And she was always telling stories about her wacky relatives who were just as ditzy as she was, which Stevie can definitely do (i.e. Glenn Parrish taking her meds).

Michele

Yeah!!!
 

You are awesome Viv! Have been looking for it everywhere on youtube. It is like an addiction. Have to get that Without you intro fix after every show:laugh:

Second Hand News by T McAfee

Review: Fleetwood Mac thunders into Charlotte

By Jared Faw For the Salisbury Post on June 30, 2013

http://www.salisburypost.com/article...into-charlotte

CHARLOTTE — More than 20,000 fans gathered in Charlotte’s Time Warner Arena to pay their respects to the mighty Fleetwood Mac – a band notorious for their love-affairs, drug use, and lethal amount of hits over the past four decades.

Although the longevity of the band has never been questioned, it was surprising to see so many 20-something year-olds in the crowd.

There were plenty of Stevie Nicks impersonators, of course, draped in their black handkerchief-chiffon dresses and platform boots.

Fleetwood Mac is currently on a world tour, which will hit Australia and New Zealand before the year is over.

The Australian leg of the tour sold out in a record breaking fifteen minutes, proving that the Mac still has quite the clout.

The band opened with a menagerie of hits from their landmark record, “Rumours,” which to this day is the third best-selling album in history with sales nearing 25 million.

The first two songs, “Second Hand News” and “The Chain,” kept the crowd on their feet and fists pumping in the air, while the band effortlessly glided through hit after hit.

What was the most apparent all throughout the evening was just how hard this band rocks.

A special treat for more seasoned fans was the drop-jaw performance of their new single, “Sad Angel,” which was released a few weeks ago on their new EP, aptly titled, “Extended Play.”

The night became a bit more somber when Nicks introduced her signature song, “Landslide.” The definitive emotional peak of the evening, “Landslide” talks about growing older and coming to terms with both your mortality and the realization that some “mountains” simply cannot be climbed.

While the song has become one of the most-covered tracks in music history, its message remains universal and timeless.

Although Nicks’ voice, which was once described as the most famous voice in rock, has taken a beating over the years because of drug use, she still sounds strong and vibrant, even if her vocal range is largely limited.

Nonetheless, she definitely lives up to her media-given title, “Queen of Rock.”

After the brief deviation from the more colossal songs, they returned to perform “Gold Dust Woman,” which now feels more like a Broadway number opposed to the gritty original with Nicks acting more like a street urchin than a noble Queen of Rock.

Not to be outdone by Nicks, guitar-god Lindsey Buckingham brought down the house with mind-blowing performances of “I’m So Afraid” and the classic “Never Going Back Again,” the latter which had everyone in the house rocking out.

While Fleetwood Mac remains an iconic classic rock band, the main draw of the event was undoubtedly Nicks.

Thousands still show up to see the now 65-year-old twirl and mythicize her songs into little plays and acts.

It was interesting to see just how many young people still look up to her, obviously trying to scratch and claw their way to the front rows to catch an up-close glimpse at the rock queen.

The show was amazing, of course. Bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood provide one of the most intense rhythm sections in the world.

Recently Rolling Stone Magazine took a poll of its readers and asked them who the most recognizable rhythm section was. Fleetwood Mac topped the list.

Although McVie, who was once married to ex-keyboardist Christine McVie, and Fleetwood remain largely in the background, their presence is instantly and continually detectable.

The show clocked in at two-and-a-half hours, ending at 11 p.m. — quite a feat for an artist in their 20’s, but this is a band whose members are all in the mid to late 60’s.

Many fans were talking about the possibility this may be the last Fleetwood Mac tour, but the band showed nothing could be further from the truth.

I first saw them in 2004 and again in 2009 and I can honestly say that this tour sees the band in unbelievable synchronicity and much more playful than on any previous tour.

Then again, will Fleetwood Mac ever really stop? They’ve been such a huge part of rock music since 1975 that I have a feeling the chain will never really be broken.

And the band played on…

I'm not even sure how a "rock out" would be possible. Michele

ha! i'm hoping that maybe he really did spell out the full name in Charlotte and later shows?

during JB show, he did his regular spiel and said the band has new EP out. i yelled "what's the name of it?" he looked at me like a teacher would at a student who obviously didn't listen and repeated "what's the name of it? ee-pee!" i said no... so it finally occurred to him where i was going and he said "oh, Extended Play!". i nodded yes.

i hope maybe the message stayed with him that he needs to spell it out (when you put Fleewood Mac EP in amazon or itunes search you get out Rumours). although i'm not holding my breath... :p

:thumbsup::thumbsup: i feel vindicated! this reviewer put into words what i've been trying to express in the other thread for days now...

that song used to be rocking instead of over a minute of striking one pose without any music whatsoever; and it may be just me, but i'm for gritty and rocking, as opposed to street urchiny :cool: :shrug:

To me, GDW has always been a mood song, rather than a rock song. In her solo songs, I talk about the need for rock songs and I think, "EO17 needs a companion" and I never consider that GDW is actually a rock song too.

For me, the song is about the (gold dust) woman and her hollowness and the only time I don't like it is when that mood is broken: I'm looking at you Don Henley.

