(Video) Lindsey and Stevie on Entertainment Tonight

[MacMan]

Fleetwood Mac Stars Reveal Reunion Details
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ET riffs with Fleetwood Mac stars Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who give us the 411 on the Mac's highly anticipated "Unleashed" reunion tour.

One unique aspect about the tour is that the group is not releasing a new album but instead performing songs that they enjoy singing.

"We are not supporting a new album," Lindsey says. "We thought it would be very appropriate to go in and really just look at the body of work that we have and put together something that we would enjoy playing. And not put ourselves in the pressure of trying to redefine ourselves with new material."

It's been five years since the legendary supergroup last rocked out on the road, and their 2009 "Unleashed" tour coincides with the reissue of their signature 1977 album, Rumours -- one of the best-selling albums of all time, featuring hits such as "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way" and "You Make Loving Fun."

Stevie tells ET that the theme of the tour is to bring back the songs Fleetwood Mac fans know and love.

"This is our life," she says. "These are our beautiful songs that we worked so hard on, that you love. And for this one time, we're going to play all this for you."

[CADreaming]

Thanks for posting! They look great!

[louielouie2000]

Ok, is it me... or does Stevie sound like an older woman for the first time here? She seems to have lost that youthful quality in her speech... I don't know how to describe what I'm saying. She almost sounds like someone who has dentures LOL.

She looks as radiant as ever too... but she also looks like a(n extremely well preserved, beautiful woman) in her 60s for the first time too. I'm not saying any of these things in a bad light at all... it just seems Stevie may no longer be the little girl pixie that she always has been .

[marinnette]

she looks great!!!! hope the tour will bring drama and then...they will have inspiration and material for a new album. hihihihihi!

[StandbackStevie]

It sounds like according to stevie this is not there last time touring and also sounds like they will be recording a new cd again according to stevie and please please we pray to the rock gods that she pulls out Sisters of the moon.
that is the "The Song" for me and pretty much everyone else on this board. i am excited they both look great too am looking forward to the mohegan sun show and probably will be my only show to go to on this tour enless they come back to connecticut then will go to two shows.

[LB Freakazoid]

As someone else mentioned in another thread, most of the "hits" Christine's. Do you think they would go back to pre-B/N and do Peter Green's stuff? And on a wish, wouldn't it just freak everyone out if Christine showed up....
And the comment of "doing the new songs in shows" in past tours.... HUUUHHHH? Yeah, they did a couple... but the only "new" songs were some that we just never heard live. And since Lindsey doesn't have too many hits with FM, sounds like a Stevie show to me....
I don't know, I just get a weird vibe with this tour.... it's an expensive and stale way to figure out if they can still get along in the same room so that they may want do another album together...
What happened to the premise of going against the "if it's successful, run it into the ground" theory. Lindsey-shame on you.

[Sanne2]

Whoa, Stevie NOT with straight hair?

[StandbackStevie]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Ok, is it me... or does Stevie sound like an older woman for the first time here? She seems to have lost that youthful quality in her speech... I don't know how to describe what I'm saying. She almost sounds like someone who has dentures LOL.

She looks as radiant as ever too... but she also looks like a(n extremely well preserved, beautiful woman) in her 60s for the first time too. I'm not saying any of these things in a bad light at all... it just seems Stevie may no longer be the little girl pixie that she always has been .

definetly but she is aging beautifully i think she looks awesome

[TrueFaith77]

Yes, Stevie looks great!
Yes, It's WONDERFUL she also seems psyched about doing a new album (wasn't sure if that was just Lindsey's dream)!
Yes, I hope there's plenty of dramz on the road to write new songs about!

I was also struck by the story of them talking on the phone! HOW CUTE!! Stevie all worried that there isn't enough rehearsal time! Lindsey reminding her that they've done these songs a gazillion times (the set list writes itself... indeed). So cute. They are the cutest non-couple ever. They are the we of me.

[Tusky]

Sounds like Christine's playing in the background! LOL

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

I was also struck by the story of them talking on the phone! HOW CUTE!! Stevie all worried that there isn't enough rehearsal time! Lindsey reminding her that they've done these songs a gazillion times (the set list writes itself... indeed). So cute. They are the cutest non-couple ever. They are the we of me.

