The fan club
 

Just curious, I want to know how many of us. Obviously just mark if the answer is yes.

I was a member the first year, but I found it wasn't worth it to renew. Yeah, I know this has been commented dozens of times, but I waant to have a number of ledgie members, jsut for curious.

I never was a member....never will be. I still got a calendar and went to LIB, though. :eek:

Oops! That's what I get for being in a hurry... I clicked that I was a fanclub member, which I'm not. :o

I didn't join this fanclub, since I'm still a "lifetime member" of the 1990 fanclub.
They're WAY behind on their quarterly newsletters though! :rolleyes: :laugh:

Do you mean to tell me that Mick TOOK your money, and didn't keep up his end of the bargain? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I know! It's shocking, isn't it?! :laugh:

I wouldn't leave that man alone in my house!!! He'd surely steal the silverware!

I am still waiting for mine from the Stevie Nicks fan club. :eek: :laugh:

I was never a member. STill managed to get some great fanclub seats tho! ;)

I'm not a member and don't ever plan on being one. I received my calender for Christmas. I had decent seats to every concert I went to except one (which my parents bought the ticket for me as a gift and had no idea what they were doing) and I was even front row for one and was able to shake Stevie's hand and get Lindsey's autograph. :D

~Kim

money through the toilet
 

I was a member. Wasted money. I got a crappy ticket through the club for OKC. Had to sell it with 85% off just before the show. I got a MUCH better ticket though ticketmaster later on in the presales.

the only thing I got which was satisfying was that black vintage penguin T-shirt which I already wore to pieces. :D

club fans
 

well, I joined for the exclusivity of some items dispite my resentment of paying for the right to buy. The only thing I have purchased in that realm has been a platinum package to a show in Atlantic City 9/10/04. I got the wrong size t-shirt (come on, people, how hard is it to get the right size t-shirt?), a backstage tour of essentially nothing....no dressing rooms or anything of that nature....and a promise for a signed tourbook. I have yet to recieve this tourbook. When I call fanfire, I get stonewalled with lies, excuses, etc. this was back in september for crying out loud. I gave them some advice....never promise something that you donnot have to give....all this did was rake open those wounds from the fraud of the '98 AHI benefit. I may get legal advice on this....I am going to get personal with this if need be.


Gads it's tought to type angry and sad...I hope this didn't seem too manic

Me too -- 21 years later.

EDIT: I keep forgetting it's 2005, so make that 22 years!

Never joined...
 

and never saw a reason too...I'm too damn skeptical nowadays.

What happened in 98? Was that when Stevie wouldn't greet anyone?

I think you should sue the fuuck out of them. Backstage big deal! I never would of pay anything to go backstage anywhere, esp if you knew before hand you wouldnt be meeting anyone. If you have been backstage at one show, you have been backstage to them all.

I remember reading the fan club "promises" and thinking there is enough wiggle room here for them to sell you a ticket in the back row and justify it with their vague wording. I also remember thinking that too many people want the same 20 or so first three row tickets. But, I joined and appreciated the videos, Cory B.'s journal entires (esp.!!!!), and other things. I thought there could have been better and that the videos and stuff could have been better in that ONE could have La Nicks in it. And - some well knowns around here and some people I met at concerts got those first three row tickets. So, in the end - I cannot say they did not deliver what they promised because I knew what I was buying when I bought it :cool:

I don't think you sound too manic. I think you articulated your feelings very well. Like many others, I too have joined many of the fan clubs and never got what I was supposed to. And I realized after reading your post that although I get mad about it, the part I don't talk about is the sadness. Sadness like a kid promised something he wants so much that is never going to happen. The stars and their fan club henchmen really are callous to people who complain about not receiving what they paid for, and obviously don't know what it's like to admire someone so much that you would pay that much money for promises of calenders or backstage tours or whatever. And I almost think they don't deserve fans like us if they want to treat us like the criminals when it is them not following through on the promises. There is no reason why fan club's promises can't be fulfilled. And I applaud you if you do take legal action. It's about time someone put them in their place!

They don't deserve any fans if they think it's perfectly okay to swindle them and treat them so cheaply like they did. It only serves to reinforce the idea that Fleetwood Mac is not a musical or artistic venture anymore and it hasn't been for many a year; it's mostly about money and how they can make as much as possible. I most definitely do not simply blame Mick, that's too easy. They were all involved in it and they all put their stamp of approval on it. For that, they're all culpable in the disgusting treatment of their fans. They made money for nothing and I hope it was worth it.

While he's just as much to blame as the other three, I think it's great that Lindsey and his management realized how ****ty the whole thing was and did something to patch things up, because Stevie's management certainly didn't give a flying f*ck. The run-around they gave me was hysterical. Truly hilarious.

Personally, I'm still reeling from being approached for a meet and greet with the band members for thousands of dollars and having plastic Egyptian jewelry hocked my way. And all those f*cking video clips of Mick and his bloody car were simply the icing on the badly baked cake.