2011 Fleetwood Mac Tour?
 

KLOS said Irving Azoff had made a comment about the upcoming Van Halen and Fleetwood Mac tours in 2011...shouldn't Stevie be touring SOLO in 2011 to promote her new SOLO album??

No rule on the books that says that BOTH can't happen in the same year. :shrug: No need to pole vault into those conclusions (since obviously "jumping" is way to small)

She may do "some shows" after her album is released. I seriously doubt that Fleetwood Mac is going to go on one of their long grueling tours like they did in 2003. Stevie's album will be out in March (*fingers crossed*), she can tour from then til June. The Fleetwood Mac tour may not start until August or September...or even later....even if Fleetwood Mac starts their tour in December of 2011, that's STILL 2011.

I don't see the point in another FM tour if they don't put out a new album. Otherwise its just a repeat of the last tour. Otherwise its just a repeat of the last tour. Otherwise its just a repeat...:lol: ;)

Maybe an album is in the works already...other than being at the US Open, we haven't heard of Lindsey doing anything...and since the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band just disappeared off the tour schedule, Mick's apparently "MIA", maybe they've been secretly recording tracks for the new album...maybe the whole "solo album with Dave Stewart" is just a smokescreen for the new Fleetwood Mac album. :shrug:

(damn, I love conspiracy theories! :lol:)

or the whole "get together in the studio and make music" thing is out the window and they'll be following the Say You Will model, with minimal Stevie time in the studio.

It worked great on the last album as far as I'm concerned.

Lindsey, John, and Mick have been laying low this year - maybe they bumped Stevie out the band and going with the "Men of Mac" thing that was talked about a while back...;)

Maybe there all in England recording a new FM album with Christine! OMG!!!:]

Bekka Bramlett? Now there's an idea! :eek:

That's fine. If Stevie don't get on board, she should left behind. (Who she thinks she is? Peter Hook?)

Still sound like a chiffonhead?



ETA: not that there's anything wrong with that

And the prize for best conspiracy theory goes to ChiliD! :lol:

Anyways, I hate to say it, but anything is possible. That whole Dave Stewart thing could be that he maybe was a guest on a few songs on a full-fledged FM album, and that the "Stevie solo album" might just be an elaborate cover.

Well, after all, there WAS talk back during the 2008 tour that when it came to doing the next album they'd get an outside producer to oversee the production. Maybe Dave & Stevie are doing tracks as an experiment to see how they work together as a kind of "audition" for the Fleetwood Mac producer's chair. (especially since Stevie wasn't all that happy in retrospect with Lindsey's handling of SYW) :thumbsup:

:eek: Ok, ok, I'm :sorry: I called you a "chiffonhead"...but that WAS a stereotypical "chiffonhead" comment you made at the Lindsey Forum. You have to at least admit to that. ;)

Better throw this in before things get a little too heated...:angel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8

First of, I'm assuming that some people are more "Stevie Nicks" fans than "Fleetwood Mac" fans and vice versa. I know my mom is a Stevie fan, but doesn't really care for FM, even Stevie's songs w/FM except for "Gypsy" - a song that reminds my mom of a friend of her's that ill with cancer in a nursing home.

With that said, wouldn't the ruse of a solo Stevie album really being a full FM project upset her solo fans, those that love Stevie and not FM? :shrug:

Being of the "Fleetwood Mac more, much, much, much more, than Stevie Nicks" persuasion...I don't really care. :nod::D Gimme a FMac album!

(I've always been a "band first" kinda guy)

Both FM and la Nicks tours on 2011? I don't see that coming.
Stevie is in her 60s.. it's too hard for a singer at that age to go on the road too long. She was already tired when I see them in Dallas last year.

[Here's a press release. No new info, just thought it might be relevant to the Azoff comments]

Irving Azoff Joins Clear Channel Board

October 4, 2010
Live Nation Executive Chairman Irving Azoff has joined the Board of Directors for Clear Channel, according to a filing with the SEC late Friday. Azoff replaces Kent R. Weldon, a partner at Thomas H. Lee Partners, on Clear Channel's board. THL Partners is, of course, one of the two private equity firms that now own Clear Channel. According to the New York Times, Weldon stepped down from Clear Channel's board to make room for Azoff.

