Mike Campbell Interview
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Mike Campbell says that he’s not involved in Fleetwood Mac anymore at this point: “I think that’s a ship that sailed for me.” https://youtu.be/peLVfKmpROY The Fleetwood Mac question is at the 18 minute mark. There’s nothing new. He said that it’s an open question and that he’d be there if they called. |
I don’t think anyone is involved in Fleetwood Mac at this point. They’re probably by way of being either dormant or extinct, although there are three things I refuse to time: my death, the markets, and Fleetwood Mac.
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I wonder the if the band meeting in 2020 was the last time Mike and Stevie talked. He said during lockdown he sent her tracks and she didn't respond. I really think they should have released a single for the last tour. It's really too bad. |
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I wonder if Stevie wants Extended Play to be the last musical offering of FM and she just sees FM's current mission as performing the repertoire from the 1960s to the 1980s for the tons of young fans that are buying FM concert tickets. Fleetwood Mac is probably getting mega offers to tour this year but Stevie really wants to do the outdoor festival style gigs. Good on Mike and Neil for making albums and doing tours. |
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Still, imagine if “Wreckless Abandon” had been a Fleetwood Mac song. Quote:
Of course she doesn’t want to make an album with other songwriters. |
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The point about TITN and BTM is that her songs are the weakest on those albums? I like all of her songs on those albums but for The Second Time. Seven Wonders is annoying 80s synth and keys but I can at least tap my foot to it. |
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I wish I could find that interview because she actually wasn't nice to the interviewer. The interviewer asked Stevie if she might do Silver Springs on her solo tour and Stevie shot back with "You just go through and choose":laugh: She was probably not happy she had to be awake during business hours. If you read Stevie's New Yorker interview, she says she has plenty of memories to pull from to write love songs. |
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Stevie's record with Mike is a little spotty. There have been some great songs (Blue Denim), mediocre songs (Freedom), and some terrible songs (Desert Angel). The biggest issue I see with Stevie is that she insists that songs be recorded just like her demos, which is a crappy way to go about being in a band, especially one full of critically acclaimed musicians. The collaborative spirit in the making of an album is half the reason to be in a band. |
Hadn't read this before and also hadn't really paid much attention to the 18-19 band, although it goes without saying Mike and Neil are both talented musicians, both are not a fit for Fleetwood Mac, entirely different league altogether. Stevie did come close to creativity for In Your Dreams, which did feature some good material, which was dragged down by a lack of awareness around less is more, which in 2022 makes it a drag to get through. A tightly arranged, well performed tune such as 24 K is what makes a great song and that approach would give us a great album. I agree with Steve that her truly great period was '73-83 and capped off with some amazing vocals on the Wild Heart and Mirage. After that, it wasn't until Rooms On Fire and Ooh My Love that we would see a glimpse of the Stevie of yore, but the album too, was dragged down by too many meh tracks and outright duds. Her other huge weakness is cover songs- her charm and appeal is in her own material, she is not a great interpreter of other's material. On a positive note, she is arguably the very best harmony and background singer who is still alive, in the business.
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To say Stevie had ten years of consistently good-great songwriting is accurate. It’s also more than many musicians/singers/songwriters could hope for. Since 1985, each of her projects usually offers one or two fine songs, such as “Blue Denim” on STREET ANGEL or “Throw Down” and “Everybody Finds Out” on SYW. Again, in this regard, she has persisted more successfully than many of her peers of that era. Recording “lost” tunes like “Lady” and “Lady of the Mountain” has worked for her, too. She remains remarkably marketable.
But as a songwriter she has been fallow for at least two decades. Her last batch of (then) new-newish songs was on SYW. After that, it’s been more excavation than genuine expression. Her dismissal of the BuckVie project was thinly-veiled jealousy and outright fear cloaked as greed. |
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I would've thought that given evil Lindsey was gone. She would've jumped into making an album with Mike and Neil. Mike thought they were going to do an album when he was offered the job by Mick. But Stevie wants to play her classics alone on open fields for fifty thousand people this summer. |
Lindsey said in recent interviews that he sent her tracks so she could write songs too. He said he had done it in the past but she didn't seem interested.
For someone who feels these are her last youthful years, she is letting them go by quickly. Take the help. |
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Nathan Apodaca is their most active creative member. |
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Unfortunately like other rock artists last year and this year, Mike's new album didn't chart in the US.
Sounds like a great tour though ultimateclassicrock.com/mike-campbell-tom-petty-songs Awesome that they're going to do TPHB songs. |
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That said, most of the set is the two Knobs albums. |
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I hear Mike playing Rhiannon and Isn't it Midnight in this video. Any other Mac in there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZ4yzAyzTI It really sucks because this could've been the perfect year for a new Mac album with a Rumours 45 Tour. Mike and Neil said they were making it their priority until whenever. I imagine the band meeting in 2020 being a monologue. "I need 3 years off" |
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Christine and John are just too old to do it anymore. Thanks alot, $tevie Obama!:lol: |
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He DEFINED their sound as much(MORE) than anyone else(goats not withstanding). Here comes Steve......:laugh::D:wavey: |
i caught the Rhiannon bit , but not the Isn't it Midnight. Do you have a time hack for it?
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They'd make a killer buddy-buddy album. Neil the serious/melancholy art rocker and Mike the kick ass/kind of goofy but clever rocker finding middle ground, preferably with Christine to be the glue holding it together (AGAIN). |
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Removed that part of my quote, though...:p |
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I think it's Isn't it Midnight or Little Lies. I remember hearing that when I saw them on 2018 Tour. |
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