Didn't the long ago banned Arizona Ranger repost on here a few years back under the preposterous name "Eaglesmac"?A rhetorical question ..I know he did .Now his then silly name seems to be coming to fruition.I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

He used to post on Bob Welch's board, too. He still may, I've just not ventured over there for awhile....

I find Bob's board difficult to navigate, as it's real old school, and kinda cluttered. Bob's the coolest host of them all, though!:woohoo:

They sure did!

http://rockalittle.com/whitehouse_jan6_2001.htm

Oh, okay. :lol: I thought it was something new!

Likely he was banned from there as well.He managed about 100 posts on here as "Eaglesmac " before he was discovered and booted again.Incidentally for the many newer people he is the primary reason the strike system came into being on here.

I just went to Bob's board, and there's a "SW Ranger" posting there. It has to be him.

So what's the deal with him? I don't even remember him. Must've done something heinous the way everyone is talking about him... :confused:

:lol: Thanks I'll have to check it out.

I don't remember what he did. When I did used to visit Bob's board daily, I don't recall him posting anything bantworthy.

Well actually, I happen to have MADE the avatar, since the red bits used to be orange and it's my avatar on another forum, I just changed it here since I saw you were using something I created ;)

And just to stay on topic, I have to say after I bought Rumours and Tango, I was amazed how many songs I actually KNEW and loved without knowing they were Fleetwood Mac. I knew Don't Stop, Seven Wonders, Everywhere and Little Lies, and I was all "Ooooh! So Fleetwood Mac made THESE songs" it amused me.

Same with me. I became a Fleetwood Mac fan with Tango (was already a Lindsey fan/ liked Stevie) and after I bought the other albums (group and solo), I realized I already knew and loved a lot of the songs like Hold Me, Love Will Show Us How, Edge of Seventeen, and Gypsy, just to name a few.

My first Fleetwood Mac album was "Future Games", followed by "Mirage" and "Tango In The Night".

It took me some time to completely understand "Future Games", though I fell in love with "Women Of A Thousand Years" and "Future Games" the very first time I ever heard them. And after a while I loved the whole album and I still do.

"Mirage" was a big disappointment - I like it, but nothing more. "Gypsy" is the only song that really stands out, if you ask me.

But "Tango In The Night" was a revelation and I will always love every single song. I took it with me on a holiday in Norway, two weeks with my partner in a camper, discovering the otherworldly beauty of the Lofoten - we had plenty of other CD's with us, including Sinead O' Connor's debut, Depeche Mode and Bryan Ferry, but "Tango In The Night" became the one we loved the most and played constantly.

From this time on, there has always been some Fleetwood Mac / Stevie Nicks-CD with me on every holiday... for example "Rumours" in Ireland, "Tusk" in Switzerland and "Bella Donna" in Italy... :D

My dad's CD copy of Greatest Hits...was hooked after I listened to that in its entirety for the first time!

A vinyl copy of Tusk I got after i watched the Dance. Then Rumours Which I thought paled in comparison.

Mick

Greatest Hits was my first FM cd too. not sure what i was hoping to hear, but it was not the fluffy pop that overwhelmed me from that CD. i put it away and never listened to it again for years.

The first one I bought was the white album although it was not the first one I sat down and listened to (that would be Tango from among the studio albums … plus Rumours is practically all on the radio anyway).

of the studio albums the first one i bought was Tusk. i was shocked how many great and interesting songs that i've never heard before were on this album, especially considering one could basically hear almost every single Rumours song through radio or various greatest hits compilations.

My first FM album was the single version of The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac.
I bought it with my sister, just to know more about the band. The only songs we knew were Big Love, Dreams, Everywhere, Little Lies, Seven Wonders, Say you love me, Gypsy and the Santana's version of Black Magic Woman. We listened to our new CD...and WOW! I must say that the songs that impressed me more were Albatross, Man of the World, and Tusk.
Then I bought TITN, and here I am!
Regards!
Mark

Its got to be the self titled one when Stevie and Lindsey came aboard. I never was into FM before that but I wish I was.

