel Snead on drums, with Khanya Matomela on keyboards. Neil Thompson also plays various instruments in the show.

So if 7 is your lucky number, then whatever you do – be there to see the 7 wonders of the musical world with a celebration which is without question The Best of the Best, by the best!

This power-packed, rocking festive season production is the hottest ticket in town and an evening of belly-laughs and supreme musicianship awaits!
Tickets are available at Computicket for R95-R119 and show starts at 20h00

http://www.pevibe.com/the-new-magnificent-7-at-the-boardwalk

vivfox

12-31-2010, 05:39 PM

Deepest Darkest at the Doug Fir Lounge

When Deepest Darkest took the stage at Jonah's CD release party, I knew it was going to be good. Nate Purscelley is known among friends to write songs that are fun to play and fun to sing along to. And sure enough, they delivered.

"We've got one more song for you," Nate said, looking around the audience and summoning a couple of friends to come up and play with them. Jaycob Van Auken got up there and picked up an acoustic guitar, counted off. The opening riff of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" floated through the crowd, to hoots and hollers.

The double-edged sword of the cover song is that if it's a good song, everyone knows it and loves it, and it can generate amazing energy in a crowd; but if you choose to play it traditionally and don't hit it note for note, everyone knows and is left feeling a little bit let down. Deepest Darkest nailed that song. Nailed it. Right down to the four-part harmony and Matthew Lenhart's cry: "Runnin' in the shadows!"

http://www.opbmusic.org/blog/inger_klekaczs_top_10_moments_in_2010_live_music_

vivfox

01-01-2011, 08:28 AM

Young Prince [Ft. Fleetwood Mac] – Little Lies (Prod. Yala)

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Young Prince (Beau Young) is a DC artist who attends college in NC. After the release of “Prep Matters” his first major mixtape on datpiff, Young Prince has earned slots at shows with Wale, Chiddy Bang, Jackie Chain, and has a few more lined up with other artist, such as Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller and many more. His laid back tone over diverse beats is reflective of the prep lifestyle he embraces. Check out his track “Little Lies” produced by Yala off the mixtape Prep Matters. Young Prince is currently working on his next tape “W.A.R”, which is set to drop in early January of 2011. Follow @youngprincedmv on twitter

http://www.goodmusicallday.com/2010/12/young-prince-ft-fleetwood-mac-little-lies-prod-yala/

vivfox

01-01-2011, 08:41 AM

Hip-Hop
Local Rapper The Jacka Wants You To Name His New Song

Pittsburg rapper The Jacka has a new album on the way next year called Murder Weapon. Today, he released the first track from the forthcoming project, simply called "Untitled." But there's a (marketing) catch: He wants fans to name the song.

Thematically, "Untitled" abides by a fair amount of already-established hip-hop concepts; mainly, striving to get rich and better oneself while avoiding the pitfalls of illegal activities. And the decision to sample the most recognizable part of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" is highly questionable. Luckily for us, The Jacka is a talented enough emcee that he can somehow salvage what should otherwise be a musical trainwreck.

If you'd like to name this piece of work, you can send The Jacka a reply on Twitter, and he'll announce the winner on Saturday.

[via Thizzler]
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http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/12/rapper_the_jacka_wants_you_--.php

CLICK ON LINK TO HEAR THE TRACK

vivfox

01-02-2011, 08:07 PM

There is no better way of finishing off an old decade than with a fresh promise for the future and that is exactly what Fiona and Eddie Doublet did on New Year's Eve.

The couple were married at home in Invercargill with family, friends and a large motorcycle to cap it off. Mr Doublet said they had scheduled the wedding to coincide with a visit by Fiona's brother and sister-in-law, who were visiting from Argentina.

It was also his brother's 50th birthday on Friday, so there were many reasons to celebrate.

The couple have been together for three years and were engaged just over a year ago when he popped the question at a Fleetwood Mac concert in New Plymouth.

The concert was a surprise trip organised by Fiona and it seemed like a good time to make it official.

"It was a surprise trip for me and I didn't realise I was going to ask her to marry me. Halfway through the show, I thought `why not'," Mr Doublet said.

They have known each other for several years because both are motorcycle enthusiasts and have been on many of the same rallies around the area.

They met when Mr Doublet came to his future wife's rescue when a dare she had agreed to backfired and she was locked out of her hotel. The details of that story could not be revealed.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/4508723/Couples-marriage-ushers-in-new-decade

vivfox

01-03-2011, 07:05 PM

UKMIX - Forums - Chart Analysis - Fleetwood Mac :: Charts & Sales ...
Fleetwood Mac :: Charts & Sales History ... Top 50 back catalogue january, 3 1 ( 1) 42 THE VERY BEST OF FLEETWOOD MAC Fleetwood Mac. Prisoner Of Rock'n'Roll ...
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2772632

vivfox

01-03-2011, 07:18 PM

12:13 Sun King
By Matt Blick
Sun King is a lame parody of Fleetwood Mac's snoozefest Albatross. In Feb '69 Peter Green's lazy instrumental was topping the UK charts. 5 months later the Beatles were ripping it off in order to produce this sloppy soporific song that ...

GEORGE 1987: "At the time, 'Albatross' was out, with all the reverb on guitar. So we said, 'Let's be Fleetwood Mac doing Albatross, just to get going.' It never really sounded like Fleetwood Mac... but that was the point of origin."

In 1980 Lennon said the song was "garbage". In 2011 I agree with him. We have the Albatross section in E major, followed by a ‘chorus’ in C major. The chorus section is OK, but Lennon could write tunes like that in his sleep. The third section, is a recap of the Albatross section topped off with a monotonal vocal (in 3 or 4 part harmony) singing gibberish - a combination of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and ‘Scouse’.

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http://beatlessongwriting.blogspot.com/2011/01/1213-sun-king.html

PenguinHead

01-03-2011, 07:26 PM

Lol! i have that show she is a badass lol!!

What show as that from? I may or may have it. She sounds so wonderfully blissed out here.

vivfox

01-04-2011, 01:10 AM

Rare Mick Fleetwood Signed Photos

This rare collection of photographs include posed and “in concert” portraits of the acclaimed and celebrated drummer. Presently, Mick continues to keep beats for the world renowned blues rock band, Fleetwood Mac, whom has been swooning audiences for over four decades. These photos are signed by Mick, himself, so don’t miss out on these keepsakes!

http://thefendermusicfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/just-in-carlos-santana-jimi-hendrix-mick-fleetwood-the-rolling-stones-photos-and-much-more/

vivfox

01-04-2011, 10:45 PM

How big was Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, really? After topping the year-end chart for 1977, it did well enough to rank #9 for 1978. In Rumours, Hotel California by the Eagles, and the debut album by Boston, 1977's top three rank among the most significant albums of all time.

Here's Fleetwood Mac winning their Album of the Year Grammy for Rumours at the 1978 show, presented by Crosby Stills and Nash.

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http://www.wnew.com/2011/01/five-more-things-about-the-year-end-charts.html

Artemis

01-04-2011, 10:50 PM

What show as that from? I may or may have it. She sounds so wonderfully blissed out here.

I think it's from Mobile 1980. I'm not too sure, but that definitely rings a bell;

Here's the full song if that helps at all: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2se29491siw1tvl

vivfox

01-06-2011, 11:10 AM

January 5, 2011
Egg Babies plan first all-covers show since July
The cover band Egg Babies has scheduled its first show since July for later this month.

They will perform along the Bellevederes, the local soul band, at the Ottobar January 29.

The band Meetwood Flack, which includes members of both Egg Babies and the Bellevederes, will also perform a series of covers of Crosby, Nash and Stills songs.
Nah, just kidding. They'll be doing Fleetwood Mac covers, hopefully, along with a couple of Steve Nicks imitations.
The members of the cover band don't perform regularly; they just get together every few months for a show.
Their last show was in July, when they got Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner to sing lead.
Why Fleetwood Mac? Band member Michael Ward says it always gets a big reaction.
"Those songs are timeless and people of all ages still enjoy them," he said. The show will consist of an encore of the last show, but will include one new interpretation.

Come see the witchy magic at 9 p.m., January 29. Tickets, at $10, will be sold at missiontix.com soon.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2011/01/egg_babies_plan_first_allcover.html

vivfox

01-06-2011, 11:13 AM

Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Rumours of Fleetwood Mac Perform Southport Theater

Rock and roll's most famous bands, Fleetwood Max will perform to the last tribute among Southport Theaters on next month.
As part of the UK tour Rumours of Fleetwood Max will be visiting the town on 15 February.

Fleetwood Mac absolutely energy at their last time such as Black Magic Woman, Albatross, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Gypsy, Say You Love Me, Sara, Oh Diane, Little Lies, Everywhere and many more, take you on a nostalgic evening of breathtakingly outstanding musicianship.
Rumours of Fleetwood Mac are among the very elite of tribute acts worldwide.

Mick Fleetwood said: “There have been many reincarnations of our band over the years, so many special times and moments, both on recordings and in our lives. Thanks you for all your support and your love over the years, and for travelling beside us all the way. Let’s share our music once again. Of course we're not here in body but we are in musical spirit. Please enjoy our dear friends Rumours of Fleetwood Mac.”

http://fleetwood-mac-band.blogspot.com/2011/01/rumours-of-fleetwood-mac-perform.html

vivfox

01-06-2011, 11:20 AM

Win Tickets for ‘Rumours of Fleetwood Mac’!
Feeling lucky? Great, because were giving away tickets to go see the amazing tribute band…Rumours of Fleetwood Mac…..This great group are playing here in Belfast at the Odyssey Arena on Saturday 22nd January 2011! A fantastic concert not to be missed, Féile FM are offering a lucky listener to win these tickets! So stay tuned for your cue to call.

http://www.feilefm.com/2011/01/win-tickets-for-rumours-of-fleetwood-mac/

vivfox

01-06-2011, 11:57 AM

It only takes one listen of “Landslide” when you’re just a pup bouncing on your daddy’s knee, and you’re forever after a loving lackey to anything and everything that flows out of the God-given larynx of Stevie Nix. Apparently, I’m not the only one still listening to Fleetwood Mac some twenty years after said childhood epiphany. Recently trolling Pitchfork interviews for life advice from relevant indie musicians, I happened upon a Q and A with Cut Copy‘s founder Dan Whitford. Asked what artists may have influenced the sound of their forthcoming record Zonoscope, Whitford replied “I was obsessed with Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk while working on this record.”

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to long time followers of Cut Copy, as Whitford and his eventual band-mates routinely mixed Fleetwood Mac songs into some of their earliest released sets, a feat that immediately endeared the group to my ears. An example of this is provided below in the track labeled “Funk.” For some super-spooky funk, Ray Park Jr. style, fast-forward to minute 8:30, and for a mix of Fleetwood Mac’s “Never Forget” (off Tusk) skip to minute 29:40.

But as Whitford surely won’t deny, Fleetwood Mac continue to show up in their sound, and in much less obvious form than a direct sampling. The bass line of the band’s recently released single “Take Me Over” bares a strong resemblance to the low-frequency bounce of Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” off their album Tango In The Night. Cut Copy’s single also displays an obvious affinity for another famous down-under dance-pop hit: Men At Work’s “We Come From A Land Down Under.” Give a listen to all these great tracks below, and see what kind of recognizable similarities spark in your creative lobe.

CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO HEAR THESE TRACKS

MP3: Cut Copy – “Funk”
MP3: Cut Copy – “Take Me Over”
MP3: Fleetwood Mac – “Everywhere”
MP3: Men At Work – “We Come From A Land Down Under”

http://allthingsgomusic.com/cut-copy-zonoscope

vivfox

01-06-2011, 07:49 PM

Fleetwood Mac went off the low finish on “Tusk,” spending a cold million in their query to follow up “Rumors” with something similarly sensational. Lindsay Buckingham pushed the organisation for a reply to the punk stone transformation that he found concurrently captivating and terrifying. Punk featured big, blunt, misrepresented guitar, and Buckingham, for all his strengths, didn’t fool around that way. He did, however, have a large brief intent at his disposal: his drummer. Why not crush Mick Fleetwood’s flog and snare, and float them up in the blend to the indicate of express sonic absurdity? Why not expand that examination over two discs? Oh, and how about adding the USC marching rope whilst we’re at it? We’re the greatest organisation in the world; we’ll do what you want.

Hated on for its audacity at the time of its release, “Tusk” is right away established as a coked-out L.A. masterpiece. The organisation was, famously, fractured in to 5 pointy pieces at the time of its recording, but either they did it on mental recall or real residual affection, they sounded superb together even as they were essay about forthcoming apart. Stevie Nicks spends many of “Tusk” removed inside a velvet-walled cell; on her standout cut, the six-and-a-half notation “Sara,” she tries to figure out a way to pardon a buddy who tricked her, and ends up drowned by her own passions. Superficially, “Sisters of the Moon” is the arrange of poem that got Nicks indicted of witchcraft, but really, it’s only the deplore of the a lady who has turn unrecognizable to herself.

This eight-minute delivery of “Sisters of the Moon” was shot during the “Mirage” debate in ’82, but it’s dipsomaniac with the suggestion of “Tusk” — right down to Nicks’ overly suspicious isolation, Christine McVie’s heedful detachment, Buckingham’s self-absorption, and the glowering, darkly charismatic participation of Mick Fleetwood hovering over the proceedings. (Early spill that this is not your median unison clip: Fleetwood starts the strain by sanctimonious to execute hara-kiri with his drumsticks.) That Stevie Nicks is a great thespian is frequency a revelation, but her opening here has the retaining high quality of a short time of clearness in the center of a drug binge. If she awhile to feverishness up, by the time she hits the six-minute mark, she’s roaring, flailing around, perplexing to make a connection with the brothers and sisters in her band, anticipating someone will lift her out of her enchantment. They do not wish to listen to the accusations; they do not even wish to watch their buddy as she comes apart. They keep their heads down and their hands on their instruments, carrying out what they do best.

http://rssnews.tv/12095/song-song-of-the-day-sisters-of-the-moon-fleetwood-mac.html

vivfox

01-06-2011, 07:58 PM

Let us entertain you in 2011
By Richard Gomez/Commentary Santa Ynez Valley News | Posted: Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:00 am

Ever since we featured the legendary rockers Fleetwood Mac in our Samala Showroom at the Chumash Casino Resort during our hotel grand opening back in 2004, we have had the honor of bringing our guests the best entertainment available in the region.

In fact, we have come a long way since the early days of our gaming operation when we used to hold concerts in a makeshift area of the Sprung structure. Although our concerts were good — we still laughed ourselves silly with the comedian performances and tapped our toes to the great musical performances of our featured artists — we’ve stepped it up quite a bit.

I’ll never forget sitting in the audience that night in 2004 in awe as I watched the members of Fleetwood Mac step onto our stage to perform. It was a proud and electric moment for all of us — and also a good learning experience on fine tuning the technical aspects of creating a showroom that was both comfortable for guests and acoustically perfect for performers. Today our showroom boasts state-of-the-art technology that allows the artists to deliver their very best to our guests.

In 2010, more than 60,000 people visited the Samala Showroom to see performances ranging from R&B greats like the O’Jays and Gladys Knight to rockers Billy Idol and Sheryl Crow. Country western fans were also satisfied with performances from a long roster of country greats including Merle Haggard and the Judds.

http://www.syvnews.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_cd201025-5c19-5061-91ea-afde241d42bd.html

vivfox

01-07-2011, 10:26 PM

Grand Junction, Colorado

It had to have been the best pre-punk, pre-big hair 1970s concert in Saunders Field House at Mesa State Junior College. Not remembered by its tales of technical challenges or outrageous behavior on the part of anyone, but remembered by the fact it was exceptional and one of the first stops by an iconic band during their heyday. Geez, I'm sounding like Rock.

“I was working at The Timbers Restaurant in November of 1975. I got the night off to go see Fleetwood Mac at the college. It was one of their first stops on their first tour and man was I surprised when a couple of girls got on stage, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks.” remembers Ralph “Dinosaur” Donnen, past Mesa College class president.

Mike Radosevich was the Station Manager at KMSA at the time. “It was an incredible show. Everything was perfect and just the opposite of the Jerry Jeff Walker concert. Nobody knew the Fleetwood Mac album was going to do as well as it did. It was one of their first gigs with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.”

Doug “Candy Man” Simons tells me: “I remember it was a great concert. I loved it when Mick Fleetwood came out to the front of the stage with the drum under his arm that he could change the tension by squeezing his arm. Mick walked back and forth across the stage making goofy faces and playing drums solos. It was really great.” Doug was a Mesa State student at the time and active in the music department. “I played guitar, drums and whatever I could get my hands on at the time. I was even doing a little theater.”

The band flew out of Walker Field that next morning. My sister, Becky, was seeing her husband off that same morning. Christie and Stevie were wearing Boy Scout shirts and my sister, being in tune with vintage fashion trends, approached the girls and remarked on their outfits. She ended up having breakfast with them. She still can't find their autograph but thinks she knows where to look.

A few years later, Jerry Jeff Walker would come to the Field House for his first Grand Junction performance. Mike Radosevich was there for that one, too.

“Jerry Jeff was there twice. The first time was probably the most memorable. The production was just horrible. They were late opening the doors and the line of people went all the way to 12th Street, four deep. They finally let everyone in with the concert starting 2 1/2 hours late. They were supposed to start at 8 and it started at 10:30. It was the closest thing to a riot I'd ever seen, everyone getting restless and whiskey bottles bouncing off the walls. The sound system was really bad with all the white noise, they didn't have it under control at all. The SBA (Student Body Association) had hired the cheapest company they could get. I think they were out of Boulder. Jerry Jeff Walker was in his dressing room waiting to go on and by the time he finally did, he was toast and so were two-thirds of the audience. I had to leave and go to work. When Jerry Jeff came back a few years later, I worked at the Sentinel and interviewed him. He didn't remember a thing about it. He was feeling no pain.”

