In new interview Mick mentions tour but no album.
 

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/...ew.php?id=1173
VERY TELLING:
"We are going to Dodgers Stadium to play for the Dodgers. They are throwing a huge private party. The whole band is reuniting to do this show and not for very many people. It is like 2,000. It is really unbelievable, really. We are all getting back together and I think probably in about a little over a year from now we will be back at it rehearsing to go on what will be another big world tour which will last the better half of two years"

Call me DISGUSTED!

Oh come on now, you are stirring the pot ;)
You are taking this statement completely out of context. He was asked about the Dodger Stadium show and went on to talk about other live shows ONE YEAR FROM NOW.

Christine, Lindsey and Mick have ALL stated there will be one last album. There is not one statement from any of them that retracts that statement. People need to stop reading into statements what they want to believe.
Lindsey prefers the studio to touring. He believes its the best way to end the Fleetwood Mac story...one final album with the 5 key members. I think they definitely want to get a new record out before a tour next year.

I think they are keeping the new album all hush hush on purpose.

Disgusted? Dude what?

A new tour is amazing news!! Yay!! Please come to Europe!!!!!

Edit: Wait, will it include Stevie? Or do they sometimes tour without her?

Thank you....
 

The voice of reason appears. I don't think they will go out on tour without new music. They just did that. I think Mick assumes we all know by now that new music is coming. Stevie stated there will be new music also. We just need to be a bit more patient.

It needs to be their farewell tour. It would be a perfect send off. They had a reunion with Christine and their 2017 tour should be the farewell.

It was the perfect opportunity to mention new mx. Instead he talked about yet another tour. He has been spotted frequently at his restaurant lately (for the last few weeks) since his tour ended. So they are not working on anything. Sorry but I have a reason to be jaded at this point. I could care less about another greatest hits cash grab. Been there done Rhiannon a million times.

Amen. If they were really planning, Mick would be yapping about it, getting the buzz started. But it's all dead in the water. If they go on a tour without new music (and I mean more than just two or three new songs in a set that aren't released first in the studio) then I'm done.

Well, to be fair, after the next tour I think we're all 'done'.

Touche. But I'm not going to attend that last tour. That's what I meant. No more throwing dollars at a band that won't release new music.

You'll be happy to just stare at the stairs.

Me neither. But when the dates are there, I'll go. Sad and happy that I saw them for the last time.

I think the silence from Stevie and Lindsey about their upcoming plans -Mac or solo- is deafening.

Mick is the only one with plans, but they wouldn't need him in the studio if he's already laid down his parts, if they are recording a new album.

I like your positive thinking.
But nah- if there was any remote chance of recording anything there's nowhere else in the world Mick would want to be. He'd be right there doing all he could to mediate. As much as Mick is money-driven and lives for FM tours (or tours to live?) I really think he wants nothing more than a new album- he has a lot of pride in the FM legacy.

Well, lets hope for some solo work then....

**sigh**
There are many things to stare at these days

You know, I am starting to care less and less about them giving us, THE FANS, one last album. And, honestly, I'm really getting quite tired of Fleetwood Mac all together now. Yawn...

Haha! I actually LOL'd. it was the sigh that got me..

I thought he said they were going to start touring in the spring of 2017

Rusty believes this is the year for something big.

It's all about 2017.

Who in the fluck is Rusty?

Just someone in the know. Most that know
him would just say he's a cockeyed optimist
who got caught up in the world of touring artists
and international music.

2017!

I will always love this band I'm kinda with you. I've been rewatching some OWTS shows and while it's great to have CM back, I think they're some of most boring shows the band has ever put on. I actually prefer the 2013 shows sans Christine. They at least had some energy...and Lindsey's fabulous blue blazer at the end. Remember? :)

I'll always love the band, too, but I agree with your statement. Those were some of their best performances in a long while, and yeah, I remember the blazer. I was hoping that things would be different with Christine finally back. And, if we ever get a new album, I really hope that it won't be a dud like SYW. What a total a waste of money that was for me. I think I'm gonna take a break from FM and get reacquainted with another band I love... Cheap Trick.

The shows at the LA Forum were electric. The energy was amazing at all 3 shows. I think it's just the opposite. Christine really energized this band. SYW was so boring to me and the line up had less charm. LIke the album SYW.. it became a little more generic.

