Corona Mac update.
 

Thank you for sharing!

I also mention that the festivals Stevie was going to play in May have been pushed to the fall.

The country could use a federal unemployment benefits extension, like the series of extensions passed into law from 2009 to 2013. In fact, we’ll probably need, before long, a new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. I think at one point a series of state tiers were set up—each tier was worth a stretch of time to pay benefits, depending on the unemployment rate in each state.

I hadn’t thought about the effects on various Fleetwood Macs, but a number of related tours are probably going to be canceled this year, from Stevie to Lindsey to Mike Campbell’s band. It’ll be a year for watching concerts on Palladia, MTV Live, and what-all. Good time to finally show the 1982 US Festival!

It's a good time to write music. In fact, Lindsey could shut himself away in his recording studio and release a couple of double albums by the end of the year.

if Stevie started now, she might have one or two new songs by the time this crisis is over :shrug:

And that is being generous..If she comes up with anything at all it will probably be about her ruminations regarding the pandemic itself. I shudder to think.

She’ll probably write a song about the Corona virus called My Corona, and it will be all about her.

Are you implying that $he's some sort of crazed narcissist?:angel::angel::angel:

It implies many people are still attentive to what she is going to do.

Like flies to cow dung, these are the days of our lives.:p:sorry: not :sorry:

Didn't you know she once wrote a simple song called Sisters of the Moon that foresaw a global pandemic! That song is dedicated to all those who suffer at the hands of Coronavirus.

No one is going to be able to afford to go to concerts. They might as well cancel them all. There's a cool trend happening now where some artists are sitting in their living rooms and strumming a guitar and singing to us. I'd love to see the various members of FM do this type of thing from each of their homes.

:distress::distress::distress::lol::lol:

Another good option to stay visible is to release several tracks (Stevie has a ton of them I bet) for streaming or download.

She says she’s writing...

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For her this means nothing. If she has anything to sing on this subject we won't get the recording for another 6 years. Remember how long it took her to record and release the song, New Orleans? And we've yet to hear My Mother's Rings. And Barbara has been gone for years.

Oh dear. More than 40 million copies and she can't even get the title right.

Buck could never put out one or two albums. He'd consistently sit in the studio trying to re-do every song until cobwebs covered the place.

Yes someone I know was excited about Garth Brooks getting ready to do this.

You’ve got me laughing now. But on the bright side, her uncle dying left us with a pretty cool song, you must admit. She’s not all forgotten chimpanzees when it comes to strife. As long as she doesn’t get too literal, pandemic songs are good.

She’s a soldier’s angel. And people with the virus WOULD like iPods with Stevie songs on them.

Interesting she doesn't say anything about the Rhiannon movie, which Mike Campbell said she was wanting to do over the next year and thus would make her unavailable for any FM work. Seems like the movie will go the way of the Rhiannon ballet and the Ladybug and Goldfish book/movie. :eek:

Actually his track record proves otherwise. Over the 2000s he banged out like 3 albums pretty much in a row (couple years between them).

He can produce quickly if he chooses to.

I read very recently that iPods have become obsolete. I never owned one so I couldn't tell ya.

I think she’s working tirelessly on a multi-volume biography of William Hazlitt, due later this year from Oxford University Press. (That’s according to Karen.)

:laugh: :xoxo:

Great to hear and thanks for sharing!

Yes yes, indeed! Because Harvard is closed.

I find this silly note about as compelling (and offensive) as the ridiculous "Imagine" video.

Sad but not surprising that even a thread about COVID-19 is nothing but Stevie bashing. Definitely not surprising given that there seems to be only about 10 people left on this board.

I checked to see what Lindsey is doing to help with the crisis. Other than canceling is tour, all he seems to have done is talk about the "seeming geometric progression of events" :rolleyes:

I'm so tired of the bashing that I finally decided to put the number one basher on my ignore list so I no longer have to read his posts.

One of the signatures is Irving Azoff. From that, my thinking is that Lindsey was not invited to sign this letter. The staff at MAC most likely wrote this letter. I doubt Stevie crafted it.

Mick Fleetwood has comforted me by presenting video of his swine.

HIs swine? I didn't see that one.

For me it was presented as just a picture. What stood out the most to me was his spotty brown patchy lawn. It seems like there should be more green, which tells me he's not watering as often as he should or Hawaii is in a drought.

What would’ve happened if the virus had begun to spread just as Fleetwood Mac was about to go on the road with Neil and Mike? Would having to postpone the tour have ultimately derailed it all together?

I don't think there's any doubt. I HOPE that I'm not being paranoid, but if this goes on for 3-4 months, we could be headed into the next Great Depression(and that might be a best case scenario).

I saw tonight that the first possible vaccine would/could be developed in the fall, and not available to the masses until the first of next year. They're also saying that even IF we get this under control, that there could be a resurgence in the fall.

We. Be. F*cked. :distress:

It might well have. The main reason for them not wanting to cancel/delay the tour seemed to be not wanting to leave promoters in the lurch (screwing themselves for future tours), and/or pay any possible financial penalties. With so many people having to cancel now for reasons over which they have no control i.e. hardly anyone would show up it making it a colossal financial loss for all for them to go out and play empty arenas. Thus they'd have been off the hook. I am waiting to see what happens with Lindsey's tour; dates have been rescheduled for late summer, so someone somewhere is feeling optimistic about things.