The New Album Thread - Page 74

nicepace · #**1096** 12-31-2014, 06:20 PM

It wouldn't have to be this melodramatic one last album if they would just make albums the way normal musicians do. Book some studio space for a month, hire a producer and a sound engineer and whatever other technical staff they need, and maybe bring in a couple of backing musicians, and go at it, accepting that what they come up with is going to be good enough.

That was the way they did this process in the Bob Welch years, and look at the five albums they made during that span of time (which was what? four years?). Fan (and critical) opinions vary on those five albums, but there is no denying they were five albums that accurately reflected the band at the time they were made, and they were all good, solid efforts. (At least one was a masterpiece.) Why has superstardom made it so difficult to just bang out some songs and make an album?

pattyfan · #**1097** 12-31-2014, 06:32 PM

Hmm, I for one think...

Awesome, a new CD

I'm sure there will be at least a few songs that I like. And maybe it will be great

Lindsey is saying it's a last CD now, but things might change. Goodness knows they have just in last year.

Stevie will definitely be on it.

Cool. More Mac stuff in the upcoming year

Kevin

Macfan4life · #**1098** 12-31-2014, 10:17 PM

Enjoy this while it lasts
http://www.noise11.com/news/lindsay-...d-mac-20150101

SteveMacD · #**1099** 12-31-2014, 11:11 PM

"He did admit, though, that there’s still a year or two left and that he would be putting off his solo activities until things wrap up."

He made that comment this month, which tells me it will be more like 2016-17. I can't see them not doing a 2017 50th Anniversary tour, or at least a series of shows. To be so close to that milestone and not celebrate it would be stupid.

michelej1 · #**1100** 12-31-2014, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I can't see them not doing a 2017 50th Anniversary tour, or at least a series of shows. To be so close to that milestone and not celebrate it would be stupid.

But they're pretty stupid. They have let many marketing opportunities slip through their fingers.

Michele

Macfanforever · #**1101** 12-31-2014, 11:48 PM

I think they will go on forever.God welling. Remember when the Eagles quit a couple times.

michelej1 · #**1102** 01-01-2015, 01:09 AM

Anti Music 12/31/2014

http://www.teamrock.com/news/2014-12...ap-up-last-act

(TeamRock Radio) Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham says that the band's reunion tour and upcoming album with Christine McVie will be a "beautiful way to wrap up this last act."
She officially rejoined this year after retiring in 1998, and they're currently touring the world under the banner On With The Show. But Buckingham, who admits to initial doubts over her return, has given his strongest hint yet that Mac are considering winding down - and he's putting solo plans on hold until the completion of their first record since 2003.

He tells PBS: "If you want to think of this as the beginning of the last act, that's how it feels. Christine really fills the gap of the polarity that might exist otherwise, and helps things breathe.

"We got this call from Christine saying she wanted to come back. We were in the middle of touring, the four of us. My initial reaction was, 'Okay - we have to take this with baby steps.' The want to return doesn't mean you can repeat history; it doesn't mean all the tools, all the reference points are still there for it all to work."

But after McVie made a guest appearance in London in 2012, his concerns evaporated. “She gave me a bunch of stuff to take home. I worked on it, came back and she loved it. We went into the studio and came out with the best songs we’ve co-written in years.

“Christine was always a working musician – she always had a great discipline and was very grounded in her craft. The confidence was high that it would come back. But it was daunting in the early days.”

Buckingham has only recently been able to evaluate the impact Mac have left on the music world. “When you’re commercially successful it doesn’t mean it’s going to hold up,” he says. “One of the things we’re finding now is you’ve got the people who were listening to Rumours and Tusk in the day, and you’ve also got young artists who seem to have picked up the mantle of what we were doing, and it makes sense to them.

“It’s just in the last few years we’ve realised that we did make a difference. It’s a nice place to be.”

He adds: “We’re going to continue working on the new album, and the solo stuff will take a back seat for a year or two. A beautiful way to wrap up this last act.”

secret love · #**1103** 01-01-2015, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfanforever

I think they will go on forever.God welling. Remember when the Eagles quit a couple times.

The Eagles were finished by 1980, weren't they? Then back again in 1994 for Hell Freezes Over, presumably so called because of how unlikely they all thought a reunion tour was!

Their last studio album was Long Road Out of Eden in 2007, a double album. Then History of the Eagles Tour more recently.

They are a great band, much more capable of getting down to business without all the in fighting Fleetwood Mac has enjoyed, or tolerated.

