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[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

I love your recollections!! No, Mirage did not help at ALL in making them cool in 1982 lol. I actually grew up in a very wealthy, horribly snobby and materialistic town where i did not fit in *at all*. all that mattered was what you had, and what you wore, and how much gold and diamond jewelry you could wear on your arm or neck. There was a big group of scruffy 'dead head' kids who wore tie dye shirts a lot, trying to come off like hippies, when they actually had more money than god, give me a break.

but yeah, popular bands when i was in 9th grade (last year of jr high) were the stones, led zeppelin, asia, U2, duran duran, def leppard, van halen, journey, AC/DC , Ozzy etc. Fleetwood Mac was definitely not on the list, although they did get a bit of notoriety with the HBO concert, you're right.

funny 80's Mac memories that come to mind--

.... i had bought a Rumours songbook at Sam Goody, i think, with autographed pics of all 5 members and i used to try to perfect each member's autograph during boring classes. one time somebody was behind me watching and asked what I was doing lol, i whooshed the paper into my notebook and just said 'nothing!'. but to this day I can forge all their signatures beautifully and can *always* tell a fake one when folks try to sell stuff on ebay or whatever. i had that sh*t down.

...my best friend at 13/14 was rich and had a beach house in lavalette, so in the summer i'd go spend weekends with her there. at night her dad would hand us each a roll of quarters and send us off to entertain ourselves on the boardwalk in seaside heights. one night at the wheel I won and i was bold enough to choose the plaque of stevie they had as an option for a prize, i still have that damn thing hanging in my mac closet upstairs. i only did it because this friend knew my mac obsession, she knew i was secretly married to lindsey buckingham, and she was married to Adam Ant briefly before becoming obsessed with mick jagger lmao. my marriage to LB lasted much longer ! and we had several children lmao. i could tell you their names and birthdays but i'll spare you.

....I wasn't bused to school, i had to walk nearly 2 miles to school and then back home, so i'd try to practice their accents, how they said certain things in interviews. or I'd memorize mac radio interviews i'd recorded on tape, or the ones from the tusk documentary that i watched endlessly. i can still recite many of those interviews word for word, it's quite impressive.

....for xmas in 9th grade, my parents gave me a cute grey FM shirt with a little penguin on it, but i was too embarrassed to ever wear it-- however on the last day of school i said screw it and put it on, a couple people were like, 'ew!' but i didn't care because it was the last day of school. i have this old pic of me standing by the wall of my jr high wearing that cool shirt on the last day of 9th grade and hoping by the time 10th grade started in the HS, everybody would have forgotten it. I still own that shirt, too. and it's so funny because i sub in my town's HS and you should see all the kids that come in wearing Rumours tee shirts!! it's nuts! i see prob a couple every week. and they think it's cool ! i'm secretly jealous of them

--Lis

OMG we grew up like the Outsiders each on the other side of the tracks. Apparently I'm the greaser and you are the Sociach.

In 7th grade we had the coolest music teacher who was into rock. We got to design our own album covers for a song we picked. I did Whiskey Bar by the Doors. She would invite kids to bring in rock posters she hung over the walls. She had a Stevie Nicks poster promoting the White Winged Dove concert on HBO. I was in this class when the Mac's HBO concert was in full tilt. People dont understand what a big deal HBO was back in the day. There is nothing to compare it to today. My dad was really into TV and when we got cable and HBO in 1977 we were the envy of the neighborhood. Watching a concert on HBO was a huge deal. Few could understand that today. Its what we talked about on the school bus and conversations people had over the water cooler. People talked about and raved about Mick's zany faces with beer poured down his throat and Stevie's witch dance for Sisters. See the Mac was a different band on stage people got to see.