I thought the exact same thing. I have never been one of those Stevie-Lindsey romanticists, but there sure as hell did look adorable together. The way they look and smile at each other so candidly after all these years, and banter back and forth with one another is great. And unlike their stage shows, this was real and not rehearsed... it was just them being them.

[Tango]

Stevie and Lindsey are gorgeous together. Thank you for putting this up. It's hard not to laugh watching the subtle nuances of the interview. Lindsey seemed to be holding back a few guffaws: when Stevie picked "Go Your Own Way," as an example of a song that "no body wanted to hear," and when Stevie stated once the new album comes out, we'll be forced to sit through and listen to a bunch of new songs we don't know. He was twisting his hands, got a twinkle in his eyes, as he just smiled. "Just this one time" we'll get to hear all the hits. I love Stevie. I really really do. Somehow Stevie blocked out The Dance tour, album and video where we heard all those same favorites they have played for the last 30 years. Macman, I agree. He was strong armed on this one. "He's the keeper of the peace" in this effort.

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by Tango

Stevie and Lindsey are gorgeous together. Thank you for putting this up. It's hard not to laugh watching the subtle nuances of the interview. Lindsey seemed to be holding back a few guffaws: when Stevie picked "Go Your Own Way," as an example of a song that "no body wanted to hear," and when Stevie stated once the new album comes out, we'll be forced to sit through and listen to a bunch of new songs we don't know. He was twisting his hands, got a twinkle in his eyes, as he just smiled. "Just this one time" we'll get to hear all the hits. I love Stevie. I really really do. Somehow Stevie blocked out The Dance tour, album and video where we heard all those same favorites they have played for the last 30 years. Macman, I agree. He was strong armed on this one. "He's the keeper of the peace" in this effort.

Completely, completely agree. His slight permagrin and constant twiddling of his thumbs showed just how thrilled he was to be there talking about this tour. Thinking about the money that's he's going to make just might be the only thing that puts him in his "happy place".

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by Tango

Somehow Stevie blocked out The Dance tour, album and video where we heard all those same favorites they have played for the last 30 years.

But even 'The Dance' featured four new ones that casual listeners had to "sit through."

I honestly don't think Lindsey's being "strong-armed." I just think he's taking a slightly more relaxed attitude towards it all.

Stevie & Lindsey always clash over who's right and who's wrong, but maybe -- hopefully -- they're both trying to be adults this time, for the benefit of the band's future.

In the best of all possible worlds, that's going to benefit us too. Even if we do have to muddle through this "Hits" tour first!

[Hawkeye]

Well I can't get the video to play. If someone could be so kind and post it in "YouTube" form that would be awseome.

But from the quotes posted in writing I'm not quite as alarmed as some of you:

Originally Posted by MacMan

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"We are not supporting a new album," Lindsey says. "We thought it would be very appropriate to go in and really just look at the body of work that we have and put together something that we would enjoy playing. And not put ourselves in the pressure of trying to redefine ourselves with new material."

Stevie tells ET that the theme of the tour is to bring back the songs Fleetwood Mac fans know and love.

"This is our life," she says. "These are our beautiful songs that we worked so hard on, that you love. And for this one time, we're going to play all this for you."

Lindsey is saying they're going back and looking at their body of work, their WHOLE body of work. There's just no pressure to play new stuff. And Stevie saying they're going to "bring back songs we know and love" implies that these are songs that have actually left! Unless she has total amneisia, she has to know that Dreams, GDW, Landslide, Rhiannon etc. have never left. So when she says bring back she has to be implying something in the vein of Sisters of the Moon.

I think we're getting a little "too" worked up over the whole hits thing. Its just a marketing tool to sell tickets. In reality I think it just boils down to, for the first time since the Mirage tour, Gypsy and Sara will be allowed to coexist in the same set, and thats the extent of it. Hell just simple math implies that they HAVE to play some rarities. You just take the SYW set subtract the 6 new songs and BAM. Now the variable of them singing Christine hits throws the whole equation off and Im really hoping thats not the case.