What will FM do during their one month off?

[michelej1]

The idea that life is easy on the road is a strange one anyway. Yes, they are well paid and working on the road is easier than being a coal miner or a McDonald's cook, but traveling non-stop and putting on a 2.5 hour show 3-4 times a week is not physically or mentally easy.

I don't care how much help you have. They are well-compensated, over-compensated. But being on the road is not a breeze.

In fact, even if they were traveling this much for vacation purposes ONLY, it's not a piece of cake. Personally, I know people have scheduled too many consecutive vacations or weekend getaways in a short time frame without asking me and it was a hassle. After a while, it is not relaxing any more to be constantly on the go, even if it's for "fun".

Michele

[StreetAngel86]

^^ this is true.
If you have been on holidays ... especially trips that last WEEKS ... it is HARD work. And it is exhausting. Holidays only aren't any work unless you are literally just sitting on the beach for a week and someone is bringing you drinks and all you have to do is stare at the ocean and turn the pages of your Game of Thrones novel

[pauls90]

Traveling that constantly sounds exhausting :/

As much as I'd like to see them working on the new material, I'd say they definitely just need to relax. I wouldn't want them doing any recording before they've had some time to recuperate.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelej1

The idea that life is easy on the road is a strange one anyway. Yes, they are well paid and working on the road is easier than being a coal miner or a McDonald's cook, but traveling non-stop and putting on a 2.5 hour show 3-4 times a week is not physically or mentally easy.

I don't care how much help you have. They are well-compensated, over-compensated. But being on the road is not a breeze.

In fact, even if they were traveling this much for vacation purposes ONLY, it's not a piece of cake. Personally, I know people have scheduled too many consecutive vacations or weekend getaways in a short time frame without asking me and it was a hassle. After a while, it is not relaxing any more to be constantly on the go, even if it's for "fun".
Michele

I respect your opinion but I disagree with all of this when it is pertaining to Fleetwood Mac. For your life or my life or most of the Ledgies life, all that traveling would be extremely hard on us.
I have a brother who works a full time job. He's 54 and he is a performing musician. He performs more shows a year than Fleetwood Mac does. Several times he performs morning shows. He is self employed. He'll do a few jobs in the morning and then go do a show. He carries all the equipment in and sets up all alone. Then performs and then dismantles and goes home, changes back into his work clothes and goes back to work as a janitor. Often after the janitorial work is done, he'll come home and shower and go off to perform another gig. His energy amazes me. And nothing in this world makes him more happy than the thrill he feels performing songs for people.And boy he makes good money too.
Now let's take Fleetwood Mac. Here we have five people who get to travel the world first class all the way. Every hardship of traveling is done for them. Everywhere they go important people wish to entertain them and meet them. People pay an enormous amount of money for a meet and greet and for a concert ticket. Imagine that awesome feeling just knowing how many millions of dollars you will be able to lavish your family and yourself with when this tour is over. THAT alone would thrill ME to the ends of the earth and no amount of exhausting traveling would affect me in any negative way. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. And this point applies to any top rock and roll band that exists in this world.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Here we have five people who get to travel the world first class all the way. Every hardship of traveling is done for them. Everywhere they go important people wish to entertain them and meet them. People pay an enormous amount of money for a meet and greet and for a concert ticket. Imagine that awesome feeling just knowing how many millions of dollars you will be able to lavish your family and yourself with when this tour is over. THAT alone would thrill ME to the ends of the earth and no amount of exhausting traveling would affect me in any negative way. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. And this point applies to any top rock and roll band that exists in this world.

Agree traveling for them isn't like for any normal person because they have STAFF doing all the heavy lifting. But it has to get tedious; every place starts to look the same. Even Chris, while admitting they travelled pretty posh in their days before she left, said she got sick of touring.

After a bit you must just long for the chance to be in your own home, with your own stuff, spending time with your own family doing things on your own schedule. And after 30 or 40 years the novelty aspect of people wanting to see you wears off. I think they still appreciate it in terms of selling out shows, but on a daily basis people telling you how much they love you kinda becomes normal. A lot of really famous people say after while of that you start to long for the ability to be a bit more anonymous when you are offstage and have normal interactions with people. They hear it every.single.day, for decades. It does seem Lindsey has managed to have some of that when he's on the road, getting out and around pretty well with no entourage. He's also said physically the road is no harder now than in the past. Stevie clearly has a different take on that.

First world problems, to be sure.

[soul_drifter333]

I would still trade all of that for a fraction of the millions of dollars that they're making from this tour alone. Many people work tough jobs everyday of their lives and don't get the compensation and cushy benefits that they accustomed to. I think Lindsey and Christine are probably able to appreciate the situation they're in but Mick and Stevie appear to take the money, notoriety, and luxury lifestyle for granted. Just my opinion.

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Agree traveling for them isn't like for any normal person because they have STAFF doing all the heavy lifting. But it has to get tedious; every place starts to look the same. Even Chris, while admitting they travelled pretty posh in their days before she left, said she got sick of touring.

After a bit you must just long for the chance to be in your own home, with your own stuff, spending time with your own family doing things on your own schedule. And after 30 or 40 years the novelty aspect of people wanting to see you wears off. I think they still appreciate it in terms of selling out shows, but on a daily basis people telling you how much they love you kinda becomes normal. A lot of really famous people say after while of that you start to long for the ability to be a bit more anonymous when you are offstage and have normal interactions with people. They hear it every.single.day, for decades. It does seem Lindsey has managed to have some of that when he's on the road, getting out and around pretty well with no entourage. He's also said physically the road is no harder now than in the past. Stevie clearly has a different take on that.

First world problems, to be sure.

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by soul_drifter333

I would still trade all of that for a fraction of the millions of dollars that they're making from this tour alone. Many people work tough jobs everyday of their lives and don't get the compensation and cushy benefits that they accustomed to. I think Lindsey and Christine are probably able to appreciate the situation they're in but Mick and Stevie appear to take the money, notoriety, and luxury lifestyle for granted. Just my opinion.

Curious what makes you think this.

[shackin'up]

Lindsey will do things with the kids for a week and then hit the homestudio to work out arrangements and new basic songideas from 10 to 6 everyday except weekends, I guess.

[David]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Agree traveling for them isn't like for any normal person because they have STAFF doing all the heavy lifting. But it has to get tedious; every place starts to look the same. Even Chris, while admitting they travelled pretty posh in their days before she left, said she got sick of touring.

Do any of them have irritable bowel syndrome? That alone can make all the travel very difficult and tedious.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

Do any of them have irritable bowel syndrome? That alone can make all the travel very difficult and tedious.

Even without IBS, lots of travel can play havoc on the digestive system.

Michele

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by David

Do any of them have irritable bowel syndrome? That alone can make all the travel very difficult and tedious.

Originally Posted by michelej1

Even without IBS, lots of travel can play havoc on the digestive system.

Silly me hadn't even thought any of my Macsters could be in bad health but if David is to be correct then yes, touring would be a real pain in the a$$.

[bombaysaffires]

speaking of band members' health made me think of Lindsey's epilepsy diagnosis back in the day. At the time he was reported to be taking medication for it. That's not normally a condition that goes away, though by all evidence it hasn't impaired his performing. Wonder if he has to do anything particular to manage it i.e., diet or whatever. That would be a pain to keep up on the road.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Silly me hadn't even thought any of my Macsters could be in bad health but if David is to be correct then yes, touring would be a real pain in the a$$.

Hopefully, none of them are in bad health, but last tour John had cancer. He might have been feeling poorly long before it was diagnosed and not known why. So, his body was dealing with that on Unleashed. Plus, even this tour, post-chemo, I'm sure he's not 100%. I mean, thankfully my mother has survived colon cancer for 13 years now, but they did take out part of her intestine and she still has lingering issues because of that.

She didn't have radiation. She didn't even finish all of her chemo. But chemo and radiation leave their own permanent side effects, because they kill cells and tissue in order to save your life. I don't know what chemo and radiation John had.

Even in that old tour video we saw John having to get a hand massage back stage. He was doing that before repetitive motion syndrome was something we all knew about. No big deal in your thirties and forties. Bigger deal today at their ages.

Plus, it's pretty obvious that Stevie has some sort of chronic arthritic problem. And we don't know what's going on with Christine's hand. These are not things that cause anyone debilitating agony, but they are certainly nagging issues that make concert touring more arduous than lying on a beach in Tahiti.


Michele

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by David

Do any of them have irritable bowel syndrome? That alone can make all the travel very difficult and tedious.

Et tu, Brute?

[Nick]

They also have over a 3 month break between July and October. They better get some writing/recording done!


Sat 07/11/15 Dublin, Ireland


BREAK


Thu 10/22/15 Sydney, Australia