Debbie Manown Massey still holds some dear memories, like waiting and waiting and drinking and drinking and then some chick threw up on her. She can almost remember the girl's name.

I was there for the Fleetwood Mac concert but I don't think I was there for Jerry Jeff Walker. I met him years later after he'd cleaned up his act.

A whole new era of concert promotion was to follow at Mesa. I have to write about something else next column but look forward to me and my sources to jog your memory again.

Write or call me at [email protected] or 260-5226.

http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20110107/COMMUNITY_NEWS/110109952/1001&parentprofile=1059

michelej1

01-08-2011, 01:05 AM

Excerpt from article on Michael Chugg in the New Zealand Herald, January 8, 2010 by Graham Reid

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10698429

Concert promoter Michael Chugg - the man behind forthcoming shows by Santana and the Doobie Brothers, plus the Laneway and Grassroots festivals among others - tells good stories. By the dozen.

It's the 1977 Fleetwood Mac tour and he's sitting alone at a medieval banquet table backstage, which is covered in whole cooked pigs, sides of beef, lamb, chickens and turkeys ... The band - nine months after the release of their 40 million-selling album Rumours - are on stage with cocaine in beer bottle caps laid out in neat rows on a card table.

"Yeah, the excess of the excess period," laughs the man who indulged along with everyone.

"An amazing tour. The night they played [in Auckland] we had the biggest cream pie and water fight I've ever been involved in."

johnnystorms

01-08-2011, 01:42 AM

that is the best summation of the SOTM performance i've ever read! love how the writer describes Chris n Lindsey minding their instruments, seemingly in fear of Stevie's cathartic performance.Fleetwood Mac went off the low finish on “Tusk,” spending a cold million in their query to follow up “Rumors” with something similarly sensational. Lindsay Buckingham pushed the organisation for a reply to the punk stone transformation that he found concurrently captivating and terrifying. Punk featured big, blunt, misrepresented guitar, and Buckingham, for all his strengths, didn’t fool around that way. He did, however, have a large brief intent at his disposal: his drummer. Why not crush Mick Fleetwood’s flog and snare, and float them up in the blend to the indicate of express sonic absurdity? Why not expand that examination over two discs? Oh, and how about adding the USC marching rope whilst we’re at it? We’re the greatest organisation in the world; we’ll do what you want.

Hated on for its audacity at the time of its release, “Tusk” is right away established as a coked-out L.A. masterpiece. The organisation was, famously, fractured in to 5 pointy pieces at the time of its recording, but either they did it on mental recall or real residual affection, they sounded superb together even as they were essay about forthcoming apart. Stevie Nicks spends many of “Tusk” removed inside a velvet-walled cell; on her standout cut, the six-and-a-half notation “Sara,” she tries to figure out a way to pardon a buddy who tricked her, and ends up drowned by her own passions. Superficially, “Sisters of the Moon” is the arrange of poem that got Nicks indicted of witchcraft, but really, it’s only the deplore of the a lady who has turn unrecognizable to herself.

This eight-minute delivery of “Sisters of the Moon” was shot during the “Mirage” debate in ’82, but it’s dipsomaniac with the suggestion of “Tusk” — right down to Nicks’ overly suspicious isolation, Christine McVie’s heedful detachment, Buckingham’s self-absorption, and the glowering, darkly charismatic participation of Mick Fleetwood hovering over the proceedings. (Early spill that this is not your median unison clip: Fleetwood starts the strain by sanctimonious to execute hara-kiri with his drumsticks.) That Stevie Nicks is a great thespian is frequency a revelation, but her opening here has the retaining high quality of a short time of clearness in the center of a drug binge. If she awhile to feverishness up, by the time she hits the six-minute mark, she’s roaring, flailing around, perplexing to make a connection with the brothers and sisters in her band, anticipating someone will lift her out of her enchantment. They do not wish to listen to the accusations; they do not even wish to watch their buddy as she comes apart. They keep their heads down and their hands on their instruments, carrying out what they do best.

http://rssnews.tv/12095/song-song-of-the-day-sisters-of-the-moon-fleetwood-mac.html

michelej1

01-08-2011, 02:32 AM

that is the best summation of the SOTM performance i've ever read! love how the writer describes Chris n Lindsey minding their instruments, seemingly in fear of Stevie's cathartic performance.

Yes, I like the line about not wanting to hear her accusations, as if there's an implication in her words and a consciousness of guilt on their part.

Michele

elle

01-11-2011, 02:01 PM

http://famousrighteousandholy.wordpress.com/

Packin up, Shackin up, is all you wanna do.
Posted on January 10, 2011
by ehrenohkneel
Picture it, Chicago, 1997. I’m 21 years old and home sick with something or other, stoned on the couch with nothing to watch. Despite having been the perpetual punch line to countless jokes I had made since birth, I give up and watch Fleetwood Mac’s, The Dance, on VH1. By the end of the show I am converted to Fleetwood Mac fandom forever. I can’t believe how amazing this band, whom I have made fun of relentlessly, actually is. Maybe it was that I had never really taken the time to listen to anything they made other than passively hearing the big hits while waiting at the doctors office. Maybe I just hadn’t lived enough “life” yet to really get the punch. Maybe I was just stoned. Whatever the magic was that had to happen for me to renounce my hatred of all things Fleetwood Mac, it had come to land squarely upon my head that night and never leave.

etc etc

michelej1

01-14-2011, 01:21 AM

Stuff.co.nz Reader's Survey, Blogger Simon Sweetman poses questions to his readers and kicks off the first answers himself. Here's an excerpt:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks/4540527/A-Welcome-to-2011-Reader-Questionnaire

7. Who is your favourite guitarist who never seems to make it on to Best Guitarists lists?

There are several - but the one I always pick is Lindsey Buckingham because he is phenomenal. I think a lot of people in New Zealand finally got to see that with the live gigs in late 2009. He has his own sound/style and he's a wizard, a true star.

vivfox

01-16-2011, 11:00 AM

Show your age with the concerts you have seen

J. Stolarz
Attorney at Law
W. Hartford, CT
www. attorneystolarz. com

First concert:
Jefferson Airplane and Fleetwood Mac at Colt Park Hartford, Ct. 1976

I grew up in Connecticut which was the stop over for bands playing from NYC to Boston. Great clubs, bands and music scene.

Anyone remember:

Shaboo In Willimantic
David's in Manchester
Carrie Nations Manchester
Stage West West Hartford
Toads' Place New Haven
Mad Murphy's Hartford
Russian Lady Hartford
Crazy Horse Southington

Memorable ones:

The Who New Haven, Ct
The Stones Giants Stadium
Bruce Giants Stadium
Pink Floyd Giants Stadium
Grateful Dead Radio City Music Hall Halloween 1980
Aerosmith through the good and the bad years
Van Halen whenever they played
Ozzie with Black Sabbath and solo with Randy Rhoads
The Cars
Motley Crue
AC/DC
Eagles
Winter Brothers
Clapton
Allman Bros
Guns N Roses
Tom Petty
Journey with Steve Perry
J. Geils Band
The Outlaws
Skynyrd 1976
The Kinks
Little Feat
Police
Genesis
Dire Straits
Bon Jovi

Most of these concerts in the 70's and 80's cost about $10 a ticket. Sleeping out on the sidewalk a couple of days in advance to get tickets at the local Ticketmaster location was all apart of the ''experience''.

Best concert location was an outdoor venue in Pinecrest County Club in Shelton, Connecticut.

Worst place was New Haven Coliseum, a real ****hole and the cops were Nazi Stormtroopers! Still have a scar from The Who concert.

Great memories and hours worth of stories and tales...

http://www.thehulltruth.com/dockside-chat/325730-show-your-age-concerts-you-have-seen.html

vivfox

01-16-2011, 11:05 AM

Show your age with the concerts you have seen

J. Stolarz
Attorney at Law
W. Hartford, CT
www. attorneystolarz. com

First concert:
Jefferson Airplane and Fleetwood Mac at Colt Park Hartford, Ct. 1976

This is a response on the same forum from another member.
LOL. You may be a couple of years older than me. but I remember my best friend's older sisters going to that Fleetwood Mac show at Colt Park. My first concert ever was the Earth, Wind and Fire show at the Hartford Civic Center around that same time. We lived in Manchester from March of '74 until July of '76.
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And another response:

Best:
- Any of many Bruce shows. The Rising/Boardwalk shows at the Meadowlands and Philly Spectrum final (really) shows stand out.

Worst:
- Fleetwood Mac in 79? outdoors in 100* heat. They were stoned and hot, we were too. Or maybe The Cars - picture statues playing instruments and you have it.

http://www.thehulltruth.com/dockside-chat/325730-show-your-age-concerts-you-have-seen.html

PenguinHead

01-16-2011, 09:52 PM

In no particular order...** denotes a considerable amount of shows

Aerosmith
The Police
The Knack
Alanis Morissette
Laurie Anderson
Van Halen -orignal singer
Rush
Elton John**
Elton John with Billy Joel
Kinks
Sam Phillips
Journey -original singer
ZZ Top
Jethro Tull
Tori Amos
Tears for Fears
Crowded House
Neil Finn
Elvis Costello
Scissor Sisters
Lindsey Buckingham
Stevie Nicks
Doobie Brothers
Til Tuesday
Aimee Mann**
Fleetwood Mac**
Fleetwood Mac/REO Speedwagon/Pat Benetar
Cheap Trick
Pearl Jam
Maria Mckee
Simon and Garfunkel
Brian Wilson
Marilyn Manson/Hole
Steely Dan
REM**
Spinal Tap
10,000 Maniacs -original singer
B 52s
Bob Dylan/Tom Petty
Squeeze
U2
Jefferson Airplane -reunion tour
Morrissey
Meridith Brooks
Peter Green
Bruce Springteen -Wembly Staduim!
String Cheese Incident
The New Mamas and Papas
Magic Numbers
Styx -my first show circa 1979
J. Geils Band

and the rest!

michelej1

01-22-2011, 03:18 PM

This is David Wild's list of goodbye songs for Keither Olbermann:

http://googletrendnews.co.cc/david-wild-keith-dont-go-a-farewell-playlist-for-keith-olbermann.php

I’m not saying this is the Worst Thing In The World, but as a fan of intelligent talk on television, I musically mourn the loss of Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. I didn’t always agree with him, but I’d fight to the death for his right to be one smart man and compelling wiseass. Then again, it’s hard to really imagine this man being silenced for too long.

“Keith Don’t Go” (Ode To A Glimmer Twin) – Nils Lofgren
“Ain’t Talkin’” – Bob Dylan
“Countdown” – The Black Keys
“People Gonna Talk” – James Hunter
“Countdown” – The Black Keys
“Take This Job And Shove It” – Johnny Paycheck
“Talk Talk” – Talk Talk
“Talk Of The Town” – The Pretenders
“The Final Countdown” – Europe
“Talk” – Coldplay
“Don’t Talk” – 10,000 Maniacs
“Countdown” – Rush
“Out Of Work” — Gary US Bonds
“Countdown” – Rush
“Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulders)” – Beach Boys
“Talk To Me” – Bruce Springsteen
“Countdown” – Lindsay Buckingham“Everybody’s Talkin’” – Harry Nilsson
“If You Talk In Your Sleep” – Elvis Presley
“Countdown” – John Coltrane

What are your songs for Keith?

vivfox

01-25-2011, 07:27 AM

Warren Zevon had a song called “He Quit Me” that was included on the massively popular soundtrack to the movie “Midnight Cowboy” as well. Who could forget Harry Nilsson’s classic “Everybody’s Talkin’?” I believe “He Quit Me” was performed by Leslie Miller and Garry Sherman on the record, but who cared with a cast that included Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman? Warren Zevon was on his way. He hooked on with the legendary Everly Brothers after releasing a commercial flop for a debut called Wanted Dead Or Alive as 1969 turned into 1970. By 1975 he was living in Los Angeles and sharing an apartment with little known fledgling artists Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. He began working with Jackson Browne on another record just called Warren Zevon that was eventually released in 1976. That is where you will find his version of “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.” It had another soon to be famous Warren Zevon track called “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.” I don’t have any sales figures to share, but I think it’s fair to say that this record met with more critical success than commercial success. “Mohammed’s Radio, Carmelita and Hasten Down The Wind” all became Zevon staples, but it wasn’t until Excitable Boy that the world knew his name. Jackson Browne produced both records although famous guitarist Waddy Wachtel also helped produce Excitable Boy. Another factoid that had escaped me until now is that Mick Fleetwood and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac fame apparently played on “Werewolves of London.” Man I gotta wake up. I should know that!

http://www.giantpanther.com/?p=5656

vivfox

01-25-2011, 07:31 AM

By ROBERT HILBURN
Los Angeles News Service
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1977

Linda Ronstadt at the Universal Amphitheater, Sept. 20 — Success doesn’t always wear well on pop performers. Sales and applause can often cause them to let their standards dip or to adopt the conservative practice of simply redoing the old hits. But Ronstadt — never hotter commercially — was never better. With her most aggressive and tasteful band, she treated each of the 19 songs in her 100-minute set as if it would be the performance by which she would ultimately be measured. From the Rolling Stones’ rowdy “Tumbling dice” to Roy Orbison‘s nostalgic “Blue Bayou,” she was ideal.

Fleetwood Mac at the Inglewood Forum, Aug. 31 — There isn’t much flash to Fleetwood’s shows, but the music is far more biting live than it is on record. There’s a harder edge to both Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar work and Mick Fleetwood’s drumming. If they ever capture the sound fully on a live LP, it should even outsell this year’s phenomenal “Rumours.” Even if the latter has got an eight million head start.

http://www.bootlegbetty.com/2011/01/24/betteback-bette-midlers-roxy-show-deemed-years-best-pop-concert-1977/

vivfox

01-29-2011, 11:29 AM

January 28th, 2011 at 04:56pm skayian

Maui’s entertainment scene has Rhythm & Views spinning like a Tilt-a-Whirl.

Fleetwood Mac’s grand-master, Mick Fleetwood, is finalizing plans to open a restaurant in Lahaina; local legend Vince Esquire is featured playing guitar on Gregg Allman’s new solo album; the concerts at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center are going strong; and clubs like Stella Blues Cafe keep bringing in quality shows. To top it off, filmmaker Brian Kohne is screening his Maui-made movie “Get a Job” all weekend at the Iao Theater in Wailuku.

How do I share all that information with my dedicated readers and enjoy the events at the same time? Let’s give it a go: Fleetwood told R&V in October that he was planning on spending most of 2011 home, on Maui, working on his art and pursuing his dream of opening a restaurant. He said he envisioned a place where he could hang out, play live music and welcome other island musicians. Fleetwood’s vision will soon be a reality; there is no official launch date available, but word has it that, very soon, the former Oyster Bar on Front Street will be re-christened a Fleetwood restaurant. How lucky are we to have such legendary musicians as locals?

http://rhythmandviews.mauimagazine.net/?p=872

vivfox

01-29-2011, 11:30 AM

Best of Saturday:

Si*Sé with Sun Wolf. $18-$20. 9 p.m. doors. Black Cat.

Since 2000, Si*Sé has mined genres like dub, trip-hop, house, and Latin electronica to woo fans and win spots on shows like Sex and the City, CSI, and others. After a five year hiatus, the ensemble is back with a third release, Gold. The album hasa smoothed-out, dancehall-tinged cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain," while Singer/DJ Carol C’s voice is sophisticated and sensual in English and Spanish. It might be just enough to make you forget the week's Thundersnow.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/01/28/weekend-music-roundup-dr-dog-sise-lissie/

vivfox

02-01-2011, 04:45 AM

Now, I love the music of Fleetwood Mac, deeply. But I have to admit I didn't know the intricacies of their coke-fuelled, cobweb-like incestuousness. Over the weekend, I read Storms, a book by Carol Ann Harris, who spent a good part of the bands heyday as the girlfriend and lover of Lindsay Buckingham. I devoured it in one hungover Sunday. If you love their music, or even just love rock-biographies, then I suggest you track a copy down. I have to admit, the description of the initial stages of their relationship made me cry because it was very strong, romantic and beautiful. The inside view of the terrifying nature of Stevie Nicks and the interaction between the band were fascinating, and if I had a dollar for every time I read the phrase "and then a plate with a mound of cocaine was presented and the band fell upon it..." I would be a far wealthier woman than I am now. Don't you think it's sad that our lives have become so sanitised and controlled these days? I mean, I can't imagine a band living in the way that the Stones or Fleetwood Mac lived - visits to Eric Clapton's unfurnished castle in a snowstorm, Annie Leibowitz shooting them for the cover of Rolling Stone in the tiny spare bedroom...

http://www.somuchtotellyou.co.nz/2011/01/gold-dust-woman.html

vivfox

02-01-2011, 04:51 AM

Jonathan asked: "I've tried listening to Tusk and can't find a way in! Please help!"
It's funny, I was wondering how I found a way into any Fleetwood Mac at all. Because this is the first time I've listened to them, seriously listened to them, in a long time, and -- the thing is, I don't love songs I don't think say something I've felt but never found the words for. I don't love songs I don't think are about me. And, you know, I remember loving these songs, but I don't remember feeling these things at sixteen. I remember lying on the floor of the den, listening to "Beautiful Child" and crying, but I don't remember why. (Although, in all fairness, I also remember lying across my bed and listening to The Wild Heart all the way through just so I could cry to "Beauty and the Beast." And lying across my bed and crying to some Sarah McLachlan song. Being sixteen was weird.)

