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12-19-2009, 03:03 PM
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Another video interview with Mick. He says that if he could have predicted, he would think that they would still be playing music, but had no idea that they'd still perform at this level to this number of people after all these years.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Full-intervie...6/Default.aspx Sat, 19 Dec 2009 8:27p.m. Drummer and band-founder of Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood, talks with David Farrier about the band's beginnings, trials and struggles, Rhys Darby and the two shows in New Plymouth. 3 News 
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#167
12-19-2009, 03:10 PM
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^Mick said that Time was a really, really good band with the wrong name. He said that line up never should have been called Fleetwood Mac. He said they'd always kept the name in the past, but he should have realized that they couldn't continue to do what they'd always done, given the band's status.
Mick compares himself to Marlon Brando on the Island of Dr. Moreau where Brando went crazy and started bedding monkeys. Mick said he didn't get as far as sleeping with monkeyes, unless there were some nights that he's forgetting. But he says that things were so out of hand that he understands why Lindsey left, but at the time they were devastated by his departure and angry. Mick mentions that the fans can't wait another 30 years for FM to come back, since he'll be in his nineties, but he says he's coming back on his own with his blue bands in 2 months. He says Rick Vito came when Lindsey was gone and he can't believe that Lindsey might have been gone for 14 years, because now it feels like Lindsey was never gone. He says it feels like a time warp and they're working harder than they did in their thirties. He says that he has learned to accept that he's just a drummer and doesn't try to wear too many hats and he wonders if he has studied being a percussionist enough. That's why he's concentrating more on playing with his blues band now. He and Lindsey are trying really hard to throw the beads (beans?) so that a new album will happen. He hopes it will happen in less than 2 years, but they need a rest. "It's hard to have a full blown conversation with Stevie" about a new album after they've been on the road all of these months. So, they're hoping to do it after everyone has had a rest. Michele Last edited by michelej1; 12-19-2009 at 03:19 PM..
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#168
12-19-2009, 03:57 PM
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 . How embarrassing would you be, interrupting Mick Fleetwood in an interview. lol. Also the end of the video clip stopped a bit short, before I could see Mick's reaction to 'The Flight of the Concords' video clip on the cell phone. 
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#169
12-19-2009, 04:25 PM
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Mick watched the video and he said that he has now depleted his senior moment and he remembers knowing about Flight of the Concords, but he didn't see that episode. The clip talked about a Rumours foursome and Mick said that's getting back to the monkeys isn't it? He laughed about monkeys and foursomes. He said back then they were naive enough to talk about their personal lives and they didn't mind. The Concords joke brought back all those memories. Their only complaint back then was that people talked about their personal saga more than the music. From 3 News [this quotes Mick's reaction to the clip, in part]: http://www.3news.co.nz/Fleetwood-Mac...ticleID=134806 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 6:14p.m. By David Farrier Fleetwood Mac are on of music’s iconic bands. Formed in 1967 in London, they have seen numerous line-up changes – beginning as a straight Blues band, they morphed into a more pop-oriented group. The man behind the helm is Mick Fleetwood. It has been 29 years since Fleetwood Mac played in New Zealand; their drummer and namesake now an impressive 63-years-old. Fast forward nearly three decades, and Mick Fleetwood is glad to be back, aware that after all the drugs and inter-band relationships between Lindsay, Mick and Stevie – they are lucky to be around. “Yeah, the passion or desperation, or the fear factor,” says Mick about what has kept the group together. “No, it’s the first.” Passion, that is, allowing them to make music for 42 years. “Coming back here is a real line in the sand in terms of, you know, we will wake up sweating. Those dreams, sit up, oh my God, we didn't do that did we?” They probably did, but regardless, it all resulted in great music. Their songs and rock and roll lifestyle are now ingrained in pop culture. The first ever episode of Flight of the Conchords even contained a Fleetwood Mac joke; Rhys Darby keen to interrupt our interview and get Fleetwood's take on it. “When I did the gag about you guys and the album ‘Rumors’, just going back, Brett said ‘Oh, do they have foursomes?’ and I said, ‘No, it’s just rumours’, did you appreciate the gag?” Darby asked. Mick did appreciate it. “We have a humour about the fact that our lives were incredibly public. Really we were stupid enough to do interviews like this and talk openly about who we are and what we are,” he said. It is that openness, combined with the bands musical talents that have led to 100 million in record sales, and now, 42 years in, two shows in New Plymouth. Michele Last edited by michelej1; 12-19-2009 at 04:28 PM..
