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Heard Edge of Seventeen on School of Rock and actually got a dance to it once or twice (don't ask!). Then heard it recently cause i've gotten into alot of classic rock cause my mom listens to it, and liked the song also ran across a bio of Stevie and wanted to hear more from Stevie Nicks and found out she was in Fleetwood Mac also, and here i am.
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08-13-2009, 03:43 PM
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Basically, I was there at the beginning.
I was a big Eric Clapton fan, back when Eric was in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (I was about 10* and was also in mid-Beatlemania as well...I remember reading that Eric had been in the Yardbirds and they were one of my favorite groups, too) When Eric left to co-found Cream, I wondered who could take his place. Along came Peter Green. I became a big Peter Green fan (in parallel to being a huge Cream fan, as well). So, when he left the Bluesbreakers to form his own band, I was right there with him. (and, wondered, again, who would take Peter's place...along came Mick Taylor...who eventually would take Brian Jones' place in the Rolling Stones from 1968-1975) Since I lived on the West Coast of the US, there wasn't a whole lot of exposure for Fleetwood Mac except on the local "underground" FM stations that were popping up in SoCal. I remember seeing their first album in the record bins, but I didn't have the cash to buy it right away. A short bit later, I heard "Black Magic Woman" ...but, almost at the same time, Santana's version was skyrocketing up the charts and getting tons of airplay on local AM stations (in an edited form). Kind of lost track of Fleetwood Mac until I heard "Oh Well" on KMET-FM ("a little bit of heaven, 94.7, tweedle dee!") in Los Angeles....I was hooked...like a marlin on 25 lb line. The rest, they say, is history (we Aries just love that phrase. Right, DavidMn?)  *= I had older cousins who were musicians and/or very musically oriented, they would turn me on to loads of stuff, even groups & artists from the original rockers like Chuck Berry, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Do-Wop, & Surf music, too...so my musical tastes are actually of a person a few years older than my chronological age.
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08-13-2009, 06:03 PM
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I first "discovered" the Mac around the time of The Dance. it was that year that I had really started practicing my guitar more. Around Oct or Nov of '97 a good friend of mine said "You play like Lindsey Buckingham." I'll never forget I said "Who's she?"  My brother actually bought The Dance CD right around that time, that same year, and we listened to it on the 5 hour drive to my mother's sisters house for Thanksgiving with the fam. I remember my mother actually singing some of the songs (big shock to us 'kids', even though I was 18 at the time). Not long after that I picked up the "Greatest Hits" CD...I found that I knew most of the songs. I had heard them growing up. Especially Gypsy, Little Lies and those mid 80s tunes. I just never knew who the band was that sang them. As my guitar playing progressed I got more and more into Buckingham. And the rest as they say is history...I joined the Ledge right around the time Stevie's last solo CD was released...can't believe it's been over 8 years now!
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08-13-2009, 06:13 PM
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I always liked FM's music growing up, but never owned any albums. I remember really liking the Tango songs when they were on the radio in the late 80s. My fandom really took off, however, in college when The Dance came out.
My roommate and I shared a 2-room suite and whenever I was gone and she was in the bedroom with her boyfriend she would turn on the stereo to let me know they were in there when I came back. She always played The Dance. Let's just say she and her boyfriend were quite amorous so I listened to The Dance a lot, and I really grew to love it. Thanks Kelly and Keith! A
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08-13-2009, 09:27 PM
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Next, I remember buying the Dance CD not long after it came out. Unfortunately at that point in time, i lived without cable (GASP!) so i never got to see The Dance on MTV back in 97-98, but for me, the CD was enough to enjoy at the time. I spent a few summers as a teen travel camp counselor and we spent many many hours on buses going all over the eastern seaboard. I remember curling up in the seats on the bus with my CD player (remember those clunky things!) with The Dance on repeat for the entire summer. Especially Silver Springs. I must have listened to that song 10 times a day for 8 weeks straight. Again, had I only knew then what I know now. See what happens when you don't have cable tv? So I admit at that point in time, I had very minimal understanding of the band and it's interpersonal dynamics and was solely into the music. So, for the past 10-12 years I guess I need to consider myself mostly a casual fan. I do remember every time I heard that FM was touring, I really wanted to go, but never made it a show. And when i heard of people who went, i was sooo jealous. Finally this year, my cousin asked if i had any interest in going to see FM. I said ABSOLUTELY and was so excited. Well, after that first show I was completely sold and managed to make it to 3 more shows this tour. I even managed to be in the 7th row for the last show I went to. AMAZING, by the way. I am really kicking myself for missing out on all the opportunities to follow FM and SN/LB over the past 2 decades, but hopefully there will be some more chances to make up for that. With that first concert this year, I truly rediscovered my love for this band and it's members and have spent the past 6 months educating myself about everything and I mean everything. Thank goodness for the internet and the good people who share so much! I'm slowly trying to feel worthy of contributing. I've been diligently working at building up my music and DVD collections and thanks to all the wonderful people on here, I've acquired quite a bit of live boots and demos. It's such a great feeling to know that there are other people out there who love this band and it's members as much as I now do. I just wish i figured this all out 20 years ago!!!! Oh well, better late then never.
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08-14-2009, 09:55 AM
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My dad had one cassette, where was copy of Fleetwood Mac´s Greatest Hits from 1988 and first half of Timespace (cut in the middle of If Anyone Falls). I just love that stuff and it was long time till I heard something else! Then I gradually got to know all Fleetwood Mac´s albums from 1975 and also whole Timespace and new and amazing for me Trouble In Shangri-la album. And then, thanks to internet, I got to know the rest (most of Stevie´s solo albums and pre-Rumours stuff, and then (thanks to you guys in this forum) tons of demos and live records, which I love. So that Berlin concert in October, when I´m gonna see them for the first time, is kind of top of this everything
 .But now I hope that they will record something new, I wouldn´t mind if Stevie record some songs, which she wrote long time ago, simply I wanna hear new recorded album! Yeah, and I rememmber what video I saw first. It was video of Rooms on Fire and soon after that I saw video of Little Lies. It was great. Which video of live concert I saw for the first time? I know that The Dance I hear for the first time (only audio), but video... maybe Tango Live DVD... but I´m not so sure.