White Album

Rumours, my parents would play it in the car ALL THE TIME and I had no idea what it was, then I saw a glee episode but i forgot all about it cause it's glee. Then last summer at the beach my cousin put on Rumours and I'm like "I KNOW THESE SONGS" then I got super into them.

I used to have one of those Fisher Price "My First Cassette" player things when I was a child - like 2 or 3, maybe. Because music was always ALWAYS playing in our house, it was something I got into very young. I remember I had "Rumours", "Mirage", "Greatest Hits" and Stevie's "Bella Donna" on cassette and would carry them around in my cassette player. So for me, Fleetwood Mac's music has always been in my life (I got to tell Stevie that when I met in her 2011). I got out of them as I got older slightly, and although I still owned the albums, I didn't listen to them much. By that point, I'd acquired a few more - Tango and The Wild Heart - but when I was about 12 or 13 and Say You Will was released, I got back into them pretty heavily and have been ever since. So the first album I had, I don't know which one it was - either "Rumours" or "Mirage.

When I got a computer I illegally downloaded Tusk and fell in love with pretty much the whole thing right away, especially 'Sara' and pretty much every LB contribution. So I packed up my pennies and went to A & B Sound to get the CD but all they had was a hits package (I think the one from the late 80s), Rumours and probably the [White] self titled album.

So I sort of begrudgingly bought Rumours, but I still knew that these songs would be good - my parents had The Dance and my dad played it a lot - so I knew The Chain, Dreams, You Make Loving Fun, Go Your Own Way and Don't Stop would all be good and I knew Gold Dust Woman (my parents didn't have the DVD Dance just the CD, so I didn't know it was in the set)..

I have to admit the first time I heard The Chain and Dreams on Rumours I didn't like them as I was so used to the Dance versions. But I was just a stupid teenager. Anyway one and a half to two weeks later I picked up Tusk and I wish I could remember the order of albums after that but I can tell ya I got a lot of Welch stuff before Mirage and the 75 album, but I probably got Tango third or fourth and loved that one too.

Tango on cassette as a kid was my first. Not sure which album followed - probably Rumours on CD.

The first Mac album (Back in '75) with Stevie and Lindsey. Rhiannon with it's chorus of 'Will You Ever Win' just drew me in.

Always surprised that there's not more Tusk talk here. It's their version of the Beatles' White Album only better imo. It's such a kaleidoscopic ride, all the songwriters had free reign and it never disappoints! Even now after countless spins since buying it in '79 I'll put it on and be transported to a strange and wonderful place. Sure wish TPTB hadn't pulled the reins in on LB after Tusk, who knows WHAT Mirage may have sounded like.

Yeah, I didn't like it just having heard it here and there throughout my childhood, but once I sat down and listened to the whole thing, certain aspects of the band-- three part harmonies, three vocalist/song writers, John's bass playing-- intrigued me and led me to other FM albums.

My first was "The Very best of Fleetwood Mac": It's not the best compilation around, but good enough to make me fall in love with this amazing band.

Tango In The Night was my first Fleetwood Mac album.

I had it bought for me on cassette and then bought the LP and just couldn't stop listening to it:D

I still think it's a fantastic album and am not surprised it's their second biggest seller.

I ended up buying all of their previous albums and just became a massive fan - was gutted when Lindsey left and didn't like BTM or Time but thankfully he came back and I loved The Dance and SYW.

Yes! I agree. I guess this is supposed to be a "nostalgic" fond memory thread. Well, okkk....

(keep in mind I was only 13? in the 7th grade, att) All I remember in '87 was this weird video on MTV with a crazy lady sashaying her skirt back and forth in this very (peter Gabriel style movie) and I thought "Who the hell is THIS NEW band?" Of course the images of LB and the music itself caught my attention. I had to find out more....