So originally I was going to say you should listen to Tusk as part of a story. Because even if I can't remember why I loved the songs, I can remember why I loved the band, and the story that gets told over the three albums after Stevie and Lindsey joined is it. Fleetwood Mac, 1975, they're in love, with each other and with everything else. And oh, they believe. Stevie and Lindsey bring three songs with them from Buckingham Nicks -- he sings her words on one of them, about love closing in like a tide -- and a fourth she wrote when she was about to give up on him, on music, but that's the past now, that's a fable, that's a lullaby. Lindsey's songs stomp and roll against Mick and John. "Monday Morning," his heart is broken, but he doesn't mind, he comes back for more, like clockwork, solid structure, pounding rhythm. After a few years, "I'm So Afraid" will sound like torture when he plays it live, but not yet -- there's brightness in the beat and the guitar. And Christine is, you know, Christine. Easy rhymes and creepy '70s sexual euphemisms. (Confession: I don't like Christine McVie very much.) Rumours, 1977, love and belief are gone. Stevie's writing creepy fairytales, Edgar Allan Poe heartbeats driving a man mad, a queen digging her own grave. Lindsey gets thrown out, refuses to come back like clockwork anymore, makes his ex-girlfriend sing on a song about what a bitch she is, guitar all out of sync with everything else. Christine is Christine some more, but then there's "Songbird," too. It reads like a love song, like a happy ending, but on an album full of other people -- voices and voices, arguing back and forth, and bass and drums behind them -- she's all alone. It starts with crying, it repeats "I love you" like it's trying to convince itself. And then she wishes you all the love in the world. She wishes it from herself. Love, giving you love, it isn't something she has the power to do, no matter how much she wants it -- it's something she has to wish. Tusk, 1979, they're spinning off to their own orbits. Stevie ****ed Mick while he was still with his wife, and then Stevie's best friend ****ed Mick while he was still with Stevie, and Stevie's songs are mostly about that and a couple other affairs, but not in the ways you would expect. Her friend is forgiven, Mick is just one dark cloud in the storm that's bearing down on her, and she keeps losing things, she's disappearing into the wind, she's the whole storm, turning everything cold, her own heart broken and numb. Lindsey recorded his songs in his bathroom, banging on shoeboxes, alternately shouting and moaning manic complaints, and layering himself into makeshift spirituals. Christine is Christine again.

Oh, and what I said about them spinning off to their own orbits? Tusk is secretly three solo albums, and they never really come back together after this. It might help to listen to those three albums separately.)

But on Friday morning I took the bus from Jersey to the city, because I was supposed be off this week but I got called into work to write a memo basically justifying my job, and since I recently re-discovered the healing powers of The Dance, I decided to listen to it over and over all the way there. And like, I have listened to "Silver Springs" so many times I can't even guess at a number -- how many nights are there in six years? How many times would I have rewound and played it again? But on Friday morning, that was the first time I understood. How sad it is, you know? How much she must have hurt. And it was sadder in 1997, when the person it was about was almost happily married and having a kid, when the time she talks about had actually passed, and the way her voice scrapes the bottom and pulls back when she tells him she doesn't want to know how much happier he is now, really she doesn't want to know, even if she can't stop herself from asking, and how weary she sounds, it was sadder when she sang it in 1997 than when she sang it in 1976 -- and, oh, the age I am now is the age she was when she wrote it. Maybe that has something to do with something.

I guess that's still listening to it as a story. It isn't me -- it's this pantomime character called Stevie, and this pantomime character called Lindsey, and the conclusion to the story they started in 1975, about love and breaking apart. I just understand them better than I did before.

But then, it is about me, at least a little. I don't know if, at fourteen or fifteen or sixteen, you can really feel a line like "I have always been a storm." Always? Always? I hadn't always been anything at that age, that was the whole point of fourteen and fifteen and sixteen -- every year, you were something different than you were the year before.

By your twenties, you find you've been doing things over and over again, things that at fourteen or fifteen or sixteen you were doing for the first time, things that back then you thought just happened. Things that back then you thought were a flaw in the world, not a flaw in yourself. And when you finally got free of them, at seventeen or eighteen, you thought you had outgrown them, you thought you were so wise now -- you had learned your lesson, you weren't a stupid kid anymore.

But they creep back to you -- twenty-one, maybe, or twenty-two, and then again, twenty-six or twenty-seven. The same old insecurities. The same old anger, the same old need. And you start to realize you aren't free of them, you start to wonder if you ever will be. You start to realize that even when you thought you were free of them -- thinking you were wise and triumphant at eighteen, God, talk about being a stupid kid -- you weren't. Always, always, that was the way you were.

And now I'm listening to Tusk, and I keep hearing these things I didn't hear before. Like, in "Tusk," I never thought the "Why don't you ask him?" and "Why don't you tell me?" lines were genuine questions -- from the first listen, I assumed he was taunting her, assumed he already knew that the answers weren't anything she wanted to hear, that the truth wasn't anything she wanted to have to say out loud. But maybe there's a part of him that's really asking. Maybe he's just noticed how she shuts up when she sees him, how her conversations stop when he walks into the room, and what is she trying to hide? I'm figuring out all these things I should have figured out a long time ago. So many of Stevie's songs are about time -- what was, what will be, and the ways things change, whether you want them to or not. (Which means, at this moment, all the Stevie songs are about how I feel about Stevie songs. After answering Dave's question, if I weren't at my parents' house, where there is the ever-present possibility of my mom bursting into my bedroom, Kramer-style, to tell me about something she just saw on the TV? I would probably be curled up crying to "Beautiful Child" right this minute.)

I don't know. Find a way into it like you'd find a way into anything else. Listen for the things you understand, and let them tell you how to understand everything else.

http://girlboymusic.livejournal.com/307192.html

vivfox

02-03-2011, 08:07 AM

A lot of the humor is more basic. Did you know Van Halen was the second choice for the band's name, once Eddie found out his real family name, Bran Fralen, was the name of a two-man jazz combo in St. Paul? There's Mick Fleetwood's suggestion McDonald's create a Fleetwood Mac Big Mac with "several slices of Lindsey Bucking-ham, white cheddar cheese that represents the cocaine Stevie Nicks is addicted to, Mick Fleet-wood smoked bacon, and John and Christine McVie-al (veal)." Glaser does all this through documentary evidence. There's a copy of Ringo Starr's letter to the other Beatles — on Apple letterhead no less — about his plans to start a Beatles tribute band. Glaser uncovered the classified documents showing the Butthole Surfers got their name from a classified Navy SEALs program. He also explains the truth behind a nasty Rod Stewart rumor and reveals a secret Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have kept since before The Rolling Stones did their first show.

http://www.seattlepi.com/books/434701_152763-blogcritics.org.html

vivfox

02-05-2011, 01:09 PM

michelej1

02-05-2011, 10:52 PM

That's a beautiful signature picture Viv. I was probably 17 when I finally stopped hanging pictures of Sonny and Cher up in my room. Yet I still have them all -- except the ones my mother threw away as soon as I left for college.

Michele

PenguinHead

02-06-2011, 02:17 AM

http://heartichoke.bandcamp.com/album/tusk-ep

Free Download

I'm impressed with the music this band did on their Tusk songs after sampling Over & Over and That's All For Everyone

You've got to check out their cute album cover.

The cover is very funny in its nod to the actual Tusk cover; as it has a dog and the shoe (s)!
The one song that really stuck out and impressed me most was the rendering of "What Makes You Think Your The One" as a ballard. It sounded just like a long lost Velvet Underground song! The approach was very Lou Reed-ish. It gave the lyrics a whole new context.

vivfox

02-07-2011, 05:06 PM

Live Nation Buys Artist Agency
Wall Street Journal
Front Line and its affiliates represent artists including the Eagles, Jimmy Buffett, Neil Diamond, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Chesney, Fleetwood Mac and ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704422204576130050245362060.html

vivfox

02-08-2011, 10:55 PM

Here’s The Problem: There are some things that I will carry with me for the rest of my life – one of those things is my love for Fleetwood Mac. This love began when I was 14 and had no life and watched a lot of VH1 Behind the Music…anyway. So, today, I was listening to The Dance and I was singing Silver Spring at the top of my lungs (that Stevie can yell, man) and I notice flashing lights. Cop lights. I hate cops. I pull over – and for some reason – I do not turn down my music. So Officer Pain in My Royal Ass signals me to roll down my window – I do. He begins to speak – but then – stops – and says “The Mac?” SAVED. “Yes! It is!” I say, filled with joy. He tells me he loves them – and then says to slow down a bit in residential areas. Then, I get to work – go to Starbucks- guess what’s blaring on the speakers?? FLEETWOOD MAC.

Actual Problem: None. It’s gonna be an awesome day. Thank you Stevie! xoxo

http://herestheproblem.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/heres-the-problem-saved-by-the-mac-fleetwood-not-big/

vivfox

02-10-2011, 07:21 PM

Marcus Foster has been generating quite a buzz recently with the imminent release of his debut EP Tumble Down, out on 4th April.

Featuring four tracks rich with languor and melancholic life, the EP’s lead track Shadows Of The City got it’s first play on Zane Lowe’s Radio One show earlier in the week. Such was the listener response (comparisons to Jeff Buckley, Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham et al) that they played the track again in the same show.

Now they’re pretty big boots to be compared with, and we were more than a bit sceptical when we got a copy of the EP’s title track to listen to…

Turns out we were misguided. This boy can sing. Listen for yourself on the slow, six minute burn that is Tumble Down.

Click on link to Download Marcus Foster – Tumble Down mp3 (from Tumble Down EP)

http://madmackerel.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/introducing-marcus-foster/

vivfox

02-10-2011, 07:23 PM

The musicians make you feel their raw but eventually optimistic pain with relatable lyrics crafted around airy layers of melodies and a few tracks marked by the sort of wailing solos that bring you down to the depths of the moment the despair hit. Plus, Sherri and Stacy DuPree have ridiculously clear, angelic voices that even sound pretty when they’re fuming at “you and all your friends who didn’t like me” and “that apocryphal wedding.” Harmonies abound, as usual – a highlight being the Fleetwood Mac-esque vocal layering of “whoas” in “Oxygen Mask.”

Don’t assume this is entirely an angry-chicks-using-art-to-emotionally-murder-their-wrongdoers album. Granted, a small portion of it is. You’ll definitely want to leave a copy of “Smarter” on your ex’s doorstep, and nothing will chill your bones if “Please” doesn’t. But what you’ll really hear on The Valley is a family re-grouping following low points in their lives.

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2011/02/10/cd-review-eisley-the-valley/

vivfox

02-13-2011, 01:25 PM

YouTube - Eyes of the World (Mirage Demo) Fleetwood Mac
1982 Mirage demo Much thanks to Superfleetwoodmac for the use of his Rosebud footage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiquZ_zFelY

vivfox

02-15-2011, 11:59 AM

The title track from the new Wye Oak album Civilian is a funereal march on which a lament is sung. The Baltimore, Maryland duo treads darker waters with their new material, and this song is cut through with mournful imagery and a reckoning of loss, an examination of what we change, what we lose, and what we can’t shake. Vocalist Jenn Wasner lays down the melancholic lines “I don’t need another friend / When most of them / I can barely keep up with them / Perfectly able to hold my own hand / But I still can’t kiss my own neck” like a statement of resignation, laying her flaws bare.

Wasner’s voice recalls the sultry depth of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, and the rhythmic, gothic Americana swing of the song plays up her most plaintive elements. As the song ramps up in its latter half, multi-tracked guitar lines fall into fitful, jabbing solos swirling around hummed harmonies. Wasner and multi-instrumentalist Andy Stack build “Civilian” from a simple lament into an intense and defiant track upon layers of guitar feedback, sustained organ tones, and the loping, rueful march of the drums.

http://one-track-mind.com/wye-oak-civilian-free-mp3/

vivfox

02-17-2011, 07:58 PM

Dailymotion - Linzi Stoppard Ben Lee Rock Fleetwood Mac. - a Film ...
Electric violi rock stars Linzi Stoppard & Ben Lee as FUSE perform Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh2q1z_linzi-stoppard-ben-lee-rock-fleetwood-mac_shortfilms

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vivfox

02-17-2011, 08:07 PM

'All Of The Lights' is testament both to Kanye West's ego and to his talent. As to the former, who else could imagine a posse track featuring contributions from Rihanna, Elton John, Alicia Keys, Drake, Elly Jackson, John Legend, Fergie and more - and who else possesses the sheer chutzpah to bring it to fruition?

As to the latter, well, first there's the song itself, a tale of domestic abuse, imprisonment, adultery, parental separation and financial struggle set to a genuinely momentous pop noir opus that comes off, just kinda, like a hip-hop version of Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk'. Then there's the fact that, even though he doesn't really appear during the final two-and-half minutes, we're never in danger of forgetting that this is a Kanye cut. Talent? You know, maybe even genius.

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/singlesreviews/a304309/kanye-west-all-of-the-lights.html

vivfox

02-19-2011, 11:06 AM

A Contender Elbows In
New York Times
By SPENCER MORGAN Craig Susser, above left, with Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac at Craig's in West Hollywood. A FEW weeks ago, Craig Susser, the former manager of the legendary Hollywood restaurant Dan Tana's, interrupted a morning of paperwork to ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/fashion/20CRAIGS2.html?src=twrhp

vivfox

02-24-2011, 11:17 PM

Loch Lomond's Fleetwood Mac Cover & Tour Dates
Posted Feb 24th, 2011 (1:47 pm) by Alex Gordon Share This

Loch Lomond is a Portland based collective whose latest release Little Me Will Start A Storm had us buzzing last month. This week, it's a pitch perfect cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain."

On Little Me Will Start A Storm, Loch Lomond performs exercises in subtle construction, using their numerous members (up to nine musicians) to create deep and somehow modest compositions. But on this cover, it's pretty much just a mirror reflection of the Mac's original. If you've heard the original but don't know it well, you might struggle to discern one from the other. But it's a great song and they've earned a little wiggle room with Little Me..., so it's enjoyable either way. Listen/download below.

Little Me Will Start A Storm is out now on Tender Loving Empire.

Loch Lomond 2011 Tour Dates:
February 25 - Tacoma, WA @ Peabody Waldorf Gallery
February 26 - Portland, OR @ Alberta Rose Theater
March 5 - Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
March 7 - Bend, OR @ Tower Theater
March 11 - Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover Festival
March 12 - Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover Festival
March 15 - Austin, TX @ SXSW

http://inyourspeakers.com/content/news/loch-lomond-s-fleetwood-mac-cover-tour-dates-02242011

vivfox

02-24-2011, 11:18 PM

Watch Behind the Music, Fleetwood Mac online. Now available on Sky Player. Follow this profile of the legendary rock group best known for their top album ...
http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/content/SKYCULTURE/content/videoId/b861d9fcb742e210VgnVCM1000002c04170a________/content/default/videoDetailsPage.do

vivfox

02-25-2011, 01:25 PM

Retromania hits Cascades
February 25, 2011 9:07 AM

The tribute acts Dreams and Arrival perform March 4.Photograph by: submitted, for Langley AdvanceNot just one, but two tribute bands - paying tribute to some of the best music of the 1970s - intend to blast out the speaker system at Cascades Casino's Summit Theatre next Friday.

In a show dubbed Retromania, the bands of Dreams and Arrival will resurrect the magic of Fleetwood Mac and ABBA.

Seven people make up the two bands that have travelled around the world performing.

Dream, The Ultimate Tribute To Fleetwood Mac, is a group of talented, diverse performers who came together in 2005 with a passion for the music of Fleetwood Mac, one of the top bands to grace the charts in the 1970s and '80s

Even today, 30-plus years later, you can still hear Fleetwood Mac's music on radio stations around the world.

It was with that thought in mind that Dreams was born. The cast of Dreams takes great pride being able to replicate the Fleetwood Mac sound so closely that it's difficult to tell the difference.

From the music to the costumes, Dreams performs all the hits, as does Arrival, which has played hundreds of sold out live shows, replicating the sound, characters, and stage experience of ABBA.

"Arrival delivers with such incredible and enjoyable authenticity you feel that you are actually witnessing ABBA in concert," said show promoter Rob Warwick.

Arrival and Dreams perform in the Summit Theatre at Cascades, 20393 Fraser Hwy. starting at 8 p.m. on March 4.

Tickets are $32.50, and available from the casino's guest services or Ticketweb.ca.

© Copyright (c) Langley Advance

http://www.langleyadvance.com/entertainment/Retromania+hits+Cascades/4346316/story.html

vivfox

03-01-2011, 07:02 PM

AE: On the album you cover Fleetwood Mac’s "Go Your Own Way." With so many Fleetwood Mac songs to choose from, why that one?

BG: What happened is I was invited to do ‘Night of 1000 Stevies’ in New York and spent three weeks going through every Stevie song and every Fleetwood Mac song, but couldn’t find one that I thought I did well. There’s a lot of music that was so well done, and I thought, ‘Oh god, do I dare do these songs?’ The night of the event, I was a bit nervous, so I thought, ‘Why not try to do a song reggae style,’ and the original cover was done as a reggae track. That’s how we started and it worked like this — it suited the song and it’s such a brilliant song. If I could choose, I would have written it as a reggae track.

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2011/03/boy-george-interview

vivfox

03-08-2011, 11:37 AM

Down and Out in Beacon Hill - “I hate fleetwood mac! It reminds me ...
“I hate fleetwood mac! It reminds me of the first year I was married to your father.”- OTMary…every time they come on the radio. ...
http://meganjohnson.tumblr.com/post/3577197855/i-hate-fleetwood-mac-it-reminds-me-of-the-first

vivfox

03-09-2011, 03:01 AM

There’s only one way to cut this sandwich: Fleetwood Mac are musical legends. Born from the tradition of blues rock pioneered by John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac found their groove in female fronted soft-rock- think of them as the Paramore of the 70s’, especially when Stevie Nicks joined their ranks.

