First Mac Memory
 

What is your first Mac memory? As in, the first time you
caught a glimse of or heard them...
I VAUGELY remember hearing "Hypnotized" but my
first crystal-clear memory is hearing "Say You Love Me"
on the radio as a very lttle girl. The sound of that three-part
harmony left such an impresssion on me and still stays with
me to this very day.:)

Listening to Little Lies on the way to preschool:D

OHHH, and then, in second grade, when I bought Tusk, and I was afraid of Sister of The Moon, the title freaked me out... :laugh:

Hmmm.... it'd probably be hearing The Dance's version of Landslide. That one made an instant impression. I loved all of it... Stevie's voice, the lyrics, Lindsey's guitar playing, all of it.

Oh, I don't know if this counts, but I just realized the other day when I bought Enchanted, I listened to Whenever I Call You Friend, and I vaguely remember it from when I was younger... I probably thought it was completely lame back then, too ;-).

Reading about the formation of Fleetwood Mac in an article about John Mayall's Crusade album with then NEW guitarist Mick Taylor who'd recently replaced Peter Green who'd left the Bluesbreakers to form his own band named FLEETWOOD MAC.

A few weeks later I HEARD "Black Magic Woman" for the first time on radio station KNAC-FM (105.5; Long Beach)...DJ/Program Director Ron McCoy played song. A couple of years later, the same DJ played my first listen of "Oh Well".

Oh, ChiliD...How I envy relics like you ever so much...:wavey:

...seeing the "Hold Me" video on MTV as a toddler. :)

Getting an issue of Dynamite Magazine that had a photo and blurb, Stevie in a split (I think) and she and Christine both in hats. I thought they were country from the band name and wardrobes.

- Jake

I guess I was about 8 or 9 years old and I heard "Dreams" on the radio. I use to sing and dance along to the radio while playing 'dress up' in my mother's closet....(I know I sounded pathetic but hey...I practically invented the concept for music videos :laugh: )...and I'd dress up as that 'funky little chick' who sang the song.

I didn't know how I knew what Stevie wore, I don't know what "funky" meant....but somehow it all fit.:cool:

I heard Dreams on the radio when I was very little and I was afraid of it. Something about the way Stevie sang it and the part about thunder scared me! :laugh: I do remember thinking that Stevie's voice was neat, and I asked my mom who she was. From that point on I always remembered that some lady named Stevie sang it. I didn't actually know who Fleetwood Mac was until I became a fan when I saw the Dance on MTV.

Listening to the entire Tango album in a local radio station. I thought it was cool, it sounded similar to Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen album which I loved (I recently knew it was because both use of the Fairlight music computer), so I bought it and has been my favourite band since then.. :)

Héctor

Very first? My first memory is seeing/hearing the Gypsy video when I was a wee one and asking my mother why the voice I heard was "weird." :laugh:

Sara Video
 

I remember watching TV and then they played the Sara video, this was pre MTV-era, and my brother said.. that song is SARA, and it's Fleetwood Mac, that was the first time I saw Stevie Nicks

I seem to remember hearing 'Say You Love Me' on the radio as a little kid, and since everyone says that no cover's of that song were done, well I guess it was Fleetwood Mac.

I also remember seeing my dad's 'Fleetwood Mac' tape next to Alice Cooper's 'Welcome to My Nightmare'. I remember that I used to get the two titles confused...probably because of the cover of the white album, which I think might have scared me a little.

I also probably heard Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, and Rhiannon without realizing they were Mac songs. I'm sure I saw one of my parent's copies of 'Rumours' too.

My first memory is seeing the Greatest Hits cd in my sister's room, she got it when cd player and cd's were just coming out lol...so it was one of her first cd's...I just remember the cover and Little Lies...for years after I associated Fleetwood Mac with that song and that song alone.....

Probably Hearing my Father play TITN nonstop since it came out in '87 and I was just born in '86. I want back to the album a ferw years ago and all these songs seemed very familiar.

Probably my first memory was the Gypsy video but I really remember seeing the Little Lies video all the time. I remember being confused too because there were two blond haired women in the video and I thought that was weird.

My first memory of Fleetwood Mac was hearing Dreams on the radio and suddenly being aware that I knew the lyrics to the chorus, it was the first one I learned. Also, the song gave me a very good feeling, I was probably about 6 or 7. The first image of Stevie I recall is the Gypsy video, I loved it and it inspired me to be a gypsy for Halloween that year, although my costume wasn't quite the gauzy dream I'd had in mind. :( Then the Hold Me video, she is so stunning in that but you hardly get to see her. I wanted to look just like her! cool:

~Susan:

About six years old; "Everywhere" was on a cassette tape that my dad had of songs he liked from the radio. I loved that one too... with my sharp voice then I went all day: "oh IIIIIIIIIII"...

