Who hooked you first...
 

...Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey or Stevie? (I'm sure this question has been asked before)

For me, it was Fleetwood Mac in 1987. "Big Love" grabbed my attention and then it was full steam ahead! :blob2: Next was Lindsey's solo work, then Stevie...whose solo albums I had a hard time getting into at first, but now cannot live without!

Second part of my question: How long were you a fan before you saw FM/Lindsey/Stevie live? I became a fan in April of '87 and saw them in October of that year during the "Shake the Cage" tour with Billy and Rick. (no comment -- other than "no Lindsey, no fun"!)

Cheers!

Carlene :wavey:

I was 12 when TITN came out, just about to become a "hair-band" fan (oh, when I think of the time I wasted:( )
Anyway, I remember Little Lies first, I really liked it. Then I heard 7 Wonders & WOW - it blew me away, I loved it! Hated Big Love, though, especially the video with Stevie flapping her skirt furiously & that strange woman grunting with Lindsey!
But the FIRST time I remember anything of any of them, I was 8: Stevie - Stand Back! What a classic from the start of MTV (that's probably why I remember it so clearly - I watched MTV all the time when they used to actually play videos) My first video memories are Stevie, Prince "Little Red Corvette" & Pat Benetar "Love is a Battlefield"

Paula

I was in someone's car in 1981 when Stop Draggin' came on. I thought "who is this chic?" She didn't sound like Stevie of Fleetwood Mac. The next year I was living in Vail, CO and we didn't get tv unless we had cable. MTV came with it. Gypsy and Sara were constant staples. I had this cassete player with one tape in it. It was Mirage. My favoirite song was That's Alright. I first saw Stevie on the Wild Heart Tour here in Denver in, what '83? Joe Walsh opened for her and the next day, according to her Timespace booklet was the day they took that infamous drive to the drinking fountain and she wrote Has Anyone Ever Written. It was a great show.

Oops, forgot part 2 of the question, I was getting lost in my memories...

As I said, I got into other music for a while. When The Dance came out, that was it. I was hooked. I saw my first Mac show in 1997 & never looked back. First Stevie show in 2001. Went to three shows for SYW in 2003. Loving every minute of it.

Paula

The Mac did from as long as I can remember (my Dad named me Steph after you know who). However, my first memories of their songs - Leather & Lace (Stevie solo I know). Then I remember Gypsy & Hold Me. I wasnt old enough to know what being a true die-hard-raging fan is though... so that credit goes to Tango for me.

Re: Who hooked you first...
 

EXACTLY the same for me.....! I'd heard The Chain for several years before then during the beginning of the Formula One show (without knowing who FM were)...but in 1987 Big Love (and then immediately the TITN album) was what got me into Fleetwood Mac.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

For me...it was Stevie, the song was *Dreams*, the year 1978...I've been hooked ever since:D However Christine and *Over My Head*...falls in there, too!
Can't wait for Phoenix...July 21....

DITTO THAT! :nod:

The first tape I ever bought was in junior high and it was TITN. I loved "Seven Wonders". I became hooked (again) when I saw the BTM for the Mac. Back then, I was so clueless, I didn't even realize that it was the same band from my junior high days! After BTM, I went out and bought Rumours, and have been hooked ever since!!

Christine and "Over My Head" back in 1975.

Back in 1982, when I was 11 years old, I saw the Hold Me video on MTV. Lindsey was the man!!!!! I fell in love with his blue eyes and watched the Mirage concert so many times over the next three years whenever MTV would broadcast it I would have it on!

1977...
 

It was I DONT WANT TO KNOW. I heard it on a FM station in Philly around the time they released Go Your Own Way in early '77. I knew of Fleetwood Mac but when I herad that song, the harmony, the guitars,I was hooked. I bought Rumours,Fleetwood Mac,Buckingham Nicks, Walter Egan stuff, all the older Mac albums and anything any of them were involved in. I have been hooked ever since. That's why I love Say You Will so much its the what caught my ear in the first place.

