open your eyes, look at the day
Dec. 19th, 2009 at 11:58 AM
And then FLEETWOOD MAC, MOFOS, TWO NIGHTS AGO.
IT WAS PRETTY MUCH THE GREATEST THING EVERexceptforWicked.
My friend and I left the show gushing about how much we both adore and want to be Stevie Nicks. This continued until our roommate said 'The white lines are ready for you on the kitchen bench' so we said, maybe we'd like to be Stevie Nicks WITHOUT the horrific cocaine addiction. And he said 'Maybe she wouldn't be so awesome if she had never been a coke whore' and we both vociferously defended Stevie's honour and then my friend shot him with a cap gun for insubordination.
I don't know how familiar everyone is with the Mac, but basically they have a forty year history of personal ****storms, passion and love, drugs and incredible excess, and a back catalogue of extraordinary music. Not gonna lie; I only became a fan of their stuff this year after playing 'Go Your Own Way' about a million times on Guitar Hero World Tour (for which my highest score is 99% on expert, yeaaaaahh). Here are two of my favourites. There's a great difference in the band's dynamic between these two videos, one from 1982, in the midst of terrible drug and personal strife, and one from 1997, the band's first reunion tour. The way Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham look at each other while they sing, especially in the earlier video, is kind of heartbreaking.
'The Chain', Mirage tour, 1982. This song is full of anger and angst and has a killer bass riff.
'Don't Stop', The Dance tour, 1997. This song is upbeat, hopeful and inspirational, and has been stuck in my head for days on end.
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