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Originally posted by Les
San Francisco Chronicle
April 20, 2003 ... Joel Selvin [snip]
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Thanks for posting the Selvin review, Les. Now there's a guy who has done an about-face on Fleetwood Mac. He appears relatively impressed with Mac's gifts. I remember reading Selvin's concert reviews of Fleetwood's appearance at Oakland Coliseum in 1982 & Stevie's show at the same venue the year after that, & Selvin had little if any patience with Fleetwood Mac or her. He was quite dismissive of them all, indicating his weariness with their music-box pop instincts. Essentially, he felt they were fluff, bantamweights.
It's nice to see the critics (whom I adore) fall under Mac's spell with the passage of time. The converse of that is that I hate to see the critics who previously loved Mac (like Robert Hilburn, who called the band's 1982 City of Hope show the best pop-rock concert in Orange County that year) tire of them with the years.