Volume 3 - Year of the Mac: 1997
 

We begin Volume 3 in the "Year of the Mac" series. On this edition, the focus is on Fleetwood Mac in 1997, the year of The Dance!

Post pictures, news articles, videos, interviews, thoughts, opinions, etc for Fleetwood Mac in 1997. :cool:

This thread wouldn't be complete without Silver Springs!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2XKt2N8fs

Thanksgiving 1997
 

I still keep my Rolling Stone issue from october 1997. I got it in NYC when I went to see them on Thanksgiving day.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...vic/FmacRS.jpg

here's another pic from that magazine.. (by the way, where are Stevie's hands?)
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ic/FmacRS2.jpg

Most definitely! The dance version of Silver Springs has to rank up there on everybody's list of favorite live performance. When there 3 voices join together in the chorus, I get goosebumps. :nod:

My first (real) FM concert! I had been a fan for 2-3 yrs at this point, and had seen the Time tour but never thought I'd have the chance to see these 5 on the same stage! I went to 2 shows (Shoreline in Mtn. View and Hollywood Bowl) and loved every second of them.

Like every other FM fan, I wish the experience had been a more positive one for Christine, and that she'd continued on after The Dance. They were on such a roll, who knows what might have happened if they'd gone right back into the studio? :distress:

However, this being the Mac, we know they hate to do the sensible thing and strike while the iron is hot, so '98 and beyond might not have turned out any different that how they did... :shrug::cool:

I believe she is squeezing the Charmin.:laugh:

I had seen The Tango tour, and Behind the Mask, but the Dance tour was my first Lindsey experience. This was the first and last time seeing the Mac with my favorite lineup, but what great memories. There was so much buzz and excitement surrounding the tour, the CD, it was on VH1 forever, a very happy time for those of us that thought it would never happen again. So grateful it did.

I have the same memories of this time. It was a very good time in my life as well.

Say You Love Me - The Dance
 

This is one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac performances. I love this arrangement. Of course the song is one of my favorites, regardless of how its peformed or who peformed it.

Ditto. I thought this version worked quite well, despite my love of the piano part. The vocal harmonies were superb as well. This is my all-time favorite Christine McVie song. Although, You Make Loving Fun is a close, close second.

Silver Springs 1997
 

This song really rocked back in the day!

Wow! That was way better than I remember it. Vocally it was very nice. LB sounded so good.

Man, Christine's voice was still great in 97!!

Everywhere - the Dance
 

Wow her voice is still pristine. These are gems. I don't remember loving this as much back then. Perhaps because I miss Christine McVie.

That crowd reaction at the end was awesome. It must have been a really emotional day for Stevie, and Lindsey for that matter.

1997
 

pics from the same RS session
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...vic/fmac97.jpg

from Rolling Stone sessions:
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ic/Fmac971.jpg

From the "most beautiful" People's issue from 1997 (Di Caprio was N.1, you know.. the Titanic phenomenom)
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...c/stevie52.jpg

From THE DANCE special
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ic/fmac97b.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ic/fmac97a.jpg

one of the few shots where you see Christine smiling that night.
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ic/Fmac97c.jpg

I got this from The Ledge back in 1997. Can't remember what ledgie shared it. The camera properties are lost in the jpg file, but the filename is fmac091797, so it's probably from the Reunion tour opening night, sep. 17 Meadows Music Theatre Hartford, CT

Though Christine is not in the pic, I'm completely sure is from 1997

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...Fmac091797.jpg

Very nice the way Chris and Stevie are looking at each other and smiling so warmly.

Michele

1997 Lindsey Interview
 

Did this actually happen?
 

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/142...-concert.jhtml

Rumours: Fleetwood Mac Blow-Up Blows Off Concert

October 20 [10:00 EDT] -- The last minute cancellation of Fleetwood Mac's concert in Vancouver, Canada, angered a lot of fans last week, but this week those fans are really livid over a report that the cancellation was not due to the 'bronchitis' supposedly affecting Lindsey Buckingham, but rather a temper tantrum courtesy of Stevie Nicks.

