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Fleetwood Mac bandmates Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham duet at the Mann
Updated: JUNE 28, 2017 — 7:02 AM EDT

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Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie will perform June 30 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts.
by A.D. Amorosi, FOR DO THIS!

When Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham announced a jointly recorded self-titled effort and a summer tour presaging their full-band gig in July at the Classic East Festival (NYC’s Citi Field), the first thought was, How odd. After 40-plus years of being a band – and a radically, famously dysfunctional one at that – that these two would play as one? These two never even seemed close.

“Well, we weren’t,” McVie says with a deep laugh. “We never did pal around. Our connection was in the studio. He never was the easiest guy to get to know, and he’d be the first one to say it. He is a nice chap, though, and we have become closer.”



Share with her a quote of Buckingham’s – that it took him “40 years of perspective” to get where he is now – and that it takes a really long time for the Mac crew to get over stuff (e.g. band-member romances, drugs), McVie laughs. “It’s just how we work in this band. We’re all highly dysfunctional. We don’t actually belong in a band, yet, on stage, our alchemy is undeniable.” So, too, is her connection with Buckingham from the sounds of their eponymous album and cunning, copenned songs such as “Feel About You,” “Red Sun,” and “Too Far Gone” – all sung by McVie in her legendarily bluesy voice. “Making this album between us wasn’t in the cards to start, but it’s fantastic that we did.”

All this could have easily been avoided if McVie – who retired from Fleetwood Mac and most music-making in 1998 – had stayed retired. “I bought two dogs, and the dogs were my life, but I did struggle with isolation. I went into a dark place, you know, I was truly bored in the end of it all,” she says of retirement’s downside and a fear of flying that kept her at bay.

“I realized I wanted life, sought out help – a psychiatrist who got me out of the dark – all of which happened before Mick [Fleetwood] phoned, quite fortunately, from Maui.” Not only did McVie make her third solo album — In the Meantime, in 2004, with her nephew, Dan Perfect (an album where “I squeezed all the bad out of me”) — but she also played with Fleetwood’s blues band in Maui for a bit before the inevitable question came up.


“’How would it be for me to rejoin Fleetwood Mac?’ got answered with a resounding ‘yes’ because I got bitten by that bug.”

The Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie album wasn’t made on purpose, or with a purpose, but rather just for Buckingham to record McVie’s more-upbeat, post-analysis tracks — “to see if there was magic there, which we did find quite quickly, and then some.” That the sessions included bassist John McVie and drummer Fleetwood meant that, in essence, Christine McVie/Lindsey Buckingham was Fleetwood Mac without Stevie Nicks (who is currently finishing a solo tour).


“After we demoed those first six songs, it really did sound like a duet record,” she says, mentioning early session songs like “Feel About You” and “Carnival Begin,” which set the stage and standard for their cojoined album. “It was easy, with no melodramas, and just fun,” McVie says with a sense of surprise in her voice as if melodrama were a default setting for anything involving the other members of Fleetwood Mac. “I don’t know what about each particular song drove the rest of the recording, other than these songs gave us goose bumps. That’s always a pretty great, intuitive sign.”

Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham with The Wallflowers play Friday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Avenue, Philadelphia. $49.50 - $149.50, manncenter.org

Published: June 28, 2017 — 3:01 AM EDT | Updated: June 28, 2017 — 7:02 AM EDT

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MUSIC: Fleetwood Mac’s Buckingham, McVie play a The Mann Center on June 30

Fleetwood Mac members Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie will perform at The Mann on June 30. PHOTO COURTESY OF Olympia Entertainment

By Gary Graff, [email protected],, @GraffonMusic on Twitter
POSTED: 06/29/17, 4:33 PM EDT | UPDATED: 59 SECS AGO 0 COMMENTS
When Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie returned to making music together in 2014, for the first time in 27 years, it was thought to be for Fleetwood Mac.

But, as it turns out, the two decided to go their own way.

On June 9 they released an album simply titled “Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie,” a 10-song set featuring material from those sessions. With Mick Fleetwood playing drums and McVie’s ex-husband John McVie on bass, it certainly has the flavor of Fleetwood Mac’s music of the ‘70s and ‘80s, but without fifth member Stevie Nicks on board it also sounds distinctive.

