Without You - A Collection (that's love, baby)
 

I have a feeling there might be a few less BN related contributions here for yet another few days and, in light of that, decided now would be a good time to start collecting together all the Without You introductions (and performances) from this tour. I'll try and post one city's worth every day. I think I've found most of them but we'll see how we go. Feel free to add more videos or chime in and comment on anything as I go.

I'll embed all the YouTube clips, unless I couldn't find them again (I re-name when I download so relocating clips can be difficult). However, I'll also include a mediafire download for all the introductions just in case you can't be bothered or don't know how to download straight from YouTube and want a permanent copy...

Oh, and I'm also not using the American dating method because it messes with my head. So, dates for gigs will be set out as Day/Month instead of Month/Day. Onwards and upwards!

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04/04/2013 - Columbus

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Downloads

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/1p...bus_(6.05).mp4 [06.05 minutes, 13 MB]
2. http://www.mediafire.com/download/fi...bus_(6.02).mp4 [06.02 minutes, 23 MB]

What Was Said

S: ...on YouTube, because that’s where we found it in 2010

S: In my show I get to talk a lot; in this show, not so much!

S: ...which was really why he asked Lindsey first, and me, because we were a package deal, secondly, to join Fleetwood Mac

S: This is also, probably, the nicest words that I ever wrote about the two of us and I’m very proud of it because it really does tell you what an amazing time we had during that time and what a blast Lindsey and I had growing up together in San Francisco and Los Angeles and it was a beautiful thing

at the end of the show, when Lindsey was introducing Say Goodbye, he quoted this and joked how telling it is that she says the nicest words she ever wrote about him were in early 1970s... or something like that. i'm sure yo can find it on youtube.

Yep, tres amusing. There, there, Lindsey. :D I liked how he later in the tour began talking about these two songs as 'mates' of one another

http://youtu.be/-FhNiLKX970

Those two. <3

Lindsey can sing this song as often as he pleases.
In the end... he'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves him.
Ha. :o

This is lovely Nicole. I wanted to do something similar, but I was lazy. I wish I had done it all along, because going backwards to do it is a daunting task.

Michele

06/04/2013 - Philadelphia

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Downloads

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/pz...hia_(5.21).mp4 [05.21 minutes, 19MB]
2. http://www.mediafire.com/download/tg...hia_(5.29).mp4 [05.29 minutes, 25MB]

What Was Said

S: And then, in 2010, we found it on, yes! YouTube!

S: And of course we know this song like we’ve been singing it for 100 years because I think we probably did sing it for a solid year

S: It’s the nicest thing that I ever wrote about he and I and our relationship. And because everything is really, we’re really good friends now and things are going really beautifully for us, it’s a chance for us to show you something that came from when we were very young and very close and very in love and our relationship was fantastic

Oh, I never heard her say that part about how they sang Without You for a year. Nice.

I just laugh because Stevie didn't want this song on an FM album anymore than she wanted IDWTK (which they also sang) or Crystal on it. Well, maybe by the time Mirage rolled around she might have considered it. But mostly, she probably was hoping Lindsey wouldn't bring it up.

Michele

Great idea for a thread!

08/04/2013 - New York

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Downloads

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/8j...ork_(6.19).mp4 [06.19 minutes, 25 MB]
2. http://www.mediafire.com/download/11...ork_(6.12).mp4 [06.12 minutes, 30 MB]

What Was Said
S: ...was a poem that I must have written when Lindsey and I were first going together and, because it is such a beautiful poem and it’s the most beautiful thing that I have ever written about he and I. He thinks that I wrote it in 1974 [...]. I however, disagree.

S: ...was lost until the summer of 2010 when I was in Hawaii and we, my friends who are on the computer, found it on, you guessed it, YouTube. There was this song. Somebody had put a bunch of pictures to it and it was really pretty and it was our demo that we’d made god knows when, maybe 1973, who knows.

S: We know it so well and we haven’t practiced it that much. We just know it. It’s ingrained upon our, ingrained across our soul. Like it says in the song. Anyway, it was a beautiful time; it was when we were really young and beautiful and in love and it says it all. So we are proud to share it with you tonight.

09/04/2013 - Washington DC

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/qf...ton_(2.01).mp4 [02.01 minutes, 5MB]

What Was Said

S: So, anyway, this song represents to me, um, who we were when we started out. Because we were young, beautiful and totally crazy and we knew something was coming. We felt it, we knew it was coming and it was big. We didn’t know what it was but you know what it is now. So it represented all our determination and our love for what we did.

Just Dropping In to See What Condition...
 

Nicole,

A big, huge thanks and all that for picking up the slack. Thanks for starting the thread I intended to start a week ago. Buckingham Nicks lives. That's a good thing.

:xoxo::angel:

Dee

You know it was a pleasure and lovely to see you here again. And yes of course it does. As long as they do. They know what's what. :)

xoxo

11/04/2013 - Louisville

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13/04/2013 - Chicago

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16/04/2013 - Toronto

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Intro

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18/04/2013 - Boston

Song / Intro

???

20/04/2013 - Uncasville

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/xu...lle_(5.44).mp4 [05.44 minutes, 14 MB]

What Was Said

S: Even though I hate computers, in this one case I am so happy that somebody put it down because otherwise it would've been lost forever. And it really is the story of Lindsey and I in the very beginning when everything was great and we were crazy and in love and nuts and beautiful. It was all, y'know.

S: This song really kind of tells it all, why Mick Fleetwood asked us to join Fleetwood Mac so. It was a very, very, very big deal. So it's called - *looks to Lindsey* I know, I'm rambling - it's called Without You.

I love this thread. Just appreciating the hard work you've put into documenting this part of the tour, Nicole. It's really special to have it all archived.

23/04/2013 - Ottawa

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Intro

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24/04/2013 - Newark

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/4f...ark_(7.00).mp4 [07.00 minutes, 33 MB]

What Was Said

S: So anyway, this is the nicest – Are you there, Lindsey? I don’t see you. Aha, there you are, you devil! You’re hiding from me – Anyway, so Lindsey and I both agree that this is the nicest, most beautiful song ever written and I have to give you some credit because you did put it together and produce it and make it into a song. All I did was write the little poem and play the little Landslide thing that I do on every single song I write. He is the one who takes it and makes it into something really beautiful. So the song itself was a really pretty poem about how amazing our relationship was and how much fun we were having, how crazy, you know, we were in love, we were young, it was fantastic.

S: So we found it, I brought it to Lindsey and said ‘Listen to this’. And he listens to it and we’re both ‘we know this song’ and we know it so well we don’t even have to practice it.

S: These were the voices and the phrasings that attracted him to us – besides Lindsey’s fantastic guitar playing; they needed that – but on the other side of that, the voices and the phrasing was what he really loved when he heard us. So, um, thank you Mick, so much, for pulling me away from being a waitress. *to Lindsey* He did.

I love this thread. I know how much work goes into this so I wanted to thank you. Have we figured out yet in which city Lindsey says, "no wait! What FM was looking for was a great guitar player. Not another girl singer?"

Great question! I've wondered that too.

I doubt that he said that. Maybe he said that to her off stage. I know she said he said it in front of thousands of people, but if we didn't have the video, we'd have had the contemporaneous review from someone in attendance.

When I say contemporaneous, I am sure there are people who will remember it was said after the fact, but I don't really trust those belated recollections, coming after Stevie has talked about it. We would have read about it at the time.

Michele

he never said it on stage, at least not on this tour. Mick said something like that in New Orleans, i believe.

SN tried to make LB say it in Glasgow but he wouldn't bite.

Well we don't really know because we don't have full videos of every WY introduction.I can't imagine why Stevie would include that in her speech if she was making it up?

hm, i seem to recall NOLA was identified as the place where he supposedly said it, and we do have WY intro from there, with Mick saying something like it.

but may have been just a speculation on these boards, because of the audience size that would fit (which was by far the largest compared to all other venues on this tour). although guess we should know better considering how accurate with numbers members of the mac usually are. :lol:

We have people who were there though. They are our Youtube. Maybe her recollection was skewed. I can't imagine that he did say it on this tour without someone who was in the audience mentioning it, video or not.

Now, someone will come shuffling along and claim that they were there the night he said it, six months after the fact, but I won't believe them. I think it would have been noted when he said it. I can see him saying that to her and he obviously doesn't mind being attributed with having said it on stage because he bows and preens and makes his funny faces when she says he did, so he's having a good time and probably would have said it on stage if he'd thought of it, but I think he must have said it to her off stage or when they were walking to the mics or somehow said it when the audience could not and did not hear.

Michele

All of this I would accept as fact and the part I highlighted really made me laugh because it is soooo true that such a thing will probably happen.

Definitely NOLA, to my mind. *We* don't actually hear Lindsey OR Mick say it, however. I'll post it when it comes up in the chronology but we have the usual intro, Mick pointing at Lindsey, Lindsey pointing at himself and STEVIE saying that actually, her&Lindsey's voices etc were completely secondary because it was LINDSEY they wanted. And we get our first ever Lindsey!exclamation of saying Mick had to take his girlfriend too.

And thanks for the thanks - glad you're enjoying the thread, folks.

just rewatched the NOLA intro (can't believe it was only about 2 mins at the time :lol:!)... you are right.

i don't feel like listening again to catch the exact wording but i think it may have been the first time that anybody did anything on stage to point out it was not exactly Without You and blend of voices that Mick wanted at the time - with Mick pointing out to Lindsey like "didn't i want you?" and Lindsey going "me?" - and then Stevie reacting to it and saying "right, Mick only wanted guitarist" (or whatever the exact words were). so i guess Stevie said it in the mic in front of however many thousands of people, not Lindsey and not Mick:lol:. and Mick started the whole commotion with pointing to Lindsey.

or something like it... lolol.



remember at the beginning of the tour there were threads on this board where people were confused, trying to figure out how come all of the sudden WY was the song Mick first heard when for decades the story was that it was Frozen Love? :D

Well, based on this video that you posted, Stevie was right all along. I'm guessing Mick first said it to Lindsey and then Lindsey corrected her (not through the microphone) and then she says in the microphone that Lindsey was right. What they needed blah blah blah. So he did remind her of that in front of thousands of people.

i'm not seeing Lindsey correcting her or reminding her but you might have much better eyes than me if you are able to catch that.

would Stevie hear through her ear thingy what the others are saying onstage if it's not said in the mic?

C'mon, you can't see that??
Stevie can hear Mick and Lindsey and what they are saying to her.

Thanks for the NOLA video.

I see Lindsey pointing to himself and Stevie can see him do it too, but he's not really saying anything to her. I mean maybe he was mouthing something like, "me? me, me" as he gestured at himself, but he certainly didn't seem to be indicating "You're wrong. That's not what happened. What they REALLY wanted was a guitar player" not even enough time passed for him to be saying all of that to her before she corrected herself and said, "let's face it, they just wanted you."

Michele

26/04/2013 - Pittsburgh

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28/04/2013 - St Paul

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30/04/2013 - Kansas City

Intro / Song

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01/05/2013 - Tulsa

Intro / Song

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03/05/2013 - Little Rock

Intro / Song

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04/05/2013 - New Orleans

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/e3...ans_(6.10).mp4 [06.10 minutes, 33 MB]

What Was Said

S: And it was probably recorded in 1974 when we were making our second Buckingham Nicks album that you don’t know about because we never finished it. Anyway, we found it on YouTube – can you believe it? – but we did. In 2010. And I brought it to Lindsey and said ‘do you remember this song?’ And he’s like ‘well, yeah, I’m playing on it, I do’.

S: So, anyway, without going into the five hour story that it really is, we wrote it, we recorded it, we loved it, we lost it, we found it and then... Mick wants me to remind you that this is what he heard when he first heard us. He heard these voices and these phrasings and that was kind of what he was attracted to. Or so he tells me. So that’s the story.*Mick points to Lindsey* *Lindsey points to himself* *Mick nods* He was actually really attracted to Lindsey’s guitar playing. This, the voices, all that *L and S gesture between themselves* stuff was completely secondary. *Lindsey clears his throat* Well, it was, really. They just wanted you. Let’s face it, they wanted you
L: That’s right. I told them they had to take my girlfriend too.
S: Thank you, Lindsey.
L: Well, it worked out, didn’t it?!
S: Thank you for bringing me on this ride.
L: I think it worked out okay.

Thank you for finding and posting this video. It really gives me a feel for the place and makes me feel like I was in that audience on that special day.

12/05/2013 - Winnipeg
14/05/2013 - Saskatoon
15/05/2013 - Edmondson
17/05/2013 - Calgary
19/05/2013 - Vancouver

Song / Intro

???

20/05/2013 - Tacoma

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/5y...oma_(6.31).mp4 [06.31 minutes, 24MB]

What Was Said
*** = my hearing is obviously shot because I couldn't work these parts out and so I left them blank instead of guessing...

S: So this song really tells about the beginning of our relationship and how cool it was and how much fun we had. It was, you know, in those days it was everything that you would hope that it was; it was that fantastic and that experience of a lifetime that only a few get to have and we got to have it.

S: Because Fleetwood Mac needed a guitar player and that was certainly not me... So, they needed Lindsey and fortunately Lindsey had this girlfriend that, lucky for me, the girlfriend and the waitress, he and Mick decided to take with them. So I want to thank them both. Well, *looks at Lindsey* I know you decided, however...
L: I told Mick he had to take my girlfriend
S: Okay, but Mick could’ve said ‘I don’t want your girlfriend’
L: Well, that’s what **********
S: That’s true, you’re right! That’s true! We love having these discussions up here on stage in front of all these people
L: But, did it work out or what?
S: It so worked out and that’s why I really do want to thank both of you boys for taking me along on this ride with you
S: ***********

22/05/2013 - San Jose

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Intro

*couldn't relocate the original video on youtube*

Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/s2...ose_(2.25).mp4 [02.25 minutes, 6MB]

What Was Said

S: They were actually looking for a guitar player. Not a duo. So what happened was that, because he was such a loyal boyfriend, he said he was not going to join the band if he couldn’t take his girlfriend. Who was a waitress at the time. And a cleaning lady. So I just want to really thank you, Lindsey, and thank you Mick Fleetwood, for taking me out of the horrible rut I was in and taking me with you! Thank you so much!
L: I think it worked out okaaay!

So, soon they'll get to the point in the tour where they will say "don't forget John McVie" and Stevie will then include John too.

Michele

Apologies for the break. Have been preoccupied with some other research and compilation and forgot about this... :D xoxo

25/05/2013 - Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl)

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/lr....13_(5.12).mp4 [05.12 minutes, 15 MB]

What Was Said

S: I’d like to thank Lindsey Buckingham for taking me with him. And I’d like to thank Mick Fleetwood and also John McVie for saying ‘Okay, you can bring the girl’.

26/05/2013 - Las Vegas

Intro/Song

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28/05/2013 - Anaheim

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/download/fj...eim_(1.30).mp4 [01.30 minutes, 4 MB]

2. http://www.mediafire.com/download/t1...eim_(4.22).mp4 [04.22 minutes, 14 MB]

What Was Said

S: And four years later – almost four years later? I have to check my facts with Lindsey now – in 1974 after...

S: The song was completely lost and in 2010 some of my friends found the demo that we don’t have because I think somebody stole it out of the house and then crept back into the house and put it back, y’know. Probably Mick. And then we lost it ourselves.

S: And here’s where the story falls apart
L: *clears throat*
S: *to Lindsey* I know. I know you’re bored but just hang in there.
L: I’m not! I love this story.
S: I know, just hang with me here.

S:... remember to tell the audience that this song is really, the way Lindsey plays, the way you guys sing together, your phrasing, the whole thing that you guys do, your Everly Brother thing...

S: Now, nowhere in the words ‘lead guitarist’ is there ‘and his girlfriend’. So -
L: *starts to talk*
S: Okay, take it, Lindsey!
L: No, I’m just going to say, what they didn’t know was that they needed a brilliant lead singer
S: Thank you so much for saying that but the end –
L: *starts to walk towards Stevie*
S: You can come over here. *beckons*
L: *walks to Stevie and they put arms around each other side by side*
S: But the end of this crazy story is that they did ask us to join the band – Mick and John and Christine – and we did. And I like to thank Lindsey and... What’s his name?
L: *quietly says Mick**says Mick into mic*
S: Mick. And John. And Chris is only here in spirit but here. For asking us to join their band. Because, you know, we were starving. Anyway, so here it is –
L: Mick and I would like to thank you, too.
S: Well, thank you. We’re just the thank you twins, I think.
L: Let’s not forget John.
S: And let’s not forget John McVie! *facing John* Because truly, when I first heard you guys were thinking about asking us, I went and bought all your records and I thought to myself, swear to god, what a GREAT bass player John McVie is. I mean it, really. You can pay me on the plane. *laughs*

S: And it is on our little EP thing, our epp. And it’s called Without You.

This is where I came in and got to see more shows for the first time since April. I loved how the intro had revolved in those few weeks.

Michele

30/05/2013 - Phoenix

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Download

1. http://www.mediafire.com/watch/gb2po...x%20(8.58).mp4 [08.58 minutes, 34 MB]

2. http://www.mediafire.com/watch/ygjy2...x%20(8.07).mp4 [08.07 minutes, 30 MB]

3. http://www.mediafire.com/watch/y99vm...x%20(6.13).mp4 [06.13 minutes, 18 MB]

4. http://www.mediafire.com/watch/0cos1...x%20(4.42).mp4 [04.42 minutes, 20 MB]

What Was Said

S: Once upon a time in probably 1970 in San Francisco, a girl wrote a poem, probably put it in her dresser drawer and then, not that long after, she and her gorgeous boyfriend moved to Los Angeles.

S: And then, there was a year before Fleetwood Mac so we had a year to like hang out because we were starting over from scratch

S: So then, in 2010, some friends of mine were on YouTube and found it – the whole thing, the whole video that some girl had made, you know, with pictures of me and Lindsey, and the whole song. So there it is. So I got it off of YouTube and I take it and I show it to Lindsey and I go “Do you remember this?” And he’s like “Well, yeah, kinda. I mean, it’s me playing.” And I’m like “Well, this is, how could we have lost this song?” And we figured that probably, you know, we made cassettes like donuts and we think someone got into our house, stole the cassette...

S: Soooo... I’m speechless now. Do you want to take the story? Go ahead.
L: I was going to interrupt and say that what Mick didn’t realise was that they also needed a wonderful, brilliant lead singer *fistbumps with Mick*
S: Mick will pay you later on the plane. Alright, that was very sweet of him to say but in actuality they were looking for a guitar player and Lindsey, because he was my guy, he said “I’m not, I won’t join your band unless you take my girlfriend.” So, even though they already had another girl. So then, now the story has come around to this: I would like to thank my boys here – Mr Buckingham, Mr Fleetwood, Mr McVie and the then Mrs McVie – for taking me with them. Because they didn’t have to. And I could still be a waitress in Los Angeles. And Lindsey could have gone off to Fleetwood Mac and they would have, you know, and there I’d be still delivering eggs.