Only on the 2nd or 3rd time seeing this video, did I realise that the crazy lady was Stevie Nicks, the lady that I knew at that time for TTM, ICW, SB. Well, it was all over from there...I went to the mall with my sis and cousins from KY that summer and bought my 1st FM album on cassette. Music and cassettes were a big part of my life then...and o/c I wanted to play them in ANY car I rode in.

It seems I had also bought Wham! Make It Big at the time....b'c all I remember was my (male) cousins, who were driving revolting to my music choices and exclaiming "They are fags!"

So, We didn't get to hear my precious FM or Wham! But on this occasion, a FAN was made.

I'll never forget my 7th grade year and the brilliant music my ear was exposed to that year. I even remember exclaiming to my 8th grade English teacher in '88 that I "had FM GH's"; her not-impressed reply: "Well, so do I".

Gosh, was I green back then, but well intelligent beyond my years... how I have grown to Love the '80's!

I have just started to read through this thread, and (imo) it IS very nostalgic and heartwarming, none-the-less.

Imagine the impact that FM has made on many souls through their parents/gparents through the years. At 7 yo, I was listening to Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers/Dottie West/Patsy Cline via my mother and (now) had only wished she had liked the Eagles, Heart, FM, whom I discovered years later. Nowadays...my mom just vaguely likes "SYLM" (Dance version) LOL.

Can You imagine being 7yo and hearing the haunting voice on Rhiannon or Sisters, the guitar riff on GYOW, or the bass on Chain, YMLF? If I was 7 again, these probably would have chilled me to the bone....in a good way...and I would have Q's mommy "who is that pretty angel/witch that sings with That band?"
I applaud the parents that exposed their young to FM and many other great acts of the '70's.

I love this! and the fact that you still post here=awesomeness! You are a fan indeed, and I love the fact that you thought BB and RV were the first incarnation AND drove your family nuts with Rhiannon!


P.S. (this is not to you GDboy) I like this thread so much, lets see how many more memories(posts) I can go through without replying LOL

Christmas of 1988 - my Dad told my Mum that he wanted Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits on cd.
i remember going to the shop with my Mum and her asking for it.
I heard the music and really got into Fleetwood Mac. I was 11.
For me that album was the most 'complete' album i had ever heard; i liked most if not all of the songs on there.

I always think of that greatest hits album as the 'green album'.

Reading all these stories is great. A lot of times it is passed down. In my case..Nothing was passed down, lol. My parents were not music people. I basically discovered bands through random purchases. The Mac....I tripped over them channel surfing. The dance was on VH1 or MTV or one of those Channels. Lindsey hooked me.....the rest invited me to stay.:thumbsup:

Mick

My first Mac album was the '88 GH album that I got back in 2009. After already knowing Dreams and Don't Stop and hearing Gypsy on those music only tv channels, I knew I had to discover more of this Fleetwood Mac band. I had dismissed them as that band with that hokey feel-good song Don't Stop.

I'm happy and glad about the way things have turned out. Fleetwood Mac is truly my favorite music of all time and for rest of my life. :cool:

I was bored one day and asked my mother what music she was into when she was growing up in the '70s, and one of the first things she listed was Fleetwood Mac and I asked her if she had any CDs of them and she gave me the 1988 'Greatest Hits' CD and I played it and remember really liking it.

I didn't listen to the band frequently - I'd listen to the odd song here and there. Then I had a painful break-up with a friend who did everything she could to make me feel miserable and guilty. I was looking for music to sob my eyes out too, and of course I stumbled across 'Rumours', so that was my first original album.

WTF??? I replied to you a few days ago, and now I see that I must have done something wrong since I don't see my comment posted. I've been mostly lurking the Ledge over the past few years, but I decided to change that, and post more. I could never really join discussions and share the excitement of FM touring, since I've never seen them live, but that's about to change since I'm seeing them in Germany this tour. I am a dedicated fan, and I think it's my way of expressing my gratitude towards the people who brought so much joy and comfort in my life.