this was pretty bad....

notice how the only actual fleetwood mac song played was "oh well?" the rest of the music was altered instrumental covers of green manalishi, don't stop, gold dust woman, and tusk. apparently they didn't have the rights or want to cough up the money for the real songs. i've heard this done before. it's actually pretty cheesy. for example, on "don't stop" you'd hear what apparently is the the first 2 opening chords and then it goes into some other song that sort of resembles "don't stop" but it isn't. same thing about that footage of the band performing. at first i was hopeful and was thinking, "when was this filmed?" i did see a very small fraction of a moon tree backdrop in one shot so kudos for that. notice how they never showed the complete faces or it was out of focus when they did? it was clearly one of those "reenactment" things just used as filler because again they either didn't have actual footage of the band or didn't want to pay to use real footage. so, they staged a mock fleetwood mac and used that. but they kept showing the same loop OVER and OVER! when i first saw it i thought it was that French and Saunders "dream woman" thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrINP6SAFPo)

there was really bad camera work on that one guy who was the music historian (for lack of his real title). most of the time his face was half off the screen. it was actually hurting my eyes to watch it. aside from the audio/visual issues...some of the facts were really off. i know someone mentioned them in a previous post. the continuity was bad too. for example, they'd be on the mirage period and the next thing they said was that during this period mick was bankrupt (he probably was close to it but never officially filed till a few years later) and that stevie went to rehab. they just jumped around too much. they never even mentioned the white album and they claimed that Rick Vito left the band first and then Stevie and Chris. I think it was the other way around.

How can you produce a 2007 biography on this band that uses 20 year old interview footage from the actual Rumours band? For the most popular and important incarnations of the band, they were hardly even in it. I bet a lot of people upon seeing Bekka were like, "who the hell is this chick?"

pretty bad. shame on you A&E...