The Dance.Stevie.Rhiannon :D

LINDSEY!
 

THE MAN himself...got me hooked!! I heard Holiday Road and DATUSA in the movie National Lampoons Vacation, I was watching the movie during a dark time in my life (needed to laugh) and BAM, I went "WHO IS THAT SINGING?!" The rest is history...I got OOTC and GI, then the 1988 GH CD, then, Tango and Mirage after that....the others. LOL

My life HAS NOT been the same since. :D

First Christine being on the radio constantly got me hooked (Say You Love Me, You Make Lovin Fun, Don't Stop).
Then it was Stevie (Sara, Rhiannon)
Then finally it was Lindsey (Production of Sara).

In fact, the thing that got me from beinga big fan to one who actually found the Ledge etc was going to an old Warner Bros. Fleetwood Mac site that advertised The Dance CD and had a repeating clip of the intro to The Dance's Big Love. The Dance was then the second FM album I bought (after GH 88), and the first with my own money.

So like others here, Big Love did it for me too!

Re: LINDSEY!
 

AMEN to that!

Your experience was pretty much the same for me when I went "whole hog" for FM in the late 1980s. What a man! The "Big Love" video (while quite cheesy by today's standards) just reeled me in. Too gorgeous!

I worked in a record store during the "Tango" period and I was teased mercilessly for liking FM (and especially Lindsey). I didn't care. In fact, I was so proud of my Lindsey obsession I would stratigically position the cover of the "Little Lies" 45 where I could see him while I checked out customers! (Hey, it worked -- made the day go faster!)

And you're speaking of "Holiday Road"....I remember when that movie came out (eek! 1983) I was 13 and we're sitting in the theatre and the projector broke. Since we had some "down time," I left the theatre, went to the nearby record store and bought the LP (yes, vinyl!!!) of the soundtrack because I had to have that cool song. So here I was -- getting my first taste of Lindsey Buckingham, but the lightbulb doesn't go on for another 5 years! :laugh:

Then again, growing up...I was "aware" of who Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks were, and I knew songs like "Dreams" and "Gypsy," "Hold Me" and "Stand Back." But I guess I wasn't ready yet to catch Mac Fever!

My Pops eversince I was born into this world.

I can't believe I'm gonna tell you guys this, but I used to carry around the White Album and Rumours 8 track tapes all over with me as a 6 year old. (Think surrogate teddy bear!) I was absolutely obsessed even then, LOL! Nobody in my family had any idea where this came from! I even had my own bright yellow "helmut" 8 track/radio player to play said tapes. (gosh, I'm really dating myself here, LOL!). Along with my tapes, was a dog-earred first edition novel of "Jaws" that was equally as loved.

I also tried to dress up as Stevie (again as a 6 year old!) and got into the packed-away winter stuff in the closet and tied every wooly scarf around me. My mother saw me and promptly took a picture, which I still have! I walked around like that all day, in the 80+degree heat in the summer, singing "Dreams" at the top of my lungs.

Things pretty much trailed off after that, But, when MTV first came on the scene, there was a lot of Mac stuff on there, and I became hooked all over again. As unreal as this seems, I didn't put 2-and-2 together that this was the same band I obsessed over as a young child. It was only when I was a "new" fan and mentioned something to one of my older sisters that she told me! And, then gave me the old 8 tracks I had so lovingly carried around as a kid! I actually still have these tapes!

I guess I was just destined to be a fan, right from the start!! I said back then to my 15 year old best friend at about 3AM, after watching the Tusk documentry for the millionith time, that I was gonna meet every single one of them before I turned 30! I did just that, except for the ever-elusive Lindsey! I do, however, still have my "Lindsey" charm bracelet that I got for my 14th birthday, LOL, so until I can get my hands on him, that will just have to do for now!!

Thanks for indulging my trip down memory lane!

How did you meet the band? Please...share the story!

Gosh, it's actually several stories. This Christine one is in the Christine songs thread. I got to talk to her while she was sitting in her limo (complete with my parents and dog). What a trip!

