Was Mirage an attempt to get back into the Rumours groove?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love Mirage and it's quirky little Everly Brothers/Beach Boys/50's influences.

I don't think it sounds anything like Rumours, and honestly Gypsy and Hold Me were really stand out as far as pop songs. I believe Hold Me was released first and I remember thinking... Who is singing that tune it's incredible. Of course when I realized it was FM, I got excited for the album release just as I did Tusk.

I was fascinated by the videos (back then we did not get to see their faces whenever we felt like it) there was a lot more mystery as to whom these people were. The Gypsy video was incredible at the time (still is). It (the video) just added to the sort of haunting mystery that was FM. And there was no youtube.. so you had to watch MTV for hours just to see it.

Mirage wasn't toured very much, so it did fall fast but it was a great 3-4 months for FM because they were plastered everywhere from HBO to MTV and the airwaves...

I love Mirage, too, and I'll never understand why it doesn't get much respect.

Hold Me was released first. I'll NEVER forget the first time I heard it, riding in the back of my friend's Honda Civic. Halfway through it, I realized who it was, and excited beyond belief! (I still have friends from high school, who contact me once in a while, and say, "I heard a FM song today, of course it made me think of you!")

~god I hate dating myself~ I used to go eat lunch everyday, and a video game arcade, because they showed MTV on a huge projection wall. I'm getting goosebumps now, thinking about how excited I was, when Hold Me, or Gypsy, came on!

Wasn't the Mirage Tour only 18 shows(plus the US Festival?)?