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Originally Posted by johndoe
The Dance was like the launching pad for me.
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Same here. I was... damn, fourteen? when it first started airing on TV. I happened to see the video for "Silver Springs" on MTV one morning over the summer. Not only was this just an achingly beautiful rock ballad, but man, that lady's kinda hot and she's singing with such
guts. And that wonderfully understated guitar solo...
I mentioned the reunion to my dad (it was actually fairly heavily publicized on MTV at the time - Fleetwood Mac getting back together was a big deal), and he bought the cassette tape of
The Dance, which we would listen to in the car in the mornings in the fall when he drove me and my brother to school. There was only time to listen to a couple of songs, though, so it was always "Silver Springs" and "You Make Loving Fun" for a while. Then I figured out that if I turned the tape over after "Silver Springs," it was in the middle of "Rhiannon" on the other side. Then I figured out that after "Rhiannon" was this bitching guitar rock out!
Anyway, eventually I bought the CD for myself (got the VHS for Christmas and watched it constantly for a couple of days).
Then I bought all the other
Rumours-era CDs. (It took me a while to figure out
Tusk. I didn't get it, and even Stevie's songs disappointed me at first.)
Then I bought
Enchanted when it came out and fell in love with all of that,and went to see Stevie on the tour. (I never saw the Dance tour - at the time, dad made the argument: why do we need to go to an expensive concert when it's gonna be just like this live CD? Yeah, thanks a lot, dad.)
Then I bought that wacky album with the big monkey on the cover...
Then I listened to "Oh Well" from
Live at the Boston Tea Party 2 in Borders...
And now, here we are. And actually,
The Dance didn't just get me into Fleetwood Mac, it also led me to start exploring all kinds of 60s and 70s rock throughout high school. So it was a pretty good springboard for me.