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#170
12-19-2009, 04:26 PM
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TV NZ
http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news...ymouth-3315357 Fleetwood Mac hit New Plymouth Published: 7:16PM Saturday December 19, 2009 Fleetwood Mac took to the stage at New Plymouth's bowl of Brooklands on Saturday night in the first of their two sold-out concerts. At 62 Mick Fleetwood is savouring the finer things in life such as the adoration of 17,000 fans watching him perform. "This is a real book marker in Fleetwood Mac's history, coming back here. I hope we make it through the gig," he said before the concert. The last time Fleetwood and his band were welcomed for a Kiwi concert was back in 1980 but the band is still playing music and still touring the world. Fleetwood has now spent over 40 years in showbiz as it was 1967 when he first drummed for the original Fleetwood Mac. As they have wracked up their hits the group has battled through arguments, drug addiction and about six or seven different guitarists. Through it all Fleetwood Mac still sells. Tickets to the New Plymouth concerts were sold out and the best of album has spent weeks in the New Zealand charts. With younger generations of fans these days Fleetwood says the band's next Kiwi concert will not be such a long wait.
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12-19-2009, 05:00 PM
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Fleetwood Mac belt out the hits in New Plymouth
By MATT RILKOFF - Taranaki Daily News Last updated 10:28 20/12/2009 Just as the rain kept falling the hits kept coming at Fleetwood Mac's sold out New Plymouth concert last night. Unashamedly playing their most popular songs the supergroup had taken to the stage 15 minutes earlier than scheduled and managed to avoid the rain for that long. The heaving crowd of nearly 18,000, one of the biggest ever seen at the Bowl of Brooklands venue, took the weather in their stride and let out a roar of approval to the opening lines of The Chain, the second song of the set. "Well it's taken us a long time to get back here. I think it's been 25 years,'' said singer Stevie Nicks. "That being said I think we should just get this party started." But it already was. The hits Rhiannon, Landslide and Go Your Own Way kept adding to a thrilling momentum that threatened to derail in a tangled mess of middle-aged dance moves by the time Don't Stop was played as the second encore song. The gig, which was the first of only two New Zealand concerts and the last in a 10 month world tour, pulled in people from all over the country. More than half of the crowd in New Plymouth for the night had travelled there from outside of Taranaki. Accommodation in the city had been booked out for months and despite hundreds of locals putting up visitors in their spare rooms and garages, many concert goers spent the night in their cars. Others like Andy Blair of Taupo had no other choice but to drive home when the show finished at 10.30pm last night. "It was worth it though,'' she said. Drummer and founding member Mick Fleetwood gave the fans two pieces of advice to take away. "Take care of yourself and more importantly take care and be kind to those around you in this crazy world we live in. We love you and remember the Mac will be back'' he said. http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...n-New-Plymouth
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12-19-2009, 06:59 PM
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12-19-2009, 07:02 PM
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^ Pretty pic!
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12-19-2009, 07:55 PM
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12-19-2009, 09:24 PM
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Just got back from the show! It was INSANE! SO AWESOME. The atmosphere was overwhelming! The venue was beautiful, and the band was playing better than ever!!!
Im so tired so i will do a review later, and post some pictures even though they're crap  It was great though! Theres something amazing about 19,000 people singing together in the rain "YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY!!!" Ahh! shivers!
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12-19-2009, 10:22 PM
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12-19-2009, 10:30 PM
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12-19-2009, 11:02 PM
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Trying to upload my vids now!
Its seems quite far, but it shows you the size of the crowd! and the festival feel of it all  Dreams
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