Mick Still Says 2009

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

But I imagine that Mick has talked to Stevie and Lindsey. In fact, he probably talks to Stevie several times a month. So, I don't think his comment means she has agreed to tour in 2009, but I do think he must think he can make it happen. Michele

These guys plan tours farther ahead than most people plan their weddings! However, it's probably easier to call off a wedding than a tour (unless you're a monarch of some sort).

By the time this band tours, approximately thirty-two years will have passed since its commercial ascendency (did I spell that right?). To put it into perspective, imagine a couple of kids jitterbugging down at the canteen in the final year of the 2nd World War, thinking about the music that predated America's entry into the 1st World War!

I think it's time for Fleetwood Mac to pack up their amps, & just let the message boards carry on Clio's sacred work.

[petep9000]

Wow, and I was born in 1970. So this would be like someone from that year rocking out to some tunes from 1938! Like, 'A Tisket, A Tasket', 'Jeepers Creepers', 'Whistle While You Work' and others from the hit parade that year.

I feel old.

Originally Posted by David

By the time this band tours, approximately thirty-two years will have passed since its commercial ascendency (did I spell that right?). To put it into perspective, imagine a couple of kids jitterbugging down at the canteen in the final year of the 2nd World War, thinking about the music that predated America's entry into the 1st World War!

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by michelej1

but I do think he must think he can make it happen. Michele

May be by blackmail. You don't think he's threatening to leak their long-lost sex tape, I hope.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by David

I think it's time for Fleetwood Mac to pack up their amps, & just let the message boards carry on Clio's sacred work.

I'm all for another tour IF it's behind new music. Otherwise, yeah, pack'em up for a decade.

- Jake

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by petep9000

Wow, and I was born in 1970. So this would be like someone from that year rocking out to some tunes from 1938! Like, 'A Tisket, A Tasket', 'Jeepers Creepers', 'Whistle While You Work' and others from the hit parade that year.

I feel old.

But the thing is, if there are still enough original people around who did the Flying Lindy or the Charleston, then you don't have to worry about staying relative for the younger audience. Your old (and I mean "old" in every sense) audience is still capable of selling out concert sites. Until they die, taking all of their disposable income with them, you should keep touring.

Michele

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

BTW:

IF FM is going to tour in 2009, Chris has to be there according to Stevie. In that case, they should perform an integral liverendition of Tusk. Dreams, Don't Stop and Go Your Own Way as encores and that's it.

"2009- Tusk-30 years of indie-pop avant-la-lettre"




I'd buy a bottle of Mick Swine If he had the guts to do that.

As somebody who knows a REAL indie rocker, I gotta say that Fleetwood Mac is the antithesis of indie. Indie isn't just banging on shoe boxes on a few songs, and spending a million plus in the top studios in L.A. REAL indie is walking away from Warners because they want to f**k with the album you made in your basement on a 4-track cassette recorder and Radio Shack mics because it "sounds s**tty." I think "Tusk" is a great album, but "Sara" is still getting periodic plays on Lite/Mix stations, so let's not get too carried away.

[Betsy]

Listen to the Mick Interview from St. Louis... that profjohn posted. It gets good at the 1:45 mark.

http://www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/sh...ad.php?t=35171

[Tee Dee]

Originally Posted by Betsy

Listen to the Mick Interview from St. Louis... that profjohn posted. It gets good at the 1:45 mark.

http://www.ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/sh...ad.php?t=35171

So, it isn't just idle gossip...the Mac is gonna tour again?

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

"Sara" is still getting periodic plays on Lite/Mix stations, so let's not get too carried away.

It gets played quite a lot on Q1043 NYC Classic Rock.