Confirmed - Gyow
 

Alright, Lindsey and Carrie are doing Go Your Own Way. Not surprised! My husband didn't see him, but he said the band has been rehearsing the song for 4 hours, and then Carrie got there and rehearsed it without LB for about 45 minutes...when my husband left they were waiting around for LB to get there....he didn't land in NYC until 6:30, and then he had to go to dinner with someone before getting to the studio to rehearse. He said that Carrie sounded really good singing GYOW though....will probably be a good performance, and great publicity for LB!

Kristin

Wow, thanks for all of that inside info Kristin.:D Not that excited about GYOW but whatever.:distress:

I can't believe he's really going to be dusting off one of his lost classics. Haven't heard that song since '98, when The Dance was big. Wasn't there a big fuss about it when it came out on, what was that album, Rumors? :shrug:

I guess he wants to try resurrecting it.

Maybe he & the Underwood gal will play it backwards or something sort of out of the ordinary. He could compose a fugue on its two themes. He could re-score it for jug band (although I think that's been done back on the Patron Saints of Pop CD). He could sing it in Pig Latin -- like what Ginger Rogers did with We're in the Money in one of my favorite movies, Gold Diggers of 1933.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpkxzvbG4YQ

Really there are so many opportunities here.

well, david, you always make me laugh. lindsey will never translate GYOW into weirdness. No, this is going to be a performance that is "acceptable", at maximum. Bwleeeeeeh. He's going Stevies way. Bwleeeeeeh twice.


BTW: thanks for the info Kristin! :cool:

yeah Sorta, we agree on something. Isn't that weird? :lol:

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. :rolleyes:

(but thanks for the info Kristin!)

[QUOTE=danax6;718264]"We decided one time we're going to put a billboard out that says 'We, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, have nothing to do with the following songs on Tusk'." - Stevie NicksQUOTE]

Vanessa! Do you have this interview?? I heard it years ago online and I haven't been able to find it again. It's from Australia from 1979, right? Does anyone have this?? I would love to hear it again!!

Thanks,
Jackie

I'll upload it later when I get home. :) I love that interview!

This is great news. Can't think of a more appropriate Lindsey/Mac song for them to do. I hope hope hope hope it is made available on iTunes as well!

Thank you Vanessa! I can't wait to hear it again. I think it's been 8 years since I've heard that interview!

Jackie

Oh come on now, buddy. It's just one song, one show, one night. He's not gone Stevie's way yet. He actually put out a disc of new material and played quite a bit of it live this last tour, remember? Stevie would never, ever do that.

And, I don't think he has to translate GYOW into weirdness for any reason. It's his mainstream hit, and likely remains his biggest source of income through ASCAP/BMI whichever he's registered through. As much as he can play to be like, "don't yell out for GYOW too soon and we'll all get along fine" ... he's gotta still be all about it, if for no other reason than the chaching it brings. Serious dough off that song... and his other stuff doesn't really sell that well, so if he has to pound it into the ground to keep it going and keep him in a position that he can continue to make "boutique" albums... that's fine by me. :laugh:

...and it's the greatest song of all time!

Yawn. :shrug:

:laugh: did you see that LBT has been howling GYOW at shows? Sounds like crap! I hope CU doesn't decide to do the same. :eek:

No. Is it on YouTube? I can see why this song would be picked for obvious reasons but it just doesn't excite me.

Here you go:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wmykjs

:wavey:

I agree, but I still think its kind of cool that he is playing a show with so many big name artists that are popular now.

haha...indeed. Maybe they will a semi-country version like Alison Krauss did with John Waite's "Missing You"...

I don't like it without Lindsey. :shrug:

Booooooooooooring! C'mon Lindsey you could have come up with something better than this.

Nice. Thanks for the info. I know Linds fans like to snobulate about, and discussinate ad geniusism, but - I'm glad he's doing the show, and sometimes musicians just sing all around and do shows, and it's fine. I think it's fun to bring him in with modern people - he'll shine either way. I mean, he could easily show up C. Underwood, but also the song could sound great anyways. It's just one of those event show thingies where they ask a bunch of famous musicians, and it kind of gets thrown together to please everyone. There's still talent gathered there - and probably everyone involved is doing one of their best known songs. Yes, we've heard GYOW a million times, but it is still brill, and I think some people will hear it in this case who might not have considered it much before. And that is my hope, not that Lindsey snobs out and doesn't want to play in front of people, but that he plays a lot, and if it takes a well worn gem for people to gravitate to his genius, find out who he is - then fantabulous.

Especially considering he toured the sh*t out of his new album. I mean, being a musician is a job, but it's also fun, and I'd hate to limit one of my favorite musicians (Linds) by trying to pretend I have the best idea for what he should do at certain times. Or trying to pretend he is too good to play his music around. Heck, if we were lucky, Lindsey would always be playing his music around. And has been recently. And so I say that with the knowledge that we already know he's not a huge sellout. And sometimes it's good to bust out GYOW. It's not like that Carrie girl is a bad singer. Does every move he makes have to be deep and complicated? Do you hold yourselves to that same standard? And most of us aren't super genius musicians, so how are we to know? :shrug:

Lindsey, being the gentleman that he is, probably asked Carrie what she would like to do. :wavey:

Thank you SO much Vanessa!!!

Jackie

I can't wait!! :blob1: I love GYOW!! :woohoo::woohoo:

Yeah I agree, but a great deal of the less than enthusiastic perspective that people like Gerald have on stuff like this seems to originate with Lindsey himself. As far back as the Rumours tour, Lindsey was telling the press how boring such a long tour was because you had to play You Make Loving Fun or Dreams every night for a year, & that he vastly preferred recording studio work, where he could always work on something new. The "staying fresh" soundbite in Lindsey's speech & thinking goes a lot further back than the 1997 reunion. It's a thirty-year-old motive in his mindset. HE'S the one who started talking about how pointless & bland it was to play the old hits every year, & how it stymied growth in an artist. That never occurred to the other guys in Fleetwood Mac. That was Lindsey's thinking.

Remember one of the interviews he gave during the 1997 tour in which he complained that standing onstage playing Rhiannon made him forget what year it was? I actually thought when I read that: "Well what about Go Your Own Way & I'm So Afraid? Your own material is the same old hit material as the stuff you feel weird playing today."

In the early 1980s, he didn't even want to tour solo until he felt he had enough material to be able to "make a statement" that was different enough from the typical Fleetwood Mac show. Even with two solo albums completed in 1984, he didn't tour. However bogus that view of his was, he really believed it & stuck to it by not doing any live work.

I think the point is that Lindsey has changed a lot of these opinions he used to have. I think the 1981 Lindsey Buckingham would have looked at the plans for the Say You Will tour with something like shock at the idea of gearing the whole thing to big arenas filled with people wanting to hear Dreams again. But by 2003 or whenever that tour was, he was of a different mind. He has made many recent comments about how a Fleetwood Mac show "needs" to include many of the old hits & the old approaches -- "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," he seems to be saying.

Thanks for this! I'd play it now, but I'm at work and probably shouldn't even be posting. But what the heck! Lindsey's gonna be on TV! I get excited.

I remember that article/interview very well... but I didn't take it as a complaint. It was a response to a question of nostalgia, and he said, something like, yeah definitely, i get out there and get sucked back into the song and think, "oh ****, what year is this" , and there was a [laugh] around that point. I really just didn't take what he said with the same tone that you did. It didn't seem to me that he was saying he didn't want to play it or that he felt weird playing it or whatever.