SYW was god awful. They should have cut it down to 10 songs, and thrown the duds away. Better yet, they should have cut it down to 6, and had Chris record 4. So you know, then it would've been FLEETWOOD MAC.

I think that Say You Will is basically the musical equivalent of Ishtar, that god awful Dustin Hoffman failure.

I'm in somewhat agreement. And though I'm a fan,
most of the duds were Stevie's.

Her stage performance on this tour equaled her
performance on the album. As Alec would say
"not good".

I like SYW as one of Stevie's best solo efforts. If a new album has good Stevie and Chris stuff I would be happy. I have long since written Lindsey off as a writer or singer, his stuff on SYW and Extended Play was eeewww...

I loved SYW and I don't blindly love all of Stevie's stuff but I did think more of the duds on that album came from Lindsey. The tour, however was hit or miss. On one show I saw Stevie listless as any chronic fatigue patient could be and the other show she was a whirling dervish half her age. Don't know what makes the difference for her from one night to the next in terms of energy - but I certainly don't think it's lack of trying or lack of spirit per se. Lindsey is always fantastic in concert and I love them as a live band so my only wish is for a new album so that we can hear some new music on the next tour.

He barely has any voice left, and it's such a shame. Stevie has lost much range over the years, but he's lost far more.


Off of SYW, I loved Miranda, RTTG, and Peacekeeper(PK ~at the time~, it's very dated, in retrospect, now).

And I might be the only fan alive, that LOVED What's the World Coming To!!!!

No you're not the only one. I love SYW as an album, and I love What's the World Coming To :nod:

everyone's gone to the moon, what's the world coming too.....
:rolleyes:

"What's the World Coming To?" is a song I listen to more and more thesedays. Seems to fit my mood during the whole chaos of 2016.

'Say You Will' is a brilliant album.

What's The World Coming To
Thrown Down
Steal Your Heart Away
Bleed To Love Her
Peacekeeper
Come
Illume

I think this is some of their most creative work.

Plus, we finally get to hear 'The Tower'.

This album should be included in a remastered box set like Dave Stewart did with the Eurythmics albums.

I was quite happy with SYW, just as I'd be happy with new material from them. I thought SYW was quite high quality, even if the overall record was oddly sequenced and at times uneven. I was still grateful to get it, just as I was grateful to get IN THE MEANTIME. That, to me, was equally relevant and engaging. New music is the key. You'll never get a complaint from me about them releasing any.

Say You Will has the best mixing I have ever heard. Listening to that album with a high quality head-set is like being shot through a galaxy of instruments and musical beauty.

I could really do with someone remastering FM's old work like that... The songs are classic, of course, but they sound really flat compared to modern music. Storms, etc. must sound so beautiful if the instruments didn't sound like they came from one "channel". On SYW everything comes from different directions, it's like standing in the middle of the recording. Amazing.

wow, to each listener their own. But I don't hear that o SYW. I hear it on Rumours and very much on Tusk.

There's always gonna be a difference between analog and digital recordings. What's interesting is that you find the over-produced sound of Say You Will more pleasing than the bands older, more "warmer" sounding records. Rumours and Tusk are definitely raw compared to SYW (or even Tango In The Night)... but that also makes for a more interesting listening experience to me. I think they are more beautiful to listen to than Say You Will. I think perhaps you're picking up more on the method in which Say You Will was mixed more than anything else. But hey, listen to the 5.1 mix(es) of Tusk and Rumours and get back to me. ;)

Say You Will is one of my favourite albums, but it would be a great shame if the last ever Fleetwood Mac album was one lacking any contribution from the band's first female member.

I know that I will still do all I can to get tickets to the 2017 tour, even if they neglect to release any new music to tour behind. Seeing them in 2015 was amazing and I immediately wanted to do it again.

It seems silly to me to have the bones of a new album prepared and not take the final steps to make it ready for public release. We already know that they have at least eight practically finished songs, really only lacking Stevie's vocals. Some albums are only ten songs long (and a few albums are only eight songs!), so there really isn't that much work left to do.

I have a bit of a silly dream that one day I will release an album, hopefully as part of a band. I write song lyrics and have been learning piano, including song writing techniques. I know that if I had the talents and skills of any one of the five members of Fleetwood Mac, there is no way my songs would be sitting of the shelf for four years.

Hal 9000 seems to agree that Stevie's vocals are lacking.