AZ show tonight!! Reviews, Photos

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by ChristyL17

In the pic where Lindsey is kissing Stevie on the cheek, looks like she is holding some roses. Did someone from the audience give those to her?

Yes, someone in the audience gave her a bunch of roses and then Lindsey handed them to her. He also took three smaller roses from the audience and set them on the drum kit for her. Then, at the end when they took their bows, Mick took one of the smaller set of roses from the drum kit and presented them to her with a serenading gesture. So, she was actually holding two different fans' roses at different times.

Michele

[Enchanted_Stevi]

Originally Posted by michelej1

These pictures are TOO CUTE!

[njova]

^ That last picture looks like their about to kiss.

[Enchanted_Stevi]

Originally Posted by njova

^ That last picture looks like their about to kiss.

yea it does...lol

[louielouie2000]

I'm totally LOVING these pictures! Everyone looks so happy, content, and genuinely having a good time! Stevie's and Lindsey's outfits are fantastic too... I especially love Lindsey's red shirt... very modern and chic .

[GypsyJas]

Originally Posted by michelej1

As he outlines the Mac’s convoluted and complex history, Lindsey observes they are still “a work in progress.”

OMG, I think I would go insane if I had to endure that speech one more time...

Originally Posted by michelej1

After Go Insane ends, Lindsey goes to the drum kit and crouches on the floor in a near fetal position. As John gazes at him nonplused, a Toby Keith song runs through my head:

I sobered up and I got to thinking:
Girl, you ain’t much fun, since
I quit drinking.

I can so picture the look on John's face! Priceless!

He does do some goofy sh*t, I remember at the Philly show during "Oh Well" he had his hand up during the line "Stick by me and I'll be your guiding hand" and he pretended like he was offended by his own body odor. Nice.

Originally Posted by michelej1

People in the audience were asking Lindsey for his guitar pics. He handed them out, but he was holding one in his mouth before giving it to a fan. Yuck!

Wow, ya never know...it has rock star Lindsey Buckingham DNA on it...I'm sure there's more than a few obsessed fans who would love to snag that on ebay...lol

Originally Posted by michelej1

Pattie, I liked it too. I apologize for the shippiness, but what can you do??

Michele

Thank you so much for the great pics...but alas, this one takes he prize...your timing was so perfect! A second later and you would have missed the shot.

Thanks for your awesome review, glad you had a great show! I wish I could go to more shows...but I can only live vicariously through all of you lucky Ledgies! Thanks for the updates

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by GypsyJas

He does do some goofy sh*t, I remember at the Philly show during "Oh Well" he had his hand up during the line "Stick by me and I'll be your guiding hand" and he pretended like he was offended by his own body odor. Nice.

Yes. Thank heaven he stopped doing that, but he still sticks his leg out and looks at it, pretends to be surprised by his own hand, looks up questioningly to "talk to God" and generally pantomines like a Robin Williams wanna be.

This time when Mick came to him with his wooden balls twirling, John made his fingers into pretend scissors and gestured to snip the balls off.

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I'm totally LOVING these pictures! Everyone looks so happy, content, and genuinely having a good time! Stevie's and Lindsey's outfits are fantastic too... I especially love Lindsey's red shirt... very modern and chic .

I think Lindsey's shirt really looks fantastic with some of the lighting backdrops. There's one that's the same color of the shirt, actually. When I was enjoying Sara, I thought about you. I remembered how you compared her performance of it for SYW to the Soundstage, where you thought she seemed to enjoy it. To me, she seems to be enjoying it now, not trudging through or wading a sea of bad memories. These last two nights, especially with the "I would go anywhere, anywhere, because I care . . ." It seems like a love song, rather than a lost love song the way they've been doing it. She not only seems to be singing it with energy and spirit, but commitment.

Michele

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelej1

More photos

What I love about this photo Michele is how the fan's arm in the audience looks like it could be a cape on Stevie.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by vivfox

What I love about this photo Michele is how the fan's arm in the audience looks like it could be a cape on Stevie.

Yes, it does arc that way.

I'm just lucky they didn't move it in time to block my shot completely, which is what usually happens. I'm looking at the stage and see a nice photo when I click and then when I look at the camera to see what I actually got, it's rubbish.

Michele

[MacMan]

AZCentral

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers in Fleetwood Mac showed Sunday night that they have emerged from a five-year performance hiatus with their musical mystery and superstar aura intact.

In a homecoming show for singer Stevie Nicks, the band served up an ambitious set of classics that ran nearly 2 1/2 hours at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale.

Its four members, augmented on their Unleashed tour by three singers and two other musicians, may be in their early '60s, but there was plenty of energy onstage from the bouncing opening chords of 1975's “Monday Morning.”