Bio.Beat: Fleetwood Mac premieres on the Bio Channel, Astro Channel 731, on the 14th of March 2011 at 9pm.

http://entertainment.malaysia.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4694100

vivfox

03-16-2011, 01:47 AM

NASA has once again found some cocaine at the venerable Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA spokesman Allard Beutel has confirmed that 4.2 ounces of Brooklyn’s favorite party drug was found somewhere in the facility, although he did not indicate where.

This is not the first time cocaine was found at the center. In January 2010, a small amount was discovered in the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery. One of two things is going on here, either folks at NASA are partying hard or Rumors-era Fleetwood Mac traveled through time to play one rocking space concert. My money is on the time travel, but mostly because that would just be really cool.

My question is, why would astronauts do cocaine? They are astronauts. The stuff they actually do is already a thousand times better than the stuff coke-users manically plan on one day doing. If astronauts, who let me remind you GO TO SPACE, can’t resist the temptations of drugs then how do the rest of us have any hope? Barring some last minute gift from Richard Branson, we aren’t ever gonna go to space. We are going to watch reality TV and “like” things on Facebook. NASA, get your act together! We are never gonna get to an awesome Star Trek future if you keep doing this kind of stuff.

http://thefastertimes.com/tech/2011/03/15/nasa-once-again-finds-cocaine-at-kennedy-space-center/

vivfox

03-23-2011, 12:29 PM

The Fleetwood Mac song, 'The Chain', reached number 81 in the UK charts despite a local man's online campaign

A LOCAL man’s campaign to get an iconic Formula 1 song to number one in the charts has ended in disappointment after it failed to break the top 40.
Last month, Formula 1 fan, George Caröe, of Marsh Benham, started a campaign on social networking websites Facebook and Twitter to get people to buy Fleetwood Mac’s Song, ‘The Chain’, to try and get it to number one in time for the first race of the season.
At its peak, the number of people ‘liking’ the Facebook page reached almost 5,800 people, but after the first race of the season in Bahrain was cancelled and some ‘technical difficulties’ last week, the song only managed to reach number 81 in the charts - albeit its highest ever entry in the UK charts.
Mr Caröe, a 20-year-old marketing management student at Southampton Solent University, said he was a little disappointed with the outcome, although he said it was always going to be difficult to compete with the Comic Relief songs last week.
He said problems with the song not appearing on iTunes last week also did not help the cause, but he said he was happy that he had run the campaign, which he said he enjoyed doing.
Mr Caröe thanked everyone for their support in the campaign, adding that he could be tempted to do something similar in a couple of years time.

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=16256

vivfox

03-24-2011, 08:16 PM

Fleetwood Mac Didn’t Add Stevie and Christine For Their Looks

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie certainly made Fleetwood Mac a more attractive group when they joined the band. But Christine says that wasn’t the reason they were chosen.

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR AUDIO OF CHRISTINE SPEAKING ON THIS SUBJECT
http://kool.radio.com/2011/03/21/fleetwood-mac-didnt-add-stevie-and-christine-for-their-looks/

TrueFaith77

03-26-2011, 07:38 AM

http://www.spinner.com/2010/11/03/ting-tings-second-album/

It's been well documented that digital music has altered the way fans consume songs and albums. For the Ting Tings, that change manifested itself on their second album, a diverse collection that draws influences from TLC, Nancy Sinatra and Fleetwood Mac.

"Traveling for two years, we listened to all our music on MP3 players because we couldn't carry our record collection around with us," the Ting Tings' Jules DeMartino tells Spinner. "We made a lot of our playlists up while traveling and instead of listening to complete albums of bands, we kind of tended to drag two of our favorite tracks in from someone like Fleetwood Mac."

From the second part of the video Interview:

"And we listened to Fleetwood Mac and Tusk and we've kind of got obsessed [with] by them. And it rubbed off..."

"I'd say there was one song cuz our first album there was one song that we got obsessed with that was "Once In a Lifetime by Talking Heads". I think this album was "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac." / "Played it to death."

So the new album will be TLC meets Fleetwood Mac meets Nancy Sinatra meets Pet Shop Boys meets The SOS Band (Jam-Lewis) -- aka MY kinda album!

vivfox

04-01-2011, 09:45 PM

2nd April 2011

It's all in how you say it ... CERA

This week we heard details about the new body responsible for the smooth implementation and running of the rebuild of Christchurch city.

The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority or CERA (pronounced Sara), is her name. I say 'her' as Sara is obviously a female name and what an absolutely stunning name it is, for several reasons.

Firstly, the 1979 Fleetwood Mac song of the same name is not only a pretty cool song but the lyrics are spookily reflective of some of our recent experiences following the earthquake in February. Here's an example at the beginning of the song: But now it's gone, it doesn't matter what for. So when you build your house, then call me home.

Later there's: And it was just like a great dark wind,within the wings of a storm. I think I had met my match. He was singin'. And undoing and undoing.Oooooooo, the laces, undoing the laces.

We all feel kind of 'undone', like those laces; some of us a lot and some us not quite so much and we just want to move on.

The second reason CERA (Sara) is a stunning name, is because we all know women run things very successfully in everyday life, so this is very appropriate.

The fact that CERA (Sara) is a body with a chick's name being primarily run by blokes, doesn't really matter because as they say behind every great man is a woman, so we still get the kudos anyway.

Imagine if it had been called BERT - 'Big Earthquake Recovery Team', or TERRENCE - 'The Earthquake Recovery Rescue Entity Not Covering Everything' - it just doesn't have the same ring.

Finally, we need a punchy publicity campaign to support the rebuild of our beautiful city and music often forms an important part of any successful promotion.

Just check out Bruce Springsteen's My Hometown on You Tube, set to earthquake pictures - I tear up whenever I watch it.

Whether it's a jingle or a full blown music video, (the latter I suggest should feature local celebs all wearing orange hi-vis jackets), an effective, relatable campaign would improve buy-in and support from locals.

Fleetwood Mac could do a gig in Hagley Park and if Sara (the song and/or the authority) is too slow, perhaps Fleetwood Mac could perform with Jefferson Starship and belt out We Built this City (on Rock 'n' Roll).

You can email Ali at [email protected]. Put Ali Jones in the subject line.

http://www.starcanterbury.co.nz/local/news/ali-jones-song-for-cera/3946716/

Fiver

04-07-2011, 10:15 AM

Must-see Friday show No. 1: Caitlin Rose

Although the U.K. has been swooning for her for some time now, Nashville's Caitlin Rose wasn't nationally known when we stumbled upon her debut album, Own Side Now. But expect her tour, which comes to Largo on Friday night, to change all that.

Back in early March, we said, "With the world-weariness of an old-timer, and a voice that sounds like a dusty pair of cowboy boots walking into a pink-hued sunset, Own Side Now is country music that will please all those folks pining for the Patsy Cline days." We haven't wavered.
Caitlin Rose
Caitlin Rose

Rose told us about hanging out in her hometown bars and hanging up her heartbreak. "I like comfortable bars. I've been going to the 5 Spot in East Nashville for a long time now, and there's always at least one person I know there. I like Dino's Bar & Grill on Gallatin for the jukebox and cheap beer, and I used to work at a place down the street called Bobby's Dairy Dip that's got a good drive-up burger-joint vibe and plays awesome music. Station Inn in the Gulch has been there a lot longer than all the yuppie **** they built up around it, and Robert's Western World on Broadway is the best of the honky-tonks for me."

L.A. WEEKLY: Your love songs are pretty lonely. What's the best way to get over the worst way a boy's ever broken your heart?

CAITLIN ROSE: Make a record. When I first recorded "New York," I had just been dumped by my high school sweetheart and was all kinds of tore up about it, but New York is a fine distraction when you're 18.

Best album to listen to when you're happy/sad?

My favorite album right now is Gerry Rafferty's City to City. Anywhere, anytime, any feeling.

The three things you can't do without in the studio are:

1. Jeremy Fetzer and the way he plays his Telecaster

2. Trashy pulp novel (or trashy Fleetwood Mac tell-all)

3. Doritos

What should a boy know about a Southern girl?

A real Southern girl will smile at people even if they're not smiling back.

http://www.laweekly.com/2011-04-07/music/page-two-honky-tonk-woman/

vivfox

04-08-2011, 01:46 PM

Cover Story: Fleetwood Mac
Mar 02, 2009 |

Fleetwood Mac
Give The People What They Want

Imagine the headlines if Fleetwood Mac recorded Rumours in 2009 instead of the mid-’70s. People magazine, Us Weekly, and other supermarket litter would have a field day, as would the paparazzi waiting to catch a glimpse of a band on the verge of destruction.

Appearing: March 5th and 6th at Allstate Arena in Rosemont.
A Britney Spears meltdown barely holds a candle to the oft- recited tale of the band’s two couples breaking up and funneling all the pain, doubt, and bitterness into 11 perfect songs. Add snow-capped mountains of blow to the mix to guarantee a spike in newsstand sales.

“We would have been eaten alive, I’m sure,” guitarist Lindsey Buckingham guesses from home in Los Angeles. “Thank God we didn’t have the kind of tabloidism that exists today.”

Three decades after releasing and surviving Rumours, Fleetwood Mac hits the road with its most successful and well-known lineup in tow for a large-scale tour. Original members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, rock goddess Stevie Nicks, and the thinking-man’s guitar hero Buckingham are all along for the ride (Christine McVie hung up her honeyed vocals after 1997’s The Dancereunion). The foursome last dusted off the Fleetwood Mac tunes five years ago when touring behind Say You Will, but this time the band comes armed with the hits and only the hits – a big departure.

“This is the first tour we’ve ever done where we’re really concentrating on giving all the stuff we feel people would really love to hear because we’ve always toured with a brand-new album. This is the only time we have never done that,” Fleetwood admits, hours before meeting the crew for rehearsal in Los Angeles. “We haven’t been going ’round playing all our lovely songs for 15 years, which a lot of bands do.”

When Buckingham put up the do-not-disturb sign after the last tour to focus on his solo work (2006’s Under The Skin and 2008’s Gift Of Screws), the band took a break with the intent of gathering again at some point to discuss new material.

“There was this implication that the band would reconvene and start doing something and it did indeed begin with the perception that we would go in and make an album first and then start touring,” Buckingham explains. “Somewhere along the line that got inverted and we found ourselves rehearsing first. It wasn’t necessarily my game plan, but a part of what I’m doing this time around is approaching this as much from the standpoint of thinking about everyone’s comfort level.”

Plus, it’s a great way for the longtime friends/former lovers/thorns-in-each-others’ sides to spend time together in a low-pressure situation. “In a way, it’s kinda cool. It kinda frees us up to go out there and just hang out and enjoy each other’s company and not have a particular musical agenda going out there,” Buckingham reasons. “The fact that we are coming out with a tour where there is no agenda to redefine ourselves musically – it kind of gives us that freedom to redefine ourselves a little bit emotionally and personally.”

When these varied personalities converge, drama ultimately follows. According to Buckingham, Nicks left the last tour muttering that she’d never work with him again (oh, how things change), which Buckingham chalks up to the absence of Christine, normally Nicks’ “emotional back-up onstage,” and unresolved issues from years past “that no one ever got closure on.”

On the other hand, Fleetwood characterizes the last tour as “incredibly productive and successful. The Say You Will tour was a happy tour,” Fleetwood says. “We had a good time doing it.”

Always the optimist, Fleetwood is the yin to Buckingham’s brooding yang when it comes to putting a finger on the emotional pulse of the band. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, but both can agree the current atmosphere remains affable. “I’d say all the signs are good,” Buckingham forecasts. “I think we’re gonna have a good time out there.”

“It’s always fun when we get back together,” Fleetwood says. “It’s like that old getting-back-on-a-bike thing that you sometimes forget. You forget how good that chemistry is when it’s all locked in. There is something that happens when these people get together and make music. You sort of, in retrospect, in real time look at yourselves in this framework called Fleetwood Mac and you really quietly pay tribute to how special that is. And you spend three, four years apart not doing that – when you do come back in the first week of rehearsal, there’s lots of glances across the stage. You can’t even second guess it. It just consumes you. And you’re never really going to fully analyze it, you just end up totally accepting it and you go, ‘That’s the real ****.’ When we’re all together, this is what happens. And when we’re not together, lots of great things happen for all of us, like I said, Stevie has a very successful [solo career], but still, when she comes back to Fleetwood Mac and we all do, it’s amazing.”

There’s no doubt otherworldly forces are at work when this bunch share a stage. You Tube “Silver Springs” from The Dance concert special MTV first aired in ‘97 and behold how the last minute encapsulates the tangible passion coursing through Nicks and Buckingham. When they lock eyes and sing, “I’ll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you,” showmanship gets thrown out in deference to standing face-to-face with a musical soulmate dating all the way back to high school.

Nicks has played duet partner with good friends Tom Petty and Don Henley to proven success, but when Buckingham enters the fold, the intertwining of these two voices elicits a response on par with a first kiss – a mix of excitement, nausea, and a concrete change in body temperature.

It’s no surprise, then, why Buckingham continues to feel a need to participate in this endeavor – even when the same buttons pushed at age 27 manage to still irk the bejesus out of everyone as they approach the AARP years. “I’ve known [Stevie] since I was like 16, so I don’t want Stevie and myself to be so distant from each other in any way,” Buckingham reveals. “I’m doing it because I think I’m going to learn something from it. I think that there’s a road left to be walked with this group of people that needs to be approached in a certain way. I want to see us in a place where we can be friends and enjoy each other and dignify how we got started.”

On the opposite side of the spectrum, Fleetwood and John McVie also share a history, dating back to John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Former Rolling Stone photographer Mark Seliger once dressed the powerhouse rhythm section as a bride and groom for an eerily prophetic photo spread. Most marriages stop short of the 40-year mark – wedded bliss for both Fleetwood and McVie failed to yield such milestone anniversaries – yet their friendship and professional relationship continues to endure.

- Janine Schaults

http://illinoisentertainer.com/2009/03/cover-story-fleetwood-mac/comment-page-1/

vivfox

04-10-2011, 10:55 PM

THE NAME GAME: Mick Fleetwood, the moving force of Fleetwood Mac who also is a Maui resident, is moving along with plans to take over the former Planet Hollywood site on Front Street in Lahaina. Fleetwood's, a restaurant, bar and music space, would further deepen his Valley Isle roots. Does he know there's also an ex-Planet space in Waikiki? ...

http://www.staradvertiser.com/columnists/showbiz/20110410_momoa_hits_hbo_in_the_buff_before_buffing_out_for_conan.html

michelej1

04-20-2011, 10:42 PM

Writer discusses conversation with bluesman Hammond Gamble in this excerpt from article:

http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/local/news/editorial-50th-party-reminder-of-foibles/3949062/

I informed him that I had rung him for a quote last year on supporting Fleetwood Mac back in 1980, to include in my "Worst Ever Concert" column. It ended up on Stevie Nicks' website.

The gist of his response this time was that he and his bandmates thought they were living the ultimate Rock lifestyle, but realised they were babes in the woods on encountering the Mac.

As the pinot gris, pinot noir and chardonnay worked its magic - incongruously there was Tui also - tongues loosened.

vivfox

05-04-2011, 10:13 PM

Google Trends Face-Off: iMac Vs. Fleetwood Mac

Today is a banner day in the world of things called "Mac": The new 21.5-inch iMac just hit stores, stirring Apple fanatics into near frenzy. Tech blogs are already breaking down the new features and dissecting every which way the iMac compares to similar computers.

On the other side of the blogosphere, "Glee" fans (aka "Gleeks") are hunting down all the information they can on Fleetwood Mac. The folk-inflected British-American rock collective that rose to fame in the '70s is an odd object of obsession among today's youth, so why the sudden interest in your dad's favorite band? Could have something to do with the fact that all of the songs featured on last night's episode of "Glee" were Fleetwood Mac covers.

We can't possibly tell you anything about the new iMac that isn't already posted on your nerdy cousin's blog. And we don't have any insight on Fleetwood Mac that you can't ask your still-a-stoner-after-50 aunt. However, we can pit these burgeoning Google trends against each other to see who will reign SEO supreme!

+ iMac–-Features quad-core Intel Core i5 processors
+ Fleetwood Mac–-Now features four core members

+ iMac--Up to 1.7 times faster that past models
+ Fleetwood Mac–-Members move 1.7 times slower each passing day

+ iMac–-Includes one or two Thunderbolt ports
+ Fleetwood Mac–-Frightened by technology and AC/DC's "Thunderstuck"

+ iMac–-By 10 a.m. today, already has 294 positive ratings on MacRumors.com
+ Fleetwood Mac–-Still telling grandkids about the good reviews of 1977's Rumors

+ iMac–-Apple says, "The most powerful graphics seen in an all-in-one desktop."
+ Fleetwood Mac–-Former member Peter Green now has to work at a customer service desk.

+ iMac–-Includes a new FaceTime HD camera
+ Fleetwood Mac–-Stevie Nicks claims, "I've never had a face-lift."

http://clutch.mtv.com/2011/05/04/fleetwood-mac-glee-imac/

vivfox

06-10-2011, 08:14 PM

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
It's New to Me: Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac (1975)

I think I don't cop to my actual level of ignorance often enough on this blog. The truth is that I'm ignorant of most everything, including the chronology and lineups of the great Fleetwood Mac. A while back, I was introduced to Tusk, their too-arty, too-ambitious double-album follow-up to their biggest record, 1977's Rumours. I thought it might be one of the most perfect albums I'd heard, with a great mix of songwriting and musicianship, with an unearthly weirdness about it that can only come from doing craploads of cocaine. For me, the record stood alone, and I didn't feel any need to educate myself on how it fit into the band's larger oeuvre (I love using that word). But now I've ruined it by buying the band's 1975 eponymous record, which does nothing BUT bring questions to mind about where it comes from and why it is the way it is, forcing me to do a little research.

