Besides SN/FM, is your fandom as intense for other performers?

[greendaze5]

My musical taste is very eclectic to say the least: Green Day, Loreena McKennitt, Lisa Loeb, Jason Mraz, classic country (Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, etc.), 70’s disco, 60’s tunes, Jefferson Airplane, and early Jefferson Starship – but Stevie and FM are still (and will be) my first love.

I can’t imagine going out of my way (for example, traveling far and shelling out the extra $$, which I have done before) to see any other singer/band.

So what else do y’all listen to?

Roland

[jannieC]

I listen to other bands and I love to see other bands play live. I would never go as far out of my way (or pay as much) as I have for Fleetwood Mac. Unless John Lennon and George Harrison came back from the dead and The Beatles reunited.

[DefDumbandBlond]

Some of my other favorites are The Ramones, Blondie/Deborah Harry, The Gun Club, Heart.....I could go on and on

[chiliD]

Moreso for:

The Beatles (individually & collectively)
Eric Clapton
Allman Brothers Band
any of the remaining blues masters---BB King, Buddy Guy...um, are they all that's left??


About equal to:

Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Leon Russell
Little Feat
The Rolling Stones
The Who
ZZ Top

Not quite, but almost as much:

The Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix

[ButterCookie]

Blondie are my all time favourite band and I stalk them much more than is healthy, David Bowie, Patti Smith, FM/Stevie, Joan Jett, The Pretenders... Like Kristen said, I could go on for days!

[skcin]

The only other artists I've traveled to see besides Mac are Tom Petty & Patty Griffin.

Can't think of anyone else I've liked enough to spend as much money on as I have with Mac/Stevie/LB (and in retrospect, I probably didn't really need to see them 5 times in 1 tour either )

There's no other artist that I know as much about/collect/buy most everything they release.

[hayley]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Moreso for:
any of the remaining blues masters---BB King, Buddy Guy...um, are they all that's left??

You should come to Chicago to Buddy Guy's Legends, chili. I would break some cornbread with you.

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by skcin

The only other artists I've traveled to see besides Mac are Tom Petty & Patty Griffin.

Be sure to catch her on The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson tonight!

[skcin]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Be sure to catch her on The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson tonight!

Thanks, I just read that too. I'll be setting the DVR for sure.

[Erin]

^^
Speaking of Patti Griffin, does anyone have Downtown Church yet? I bought it this weekend and it's taking me a little while to get into it.

Her Soundstage with Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin , and Buddy Guy also premiered this week. I really enjoyed it. Patti did an awesome version of Heavenly Day.

Back on topic there is no other band beside Fleetwood Mac that I have spent so much time, energy, and money on!

[holidayroad]

I am mainly a Mac fan, but I also love Daryl Hall & John Oates!!! In the 80s, I didn't think much either way about them. They were good, you heard them often, but I never really paid attention. In the early 90s, it just hit me one day that I missed hearing Daryl and John, like 'hey, where did they go?' So, I bought some albums since radio wasn't playing them much. The more I heard, the more I liked. I know most people only know their early 80s pop, but they are worth listening to. Also, every month, Daryl Hall does a podcast called Live from Daryl's House. http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com It's often him and a newer singer together. It doesn't come off as a disaster like Taylor and Stevie though!! Take a listen! There's a new one every 15th of the month.

[skcin]

Originally Posted by Erin

^^
Speaking of Patti Griffin, does anyone have Downtown Church yet? I bought it this weekend and it's taking me a little while to get into it.

Her Soundstage with Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin , and Buddy Guy also premiered this week. I really enjoyed it. Patti did an awesome version of Heavenly Day.

Back on topic there is no other band beside Fleetwood Mac that I have spent so much time, energy, and money on!

I got it. I saw her live on the 3 Girls & Their Buddy Tour last year & was blown away by the gospel tunes they did - which is why I'm a bit surprised that I'm iffy on the new CD. I don't dislike it, but I am slightly disappointed. I am hoping it will grow on me, but I'm not getting chills or close to tears (like I did with Trapeze or Up To The Mountain on Children Running Through.) So I guess, to sum up, I agree with you.

And thanks for the reminder about Soundstage.

[Richard B]

Good question.
I do not know what intense fandom means, but I do have the complete discography for these bands (like FM/SN/LB):

Tom Petty
The Killers
Bodeans
Rusted Root
Moby
Thievery Corporation
Mr. Scruff
Ursula 1000
Grant-Lee Phillips
Interpol
Robert Plant
Richard Ashcroft
Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand
Crash Test Dummies
Michael Franti & Spearhead

[Ghost_Tracker]

I can't say that my fandom for Journey (80s era) is "intense," but just the same, I think the WORLD of their music!!! I think they're just about the best rock band that I've ever seen.

Ditto for The Scorpions (except for one or two songs). I think they're amazingly talented - even though I've never even been to one of their concerts.

And while I've never really followed U2 all that much, I just absolutely think the world of them.

So I guess overall it couldn't be called "intense," but if I were to like, "rank" things on a piece of paper from a scale of 1 to 100, those three would be somewhere around 1,000 or so.

[CreepingDeath]

Just to name a few-


The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Tool
Alice In Chains
Rammstein
Opeth
Pantera
Metallica (not so much anymore, though)
Madonna
Pink
Carole King
Evanescence
Lucinda Williams
Roseanne Cash
Emmylou Harris