The daily Vancouver Province newspaper said yesterday that the band had a major blowout after their show in Tacoma, Washington, last Saturday (October 11) for reasons unknown, with Nicks in the center of the fray. She apparently refused to make the trip to Vancouver the next day to play the Sunday night concert in spite of all attempts by management to convince her to do so.

The show was called off an hour before showtime, just as the doors to the venue were about to open. Estimates say roughly 10,000 fans had already arrived or were en route when a press release was issued saying that a doctor was advising Buckingham not to perform. Press antennae were raised when it was discovered the band hadn't even made it into the country much less to the venue, and that Buckingham wasn't even hoarse at the performance the previous night or for the dates that followed in California.

The paper pointed out that the reported behaviour wasn't out of character for Nicks--in the past she had ordered a $20,000 video scrapped because it made her arms look fat.

Fleetwood Mac broke up acrimoniously not too many years after their 1977 "Rumours" album became one of the best selling albums of all time. The recent kiss-and-make-up reunion tour and album ("The Dance") have both proved very successful so far.

Neither representatives for the band nor the promoters were immediately available for comment.

If I remember correctly this was proven to be made up bullship

I agree, I think you are right, this was proven as BS a long while back...and if you listen to the Tacoma show, Lindsey does not sound good at all.

There are a few clues, the biggest being where Stevie is standing. Also, Lindsey isn't wearing a wife beater and a leather jacket.

1997 MTV and VH1 clips...
 

The Dance - The Chain...!
 

http://articles.nydailynews.com/1997...year-s-reunion

HALL OF A YEAR FOR FLEETWOOD MAC
By DAVID HINCKLEY ; Sunday, November 30th 1997, 2:03AM

What has happened with Fleetwood Mac this year might be described as a peculiar sort of delayed reaction.

The band got back together after a partial breakup, releasing a new album and launching a tour that, so far, has been quite successful.

Probably not by coincidence, then, Fleetwood Mac was simultaneously remembered by the music business. Among other things, it will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January.

It had been eligible for several years, but this was the first year it was even nominated a strange omission considering how many tens of millions of records this group sold in the '70s and '80s.

Musically, the same lineup that made those records, most notably "Rumours," is part of this year's reunion: Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Mick Fleet-wood and John McVie. Buck-ingham had been the first to leave, in 1987, while Nicks and Christine McVie followed a couple of years later.

Fleetwood and John McVie never let the group lapse, however Fleetwood in particular because he has seen many musicians come and go since Mac was launched in England in 1967 as a blues band (and a very good one).

The five musicians who are back together all worked on various solo and other-group projects over the past few years, none with any enduring level of success.

So they look like a reasonably happy bunch onstage now, and fans can see the evidence Friday night at 10 when WNET/ Ch. 13, as part of Pledge Week and its "In the Spotlight" series, airs "Fleetwood Mac: The Dance," a 90-minute concert taped in May and already shown on MTV and VH1.

The program takes the group through all the popular years, with a sturdy song selection that includes "Rhiannon," "Say That You Love Me" and "Go Your Own Way," plus presidential favorite "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)."

Not all the songs sound as recorded, but there's nothing unrecognizable.

Even the new songs have that full-bodied Mac gloss and as if to underscore that point, "Don't Stop" is performed with the 85-piece University of Southern Cali-fornia Trojan Marching Band.

Yes, the Mac is back.

Check out the Pre-Rumours forum for Volume 4 in the "Year of the Mac" series. :thumbsup:

I remember watching or reading something where Chris commented on the reunion and said something about the pull of nostalgia being a factor in her being a part of the reuinion tour. Yet she seemed so unhappy doing the Dance. She rarely smiles during the whole concert. If you didn't want to do it anymore why not say no? It doesn't make sense to tour if you are not happy doing it.

Matt

My thoughts on this were always:

1) She was always a sucker for Mick and John pulling her back in - how many times before had she sworn she'd give up, only for them to persuade her otherwise.

2) The money. It was probably astronomically good. From what we know now, it is likely that she was splitting up from her second husband and working on the full-time move back to Britain, and so perhaps more money was helpful.

Or maybe she just made mistake. She THOUGHT it would be ok to tour, enjoy it enough, but then she realized it was too hard or just didn't like it, but it was too late to take it back without embarrasing the whole band, break agreements, etc. Anyway who knows..