Dutch FM Fans - Fleetwood Bac playing in your country

[David]

Originally posted by nodmod
This band have recently rocked themselves across the UK and many of the UK Ledgies have had a wonderful night out watching them.

I used to feel sorry for the European Fleetwood Mac fans because the band toured so frequently only in the United States. But now that all these great Mac tribute bands are playing only in Europe, I'm not so sure I feel all that sorry for the Europeans any more. Sometimes these tribute/cover bands play sets that are a lot fresher & more daring than the real Fleetwood.

I had to check out Fleetwood Bac's Web site. I looked over the photos & downloaded a lot of the song clips. The band is really great; "John" is a dead ringer for John McVie, & "Lindsey" doesn't appear to be using a pick in the photos, which is perfect because obviously there's a concern for authenticity. I was also impressed with the sound clips: the guitar solo on "Go Your Own Way," the clip of "Tusk" & the outro on "The Chain" were blistering. I bet they rock even harder in person.

I was a little disheartened to hear so much acoustic piano voicing on a lot of the clips, like "Sisters of the Moon" & "Rhiannon" & "Go Your Own Way." If you're going for really anal authenticity, that piano really shouldn't be there. Those are Hammond B3 parts in some cases & electric piano parts in other cases. You can buy the Voce Electric Piano module for about $400 in the U.S. now, & voila you have the old Hohner combo pianet sound Christine used to play on "Rhiannon" & "Station Man" & others. Or you can get hold of the Yamaha electronic piano -- the one she switched to later on -- for a steal & get an absolutely authentic smashing sound.

The singers are all excellent, too. The band has a CD-ROM for sale with live performances on it. All these Fleetwood tribute bands that you hear about give me a chuckle sometimes because each member of the band seems to pick a different era to copy: the John McVie character looks like the John McVie on the back of "Rumours"; the Lindsey character still has his 'fro & white Les Paul; the Mick character looks like Mick on "The Dance"; & Stevie looks like a "Behind the Mask" tour Stevie Nicks.