I was lucky enough to have band comp seats (side of the stage)and backstage passes for the Behind the Mask tour at the Meadowlands in NJ and the Spectrum in PHilly. That's where I got to schmooze with Mick, John, Billy & Rick. (The girls don't "go" backstage, which is basically a room with catered food). Great pictures from that night, though! The funniest one is with John. Someone said "don't fake it" referring to him smiling in the picture. He said, "What? Imagine me naked?" We both cracked up and the picture looks really strange!

I was in a right-time-right-place in August of 91 at the Taj in AC, NJ. That's where I met Stevie and the rest of the band that toured with her then. Les Dudek (guitar) was a trip. He played for the Allman Bros and lived with Cher. It was his birthday that night, and he had some really funny stories to tell! Most of which I can't repeat, since they are pretty raunchy! Stevie's brother was there, too. I acutally talked to her for over an hour. She grabbed a bar napkin and wrote me a really nice note on it. Then, proceeded to yell my name from across the bar for me to come get it! (Had to do SEVERAL am-I-dreaming reality checks that night). I just tried to play it cool (OMG) and not seem like I was a totally rabid fan on the verge of passing out from excitement. It was about 4AM when her security people were ushering her back upstairs. She stopped, the whole group followed her and she came over to me and hugged me goodbye and said she'd never forget me. I had held it together up until that point, when I started to bawl like a baby, LOL! That night truly was magic. ANd, for the record, all she had was a shot of sambuka (spelling?) that she sipped the whole time. I had, like, 20 million diet cokes. The bartender asked if I wanted something stronger, but I was pumped enough just being in the company of all these people! They were amazed that I actually knew all of them, even the makeup people, stagehands, etc. All that album cover studying paid off, LOL!

I almost met Lindsey when I was 19, with the same crew that had given me the comps for the Mask tour (family business friend that was the hookup). As fate would have it, he had "other plans" and decided not to meet the group for a drink. UGGGGGG!!!! So, I'll have to keep working on that one! (BIG sigh.)

Thanks for asking about my Mac history!

I've always been more an album person than a singles listener. In the early 70's when I was in Jr. high and high school, radio was kinda lame after the Beatles broke up. A lot of novelty songs and AM one hit wonders dominated the radio play in this town. One FM station played British blues style rock and early British hard rock, ala the early Mac, Moody Blues, Cream, Yardbirds turned Zepplin, Saabath, ect. and I really got into that kind of music. I liked Fleetwood Mac first with Peter Green and again when Christine was the main songwriter along with Bob Welch. When they relocated to the states I was like...hey, cool! I was in high school then and was a bit of a music snob because of my older brother. When the radio mentioned something about a re-formed (again) Fleetwood Mac and the new members Lindsey and Stevie...I was asking my brother, "who the hell is this dude Stevie and who's his chick Lindsey? Ever heard of them? Where's Bob?

I decided I didn't want anything to do with this newest Mac because the people influencing my taste at the time were denouncing them as a chick band doing pop, instead of the old Mac which was blues oriented. Not until Rhiannon was getting serious airplay a few months later, and the DJ mentioned Stevie's family lived here and that SHE (not he) was born here, did I take a second listen. Rhiannon was unlike any other pop/rock on the radio at that time. Soon after disco became the rage, FM's Rumours came out and was like the anti-disco to me, and being an album person, I thought Rumours was the best concept album since Sgt. Pepper! I was totally hooked for good when I saw that Stevie dude...oops, my bad...I mean Lindsey, on the Rumours back cover. Ttssssssst...hot...hot...hot! They've been my #1 band ever since until Mick and his greedy fan club **** got me riled up and remembering some of Mick's other schemes in the past...but that's another story. As for this one, different members from Peter Green and Mick, to Chris and Bob, then finally my homegirl, Stevie and her hot dude Lindsey hooked me in different ways at different times. Everyone except John who I overlooked for years until LB left and I realized John was the real glue that held it all together. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I was really into N'Sync and Brittney Spears until last year, when I thought they were getting too commercial with the Pepsi ads and all. I was searching for music that could inspire me the way theirs had, music with real teeth and grit. One night I was home watching American Idol when a contestant named Nikki sang this song called Edge of Seventeen. I didn't think the song was that good, but Nikki carried it well so I decided to check it out. That's how I first heard of Stevie, but when I found out she was a witch, I decided to buy only the Fleetwood Mac stuff. That's how I became a devoted fan.