So Fleetwood Mac is actually the band's second eponymous album - the band's first album in 1968 was also called Fleetwood Mac, the beginning of the band's first incarnation with frontman Peter Green. The band's second well-known lineup featured guitarist Bob Welch, but he dropped out of the band by 1975 - this is when Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the band, prompting a second self-titled record to emphasize that the band was "rebooting" itself. This is important context for this album because it does a lot to explain how the record sounds and why. The songwriting duties on the record are split between Buckingham, Nicks, and Christine McVie - the new implants were suddenly two-thirds of the band's creative input.

As a result, Fleetwood Mac is glossy but tentative-sounding. McVie's songs have an unadventurous, middle-of-the-road feel to them, even though "Over My Head" and "Say You Love Me" are undeniably poppy. Nicks' songs are arguably the most confident-sounding and less reliant on synergy with the rest of the band, particularly in the case of "Landslide" (a song I'd like a lot if the Smashing Pumpkins cover hadn't ruined it for me). The most disappointing thing about Fleetwood Mac for me is that Lindsey Buckingham's personality (such a big part of what I loved about Tusk) is nowhere to be found. His contributions to the album are fairly slight - "World Turning" is an unsuccessful attempt at tough-sounding rock, and the paranoid "I'm So Afraid" is an embryonic version of the weirdness that would come out of him later on. My favorite thing on the album is Buckingham's opening track, "Monday Morning", probably because it sounds the closest to a song that could have been on Tusk.

http://wiresandwaves.com/2011/06/its-new-to-me-fleetwood-mac-by.html

Spikey

06-10-2011, 08:18 PM

A super short one, heard this on Sirius Radio last night after "Seven Wonders" was played:

"There you have it, a lost 80's hit from the 'Big Mac'. A Christine McVie song, nice upbeat tune."

vivfox

06-11-2011, 11:24 AM

A super short one, heard this on Sirius Radio last night after "Seven Wonders" was played:

"There you have it, a lost 80's hit from the 'Big Mac'. A Christine McVie song, nice upbeat tune."

It pays to be knowledgable.:)

Spikey

06-11-2011, 08:48 PM

Yeah, one of the guys formerly of radio too, Mark Goodman, I was surprised..

I don't know if I consider SW an upbeat tune either. What do you think Viv?

PenguinHead

06-11-2011, 09:50 PM

vivfox

06-12-2011, 09:16 AM

Yeah, one of the guys formerly of radio too, Mark Goodman, I was surprised..

I don't know if I consider SW an upbeat tune either. What do you think Viv?

Are you talking about Mark Goodman of MTV fame? If so I can't effing believe it on the screwup!!!

Yes, I would say that 7 Wonders is an upbeat song.

Spikey

06-12-2011, 09:51 AM

Yes, that Mark Goodman, it's him, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn and a couple of other hot 80's radio/MTV people on channel "80's on 8".

I guess I'm mixed about 7W. i love the song, but it's, like a lot of SN songs to me, a positive melody but a sadder and maybe more longing (albeit hopeful) lyric.

vivfox

06-14-2011, 11:51 AM

The Rock's Backpages Rewind: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

The excellent John Swenson was right on the money in his review of F. Mac's gazillion-shifting Rumours, as published in Rolling Stone on 21 April, 1977--Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages.

Rock and roll has this bad habit of being unpredictable. You never can tell when a band will undergo that alchemic transmigration from lead to gold. The medium of transformation is almost always a hit single, but such turnarounds often swamp a band in notoriety it can't live up to..

But in Fleetwood Mac's case the departure of guitarist Bob Welch - who'd reduced the band to recutting pointless and pretentious versions of old standards - amounted to the biggest break they ever had. With that and the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac suddenly became a California pop group; instead of laborious blues/rock jams they started turning out bright little three-minute singles with a hook in every chorus..

Christine McVie now leads a classic vocal group working out of the oldest popular tradition, love songs. Vocal harmonies are the meat and potatoes of California's pop identity, and Fleetwood Mac is now one of the genre's main proponents, with three lead singers of comparable range. Taken individually, only McVie's voice has much character, but she anchors their vocal arrangements, since Nicks' low range and Buckingham's high range approximate here dulcet, evenhanded timbre..

Despite the interminable delay in finishing the record, Rumours proves that the success of Fleetwood Mac was no fluke. Christine McVie sounds particularly vital on 'You Make Loving Fun,' which works for the same reason 'Over My Head' was a smash. The formula is vintage Byrds: Christine sings the verse simply, with sparse instrumental background, and the chorus comes on like an angelic choir - high harmonies soaring behind her with 12-string electric guitar counterpoint ringing against the vocals..

The Byrds touch is Lindsey Buckingham's province, and it's used most successfully on the single, 'Go Your Own Way,' which employs acoustic guitar backing throughout, with best effect of the choruses. Mick Fleetwood's drumming adds a new dimension to this style. Fleetwood is swinging away, but not in the fluid roll pattern most rock drummers use. Instead of pushing the rhythm (Buckingham's acoustic guitar and John McVie's bass playing take care of that), he's punctuating it, playing against the grain. A touch like that can turn a good song into a classic..

Buckingham's contribution is the major surprise, since it appeared at first that Nicks was the stronger half of the team. But Nicks has nothing on Rumours to compare with 'Rhiannon,' her smash from the last album. 'Dreams' is a nice but fairly lightweight tune, and her nasal singing is the only weak vocal on the record. 'I Don't Want to Know', which is pure post-Buffalo Springfield country-rock formula, could easily be confused with any number of Richie Furay songs..

Buckingham's other two songs here are almost as good as 'Go Your Own Way.' 'Second Hand News', ostensibly about the breakup of his relationship with Nicks, is anything but morose, and completely outdoes the Eagles in the kiss-off genre. Again the chunking acoustic guitar rhythm carries the song to a joyful chorus that turns average voices into timeless pop harmony. It may be gloss, but it's the best gloss to come along in a long time. 'Never Going Back Again,' the prettiest thing on the album, is just acoustic picking against a delightful vocal that once again belies the bad-news subject matter..

Fleetwood Mac's change from British blues to California folk-rock is not as outlandish as some might think. The early '60s blues scene in England had as much to do with rural American folk music as the urban blues sound, which was predominantly a guitarist's passion anyway. Christine McVie is much closer to a singer like Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny than to any of England's blues shouters. Without altering her basic sensibility McVie moves easily into the thematic trappings of the California rock myth. She's always written love songs, and sings here ballads with halting emotion. 'Songbird,' her solo keyboard spot on Rumours, is elevated by its context from what would have been referred to as a devotional blues into a pantheistic celebration of love and nature..

So Fleetwood Mac has finally realized the apotheosis of that early-'60s blues crusade to get back to the roots. It's just that it took a couple of Californians and a few lessons from the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Eagles to get there..

http://new.ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/rocksbackpages/18583/the-rocks-backpages-rewind-fleetwood-macs-rumours/

vivfox

06-15-2011, 11:01 PM

Fleetwood Mac saw mad success in the 1970s and 1980s with “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” and “Hold Me,” but after recording 1987’s Tango in the Night, the band splintered. In 1997, Fleetwood Mac returned with a live album, The Dance. Mac was back, and with baby boomers willing to pay, the band was right on time. A successful arena tour followed, which kept Mac on the road throughout much of 1997. The band came back in 2009, sans Christine McVie, with the Unleashed Tour. Stevie Nicks made headlines in May when she announced Mac would tour in 2012 and release new material, and to say the upcoming reunion is one of the most anticipated of the decade is far from a hyperbole.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/reunited-0615-2011/

michelej1

07-15-2011, 08:38 PM

Excerpt from an interview with Nick Jonas, Time Out Chicago Kids
http://timeoutchicagokids.com/things-to-do/hipsqueak-blog/49617/nick-jonas-interview

TOCK: You seem like a classic rock kind of guy, who is your favorite band from the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s?

NJ: Ohh [laughs] that’s a tough one, especially when you break it down like that. I’ll just tell you some of my favorite bands. I’d say the Beetles are one of my favorite bands, the Bee Gees, and Fleetwood Mac is also one of my favorite bands of all time.

mezzoforte

07-15-2011, 09:06 PM

michelej1

07-20-2011, 11:19 PM

Excerpt from an article mocking themed headphones and thinking of 10 new ones that could be manufactured:

http://blog.laptopmag.com/top-10-outrageously-themed-headphones-of-the-future

Fleetwood Mac Dreamphones – These rugged headphones don’t sound that great, but their manufacturer guarantees they’ll last over 40 years. Of course, they break apart once every couple of years, but an inexpensive kit will always snap them back together. Includes special tambourine-boost mode.

vivfox

07-28-2011, 07:58 AM

As the drummer for now-defunct Australian rock band The Saints Iain Shedden spent many late nights in the spotlight, rubbing shoulders with the stars. These days, as a music writer and critic for The Australian newspaper, he’s still rubbing shoulders with the stars – but it doesn’t always go as planned.

A few years ago he interviewed Fleetwood Mac members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

“The two of them were sitting together on a sofa in a Sydney hotel,” Iain said. “I knew they had a fiery relationship: the album Rumours was about their break up. They seemed fine and were chatting away, when Lindsey said something about which month it was when he left the band. Stevie said ‘No, that’s not right’ and it set them off. For 10 minutes, the two of them were hoeing into each other while I waited for it to subside. Eventually she said ‘Sorry, we’d forgotten about you’.

“Clearly it had brought up a lot of bad stuff that had been simmering for a while. You don’t get those moments very often and it’s a nice bit of colour that’s outside of the ordinary interview that you can use, as long as it’s not defamatory.”

http://www.echonews.com.au/story/2011/07/28/fire-and-ice-passion-makes-the-word-go-round/

vivfox

08-12-2011, 08:30 PM

KDKB-FM was in its infancy when Fleetwood Mac dropped by the Mesa studio to introduce its newest members, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

Dennis McBroom, an on-air personality at the time, recalls the scene:

"This was when Lindsey and Stevie were still known as Buckingham Nicks. And until Tucson picked it up later, we were the only station in Arizona that played their music.

"So it's Friday and I'm coming in to do a show. . . . In the hall, I see John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. . . . They wanted us to listen to their new album, entitled 'Fleetwood Mac.' Of course, it went on air that night, before it was released - before anyone else in the country could hear it.

"They brought it to us because they knew KDKB would not only be interested, but that we would play it Side A, Side B, track-to-track, all the way through, right now."

That was 1975, when the rock station (93.3) was in only its fourth year.

This month marks its 40th anniversary.

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/2011/08/11/20110811kdkb-40th-anniversary-rocks.html

Moz

08-26-2011, 12:21 AM

Lindsey Buckingham hints at a possible Fleetwood Mac tour, album in near future
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/lindsey-buckingham-hints-at-a-possible-fleetwood-mac-tour-album-in-near-future-128429308.html

Fleetwood Mac could be back on the road soon.
Lindsey Buckingham says the band is considering another tour and even recording a new album in the near future.
The guitarist, songwriter and producer says there have been "a lot of rumblings" about another Fleetwood Mac tour, but that nothing is on the books yet.

Moz

09-03-2011, 11:05 PM

Can I post ebay links in here?

Giant Tusk promo poster (48" x 48") (http://www.ebay.ca/itm/FLEETWOOD-MAC-1979-TUSK-JUMBO-PROMO-POSTER-/310304817778?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483f9bc272#ht_1791wt_905) :eek: 3 in stock!

PastelGravel

09-05-2011, 11:09 PM

OK so I can't for the life of me figure out how to post this picture...but go to this http://www.mendelsonarchives.com/John-McVie.htm link. It's GOLD! Oh John :distress::nod:

PastelGravel

09-17-2011, 11:34 PM

I don't think I've ever seem this one before...

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5700000/Fleetwood-Mac-fleetwood-mac-5793522-450-684.jpg

Spikey

09-18-2011, 01:16 PM

Wow.. what era is that from, 1976 maybe?

PastelGravel

09-18-2011, 02:56 PM

Yeah, somewhere in that time period. Love their outfits!

Sanne2

09-19-2011, 05:35 AM

Wow.. what era is that from, 1976 maybe?

Early 1975, the first promos including Stevie and Lindsey.

michelej1

09-28-2011, 11:06 AM

A Shoreline Dream talks about covering FM in Colorado Daily:

Q: Is there any particular reason you covered "The Chain"?

A: We never even thought about doing a cover. ... I think at the time I was listening to Fleetwood Mac for some reason. Those guys are cool because ... they were trying to do something huge with that sound. They had multiple singers and they had this really big presence. So it was like, what would happen if we did that? Once again, it was just a challenge that we gave ourselves. It's something we wanted to give its own life to, but we wanted to pay homage to the original idea.

Read more: http://www.coloradodaily.com/music-news/ci_18986306?source=most_viewed#ixzz1ZGQ6AW3V
Coloradodaily.com

michelej1

10-03-2011, 10:35 AM

Recorded in MIAMI
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2011/10/five_classic_tunes_you_didnt_know_were_recorded_in_miami.php
From the Miami New Times

Lists
Five Classic Tunes You Didn't Know Were Recorded in Miami

By Sean Levisman Mon., Oct. 3 2011 at 8:00 AM Categories: Lists

#3 It's no surprise Fleetwood Mac's landmark album Rumours was recorded in Miami, considering the Scarface-style mountains of cocaine the band members were snorting right on the mixing console during each session. The LP remains a universal favorite after four decades, and its multi-platinum certification was another major notch on Criteria Studios' belt.

Sanne2

10-15-2011, 08:21 AM

ROCKTOBER: I Want My MTV by Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum:
Fleetwood Mac, “Hold Me” (1982)"
Making a video in the desert is sweaty and difficult, especially with a band that can’t stand one another: “It was so hot, and we weren’t getting along,” Stevie Nicks recalls. “Hold Me” is like a sun-baked hallucination, with sand dunes, guitars, Magritte paintings, Nicks in five-inch platform heels, and an obligatory, early-1980s slow-motion shot of breaking glass. Director Steve Barron: “That wasn’t a good video.” Producer Simon Fields: “John McVie was drunk and tried to punch me. It was a [expletive] nightmare, a horrendous day in the desert.”
http://maryinhb.blogspot.com/2011/10/rocktober-i-want-my-mtv-by-craig-marks.html

Blueletter18

10-15-2011, 10:23 AM

Yeah, I love the Hold Me video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWdgTraidlU

michelej1

10-15-2011, 01:36 PM

“John McVie was drunk and tried to punch me. It was a [expletive] nightmare, a horrendous day in the desert.”

I wonder why John wanted to punch him. I wonder if John has ever tried to punch Lindsey. We've never heard that. It surprised me in 1997 when Stevie said that they couldn't throw John against a wall and make him stop drinking. By 1997, I thought they had all wrestled their demons into submission, more or less.

Michele

vivfox

10-26-2011, 09:30 PM

On this day, Roctober 26, 1979 Fleetwood Mac embarked on their TUSK TOUR in Pocatello, Idaho.

vivfox

10-28-2011, 09:35 PM

A box of battered love songs

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown married Shiraz, an academic, in London in 1972 and they divorced in 1990. She lives in London with her second husband, Colin.
We were both young exiles from Uganda when we wed. Imagine that — having to settle into a new land and new marriage. It made us intensely close and completely reliant on each other.

Then after 20 years it was over. He was in such a hurry to leave and to move in with his lover that he left behind our precious vinyl collection.
Really, it was the soundtrack to our marriage — sweet moments, small tragedies, the birth of our boy.

I listen to the records sometimes, now bumpy and scratched, and remember how he taught me to carefully wipe each before putting it on the turntable. He bought me all the Fleetwood Mac LPs.

On one of the covers he drew a heart and a question mark — a Valentine’s Day present. When I was pregnant, the girl’s name we chose was ‘Rhiannon’, the title of a song by Stevie Nicks, one of the lead vocalists in the band. I had a bonnie son for whom we had no pop song name. Luckily for him.

The break-up and betrayal was agonising, the divorce bitter, and we have not spoken for years. I remarried a tender, handsome Englishman, had a daughter, rebuilt my life. But I will never forget my first husband and father of my firstborn.

You can’t erase old love, it squats in the heart. My 18-year-old daughter now listens to Fleetwood Mac and sometimes I sing along and my eyes still well up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2054456/From-ashes-marriages-seven-survivors-reveal-salvaged-divorces.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

michelej1

11-08-2011, 02:23 PM

Wilderness of Manitoba, excerpt from interview with The Temple News

http://temple-news.com/2011/11/07/street-sounds-9/

TTN: If you could go on tour with any musician, dead or alive, who would it be?

SB: I would love to go on tour with Fleetwood Mac in the ‘70s. I think that would be a crazy party––that would be unreal.

michelej1

11-08-2011, 11:00 PM

[Excerpt from an article in The Daily Free Press about vinyl records]

http://dailyfreepress.com/2011/11/08/for-the-record/

“A lot of stuff that we couldn’t get rid of 15 years ago is coming full circle, such as the band The Sticks,” Bill said. “Fleetwood Mac album[s] also flies out of here. A lot of kids with tattoos and piercings are buying Fleetwood Mac.”

michelej1

11-10-2011, 12:21 PM

[No Fleetwood Mac won't be bringing in $150 per ticket in 2020 because some of them won't be here by then]
http://www.fastcompany.com/1794113/pricing-live-music-to-lure-tomorrows-fans
BY FC Expert Blogger Jim McCarthyToday

Live Music Needs a Tune Up To Entice the Audiences of Tomorrow

Everybody has a concert story. Whether it’s lifting Wayne Coyne aloft in his human-sized gerbil ball at a Flaming Lips show, camping out all night for Springsteen tickets, or being hypnotized by Skrillex’s beats, you’ve probably got a story, too.

Though individuals' narratives about their concert experiences remain in many ways unchanged, the concert industry itself has evolved over the past 10 or 15 years, because now, it's overtaking album and record sales (digital or otherwise) as the primary source of revenue for big names in the music industry.

In the past, concerts were little more than promotional appearances for record, tape, or CD sales. Popular artists blew into town, played one underpriced show, which guaranteed a sellout, and created a vacuum of envy among those who couldn’t go. That, in turn, made the unfortunate masses go out and buy those little pieces of plastic or vinyl that enabled them to at least hear their heroes, since they hadn’t been lucky enough to see them in the flesh.

But it’s not like that anymore. Which makes marketing and pricing concerts right critical to the health of the music business overall.

In the early 2000s, people stopped buying those previously lucrative little pieces of plastic and vinyl, or at least, much less than they used to. From 1999 to 2009, sales of recordings in the United States dropped from a little more than $14 billion to just over $6 billion.

Meanwhile, the concert business grew, according to this Live Nation investor presentation and Pollstar data, from about $1.5 billion in 1999 to almost $5 billion in 2009. Numbers on this vary from source to source, but the general trend of the 2000′s is clear: recordings plummeted and concerts soared.

This is what I’ve been telling people for years, and it’s attributable to two different but related things: recordings are so cheap to make now that they’re hardly worth paying for, and people place a higher and higher value on authentic live interaction than ever before. I’ve often told the story of how I paid the same amount of money for a Bruce Springsteen album as I did for a Bruce Springsteen concert ticket in 1985. Today, the concert ticket would cost many times more than the recording, if I chose (as a good citizen) not to steal it.

Long term, concerts along with all other forms of live entertainment have a bright future--but the concert business as it’s currently done isn’t going to cut it.

Over the past few years, ticket prices rose for the reasons I mentioned above--and rightfully so: the live product is the premium product and it had traditionally been underpriced. But the pendulum swung too far in the overpriced direction, especially in concerts, as the acts who were touring stayed pretty much the same.

As late as 2008, the top 10 touring acts were positively jurassic, with an average career launch year of 1986. That’s Hasselhoff in Knight Rider old, not even Hasselhoff in BayWatch old. In 2010, that led to a 15% drop in concert sales, which in turn fueled much wailing and teeth-gnashing. Although 2011 has picked up some of the losses of last year, there’s still a widespread feeling that concerts aren’t on a steady footing.

Why should things feel so shaky when the long-term trend is pointing the right way? Because the business model of the first decade of this century is dying, because it’s a lousy business model. Big bucks, big venues, big (old) acts, and high stakes is a loser. Do you really think Fleetwood Mac is going to be pulling down $150 a ticket in 2020?

Instead, the concert business needs to rethink itself to capture the favorable long-term shift of consumers wanting to see the live shows.

To do this, the business needs to do at least these three things:

First, the business needs to get better at audience development.

Let’s say that you are the manager of a band. You’ve got at least some faithful fans, and then you’ve got people who don’t care about your band. You should run your business in a way that not only pleases the faithful, but increases the number of the faithful. Running a Super Bowl ad for an upcoming performance might sell a few tickets, but the people who buy probably won’t buy again. Likewise, if your marketing is focused only on the guys and gals who already stand in line on a cold night to see you, you’re probably not in for much growth there either. Delight and honor the faithful every day, but then look for places where you’re likely to find more people like them and then reach those people with your work.

Fans of a similar band? People who like skateboarding, are between the ages of 18 and 30 and live in the three markets where most of your fans live? Friends of your current fans? All good places to start, but the point is to look for the next ring of faithful fans who just haven’t found you yet. Today, concert folks seem to act as though audience development happens automatically. They shouldn't.

Second, live entertainment venues and promoters have to get much better at yield management.

This is simply the idea that you’ve got to get productivity out of your venues. Airlines, hotels, telecommunication companies, public transportation systems all use yield management, because they have a resource that costs the same to operate (hotel room, airplane, city bus, telephone line) no matter how many people use it. The point is to get people using it as much as possible. In live entertainment, this means getting as much out of each “seat” in a venue as possible.

It’s simple to calculate: just take the total revenue from a given show (or run of shows or tour) and then divide it by the number of "seats" that could have been sold. (It doesn’t have to be literal seats; just the number of admissions that could have been sold at maximum.)

Say there’s a show in a 1000-seat auditorium, and 600 seats were sold at $50 each. That's $30,000 in ticket sales, divided by 1000 seats, leading to a $30 revenue per seat. Perhaps a venue could make more money on the ticket, so let’s imagine raising the price to $60 and selling 425 tickets. Is this better?

To find out, just calculate the revenue per seat: $60 x 425 is $25,500. That makes the Revenue Per Seat $25.50, so the price increase didn’t help.

The point is that you can tweak the price table to offer different prices so that you’re getting the best revenue per seat possible. Raise? Lower? Offer more varied prices? Only revenue per seat can tell you for sure if you’re getting it right--but almost no one in the industry uses this metric, though they could and should.

Third, get better at "curating."

How sad is it that U2 is the number one touring band in 2011?

Bing Crosby wasn’t the top tour when I was in high school in the late '80s, but that’s the equivalent. Yes, U2 is great (so was Bing, for what it's worth), but people in the concert biz have to find a way to get people interested in a newer, fresher, more varied group of acts if they want to keep the business alive.

Venues bid for the same acts, many of whom are overpriced based on success 10, 20, or even 30 years ago. It’s not sustainable or even particularly healthy.

Venues that can choose what acts play in their buildings have an opportunity to connect directly to an audience. If they’re finding and choosing something distinctive, high-quality, and fun and wrapping it in a great concert-going experience, those venues will succeed and get people coming back just to see what’s happening next. It works for theatres, sports teams, and performing arts. It can work for concerts too, but it takes an eye for something special and a willingness to take some risks along the way.

And somebody with a genius eye for the right acts and the right customer experience stands to get rich and famous figuring it out.

If you’re in or want to be in the concert biz, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is that if you want to keep doing things the way they’ve been done for the last decade or so, you’d better hope Congress finds a way to save Social Security. The good news is that the fundamental desire of consumers to go to live events, including different and better music-driven events, is greater than ever, and ripe for change.

vivfox

11-14-2011, 12:52 AM

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado — The Vilar Performing Arts Center's 14th season kicks off on Wednesday with a live performance of Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning “Rumours” album, note for note and cut for cut, by rock 'n' roll band Classic Albums Live.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20111113/AE/111119942/1078&ParentProfile=1062

vivfox

11-15-2011, 12:13 PM

Max Sound is becoming known to the recording industry as the company with a mission to change how we hear music. "We compromised the Art for Convenience with the introduction of compressed sound for all audio and streaming devices," said Grammy nominee Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, while visiting the Max Sound Studio in Santa Monica, California.

"Music is about Expression NOT Compression, and on February 12, 2012 all 12,000 attendees at the biggest night of the Recording Academy will be able to learn about and experience the Max Sound technology for themselves," said John Blaisure, CEO of Max Sound.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/max-sound-announced-today-that-it-will-demonstrate-to-the-music-academy-how-hearing-is-believing-on-grammy-night-2011-11-15

michelej1

11-15-2011, 10:30 PM

Interview with Keith Olsen, but he only mentions FM in passing.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/keith_olsen_i_dont_think_drugs_ever_did_a_great_recording.html

vivfox

11-17-2011, 11:09 AM

Gladwell told The Atlantic "the speech in question was about the history of the rock band Fleetwood Mac," but apparently at least one small business owner found it inspiring.
"Malcolm Gladwell has been a source of inspiration for me and my business for many years. I was thrilled that Bank of America provided the opportunity for me to hear his perspective on how hard work leads to business success," said Tom Kristof, founder of the Sozo Center for Assisted Living and Advancement in Gainesville, Texas in Bank of America's press release.
This is all a bit strange, but if Bank of America thinks it worth promoting, that's their business.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11313755/1/bank-of-americas-small-business-spin.html

MacShadowsBall

11-24-2011, 07:06 PM

Don't know if we have any OLTL fans here, but they referenced Fleetwood Mac on Tuesday's episode. :cool:

Sleazy producer Rick Powers wants Starr Manning's soon-to-be-started music career filled with drama and angst.

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vivfox

11-24-2011, 11:49 PM

Don't know if we have any OLTL fans here, but they referenced Fleetwood Mac on Tuesday's episode. :cool:

It's my favorite show. I taped it but haven't watched this yet. Thanks for the heads up.:)

michelej1

11-25-2011, 01:47 PM

Excerpt of GQ Interview with Ryan Policky of Shoreline Dream
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-11/24/a-shoreline-dream-interview

How did you end up covering "The Chain"?

"The Chain" was a challenge. It was something to make us think outside of our own songwriting. It just made sense to do a Fleetwood Mac song - they always sounded huge. Their songwriting was top notch, and I personally feel that they could have written a million hits at the time if they had the energy to make it happen. They were huge in tonal qualities at a time that was stagnant in production style. They had such a long history and the fact they turned from this amazing Peter Green lead blues outfit to this anthemic pop rock entity is in itself totally unique.

michelej1

11-25-2011, 01:49 PM

From a blog, Zhisou 11-25-11

http://zhisou.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/not-as-clever-as-id-like-to-be/

I am not made of stone. I can appreciate great art. I got a rush of goose-pimples at the brush stroke on a painting in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, a golden smear of pain on the front-wheel of a wagon. I could see the human hand in the movement of the brush, like if you listen to the opening chords of Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well” with headphones, you don’t just hear the guitar; you hear the guitarist. I cried like a girl at Johnny Cash’s version of “One” for weeks until I was able to hold myself together. It’s goose-pimply good.

vivfox

11-30-2011, 12:12 PM

http://www.dailycamera.com/music/ci_19435440

Barry Fey, famed concert promoter, takes readers through his 'Backstage Past'
Daily Camera
By Clay Evans, Camera Staff Writer Barry Fey, concert promoter, faces 61500 rock n roll fans at the University of Colorado s Folsom Field on May 1, 1977 when Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seeger, Firefall and John Sebastian played the Boulder stadium. ...

michelej1

11-30-2011, 12:51 PM

http://punkturns30.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-does-stevie-nicks-have-to-do-with.html

What does Stevie Nicks have to do with punk rock? Well, nothing, really. But she's totally gonna help me raise money to put together my coffee table book of images from my traveling photo exhibit, Unguarded Moments: Backstage and Beyond.

Stevie and the rest of the Rumours line up of Fleetwood Mac (I was rather fond of the original Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer line-up myself), aside from being world renown hitmakers, are among the musicians I have photographed in my lifetime and the photos of the first Buckingham-Nicks performances with Fleetwood Mac are an intrinsic part of my life in the Central Coast beach suburb that informed my perspective.

You will see these photos of Fleetwood Mac in my book's intro.

So, I have decided to offer select images from the 1976 line-up of Fleetwood Mac, featuring the earliest appearances of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. They'll make a great Christmas Gift for the classic rock fan on your gift list.

These photos were taken at the UCSB stadium where Fleetwood Mac performed on May 2, 1976 - or that's the date on my envelope that contained these negatives. I also saw them open for the Faces in August of 1975 and was a bit confused by the presence of new members, Buckingham and Nicks. Confusion was negated by a decent version of "Oh Well," and once the Faces hit the stage, nothing that preceded them mattered.

vivfox

12-02-2011, 02:11 PM

Going For The Gold: Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” and “Landslide”

Yeah, Roberta Flack has won the race down the Yellow Brick Road to Gold RecordLand (per our Going for the Gold post yesterday) but the F’Mac have managed to grab two goldies over the years.

Album-wise, we should mention, the Fleetwood’s have been massively successful selling groups of millions (even beyond their 13 ka-million selling Rumours disc). But, single-wise, they’re farther back into the pack.

There was one in 1977, it was on Rumours and it was the Stevie Nicks showcase, “Dreams.” It was a #1, of course, hanging at the highest spot for a week of its three-month run and sold a million copies within a few months of its release.

“Landslide” is the rare song that has become a million-seller well after its debut.

It was originally released on the first Fleetwood Mac album that included Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham. Its many incarnations — there are seven different albums where you can find the FM version of the song — along with its appearance on Glee and the hit cover version by the Dixie Chicks has made it a million-seller in the digital realm (albeit not in its original vinyl format).

Top 5 Scrobbled Songs By Fleetwood Mac

Go Your Own Way
Dreams
Don't Stop
The Chain
You Make Loving Fun

http://wnew.radio.com/2011/12/02/going-for-the-gold-fleetwood-macs-dreams-and-landslide/

vivfox

12-02-2011, 11:00 PM

Did Fleetwood Mac sing Constant Craving? - Yahoo! Answers
No it was the eurythmics ...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111129201618AAKRA4D

michelej1

12-04-2011, 01:15 PM

Excerpt from a NY Times article about the Hall of Fame.

I think FM sales spiked because of the Dance, not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/business/in-rock-hall-of-fame-vote-a-battle-of-industry-egos.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnlx=1323022174-jcMKNUXqWEMuV9XdkDGQ

THIS hall-of-fame effect is well established in the recording industry. For instance, sales of Bee Gees albums surged to 1.1 million in 1997, the year of the group’s induction, from 210,000 in 1996. Sales of Fleetwood Mac albums jumped to 3.2 million in 1998, when that band was inducted, from 483,000 in 1997, according to SoundScan.

michelej1

12-07-2011, 12:43 PM

Excerpt from Review of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire—Five Years in New York That Changed Music ForeverBy Will Hermes (2011, Faber & Faber)

http://scribblers.us/?p=2229&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=literary-up-revisionist-music-history-from-will-hermes

If anyone is shortchanged, it’s the superstars of the time, those who made the cover of Rolling Stone throughout the ‘70s: Fleetwood Mac, for instance, gets a single mention, and that’s a backhanded comment about the band’s cocaine use. Tom Petty’s sole appearance is due to his purloining the name Heartbreakers for his back-up band, a blow to Johnny Thunders.

It plays like a culturally diverse 20th century soap opera, the characters crossing paths in ways which can seem forced or fanciful. Landmarks like CBGB’s or the gay cruising corner of 53rd and 3rd start seeming like theater backdrops.

beccamorrisfift

12-10-2011, 04:32 AM

http://www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk/fleetwood-mac-rumours/invt/5621469096690/&bklist=

£30!? :eek:

michelej1

12-26-2011, 09:54 AM

[FM hasn't had a new cd recently]

Singer Jez Lowe discussing the music business:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/12/26/county-durham-folk-singer-jez-lowe-to-tour-australia-61634-30004791/

“Even Fleetwood Mac, who sold millions over the years, had to finance their own CD recently. For people like myself, we just carry on like we always have done.”

CADreaming

12-30-2011, 10:21 PM

LMU film festival crowns animated film as Best Picture (http://www.laloyolan.com/arts_and_entertainment/film_tv/lmu-film-festival-crowns-animated-film-as-best-picture/article_34af5586-0503-11e1-9497-0019bb30f31a.html)

Posted on November 3, 2011
by Brandon Cudequest

Anyone who follows film award ceremonies would be shocked to know that last Saturday, Oct. 29, a documentary and animated short received a majority of the attention and applause at the School of Film and Television's (SFTV) annual Film Outside the Frame festival. The event showcases the best student projects from the past year as voted on by a board of faculty and industry professionals. This year, the voters proved that documentaries and animated shorts are just as powerful of mediums as dramatic shorts, when "Sounds like a Story" and "Photographs" took home three awards each. The two films fought tough competition from other student works about soldiers, sleazy motels and CGI shadows.

"I was a deer in headlights. There were so many people to thank. The film has been rewarding since day one of shooting, and it continues to be," film production graduate Molly McVie said of her win. McVie's documentary "Sounds Like A Story" was about the lives of Fleetwood Mac's sound technicians. The film won awards in the Sound Design, Editing and Documentary categories.

The highest honors of the night - recognition in the Animation, Best Director and Best Picture categories - were split between Christina Manrique, ‘11, and Brendan Clogher's, ‘10, "Photographs." "We are [grateful] that an animation film won Best Picture. We worked really hard for this and are happy to be here," Manrique said. Clogher summed up the night by saying, "Film school is a community. Whether you win, receive a nomination or come to support, you are rooting for your own team."

Though the night was extremely competitive, the environment was anything but hostile. "I just want people to see my film because a lot of people put effort into making it what it is. Surround yourself with the best to get the best," senior production major Nicolas Litonjua said. His film "Call to Arms" received the Student Choice Award. Junior recording arts major Claire Morison reflected similar sentiments: "Everyone who is here tonight is super talented. It was just an honor to the nominee."

Film Outside the Frame placed a large emphasis on community by honoring past alumni's accomplishments alongside current students' work. "What you will see tonight is a calling card for when students go out into the field. The strength of our program is reflected in our alumni," SFTV Dean Steve Ujlaki said in his opening remarks.

Alumnus Francie Calfo, ‘89, received the Outstanding Achievement in Television Award. After graduating from LMU with a degree in communication studies, Calfo has helped bring shows like "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ugly Betty" to television sets. Francis Lawrence, ‘91, who has shot music videos for many pop stars and directed "Water for Elephants," "I Am Legend" and "Constantine," received the Distinguished Alumni Award. "After 20 years, I can see the school is overflowing with opportunity. The tools that are available allow students to start their careers now. Write as much as you can, film every day and build a reel," Lawrence encouraged.