Macfan4life · #**1104** 01-01-2015, 11:14 AM

I don't think you can compare Fleetwood Mac with the Eagles or other bands when it comes to reunions. The Hell Freezes over tour was in 1994 and Eagle menbers were in their late 40's and early 50's.
Christine is already 71. After this tour and Lindsey's solo stuff is at least 3 years away. Will we see them again? I think there is a good chance. Lindsey, Stevie and Mick and John have really been going strong this past decade. After this tour and album it was going to happen anyway with or without Chris.......a long break.

It will take them a good 3 years to count all the money from this tour anyway

One thing is certain. I doubt we will ever see such an extensive tour again. So go see them now. If they ever do tour again someday, I bet it would be years from now and a very scaled back version.

Oh if Lindsey is gone for good, they can always ask Billy and Rick to come back. Is anyone up for Stand on the Rock live again?

FuzzyPlum · #**1105** 01-01-2015, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I don't think you can compare Fleetwood Mac with the Eagles or other bands when it comes to reunions. The Hell Freezes over tour was in 1994 and Eagle menbers were in their late 40's and early 50's.
Christine is already 71. After this tour and Lindsey's solo stuff is at least 3 years away. Will we see them again? I think there is a good chance. Lindsey, Stevie and Mick and John have really been going strong this past decade. After this tour and album it was going to happen anyway with or without Chris.......a long break.

It will take them a good 3 years to count all the money from this tour anyway

One thing is certain. I doubt we will ever see such an extensive tour again. So go see them now. If they ever do tour again someday, I bet it would be years from now and a very scaled back version.

Oh if Lindsey is gone for good, they can always ask Billy and Rick to come back. Is anyone up for Stand on the Rock live again?

If they do tour on the back of a 'final album' then imagine the cost of the tickets- especially if they scale back on the number of dates. Best to start saving now.

I wonder where 'the end' would leave Christine- I presume she will return to her quiet life in rural England- or will she settle in the States? Indeed, I wonder where she spent Christmas???

michelej1 · #**1106** 01-01-2015, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

I wonder where 'the end' would leave Christine- I presume she will return to her quiet life in rural England- or will she settle in the States? Indeed, I wonder where she spent Christmas???

Well, her dogs are over. Assuming she didn't bring them to the US, I imagine she spent Christmas in England.

Michele

Macfanforever · #**1107** 01-02-2015, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by secret love

The Eagles were finished by 1980, weren't they? Then back again in 1994 for Hell Freezes Over, presumably so called because of how unlikely they all thought a reunion tour was!

Their last studio album was Long Road Out of Eden in 2007, a double album. Then History of the Eagles Tour more recently.

They are a great band, much more capable of getting down to business without all the in fighting Fleetwood Mac has enjoyed, or tolerated.

Yes without the bickering .I can see them going on too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I don't think you can compare Fleetwood Mac with the Eagles or other bands when it comes to reunions. The Hell Freezes over tour was in 1994 and Eagle menbers were in their late 40's and early 50's.
Christine is already 71. After this tour and Lindsey's solo stuff is at least 3 years away. Will we see them again? I think there is a good chance. Lindsey, Stevie and Mick and John have really been going strong this past decade. After this tour and album it was going to happen anyway with or without Chris.......a long break.

It will take them a good 3 years to count all the money from this tour anyway

One thing is certain. I doubt we will ever see such an extensive tour again. So go see them now. If they ever do tour again someday, I bet it would be years from now and a very scaled back version.

Oh if Lindsey is gone for good, they can always ask Billy and Rick to come back. Is anyone up for Stand on the Rock live again?

Yea The Mac could pop out and do those quicky tours that last about a month.They probably do a casino tour like Stevie does since they already collected the bucks from this tour.

FuzzyPlum · #**1108** 01-02-2015, 07:40 AM

Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...02-12gyxf.html

Optimistic observers are preparing for the first (album) in 28 years by Fleetwood Mac's classic '70s line-up, although Lindsay Buckingham says he and Christine McVie are yet to hear any of Stevie Nicks' songs

I haven't heard this before. I wonder if this genuinely is quoted from Lindsey- if it is that then might it suggest there actually are some potential Stevie Nicks songs? (even though LB/CM haven't heard them?).

BlueDenimLamp · #**1109** 01-02-2015, 10:22 AM

The Guardian

MikeVielhaber · #**1110** 01-02-2015, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...02-12gyxf.html

Optimistic observers are preparing for the first (album) in 28 years by Fleetwood Mac's classic '70s line-up, although Lindsay Buckingham says he and Christine McVie are yet to hear any of Stevie Nicks' songs

I haven't heard this before. I wonder if this genuinely is quoted from Lindsey- if it is that then might it suggest there actually are some potential Stevie Nicks songs? (even though LB/CM haven't heard them?).

I think it's just the fact that Stevie Nicks, as one third of the songwriters, has a responsibility to bring in songs and she has yet to do that.