...well I do not like the song that much these days, but of course it brings up some memories. The funny part is that I never knew it was a Fleetwood Mac song until I bought the Greatest Hits CD about three years ago... Damn ingnorance. :rolleyes:

If you count that, I watched an old "Dreams" performance in an oldies show from chilean television and thought "that girl is beautiful". I was about 12 years old. :)


Song of the moment - Gold Dust Woman

Snippets of memories...
 

I remember when Rumours came out, my dad had the album and the 8-track. I wasn't allowed to touch the stereo. (I was 7 at that time). I remember the album with the "yellow" cover as being off-limits, and I remember hearing "Dreams." That was the "big people's music." I stuck to my Disco Duck. :laugh:

My parents divorced that same year. So later on, after my dad moved into his apartment, I associated "You Make Lovin' Fun" with that time period. It must have been playing on the radio when he picked me up one day or something...but that memory is crystal clear.

I do recall seeing the "Hold Me" and "Gypsy" videos in the early 80s, but my first "on my own" Stevie/Fleetwood Mac moment was my purchase of the "Stand Back" 45. I had known about the Stevie witch rumour by then, but I don't think I associated her with Fleetwood Mac at that point. But, anyway, I thought I was pretty cool for having that 45!! :cool:

Then in 1987, I heard "Big Love" on the radio....and saw Lindsey pouting sexily in the video...and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that. :nod:

Watching "The Dance" video at my grandma's and hearing my mom and uncles go on about how old the band looks.

Why wasn't I born 20 years earlier? :confused:

I feel your pain!

Hmmm......
 

Well, I do recall hearing Dreams, GYOW, GDW, Hold Me (which I heard in Kohls yesterday!!), Rhiannon, Gypsy and Little Lies on the radio when I was a kid PRIOR to my discovering FM in 2001 for REAL.

In 2000, I remember hearing Landslide from the Dance on my local soft rock station and just LOVING that song to death!! This was before I liked FM around March/April 2001!!

It was meant to be...Destiny Rules. ;)

Talking about those 180 degree turnarounds.

Six years earlier I turned on the radio just to hear this middle-of-the-road fodder called "Little Lies" come out of the radio. I disliked the song immediately as I pretty much disliked any mainstream song that came from the '80s and '90s at the time. I thought it sounded like something that only soulless robots could do.

Now it is one of the very best songs any incarnation of FM has released, and I can state that while being completely objective. ;)

I thought there would be stuff like this in the thread:

"The first song I heard was 'Brown Eyes'; my mother played it to me while I was still in the womb." ;)

I remember the videos on MTV as a kid. I remember watching Gypsy and my mom telling me not to like Stevie because she's a witch. I remember that image of her walking then her face in the end and thinking weird because I really wondered if she was a witch. I'm sure my older sister liked her and she'd let me watch the videos.

My mom to this day hates Stevie for some reason. I just don't understand.

When I saw Gypsy years later --I totally remembered it and it didn't send me weird chills anymore.

Yeah, it sucks for us young'ns We missed it all. I was born the same year Rumours came out so that didn't leave me much of a chance to become a real true fan until the Dance.

I also remember listening to the White cassette, like when I was six. I remember ISA the most, I thought the organ (or whatever it is) was awsome...

I really don't have any Mac memories before The Dance came out....my mom and I watched it on VH1, bought the video at Best Buy, and listened to the tape in the car all the time. I think I might have also listened to FM Live 1980 (which I also loved!)BEFORE the Dance came out, but it's vague.

My mom and I have completely worn out the Dance video....we have watched it literally atleast 100 times.....:D

:wavey: adam :wavey:

First Mac Memory
 

I used to wake up at 6 a.m. every Sunday morning to hear Casey Kasem count down Billboard's Top 40 on the radio (loved those cheesy "long distance dedications" :D That was the first time I heard a Fleetwood Mac song, Hold Me, which was stuck at #4 for like seven weeks in 1982 :mad: I think I was 11 at the time.

I do remember hearing FM's songs all over the radio without knowing who they were. I didn't care to find out because they weren't disco so they weren't cool! ;-) However, I do remember that Bob Welch's solo version of "Sentimental Lady" was a big hit and I really liked it. Anyway, I remember going to the store when I was around 6 or 7 and seeing this display of albums in the music department. I just remembered there were a bunch of albums in the display with naked people on the cover, one of whom was really hairy. I was aghast and thought these people were dirty. When I asked what this was, I was told by my older sister that it was Fleetwood Mac. I vowed never to like these obscene, filthy naked people. ;-) Of course it wasn't until several years later that I realized I was so traumatized by the sight of the Buckingham Nicks album cover (which had just been re-released at the time).

My second Mac memory was when my uncle brought his copy of Rumours over to our house when I was 9 years old. He forgot it in the CD player, so my mom put it up to give it back to him. But I snatched it and didn't give it back till two years later when I realized that was wrong. :rolleyes: