Vancouver Rogers Center May 19

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelej1

After 20-plus tunes, nobody left last night unsatisfied. Unless, that is, you wanted to hear Oh Well or the Green Manalishi which this version of the band has probably never played.

That's how I can tell this writer is a new fan. He either wasn't born yet or has never heard a 1975-76 FM bootleg. It was Stevie and Lindsey that introduced me to Oh Well and Green Manalishi.

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by vivfox

That's how I can tell this writer is a new fan. He either wasn't born yet or has never heard a 1975-76 FM bootleg. It was Stevie and Lindsey that introduced me to Oh Well and Green Manalishi.

Not only that, but they've play "Oh Well" quite a bit and as recently as 2009. Mick has even said they may play it on the European leg.

[michelej1]

Click for photos:

http://www.surreyleader.com/entertai...208096661.html

By Boaz Joseph - Surrey North Delta Leader
Published: May 19, 2013 10:00 PM
Updated: May 19, 2013 10:52 PM

Rock band Fleetwood Mac played a local stop on their North American tour on Sunday night.

The core four of singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist/singer Lindsey Buckingham, bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood played in front of just under 16,000 fans at Rogers Arena.

Photos by Boaz Joseph / The Leader

[michelej1]

Straight.com
http://www.straight.com/music/383481...sses-vancouver

Fleetwood Mac's classics please the masses in Vancouver

by Steve Newton on May 20, 2013 at 2:53 am
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"I don't believe Fleetwood Mac will ever tour again," drummer Mick Fleetwood told Playboy last year, dashing the concert hopes of diehard '70s soft-rock fans everywhere. But as seen at Rogers Arena last night, you can't believe everything you read in a girlie magazine.

Fleetwood took the stage—along with the current Fleetwood Mac lineup of singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist-vocalist Lindsay Buckingham, and bassist John McVie—and proceeded to show that a capering 65-year-old codger can still be a force of nature behind the kit. The foursome was supplemented by a second guitarist-vocalist, a keyboard-vocalist, and two backup vocalists, so there was plenty of younger vocal cords on hand to help Nicks (64) and Buckingham (63) hit those high notes.

The show kicked off with "Second Hand News", the perky opening track from the 1977 Rumours album, which has so far sold a paltry 45-million copies worldwide. That song is noted for containing some of the most memorable gibberish lyrics ever, which are tricky to decipher, but go something like: "Bow-bow-bow-bow/da-bas-bow-bow-bow-bow/da-bam-bam-bam-bam-bam-da-bam-bam-bam-bam/do-doodle-doo."

After a couple more Rumours gems, "The Chain" and "Dreams", the band pulled out a new composition from Extended Play, the four-song EP it released on iTunes a few weeks back. "Sad Angel" is a jangly rocker slightly reminiscent of "Go Your Own Way", sans its melodic allure.

The group would showcase one other new tune, "Without You", a rerecording of a pre-Mac, Buckingham/Nicks demo that, as Nicks explained in a rambling introduction, resurfaced on YouTube recently. Unfortunately the song—based on a poem she wrote for Buckingham early on in their relationship—came off a little on the humdrum side.

Apart from the two middling new tunes, it was golden oldies all the way, which was what everyone had come for anyway. The band performed seven of Rumours' 11 deathless tracks, and four each from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac and '79 Tusk albums. Three tracks from the eighties went over extremely well, including the Nicks-sung "Gypsy" (from 1982's Mirage) and "Stand Back" (from her '83 solo album The Wild Heart). One of the night's biggest highlights was "Big Love", a track from 1987's Tango in the Night that boasted ace fingerpicking from Buckingham.

As crowdpleasing as the setlist was, it would have been nice if it had touched ever-so-briefly on the band's history prior to its multiplatinum success. It would have been cool to hear Fleetwood snapping off that triple-time intro to 1973's dreamy "Hypnotized" as an homage to former member Bob Welch, who died last summer.

Even better, they could have selected one tune from the group's late-'60s blues-rock era, when guitar legend Peter Green was in the fold. I can totally picture Buckingham singing lines like: "I can't help about the shape I'm in/I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin/But don't ask me what I think of you/I might not give the answer that you want me to."

[kak125]

i read a review online where somebody said that stevie shouted out Thank you Toronto. Oops! I guess a few people were really angry about it. Oh well at least she didnt say Cleveland!

[elle]

Originally Posted by kak125

i read a review online where somebody said that stevie shouted out Thank you Toronto. Oops! I guess a few people were really angry about it. Oh well at least she didnt say Cleveland!

yeah i didn't watch it but there is video on youtube of it.

[kak125]

gotcha. i am sure with traveling so much its hard to remember where you are half the time.
i found this great 30 min video of the show online.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by michelej1

The foursome was supplemented by a second guitarist-vocalist, a keyboard-vocalist, and two backup vocalists, so there was plenty of younger vocal cords on hand to help Nicks (64) and Buckingham (63) hit those high notes."

Well, not really. But okay.

[MacShadowsBall]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Even better, they could have selected one tune from the group's late-'60s blues-rock era, when guitar legend Peter Green was in the fold. I can totally picture Buckingham singing lines like: "I can't help about the shape I'm in/I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin/But don't ask me what I think of you/I might not give the answer that you want me to."

Oh, wow! Lindsey singing Oh Well would be awesome. He outta do that song sometimes!

[fairydust75]

Originally Posted by MacShadowsBall

Oh, wow! Lindsey singing Oh Well would be awesome. He outta do that song sometimes!

You can see and hear him anytime you want on youtube. Its the one in 1975/76 with Stevie wearing pañts and I think we get to see her belly button..lol. They do Get Like You Used To Be, Over My Head, Hypnotised. The video has a for screening only or something like that at the bottom the whole time.

Maybe a more tech savvy Ledgie could figure out which one I'm referring to and link to it.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by fairydust75

You can see and hear him anytime you want on youtube.

Yeah, we were just kidding because the writer of that review was unaware that it had ever happened before. It happened in the seventies. It happened in 2009 and, we hear, it will happen again this year.

Michele