- Jake





























Okay, NONE of the above is true.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I've NEVER owned the teeny-bopper music.
I remember seeing a picture of FM in the kids' magazine Dynamite. (Any other Gen-X-ers remember that?)
I didn't pay too much attention, as I assumed from the name that Fleetwood MAC was country, and country was not cool in the Philly suburb I lived in.
Forward to 1983, flipping through channels on the old cable box (the kind with the cord that reached across the room). I see this captivating blond in a black dress, and I stay on the channel to see the credit at the end of the video for Stand Back. Stevie Nicks? hmmm...
That happened a few times for the next year. I'd get lost in those brown eyes, and I'd never change the channel until the end of the video.
But I never went out and bought the album.
That same year in my Jr. High Art Appreciation class, a classmate designed a large mural of The Wild Heart cover. I paid little attention, not seeing the connection.
By the time of Rock a Little, I was very aware of Stevie's voice, and my best friend had told me she was in Fleetwood Mac, but I still thought of her more as a solo singer. The Philly stations did much to promote the album and always referred to her as "Lady Lace".
1987. Summer before college, I buy Tango. By the time I saw the Seven Wonders video, I was hooked on the band and especially the blond. My first college roommate bought me Rumours for the holidays; I bought him the first Very Special Christmas album, since I wanted to hear the Stevie song, but I'm Jewish, and didn't really want a whole Christmas album of my own.
By the end of that first year of college, we were driving each other crazy as only roommates can. He would listen to the same Springsteen song every night before going to bed, and I got in the habit of playing Gate and Garden because I knew he couldn't get the chorus out of his head during exams. Stevie as a weapon!1987 was definitely when I became known as an FM nut.

Two years later I was in a college in Wisconsin and got to see Stevie for TOSOTM, the following year for BTM.

To sum up, I guess it was MTV that got me hooked, back in the days when I still had cable and they still played videos.
I have to say that those first experiences of seeing Stevie on the small screen brought me into her TimeSpace every time. I lost all sense of time, problems, everything but those eyes and that voice (and that body was pretty good, as well).

- Jake

Lindsey Adams BucKINGham!!!
 

:cool: I adored this sophisticated, handsome Guitar
Genius from the minute I clamped my eyes on him! ;)

Stevie hooked me first. A friend of mine lent me Bella Donna when in 1984 when I was 14 and that was it! Hooked! I first saw Stevie on the OSOTM tour and the only time I have seen FM was on the Behind the Mask tour.

Pip

There were many initial things. I would probably have to say that the main thing was when my older brother brought home the Rumors record when it came out in 1977ish and I saw how hot SN was compared to how "weird" the rest of the band looked to my 10 year old eyes at that time :laugh: I was trying to escape my parental and societal constraints as much as I could in Lafayette, Louisiana and not get killed by the "normal" people :laugh: Stevie and her hippy trippy music just took me there. She was so out there and yet so blatantly normal to me, even at ten years old. Then, there was that voice that sounded to me like ten voices all in harmony (actually it was usually two or three of her own in harmony and then LB and CM singing lead a la Dreams, but what the hell did I know then!!!! :cool: ).

Then, the beginning of the age of "video" really started for me; I have great memories of the live performances on the Midnight Special, Don Kirscher show, and, a little later, Solid Gold (for those that remember, YIPES for those Solid Gold Dancers!!!!) . Stevie always looked so good on those and mostly sang on key :laugh:

Then, we got a VCR in like 1982 and I got a hold of the Tusk and Bella Donna things, which fueled the fire. She danced her a$$ off in the Bella Donna video (think Gold and Braid!!) and was just otherworldly in the Tusk one (if not a little stoned during the SOTM take - think the "would you be my - would you be my - would be my" off of the mic and to the crowd with the vacant stare afterward :laugh: ).