2011 Winners: Film Outside the Frame Festival

Cub Award

Arden Tse,

"Soup"

Silver Lion

Adam Lee,

"Mirror Motel"

Golden Lion

Ryan Latchmansingh,

"Where the Sun Sets"

Cinematography

Jacob Braafladt,

"Shadowplay"

Animation

Christina Manrique & Brendan Clogher, "Photographs"

Student Choice Award

Nicolas Litonjua,

"Call to Arms"

Editing Award

Molly McVie,

"Sounds Like A Story"

Documentary

Molly McVie,

"Sounds Like A Story"

Production Design

Kate Rhamey,

"The Mirror Motel"

Screenplay or Teleplay

Colleen Marshall,

"Peace of Glass"

Director

Christina Manrique & Brendan Clogher, "Photographs"

Best Picture

Christina Manrique & Brendan Clogher, "Photographs"

michelej1

12-30-2011, 10:32 PM

[Sydney Morning Herald: This comparison was made in a discussion about Australian politics]

What the ad lacks is a single clear compelling insight. Instead, it jams together a whole hotchpotch of half ideas. We get the "disaster" theme, some "ripoffs", a "prices going through the roof" gag, a sinister hint at the Greens' role in government, the unanswered question "why did you lie to us?" and a rather flat "who's gonna pay?" climax. Meanwhile, the drums pound away, as irritating and pointless as a Mick Fleetwood drum solo in the middle of a Mac concert.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/time-to-throw-the-switch-20111230-1pffu.html#ixzz1i4zpd6Zn

Blueletter18

12-31-2011, 12:30 AM

Wow, that Molly McVie doc sounds really cool! Nice find!

vivfox

12-31-2011, 12:57 PM

[Sydney Morning Herald: This comparison was made in a discussion about Australian politics]
What the ad lacks is a single clear compelling insight. Instead, it jams together a whole hotchpotch of half ideas. Meanwhile, the drums pound away, as irritating and pointless as a Mick Fleetwood drum solo in the middle of a Mac concert.

LOL. Looks like this person is not a fan of Mick's part in World Turning.

PenguinHead

12-31-2011, 06:48 PM

LOL. Looks like this person is not a fan of Mick's part in World Turning.

Who really is? Perhaps those in need of a trip to the restroom?

michelej1

01-08-2012, 03:30 PM

[sell your dreams, but not your vinyl]

From an article on used records:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120108/NEWS01/701089950

Some albums sold so many copies they are essentially worthless. "There was a ton of it," Sandhop said. In that category are Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas & the Papas, "Frampton Comes Alive!" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours."

vivfox

02-04-2012, 07:01 PM

By Steve Appleford, Special to the Los Angeles Times

February 5, 2012
Somewhere deep in the catacombs of Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Bethany Cosentino has found a little place of her own. It's squeezed into a tight corner in the control room of Studio B, where she sits behind an ancient synthesizer to relax or think or read her book, "Tusk," about the Fleetwood Mac album of the same name. The keyboard is her desk. She's never played it.

For nearly two months, the singer-guitarist has been here with her friend and musical partner Bobb Bruno, hard at work on their second album as the band Best Coast. The follow-up to their 2010 breakthrough garage-pop debut, "Crazy for You," is already highly anticipated, and the pressure is on.

"We're a lot more relaxed now," says Cosentino as she settles into these final days of recording. "When we first started, we were like, 'What do we do?'"

So she's been reading about Fleetwood Mac for inspiration and guidance, just as she's repeatedly watched Metallica implode and come back again in the documentary "Some Kind of Monster." "There is something to be learned from their examples of high anxiety and survival, and of taking creative leaps of faith."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-best-coast-20120205,0,4746291.story

Blueletter18

02-05-2012, 01:46 PM

michelej1

02-10-2012, 02:13 PM

Click to see the wedding picture modeled after the Rumours cover:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/lifestyle/fashion/norwich_says_i_do_to_vintage_weddings_1_1204382

The look is a homemade modern day Victoriana style with a 70s twist (very Vogue-esque Florence Welsch) high necked gowns with boots and bare feet for the bride and braces and woollen waistcoats for the groom. “The look is reminiscent of old Americana, Daniel Day Lewis in the film Gangs of New York, with a bride inspired by Laura Ingalls from the television programme Little House on the Prairie,” says Becky. “The men were just as styled as the women. I had the image of Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks on the Rumours cover in my head and we actually did a few images in homage to this.”

vivfox

02-23-2012, 10:33 AM

For those of you don’t know, Tusk was Fleetwood Mac’s double-album flop follow-up to Rumours. It has been described as pompous, over-ambitious and self-indulgent, but it’s one of my favourite albums of all time.

After making so much money with Rumours, Lindsey Buckingham could finally let it all hang out on this album with all sorts of experimentation in the studio. On top of that you get the absolutely gorgeous Sara and Beautiful Child from Stevie Nicks, and even some really good tracks from Christine McVie like Brown Eyes.

I like to think of this album as their Pet Sounds, and I’m sure Lindsey would be delighted to hear that, given how much he loves Brian Wilson. See if you can find the vinyl version, though, since only this one has the full version of Sara. On the cd version Sara is edited (butchered).

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/12757/

vivfox

02-23-2012, 10:44 AM

Las Vegas Philanthropist Hosts Star-Studded Evening
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Brennan then introduced comedian-musician Gary Mule Deer, who entertained the audience before they were treated to a musical set that included rock legend Alice Cooper, Jack Blades of Night Ranger and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/02/22/prweb9219390.DTL

michelej1

03-01-2012, 11:25 PM

Excerpt from interview with Catcall:

http://www.pedestrian.tv/music/features/catcall-talks-collaborative-songwriting-pop-music-/66593.htm

Do you think that pop's a bad word nowadays? No, I think pop's pretty cool. I think everyone wants to be pop, that's my theory. Actually, I think that's a recent thing. There's so much good stuff, and so much horrendous stuff as well. I mean, everyone loves Fleetwood Mac and that's pop, isn't it? I don't feel ashamed to be called pop at all.

I'll agree with you, I'll defend pop to the end. And Fleetwood Mac is definitely the epitome of pop. There's terrible pop, but there's also terrible noise and terrible... everything. Everything has a terrible side. There's nothing like good pop music, it's genius because it reaches a lot of people which is really exciting, the power of it I guess.

michelej1

03-01-2012, 11:36 PM

Article on James Watt College students
http://inverclydenow.com/news/local/6623-lipstick-music-project-showcases-college-students

Cat Caldwell (18) is a young singer/songwriter/ from Inverkip who has played at some of the top venues in Glasgow including 02 academy, The Armadillo and The Garage, and has supported The LaFontaines and Ray Harris. Her musical influences include Bon Lever, Lindsay Buchanan, Alanis Morissette and City in Colours. Cat said: “I was drawn to play music after watching Fleetwood Mac in concert. I was so inspired by Stevie Nicks that I told my grandfather about the concert and he gave me a 30-year-old guitar so I could learn how to play and write music.”

vivfox

03-09-2012, 02:23 PM

Mick Fleetwood

Creative success: When not hopping from bed to bed and enduring tumultuous breakups that would have even the "Jersey Shore" cast quaking in their tans, the members of Fleetwood Mac, including drummer and namesake Fleetwood, were creating some of the biggest hits of the '70s. Their 1977 album "Rumours" remains one of the best-selling albums of all time.

Financial failure: While Fleetwood should have been a millionaire many times over throughout the '80s, he was done in by two oddly juxtaposed desires: cocaine and real estate. His love for the former and bad judgment on the latter led him to bankruptcy in the middle of the decade. By the '90s, though, he had reportedly turned his life around, including quitting drugs and developing a trusted team of financial advisers. He has toured and recorded in recent years with Fleetwood Mac and his own Mick Fleetwood Blues Band.

http://money.msn.com/debt-management/slide.aspx?cp-documentid=6909781

vivfox

03-10-2012, 05:57 PM

HUFFPOST HILL: Senate Had A 'Good Week,' All Tuckered Out Now
Huffington Post
Rush Limbaugh spent International Women's Day locked in his bedroom crying and listening to Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide." And tonight at the Newseum, Hollywood unveils a blockbusting biopic of a former half-term small-state governor who tweets a lot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/huffpost-hill-senate-had-_n_1333283.html

vivfox

03-20-2012, 12:29 PM

As anyone over 50 can attest, the single most frequently asked question by baby boomers (besides "Why does anyone think low-rise jeans are comfortable?") is: What music should I be listening to?

Let's face it, Fleetwood Mac had its day -- and a fine one at that -- but do you really want Stevie Nicks to be blasting out your car window when you're stopped at a red light? Of course you don't, sillyhead. Few things date us more than the music we listen to and good old Stevie and the gang should be saved for those days that you really want to embarrass your teenagers when you pick them up at school.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/is-spotify-the-answer-to-_n_1354575.html

Livia

03-20-2012, 04:33 PM

I saw that and wanted to post a comment that I proudly blast Stevie while driving, and have also been known to carry a tambo in my car and bash away while at a red light. Also, look at the multitude of female artists that teenagers are listening to these days, who have all cited Stevie as a major influence: Florence, Beth from Best Coast, the girls in Bleached, Lykke Li, etc., etc.

GoldDustGypsy

03-20-2012, 05:15 PM

vivfox

03-20-2012, 06:42 PM

vivfox

03-21-2012, 08:02 AM

While not as dreadful as "The Paul Reiser Show," "Bent" (9 and 9:30 p.m. on NBC, TV-14) is merely lazy, unoriginal, unambitious and unnecessary.

Amanda Peet stars as Alex, a lawyer and a mother recently divorced from her husband, who was sent away for insider trading. At loose ends, she decides to hire a handsome but shaggy contractor, Pete (David Walton), to renovate her home. Pete's a surfer and a stoner and catnip to ladies who don't seem to care that he doesn't remember their names when they wake up in his bedroom. Or that he's 35 and lives with his dad (Jeffrey Tambor).

Brief shots of Pete attending a Gamblers Anonymous meeting are supposed to give his character some depth and a whiff of pathos. He's basically a one-dimensional riff on Mark Ruffalo's character from "The Kids Are All Right," the sexy man-child heading for a dismal reckoning. But sitcoms aren't the right format for angst; instead, we get cute scenes with Pete and his dad, a failed musician who plays the piano at a local department store and breaks into Fleetwood Mac songs when he feels sad. Mentioning Fleetwood Mac and sight gags involving a mannish woman contractor are about as topical and "edgy" as things get here. It seems almost designed to make NBC's "Whitney" seem witty by comparison.

Only in sitcom land could a barely employed father and son share a gorgeous house on a canal in LA's Venice neighborhood.

"Bent" offers a real throwback, or setback, for Amanda Peet. She has long been Hollywood's go-to girl when playing the beautiful and smart object of desire. Having put her on that pedestal, writers seem to have forgotten about developing her character much beyond the part she played in her breakout WB sitcom "Jack & Jill" way back in 1999.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120321/ENTERTAIN12/203210301/-1/ENTERTAIN

Artemis

03-21-2012, 10:17 AM

I'm 20 and proudly blare Stevie at red lights. I actually turn it up so people in the other cars can listen and think "damn that young girl has good taste in music.....so unlike the other 99% of her generation."

I once had Edge blasting out when I was stopped at some traffic lights, and it was so funny cause a toddler waiting to cross with her mum just totally started rocking out to it, totally cracked me up. :laugh:

elle

03-21-2012, 08:25 PM

I once had Edge blasting out when I was stopped at some traffic lights, and it was so funny cause a toddler waiting to cross with her mum just totally started rocking out to it, totally cracked me up. :laugh:

i've heard EO17 played at pop station my 8yo daughter listens to. she doesn't realize it's an old song.

elle

03-21-2012, 08:27 PM

Stuart Derdeyn’s Essential Album Alphabet: Letter F

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/03/20/stuart-derdeyns-essential-album-alphabet-letter-f/

What does it mean for an album to transcend time? When the music laid down is so timeless that it doesn’t appear to ever sound dated and keeps grabbing the ears of subsequent generations of listeners while still being entirely representative of its era is a totally rare thing. My top album in the letter F certainly qualifies as just a quick survey of office co-workers spanning a four decade age difference have all appeared to have heard it and had it resonate to greater or lesser degrees.

Obviously, if you were there when it happened, it is always going to be a different experience in terms of popularity. But as everyone knows, when you can own an audience every time one of your tunes is played, you’ve achieved true greatness. The top album in this category does just that and it is:

ESSENTIAL ALBUM ALPHABET: E
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner 1977)

From its origins as a passable to good blues rock outfit featuring the deeply disturbed guitarists Peter Green and the vanishing Jeremy Spencer, Fleetwood Mac had morphed into a somewhat popular pure pop group by the time that this career-changing/defining 11-song set was released. Still a soap opera in terms of the emotional lives of the members – the recording period was full of divorce, infidelity, separations and a lot of really hippie-era dysfunctionality – it didn’t cause the creative juices to dry up or get lost in trivial streams. From the opening notes of “Second Hand News” to the closing clank and twang of “Gold Dust Woman,” this is as perfect a pop album as the seventies produced. And it stands the test of time so well because of the immaculate attention paid to the arrangements and hooks by taskmaster Lindsey Buckingham whose production remains an influence to this very day. Given the personal tensions inside the group influence every lyric and emotional turn on the album, it’s somewhat like being a fly on the wall for all the heartaches, raw passion and regret taking place with the musicians. But out of this come anthems such as “The Chain” or the fist-punching potency of “Go Your Own Way.” Add in the utterly fragile “Songbird” and it just keeps getting better.

vivfox

03-22-2012, 07:41 AM

Mick Fleetwood is still struggling with the death of his friend and former brother-in-law George Harrison because they both really appreciated the beauty of life in Hawaii.

The Fleetwood Mac drummer admits he often thinks about Harrison as he watches the sun set from his log cabin retreat on his sprawling estate in Maui - and recalls the fun the two friends had there when the former Beatle was alive.

He tells Playboy magazine, "I've been thinking about George Harrison more than ever since he died. We were more than just brothers-in-law for a time; he was one of the very best friends I've ever had.

"We both loved Maui and Hawaii equally, because we both understood how special this place is.

"George is the reason I'm playing ukulele lately too. He was such a great player, and he was obsessed with it. He used to drive around Maui with literally 20 of the things in his trunk, handing them out to friends, hawking the wares of this local guy who made them."

Harrison lost his battle with cancer in 2001.

http://www.kimt.com/entertainment/story/Fleetwood-still-misses-Harrison/UJ428r8VBkOwLujyc_YmPg.cspx

michelej1

03-24-2012, 01:54 PM

Teresa Frohock names her favorite musical artists:

http://scifisongs.blogspot.com/2012/03/5-favorite-musical-artists-of-fantasy_22.html

4. Fleetwood Mac

I adored “Gold Dust Woman” and “Tango in the Night”, my two favorite Fleetwood Mac songs. Fleetwood Mac’s music ran the gamut from playful to magical. Where Janis taught me to be tough, Stevie Nicks said I could be gentle too. I named my daughter Rhiannon. If that doesn’t say it all, nothing does. Rock on—ancient queen …

michelej1

03-27-2012, 12:46 PM

Blood Red Shoes talks FM influence:

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/features/blood-red-shoes-raise-your-voice/

It’s always interesting when you find out what specific influences a band had when making an album, and this time is no different. “I think on this album [Stevie Nicks-era] Fleetwood Mac is what we took most influence from. Just because of all the harmonies and stuff that they did.” Now, Blood Red Shoes couldn’t sound much more different to ‘Rumours’, but this shows the band’s new focus on vocals and harmonies. Of course there are the more obvious influences as well, “Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Queens Of The Stone Age”. But Steven really does emphasise their current obsession with vocals.

cliffdweller

03-27-2012, 01:25 PM

and have also been known to carry a tambo in my car and bash away while at a red light.

Now THIS I'd love to see. ;)

Blueletter18

03-27-2012, 07:37 PM

aleuzzi

03-27-2012, 08:07 PM

[B]

ESSENTIAL ALBUM ALPHABET: E
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner 1977)

From its origins as a passable to good blues rock outfit featuring the deeply disturbed guitarists Peter Green and the vanishing Jeremy Spencer, Fleetwood Mac had morphed into a somewhat popular pure pop group by the time that this career-changing/defining 11-song set was released...

Why do so many music "journalists" say the early FM was a mediocre or second-rate blues band? I've read this kind of sentiment before and it annoys me. They were easily as good Mayall's best outfits and vocally more apt, since Green's manly baritone has a broader, more authentic appeal than Mayall's high-pitched whine. And the music from 1967-69? It holds up beautifully, I think. 1970's Kiln House (not pure blues but certainly influenced by it) is just as good.

Livia

03-27-2012, 08:53 PM

Now THIS I'd love to see. ;)

But you don't live in Austin anymore. :distress: Did ya know Robert Plant lives here now? He's dating Patty Griffin.

cliffdweller

03-28-2012, 07:42 AM

Did ya know Robert Plant lives here now? He's dating Patty Griffin.

REALLY?!? That's awesome! Have you seen him around town? I would die.

I miss Austin so much, all the music and especially SXSW. How was it this year?

Livia

03-28-2012, 01:33 PM

SXSW was crazy, as usual - but fun, as usual!

I have not yet personally seen Mr. Plant around town yet, but I hear he goes to the Continental Club a lot and a friend of mine saw him walking a dog on the hike & bike trail. He allegedly bought a house in SoCo. Check the Austin Chronicle's site - Margaret Moser wrote an interesting tidbit in her column about his behavior backstage at the Music Awards - it was in last week's issue.

vivfox

03-30-2012, 10:44 PM

Within the first few notes of opener “Love That’s Gone”—before a single word is uttered—it’s pretty clear that Sees the Light is a breakup record. In fact, Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman’s second long-player under the La Sera moniker could convey the emotions of eternally gray days even if the vocals were completely stripped away.

