Besides SN/FM, is your fandom as intense for other performers?
 

My musical taste is very eclectic to say the least: Green Day, Loreena McKennitt, Lisa Loeb, Jason Mraz, classic country (Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, etc.), 70’s disco, 60’s tunes, Jefferson Airplane, and early Jefferson Starship – but Stevie and FM are still (and will be) my first love.

I can’t imagine going out of my way (for example, traveling far and shelling out the extra $$, which I have done before) to see any other singer/band.

So what else do y’all listen to?

Roland

I listen to other bands and I love to see other bands play live. I would never go as far out of my way (or pay as much) as I have for Fleetwood Mac. Unless John Lennon and George Harrison came back from the dead and The Beatles reunited. :)

Some of my other favorites are The Ramones, Blondie/Deborah Harry, The Gun Club, Heart.....I could go on and on :D

Moreso for:

The Beatles (individually & collectively)
Eric Clapton
Allman Brothers Band
any of the remaining blues masters---BB King, Buddy Guy...um, are they all that's left??


About equal to:

Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Leon Russell
Little Feat
The Rolling Stones
The Who
ZZ Top

Not quite, but almost as much:

The Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix

Blondie are my all time favourite band and I stalk them much more than is healthy, David Bowie, Patti Smith, FM/Stevie, Joan Jett, The Pretenders... Like Kristen said, I could go on for days!

The only other artists I've traveled to see besides Mac are Tom Petty & Patty Griffin.

Can't think of anyone else I've liked enough to spend as much money on as I have with Mac/Stevie/LB (and in retrospect, I probably didn't really need to see them 5 times in 1 tour either :lol: )

There's no other artist that I know as much about/collect/buy most everything they release. :shrug:

You should come to Chicago to Buddy Guy's Legends, chili. I would break some cornbread with you.

Be sure to catch her on The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson tonight!

Thanks, I just read that too. I'll be setting the DVR for sure. :nod:

^^
Speaking of Patti Griffin, does anyone have Downtown Church yet? I bought it this weekend and it's taking me a little while to get into it.

Her Soundstage with Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin , and Buddy Guy also premiered this week. I really enjoyed it. Patti did an awesome version of Heavenly Day.

Back on topic there is no other band beside Fleetwood Mac that I have spent so much time, energy, and money on!

I am mainly a Mac fan, but I also love Daryl Hall & John Oates!!! In the 80s, I didn't think much either way about them. They were good, you heard them often, but I never really paid attention. In the early 90s, it just hit me one day that I missed hearing Daryl and John, like 'hey, where did they go?' So, I bought some albums since radio wasn't playing them much. The more I heard, the more I liked. I know most people only know their early 80s pop, but they are worth listening to. Also, every month, Daryl Hall does a podcast called Live from Daryl's House. http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com It's often him and a newer singer together. It doesn't come off as a disaster like Taylor and Stevie though!! Take a listen! There's a new one every 15th of the month.

I got it. I saw her live on the 3 Girls & Their Buddy Tour last year & was blown away by the gospel tunes they did - which is why I'm a bit surprised that I'm iffy on the new CD. I don't dislike it, but I am slightly disappointed. I am hoping it will grow on me, but I'm not getting chills or close to tears (like I did with Trapeze or Up To The Mountain on Children Running Through.) So I guess, to sum up, I agree with you. :wavey:

And thanks for the reminder about Soundstage.

Good question.
I do not know what intense fandom means, but I do have the complete discography for these bands (like FM/SN/LB):

Tom Petty
The Killers
Bodeans
Rusted Root
Moby
Thievery Corporation
Mr. Scruff
Ursula 1000
Grant-Lee Phillips
Interpol
Robert Plant
Richard Ashcroft
Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand
Crash Test Dummies
Michael Franti & Spearhead

I can't say that my fandom for Journey (80s era) is "intense," but just the same, I think the WORLD of their music!!! :D I think they're just about the best rock band that I've ever seen.

Ditto for The Scorpions (except for one or two songs). I think they're amazingly talented - even though I've never even been to one of their concerts.

And while I've never really followed U2 all that much, I just absolutely think the world of them. :)

So I guess overall it couldn't be called "intense," but if I were to like, "rank" things on a piece of paper from a scale of 1 to 100, those three would be somewhere around 1,000 or so. ;)

Just to name a few-


The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Tool
Alice In Chains
Rammstein
Opeth
Pantera
Metallica (not so much anymore, though)
Madonna
Pink
Carole King
Evanescence
Lucinda Williams
Roseanne Cash
Emmylou Harris

Love your List chiliD

Eric Clapton is not Peter Green. :distress:

(Think 'bout it - - it's a little pun. :laugh: )

If it wasn't for Eric Clapton, I never would've "discovered" Peter Green...and neither would John Mayall have, either. :-)

Thanks.