Azoff discussed the state of Live Nation at a meeting organized by Liberty Media. USA Today reports that Azoff is optimistic about 2011's concert offerings, citing planned tours by the cast of Glee, Van Halen, Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera and Fleetwood Mac.

Azoff also talked about Live Nation's further involvement in merchandise and other items beyond the concert ticket, saying, "We intend to become the Amazon of the music business." Last week, Barry Diller resigned as Chairman of Live Nation. While there were rumors of clashes between Azoff and Diller, Azoff said on Twitter that "It was always Barry Diller's intention to step down from LNE COB during first year after TM/LN merger. I look forward to continue to work with him during his time on the board. I thank him for the many years of dedication and loyalty to everyone at TM."

Azoff was also in the news last week because he and his wife Shelli will be honored by the City Of Hope's Music and Entertainment Industry group with the 2011 Spirit of Life Award, its most prestigious honor and recognizes individuals who have committed their time and resources to helping those in need.

Personally, I can't wait for Fleetwood Mac to tour again. I look forward to seeing Stevie too but to have both is like having ice cream and cake...

Probably best not to get our hopes up about anything - new albums or tours, who really knows, none of these might not happen.:mad:

I'm sure they will tour again. They've all expressed interest. The real question is whether or not will get another album out of them.

Van Halen May Tour in 2011
Tuesday, 5 October 2010 From Rolling Stone

By Daniel Kreps
Oct 05, 2010

Van Halen will return to the road in 2011 — or so said Live Nation Ticketmaster chairman Irving Azoff, in a meeting with analysts meant to show that the outlook for next year’s concert circuit will brighten. Van Halen, with David Lee Roth, last toured together in June 2008. According to USA Today, Azoff, who is also Van Halen’s manager, named Van Halen, Christina Aguilera, Fleetwood Mac and the cast of Glee as some of the artists that are expected to pack stadium and arenas when they embark on tours next year. Van Halen’s 2008 tour grossed $93 million for Live Nation.

This isn’t the first time Azoff has promised of a Van Halen tour: In September 2009, at another Q&A session, he mentioned that Van Halen were planning to tour in 2010, but that never came to fruition. Van Halen has long been rumored to be working on a new studio album, their first with Roth since 1984, but Eddie’s wife Janie Van Halen told Rolling Stone in June that, “What is going around is exactly that, rumors.”

http://www.vhnd.com/2010/10/05/van-h...-tour-in-2011/

Yesterday, while driving 400 miles and listening to XM radio (which FM is programmed into my favs) ... every time after an FM song, every DJ on various channels mentioned FM going on tour in 2011.... so who knows....

When I was at a show in Manchester last year for the Unleashed Tour, they did drop heavy hints and almost tease about a new album.

I'm gonna be pretty mad at Lindsey for saying "There is no new album to promote — yet" oh about 80 times last year if nothing comes of it. I hope if they make another album that they actually make it together though, not just Lindsey having all his music ready and Stevie preparing most of hers separate. It would be great if at least on a few songs they started from scratch or close to it. Working out old old songs would be okay to. I'd like to see how that would turn out. Would it be like the final closing chapter? Yeah maybe, but that's okay I guess.

If it were up to me they would go ahead and deal with the Buckingham Nicks issue. Cause you know we all want em to. Tour with those songs and record some of the demos. Rerelease BN. Just do it already Linds.

I'll go out on a limb. There will be no new album. :sorry:

As we all know, Lindsey said "There's no new album to promote...yet" at like all the concerts last year. So I really hope there'll be a new Mac album. But I doubt it, really. Dunno why but I do. I hope they'll do a world tour another world tour though. I wanna see them again so badly ^^, I have to. So fingers crossed for a new album and a new world tour, then I'm happy ;D

Well, LB's laid pretty low since the tour ended...for all we know he's been working on an album. I'm sure his comments about not having a new album "yet" were very calculated. We already know they will be touring again and Stevie even prefaced the Unleashed tour by saying we would have to "suffer through" new material on their next tour and they all were commenting on how that tour was basically a way to warm up for a new album...