“We were really only going in to have a bit of fun and cut some of my songs, as I’d just re-entered Fleetwood Mac,” McVie, 73, says of the sessions at Los Angeles’ Village Recorders. She spoke by phone from her home in Malibu.

Fleetwood Mac was, in fact, about to begin rehearsals for a tour — McVie’s first with the group since she “retired” in 1998, and, she recalls, “I’d sent Lindsey these songs and he did his kind of arrangement thing and he played them to me at his house. And then he said, ‘You know, why don’t we go in and have some fun and cut some tracks?’ So that’s what we did.”

Buckingham, 67, adds by phone that, “I don’t think we really knew what it was going to be at that time, and I don’t think we cared. I think the gesture, the impulse, was more to welcome (McVie) back into the band. It was more just giving her a complete reorientation into our world as much as possible. We didn’t say, ‘Oh, we’re making a duet album.’ We weren’t going in and saying it was any particular thing.”

It was more than just new McVie material the troupe worked on. Buckingham had done some recording a year prior with Fleetwood and John McVie, along with producer Mitchell Froom, and he brought those songs into the sessions for McVie to make a contribution. They wound up writing three new songs together including the gritty “Too Far Gone,” which is reminiscent of “World Turning” from 1975’s “Fleetwood Mac” album, Buckingham and then-girlfriend Nicks’ first with the band.

“I think we were just bulldozing our way through the songs that we had,” McVie recalls. “I suppose it would’ve had to cross my mind at some point that it seems bizarre that Stevie’s not on it, because the rest of the band are on it. But we decided that we wanted to pursue a duet project.”

Buckingham and McVie’s creative relationship dates back to that 1975 album, when Buckingham established himself as a creative force as a writer and performer and also as an arranger. Writing “World Turning” began a fruitful relationship entirely different from Buckingham’s with Nicks, and one that extended to intensive contributions even on McVie songs that were not traditional co-writes.

“It’s a chemistry thing that I can’t really analyze,” Buckingham explains. “I remember being in rehearsals with Christine and the rest of the band before we cut that first album ... and it was so clear right away that she and I had this thing. Probably the first thing that hit me about being in Fleetwood Mac was being extremely aware that I had something to contribute to Christine’s songs. She was open to me taking liberties with her songs and has been ever since.”

Fleetwood recalls that process became evident to both him and John McVie while they were recording in 2014.

“I’m really happy for Lindsey because this is what he most likes to do, putting something together,” the drummer explains. “This relationship is a real expression of a musical powerhouse that’s come to the fore, and we’re all happy about that. And (the music) is really cool.”

For her part, McVie is confident the album shows how little has changed in their creative dynamic.

“I think the songs are kind of familiar even though you haven’t heard them before,” she says. “You’ve heard his and my collaborations throughout the history of the band. This is more of it.”

Turning the new batch of songs into a duo project meant navigating a bit of a political minefield, however.

“Probably in the back of Mick’s mind he was hoping that it would be something different than it ended up being,” Buckingham acknowledges, meaning a Fleetwood Mac album. “I suppose there was a point where Mick or someone had to at least do the due diligence with Stevie about what her plans were for a period of time.” As it turned out, Nicks wanted to continue focusing on her solo career and ongoing concert tour, which gave Buckingham and McVie the opportunity to release their album and tour to support it.

The shows are based on the duo’s album, but they’re also “throwing in some Fleetwood Mac and other things as well, and hopefully it adds up to something,” Buckingham says. Meanwhile he and McVie are preparing for Fleetwood Mac’s two July concerts as part of The Classic festival weekends in Los Angeles and New York, which the group is co-headlining with the Eagles. It will be Fleetwood Mac’s first shows together since November 2015, and all concerned hope they’ll make clear that the group is, in Fleetwood’s words, “alive and well,” with designs to reconvene in 2018.

“We’re just going to go in and close our eyes and have fun — that’s all I can say about it,” says Buckingham, who’s also working on a solo album for early 2018 release. “It’s sort of a spectacle. You can’t really worry about the aesthetics or anything. You just have to have fun with it, and hopefully that’s what we’ll do.” Meanwhile, he intends to give the project with McVie its due, maybe adding more shows before the year is out.

“We’ll see if it takes on a life,” Buckingham says. “We certainly could end up doing another leg. There was some talk about going to Europe. Again, in the same way the albums started off as sort of a lark, we don’t have any agenda for any scenario here. I’m just thinking the shows are going to be fun no matter what we do, and we’ll see where it goes.

“We’re just enjoying each other’s company and enjoying revisiting our dynamic. I just think it’s such a surprisingly positive thing, this whole project coming together and the way that it did, and how it turned out. So I’m just happy with whatever happens.”

[BLY]

I'm really looking forward to tonight's show in Philly. My brother scored us great seats in the Orchestra up close right of the stage.

[amoscascott]

Great time at the show, christine was very sweet, she showed us the braclet stevie gave her. Took a quick picture with Lindsey before he ran out. As usual, he was very nice. I am very tired, and need to get some sleep.

[BLY]

It was a great show and I'm so glad that I went.The set list really worked well mixing the classics with 8 new songs. I was in the 6th row sitting by people that new all the new songs. I love this new album and would have had no problem if they had done all 10 of the new songs. Lindsey and Christine sounded amazing!

[WelshWitchPMD]

Great time at the show, christine was very sweet, she showed us the braclet stevie gave her. Took a quick picture with Lindsey before he ran out. As usual, he was very nice. I am very tired, and need to get some sleep.

I'm so happy that you got to go! Christine seems so nice. Glad that you got to meet her.
Isn't the show great? I can't wait until we are reunited for our next show. :xoxo:

[bombaysaffires]

How'd you get to meet her? Are they doing VIP meet and greets? I've been so drowning in work I've not kept up.:eek:

[tothegypsy]

I went last night. I did enjoy the show, but there were moments where Christine seemed to struggle a bit with vocals. I wonder if there's anything more they can do with rearranging some of the material to suit her current voice?

[amoscascott]

She has a vocal coach right now.

[amoscascott]

She has a vocal coach right now.

[elle]

Great time at the show, christine was very sweet, she showed us the braclet stevie gave her. Took a quick picture with Lindsey before he ran out. As usual, he was very nice. I am very tired, and need to get some sleep.
wow, makes me soooooo happy to see your message!! hope you are doing well!

[amoscascott]

Sorry I didnt see you last night, I would have said hello. We were rushed backstage after the show as they were in a hurry to leave. Hope to see you again soon.

[Erin]

My photos from Philly if anyone is interested: https://goo.gl/photos/1KvWKiy7H6trEp339

[BLY]

My photos from Philly if anyone is interested: https://goo.gl/photos/1KvWKiy7H6trEp339


Great pictures and what a great show...Thanks for sharing.

[amoscascott]

Great pictures, thank you for sharing these wonderful memories of a great night. And thank you for taking the time to upload and share these with everyone.

[elle]

Sorry I didnt see you last night, I would have said hello. We were rushed backstage after the show as they were in a hurry to leave. Hope to see you again soon.
hey! not sure whether you are talking to me or Pattie but definitely! Beacon show if nothing else? :nod: :wavey:

here is the Philly version of the intro to LIHTS / Red Sun - <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GQS_cUad0hc?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

[WelshWitchPMD]

hey! not sure whether you are talking to me or Pattie but definitely! Beacon show if nothing else? :nod: :wavey:

here is the Philly version of the intro to LIHTS / Red Sun - <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GQS_cUad0hc?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

He was talking to you. I didn't go to Philadephia. We are trying to make The Beacon happen. :nod:

[WelshWitchPMD]

hey! not sure whether you are talking to me or Pattie but definitely! Beacon show if nothing else? :nod: :wavey:

here is the Philly version of the intro to LIHTS / Red Sun - <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GQS_cUad0hc?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

If he didn't ramble on so much they might be able to add on another song. He's starting to sound like SN. :eek:

[elle]

If he didn't ramble on so much they might be able to add on another song. He's starting to sound like SN. :eek:

lol, he actually rambled less in Philly than in DC for this intro. i think he's trying to be more off the cuff and it's turning into a complete rambling. i had to laugh watching Brett in the background... next Brett will start fixing drums during these little speeches. ;)

here's great Everywhere from Philly - this guy has tons of great vids from the show -

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[elle]

a phone video somebody took from close to the stage / speakers, but guess worth sharing since it's a rare one of Too Far Gone - people are all rocking out too much to record it on that song - it almost invariably gets standing Os!

