Los Angeles Forum 11/29/2014

[teedeerocks]

Originally Posted by Lisa W

I just posted my pictures from last night to Flickr and here is the link:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125906...7649551793295/

Thanks for the great pics Lisa! It's the next best thing to being there!

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by teedeerocks

Great pics Michele! I think they put on more of a "show" than usual because,after all, this is The Forum. Alot of family,friends,celebrities,and critics were there.I just don't know how genuine all the lovey - dovey and banter was,IMO.They aren't dumb - they know when to turn it on and off.In a post somewhere someone said this band is the biggest bunch of BSers in the world and I have to agree.Even Mick gives Stevie "cues" in interviews for goodness sake I watch that video from 2013 alot when Stevie cries through the entire "Say Goodbye" song because I know it's the real deal.Anyways,I'm glad it was a great time for those who attended Just my 2.5 cents.

And sometimes the 'show' gets turned off for places like this. I was VERY sad to see the NGBA embrace that seems to have occurred for a few shows prior to this one disappear, lol. We never got a good video of it, sob sob.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

great pics, you got all the hugs and nuzzling i love to see so much. perfect seats, i definitely need to try and go for something like that if i go to another show!

Don't even try it. I think the new DC show was added just for you. You are required to go.

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

great pics, you got all the hugs and nuzzling i love to see so much.

And I also like the way Lindsey is so close to Mick during Gypsy on this tour and the last. He's backed up against him. It's really loving.

Of course, I'm the kind of person that would feel crowded and say, "back off man," but Mick is clearly more tolerant than I am .

Michele

[michelej1]

Review Los Angeles Times, 11/30/2014 By Mikael Wood

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...130-story.html

Fleetwood Mac at the Forum: A band reunited, team spirit intact

Fleetwood Mac played the Forum on Saturday night with Christine McVie, back after a long break

Fleetwood Mac is having a moment..

Decades after its late-1970s commercial peak, the band can still fill arenas around the world with fans eager to relive memories indelibly linked to old hits like “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way.”

Yet Fleetwood Mac’s polished pop-rock has also become a touchstone for younger, hipper acts such as Jenny Lewis and One Direction. In 2011, the television show “Glee” built an episode around the group’s music; the next year it was the subject of a high-profile tribute album.

So it’s not hard to understand Christine McVie’s decision, announced in January, to rejoin the band after retiring in 1998.

She helped create the legend -- shouldn’t she enjoy the glory?

Fleetwood Mac’s tour with McVie, whose presence restores the lineup that made the gazillion-selling “Rumours,” stopped at the Forum for two concerts over the weekend. (It will return for a third on Dec. 6.)

But if the cheers that greeted McVie on Saturday confirmed her reasoning, the singer’s participation also reminded you that, despite its huge success, this is a deeply weird rock group, with three songwriters – McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks – whose approaches hardly seem compatible.

Backed by the stalwart rhythm section of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie (to whom she was married until 1977), Christine McVie was warm and trusting in “You Make Loving Fun” and the buoyant “Everywhere.” The cheerful optimism – and the propulsive groove – of “Don’t Stop” inspired thousands in the audience to sing along.

And though “Little Lies” hinted at the romantic deception that famously runs through Fleetwood Mac’s history, the tune’s sweet melody neutralized any sense of real desperation.

Buckingham offered no such protection as he growled the lyrics of “Big Love,” about the cold comfort of material fortune, over harsh finger-picked guitar. He was similarly intense in the stomping “Tusk” and a long, raw rendition of the bluesy “I’m So Afraid.”

“Second Hand News” was catchier but still anxious, its crisp tempo a promise of escape from the turmoil the song describes.

Then there was Nicks, who set aside her bandmates’ realism in favor of imagery rooted in history and mythology: “Rhiannon,” “Sisters of the Moon,” “Seven Wonders,” the last of which, she told the audience, had made it back into Fleetwood Mac’s set list after the song appeared in a recent episode of “American Horror Story.”

That quasi-mystical vibe is a big part of what’s endeared Nicks in particular to a new generation of musicians, including the sisters of L.A.’s Haim, to whom she dedicated “Landslide” on Saturday. (The Haim sisters weren’t the only admirers who turned up to pay their respects: According to a tweet from the Forum, Harry Styles of One Direction took in Friday’s show.)

Twirling in one of her trademark shawls during “Gypsy,” Nicks drew a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. And fans seemed untroubled by the adjustments she made to the melody of “Dreams,” a song whose high notes are now presumably out of her reach.

Yet that adulation hasn’t led, as it does with so many stars, to an unquenchable need for more.

Here Nicks appeared happy -- even relieved, perhaps -- to share the spotlight she grew accustomed to filling while McVie was away, and it was that sense of camaraderie that held Fleetwood Mac’s internal contradictions together.

“Once you come back, you can’t leave again,” Nicks recalled telling McVie in a rambling monologue about the reunion. That she meant it was clear when McVie, singing her ballad “Songbird,” closed the show.

[michelej1]

11/30/2014 Stevie Nicks: 'Haim are major force in rock and roll'

By: WENN.com, Hollywood.com

http://www.hollywood.com/news/brief/...-rock-and-roll

Stevie Nicks gushed over sibling rockers Haim during a concert in California on Saturday (29Nov14), calling them a "major force in rock and roll". Fleetwood Mac brought its On With the Show tour, complete with keyboardist Christine McVie, to Los Angeles' The Forum venue and among those in the audience were sisters Alana, Este and Danielle Haim. Singer Nicks told the audience, "Maybe twice in my lifetime I have met a group of other singers, artists, songwriters that I have thought were going to be a major force in rock and roll. And tonight the ladies Haim are here - Alana, Este and Danielle. And I have to say, because I love sharing stuff with the audience about other people that I love - we've been on the road for 27 shows and I play their record every day; I love it... "It gives me answers, it gives me advice, it wraps its wings around me and it tells me everything will be okay, and I have such respect for them, and I have such respect for who they are and how they play music and how they put their music together, and it just blows my mind. "So, girls, never stop. Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't stop. Keep doing what you're doing because you're important to this world." In October (14), Nicks invited Haim to her house for an interview with the New York Times' T Magazine, where they performed an impromptu rendition of Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon, and the legendary singer presented each sister with matching gold necklaces with moon pendants and declared them fellow "sisters of the moon". Following Saturday's concert, Haim took to Twitter.com to share a video of Nicks' dedication to them at the gig, and added the caption, "Was reunited with the original sister of the moon last night (we cried)."

[michelej1]

K-Earth 101 December 1, 2014 11:09 AM

http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2014/1...ase-dont-stop/

Fleetwood Mac At The Forum: Please “Don’t Stop”

By Bill Dudley/CBS Radio

Fleetwood Mac is a family. They fight, they marry, they divorce, they quit the band, then rejoin. They are just like real people. Fleetwood Mac is special to so many of us, not just because of their 40 years of great and varied musical styles, but because the group has always been a reflection of our own families too.

The three Brits and two Americans have woven an essential blend of enduring music for the world since 1975. Drummer Mick Fleetwood and Bassist John McVie originally formed the group in the late 1960s as a heavy rock and blues band. John’s then wife Christine joined in 1970, staying until 1998. After a 16 year absence, keyboardist Christine McVie has rejoined the group. Over the weekend, the reunited band brought their ‘On With The Show’ tour for the first two of three nights at The Forum in Los Angeles to sold out audiences.

I attended their concert last year, and enjoyed it very much, but something was missing. It was Christine. This is forgotten by many, but it was her soothing vocals that created the very first Fleetwood Mac hit “Over My Head” back in 1976. Christine’s “Say You love Me,” “You Make Lovin’ Fun,” “Everywhere” and “Little Lies” add a softer pop mix to the hard driving guitar and energetic vocals of Lindsey Buckingham on “Tusk,” “Second Hand News,” and “Big Love.”

Buckingham and ex-wife Stevie Nicks are clearly the upfront stars of Fleetwood Mac, as the group hung around for almost a decade without much success prior to them joining the band in 1975. However, it takes all five members to totally create the Fleetwood Mac sound, and they all know it. This is quite evident on the opening number “The Chain,” the only song written by all 5 members on their historic Rumours album. “Don’t Stop” and “Go Your Own Way” are also a strong group effort.

Stevie Nicks reclaimed her title as a true “Rock Goddess” with her stirring performances of “Gold Dust Woman,” “Dreams,” “Rhiannon,” “Sisters Of The Moon,” and “Landslide.” Leading into “Gypsy,” she also told a gripping story of being a broke teenager in San Francisco in the mid 1960s, and not being able to afford clothes at a store called The Velvet Underground. A few years later her first band was opening for Janis Joplin, Grace Slick and other greats of that era.

Make no mistake, Mick Fleetwood is still one of the very best drummers in the business. Mick pounds out the percussion during all of the show, staying somewhat low key by letting Stevie, Lindsey, and Christine have the spotlight, but wails on for a long drum solo on “World Turning” towards the end.

All five members of this diverse lineup are visibly emotional about the longevity and top notch performances they still have the energy to give, and are genuinely thankful for the opportunity to do so. This is not a bunch of “has been” artists grinding it out years after they have peaked. Fleetwood Mac is still a very evolving, creative band, and a damn good one.

Mick Fleetwood concludes every show by introducing John McVie as his “lifelong best friend.” Unlike many groups, it is very evident that they still love and respect each other very much. Even more remarkable as all of them are creating music with their ex husbands & wives etc. The well crafted background video adds a lot to the vibe of the show, and the sound of The Forum is excellent.

The Fleetwood Mac “On With The Show Tour” will be at The Forum again this Saturday night and at The Honda Center Sunday night. Two shows are also scheduled for San Diego this week. For more show details and tickets, visit www.fleetwoodmac.com.