The moment you knew there was a band called Fleetwood Mac

[Chain of Chains]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Welcome Chain of Chains!

A PAer, eh? My neighbour!

Yep we're neighbors.

Dude, I want a sip of that drink!

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by Chain of Chains

Yep we're neighbors.

Dude, I want a sip of that drink!

Come on down. I know all the hot spots.

[JamieSPC]

My uncle gave his entire vinyl collection--along with his turntable--to my grandmother, who was babysitting me at the time. He was making the switch to some other format (cassette? reel-to-reel? don't remember) and just gave them away. Grandmother played Rumours during my naptime.

So I was well aware of FM throughout my teenage years, but in 1988 when I turned 16, I became obsessed purely by chance. I had a terrible accident on my 16th birthday and had a badly broken leg. I had a four-hour surgery to repair damage, lots of time in the hospital, etc. My dad bought me a new stereo with a CD player that Christmas. I had no CDs, but he promised to buy me some the next time we went into town.

That "next time" turned out to be the night of a particularly invasive and painful outpatient procedure on my leg. My dad kept telling me, "Be strong, keep cool... we'll go music-shopping when this is all over." Well, they drugged me pretty bad and so my dad was left to his own devices to start my CD collection for me. While I waited, half-dazed, in the car, he went in the music store and asked to buy whatever CD was #1 that week.

It was the green Greatest Hits CD.

The next morning I remember waking up to "As Long As You Follow." My dad had put it on and set the CD on repeat on my Sharp CD player.

I heard "Dreams" and "Go Your Own Way" again later that day, really for the first time since I was a little kid. I was already a Stevie fan and had "Bella Donna" on vinyl, but the band really won me over when I was 16... and it was all my dad's fault.

~Jamie

[skcin]

Originally Posted by amber

I have to say, great first post!!! Nice to meetcha! So jealous of your 3rd row wild heart...

Yeah, really! Any chance you got that show on video? LOL!

[mondaymornin1]

I think it's really cool how so many of us first discovered FM with one song (before there were videos!), then tied them all together later on. I remember hearing Rhiannon when I was 5 or 6 and loving it! I also remember my mom playing some of Rumours on the ol' turntable. I loved "Don't Stop." Then I remember an advertisement on the radio for a concert playing over and over again with the beat of "Tusk" going on and on in the background--a song I also loved. But, like some of you guys, I didn't realize they were all members of the same band until the Mirage/MTV era, when I first saw Hold Me and was swept away by Lindsey! I think that's why it remains my fav FM song. And so the rest is history. And, dammit, I wish my mom was as cool as I am...I've already taken my daughter to 2 shows with me! (she's 7)

BTW, Amber, did you steal my cat? I have a Siamese kitten that looks just like the one in your sig!

[amber]

Originally Posted by mondaymornin1

I think it's really cool how so many of us first discovered FM with one song (before there were videos!), then tied them all together later on. I remember hearing Rhiannon when I was 5 or 6 and loving it! I also remember my mom playing some of Rumours on the ol' turntable. I loved "Don't Stop." Then I remember an advertisement on the radio for a concert playing over and over again with the beat of "Tusk" going on and on in the background--a song I also loved. But, like some of you guys, I didn't realize they were all members of the same band until the Mirage/MTV era, when I first saw Hold Me and was swept away by Lindsey! I think that's why it remains my fav FM song. And so the rest is history. And, dammit, I wish my mom was as cool as I am...I've already taken my daughter to 2 shows with me! (she's 7)

BTW, Amber, did you steal my cat? I have a Siamese kitten that looks just like the one in your sig!

haha, yes, i did steal your cat, and you can have him back!!! Okay, i'm sending him right now. He says "tell MM1 I'm sorry i was such a pain in the ass!!!"
I think it's cool, too, how we all pieced it together.
I never put the final pieces together until about 1993!
First there was 3 yr. old me singing GDW...
Then there was 8 year old me falling in love with Stand Back, trying to record it off the radio, never being able to, and never finding out the artist.
Then there was 12-13 year old me, falling in love with Seven Wonders - and hearing Little Lies on the radio every five minutes, not knowing they were the same band!
Then there's me in highschool, happening upon the Bella Donna concert on PBS, running to get my tape recorder for Stand Back yelling "that's it!!! that's the lady!! that's the song!!!Omigod, i finally found it!!!!" and recording EO17, too.
Then there's me playing that in the tape player in the truck all the time, still not knowing she was the GDW and Seven Wonders chick. But at last i had found it.
Then there's my friend getting rid of her tapes when i was 19, and giving me Tango, when i spotted Seven Wonders and yelled "Omigod!!!! there it is!!!!!"
Then there's me buying Timespace. Then Street Angel. Then the Green Album. that was probably 94-95. The rest is me rarely listening to anything else.
And there you have it.
By the way, that whole time, I never saw any videos...
Let the Saga continue.

[Chain of Chains]

Originally Posted by skcin

Yeah, really! Any chance you got that show on video? LOL!

No, sorry. But I taped few shows with a little bity recorder with one of those little bity (audio) tapes. Awful sound

I can't remember which song she changed the words in. She would chant "to beeeee.....or.....not-to-beeeee" over and over at the end. Anyone remember that?

[jwd]

When I heard an androgynous voice on the radio singing "Over My Head". I really didn't know if it was man or a woman singing the song! But I thought it was very unique and I liked it a lot. The rest is, shall we say, history.

[cliffdweller]

When I was in elementary school the parents of a friend of mine had Rumours on the original vinyl. I remember thinking that the blonde girl on the cover looked like a magical ballerina and of course from that point on I was hooked.