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08-14-2009, 10:12 AM
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Hey Gold Dust Drummer....Fantastic Drumming!! I am a musician myself check out my myspace www.myspace.com/johnbrandoli Anyway, in the beginning of your recording of Gypsy there is an orchestral version played briefly. Where is that from and how can i get that version, I love it!
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08-14-2009, 10:53 AM
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1973 and 1974. i was in high school and heard the mystery to me and bare trees albums played on the local fm station. after that i constantly listened to the radio to find out who they were. i know that's when they got their hooks in me. and i've been happily addicted ever since. i have alot of their recordings on vinyl, tape and cd. there are two stickers on my car in each back, side window. red tusk-era stickers. and i just got one for the back window - "got fleetwood mac". i just love them.
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08-14-2009, 01:19 PM
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I got the first Greatest Hits as Christmas present in 1972 after the BBC used Albatross on a sports programme. I found out about the band and then went to see them at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on 31 May 1973. I can't remember too much about the concert although I have a feeling they weren't that good! Bob Weston asked someone in the crowd if they were going to "shut up and f*ckin listen" when he kept shouting for Albatross to be played. Dave Walker explained the meaning of Rattle Snake Shake which as a very naive 14 year old I hadn't quite grasped.
After that they were "my band" and I bought each album as it was released and went back and bought the older albums as well. Although I have fallen out of love with them since Christine left I hope we can still be friends! Gail
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08-17-2009, 06:33 PM
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Me to, the same age.I must of got into when FM sign in Stevie/Lindsey on the album with Rhiannon.Hearing Stevies voice and cute looks turn this young lad into a FM fan.as I starting to get into more music genders besides pop rock, two years later in 1977 at the same time that the Rumours came out . I jump to Country Music And took only FM for the ride at that time I was a diehard FM fan ,Ok the Tusk album in 1979 came out.Songs like SOTM ,Sara and others were blasting on the radio, I still have my wornout Sara 45 record somewhere boxed to get moved,Ok I remember hearing rumours that Stevie was going to record solo sometime and my dream came true she did with the Belladonna record.and thats how I got into FM,anyway thanks to all of you sharing the way how geting into FM.
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08-18-2009, 12:01 PM
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The year Rumors was released, my oldest sister bought the record and wore it out. We heard it non-stop for two years in the house. Then, when I was 9, I remember watching the premier airing of the Tusk Video on tv. It was amazing to me that this strange song was done by the same band who made Rumors.
Two and a half years later (1982) I was watching MTV and saw the Gypsy and Hold Me videos in heavy rotation and fell in love with the group. I bought Mirage, unearthed the old Rumors record, purchased Tusk, and then the White Album. I was hooked. I was twelve.
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08-24-2009, 05:08 AM
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Firstly hearing everyone else stories has been amazing, this is such an awesome thread and since i'm new to this site it really all seems wondrous to me...
I remember in 1998 i was seven and i heard "Everywhere" on the radio in the car, i immediately fell in love with it, i asked my mum who sang the song, she said to me "Christine McVie" and i was like huh? she doesn't sound so great.... The same happened with "Little Lies"... The Years went by.... Then at christmas time in 2005 my older sister left the second cd of her very best of fleetwood mac at our house, so i put it in the cd player and i momentarily died... I had found the band to end all bands... i was especially captivated by Stevie! I soon bought all their albums and learnt as much about them as i could...i forcibly share all this info with my family and friends driving them to the brink of insanity...unfortunately i missed stevie's gold dust tour in feb 2006 as i was still discovering them at the time. so now in 2009 i have my chance to see them live, i can't wait!!!
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08-24-2009, 08:01 AM
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In April last year, after watching 'School of Rock' again, and yet again falling in love with Edge of Seventeen, I decided I needed to find out about Stevie Nicks, so I got Crystal Visions from iTunes. I never listened to the whole of it, I was just obsessed by the studio and live versions of Edge (and sometimes listened to I Can't Wait).
Around October, I was watching a music channel, and Everywhere was played. I was captivated by the video and recognised the song, and I had to know who it was by. At the end, it came up 'Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac'. I recognised the name Fleetwood Mac, so searched it on Google, and read their Wikipedia page. I saw that Stevie Nicks was one of the members, and remembered how much I liked Egde, so I decided that I'd get the the Very Best of, and Say You Will (as it was their latest album). I listened to both albums quite a lot (I recognised a couple of songs from the Very Best of, Little Lies and Albatross), and decided I'd need to hear more from them. After Christmas, I decided to buy Rumours as I loved the story from what I could gather from the internet, and if so many people had bought it, surely it must be a great album. I fell completely in love with it. I was so happy I'd discovered the band just as one of them was releasing something new. Got Soundstage, found out they were about to start a tour, and hoped for UK dates. I'm going to see them at Wembley Arena, and I'm so excited.
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08-24-2009, 08:58 AM
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08-24-2009, 11:16 AM
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In grade seven or eight I was looking through my parents cds and found Rumours. I thought they were a cool "hippie" band, and I liked the group picture inside (I thought Stevie was really cute), but never really explored anything beyond that. Grade ten rolled around and I decided to download FM songs. I liked what I heard, and quite a few songs were already familiar to me, and that's how I became a fan!
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