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[elle]

this time around Christine brought out a bat during shackin' up line :cool::laugh:

some snippets including a few Chris-Lindsey interactions (plus Christine's bat!) during Tusk and GYOW -
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[jenniferuk]

Haha, love the bat! Thanks, Elle, for all of the vids, recaps, updates. I love the energy these two are bringing!

A friend said a minor set change in that songs 2&3 were flipped?

[madeline]

My photos from Philly if anyone is interested: https://goo.gl/photos/1KvWKiy7H6trEp339

Those are really good photos. Thanks for putting them up.

[vivfox]

Haha, love the bat! Thanks, Elle, for all of the vids, recaps, updates. I love the energy these two are bringing!


Yes, I loved the bat too.

[elle]

Haha, love the bat! Thanks, Elle, for all of the vids, recaps, updates. I love the energy these two are bringing!

A friend said a minor set change in that songs 2&3 were flipped?

yup, WYWH before NGBA in Philly. here's the setlist - https://www.facebook.com/groups/897240853723743/permalink/1388831997897957/?comment_id=1389704311144059&notif_t=group_comment&notif_id=1498999898595669

i didn't get to check yet what happened tonight, other than just saw that GOP was acoustic tonight, keyboard broke - it sounded really nice, actually, with just the guitar and Christine's voice.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/2/concert-review-lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie-/

Mini-Mac: Buckingham and McVie trot out new duets and classic Fleetwood songs on current tour

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 2, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:

PHILADELPHIA | Even 20 percent of Fleetwood Mac — plus a backing section of some of the best session players in the biz — can bring in a solid evening of rock old and new. Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, who are touring behind their eponymous new duet album, came to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia Friday evening in support of the album.

Despite stifling summer heat, the duo brought an energy and verve to the outdoor arena — even as many of the fans left early in the evening swelter. Mr. Buckingham and Miss McVie made a fanfare-free entrance, immediately taking places at center stage and strumming into an acoustic set featuring “Trouble” and “Wish You Were Here.” Mr. Buckingham then took his place in the spotlight alone, strumming his guitar to the strains of “Never Going Back Again,” one of Fleetwood Mac’s signature songs, and one that has continued to provide Mr. Buckingham with a prominent launching pad for his stellar tenor vocals. He expertly modulated the tune to suit both his desired inflections and timing, stretching out the brisk tune into a masters class of vocal control and showmanship.

Then joined by their backup musicians, the duo launched into a mini-set from their new album. Many of the 2017 songs, including “Feel About You” and “Too Far Gone,” have the energy and the harmonic joy of the best of the duo’s time with their bandmates, and Miss McVie and Mr. Buckingham complement one another nicely on vocals on the lively new songs.
Miss McVie and Mr. Buckingham told only brief stories of recording the album together, and of how, when Miss McVie rejoined the band in 2014, she began writing songs again and sharing the samples with the guitarist, who helped fill them out.

“Now we’ll do a few songs you’ll probably recognize,” the artists said before setting up more Mac covers, including “You Make Loving Fun,” “Little Lies” and “Hold Me,” proving that even in the absence of Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and John McVie, the joy of performing many of the band’s most famous songs can stand even in their absence. (It must be noted, however, that Miss McVie struggled for some of the higher notes on “You Make Loving Fun,” but given her lengthy time away from the spotlight, this can be forgiven.)

Mr. Buckingham, righteously praised as one of the greatest guitarists in rock, delivered the goods on what are, arguably, two of his signature songs from the Fleetwood Mac repertoire. As the percussively hushed nature of “Tusk” began, Mr. Buckingham began the verses in his quiet register, allowing the chords and the low percussion to do the talking for him. However, as the rock anthem, a favorite of college marching bands such as the University of Southern California — of which I am an alum — strode on toward its later verses, Mr. Buckingham became ever more animated, screaming for the Mann’s rafters in between lyrics. It was rock ‘n’ fanfare of the highest order.
And yet, as any Mac fan knows well, the highlight of any of their performances is the late-show duet between Mr. Buckingham and Mr. Fleetwood on “I’m So Afraid,” which, like “Tusk,” starts off sotto voce before attaining a fierceness of epic rock proportions. Even in the absence of Mr. Fleetwood for the call-and-response nature of the tune from “Rumours,” Mr. Buckingham and his able fill-in percussionist gradually rose the beautiful terror of the song to an assured, all-enveloping ecstasy. Nearby, I could see a gray-haired bloke I had run into in the men’s room not long before positively leaping in joy as Mr. Buckingham wailed on his strings, spun his axe about his waist and eventually brought the song to a satisfying, exhausted finale, pulling the audience to their feet in appreciation.
It was the evening’s high point, hands down.

Unsurprisingly, Mr. Buckingham and Miss McVie finished their set with that apex paean of breakup songs, “Go Your Own Way,” trading off the delightful harmonies that for four decades have belied the painful nature of the lyrics of separation.

Cheering for more, the duo and their band returned for “Everywhere,” the synth-heavy Mac tune Miss McVie still continues to elevate to ecstasy with her vocals.

Mr. Buckingham said they would cap the evening with two more new tunes, a bit of a head-scratcher for an encore after such a high-energy past few songs, and even more surprising given that so many audience members continued to depart from the heat. (A few more Mac songs might have kept at least some of them in place.)

Overall, in 90 minutes and change, this highly talented micro-configuration of one of rock’s classic acts — which, Miss McVie told me recently, will likely celebrate its half-century in 2018 with a tour — proved that there is always something new to be written by talented musicians and more songs yet to be born from their musical fonts. But also, the old tunes remain vibrant so long as their performers do.

In the latter case, we need not worry.

[elle]

[i was surprised how relatively unpopulated this venue was - Mann is probably one fifth of the Wolftrap size (or maybe that was just the audeince size?), and while Wolftrap was completely full, in Mann upper parts and lawn were far from being filled. for a performance art center, although the security and a lot of the audience behavior was annoyingly fitting for a symphony rather than a rock concert - sit down!! was heard over and over to fans standing and dancing - the sound was not nearly as fantastic as the wolftrap sound.]


http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/life-style/local-entertainment/music/buckingham-mcvie-focus-on-the-new-and-the-deep-at/article_a0e4608a-5e75-11e7-a81a-c7a2c61ea156.html

Buckingham-McVie focus on the new and the deep at the Mann
By Patrick Berkery, staff writer

McVie Buckingham
Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham teamed at the Mann.
Photo by Joe Russo

If you like the album Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie released last month (and if you're a fan of the duo's collaborative efforts on Mac albums like "Tusk," "Mirage" and "Tango in the Night," you have plenty to like about this Buckingham-McVie album) thank Stevie Nicks. Her unwillingness to participate in sessions for a new Fleetwood Mac album following the band's wildly successful 2014-15 world tour — the first with McVie since she retired from the road in 1998 — prompted the band's singer-guitarist-studio wizard and singer-keyboardist to carry on writing and recording without her.

They've taken to the road without her too, playing the Mann Center for the Performing Arts Friday as part of a summer tour that sandwiches two big Fleetwood Mac stadium shows in Los Angeles and New York later this month.

Without the star-power of Nicks, it's smaller venues like the Mann and a smaller crowd than the pair are used to with Mac (the Mann was about half-filled). More importantly, a show without Nicks (or Mac founding fathers John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, both of whom play on the Buckingham-McVie album) afforded the duo the opportunity to unearth some deep cuts and dig deep into the new album.

The pair began digging deep early on during a four-song acoustic set which opened the hour and 45-minute show, showcasing disparate skill sets that have always blended so seamlessly within the context of Fleetwood Mac. Few do love songs as well as McVie, and her swooning ballad “Wish You Were Here” (the closing track on 1982’s "Mirage") soared despite her somewhat diminished vocal range and a sparse arrangement. Buckingham answered that longing love song with tightly-coiled intensity on “Shut Us Down” (from his 2006 solo album "Under the Skin"), blending acrobatic finger-picking with a hushed and heated vocal.

Backed by four musicians (including Jersey Shore native Jimmy Paxson on drums) for the full-band portion of the show, Buckingham and McVie went where most veteran artists fear to tread, playing a whopping eight songs from their new album. And though some of the new stuff felt a bit canned with drum triggers and sampled backing vocals used to re-create the finer sonic details of the studio versions, the buoyant bounce of McVie’s “Feel About You” and Buckingham’s moody “In My World” fit quite nicely alongside Mac hits like “Everywhere,” “Go Your Own Way,” and “Hold Me.”

Quibbles could be made that Buckingham didn’t play that ripping solo at the end of “Hold Me” (the song closed instead with an a capella reprise of the chorus) or that some seemingly obvious fits for a Buckingham-McVie live show went untouched (whither Buckingham’s solo version of “Big Love” and Christine’s sublime “Songbird”?). But credit the duo for not just giving the people what they know and love under the guise of a separate project. They could easily be resting on well-earned laurels at this stage in the game. Instead they poured their energies into a solid new record and they’re standing behind it with a live show that isn’t merely a re-creation of the day gig.

[secret love]

Hi all

Unfortunately Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have forgotten that a little continent called Australia exists. Either that or they don't think there's a market for them as a duo down under.

For anyone who like me can't afford overseas travel for one concert, do yourself a favour and check out Jim Powers' close to pro quality footage of the Philadelphia shows.

I'm including one here so you can see how good his filming is. The sound quality is sublime. HOLD ME:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CKnTyPFDMUg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[gldstwmn]

Hi all

Unfortunately Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have forgotten that a little continent called Australia exists. Either that or they don't think there's a market for them as a duo down under.

For anyone who like me can't afford overseas travel for one concert, do yourself a favour and check out Jim Powers' close to pro quality footage of the Philadelphia shows.

I'm including one here so you can see how good his filming is. The sound quality is sublime. HOLD ME:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CKnTyPFDMUg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Wow! This is great. Thanks!

[jbrownsjr]

Wow! This is great. Thanks!

I hope you go to Denver. I'm going to be dressed like stevie. ;)

[bombaysaffires]

Wow, fantastic audio, thanks for sharing!

It sounded to me like Christine started the song quite low with Lindsey trying to do the higher notes instead; but as the song progressed she seemed to sing it not as low as she did initially. That's as precise as I can be not being a professionally knowledgeable singer.. :sorry:

[bombaysaffires]

this other person (Tito Santana) did some great video also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg4I2iAFukc

This is Red Sun.... it sounds like Christine was more on-key than Lindsey... his harmony was just off...:shrug:

[elle]

nice video!

<div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ffMulTUFlU?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

[MikeInNV]

yup, WYWH before NGBA in Philly. here's the setlist - https://www.facebook.com/groups/897240853723743/permalink/1388831997897957/?comment_id=1389704311144059&notif_t=group_comment&notif_id=1498999898595669

i didn't get to check yet what happened tonight, other than just saw that GOP was acoustic tonight, keyboard broke - it sounded really nice, actually, with just the guitar and Christine's voice.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/2/concert-review-lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie-/

Mini-Mac: Buckingham and McVie trot out new duets and classic Fleetwood songs on current tour

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 2, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:

PHILADELPHIA | Even 20 percent of Fleetwood Mac — plus a backing section of some of the best session players in the biz — can bring in a solid evening of rock old and new. Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, who are touring behind their eponymous new duet album, came to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia Friday evening in support of the album.

Despite stifling summer heat, the duo brought an energy and verve to the outdoor arena — even as many of the fans left early in the evening swelter. Mr. Buckingham and Miss McVie made a fanfare-free entrance, immediately taking places at center stage and strumming into an acoustic set featuring “Trouble” and “Wish You Were Here.” Mr. Buckingham then took his place in the spotlight alone, strumming his guitar to the strains of “Never Going Back Again,” one of Fleetwood Mac’s signature songs, and one that has continued to provide Mr. Buckingham with a prominent launching pad for his stellar tenor vocals. He expertly modulated the tune to suit both his desired inflections and timing, stretching out the brisk tune into a masters class of vocal control and showmanship.

Then joined by their backup musicians, the duo launched into a mini-set from their new album. Many of the 2017 songs, including “Feel About You” and “Too Far Gone,” have the energy and the harmonic joy of the best of the duo’s time with their bandmates, and Miss McVie and Mr. Buckingham complement one another nicely on vocals on the lively new songs.
Miss McVie and Mr. Buckingham told only brief stories of recording the album together, and of how, when Miss McVie rejoined the band in 2014, she began writing songs again and sharing the samples with the guitarist, who helped fill them out.

“Now we’ll do a few songs you’ll probably recognize,” the artists said before setting up more Mac covers, including “You Make Loving Fun,” “Little Lies” and “Hold Me,” proving that even in the absence of Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and John McVie, the joy of performing many of the band’s most famous songs can stand even in their absence. (It must be noted, however, that Miss McVie struggled for some of the higher notes on “You Make Loving Fun,” but given her lengthy time away from the spotlight, this can be forgiven.)

Mr. Buckingham, righteously praised as one of the greatest guitarists in rock, delivered the goods on what are, arguably, two of his signature songs from the Fleetwood Mac repertoire. As the percussively hushed nature of “Tusk” began, Mr. Buckingham began the verses in his quiet register, allowing the chords and the low percussion to do the talking for him. However, as the rock anthem, a favorite of college marching bands such as the University of Southern California — of which I am an alum — strode on toward its later verses, Mr. Buckingham became ever more animated, screaming for the Mann’s rafters in between lyrics. It was rock ‘n’ fanfare of the highest order.
And yet, as any Mac fan knows well, the highlight of any of their performances is the late-show duet between Mr. Buckingham and Mr. Fleetwood on “I’m So Afraid,” which, like “Tusk,” starts off sotto voce before attaining a fierceness of epic rock proportions. Even in the absence of Mr. Fleetwood for the call-and-response nature of the tune from “Rumours,” Mr. Buckingham and his able fill-in percussionist gradually rose the beautiful terror of the song to an assured, all-enveloping ecstasy. Nearby, I could see a gray-haired bloke I had run into in the men’s room not long before positively leaping in joy as Mr. Buckingham wailed on his strings, spun his axe about his waist and eventually brought the song to a satisfying, exhausted finale, pulling the audience to their feet in appreciation.
It was the evening’s high point, hands down.

Unsurprisingly, Mr. Buckingham and Miss McVie finished their set with that apex paean of breakup songs, “Go Your Own Way,” trading off the delightful harmonies that for four decades have belied the painful nature of the lyrics of separation.

Cheering for more, the duo and their band returned for “Everywhere,” the synth-heavy Mac tune Miss McVie still continues to elevate to ecstasy with her vocals.

Mr. Buckingham said they would cap the evening with two more new tunes, a bit of a head-scratcher for an encore after such a high-energy past few songs, and even more surprising given that so many audience members continued to depart from the heat. (A few more Mac songs might have kept at least some of them in place.)

Overall, in 90 minutes and change, this highly talented micro-configuration of one of rock’s classic acts — which, Miss McVie told me recently, will likely celebrate its half-century in 2018 with a tour — proved that there is always something new to be written by talented musicians and more songs yet to be born from their musical fonts. But also, the old tunes remain vibrant so long as their performers do.

In the latter case, we need not worry.

Does anyone else want to just climb the walls when a supposedly professional journalist refers to their subjects as Mr. and Ms. ad nauseam? Their last names will do fine, thank you. (He also referred to them as 20% of Fleetwood Mac, so math isn't his strong suit either.) :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[nicepace]

Does anyone else want to just climb the walls when a supposedly professional journalist refers to their subjects as Mr. and Ms. ad nauseam? Their last names will do fine, thank you. (He also referred to them as 20% of Fleetwood Mac, so math isn't his strong suit either.)

The Mr. and Ms. thing is probably in that publication's style book (a set of rules for the writers to follow so that there is consistency in usage in the entire publication), so it's probably not the writer's choice.

As for the 20%, at first I thought that he was referring to all the members of Fleetwood Mac during the entire history of the band. But for that to work, there would have to have been 10 members of FM over time (2 out of 10 = 20%), and as we all know there have been quite a few more than 10 official members of this band over time. So who knows what he really meant. Maybe he meant 40% (of the current incarnation) and nobody caught the mistake.

[aleuzzi]

nice video!

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She sounds great on this one! And the song clearly energizes her. Yes!