I finally saw Stevie live for the first time on the RAL tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was a little "thicker" in both waistline and voice on this tour and was really messed up in the concert I saw. She was nonetheless beautiful to me as I was in awe. In fact, she almost fell on top of me as everyone pushed forward and almost knocked me down when I was the first person she touched during the EO17 walk through with the audience. I was screaming at her and the security "I am going to fall, let go of me Stevie!" She did not - which I thought was very cool! Also and as an aside, her pearl and diamond ring was slipping off of her lace half fingered glove (hey - it was the 80's :laugh: ) but she closed her hand to prevent it from coming off. I later read with a smile that she had lost rings in concerts over the years, but they usually found their way back to her.

I saw FM for the first time on the TITN tour in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sadly, no LB, but RV and BB were great, as were the five or so additional members!!!! I saw LB for the first time live for The Dance tour. What a great performer on that/those guitars!!!!!!! I can say that there was a definite, different, and better if not tenser (sp?) feeling when LB and SN were on stage as opposed to the other subsequent players.

It has been a great almost 30 years!!!!!!!!

LOL!
 

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Jake, that was a good one. :laugh: :laugh: I was in shock when I read this and then I realized that you were joking. Thank God! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Isabel

Same answer to both questions!

Saw Fleetwood Mac in 1979 (?) at the Spectrum in Philly. I think Kenny Loggins opened for them. Saw Stevie twirl and I was hooked. Never saw anybody dance like her.

Neglected my music for awhile: kids, two jobs...etc.

Saw The Dance on PBS and I was back...."to the velvet...ooohh"

susieq :wavey:

Re: Re: LINDSEY!
 

LOL! Hey, I saw the vinyl single of Big Love friday night in a record store. You probably already have that, I'm sure! :) (I think it was a single, it was as big as an LP. ) The store also had his solo album, Belladonna, and lots of FM older stuff.

I didn't buy anything. I don't think I would actually use the vinyl and I don't do the trading thing, but it was cool to see them. :cool:

susieq :wavey:

For me it was Stevie and a friend
 

In 1981 I was listening to the radio and I inmediately notice the voice. After the song was finish the DJ said that was "Edge of Seventeen". I asked at school to one of my friends and she said it was Stevie Nicks. Of course,:o I said to her, that's a guy?! lol

She told me that SN was girl and that she was in a group call Fleetwood Mac also. My friend is/was (I dont know if she still is a fan, I haven't seen her in a long time) a huge FM/SN fan via her older brothers. So she gave me all the FM albums to listen to and I was hooked ever since.

Thank you, Gloria. Wherever you are. :cool:

Isabel :wavey:

Ditto, but actually it was the chemistry between Stevie & Lindsey & the whole band & not just any one song though I loved them all.

Lee :)

It started for me with FM when I was in high school with the White Album. We couldn't wait until the next album, little did we know back then that the next album would be so great. The day it came out me and my neighbor went to the five and dime and got the album. Both of us wore the albums out from playing them so much, we had to get 2nd copies. I started to wear that out so I got a 8 track which I still have. Got Tusk and Mirage the day they were released. Was more of a LB fan and didn't really appreciate the genius of Stevie's solo work until I heard Timespace. Now I never miss her solo concerts. I have been a fan for over 25 years.

Terri

I actually saw Nikki after the Stormy Weather benefit last year in LA at the Wiltern Theatre. I saw her after the show. She and her (?) Mother were going back down stairs to join the party. She was sooooo pale in person, kind of drab looking (no offense). Maybe she was just tired though. Funny thing was I was wearing a necklace Stevie once owned and she looked at it.