Guitarist-singer Lindsey Buckingam seemed to be the most supercharged Sunday, enthusiastically diving into the vocals of that tune, which like much of Mac's catalog, talks about the double sword of romance.

The Phoenix-born Nicks exuded a regal, dignified presence onstage, suitable for her status as one of rock's most magnetic and complex performers. But she clearly was happy to be back in Arizona, where she owned a home for 25 years.

“We have family here tonight (including her sister-in-law, Lori Nicks, on vocals). I am thrilled to be here,” Nicks said early on. “It is my home, you know.”

Nicks later dedicated a poignant version of “Landslide” to her mother, Barbara, a longtime Valley resident.

The arena crowd, a few thousand seats short of a sellout, responded to the between-song banter Nicks and Buckingham with loud love.

Though Mac is viewed as a baby-boomer act, a healthy number of teens and 20-somethings were in the Glendale crowd, perhaps drawn by the group's decision to spotlight its biggest hits on this tour.

With no new album to promote, Buckingham told the audience, “This time, we said, ‘Let's just go out there and have fun.'”

The set which included such mega-hits as “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” “Sara” and “Don't Stop,” left longtime fans like Pamela Frady, 54, of Fountain Hills satisfied.

“All the old songs were really good,” she said.

Frady's husband, David, 54, who has seen the band through the years, added, “They have done nothing but improve phenomenally.”

Buckingham remained as fiery as ever when he attacked his guitar on “Big Love” and the show-stopping “I'm So Afraid.”

He mentioned “the power and importance of change” before starting the rapid-fire plucking of his acoustic guitar on 1987's “Big Love.”

When he was done, he looked up at the crowd, smiled and touched his heart.

As 1975's “I'm So Afraid” built to a raging climax, Buckingham ran around the stage, pausing several times to pound on the fret board of his guitar, within inches of the outstretched arms of fans.

Nicks' vocals were smooth and strong on the aforementioned hits, as well as “Dreams,” “Gypsy,” “Gold Dust Woman” and the show-ending “Silver Springs.”

The keys of some songs appeared to have been lowered, and Nicks long ago altered her treatment of some lyrics to avoid high notes, but her rich voice remains of of rock's most distinctive.

Nicks, who reportedly has lost 60 pounds, looked as mystical as ever, dressed early on in a dark dress with material cascading from its sleeves and tall boots. She had some subtle costume changes during the show, including various shawls that added drama to her trademark move — extending her arms and twirling (done more slowly than in the '70s and '80s).

During the always-powerful “Gold Dust Woman,” Nicks turned her back to the crowd and stretched out her arms, silhouetted by an onstage spotlight. As the haunting song wound down, Nicks' dance moves were eerie and ghostlike, and the crowd responded with a roar.

Drummer Mick Fleetwood, who co-founded the band with bassist and fellow Brit John McVie in 1967, got into the act with a spirited drum solo during the first encore song, “World Turning.”

Wearing a microphone and looking like rock's crazy, old uncle with his gray beard and bulging eyeballs, Fleetwood cracked up the crowd with yelps and hoots.

McVie, whom Fleetwood introduced as “the backbone of Fleetwood Mac,” was his usual low-key self on stage, decked out in a cap and dark vest.

Throughout the set, Fleetwood waved his approval at Buckingham's masterful guitar work and blew kisses at Nicks.

Nicks and Buckingam, who were a couple before and during their early days in Fleetwood Mac (they joined in 1974), came out for the first encore holding hands, and Buckingham gently kissed the singer's hand.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Nicks and Buckingam, who were a couple before and during their early days in Fleetwood Mac (they joined in 1974), came out for the first encore holding hands, and Buckingham gently kissed the singer's hand.

Here's a picture of that hand smooch. I have some pictures of Stevie holding the roses someone asked about. I'll do thumbnails of those and others.

[michelej1]

Thumbnails.

[Nico]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Here's a picture of that hand smooch. I have some pictures of Stevie holding the roses someone asked about. I'll do thumbnails of those and others.

Wow. Interesting pic. It looks like he's wiping his mouth on her hand, or trying to eat/suck on it. In any case, he's enjoying the hand in this picture as far as I'm concerned, and she doesn't seem to mind.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Nico

Wow. Interesting pic. It looks like he's wiping his mouth on her hand, or trying to eat/suck on it. In any case, he's enjoying the hand in this picture as far as I'm concerned, and she doesn't seem to mind.

Since she had a glove on and was amply protected, she probably decided to let him have at it.

Your note reminded me of this dramatic X-Files episode where Mulder is sobbing at Scully's deathbed. His face is against her hand and he is crying silently, with his mouth open. Viewers declared that it looked like he was chewing and eating her arm! The idea rather diminished the scene's emotional impact. Michele

[ChristyL17]

Michelle, you're awesome!! Love the one where Lindsey is kissing her hand and Stevie holding the flowers, you got some great moments!!!