Basically, I'm just "stuck with music of my High School years".

definetly not EQUAL TO...but close seconds...FM/SN/LB are always first in my heart!!!!!
probably::::

The Who
Steely Dan ----OMG THEY WERE MY FIRST CONCERT EVER!! I WAS 8.....Michael McDonald was there to sing background vocals
Alice In Chains
Larry Carlton
Eric Clapton
The Eagles
Tom Petty
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Ratt
Bonnie Raitt

Not sure if you know this or not - I THINK you probably do but -
well anyway for anyone who doesn't -
In London they used to put up "grafitti" on the streets saying, "Peter Green is God."
At a certain point in time, they were doing the same thing for Eric Clapton. :)

There are plenty of artists/groups I really enjoy, and buy all of their music, but the Mac is really the only one I'm completely insanely nuts about :laugh:.

Joseph Arthur is a very definite favorite.

I've enjoyed following Sheryl Crow, and seeing what she has to say next, since the beginning.

I'll go and see most anyone live. Some of ChiliD's favs have been some of my most memorable shows: Leon Russell, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, BB King, and so many others.

Blondie & Heart & FM are my top. I'd travel the world for them. And Debbie Harry, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, & Stevie individually :D

Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Ramones, Heloise & the Savoir Faire, Avenged Sevenfold...

Fleetwood Mac was one of the first bands I was really actively into, in the sense of collecting as much music as I could get my hands on, concert videos, solo careers, whatever info I could find, traveling to a different tour city so I could get more than one concert in. They're also one of the only things that has stuck with me for such a length of time.

REM was my next big thing after my Fleetwood Mac thing started to calm down a little in high school and I liked them much in the same way. Acquired all their albums, concert videos, bootlegs, learned as much as I could about them, etc. Trekked to see them live and have seen them whenever they've come to town since. For the most part though, I've become a more casual fan over the years.

The only other band that I am as involved in liking (and a bit more so) is Hanson. Like FM, I have their whole discography, I've traveled to see them, have seen them numerous times on the same tour, have met them through meets and greets and have even gone to special events they put on for their fan club members, including one where they invited 750+ plus fans to their hometown and recorded a live acoustic album. I've been a fan of them for as long as FM, almost thirteen years and part of what keeps them so easy to stay immersed in is their accessibility. They've always got something going on and are in touch with the fans and always get some new music out each year.

I love live music and going to concerts, so there are a lot of other bands that I consider myself an active fan of without considering myself "involved" with being a fan. Outside of these, there's Kings of Leon, O.A.R., Sister Hazel, Steel Train, fun., NeedToBreathe, Marc Broussard, the list in pretty endless. And I really, really loved the Bee Gees for awhile and still consider them an alltime fave. :)

HELLZ No- nobody gets near the admiration and love as Stevie/Mac!!

However I do listen to a heck of a lot of other music, from Toto, to Choral music! :)

Nothing comes even close. This is partially because I've never really known life without Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks, but its also because they're just too damn awesome.

Ryan Adams is the closest thing to them for me, though.

Absolutley no one can compare to FM/Stevie in my eyes!
That being said..I also like Heart :)

GUIDED BY VOICES/Boston Spaceships/Robert Pollard

My favorite BY FAR. I'm not saying other bands aren't amazing, but they all pale in comparison. The epitome of what good rock and roll should be. Great songs, raucous shows...Hell, even Piss and Puke buckets. If you don't have a good time at a Bob Pollard show, you're simply not trying.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/images/orig...edbyvoices.jpg

Love GBV!

Mine would be Lucinda Williams, followed by the Magnetic Fields.

I like oldies,Rock,Classic Country,R &B,Jazz,Disco,70's 80's pop Rock.Big Band and Soul.
I don't like todays tunes,will I should say the begining of the 90's the mainstream music started turning into garbage.
I dont like Rap,Hip Hop and also heavy metal.

Bands or artists other then FM
most mentioned earlier in this thread,

I will add

Olivia Newton-John
ABBA

I will add more later.