Michele

I've never thought GDW was very rocking either. I've always thought it was just really atmospheric and unsettling.

maybe i'm using the wrong expression. to me, GDW is Stevie's most rock song ever. not pop, not folk, not adult contemporary... rock. period. a single song in my mind deserving of her rock queen title. i can look over everything else i don't like because there's GDW.

i understand what you guys are saying about moody, mystic, performance artsy, etc... but that is the part of SN i personally don't care about, even though i guess it's what attracts so many of you to her writing and public persona. i care about several songs that are either beautiful ballads with universal timeless meaning, or a few songs that are rock. those are GDW and SOTM, in my book. stretching them back to moody ruins it for me. i want them to stay rock, or jazzy is fine too.

you all have all other songs of hers that you love... but she has taken away one of just a few songs that i loved with doing what she's doing on this current tour. :distress:

Gold Dust Woman (and every other live Mac rendition these days) being turned into a Broadway Number has zero to do with Stevie's delivery, and everything to do with the glut of backing musicians & singers onstage. I realize the addition of the backing musicians/vocalists makes it possible for the band to take it a bit easier onstage, but as a direct result it also neuters the potency, rawness, and emotion of the performances.

While I do agree that GDW has always been more of a spooky/atmospheric piece, it definitely is a rock song too. Stevie was almost channeling Robert Plant of Led Zepplin during the second half of this version:

This is why I hate genre labeling - generally when I think rock, I think ZZ Top sort of stuff that I don't particularly care for, so my natural tendency wouldn't be to lump a majority of Stevie's stuff in with that...

So do you think Edge of Seventeen is just a pop song or what?

I just personally don't think that GDW is all THAT much different than it has been in the past. There's the extended ending, yes, but it's not as if she's stopped the wails, cut out all the guitars, and stripped it down to a piano ballad. :shrug: It's still intense to me.

To each their own, and all. It blew me away when I saw it, but then again, I like the song with just an acoustic guitar too so maybe I'm just not very selective.

agree re genre labeling and i cannot say that i'm very good at it either. just trying to express what i'm thinking the best way i can...

agree, most of Stevie's stuff is not rock in my mind, whichever way i've seen rock defined.

i'd say it's a great [rocking] pop song, yes.

i'm with you that the first part of the song is still as it was in the past (still i do miss 2009 jazzed up guitar version throughout; hoping against hope that will show up in Europe maybe?)... but the song is now >11 minutes long and by youtube vids timing the last part with no music whatsoever is about 1.5 minute. so this last part is what bothers me. by the time the song comes to a close, i have forgotten how great it was when it started over 10 minutes earlier. :shrug:

i don't think i've heard that, can you link me up?

haha i think he meant "the former"... :laugh:

I'd forgotten - there's actually drums too (minimally).

Oh, then I'd say her work here is done.

Michele

I agree. I'm personally not a fan of Stevie's poses and shawls. That's why I've been known to spend vast portions of Rhiannon knitting. But to me GDW's mood and atmosphere is not based on any of her silhouette acrobats. It's based on emotion and that has not changed for me. That has not lessened. I don't think its power is that different from what it always has been, extended ending or not.

Michele

thanks so much! :)

so yeah, this version i would never call rocking. it's way too perky for me. sounds folksy too (i don't mind perky or folksy but not for this song). always interesting to hear how a song develops. i think i eventually always have a version of a particular song as the representative of that song in my mind. like TTWLG the album version is not definitive version of that song for me, live version that i heard first will always be it. :nod:

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

^But I should say that I love the song Rhiannon. I have just thought that live versions became all form and no substance there for awhile: I can't do the exorcism anymore, so look at my batwing sleeves. I'm not complaining about the song so much this tour though, but there have been some dry years . . .

Michele

hey, you won't find me complaining about Rhiannon this tour - lots of guitar beating and humping, going on longer and longer, to keep me entertained :D ;)

(we need a gif of that!!)

that said i can't believe how Mick can stay serious while Lindsey is doing that right by him.... i'd literally die laughing if i was him.

You know those "vines" on Twitter? They are 6 seconds long. There could be a vine that starts off with Lindsey's antics on Rhiannon and then culminates with his ISA climax.

Michele

:laugh: good idea! you wanna try and make one? although don't think the app would hold on for over an hr between the start and the end of the the same vine recording. but... we can record a vine using vids on the computer! actually maybe i should try that, i even have both rhiannon humping and ISA climax (with the fall!) from the same show!

It's true. It's a lot to cram into a few seconds.:laugh: Michele

Sister's of the Moon by Pattym902

Sister's of the Moon (Audio only) by Jeremy Daniels

Here you go elle! I just happened to be scrolling through this thread and saw your request(?).....:D

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aww, thanks!! :xoxo:

not for small children. :laugh:

Hahahaha......definitely not for small children!:laugh::laugh:

Sister's of the Moon by Budabooth420

The audience sings Happy Birthday to Mick Fleetwood. Lindsey thanks them and then says his Tusk album speech. Not That Funny is performed. Filmed by Budabooth.

Sad Angel by Budabooth420

cool, thanks for finding that!! :thumbsup::wavey:

Rhiannon by T McAfee




Stand Back by T McAfee

Without You intro & song by Budabooth420

Never Going Back Again by Budabooth420




Sara by Budabooth420




Eyes of the World by Budabooth420

Gold Dust Woman by Budabooth420




Tusk by Budabooth420




Second Hand News by Budabooth420

I'm So Afraid by Budabooth420