Fleetwood Mac 2013 Press

[KindOfWoman90]

I apologize if this is old news, but the shop for their website is up - apparently with extra special Rumours packages lol - but hey, website progress is sorta exciting.

[Johnny Stew]

These interviews are great. Stevie definitely seems in terrific spirits. And while Lindsey was more reserved, hopefully he's enjoying coming back together, too.

The Sheryl Crow and Bieber questions were ridiculous, but we at least got to hear some off-the-cuff responses.


[Personal note to secondhandchain, if he's reading this: I've tried to reply to your PM, but your inbox is full. Please let me know when you've had a chance to make some room, and I'll re-send it.]

[elle]

so after watching these interviews... have a question for the make-up knowing people: why does SN have that weird make up around her eyes that makes her look tired and 10 years older than she normally looks?

and people have mentioned LB's expression after JP turned the question to something he has said before - here it is screencapped:
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i399/ellellew/Slide3edd_zps26d693f6.jpg
:xoxo:

[WildHearted]

so after watching these interviews... have a question for the make-up knowing people: why does SN have that weird make up around her eyes that makes her look tired and 10 years older than she normally looks?

Stevie's worn her make-up that way forever. There's videos of her putting it on/talking about the way she does it in the Rumours tour footage. She even wrote about it in a song :lol: : "My eye-make-up is dark and it's careless / some circles around my eyes."

She does look tired in these interviews, though. Her eyes are kind of watery/red. It also doesn't look like she has much mascara on which I think might be a factor, too.

[rhiannondontgo]

Her eyes are kind of watery/red.

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed her eyes are weirdly bright red in every interview. What's up with that? Maybe she's sick. Or stoned. :laugh:... Or just tired.

[Jondalar]

so after watching these interviews... have a question for the make-up knowing people: why does SN have that weird make up around her eyes that makes her look tired and 10 years older than she normally looks?

and people have mentioned LB's expression after JP turned the question to something he has said before - here it is screencapped:
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i399/ellellew/Slide3edd_zps26d693f6.jpg
:xoxo:

That's called age and no eye lift.

[jkmaletic]

That's called age and no eye lift.

And where did his eyebrows go??

As far as Stevie goes, she's probably tired. She's been a busy gal lately.

[Jondalar]

And where did his eyebrows go??

As far as Stevie goes, she's probably tired. She's been a busy gal lately.

They did need a better makeup person. If someone can make Goldie Hawn look nice, Stevie should be looking pretty stellar. Hawn without makeup looks horrible.

[elle]

Stevie's worn her make-up that way forever. There's videos of her putting it on/talking about the way she does it in the Rumours tour footage. She even wrote about it in a song :lol: : "My eye-make-up is dark and it's careless / some circles around my eyes."

She does look tired in these interviews, though. Her eyes are kind of watery/red. It also doesn't look like she has much mascara on which I think might be a factor, too.

i never noticed it before, but i really watched her just on LiB... and thought her make-up looked great there. i didn't notice those huge dark drawn circles around her eyes.

maybe it's time for a change then, at least on days when she doesn't get enough sleep. :nod:

And where did his eyebrows go??
didn't even notice, he's gorgeous when he looks up at the interviewer with those blue eyes, and they show him up close.

actually up close he was gorgeous even in 2011, before his miraculous hair re-growth in the front. ;) and we were just discussing on fb, he always looks so much younger in person. maybe it's his young attitude when in normal circumstances. :shrug:

[WildHearted]

actually up close he was gorgeous even in 2011, before his miraculous hair re-growth in the front. ;)

I was just thinking that his hairline's journey seems to have changed directions.

[elle]

They did need a better makeup person. If someone can make Goldie Hawn look nice, Stevie should be looking pretty stellar. Hawn without makeup looks horrible.

from what i can notice, both Hawn and Stevie seemed to have had - or keep having from time-to-time - some very tasteful work done. unfortunately it seems to be expected in their line of work where looks are such a huge part of their image / selling point.

i remember Hawn looking very old when they had Katrina benefit right after the hurricane hit. her body still looked great, but her face looked really old. a month later and every time since then she started looking 20 years younger again, so probably had something done then?

so maybe it was not without make-up you are thinking of, but before some little "brush up".

[michelej1]

Based on my mom's surgery, if eyes look red where you almost think you are looking at that fleshy rim in the interior of the eye, that's the cause of a face lift, where the skin has been pulled behind the ear. So, I'm not talking about a blood shot eye, so much as the edges of the eye.

Michele

[Jondalar]

from what i can notice, both Hawn and Stevie seemed to have had - or keep having from time-to-time - some very tasteful work done. unfortunately it seems to be expected in their line of work where looks are such a huge part of their image / selling point.

i remember Hawn looking very old when they had Katrina benefit right after the hurricane hit. her body still looked great, but her face looked really old. a month later and every time since then she started looking 20 years younger again, so probably had something done then?

so maybe it was not without make-up you are thinking of, but before some little "brush up".

I don't think Stevie has had any work done, but I could be wrong.

[elle]

And where did his eyebrows go??

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i399/ellellew/extra10_zps3f4fcdf4.jpghttp://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i399/ellellew/extra9_zpsb20c2239.jpg

[michelej1]

I guess because the brows are mostly gray now, they blend into his skin and dont' show up.

Michele

[elle]

Based on my mom's surgery, if eyes look red where you almost think you are looking at that fleshy rim in the interior of the eye, that's the cause of a face lift, where the skin has been pulled behind the ear. So, I'm not talking about a blood shot eye, so much as the edges of the eye.

Michele

interesting! and scary. i don't know anything about a face lift, and hope i'll never have to. but sometimes i wonder by the time my kids grow up whether the rest of the country will look like so many LA people do today... and am not sure how i feel about it. :shrug:

[CADreaming]

And where did his eyebrows go??

As far as Stevie goes, she's probably tired. She's been a busy gal lately.

Yes, she looked really tired to me. Reminded me of the Today interview during Unleashed when she was promoting her Soundstage release. Dog tired.

[michelej1]

interesting! and scary. i don't know anything about a face lift, and hope i'll never have to. but sometimes i wonder by the time my kids grow up whether the rest of the country will look like so many LA people do today... and am not sure how i feel about it. :shrug:

The botox look that actresses have is really unappealing to me. I am not sure what Stevie said, but it was something like "sisters of Satan" and I agree with her completely. The problem is not only that they don't look like themselves anymore. It's that they all look like each other. The high cheek bones, the stretched out lips. When you get "that" look it's broadcasting that you've had work done.

I'm very pleased with the way the Macsters look. They are still recognizable as themselves. I haven't seen Christine in a while, but she looked great, which makes the way they decided to air brush the heck out of her for Dance and IMT photos all the more tragic, because it was unnecessary.

As for me, I want to look young, but I am extremely squeamish. I can't stand needles or surgery or hardly a doctor's exam. So, I don't think I'll be getting work done. But it has nothing to do with lack of vanity.

Michele

[shackin'up]

If The music on clip 2 was sad angel, then The first one had The discostomp of miss fantasy. Those drumbreaks can definately be mickbreaks.

[elle]

If The music on clip 2 was sad angel, then The first one had The discostomp of miss fantasy. Those drumbreaks can definately be mickbreaks.

can you link to clip 2?

[michelej1]

If The music on clip 2 was sad angel, then The first one had The discostomp of miss fantasy. Those drumbreaks can definately be mickbreaks.

Interesting detective work. I'm surprised we didn't hear a smidge of Without You since they talked about it during the interview.

When they play music before the concerts, we'll all be straining to hear if Lindsey has done some acoustic versions of old or new songs.

Michele

[elle]

Yes, she looked really tired to me.

yup. make up not accentuating tiredness or weighing eyes down would help.
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i399/ellellew/extrasn2_zpsa1393cf9.jpg

[Johnny Stew]

See, I actually like that she's using the thick, smoky eyeliner again. She wasn't doing that for a while, and her eyes looked tiny.

[WildHearted]

See, I actually like that she's using the thick, smoky eyeliner again. She wasn't doing that for a while, and her eyes looked tiny.

I don't think her eyes look all that bad. She just needs to put on some mascara - it would "open" her eyes up a lot, which would help with looking lively and stuff.

[elle]

If The music on clip 2 was sad angel, then The first one had The discostomp of miss fantasy. Those drumbreaks can definately be mickbreaks.

ah, are you talking about the same fuse vid ~ 4:00 when they are talking bieber?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8MD2mjK6Bpg

that sounds rockier, i could like that! :thumbsup:

[bombaysaffires]

I don't think Stevie has had any work done, but I could be wrong.

She definitely has, but she's been smart about doing subtle things and using really, really good doctors.

I just wish she wouldn't use such a black shadow to outline her eyes in the area under her eyebrows/bone...maybe a softer brownish color. The black is just way too harsh, and our upper lids sag a bit as we age, and the black seems to accent it. When aging you really need to go softer with colors or it is too harsh. Love ya mama, but soften it up :sorry:

[shackin'up]

ah, are you talking about the same fuse vid ~ 4:00 when they are talking bieber?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8MD2mjK6Bpg

that sounds rockier, i could like that! :thumbsup: both fuseclips.

[Musicman408]

If those backing tracks turn out to be the new FM songs, I'm taking credit for bringing up that possibility! ;)

[britt0308]

If those backing tracks turn out to be the new FM songs, I'm taking credit for bringing up that possibility! ;)

We'll give you that credit! :thumbsup:

*IF* the first track is indeed Sad Angel, then I would have to bet the second, shorter track has to be Miss Fantasy. Why use the instrumental for SA in the majority of the video, then use a random/non related track for the last 40 sec?

Hoping both are the new songs!

[Jondalar]

I don't think her eyes look all that bad. She just needs to put on some mascara - it would "open" her eyes up a lot, which would help with looking lively and stuff.

I think her eyes look sad.

[CADreaming]

I think her eyes look sad.

Idk- she kept clearing her throat. Sounded like she may have been getting over a cold.

[DashingDan]

I sometimes cut through neiman marcus to get the train at back bay station. and when I do I often see fabulous women of a certain age and a certain income at, say, the makeup or jewelry counters. I recommend doing this at your city's equivalent if you can, because you too wil surely find a short, long-haired fabulous women of a certain age and a certain income and you will see that the 'lead singer' of fleetwood mac looks amazing by any standard. She's in her mid-60's!!! She had tired looking eyes in photos from 1976.

[michelej1]

I sometimes cut through neiman marcus to get the train at back bay station. and when I do I often see fabulous women of a certain age and a certain income at, say, the makeup or jewelry counters. I recommend doing this at your city's equivalent if you can, because you too wil surely find a short, long-haired fabulous women of a certain age and a certain income and you will see that the 'lead singer' of fleetwood mac looks amazing by any standard. She's in her mid-60's!!! She had tired looking eyes in photos from 1976.

Ha. I had a dream that I saw Christine and Stevie shopping together at a mall last night.

Stevie looks ok for her age. I was just watching Charlene Tilton on the Bio Channel and I it caused me to look up her age on imdb and it turns out she was born in 1958. Stevie looks better than she does.

Michele

[michelej1]

This summary combines all the various clips together from Extra, Fuse, On The Red Carpet and ET. It reads like it was written by a fan:

Oh No They Didn't, January 26, 2013
Read more at ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/75016412.html#ixzz2JCvzQfeI

Group Therapy with Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Mick Fleetwood sat down for a series of video interviews early in the week to promote Fleetwood Mac's upcoming US tour.

- what songs they will play on tour

- Mick wants to see Stevie & Lindsey do something "out there" that shows their chemistry

- Something about sloppy dates

- Lindsey talks about Stevie, how they are still discovering things about each other and are now finally starting to address the love that has always been there

- what it's like touring nowadays
- The songs they have to play
- Lindsey & Stevie discuss their relationship again, hold hands some more
- Sheryl Crow & Lance Armstrong?
- Stevie sings a bit of "Sad Angel"
- Talk about the new music they recorded - "Without You" is one of the songs
- They don't do cocaine anymore
- Best & Worst tour memories
- Stevie playing with Dave Grohl @ Sundance
- What they think about Justin Bieber
- Stevie Nicks on her mother's passing and how it has strengthened the bond within the band

[User comment from the web page: I can't handle all of the hand-holding tbh.
& lol at Stevie cracking up after mistakenly implying they do drugs to keep their energy up.]

[michelej1]

Justin’s the Fleetwood Mac daddy

By GORDON SMART, Showbiz Editor, The Sun January 27, 2013
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4765243/Justins-the-Fleetwood-Mac-daddy.html

JUSTIN BIEBER has got himself a bunch of unlikely fans – veteran rockers FLEETWOOD MAC.

Drummer MICK FLEETWOOD said: “I like Justin Bieber, I’ve been to see him with my children.

“I’d say he’s probably not going to fade away as much as some people think he might.

“He’s a great performer, really savvy in terms of the way he approaches his audience. I thought he was really damn good.”

[Fireflies]

Just sounded like generic background music to me... :shrug:

agreed.

Anyone realized or mention that the background track in that interview is probably Sad Angel?

This was also done during Unleashed press on Extra. It was an LB track of one of their hits - but redone. So, I won't be surprised if this will be Sad Angel.

no chance in hell this is "sad angel".

[michelej1]

no chance in hell this is "sad angel".

I'd just as soon it not be, but why do you think it couldn't be?

Michele

[WildHearted]

I'd just as soon it not be, but why do you think it couldn't be?

Michele

Personally, I just don't think it sounds like Fleetwood Mac. :shrug: There's nothing about it that would say to me - oh that's a FM song.

[michelej1]

Wow, if the lyrics really had been "hello, hello said Angel" I would never get over it.

Why would Stevie think Lindsey would write that? It probably sounded really stupid to her, but she kept her peace, because she wouldn't say that to Bob Dylan!

If that was the lyric I'd be saying, "Use your articles, Lindsey" like I say, "Use your words," to the toddler.

Michele

[CADreaming]

agreed.





no chance in hell this is "sad angel".

Really?? Ok then. :shrug:

[Fireflies]

Really?? Ok then. :shrug:

do me a favor, dee--link me to the clip where you think it's playing. i might be commenting based on the wrong video!

[poetinmyheart]

UK fans flick over to BBC One, Mick is currently on the One Show. Guess it'll appear on iplayer later too.

[WildHearted]

Fleetwood Mac's 35 years of 'Rumours'

By Denise Quan, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/showbiz/music/fleetwood-mac-rumours-anniversary/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_showbiz+%28RSS%3A+Entertainment%29

It's 35 years after the release of Fleetwood Mac's groundbreaking album "Rumours," and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are holding hands.

Maybe it's true that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or maybe it's a put-on, knowing that fans are still intrigued by the complicated interpersonal drama that drives the band.

"Rumours" gave listeners a voyeuristic peek into the messy romantic lives of the quintet. "Go Your Own Way" was Buckingham's anguished kiss-off to Nicks. "Don't Stop" was Christine McVie's song of encouragement to her soon-to-be ex-husband, John McVie.

A special anniversary reissue of "Rumours" is now available, with expanded and deluxe versions featuring previously unreleased demos and early takes, along with a dozen live recordings from the group's 1977 world tour.

In April, Nicks and Buckingham will join drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie for their first tour in three years. In addition to their arsenal of beloved hits, they're hoping to crowd-test three newly recorded tracks.

"We have two brand new songs and one really, really old song," Nicks said.

The "old" tune predates Fleetwood Mac: an unreleased nugget written for the "Buckingham Nicks" LP, which marks its 40th anniversary this year.

The two "new" tracks were penned by Buckingham. Last year, he went into the studio with Fleetwood and McVie to record eight songs they hoped would become the catalyst for a new Fleetwood Mac album. But Nicks had reservations.

"We really didn't want to rent a house for a year and then make a whole record with 13, 14, 15 songs on it, then have most of the people who are thinking about buying it buy one song," she explained. "So we did the three songs, and we'll see how the world reacts to that. If they love those three songs, then maybe they might talk us into doing something else."

Maybe Nicks and Buckingham's hand-holding isn't for the cameras. Maybe it's to remind each other that despite their differences, they remain personally supportive and unified in their commitment to the juggernaut that is Fleetwood Mac -- even if it means playing mostly vintage hits for their upcoming tour.
"That's okay," Buckingham conceded. "That's part and parcel with what we do."

"We laugh," added Nicks, "but (the classics are) why we all have a beautiful house."

[michelej1]

She's been talking about beautiful houses ever since she visited Lindsey.

Was she under the impression that Lindsey lived in a hovel before? I guess she looked at the way he dressed and assumed the worst.

I laughed the other day because she tried to bring Mick into it by acknowledging his restaurant.

Michele

[WildHearted]

Was she under the impression that Lindsey lived in a hovel before? I guess she looked at the way he dressed and assumed the worst.
Michele

:lol:

Had she never been there before?

Or did Kristen just redecorate?

[elle]

:lol:

Had she never been there before?

Or did Kristen just redecorate?

Lindsey said in one of the interviews this was the first time she had been to his house.

[britt0308]

Lindsey said in one of the interviews this was the first time she had been to his house.

yes! picked up on that comment as well anyone else find that strange?!

and wasn't syw..or part of it recorded at his house?

[CADreaming]

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Lindsey, Stevie, and Mick discuss new tour and songs - including <I>Without You!</I>:blob2:

do me a favor, dee--link me to the clip where you think it's playing. i might be commenting based on the wrong video!

Hey cutie - hope you're good!

It's in the video above - the opening background track. What'cha think?

[elle]

yes! picked up on that comment as well anyone else find that strange?!

and wasn't syw..or part of it recorded at his house?

nope. at the time of the syw he was building a new house on the hill - the one he sold in the meantime an built the current one.

[WildHearted]

yes! picked up on that comment as well anyone else find that strange?!

and wasn't syw..or part of it recorded at his house?

Tango was recorded at Lindsey's house. But not this house.

I didn't pick up on that - which interview was it? Anyone know?

It is kind of strange, but at the same time, I seem to remember an article where Stevie mentioned that she had never been to Lindsey's house... but I think it was from maybe the SYW era so I just assumed sometime in the last 10 years she'd gone over there. At one point didn't they only live a few miles away from each other?

[elle]

Tango was recorded at Lindsey's house. But not this house.

I didn't pick up on that - which interview was it? Anyone know?

It is kind of strange, but at the same time, I seem to remember an article where Stevie mentioned that she had never been to Lindsey's house... but I think it was from maybe the SYW era so I just assumed sometime in the last 10 years she'd gone over there. At one point didn't they only live a few miles away from each other?

he may have said it in that his-and-hers RS interview? i'm not sure but i think it was not one of these from village recorder studios, although i might be wrong.

SN mentioned that in 2009 during UL tour promotion i believe. or maybe in that relatively recent BBC doc that just re-aired 2 days ago?

[CADreaming]

Tango was recorded at Lindsey's house. But not this house.

I didn't pick up on that - which interview was it? Anyone know?

It is kind of strange, but at the same time, I seem to remember an article where Stevie mentioned that she had never been to Lindsey's house... but I think it was from maybe the SYW era so I just assumed sometime in the last 10 years she'd gone over there. At one point didn't they only live a few miles away from each other?

She made that comment in the 2009 Don't Stop doc for BBC. She said he had only been to her house a couple of times and she had never been to his.

They still do not live far from each other, but she was renting some other house at the time she said that during TISL - I think it was the one she had the photo shoot and pretty red dress/cape thing whatever with the roses on on the tiled staircase outside.

[britt0308]

nope. at the time of the syw he was building a new house on the hill - the one he sold in the meantime an built the current one.

gotcha! couldn't remember if it was a brand new house at the time of syw as opposed to selling/building his current house.

[britt0308]

Tango was recorded at Lindsey's house. But not this house.

I didn't pick up on that - which interview was it? Anyone know?

It is kind of strange, but at the same time, I seem to remember an article where Stevie mentioned that she had never been to Lindsey's house... but I think it was from maybe the SYW era so I just assumed sometime in the last 10 years she'd gone over there. At one point didn't they only live a few miles away from each other?

One of the first batch of promo videos..also in the Don't Stop doc as previously mentioned. I too would have just assumed since then they had visited each other's places.

[michelej1]

gotcha! couldn't remember if it was a brand new house at the time of syw as opposed to selling/building his current house.

And they rented a house to record SYW in.

Michele

[elle]

And they rented a house to record SYW in.

Michele

yup!

watch Destiny Rules doc people - it's all in there! and some also in Lindsey's Soundstage.

or follow recent real estate news on twitter :p... all his houses were described in detail yet again when he bought another lot with a fixer-upper on it recently.

[britt0308]

Originally Posted by michelej1
And they rented a house to record SYW in.

Michele

yup!

watch Destiny Rules doc people - it's all in there! and some also in Lindsey's Soundstage.

or follow recent real estate news on twitter :p... all his houses were described in detail yet again when he bought another lot with a fixer-upper on it recently.

Yes yes, thank you both for the fact checks! I haven't seen the doc in quite some time, so the details get a bit fuzzy. Thanks to all the experts here :thumbsup:

[vivfox]

Thanks to all the experts here :thumbsup:


Concerning Lindsey, elle is not just an expert. She's a sexpert.

[britt0308]

Concerning Lindsey, elle is not just an expert. She's a sexpert.

haha well clearly, either way you look at it, she's well versed. :p and we all appreciate it.

[elle]

She's a sexpert.
not sure i would want to know what you mean by that. :shrug:

haha well clearly, either way you look at it, she's well versed. :p and we all appreciate it.
it's amazing how much useless info one's brain can retain, isn't it? :laugh:

[elle]

http://www.gigwise.com/news/79184/why-fleetwood-macs-2013-tour-is-reason-to-be-excited

Tuesday 29th January 2013 by Grace Carroll | Photos by WENNTags: Fleetwood Mac

WHY FLEETWOOD MAC'S 2013 TOUR IS REASON TO BE EXCITEDBack on the road in 2013, with UK dates hinted at - but why all the fuss?

Photo: WENNFleetwood Mac Tickets
Comebacks and reunions tours are everywhere right now, and it's getting harder to think of a band who haven't reunited or announced a comeback tour in 2013 - but Fleetwood Mac's live shows in Autumn 2013 are reason to get more excited than most.