Although, I would LOVE a BN release with tour...

I think I will be pleased if it's a Stevie solo album, Lindsey solo album, or another Say You Will (or in my dreams another Christine solo album) considering how amazing the last go at each were. I just hope they give us something!

I think you're right. Unpredictable as they are, the hints were VERY strong and Stevie, in particular, wouldn't be slow to say she wasn't into the idea of heading back into the studio with the lads.

chiliD wishing a Fleetwood Mac tour? with Stevie and Lindsey?? What happen with the "LB & SN was the worst thing that happened to Fleetwood Mac" :laugh: :laugh:
I guess a mac fan will always be a mac fan... ;)

If there is a new album coming, I'm sure Mick would open his mouth soon. So if he is not saying anything....

Ok....I thought this whole tour thing was a giant rumour because Stevie keeps saying that 2011 is going to be "all about her and her album" So I took that as there wouldnt be a FM tour next year.

BUT @GaryKordan tweeted this yesterday....which makes me very hopeful that there will be some sort of tour next year...even if its just a few shows :

"I am losing my mind. We are standing outside Stage 15 listening to Fleetwood ****ing Mac rehearse for their upcoming tour!!!"

then a little while after that he tweeted this :

"I am standing 6 feet away from Stevie Nicks and 10 feet from Mick Fleetwood while they perform Rhiannon."

This has more than excited me!!! But I'm still so confused as to what is going on!!

Gary Kordan on Twitter
 

I don't normally check Twitter, but I was really bored this morning. I searched Fleetwood Mac, and a Gary Kordan was tweeting last night about being in soundstage 15, just 10 or 15 feet away from Stevie and Mick as they rehearse for the upcoming FM tour. I googled his name and it comes up as a pretty big deal set decorator in Hollywood. Anyone know if he's legit??

...I hope so :blob1:
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Reason there won't be a new album: The simple fact is that Lindsey and Stevie have grown too far apart as people and, most significantly, as ARTISTS. An album like Say You Will came about because a) most of the material existed prior to recording the album (it was not created via collaboration) and b) Lindsey was given much greater control over the album's sound and in constructing her songs prior to her arrival. Now, you might say that they would just return to the Say You Will model, with minimal Stevie involvement. That would be fine by me because Say You Will is a masterpiece and the best Stevie has been since "Gypsy"! BUT Stevie doesn't see things my way (or, one presumes, Lindsey's). She hates Say You Will so she won't allow that to happen again--and she has a leg to stand on: IT FLOPPED. Which brings me back to my original point: these two will never go into the studio to write songs together again. There will be no new Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey and Stevie ... EVER. (Well unless her new solo album flops jajajajaja ... so there's hope)

So, if that won't happens, who's with me for a Men of the Mac album? For a fourth member, they could get Bob Welch for singing and playing guitar (and have some duels on songs with Lindsey). It would be seriously awesome, but does anyone agree with me?

I love Bob Welch but :sorry: I don't see any reason to have him back--unless Mick does my full-reunion album concept. MICK, ARE YOU LISTENING??? So anyway, I wouldn't want that... and, fortunately, neither would Lindsey. Ever.

I have no idea in what manner John, Mick, Lindsey could put together a FLEETWOOD MAC album. I'm not saying they couldn't; I just personally can't conceive of how.

They could call themselves Men of the Mac, like how Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and a different drummer play as Heaven and Hell rather than Black Sabbath. It could be an interesting concept and make some interesting music.

I agree. But I think that with the three of them RECORDING new music, it would basically be a Lindsey solo album with Mick and John as the rhythm section. Which would be awesome. But not exactly Fleetwood Mac. And thus not likely. As only Fleetwood Mac sells.

Yeah you're right. I dunno what to say about no new album (haven't really heard Say You Will, wanna see Destiny Rules for the singing fish scene and something else I'll only say via PM).

Being brutally honest. I wouldn't pay £Xhundred to care about only Mick and John :shrug:

Same here. I'd pay to see the Mac again if Chris was back.

Christine is the only person on the planet who could make another Fleetwood Mac album happen. If she said: yes. They would ALL fall into line.

She's got the powa

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