LOL, you had me going Jake! :laugh: :laugh:

Same for me! I had never really listened to Fleetwood Mac very much before the Dance came out- although I think my mom and I listened to the Live album sometimes. My mom is a huge FM fan and she really got me hooked when the Dance come out- I was 10. I remember Rhiannon being my favorite song- I loved the ending (of course, I didn't even know about the "exercism" version ;) ) Me and my mom watched the Dance video ALL THE TIME- and we still do :) . After getting the Dance CD, I think I got Stevie's Timespace and GH '88. It wasn't until about 3 years ago that I started buying the other FM albums and I got Enchanted for Christmas '01. I think that Enchanted box set was one of my favorite Christmas presents EVER :D ! So I am currently completely obsessed with Stevie and FM :)

:wavey: adam :wavey:

my turn...
 

My first experience with the MAC was in 1982, when I bought Gypsy and Hold Me as 45's. I remember twirling to Gypsy and flipping Hold Me over to listen to Eyes of the World. I played this song so many times esp in front of the mirror where I used to role play to it, strumming my guitar and singing background...lol...hey give me a break..I WAS 11. :)
But ever since then I listened and loved the MAC, but a turning point for me was in 1997, where the obsession hit full frontal!!


Long Live the MAC!

Tamara:wavey:

Re: Re: Who hooked you first...
 

That`s funny! Exactly the same way I discovered them too. Saw it 1987 on Formula one and loved the video (unlike a lot of other people here on the board but I still think it's great)
I didn`t know the group but I thought: "These people look old but the guy is somehow cool." :laugh:
The singing with LB hitting the high notes- loved the song at once! Since then I am a Lindsey Buckingham Fan!

Tango In The Night came out my freshman year at Penn State. Sure, I'd heard the earlier albums, and we had quite a few 45s from them - my older brother deejayed for a while when he was in high school - but Tango was the first album I bought.

(Cassette, actually. It lasted about six weeks and a few hundred playings in the Walkman....)

Funny thing is, Christine's songs/videos from that album were the ones that first interested me, but as I listened to more of their music, Lindsey's tunes were the ones that really grabbed my attention. That's still true today.
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BTW, nice place you've got here. (This is my first post, but I've been lurking since shortly after the Buffalo concert, learning all kinds of interesting and useful things.... like NOT joining the fan club.....)
And reading about some of you flying cross-country to get your FM concert fix somehow makes me feel better about driving ten hours from northern PA to Indy next weekend....... :D

It was Big Love and then Tango that got me. I have vague memories of seeing/hearing Go Insane and liking it, but Big Love was what got me hooked. Then I went back and bought the FM catalogue and spent a weekend goinbg through deja vu as I had flashbacks to childhood while listening to the eponymous lp and Rumours.

I wonder if Lindsey realizes how many sceond generation fans he brought into the fold with that then-very-up-to-date sounding single, Big Love?

John

Yes you're right, I am surprised too how many people here also mention Big love. I still think it is a very cool song!

Anyone thinks there is one of those generation grabbers on SYW also?

It was Little Lies that got to me first. I heard the single and saw the video and just loved it (especially the keyboard sounds). My sister was given a casette of TITN for her birthday but it was me that played it over and over again...I loved all of them equally at that point. I was 15.
I then tuned out of Mac for a couple of years. I started dating someone who had the green cover best of Mac album which he used to keep in his car....that was it I was hooked! Stevie really started to stand out for me at this point, especially on Rhiannon and Sara.
As a surprise gift my boyfriend brought me a copy of OSOTM and that was when Stevie totally pulled me in, hook, line and sinker! :D My obsession grew and grew. I had a sister-in-law who was a big Stevie fan too and she got me tickets to see her on the OSOTM tour in the UK. I went to see Mac in Manchester, UK too the next year.

It wasn't until I really got into Stevie that I realised I used to dance round my bedroom with my sister to I can't wait back in 1985 when I was 14 too...I never knew who it was at the time...but it was Stevie I came back too in the end. She must have buried into my subconscious! :)

Love and happiness from Sarah

For me it was hearing Silver Springs live on the Dance Concert. I saw the video for Silver Springs and have since been crazily buying everything that is Fleetwood Mac. I am looking for the 1980 Live album on CD.