With the headlines being made by David Bowie, Black Flag, Pink Floyd, Suede, The Who and The Rolling Stones at the moment, it'd be easy to think that we'd slipped back a decade or two in the music world.

And yet there's something about the latest news that is bigger than the 'comeback phase'. Because Fleetwood Mac have announced a UK tour and, while it isn't the Glastonbury announcement that we'd all hoped for, it's certainly enough to get everyone really excited. Like, really excited. Mick Jagger who?

But considering that Fleetwood Mac haven't released an album in ten years, it's easy to wonder what all the fuss is really about - never mind that 2003's Say You Will was a perfect example of how well Fleetwood Mac manage to stay relevant and avoid the nostalgia trap that so many 'classic' bands fall into, the fact still remains that most people unfortunately won't even be aware of its existence.

Part of the reason for the current surrounding meltdown is simple - Fleetwood Mac don't tour very often. Whatever the reason for wanting to see them - a sense of misplaced nostalgia, an appreciation for Rumours or just the opportunity to worship at the feet of rock goddess Stevie Nicks in person - it's difficult to get the chance. In the last ten years, Fleetwood Mac have toured twice. So with that in mind, it's not surprising that the news of the 2013 tour is being met with such enthusiasm.



After all, Stevie Nicks herself put it best in a recent interview with Reuters. "I don't want a Fleetwood Mac tour every year or year and a half," she said. "That's why people get so excited. ... All of a sudden the world is on edge and that's what gets you out there."

There's no doubt that the world is on edge.

And another part of the reason for that is because finally - finally! - the band's 'classic' line-up is going on tour. Instead of having to take a bingo card along to the concert in order to tick off the members that have been on stage at one point or another, fans can get the 'big four' crossed off. That's right; 2013 is going to see John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood team up once again - minus Christine McVie who, let's be realistic, is never going to come back to the band and will forever keep fans from getting that 'bingo!' moment.

Fleetwood Mac are one of the few bands that manage to transcend eras. It's not a throwback to the 70s - and it won't just be packed with middle-aged men trying to relive their youth. The only reason that their music sounds like the 70s is because it's associated with that - and even then, rarely.



Modern music today all takes inspiration from Fleetwood Mac. Haim, who won the BBC Sound of 2013 poll, have a definite sound of Rumours in their music, Taylor Swift's music harks back to the Fleetwood Mac heyday, Best Coast, MGMT and The Kills all took part in a Fleetwood Mac tribute album. Even Beyonce sampled Stevie Nicks' 1981 hit 'Edge of Seventeen' for 'Bootylicious' - can anyone need more proof than that?

Above all, Fleetwood Mac are timeless. Rumours, with all of its bitterness and vulnerability and heartbreak, is real - and appealing to everyone. Fleetwood Mac have been through whatever you've been through, and they've got the ability to put what you're feeling into a song and play it back to you.

So why is a Fleetwood Mac comeback so popular? Here's why - because, let's face it; in an ideal world, they'd never even go away.

[elle]

http://www.gigwise.com/news/79204/Stevie-Nicks-'Lindsey-left-Fleetwood-because-he-thought-I-was-going-to-die

Wednesday 30th January 2013 by Adam Tait | Photos by WENN.comTags: Fleetwood Mac

STEVIE NICKS: 'LINDSEY LEFT FLEETWOOD BECAUSE HE THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE'Singer reveals the impact of drug addiction

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Stevie Nicks has revealed that her addiction to tranquilizers played a part in her former boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham's decision to quit Fleetwood Mac.

This year sees the band heading out on tour again, with their seminal album Rumours already having been re-released. The original lineup surprised some when they reunited in 1997, but apparently it was guitarist Lindsey Buckingham who had been reluctant before then.

Buckingham left the band after they released the relatively successful Tango In The Night, and says himself it was down to his desire to work on solo albums.

But Stevie Nicks suggests his departure had something to do with her addiction and Buckingham's concern for her health.

"I went into rehab on December 12th, 1993 and came out on the 27th of January - 47 days to come off Klonopin. I nearly died," she tells Rolling Stone.

"And I think one of the reasons that Lindsey left is because I was very, very high on this horrific tranquilizer. I didn't even make it to most of the recording sessions for Tango In The Night. I was sick.

"And I think he was horribly worried that I was going to die."

After her stint in rehab Nicks went on to complete a three month tour and says that after that she felt the people around her were reassured that she was going to be OK.

"I was going to be OK, and everyone knew I was going to be OK. And I think that's when Lindsey thought Fleetwood Mac could go on, because his beloved ex-girlfriend was not going to die. She was going to make it."

There had been speculation that Fleetwood Mac would be performing at this year's Glastonbury Festival as the dates had been left conspicuously clear at the end of their North American tour.



Stevie Nicks on stage with drummer Mick Fleetwood

But it apparently is not to be, with new dates announced which rule out the possibility.

The band will, however, be visiting the UK in the autumn - in either September or October - to play a series of shows.

Their seminal album Rumours is also on course to re-enter the UK Albums Chart this weekend, nearly 36 years after it's initial release in February 1977.

Below: what to expect from Fleetwood Mac's 2013 tour

[elle]

http://b1027.com/buckingham-recalls-quitting-fleetwood-mac/

Buckingham Recalls Quitting Fleetwood Mac
By Pulse of Radio 45 minutes ago

(Gaye Gerard/Getty Images)

Lindsey Buckingham talked openly about his 1987 split from Fleetwood Mac. Following the release of the band’s comeback album, Tango In The Night, Buckingham backed out of touring with the band, and officially stayed away from Fleetwood Mac until their 1997 The Dance reunion special and CD.

Buckingham explained to Rolling Stone that it took until his one-off appearance with Fleetwood Mac at President Clinton’s inaugural bash for him to see a way back into the band: “We did Clinton’s inauguration in ’93, and that was sort of the catalyst and had a delayed reaction. I think by the time you cut to ’96, when we contemplated doing The Dance, there had been enough time where we all settled down as people. The craziness that existed in ’87 and ’88 was gone. We were — for all intents and purposes — adults. I think the time apart helped us appreciate each other. The group has always been a group of people you can say maybe didn’t belong in the same band together, but it’s the synergy that makes it so magical. We were able to see that more clearly.”

Although Buckingham now saves songs from his solo sessions for prospective Fleetwood Mac tracks, he recalled that back in the day, it was literally the opposite way around for him and the band: “The Tango In The Night album has tracks on it that were the beginnings of my third solo record. And I started that, and the group sort of moved in and said, ‘Hey, we gotta do this.’ So the song ‘Big Love’ switched gears and got into the group thing. There was more than one time when I was tempted to sort of go out and leave the group — but its like anything else; you have to check your own impulses and make sure that you’re really doing the right thing and you’re ready for it.”

Buckingham told us that splitting Fleetwood Mac before the band’s 1988 tour behind Tango In The Night was purely for his own creative survival: “I had left in ’87, things had just gotten too crazy and I was just trying to, y’know, get my own act back together and reclaim my sanity and creativity.”

Fleetwood Mac will kick off its 48-date North American tour on April 4th at Columbus, Ohio’s Nationwide Arena

[WildHearted]

And another part of the reason for that is because finally - finally! - the band's 'classic' line-up is going on tour. Instead of having to take a bingo card along to the concert in order to tick off the members that have been on stage at one point or another, fans can get the 'big four' crossed off. That's right; 2013 is going to see John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood team up once again.

What? Finally? This is that line-ups 3rd world tour in the past 10 years. :shrug:

[Dragonfly]

What? Finally? This is that line-ups 3rd world tour in the past 10 years. :shrug:

I've never seen such a buzz about Fleetwood Mac in the UK press EVER!

It's as though the 2003/2009 tours never took place. Even on the UK Google News page in the entertainment section that article you've quoted from is a main headline.

It's all good of course, but strange!

[Jondalar]

I've never seen such a buzz about Fleetwood Mac in the UK press EVER!

It's as though the 2003/2009 tours never took place. Even on the UK Google News page in the entertainment section that article you've quoted from is a main headline.

It's all good of course, but strange!

Do people over there watch Glee? I know Stevie did a lot of press over there recently. Obviously, that has helped. What about Sharon Osborn? Does she have an impact over there. She loves Stevie.

[The Catdancer]

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/fleetwood_mac_planning_to_release_new_songs_ahead_of_world_tour


Mick Fleetwood has promised fans Fleetwood Mac will release new material ahead of the band's upcoming tour later this year.

Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham will regroup for a world tour in April to coincide with the 35th anniversary of their Rumours album, which remains one of the most successful releases of all time.

The drummer now reveals they started work on a collection of new tracks before Nicks' mother passed away in December 2011, and he hopes the songs will come out online before the shows.

He tells BBC Radio 6 Music, "We decided, myself and Lindsey, went into the studio and created a calling card for Stevie letting her know we wanted to make new music. We had the greatest time and we made some really good music. Then her mother died and it wasn't time for her to be singing.

"Just recently though she has sung on three of them and we've recorded one original song of hers. So, we're going to go crazy and there will be something out that we will play onstage and that might become part of a long term plan over the next year. Our wish is going to come true and we will finish an album. I hope there is a demand for it, after we throw two or three songs out on the Internet, and we might make an album."

The tour will kick off in Columbus, Ohio on 4 April.

[Dragonfly]

Do people over there watch Glee? I know Stevie did a lot of press over there recently. Obviously, that has helped. What about Sharon Osborn? Does she have an impact over there. She loves Stevie.

Yes Glee is shown here, but only on a Satellite channel I think. I know Rumours shot up the album charts after it aired so it did have some impact.

Stevie was well received and did more press then she usually does so that may have helped too.

Sharon Osbourne used to be on the panel of X Factor but that was a while ago now, I haven't seen that much of her on UK tv lately though.

I've no idea why interest in them seems to be at an all time high? I'm guessing people are getting fed up with the same old, same old chart cr*p that we're having to endure and are realising how good this band really are.

[Jondalar]

Yes Glee is shown here, but only on a Satellite channel I think. I know Rumours shot up the album charts after it aired so it did have some impact.

Stevie was well received and did more press then she usually does so that may have helped too.

Sharon Osbourne used to be on the panel of X Factor but that was a while ago now, I haven't seen that much of her on UK tv lately though.

I've no idea why interest in them seems to be at an all time high? I'm guessing people are getting fed up with the same old, same old chart cr*p that we're having to endure and are realising how good this band really are.

I remember an article about the Pet Shop Boys. They said they really wanted to work with Stevie Nicks. They also said they didn't know how they could have missed Fleetwood Mac and her in the 80s. It was like they were just discovering them now.

I know Australia has always loved Stevie but Europe has been a missed bag. I just think she is a slow burner over there. But once she does interviews and they see her personality, maybe they will warmup

[WildHearted]

Yes Glee is shown here, but only on a Satellite channel I think. I know Rumours shot up the album charts after it aired so it did have some impact.

Stevie was well received and did more press then she usually does so that may have helped too.

Sharon Osbourne used to be on the panel of X Factor but that was a while ago now, I haven't seen that much of her on UK tv lately though.

I've no idea why interest in them seems to be at an all time high? I'm guessing people are getting fed up with the same old, same old chart cr*p that we're having to endure and are realising how good this band really are.