Then again, the song titles leave little to the imagination (“Break My Heart,” “It’s Over Now,” “Don’t Stay”). And that opening song is a heartbreaker, traipsing along like a lost track from Fleetwood Mac’s post-breakup album Tusk (Christine McVie’s opening saddy “Over and Over” comes to mind). Even the crystalline guitar lines running through “Love That’s Gone” sound as if they could be traced back to Lindsey Buckingham.

Sees the Light does benefit, however, from Goodman’s pure and honeyed voice—it’s what brings the record’s 10 bare-bones garage pop songs to life.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/03/la-sera-sees-the-light.html

michelej1

04-13-2012, 12:01 PM

Excerpt from interview with Bethany and Bob of Best Coast

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100062492/whats-your-favourite-difficult-second-album/

Bethany and Bobb wanted to make a "darkier and grimier" sound without scaring people away. They worked with Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Brad Mehldau, Elliott Smith) and recorded The Only Place at the iconic Capitol Records, a sign of the success of Crazy For You. Aside from working with one of the best producers around, how else did they get through the second album doldrums? Well, Fleetwood Mac played a part. Bethany explained:

I was obsessed with Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and Bobb bought me a book about the recording process for my birthday. It was similar to what we were going through. They had just come out of Rumours, and we were coming off Crazy. I read it five times and always had it in my purse and in the studio. Tusk was made in a different way, they spent more time on it, which is how we approached the second record as well.

David

04-13-2012, 09:40 PM

David Gans was a San Francisco rock critic who was the preeminent Grateful Dead chronicler. He was also a big Machead. These Gans photos are from 1982.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_DavidGanswGBrown.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/DavidGanswGBrown.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_DavidGansMickHouse1982.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/DavidGansMickHouse1982.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_DavidGansMickHouse198202.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/DavidGansMickHouse198202.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_DavidGans198203.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/DavidGans198203.jpg) http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/th_DavidGans71682.jpg (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/DavidGans71682.jpg)

LB Freakazoid

04-21-2012, 12:50 PM

A little more than a mcnugget...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/well-well-well-look-whos-come-crawling-to-his-uncl,27979/

Well, Well, Well, Look Who’s Come Crawling To His Uncle To Hear His Fleetwood Mac Concert Stories
BY MICHAEL FLEISCHMANN
APRIL 21, 2012 | ISSUE 48•16

Ah, my dear nephew, I thought those were your steps I heard. Allow me to pause this Mirage concert bootleg; may I ask to what I owe this unexpected visit? Surely you haven’t come to my basement hideaway to spend the evening hours with your doddering old uncle, who, as you have made abundantly clear so many times before, has nothing at all to teach you—

But, wait, what’s that you say? Do my ears deceive me? Has my headstrong nephew at long last come to his senses and crawled back to hear his uncle’s Fleetwood Mac concert stories?

My, my, my, it seems the chickens have come home to roost. Imagine, after all this time my brother’s son would let go of his foolish pride and ask his uncle to conjure the sights and sounds of the great Fleetwood Mac during their immortal Lindsey Buckingham–era tours. That same stubborn youth who for years spitefully refused to hear the legendary tales of the greatest touring band of the modern age now approaches humbled, begging me to take him away to the amphitheaters and parking lots of old.

How I have waited for this day to come.

But have you not been given your chances? From the beginning, I offered you free access to my most treasured of remembrances. From the Mac’s fabled performance before 18,000 enraptured fans in Indianapolis in 1977, when I managed to sneak in a jug of Thunderbird and stole some guy’s jacket. Or that storied sound check at the Vet in Fort Wayne, when I convinced arena personnel I was Lindsey’s guitar tech and watched in awed silence as he and John McVie tuned up and ran through an instrumental version of “Landslide” before security was alerted to my presence and I was removed from the venue.

These anecdotes and so many others lay well within your grasp, and yet you brushed them aside, turning your back on me. And now, look at you.

Pathetic. Completely and utterly pathetic.

What you should have realized, nephew, is that these memories of mine cannot be bought or sold, but to you I offered them free of charge. And why? So you could tell me how “boring” and “lame” Fleetwood Mac is? So you in all your teenaged wisdom could point out how Mick Fleetwood looks like a “queer pirate” on the cover of Rumours, that pinnacle of compositional achievement? So you could shy away as I attempted to convey the indescribable pleasures your Aunt Carol and I experienced in so many post-concert trysts, the music still hot in our ears?

And after all that scorn and ignorance, here you kneel before me with your tail between your legs, pleading with me to bring you back to those wondrous nights, knowing full well that the power to do so now lies with me and me alone. How the tide has turned.

But possibly I can forgive. Possibly. For I admit I am not entirely surprised to see you here tonight. Your father tells me he has lately heard the haunting strains of “Gold Dust Woman” floating from your bedroom. And even now I see your eyes darting over my collection of priceless concert mementos, each one of which leads to a time and place not so distant in memory. A time and place where the summers were hot, the beer was cold, and the music of Fleetwood Mac, and occasionally Supertramp, cast the world in the glow of song.

Of course, to explain what this all means will take time. But perhaps you are ready to understand, and perhaps I can forgive a child’s carelessness.

Because even children get older. And I’m getting older, too.

Here, come closer. Take this. It is a kerchief thrown from the stage by Stevie Nicks during the band’s performance at the Richfield Coliseum in 1980. A gift from Rhiannon herself, and a handsome reward for enduring a 12-hour overnight bus ride to catch the group at the height of its powers during the Tusk tour. She was pretty stoned that night, but the band was cooking.

The kerchief, now: Take it, do not be afraid. Breathe deep, my boy. Fall away. Do you smell that? Lavender. Now we will never break the Chain.

Sanne2

04-23-2012, 01:13 PM

The History Of The Hollywood Sign: 1978: A Sign Is Reborn
By the late 1970′s, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce determined that the Sign required a complete rebuilding – carrying a price tag of a quarter million dollars. Thankfully, some of showbiz’s biggest names came to the rescue. In ’77, Fleetwood Mac pledged a charity concert, but local residents prevented it.

http://www.hollywoodsign.org/the-history-of-the-sign/1978-a-sign-is-reborn/

vivfox

05-05-2012, 12:24 AM

Fleetwood Mac: "What Makes You Think You're the One" from Tusk: "This drum part brought to you by mountains of cocaine. [Mick Fleetwood] had to be out of his mind on this song. It's like he's just about to fall apart. So brilliant. Don't take cocaine, people, unless you're Fleetwood Mac, in which case it totally works for you. Until it didn't."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/04/26/151452557/drum-fill-friday-from-michael-benjamin-lerner-of-telekinesis

vivfox

05-05-2012, 12:25 AM

Please Help..lol
May 3, 2012
A few years ago I downloaded a clip of Fleetwood Mac live on stage performing Tusk.
The coulour war redish and the marching band came onto the stage during the drum solo
Can anyone tell me when that was and if there is a video of that show
I see ther is a new one in HD ....Is this the same show??
My computer crashed and now I cannot remember as I have done the chemo thing and memory has been affected...lol
I am on a mission so if someone can help....please do....thanks and let me tell you The music of Fleetwood Mac did wonders for me when I was in the ...".chemo time".... not all the time but when I needed it...
.Thank you you guys...I am sure there are many that would have liked to have thanked you for your music....but did not have the time to do it....so for them I say.....THANK YOU

http://www.fleetwoodmac.com/blog/selwyn-seale/please-helplol

TrueFaith77

05-09-2012, 12:47 PM

http://cityarts.info/2012/05/08/citizen-artist/
Citizen-Artist
by Armond White
A Noel Coward Film Series to Remember

In a Noël Coward-worthy lyric, a pop singer-songwriter once mused about “the stillness of remembering what you had and what you lost.” Seeing some of the newly restored 35mm prints of classic Noël Coward films in the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Coward on Film (May 11-13) inspires such wistfulness.

Stevie, the anglophile, would appreciate this compliment, I'd think.

Sanne2

05-11-2012, 02:31 AM

PAUL THORN'S WHAT THE HELL IS GOIN' ON? DUE MAY 8th
http://www.paulthorn.com/sneak/index.html

The collection, entitled What The Hell Is Goin' On? (due May 8th on Perpetual Obscurity/Thirty Tigers) finds Thorn putting his own gritty rock stamp on some of his favorite songs. There are some names familiar to Americana fans (Buddy Miller, Ray Wylie Hubbard), some lesser-known (Foy Vance, Wild Bill Emerson) and some surprises. The Buckingham/Nicks tune Don't Let Me Down Again originated on that duo's debut, not during the Fleetwood Mac era

TrueFaith77

05-16-2012, 06:59 PM

THREE Stevie/Mac references in this review of the Niki & The Dove album INSTINCT:

http://www.nme.com/reviews/niki-and-the-dove/13145

Spirit animals bound, prowl and pounce through Niki And The Dove’s debut. Also hurricanes, crystals and visions. Our Swedish duo can pump out all the dry ice they want and singer Malin Dahlström can streak her cheeks like Stevie Nicks on the trapeze, but they can’t disguise themselves: no animist shamans these, but precise technicians.

They use elements freely available. Here a Mac, there a Knife, everywhere a Prince. But it’s the magic of combination, when a mysterious catalyst appears from nowhere that makes it.

‘In Our Eyes’ has echoes of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Gypsy’, gaseous synths like an ’80s Pat Benatar power ballad, ending in a tip of the hat to Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’.

The album is streaming here. Kinda does sound like a mix of Stevie and Kate Bush. Like Kate's voice but Stevie's vowels.

http://www.nme.com/news/niki-and-the-dove/63671

vivfox

05-17-2012, 09:12 AM

Sometimes, the creative force behind a million-selling record doesn't just want to reinvent the style that earned a fortune – they want to tear it down.

In 1979, Fleetwood Mac were perhaps the biggest band in the world, having shifted more than 10 million copies of Rumours. The next album, their 12th, was Tusk, a wildly oscillating double LP that sounded like the work of separate solo artists, was packaged in what was surely a deliberately awful sleeve, and contained no obvious singles. To this day, non-aficionados only know Sara – it and the title track were modest hits at the time.

While the sound of Rumours was pristine and built for radio, Tusk was all over the show. Rumours had famously, fearlessly catalogued the bitter end of Lindsey Buckingham's relationship with Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie's with John McVie, as well as several awkward dalliances that followed. On Tusk, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks sounded all talked out, happy to submit tender, regretful fragments like Honey Hi and Beautiful Child. But they're punctuated by the songs of Lindsey Buckingham, which are best described as furious polkas, and dominate the record.

"Lindsey was a volatile, domineering personality and the rest just went with it," says Paphides. "People were worried about him. He turned up at the studio on day three and had cut all his hair off, standing in front of the mirror with a pair of scissors."

But while Buckingham stuffed his songs with multi-directional rage, and with the influence of punk and new wave, he had also become a skilled producer who could bring out the best in his bandmates' radically different compositions – even those of his ex, Stevie Nicks.

"There's still a lot of love between Stevie and Lindsey and she's happy for him that Tusk has become feted as a classic," says Paphides. "He never tried to inflict his scratchy, lo-fi, I'm-going-crazy production on her. The Stevie songs have lovely, luxuriant waves of elegant melancholy enveloping you. He knows exactly what she wants to achieve. It's the same with Christine McVie: Over and Over sounds just beautiful. As long as Lindsey could have his own way with his songs he'd do a good job for you."

Paphides spent four months tracking down Buckingham and scoring an interview, "Now Lindsey's very LA, very Zen, very 'I've been to therapy'. He's also very aware and proud of Tusk's reputation."

But in '79? "He was angry. If you have a Lindsey Buckingham character, there's a part of you that wants to destroy all you're best known for.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-05-17/the-joy-of-difficult-second-(or-third,-or-twelfth)-albums

vivfox

05-29-2012, 01:45 AM

True, covering local sports during the summer months allows me the freedom of loosing myself from the computer a bit more. It also takes me away from late-night stresses of tracking down game results from all corners of north Georgia -- not to mention putting up with co-workers who think listening to Fleetwood Mac actually aids the working process for all within earshot. (No offense to you Fleetwood Mac fans out there; it’s simply not my cup of tea.)

http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=249093

michelej1

05-29-2012, 01:18 PM

-- not to mention putting up with co-workers who think listening to Fleetwood Mac actually aids the working process for all within earshot. (No offense to you Fleetwood Mac fans out there; it’s simply not my cup of tea.)

That's pretty funny. I understand though. Except for when I'm in the car, I'm not really into music as background, not even music I like. I might not get much work done with FM playing. Michele

michelej1

06-03-2012, 12:03 AM

Soundtrack for Writing: Fleetwood Mac – Rumors
Posted: June 2, 2012 in Music , by Nathan Crowder

http://nathancrowder.com/2012/06/02/soundtrack-for-writing-fleetwood-mac-rumors/

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Soundtrack for Writing post. And this will not be like the others, so if you’ve missed the previous ones, you won’t be penalized.

Despite this being a truly excellent album, the reasons we’re talking about it here have very little to do with the music itself. Don’t get me wrong. Some of the bigger tracks on the album, notably “The Chain,” “Go Your Own Way,” and “Gold Dust Woman” have an energy that will fuel many a writing bender. And quieter songs such as “Songbird” and “Oh Daddy” will break your goddamned heart. From beginning to end, it’s a solid album well worth listening to.

But why this album is particularly good for me to have in the catalog for writing?

Because it got made at all.

The year before Rumors was recorded, the band had their biggest hit yet and went on a grueling six month tour. By the end of the tour, bassist John McVie and pianist/vocalist Christine McVie’s eight year marriage ended in divorce. They weren’t even talking to each other socially, and yet they were expected to go back into the studio, write new music, and produce a follow-up.

It didn’t help that two other band members–guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks–were going through a bit of tumultuous on-again-off-again relationship and were also fighting by the time they got to Sausalito, CA, to record. Apparently the only time they weren’t arguing was when they were working on songs together.

Oh, and Mic Fleetwood, the drummer from whom the band derived its name? He had recently discovered that his wife and mother of two children had an affair with his best friend–made only better I assume by the fact that at least the best friend wasn’t in the band.

Suffice to say, there was a lot of emotion in that studio. I suspect it could have easily ended in flames at any point in the recording session. Everyone was tense. The band members didn’t socialize outside of actually working on the album. They were writing and singing some very personal songs about what was going on in their lives–often all into the same microphone, looking across at the other band members who were intimately familiar with the story behind the lyrics. To make things more interesting, there were some technical problems with the master tapes that could have sunk the whole album. Plus, there was enough cocaine flowing through the studio to make Charlie Sheen look “quaint.”

But the kept going, recording an album that was, in Buckingham’s words, “…more than the sum of it’s parts.” After more than two months, they toured for ten days to try out the new material in front of an audience, then went back to the studio to finish laying down tracks and engineering.

Despite delays, despite the conflict, despite the pressure of crafting a follow-up to their biggest album yet, Fleetwood Mac released perhaps the most important album of their careers. But those aren’t my words. That was Mick Fleetwood’s opinion.

If Fleetwood Mac can do that, I have no legitimate excuses to not finish my writing projects. I doubt any of you reading this do, either.

Writing isn’t easy. Everyone has things going on in their personal lives that make sitting down and doing the work difficult. I’ll admit, some days I get home and I’m frustrated with my day job, or distracted by some relationship hiccup or another. The last thing I want to do is write. Or edit. Or really anything other than curl up on the sofa and listen to music.

But creating art, be it a classic album or a weird little horror short story, can be a release. It can be a place to dump the hardships of the day and power through, turning the coal into diamonds.

And for that, if nothing else, Rumors is an essential in my writing soundtracks.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to crank up “The Chain” and work on a combat sequence that, as fate would have it, involve an iron chain being used as a weapon.

Happy writing!

michelej1

06-08-2012, 12:37 PM

[Using Rumours to mock Auckland telecommunications problems]
Computer World, New Zealand, June 8, 2012
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/fryup/fry-up-rumours

Rumours

It was back in 1976, newborn girl babies around the known world were being named Rhiannon and Fleetwood Mac was grappling with that difficult eleventh album. Amidst – to quote Wikipedia – “hedonistic behaviour and interpersonal strife” the band created one the greatest easy listening LPs of all time – Rumours.

The same climate of dysfunction is manifesting itself right now in the local telecommunications industry, with cashed up companies eyeing each other across the Tasman. Vodafone may be buying TelstraClear, Telstra may be buying Telecom... and some other unsubstantiated industry gossip that Fry Up is working on getting on the record.

Anyhoo, if the telco industry today is like F Mac back in ‘76 then TelstraClear would be Stevie Nicks. She seems to have caused the most trouble, she couldn’t play an instrument, but every so often she came up with a song that was usually the best on the album.

Telstra considering selling TelstraClear to Vodafone
Telstra eyeing Telecom

Go your own way
Just kidding, government IT departments. Of course you can’t do your own thing.

Not anymore, not now that Colin MacDonald is in charge at the Department of Internal Affairs.

MacDonald told an audience of senior bureaucrats recently that it’s the 'common way' or 'no way' when it comes to technology. Government agencies will automatically be “opting in” to the “common capability” ICT tools.

“Yes, you can opt out.” Phew.

“The bar to opting out will be set high.” Oh dear.

“Just how high is the subject of a paper going to ministers very soon.” Gotcha.

DIA chief urges officials to use common tools

Don’t stop
It was the theme song to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and it could well become the theme song to the Institute of IT Professionals, or IITP for those who prefer their tech news be communicated in acronyms.

CEO Paul Matthews says the research shows that the new name for the New Zealand Computer Society will be more appealing to the younger crowd:

“Twice as many of the public identified with the new name over the old and 82 percent would 'trust' the new name over the old one. This is even more pronounced when we look at those under 30.”

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. The past is so over.

Computer Society renamed Institute of IT Professionals