Country Bands are

Sweethearts of the Rodeo
The Judds including Wynnona solo
Emmylou Harris I met her a couple of times.
Johnny Cash and family
Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings and Ex wife Jessie Colter Stevie's Leather and Lace was written originally for them.
Dolly Parton
and alot more to list.

The person I have seen the most after FM/SN/LB is Billy Joel. I think I have seen him about 6 or 7 times (he is great live!). He and Blondie (who I have only seen live once, but they are my second fav band) and Springsteen(seen live 4 times) are the only musicians I would say that I like as close to the level that I like FM/SN/LB... make sense?


If I had top pick another 10 (along w/ if I've seen them) :

Tom Petty (2x)
Bowie (1x)
The Beatles
Stones (1x)
Patti Smith
The Who (1x)
KISS (1x)
Elton John (4x)
The Pretenders (2x)
Warren Zevon

Kate Bush, is up there with Fleetwood Mac :angel:

Well, I'm one of those people, they way I'm wired, I have an intense passion for a few things, and it is really hard for me to really get into other artists. Of course Fleetwood Mac has been a favorite for over 30 years, but the Stereophonics, who's picture of myself and the band is in my sig, has come the closest to approaching the passion I have for Fleetwood Mac. I have only seen the Stereophonics 2 times, once in Minneapolis at a club called First Avenue in 2005, and in 2008 in Washington D.C at a place called Club 9:30. I also am a big fan of The Sundays, but Ive only seen them once, in 1997 at First Avenue in Minneapolis.

No one has ever really equalled FM/SN for me.

Close to equal:
Marilyn Manson:D
The Smiths/Morrissey:D
Jewel:D
Garbage
Tom Petty
The Killers
Mariah Carey (Can't help it haha)
Janet Jackson

Love To Death:
Blondie
AFI
Brand New
Taking Back Sunday
Madonna

I dont think I'm as obsessed with anyone as much as Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac - Think my friends are tired hearing about it!!! lol

The only other bands that I think are almost as good would be:

1. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - This band can be so musically intense. Here Springsteen has got probably some of the greatest musicians working with him. Credit to Roy Bittan who played with Stevie for Bella Donna. This band can move you to tears with songs like 41 Shots @ live in New York and then become something almost spirirtual with songs like Mary's Place & 10th Av. Freezeout. Or just a simple rock-out with the classics and some lesser known greats.

2. Elton John (and his band too) - Althouth Stevie and The Mac have written some amazing songs in their day, Elton and Bernie together could put up qutie a challenge. Again we have songs of great emotion musically and lyrically (Your Song, Candle in the Wind, The way you look tonight) and just a good old rock-out with "The Bitch is Back" etc.

3. The Eagles - It easy to see why the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac were always chasing each other for No. 1. The harmonies between each of the guys on many songs are great whilst like the Mac each member can hold his own too. The storytelling of Lyin Eyes etc is exceptional.

Other Notable Artsists would be - Aerosmith, Annie Lennox (amazing song-writer), Eric Clapton, Norah Jones, Oasis, Phil Collins, Police, Queen, Tina Turner & U2.

I'm definatley too old before my time; Most of my favs were at their peak before i was born (Im only 19)!!!!!! - sorry for the length of this. lol

I guess that my Bob Dylan obsession is similar to my FM obsession, the only difference being is that there is one of him and 16 of FM members so it appears that I like Fleetwood Mac related stuff a lot more.

I guess if I had to choose between seeing Bob Dylan and seeing Fleetwood Mac then I'd choose Dylan every time.

I love FM and all that, but nothing quite speaks to me like a good Bob Dylan lyric...

John Hiatt - solo or with band. 30 years of great tunes.

Robbie Robertson - Current Favorite: opening for 2002 winter olympics but he's done a lot

Seems like for the most part we all have similar music taste outside of FM/Stevie, awesome! :D

The Eagles, ELO and Abba. In fact ABBA was my fave way before I discovered Fleetwood Mac

Just listened to the Little Village album for the first time in quite awhile (since I just loaded it onto my iPod)...forgotten how good that album is. Amazing band, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner...easily defines "supergroup". Too bad they didn't get the recognition they should've.

I saw John Hiatt when he was a member of Ry Cooder's band back in '83, when Ry opened for Eric Clapton. That was a great night for guitar lovers!

Also, just loaded Robbie's first solo album on the ol' iPod, too....that is one fantastic album...every song just hits home. "Sweet Fire Of Love", "Somewhere Down The Crazy River", "American Roulette" are just the tip of the iceberg.