A lot of clearly Mac influenced bands are becoming popular now. Folk-pop is slowly but surely gaining prominence in the mainstream again (and has been prominent in a sort of alternate-mainstream [lol] for a few years now). I think that has a lot to do with it.

[michelej1]

Spinner magazine video interview with the 3. Lindsey says, "a lot of heroism in making the choices to follow our destiny."

http://www.spinner.com/2013/01/31/fleetwood-mac-anniversary-concert/

Spinner story: http://www.spinner.com/2013/01/31/fleetwood-mac-anniversary-concert/

They remain one of the world's most beloved bands, an eclectic blend of Englishmen and Americans called Fleetwood Mac. This spring they will hit the road once again, embarking on a significant North American tour that will run until late summer.

They also have just released an expanded version of their magnum opus, 1977's Rumours. The sprawling edition goes way beyond the basic album, which since its release has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

There is also a disc that includes 12 unreleased live recordings from the Rumours tour and perhaps most interesting is the collection of 16 unreleased recordings from deep within the album sessions.

This treasure trove includes early takes of "Go Your Own Way," "I Don't Want to Know," "Dreams," "Silver Springs" and much more. In particular, the demos and outtakes provide a fascinating peek into the Fleetwood Mac creative process. And of course, the process of this album became almost as famous as the album itself. The fractured personal relationships, the booze and the drugs all combined to create a highly intense pressure cooker of an environment that as we know produced one of the most compelling albums in modern history.

To hear many of the band's hits deconstructed like this gives the listener a blueprint as to how they worked and how they thought. This was a band that was experimenting, exploring and incorporating much of their own personal pain into the art they were creating, and to have sonic evidence of it such as this is quite thrilling.

Recently, Spinner at the unique opportunity to sit down with Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood to talk about the album, the tour, the relationships and the possibility of a 50th anniversary concert bringing back all the surviving members of the group. (Interestingly, the interview took place in the same building with the band recorded the follow-up to Rumours, 1979's Tusk.) Check it out above.

[Macfanforever]

Was that a typo on the site that said 50 Anniversary.

[michelej1]

Was that a typo on the site that said 50 Anniversary.

Mick was asked what he was going to do for the 59th anniversary and if he had a plan to get all surviving band members together for that. He said that hadn't occurred to him and mentioned that Bob Weston and Bob Welch had passed last year.

Michele

[elle]

http://www.spinner.com/2013/01/31/fleetwood-mac-anniversary-concert/

seriously considering a song from Lindsey's SWS and Stevie's IYD? i like that.:thumbsup: do we really have a chance to hear In Our Own Time or That's The Way Love Goes on this FM tour?? how great would that be? :nod::]

[michelej1]

seriously considering a song from Lindsey's SWS and Stevie's IYD? i like that.:thumbsup: do we really have a chance to hear In Our Own Time or That's The Way Love Goes on this FM tour?? how great would that be? :nod::]

Well, since she probably will do Soldier's Angel, I guess he might do one of his. Please not the title cut -- not unless it's the electric version.

When she said they all come in with their list of songs they want to do and sometimes it might be a song they've had on the list for 30 years and never got to do it. I would love to see each of their lists. I think it's safe to say SOTM is one Mick's list, but I can't imagine what songs are on Lindsey or Stevie's list that they've wanted to do but always got outvoted. She did say that about Storms or Beautiful Child though, that as a songwriter you have a song that you don't think you'll ever do live. I wonder what else is on her list.

Michele

[elle]

Well, since she probably will do Soldier's Angel, I guess he might do one of his. Please not the title cut -- not unless it's the electric version.

yeah we were discussing that on fb. he/they should pick one of his rocking songs from SWS since he'll have a backing band / FM he can jam and rock out with that he doesn't have if he keeps doing completely solo tours.

however great Rock Away Blind is live, that song can shine completely solo acoustically, same with SWS acoustic that he never did with backing band even when he was taking a band on tour with him. so it would be completely disappointing if he/they picks acoustic SWS to do with the Mac. and please no need to do SAC or EOT again Lindsey. these 2 again would be better solo acoustically.

[Macfanforever]

Mick was asked what he was going to do for the 59th anniversary and if he had a plan to get all surviving band members together for that. He said that hadn't occurred to him and mentioned that Bob Weston and Bob Welch had passed last year.

Michele


Thanks for clearing that up.

[michelej1]

and please no need to do SAC

Oh, you know that's the best song you heard at the Saban! I only agree with not doing it because I am going for in-house songwriting. No Blue Letter either.

Michele

[elle]

Oh, you know that's the best song you heard at the Saban! I only agree with not doing it because I am going for in-house songwriting. No Blue Letter either.

Michele

that's what everybody else thought. not me. my first picks at Saban were That's The Way Love Goes and Illumination. 1000s of listens later i never got tired of the live version of TTWLG :thumbsup:

[michelej1]

that's what everybody else thought. not me.

Yes, I know.

I thought it was hysterical when Stevie said they had 10-12 songs they had to do and then 15 that were up for grabs. Fifteen? As if. The true number is more like five.

Michele

[elle]

Yes, I know.

I thought it was hysterical when Stevie said they had 10-12 songs they had to do and then 15 that were up for grabs. Fifteen? As if. The true number is more like five.

Michele

lol. and she got those 5 already covered - 3 new songs and 1 each from hers and Lindsey's most recent solo album. add WATL to that and i might be able to live with it, although would not be nearly satisfied.

maybe they really stick to just 12 hits/setlist regulars? :shrug: yeah right. ;)

[CADreaming]

Yes, I know.

I thought it was hysterical when Stevie said they had 10-12 songs they had to do and then 15 that were up for grabs. Fifteen? As if. The true number is more like five.

Michele

Cracked me up when she said they would bring in the list of songs they'd like to do - the same list they've been bringing in for 30 years that always gets vetoed. LOL. No wonder she gave that speech about Beautiful Child during SYW: "I didn't think they'd let me do it. I thought I would always just play it at home by myself."

[michelej1]

So, I saw a commercial for the Staples concert on July 3, 2013 and it says,

"Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham."

They are going with her getting top billing and him getting anchor billing, like Joan Collins.

They used old footage, some of it went as far back as The Dance.

Michele

[WildHearted]

Oh gosh. They start talking about Rumours and Lindsey's talking about how the dynamics of the songs flowed and then Stevie chirps in about the sequencing being great and Lindsey's like, "That must have been yours" with an awesome little glance/clearing of the throat.

http://www.bing.com/videos/browse?mkt=en-us&vid=3879d841-5e10-4e10-9fcd-503b7dcbd2ae&from=sharepermalink&src=v5:share:sharepermalink:&from=dest_en-us

Mick: "I didn't enjoy going out into the car-park to tell Stevie that Silver Springs wasn't going to be on the record."

[michelej1]

Oh gosh. They start talking about Rumours and Lindsey's talking about how the dynamics of the songs flowed and then Stevie chirps in about the sequencing being great and Lindsey's like, "Well, that must have been yours." :lol:



Oh, that's so cute, because the way she is tapping his arm and he is smiling with both his lips and his eyes tells us that they have joked about this too, just like we have. Lindsey may have challenged the fact that she did the sequencing before.

Michele

[WildHearted]

Oh, that's so cute, because the way she is tapping his arm and he is smiling with both his lips and his eyes tells us that they have joked about this too, just like we have. Lindsey may have challenged the fact that she did the sequencing before.

Michele

Yeah, it was really cute. Lindsey's response was great. Even Mick was smiling at them.

[CADreaming]

Oh gosh. They start talking about Rumours and Lindsey's talking about how the dynamics of the songs flowed and then Stevie chirps in about the sequencing being great and Lindsey's like, "That must have been yours" with an awesome little glance/clearing of the throat.

http://www.bing.com/videos/browse?mkt=en-us&vid=3879d841-5e10-4e10-9fcd-503b7dcbd2ae&from=sharepermalink&src=v5:share:sharepermalink:&from=dest_en-us

Mick: "I didn't enjoy going out into the car-park to tell Stevie that Silver Springs wasn't going to be on the record."

Roflol!!! :lol::lol::lol:

[Dragonfly]

Fleetwood Mac/Lindsey headline news on home page of NME.com (only a shorter version of his Rolling Stone interview).

There is also a story about the Dave Grohl/Sound City interviews and mention of Stevie playing at the Sound City gig with Foo Fighters and ex Nirvana members.
http://www.nme.com/


This magazine/site is usually aimed at new up and coming bands or 'flavour of the month bands' and is mainly aimed at the 16-34 year old market so it's fantastic that they're getting mentioned so much here:D

The link to this story is again headline news on the Google UK entertainment section. They couldn't have asked for better publicity here, I can see the tour really doing well.

[TrueFaith77]

1) That first picture of Lindsey and Christine (and john and mick) is breathtaking!?! Anyone have that?

2) What is Stevie wearing?

[louielouie2000]

New NBC News article complete with a poll of your favorite Rumours song:

http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16839681-fleetwood-macs-legendary-rumours-album-turns-36?lite

Fleetwood Mac's legendary 'Rumours' album turns 36
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

Whenever a music publication makes a list of top rock albums, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is there. While the album actually came out 36 years ago, the band is celebrating with what's being called a 35th anniversary expanded edition.

"We've been waiting a long time to put this out," Stevie Nicks told Rolling Stone. "If you were a Fleetwood Mac fan, you get to hear the songs turn into the songs without a lot of overdubbing. It's very simple."

"Rumours is the kind of album that transcends its origins and reputation, entering the realm of legend," writes Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic.com. "It's an album that simply exists outside of criticism and outside of its time, even if it thoroughly captures its era."

The album is noteworthy of course for such songs as "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop," and "You Make Lovin' Fun," but also for the band's own romantic turmoil as the album was being made, which bleeds through into the music.

"That really was a lot of the appeal of Rumours," Lindsey Buckingham admitted in the same Rolling Stone interview. "The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it was two couples breaking up and writing dialogue to each other."

The band recently added more dates to their upcoming tour, which begins April 4 in Columbus, Ohio, and which will include many songs from "Rumours."

Christine McVie will not be a part of the tour. In 2012, when the tour was announced, Nicks told Rolling Stone, "(McVie) went to England and she has never been back since 1998, so it's not really feasible, as much as we would all like to think that she'll just change her mind one day. I don't think it'll happen. We love her, so we had to let her go."

The band's 1975 song "Landslide" appeared in Sunday's Budweiser Super Bowl commercial, one of the most popular ads of the night.

Are you a Fleetwood Mac fan? What's the best song from "Rumours"? Vote in our poll, and tell us on Facebook.

[michelej1]

Both Mick and Stevie think that Christine has never been back to the United States since 1998.

She was here. She even did interviews in the states. I guess it doesn't take much to keep secrets from that bunch, especially when they're on tour and closed off from the world.

Michele

[WildHearted]

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What an interesting still :lol:

[michelej1]

What an interesting still :lol:

Whoa, Stevie was not deviating from that "three years," was she? She's like a nut.

-Well, I had that tractor accident and I couldn't tour in 2012.
-We tour every three years.

Michele

[elle]

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What an interesting still :lol:

:laugh: some profound stuff there:

"a big tour is a big tour"

"3 years is good though!" "3 years is good. you know?"

[CADreaming]

:laugh: some profound stuff there:

"a big tour is a big tour"

"3 years is good though!" "3 years is good. you know?"

Lol! Exactly. The profoundness is stupefying.

[MikeInNV]

Do we have the footage from Extra yet? My mom said she saw it in the middle of the night and at the end (presumably at the end of the whole show, during the credits), Stevie sang them out. Does anyone know what she was singing?

[WildHearted]

Do we have the footage from Extra yet? My mom said she saw it in the middle of the night and at the end (presumably at the end of the whole show, during the credits), Stevie sang them out. Does anyone know what she was singing?

The only thing I can sing of is when Stevie sang at the beginning of that Fuse video.

I don't think I've seen this Extra interview, if she sang in it. We have this one:
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[seekerj]

Whoa, Stevie was not deviating from that "three years," was she? She's like a nut.

-Well, I had that tractor accident and I couldn't tour in 2012.
-We tour every three years.

Michele

heeheehee

And doesn't 2013 minus 2009 (Unleashed) equal 4 ??

[CADreaming]

heeheehee

And doesn't 2013 minus 2009 (Unleashed) equal 4 ??

Sshhhhhh. We're not telling her. ;)

[michelej1]

Daisy Wyatt, The Independent February 5, 2013

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/fleetwood-mac-to-go-their-own-way-performing-new-songs-on-tour--and-fans-outraged-at-tickets-that-cost-more-than-my-rent-8481924.html

Fleetwood Mac to go their own way performing new songs on tour - and fans outraged at 'tickets that cost more than my rent'

Fans might clamour for the hits from Rumours but Fleetwood Mac will perform new material on their forthcoming tour.

Speaking to BBC 6 Music drummer Mick Fleetwood said the band had written three new songs, which they plan to play on stage later this year.

The 65-year-old hinted the recordings could be part of a “long term plan” to release a new studio album.

But fans hit back today at the price of tickets for the Fleetwood Mac tour, due to play in London,

Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin. Tickets are priced between £50 and £125, but with a £12.50 booking fee can reach up to £137.50 each.

One fan tweeted: “Sorry Fleetwood Mac but your tickets cost more than my rent” while another said: “£135 each for Fleetwood Mac tickets…are they having a giraffe? Top price Beyonce tickets look set to be £95 too. Robbing bastards.”

The Rolling Stones were also criticised by fans last year for the cost of their tour, with tickets selling for as much as £1,300.

After frequent changes to the line-up since the band formed in London in 1967, the 2013 tour will feature Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, and founding members Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass.

Fleetwood revealed this morning that he had written some songs with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham six months ago as “a calling card” for singer Nicks.

“We wanted her to know we wanted to make some new music and we had some great songs,” he said.

“But her mother died not too long after and it wasn't the time for her to do any singing, so we dropped it.

”Then recently she's sung on three of them and recorded one original song of hers, so we're going to mix these songs down and there'll be something that we will play hopefully on stage.“

Nicks vowed last year that the tour would not be the band’s last, who have had more than four decades of making music.

“It’s never going to be a final tour until we drop dead. There’s no reason for this to end as long as everyone is in good shape and takes care of themselves,” she said.

[Dragonfly]

There is an interview with Mick and some band photos in UK mag 'Uncut' this month, I didn't buy it as it was £4.99!

There is also a new interview and beautiful old photo of Stevie in NME (with 'Hurts' cover). There are four photos in all, one full page of Stevie, one small current photo, one small one of her with headphones on from Rumours era, and small band photo from Grammy awards from 70s.

She talks quite a bit about fellow female singers and a bit about 'Twilight' as well as Rumours. I've looked at their site and can't find the article but a heads up to anyone who can get hold of the mag.

[bombaysaffires]

so.. what's the original Nicks piece then I wonder?

Previously mentioned were were 2 LB pieces (Miss Fantasy ,Sad Angel) and one old BN song (Without You)=3

Mick here says a total of 4 songs.

[michelej1]

I had noticed earlier that Mick kept saying that Stevie sang on 2 OR three songs. I kept wondering if there was a third song that she sang on recently that we don't know about.

Michele

[rhiannondontgo]

so.. what's the original Nicks piece then I wonder?

Previously mentioned were were 2 LB pieces (Miss Fantasy ,Sad Angel) and one old BN song (Without You)=3

Mick here says a total of 4 songs.


Could it be My Mother's Rings?

[Johnny Stew]

From The Times (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article3680264.ece). Full article transcription (and a rare 1993 photo of Christine & Mick) posted on Neil's (nodmod) site, FleetwoodMac-UK.com (http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/wp/2013/02/07/we-were-never-too-stoned-to-play-fleetwood-mac-the-comeback-interview-the-times/?fb_source=pubv1).



'We were never too stoned to play' Fleetwood Mac: the comeback interview
The Mac are back, with live shows, songs and a re-release.

By Will Hodgkinson

It is 36 years since Rumours, the soft-rock masterpiece by Fleetwood Mac, became the soundtrack to separation. Songs such as Go Your Own Way, The Chain and You Make Loving Fun articulated the new rules of relationships for the baby boom generation, capturing the reality of affairs, tensions, betrayals and break-ups and selling more than 40 million copies in the process. For much of the 1980s, arguing over who got the copy of Rumours was as much a part of divorce as lawyer’s fees and pretending to like each other in front of the kids.

Rumours hit a nerve because it came from a place of truth. Fleetwood Mac’s keyboardist Christine McVie was divorcing its bassist John McVie. The singer Stevie Nicks was splitting with her childhood sweetheart, the band’s guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Stuck somewhere in the middle was the drummer Mick Fleetwood, who was recently divorced from his wife. Everyone dealt with the situation in the only way rock stars in the 1970s knew how: by taking huge amounts of cocaine.

It should have ended there, but as Fleetwood says, “Rumours is the thing that would not go away.” While the album has just gone back into the Top Three, four of the band members are putting aside the pain of the past and, in one of the biggest break up and make up stories of all time, getting ready to go out on the road again for a world tour. Only Christine McVie, who left the band in 1998, is staying away. She’s been leading a reclusive, distinctly non-rock’n’roll life in a Kent farmhouse ever since, having no involvement with Fleetwood Mac and never giving interviews — until now.

“We were very hedonistic,” says McVie, recalling the band’s reputation for excess in the fond manner of someone remembering high jinks at school. “But it was always fun because we never got into heroin or anything like that. If you got too high you had a drink, and if you got too drunk you had another line of coke. We did that every night until three or four in the morning. It was different back then. Once you made it you were completely nurtured in this little world.”

Why did she leave the band? “After I took my 95,000th flight something snapped. I became terrified of flying and I couldn’t face living out of a suitcase any more.”

So it comes as a further surprise to hear that, two days after our interview, she’s flying to Fleetwood’s house in Maui, Hawaii, before traveling to Los Angeles to meet the rest of the band as they rehearse for a world tour.

“No, no, no,” says Mick Fleetwood, the band’s genial, pony-tailed giant of a drummer, when I ask him if McVie will actually return to complete Rumour’s two-warring-couples dynamic that, in Buckingham’s words, “brought out the voyeur in everyone”. “We love her, we miss her, but no. She’s left. Still, she’s a huge part of our story and I certainly hope that when we tour in September and October she makes one little excursion to a gig.”

The fact that Rumours continues to fascinate is not simply down to the quality of the music, although the clean-cut sonic perfection and lyrical seduction of songs such as The Chain and Don’t Stop is too tasty to resist. It’s also because this is a story yet to be completed. And what a story it is.

The Fleetwood Mac of Rumours began in 1974, when, having been hugely successful figures in the late Sixties British blues boom, the band were in trouble. Founder Peter Green, briefly mooted as the greatest guitarist of his generation, developed schizophrenia and left in 1970 after saying he wanted to give all the band’s money to charity. The following year the Mac’s second guitarist Jeremy Spencer popped out before a gig in Los Angeles to buy a magazine and never came back. His band members later discovered he had joined the Children Of God cult. There was even a fake Fleetwood Mac out on the road, put together by the band’s manager. Fleetwood suggested to the McVies that they take a drastic step to cure their ills: move to California.

“We had been successful and now we weren’t,” Fleetwood says. “Nothing was happening. But Peter Green had an incredibly generous principle, which was that you could bring new people into the band and allow them to be themselves rather than tell them what to do. That saved Fleetwood Mac.”

Fleetwood was in the Laurel Canyon Country Store in the Hollywood Hills, doing his weekly shopping, when he bumped into an LA scenester he vaguely knew. “This guy had a job hustling people to work in a studio called Sound City, so I put the groceries in the back of my beat-up old Cadillac and drove down there with him. The producer Keith Olsen played me two tracks from an album he had recorded by a duo called Buckingham Nicks, just to demonstrate the [studio’s recording quality]. Next day I called Keith and said: ‘You know that tape you played?’ ”

Buckingham was a broodingly handsome, intensely creative guitarist and songwriter from Palo Alto, California. Nicks, his girlfriend since high school, was a strikingly beautiful singer with a gypsy glamour and a drawled, girlish vocal style. Together they captured a very Californian take on the hippy dream: narcissistic, slightly cosmic, but sophisticated. The album, Buckingham Nicks, bombed, making Fleetwood’s offer of joining Fleetwood Mac at a wage of £300 a week particularly appealing for Nicks, who was supporting the couple by working as a waitress and cleaner.

“Lindsey didn’t actually want to join,” Fleetwood says. “He was on his own creative quest with Buckingham Nicks, he’s never been commercially minded, and while Stevie has always been a great band member Lindsey struggles with it. She convinced him that they should dump what they were doing and put all their ideas into Fleetwood Mac, that it was a way to make a bit of money, and if they didn’t like it they could always leave. I didn’t know that at the time.”

“Mick was wise,” Christine McVie says. “He told me that if I didn’t like Stevie we wouldn’t get them in the band because he knew that having two women that didn’t get along would be a nightmare. We all met at Mick’s flat, and Stevie and I were so completely different from each other that we got along fine. I was intimidated by the quality of the songs on Buckingham Nicks. It made me get my skates on.”

What followed was not just huge success, but the beginning of the most compelling soap opera in the history of pop. The new line-up had a major hit with Fleetwood Mac in 1975, but by the following year, when Fleetwood Mac went into the studio to record what would become Rumours, the couples in the band were in trouble. Nicks addressed her situation in the reflective, affectionate Dreams, which suggests that Buckingham will come back to her when loneliness hits. Buckingham responded with the dismissive Go Your Own Way, the inference being that Nicks should suit action to the title.

“The atmosphere in the studio was … charged,” says Fleetwood, an understatement that speaks volumes. “Here were people who loved each other but couldn’t be together, and it translated into a mutant form of fear and loathing. It was awkward, because you don’t normally spend time with someone at the beginning of a break-up. Recording the album was like divorced parents trying to do the right thing for their children, and our child was Fleetwood Mac. We put in a heroic effort to keep it together.”

“All of these great songs were coming out of a very trying period and none of us wanted to ruin that,” adds Christine McVie, who wrote You Make Loving Fun, Songbird and Don’t Stop at the height of the turmoil. “John and I would create an icy silence that everyone was aware of, Stevie and Lindsey would be screaming at each other on the other side of the room. Even when the nightmarish hell of the two couples was at its absolute worst we knew we were capturing what we were all thinking about. It’s why the truth of the emotions on Rumours jumps out of the grooves.”

Then there was the cocaine. “I didn’t even know what cocaine was until I went to Los Angeles,” says Fleetwood who, according to other band members, made up for lost time with astonishing enthusiasm. “Yes, we were wild and crazy, but we worked incredibly hard, which is always the case with the bands that have survived. We were never too stoned to play.”

Fleetwood Mac survived in spite of all the things — success, excess, money, broken romances, affairs — usually guaranteed to pull a band apart. Fleetwood puts it down to the fact that they made their biggest album without a manager. “A manager would have taken one look at Stevie and said: ‘What are you doing with these guys?’ You’re the star.”

Now the band has recorded eight new Buckingham songs — there are suggestions of an album release for 2014 — and are gearing up for their world tour. This is in spite of Buckingham still being reticent about giving up his solo career for the band, almost 40 years after Nicks first convinced him to do it. “When I spoke to Lindsey about getting the band together last year he said: ‘Don’t give me that Mick push, that guilt thing you do,’ ” Fleetwood says. “Stevie was off on her never-ending solo tour and I was coming to terms with the fact that it might be time to let go. Then Lindsey called up. Now concerts are selling out, people are excited and something is happening. We’d better get our **** together.”

It doesn’t take a relationships expert to work out that some issues remain unresolved. In 2009 Nicks told an interviewer from MTV “that electric crazy attraction between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks never dies, never will die, never will go away”. Whether Buckingham, now married with three children, agrees with her is debatable, but the emotional high point of a Fleetwood Mac concert is when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham walk to the front of the stage with hands clasped together. So what if they disappear into separate limousines afterwards? The drama and intrigue behind those perfectly formed songs of love and heartbreak on Rumours is far from over. Perhaps it never will be.

Fleetwood Mac play Dublin, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow in September and October. Presale tickets for the gig at the O2 Arena, London, go on sale today through ticketmaster.co.uk

[wheart]

:laugh: some profound stuff there:

"a big tour is a big tour"

"3 years is good though!" "3 years is good. you know?"

Stevie does love to her point across...underscoring that fact that THEY wanted to come back in two years but SHE said three years is better and that's what they did.

[Johnny Stew]

Some pretty interesting comments from Chris & Mick in that new interview. Including this one:

Now the band has recorded eight new Buckingham songs — there are suggestions of an album release for 2014 — and are gearing up for their world tour. This is in spite of Buckingham still being reticent about giving up his solo career for the band, almost 40 years after Nicks first convinced him to do it. “When I spoke to Lindsey about getting the band together last year he said: ‘Don’t give me that Mick push, that guilt thing you do,’ ” Fleetwood says. “Stevie was off on her never-ending solo tour and I was coming to terms with the fact that it might be time to let go. Then Lindsey called up. Now concerts are selling out, people are excited and something is happening. We’d better get our **** together.”

Sounds like Stevie wasn't the only one who was initially reluctant to tour again.

[bombaysaffires]

Some pretty interesting comments from Chris & Mick in that new interview. Including this one:



Sounds like Stevie wasn't the only one who was initially reluctant to tour again.

until they do the math.....:shrug:

[WildHearted]

It's nice hearing from Christine.

[Johnny Stew]

It's nice hearing from Christine.

It's wonderful to hear from her, but it's also such a tusk-tease. I really hope her reemergence doesn't begin and end with these interviews, and leads to a new song or two.

[michelej1]

VH1 [click for video] February 7, 2013
http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-02-07/fleetwood-mac-talks-tumultuous-past/

We had the nerve-wracking honor of sitting down with Fleetwood Mac recently and chatted with the iconic band about their upcoming tour and the re-issue of their album Rumours, which celebrated its 35th anniversary this week. Most interesting was the group’s willingness to discuss their torrid, rocky personal past with each other, which included break ups, make ups, affairs, drug abuse and lots of legendary songs about it all. The band says that emotions and feelings still pop up when performing together on-stage, where their songs live on even after the old feelings and feuds they detail have long-since died.

“All those feelings that you have for each other do come out on stage,” Stevie Nicks told VH1.”Because you’re telling the stories when you sing the songs, so you are in a way re-enacting what happened.”

Unlike so many other bands, they’ve actually managed to work through it, making their story just as unique and special as the music they’ve created together. “You have to backtrack to Rumours where we were prevailing as a group under the worst personal circumstances and we all paid a price for that emotionally,” said Lindsey Buckingham. “I think it made the dynamic between us a bit elusive and a bit convoluted at times, and over time that has become more refined and more clear. And we can separate what’s important from what’s not important and we can look at everything that’s happened with a certain level of wisdom.”

Mick Fleetwood echoed his sentiments: “That really is the mystery of what we have… there are certain artists that literally agree to really loathe each other in a construct, and they know they play great music and they truthfully can make a lovely living and it’s fine,” he said. “We cannot do that, we simply cannot… because too much has happened between all of these people, which is like Lindsey said, is probably completely unique to a rock n’ roll band.”

Never break the chain, guys. Never break the chain.

The new, three-disc edition of Rumours is out now, and it’s incredible. You can catch the band on tour this Spring and Summer – check out their website for details.

[vivfox]

“Mick was wise,” Christine McVie says. “He told me that if I didn’t like Stevie we wouldn’t get them in the band because he knew that having two women that didn’t get along would be a nightmare. We all met at Mick’s flat, and Stevie and I were so completely different from each other that we got along fine. I was intimidated by the quality of the songs on Buckingham Nicks. It made me get my skates on.”


Stevie always said their first meeting was in a Mexican restaurant.

[michelej1]

Stevie always said their first meeting was in a Mexican restaurant.

Yeah, never heard anything about Mick's flat before. Maybe Christine is losing it.

That's an interesting question. We know what Stevie and Lindser were doing in 1974, but how were the other 3 living. What kind of homes did they have. They were on the road so much that I wasn't even sure that they had permanent homes.

Michele

[CADreaming]

Stevie always said their first meeting was in a Mexican restaurant.

I'm guessing they met up at Mick's before heading out to the restaurant.

[WildHearted]

We know what Stevie and Lindser were doing in 1974, but how were the other 3 living. What kind of homes did they have.

Michele

Clearly Mick lived at a Mexican restaurant.

[michelej1]

Clearly Mick lived at a Mexican restaurant.

They were running a Mexican restaurant, which is why Christine and Mick always had a yen to return to the food industry.

Michele

[SteveMacD]

They were running a Mexican restaurant, which why Christine and Mick always had a yen to return to the food industry.


Burritos Are Hard To Find

[WildHearted]

They were running a Mexican restaurant, which is why Christine and Mick always had a yen to return to the food industry.

Michele

"When Mick Fleetwood and I started performing back in 1974, we had a vision that one day our music would be heard around the world.. while people eat Mexican food in a restaurant."

Stevie Nicks' Fajita Roundup suddenly makes more sense. :lol:

[secondhandchain]

Don't know if this was posted. 19 things you might not know about FM.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/19-things-you-might-not-know-about-fleetwood-mac?fb_action_ids=10200192215122369&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210200192215122369%22%3A145992642227249%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210200192215122369%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

[elle]

new interview with Lindsey here - http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51633

says he's not doing pot anymore... :D

[McTrouble]

new interview with Lindsey here - http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=51633

says he's not doing pot anymore... :D

:D

I like last paragraph too! ;)

[michelej1]

‘Sh*t, I can still play; that’s good’: As Fleetwood Mac reunites, Mick Fleetwood picks his favorite tracks

by Something Else! Reviews, March 22, 2013

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/03/22/sht-i-can-still-play-thats-good-as-fleetwood-mac-reunites-mick-fleetwood-picks-his-favorite-tracks/

For long-time drummer Mick Fleetwood, preparing another reunion set list for Fleetwood Mac is fairly straight forward. Any song, he says, will do — though Fleetwood admits a personal preference for the group’s uptempo songs.

“I have really no specific favorites; I just enjoy playing,” Fleetwood says, in the attached video. “We know we’re going to do certain songs, and if we don’t do them the audience will shoot us. We know that, and we enjoy doing it.”

Fleetwood co-founded Fleetwood Mac along with bassist John McVie and the now-departed Peter Green in the 1960s. After a series of more blues-focused recordings, however, the group began to evolve into a hit-making pop machine in the following decade — reaching critical mass after the twin departures of Green and second guitarist Jeremy Spencer.

Even as the now-retired Christine McVie began to emerge in the band dynamic, the lineup expanded to include Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in the early ’70s. Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 smash Rumours would go on to produce four U.S. Top 10 hit songs, and topped the Billboard album charts for some 31 weeks.

Unsurprisingly, when pressed to select a favorite track, Fleetwood eventually goes with one from that blockbuster release — as well as another from its follow up, 1979′s Tusk.

“I think as a percussionist, a drummer, I always know my tempo is up,” Fleetwood allows. “It lets me know that I’m still doing what I really need to be doing — like ‘Go Your Own Way,’ ‘Tusk.’ Songs like that give me a personal workout, so selfishly I go: “****, I can still play. That’s good.’”

Fleetwood Mac will begin a 16-week series of American concert dates in April, continuing through early July. European shows will follow later in 2013.

[michelej1]

Newsday Apr 05 2013 21:58:48

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/fleetwood-mac-together-and-touring-again-1.4998675

By Glenn Gamboa Newsday
April 05--Fleetwood Mac starts over with every tour.

Though Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks will celebrate their 40th anniversary together next year, they approach each tour as its own experience. And the massive "Fleetwood Mac Live 2013" tour that launched last week and runs through October -- including a Madison Square Garden stop tomorrow, a Prudential Center stop April 24 and a Nikon at Jones Beach Theater stop June 22 -- is no different.

"We never know what we'll play until we walk out the doors of the rehearsal hall," says Nicks, calling from her home in Santa Monica, Calif. "We really don't plan it before that."

With so much legendary material to choose from, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers do have a process for building the tour setlist, she says.

"We know there are songs we have to do, because we have to do them," she says. "We're going to do 'Gold Dust Woman' and 'Go Your Own Way' because everyone wants to hear them -- there's about 10 of those songs. We do about 20 or 21 songs in the show, so when we get there, everybody has a piece of paper with some unfamiliar songs that maybe we have never done or maybe we've done just a few times. We make a big, huge board, and we put all the names of these songs up. Then, we sit down and listen to all the records in case there's anything that we forgot. We add those to the list on the board.

"Then, we sit around on couches with acoustic instruments, and we play all these songs," she continues. "I'll have my four songs that I want. Lindsey will have four songs that he wants, and we'll still have five or six songs left. You see your set start to come together."

'Rumours' has it

With the recent 35th anniversary release of Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning "Rumours" album, one of the biggest-selling albums ever, with 40 million copies sold and more expected to move this year after a new, remastered box set of the album was released in January, there are some additional considerations for the band's show.

"Maybe we will add a song or two from 'Rumours,' " Nicks says. "It's about the set being the best set it can be. We are totally willing to try anything, and that's what we do. You can kind of feel what works and what doesn't work. The unfortunate thing is we haven't fared well in doing [retired Mac keyboardist-singer Christine McVie's] songs. We don't sound like Chris. I don't sound good singing lead on her songs. Lindsey doesn't sound good singing lead on her songs... Her songs don't really play a major part in this, but her songs play a major part in the whole thing."

Another consideration is that, for the first time in a decade, Fleetwood Mac has some new material. Nicks says the band recorded two new songs -- "Miss Fantasy" and "Sad Angel" -- that they might play.

Recording session

Early last year, Buckingham, Fleetwood and John McVie went into the studio to work on music and recorded several songs. "I didn't go then because my mom had just died," Nicks says. "But I recently went into the studio with Lindsey, and we listened to the songs they recorded. I put vocals on two songs, and they came out great. They really sound like great Fleetwood Mac songs. Lindsey told me when they were recording, he had really tried to see through my eyes, to really be me, and he has the ability to do that. They're really a lot of fun."

Nicks hopes another song that may be new to Fleetwood Mac fans, though not new to fans of her solo work, may make it into the set.

"I told Lindsey when we finished 'Soldier's Angel' that this song is going to go far and wide," she says of the song about injured veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We'll be able to carry this right out of my work into Fleetwood Mac... It gives me the platform to continue to talk about these kids who really need your help. It lets me tell thousands of people a night that this problem is not over."

Although the rest of Fleetwood Mac wanted to tour last year, Nicks, who wanted to spend the year promoting her solo album, "In My Dreams," on tour, says touring in 2013 has actually worked out better for all of them, especially Fleetwood, who opened his restaurant, Fleetwood's on Front Street, in Lahaina, Hawaii, last year.

"That's been Mick's dream since we all went to Maui in 1977," Nicks says. "Even though everyone was like, 'We want to go out,' I'm like, 'What about the restaurant? If you just drop everything and run, the restaurant's not going to get opened in 2012, and then your dream's going to be put on hold again. Don't put your dream on hold. Fleetwood Mac is there.'

"I told them in 1981, when everybody thought that doing 'Bella Donna' was going to break up Fleetwood Mac," she continues. "I sat them down and said, 'Listen, I am never going to leave you... I just need another vehicle for songs, because I write way too many songs for a band with three writers in it that does a record every two or three years. I'm drowning here. I am never going to break up this band. I promise you that.' By now, they believe it's true. My solo work has never become more important than Fleetwood Mac. I never let it take over, and I never will."

WHO Fleetwood Mac

WHEN -- WHERE 8 p.m. Monday, Madison Square Garden

INFO $49.50-$179.50; 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com

Nicks on today's stars:

Stevie Nicks is a fan of music, and she recognizes it's a tough time for young artists in the struggling music industry. As her mentoring appearance on last season's "American Idol" showed, she has great suggestions for young singers looking to follow in her superstar footsteps.

Here's what she had to say about these three:

RIHANNA "She's excellent. I saw her several years ago on 'Letterman,' and she did 'Shut Up and Drive' and just did it with kind of a rock band. This girl could front a rock and roll band, and she'd be amazing. She could be a rock star and a pop star.

JUSTIN BIEBER "He's really good and writes really good songs," says Nicks, adding that being a singer and songwriter is the model that young artists should follow. "You have to make a heavy mark on your own. There's no artist development now."

CARLY RAE JEPSEN Nicks says she was impressed with Jepsen's songwriting after hearing "Call Me Maybe," which she would "walk around singing every day all day long and wake up singing in the morning." She says more of that kind of songwriting will keep Jepsen around.

[michelej1]

AM New York by Hal Bienstock, April 7, 2013
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/drummer-mick-fleetwood-talks-rumours-revival-1.5025105


Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” is one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time. What keeps it fresh 35 years later is not only the music itself, but the stories behind the songs. The album was recorded as two couples — Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and John and Christine McVie — were in the process of breaking up, and the album reflects that tension and emotion. A deluxe edition of “Rumours” was recently reissued, complete with outtakes and live tracks.

amNY spoke with drummer Mick Fleetwood as the 2013 edition of the band — with John McVie, Buckingham and Nicks — got ready for a tour.

What do you think when you listen to “Rumours” today? I think it was a miracle we were able to make it because of all the stuff that was going on. I love it. It’s a complete piece of work. They were really well put together songs, then you have the whole dynamic and the story of “How the hell did that bunch of people survive the emotional journey they were on?”

Is there still pain when you play these songs? We remember all of it. It makes us reconnect to what was going on then, but we look at it from increasingly different angles. We’re all older and more forgiving. It’s not super, super painful. What it is now is super, super interesting.

Are you working on new music? There are two or three things we’re hoping to get on the Internet as an EP. … In my opinion, Lindsey’s songs are some of the best stuff he’s done. I’d love to think we could put some of Stevie’s stuff together with it, then we’d have another Fleetwood Mac album. That’s my little pipe dream.

There’s a perception that these days Fleetwood Mac is a business as much as a band. Is there any truth to that? I so don’t identify with that. For one thing, if we were running a business, we’d be working a lot more. Stevie and Lindsey have been in love since they were 16. ... There are some bands that made great music, but don’t give a s--- about each other. In truth, we care too much about each other. That flame is very much about to get to lit up again.

[nicole21290]

Another one of those interviews from that day, handholding included, naturally...

Also, Mick compares them to Neil Young, Lindsey likes the word rhythm, Stevie talks about writing a letter to her 'great BFF in the band' Christine (ending with the not at all dramatic 'I wish you would come back and save me but I know you can't and I understand why').

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7__Hr1OjsM

[bluecalmsea]

http://blogs.suntimes.com/music/2013/04/fleetwood_mac_world_tour_stevie_nicks_lindsey_buckingham_christine_mcvie.html

http://i.imgur.com/85xdOGI.jpg

The classic rock institution that is Fleetwood Mac has embarked on its umpteenth reunion tour this spring. The band isn't supporting a new album. Nevertheless, despite saying never many times, they're going back again -- and again and again, with 66 arena concerts scheduled around the world this year.

It's difficult to get excited about this go-round -- even for me, a lifelong Mac addict undeterred even by the "Time" album. The biggest news out of the tour so far is that the band is performing "Sisters of the Moon," a 33-year-old "Tusk" track.

Yawn.


The last time Fleetwood Mac toured the tambourines and scarves, in 2009, singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham told me that, even after all these years, it felt like "a proving ground." (Two years later, he reported it a "freeing experience.") But this time, even the band doesn't seem exactly juiced about their jaunt.

"We know we're going to do certain songs," namesake drummer Mick Fleetwood said in a recent online interview, "and if we don't do them, the audience will shoot us."

"We always have to play 'Dreams,' 'Rhiannon,' 'Don't Stop,' 'Tusk,' 'Big Love,' 'Landslide' and all our most famous songs," Lindsey Buckingham told Rolling Stone. "For now, I have no particular vision of what this tour is going to be."

Actually, guys, you don't have to.

In fact, I call upon all Fleetwood Mac fans to join me in declaring: Lindsey, Stevie, John, Mick -- we release you! Whatever social-setlist contract you think exists between us is officially now and forever nullified, voided, torn asunder. You are pardoned.

Please: Play whatever you want. Forgo the hits, play the misses. Play jazz, play bluegrass. Throw out the setlist altogether. Try improvising. Try failing.

Anything but this put-upon resignation to the slavish "demands" of your fans -- because, frankly, it makes us sound like jerks.

"2013 is going to be the year of Fleetwood Mac," Nicks told Rolling Stone.

Here are five ways the Fleetwood Mac crew could announce a tour that would actually make a dent in the absurdity of that statement and once again activate my salivary glands:

1. Record a real Fleetwood Mac album
"Say You Will," the most recent Mac album, already is a decade old. The last new record the band actually wrote and recorded while generally in the same room with each other was "Mirage" in 1982. Since then, it's been hijacked Buckingham solo projects ("Tango in the Night," "Say You Will"), misfired lineups ("Behind the Mask," "Time") and greatest hits. The recently announced EP (due any day now) smacks of merch, not creativity.

Y'all need to hole up and jam. Not just the requisite two new songs (such as "Sad Angel" and "Miss Fantasy"), not another dredged-up B-side turned into a new A-side ("Silver Springs"), not a 37th anniversary repackage of "Rumours" -- but a full studio set. If the members of this corporate board have the time for 66 unasked-for shows, you can stare at each other over a sound board again.

2. Scale it down
We get it, you're huge. Every tour is an arena tour. The music has echoed around so much steel and concrete it's stopped being songs and just devolved into mere momentary memory cues. Why not bring it down, focus the attention -- play theaters?

Sure, you'll boost the ticket price, but you can also loosen things up to make it worthwhile. Setlists could change up. (The play-an-entire-album trope might work here.) Unscripted banter could break out. (Maybe even a long-simmering argument.) Most of your fans could see you in the flesh, rather than on a video screen. (You're not computer projections yet, are you?)

3. Bribe Christine
Christine McVie packed it in after the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, and though she's attended a few Mac concerts since then she hasn't joined the band on stage. Given the tone of comments from her mates -- Nicks said the chances of Christine returning to the band were equal to an asteroid collision -- we understand she's probably a write-off. Retirement from rock should be respected and, in so many cases, encouraged.

But there's hope. First, an asteroid did nearly plow into the planet a few weeks ago. Second, McVie actually joined Fleetwood and former Mac guitarist Rick Vito (and, for some reason, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler) on stage in Maui just last February for a sporting run through "Don't Stop," playing keys and singing.

She's this band's leavening agent. Privately, you guys need her. Musically, so do we. To get just one more ridiculously great song out of her (even a "Temporary One"!), give her the moon to get her back.

4. Reboot Buckingham Nicks
The musical and certainly the personal dynamic between Buckingham and Nicks first clarified on the 1973 pre-Mac album as a duo; the "Buckingham Nicks" LP is now an industry legend, having never been reissued digitally. (Still no straight answer about why that is.) But for at least a decade now, both have been hinting at the desire to record again and tour just as the pair.

"We had already started our second Buckingham Nicks record," Nicks reiterated in an interview last month at SXSW, describing the project that was dropped when Fleetwood Mac discovered her and then-boyfriend Buckingham and brought them into the band. Buckingham recently and repeatedly has voiced his interest in rebooting that aborted sophomore album -- even saying late last year that some sessions had begun with producer Mitchell Froom.

So ... do it already. Go even more intimate with the resulting tour (clubs!) to highlight your own unique bond. Two people, two guitars, no fuss. I can't imagine a better residency at Park West.

5. An 'us' festival
Dave Grohl's Sound City Players concert in March at SXSW was an enjoyable enough rock and roll revue, spanning generations. Nicks' performance -- dueting with Grohl and backed by the Foo Fighters -- was surprisingly great. The Mac songs didn't sound stale in a modern setting, and Nicks was more than capable of leading the bashing hard rock band with witchy panache.

So go the Ringo all-stars route -- but with a larger scope and fewer track suits. Keep Grohl on board, call it Fleetwood Fighters & the Rolling Thunder Always Happens Revue! A half dozen shows across the country, on the Sound City Players model. It could be part reunion (guest turns from Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito, Bekka Bramlett, Dave Mason), part intergenerational parade of pals (Tom Petty, Don Henley, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Matthew Sweet), part torch-passing (Buckingham can show off his new song with Delta Rae, Best Coast can roar through their magnificent cover of "Rhiannon"), part vaudeville (I'm seeing Chevy Chase on drums for "Holiday Road").

That's almost enough all for everyone.

[ali101]

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/fleetwood-mac-to-release-new-ep-8566433.html

09 April 2013


Fleetwood Mac will release a new EP later this week.

The band will be putting out their first new material since their Say You Will album from 2003, including new track Sad Angel.

The band - Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - debuted both that song and another, Without You, last Thursday at the opening of their 2013 tour in Ohio, US.

Lindsey announced news of the new release to the crowd at another show in Philadelphia.

He said: "One of the things we thought would be a good idea before we hit the road would be to go into the studio and cut some new material. So last year we did that. It's the best stuff we've done in a long time and in a few days we're going to drop an EP of new stuff."

Ex-band member, Christine McVie - who left the band and retired from music in 1998 - has also said she would like to perform with the band at one of their London dates if they will allow her.

She said: "If they wanted me to, I might pop back on stage when they're in London just to do a little duet or something like that."

Fleetwood Mac are currently playing in the US as part of a world tour.

[michelej1]

[This is text about the video Nicole21290 linked above]

STV Entertainment, April 11, 2013

http://entertainment.stv.tv/music/220998-fleetwood-mac-members-discuss-rumours-as-they-kick-off-new-tour/

Fleetwood Mac kicked off their North American tour with band members Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – and they have revealed their thoughts about returning to play live shows.

However, original member Christine McVie decided not to join her old buddies. McVie's choice came as a big blow for Nicks.

Nicks said that she really misses McVie, who has not toured with the band since 1998.

"I just actually got a note from her and I sat down night before last and wrote her a two-page letter," she said. "You know, I think I ended the letter with: 'I wish you would come back and save me, but I know you can't and I understand why.'

“You know, I miss her every day because she was my best friend. I had a great BFF in the band, I had her to talk to and I had her to hang out with. She was my best gal, you know?"

The group is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the best-selling "Rumours" album, which has moved some 20 million units in the United States.

Mick Fleetwood explained why he thinks fans are still so interested in the band after all these years.

"I think we have the ingredients of say, when you talk about someone like Neil Young, for instance, where he still loves to do what he does, he's still very vested in his art form and what he does, the musicality and he tours and he stops. He has a career," Fleetwood said.

"He's still really good. And it becomes something, like Stevie mentioned in another interview, this is what we do and it's all of that that makes this work, you know, and makes it really possible with the possibilities that can unfold out of it, you know.

“We have a safe harbour and it's the thing we created, which is Fleetwood Mac and all the lovely music that is being celebrated in a way where you sit there and say, 'Oh my God,' you've been brought up around it and so forth. All of these things are really unfolding now for us to cogitate on and still be able to go out there and do what we're doing now – which is exciting and revealing for us in personal ways."

[bombaysaffires]

"He's still really good. And it becomes something, like Stevie mentioned in another interview, this is what we do and it's all of that that makes this work, you know, and makes it really possible with the possibilities that can unfold out of it, you know.



uh, again, in English please?

"possible with the possibilities"..... reminds me of "listener of listeners"

[michelej1]

‘We go on stage and still have our love affair’: Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks on Lindsey Buckingham by Something Else! January 4, 2014 at 1:38 pm

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/01/04/we-go-on-stage-and-still-have-our-love-affair-fleetwood-macs-stevie-nicks-on-lindsey-buckingham/

The torrid passion between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks has been both the blessing (you’ve heard of Rumours, right?) and the curse of Fleetwood Mac.

After all, the emotional split chronicled in songs like “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way” eventually formed a basis for bad feelings that split the group apart a decade later.

Since a 1998 reunion with the platinum-era lineup of the group, however, the tandem of Buckingham and Nicks has held steady — even as Christine McVie retired and, more recently, her ex-husband John McVie endured a cancer scare. Once perhaps the most unstable part of the group, they now represent its foundation.

“We were, for all practical purposes, married for a long time,” Nicks tells Extra and, with their continuing tours in Fleetwood Mac, “we have the ability, and the gift, of being able to go on stage and still have our love affair.”

That Buckingham is married now hasn’t changed the nature of this more mature kind of passion — a passion focused on the work.

“He has a beautiful wife that I just adore,” Nicks adds, “and three little kids that are so very special. I get them also, you know? I get to have them, too.”

[elle]

The friction between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham that went public with 1977's Rumours has yet to cool.

"We are a cast of characters who never really belonged in the same band in the first place," says Buckingham, 63. "But the synergy works, and I'm looking forward to seeing where the mines lie in the field this time. It wouldn't be a band without that tension. All the same things kick in. I know what I'm supposed to do. I know whose face to get in to make things happen. All those roles are so familiar. I'm ready to pick up the dice and roll again."

Rumours was recorded during the breakups of the band's two couples, Nicks and Buckingham and John and Christine McVie, who left in 1998. The three carried on, along with drummer Mick Fleetwood, and will launch an arena tour April 4. Nicks and Buckingham are considering a 40th anniversary reissue of their storied Buckingham Nicks album next year, with a newly unearthed, previously unreleased track from the sessions.

TOUR DATES: Fleetwood Mac to hit the road April 4

Nicks, the most commercially successful Mac spinoff, finished a two-year tour supporting her lauded In Your Dreams, co-written and co-produced in her home with Dave Stewart. Since last year's release of Seeds We Sow, Buckingham has been touring with his band and in solo acoustic mode.

It was a confidence booster that improved his singing, he says. He's aware Nicks is returning with greater spunk after her winning streak, which could set the stage for a clash.

Her solo outing "renewed Stevie's spirit," he says. "I'm happy she had a couple of great years. If it means a more complex political landscape, so be it."

Buckingham's solo foray "has been good for him," says Nicks, 64. "Playing (one-man shows) can't help but give you a certain compassionate softness. It's very different from Fleetwood Mac."

And while she declares the Dreams project with Stewart "the best year of my life," Nicks is eager to return to Mac and determined to establish harmony.

"I'm going to be very clear about what I want," she says. "What I want is for this band to get along and have a great time. So I'm demanding that. We are going to have a great collaborative working relationship. We're always great on stage. I don't say that from a conceited place. We've been playing since 1975. We know what we're doing up there."

Buckingham can't argue with that.

"The important thing is for us not to let the politics or landmines get in the way of us having a good time, especially for Stevie and me," he says. "There's been a subtext of competition and animosity, which is the flip side of love, for a long time. I think it's driven both of us. Now is an appropriate time for us to acknowledge the context of our relationship and see what's left for us to do. If this is the beginning of the last act, let's wind up in a place that dignifies what we started."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/12/03/fleetwood-mac-buckingham-nicks-interview/1730393/
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Hungry for a big Mac splurge? After a three-year absence, Fleetwood Mac embarks on a 34-city North American tour starting April 4 in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets for the first run of shows go on sale Dec. 14 at LiveNation.com.

The band, founded in 1967, is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its trailblazing Rumours, which sold 40 million copies worldwide, held Billboard's No. 1 spot for 31 weeks and spawned top 10 hits Dreams, Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way and You Make Loving Fun.

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who joined in 1975, and namesakes Mick Fleetwood and John McVie last toured in 2009 and haven't released a studio album since 2003's Say You Will.

INTERVIEW: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

Yet new tunes may be shoehorned into a set list packed with classics.

"There were some tracks John, Mick and I cut with Stevie in mind while she was on the road," Buckingham says. "It's the most Fleetwood Mac-sounding stuff I've heard in a long time. We've been talking about releasing an EP, but I don't know how these moving parts will fit together yet."

In light of the band's deep catalog, the singer/guitarist isn't concerned about a second consecutive tour without a studio album.

"We'd be OK for one more round," he says. "People do want to hear that body of work and be transported to a certain time. The older you get and the longer the band has been around, you come to terms with the fact that no one's particularly interested in hearing anything too new. It's about what you do with what you've got."

Nicks envisions performing hits, rarities and maybe a couple of migrants, particularly the war-themed Soldier's Angel, a duet with Buckingham from her 2011 solo album, In Your Dreams.

"It's become a standard in my set, and I get a standing ovation every night," Nicks says. "Fans might like seeing Lindsey and I sing it. And it gives me a chance to ask people to help veterans who are so young and so messed up. I turn into an eighth-grade teacher."

Opting to extend her solo tour, Nicks was a holdout when the band wanted to hit the road early this year.

"I had to put my foot down and say, 'I'm not touring with you in 2012,' and it wasn't a very popular idea," she says. "I always think it's good for Fleetwood Mac to be away for three years. Two years is like, well, 'I just saw you.' My feeling was, let 2013 be the year of Fleetwood Mac and make it an exciting event."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/12/03/fleetwood-mac-2013-tour/1730379/

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After months of reunion rumors, Fleetwood Mac announced Tuesday that they'll return to the road next spring for an extensive tour that will take them all over the globe. The trek will kick off in Columbus, Ohio on April 4th; tickets go on sale December 14th.

"It's the perfect time to go back out," Stevie Nicks tells Rolling Stone. "2013 is going to be the year of Fleetwood Mac."

As was the case with their 2010 tour, the band is hitting the road without a new album to support. The set list will be built around Fleetwood Mac's large catalog of hits. "We always have to play 'Dreams,' 'Rhiannon,' 'Don't Stop,' 'Tusk,' 'Big Love,' 'Landslide' and all our most famous songs," says Lindsey Buckingham. "When you've gone through all your must-do's, that's 75% of your potential setlist. I think with the other 25%, there are areas of our catalog that are more under-explored. Maybe we'll play more songs from Tusk. I'd also like to see an extended middle portion of the show that's just me and Stevie. This is just me talking from the top of my head. For now, I have no particular vision of what this tour is going to be."

From the Archives: The True Life Confessions of Fleetwood Mac

The band begins rehearsals on February 15th, and at that point they'll hash out exactly what songs they're going to play. "We actually have two new Fleetwood Mac songs that I cut with Lindsey two weeks ago we might play," says Nicks. "I had a really good time working with him for four days at his house. I got to hang out with his family and his kids, his grown up kids, and really connect with him again. We’re pretty proud of what we have done, and we’re looking at it through the eyes of wisdom now, instead of through the eyes of jealousy and resentment and anger."

Only American dates are announced, but the group is planning on touring the whole world. "If everything goes will we'll be in Europe doing festivals this summer," says Nicks. "Then we'll actually tour Europe, which is different than just doing festivals. Then we might do fifteen or so shows in Australia."

Check in later this week for a detailed Q&A with Nicks and Buckingham where they discuss the upcoming tour, their failed attempt to record a new Fleetwood Mac album, the possibility of reforming their old duo Buckingham-Nicks and the many tensions that linger in their long relationship.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fleetwood-mac-to-launch-world-tour-in-april-20121203#ixzz2E2JnMgwf
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Rolling Stone just tweeted an article to check back later in the week for full interviews about "the failure to record a new Fleetwood Mac album."

Ughhhhhh

just had to bump this.... for anybody who doesn't remember. (this was end of 2012)