When did you...

[nicolel118]

When did you become a fan & how old are you now?

Just curious to learn more about my fellow Ledgies.

I was 4 & loved "Stop Draggin My Heart Around". I always loved FM too. My mom was always playing them & Buckingham Nicks. I guess I was about 10 when I realized that Stevie was the other "girl" in Fleetwood Mac. I remember saying, "So, that's why I love them both so much!"

I am now 24.

[FiercestCalmSea]

I've been a fan by default since i was a baby...I was named for "Sara",and my family always listened to Stevie and the Mac...but i didn't really appreciate them on my own til 97' when i saw the Dance on tv...I was 17 at that point....it just snowballed from there..getting all the albums on cd,going all over the place to concerts,lol...

[BlueGrass]

I have the same story as calmsea...I was born into the Mac...now I'm 16.

:)

[Mac Fan]

I grew up listening to them. When I was 5, I thought Stevie had a wonderful voice. I became a fan this year,(I really wanted to know who FM were, so I asked my dad for one of theirs cds) when I was 13.(Am still 13)

[EnchantedStorms]

To make a long story short, lol...I have been listening to FM and then Stevie probably since I was born...in 1974. (I'm 28 now.:eek: :D )

It wasn't until about a year before the Dance that I became a diehard FM/Stevie fan, though. That was when their music~especially Stevie's~struck something personal. They've really helped me through some tough times.

~~Angela~~:wavey:

[nicolel118]

That was when their music~especially Stevie's~struck something personal. They've really helped me through some tough times.


Me too! Very tough times. Sometimes it's the ONLY way I could feel better! :distress:

But I am much better now! :] Still if I am angry or upset I turn there, to the music.

And, of course when I am HAPPY! :]

[Mac Fan]

Originally posted by nicolel118



Me too! Very tough times. Sometimes it's the ONLY way I could feel better! :distress:

But I am much better now! :] Still if I am angry or upset I turn there, to the music.

And, of course when I am HAPPY! :]

That's what I do but I try not to listen to Rumours.

[Cristian]

...about bad love affairs when you listen to some songs of Fleetwood Mac (i.e. the ones from Rumours). And I was having a terrible love relationship and having to deal with all the suffering led me to think that at some point I had seen some MTV Behind The Music special about a band in which there were people having twisted relationships, and still having to work together, and were able to produce good things with those limitations... Familiar only with some songs like "Dreams", "Don't Stop", "Sara" and "Go Your Own Way", my sister gave me the 1988 Greatest Hits CD as my 2000 birthday gift. I will always be thankful about that... Their music and lyrics were very healing, knowing that, indeed, bad relationships are actually... part of life. :)


Song of the moment - Caught In The Rain

[seteca]

I heard Fleetwood Mac for the first time in 1984, by watching Formula One which had The Chain as its soundtrack.

The first FM song I really liked was Big Love when it was released in 1987.

I became a mega-fan in 1997/8 thanks to The Dance.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

[wondergirl9847]

I became a FANATIC of FM/Lindsey last April when I watched National Lampoons Vacation and heard Holiday Road/Dancin Across the USA and I've always loved the songs, but didn't know who sang em...so thanks to the internet...I did some research, found Lindsey Buckingham's solo albums, bought OOTC and Go Insane (I was a lil wary of L&O, as of right then..LOL) and I fell in love with Lindsey's music...and found out he played in Fleetwood Mac (I remembered them as a kid...Little Lies and Dreams being two songs I loved, but didn't know THEY sang those songs! BTW, I used to think Stevie was a witch when I was a kid...:rolleyes: LOL ) Anywho, I started with the 1988 GH CD, and then got Tango, Mirage...then the rest...and that is how it happened. :nod:

I'm 26, btw.

[Cristian]

that I'm 20. :)


Song of the moment - Caught In The Rain

[DownOnRodeo]

I remeber seeing Little Lies on music video channels as a little kid. I thought Christine looked pretty scary in that big straw hat - lol!!!!! (These days I'm still scared - by Lindsey's lip-synching!)

The 97 Dance hooplah passed unnoticed to me, being young and in Australia. But about 1999 when I listened to the classic hits station every morning on the way to school I got very intrigued by the song with 'miracles' and 'the ways of magic' in it, which was played so much it became like a game with myself to see if I could catch it. Then investigation into the world of FM ensued. I got the 88 GH cd and played it lots, but it was 'Sara' which I dubbed to a tape of my favourite radio captures, a tape which I listened to ad nauseum during my final high school year doing homework etc. Sara worked its magic!

That's the point I'm still at after all these years. It's Christine classic pop that got me at all interested in them, then it was Stevie's magical voice and lyrics, then it was realising the talent of Lindsey behind the arrangement and production of them both. And of course the legacy of the earlier FMs miantained by John and Mick.

I'm 19 now, 2nd year uni. My CD collection grows steadily, including Greatest Hits, The Dance, Tusk, OOTC, The Dance DVD, and (when it goes on sale in a week!) VBOFM. (plus the Rumours LP)

[Emmeline]

I became a fan in '97 when listening to my mom's old records, but I didn't know about The Dance until a bit later. I'm (almost) 20 now.

~Emma~

[golddustchic]

I became a fan about 5 years ago, shortly before the Dance came out. I just couldn't stop listening to this great band, and still can't. They are simply the BEST!!

And I'm 18 now.

[David]

I borrowed my friend Paul's "Rumours" album in 1977 ... & probably never returned it. Some friends dragged me along to some Fleetwood shows that year. By the time "Tusk" was ready for market, we were primed. "Tusk" was virtually the only pop record I played that year, & I was as hooked as any Machead could be. I started tracking down concert photos & tapes in the collectors' magazines, articles & reviews in newspapers (I learned how to use the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature for this very purpose) & TV appearances, & attending practically all the California stops on their concert tours. I was really Mac-hooked at that point.

I moved slowly but surely into the pre-1975 Mac years, buying the old albums & reading up on the band's history. I'm glad I did; it really further ingratiated the band to me. Just knowing that they had made such interesting music was a kick.

By the late 1980s, I was bored with the band. Since then, I've had to reinvent them in my mind over & over again. But I've never had another favorite band. And I don't think there's ever been a time since the late 1970s when Fleetwood Mac hasn't made me drop everything & come running.

"I'll hassle them & I'll scream at them & I'll scold them --- but I'll never leave them."[Stevie Nicks, 1979]

[nicolel118]

Well I am getting a lot of feedback here which I like. I must say it is humbling ( in a good way :nod: ) to see how young some of you are. I always was a fan because I had parents who loved incredible music! Some of you have found this music on your own & found the magic. I think that is wonderful. I am sure the band would think so too!

May I also say that your manners are impecible for the ages you are. I would read messages here long before I registered & have read a lot of messages from some of you & never would have guessed your ages. Good for you.

For us ledgies who are a little older-anyone for a drink? :lol::laugh::woohoo: ;)

[golddustwoman77]

Originally posted by EnchantedStorms
To make a long story short, lol...I have been listening to FM and then Stevie probably since I was born...in 1974. (I'm 28 now.:eek: :D )

I'm the same age too with the same story. I have been listening to Fleetwood Mac before I was old enough to know who they were and ever since then. My parents played the Mac all the time. It really had a big impact on me! :nod:

:wavey: :wavey:

[tuigirl]

Wow..It's great to see how many young fans are about..it makes me feel positively ancient!! I'm afraid I go right back to "Rumours" in 1977, when it was played for me by my first really serious boyfriend ,so the songs really had a lot of meaning for me. Like so many others here I lost track of them for a while, but picked them up again after "the Dance" and haven't looked back!!!! oh, yes and I'm 44.

[DownOnRodeo]

Originally posted by FiercestCalmSea
I've been a fan by default since i was a baby...I was named for "Sara"

Lucky! If I had a son and daughter and had any say in the naming, I'd vote for Sam and Sara. Sam because it's my preferred 'typical enduring biblical name', and Sara thanks to 'Sara' the beautiful song and what it means.

Together it makes Samsara, which is a buddhist concept, basically I think meaning that the world is suffering, so you can be joyful once you've acknowledged that, and just embrace and enjoy life!

(Actual buddhists please correct me if wrong!)

[bookie29]

I guess that I've been a fan since I was about 8 yrs old. Although at that time I didn't know who they were. I remember hearing Dreams, Rhiannon, Say You Love Me, & You Make Lovin' Fun.

The funny thing is that during the 80's when I was a teenager, I never knew that the group that I saw on MTV singing Gypsy & Hold Me sang those songs from the 70's. Even worse yet I didn't make the connection between Stand Back & If Anyone Falls being sung by the woman in Fleetwood Mac.

I honestly don't think that I tied it all together until the Tango album was released. There was so much promotion & fan fare because this was the 1st album in 5yrs. I finally connected the dots.

I am such a huge Fleetwood/Stevie fan that I have brainwashed my parents, friends & my lover with their music. Although they do get sick of it at times, whenever a Fleetwood or Stevie song is played they always think of me.

I really never get tired of listening to their music. I may get tired of a certain album, but I just switch to another one. There is always one of their cd's in my car cd changer and in my home player as well.

Anyway, that is my story.

Sean

Oops!! I almost forgot. I'm 33 yrs old.

[madformac]

Originally posted by seteca
I heard Fleetwood Mac for the first time in 1984, by watching Formula One which had The Chain as its soundtrack.

The first FM song I really liked was Big Love when it was released in 1987.

I became a mega-fan in 1997/8 thanks to The Dance.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

EXACTLY the same for me! I knew of The Chain being a big F1 fan but I really discovered Mac with Big Love and the Tango album in 1987.
Everything went quiet from '87 to '97 and the I "came back" big time when Lindsey did.

I'm 28 now BTW.

:D :wavey: :D :wavey: