May 23 Fleetwood mac Anaheim Honda Center

[ShangriLaTroubl]

Originally Posted by SNLB

I thought I was the only one to notice. I'd look up at the screen many times and she had a streak of brown eye shadow across her eyelid that made her look pretty bad, especially when she had her eyes partly closed.

I've thought about that before. I think she thinks it looks "dramatic" or something, but I've always felt like it looked like she has 2 eyebrows on each eye. I think it would work for wide open eyes, but not for half closed eyes.

[LiamMcConville]

Hey Michele,

Seeing as you've been to other shows, how do you think last nights "Storms" compares? From the recordings I've heard, I thought it was the best yet. Agree?

[carol7lynn]

There is a nice pix of Stevie in today's Calendar section: The Guide (Page E13) of the L.A. Times. The Times also has a review of last night's concert online at this link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...da-center.html

Carol-Lynn
SoCalGalNow

[Steviefan49]

Thanks Michele for the awesome review and pictures!!! WOW Talk about getting chills !! It sounded like they were on FIRE!! WOOOHOOOO

[Livia]

He's a ham, no doubt about that. People should start throwing cloves and pineapples.

Great review!

Yes, Stevie, your eye make-up IS dark and careless...please blend that dark shadow in the crease...better yet, go back to the Cover Girl eyeshadow trio you were using in the Mirage days.

[Wildheart82]

Ha ha thats my head in the corner of the 2nd to the last pictures next to the hands holding the camera (those aren't mine). Too funny

Originally Posted by SNLB

After reading reviews of how Stevie wasn't looking and sounding too good and about cancelled/postponed shows, I was hoping everything would be right for Anaheim. It was! I thought Stevie not only sounded wounderful, but looked gorgeous and Lindsey was a madman up there! I'm So Afraid was a show-stopper (as always!) and had everyone on their feet after Lindsey's blistering guitar solo. I absolutely loved Say You Love Me and I enjoyed Storms much more than I expected. Stevie was totally into her songs and Silver Springs was awesome! "You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you". Oooh, I can still see her face in my mind as she was singing this last night. People were leaving before World Turning even got going and a guy sitting behind me yells "Losers! What are you leaving for? Go home, you losers. It's not even over!". I had to laugh at that. I got a kick out of Lindsey and Stevie walking onto the stage hand in hand for the encore, but it was Brett and Neale who followed arm in arm to their spot on the stage. That was funny. I think if John McVie could do his bass parts from back stage, he would. He seems happy to just stay where he is least seen. Great to see The Mac again, even if it was without Christine (but it would be awesome to see them again WITH her!). I also wish they would throw these four into a room and take some new photos. My friend and I, who both celebrate our birthdays in May, exchanged gifts last night before the concert. She wanted to buy me a Fleetwood Mac shirt, but I told her I didn't want a shirt with 6-7 year old photos on it. I did get the keychain though. Same photo but at least it says "Unleashed 2009 Tour" so I won't mix it up with Say You Will's tour merch. It was another one for the books, as I like to say! Thanks to John, Mick, Stevie, and Lindsey for putting on one hell of show.

Here are a few of my pics:








Awwww (but this point, I'd taken so much video, my batteries were running low!)

[camchristo]

Originally Posted by michelej1

There's a 2 ticket minimum though, so it's not less money. I couldn't have purchased 2 platinum tickets for $700. ILAA lets you buy a single.

I did buy platinum for the opening night show and I sold the 2nd ticket for almost what I paid for it. But ticket exchange isn't letting you sell for these west coast shows. I could try to sell on Ebay or something, but it's too late now. I've got all my tickets, except for New Orleans.

Michele

Stubsearch sells singles. For any tickets that they have in quantities over 6, they offer singles.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by camchristo

Stubsearch sells singles. For any tickets that they have in quantities over 6, they offer singles.

Yes and I've been lucky sometimes when you get closer to the date. Sometimes you'll see an odd number of tickets available and you can snag a single. I just didn't see anything good come up for the California shows, although I really tried to hold out.

Liam, I definitely thought the Storms was better than any I'd seen live, but I know there are lots of videos of it on You Tube and I don't know how it compared to those.

Arlene, it was a great come back for them, that's for sure. If people counted the band out after 3 cancelled shows, they counted wrong!

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Yes. In Vancouver, I thought he wasn't going to stop talking... I think it may have been for Big Love.. A little long I thought..

When John and Stevie are talking as LB speaks, I just wonder what they are saying to each other. Is it stuff like, "Is he ever going to shut up?" Or perhaps it is more benign like, "We've had some great audiences this week . . . I almost tripped over you . . . How's Molly liking school this year?"

Michele

[michelej1]

Carol-Lynn,

Thanks for that L. A. Times review. I wouldn't necessarily call Lindsey's chest muscular!

May 24, 2009
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...da-center.html

Fleetwood Mac, the American-British powerhouse behind one of the bestselling albums of all time, is rock's greatest example of the good gained from ignoring every bit of sage advice known to humans about love and relationships.

But thank the dysfunctional heavens they did: The Mac has emerged some 30 years later as a weather-worn but still gripping outfit, currently touring in its most potent configuration, minus the singer and songwriter of some of its most durable hits, the retired Christine McVie.

For those needing a refresher course in popular rock scandal, the band forged ahead for 1977's blockbuster "Rumours" despite breakups between front couple Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and founding member John McVie and wife Christine.

It's all ancient history now -- or is it? This latest greatest hits trek, titled "The Unleashed Tour," inevitably finds the band revisiting "Rumours" and its more challenging follow-up, the sprawling and fantastic "Tusk," but instead of shying away from its fractious history, Fleetwood Mac has woven it into the concert repertoire.

In one of his song introductions at Anaheim's Honda Center on Saturday night, Buckingham explained that the first "Rumours" tune they recorded revealed his emotional temperature at that moment -- anger, bitterness, even a little humor, but "we had to reconcile . . . at least for a short time." The band then launched into one of its strongest performances of the night, a thrillingly muscular "Second Hand News."

Buckingham often spoke with the measured tones of someone who's been in therapy. Other times, he would yowl, stamp his feet or thump his lean-muscled chest before pointing reverently at the crowd. He also dropped a big hint about the Mac's future: "There's no new album to promote yet" (his emphasis).

Nicks occupied her side of the stage with an entirely different energy. Clutching a tambourine festooned with strips of fabric, her performance was sometimes too sedate, though not without breakthrough moments of fiery engagement.

Maybe the gypsy queen was conserving her energy for the lengthy show (total time was 2 hours and 40 minutes), but her early performance of "Dreams" only spottily struck on the song's slumberous wisdom. Nicks' range has narrowed over the years, but by the middle of the set her voice seemed warmed up, her presence more keen.

For "Gold Dust Woman," Nicks, wrapped in one of her many luminous shawls of the night, reveled in her favorite role of stage-bound shaman, her brown eyes finally blazing as she gave her most convincing vocal performance of the night. McVie and Fleetwood provided stellar rhythm support as she closed the song in a classic Nicks position -- draped arms out, back to the crowd, light pouring in around her figure.

Despite her listlessness at times, Nicks is no less a treasure to behold, the rare rock 'n' roll frontwoman who's still inspiring to legions of young bands. Her sense of mystique provides an important counterpoint to Buckingham, who -- blistering guitar solos and all -- is familiarly situated in the rock god vein.

But when Buckingham and Nicks hugged at the end of "Sara," an awkward but nevertheless moving gesture, they proved they have the ability to surprise the audience as well as each other. And so new depths of Fleetwood Mac will surely be plumbed for lovers everywhere, old and new.

--Margaret Wappler

[ShangriLaTroubl]

Love how Stevie gets into it at the end of Second Hand News in Anaheim, she is doing some great air drums and a nice kick as the song finishes off. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deh8kqfb_oI

[ChristyL17]

Originally Posted by SNLB

My friend got the keychain online. She had also ordered the shirt in hopes of getting it in time for last night's show, but they told her it was on backorder. She told me what she had done and would buy me something else at the show if I wanted something. So, she was able to cancel the shirt, but the keychain had been sent. Try the website. Maybe your mom can get the keychain from there.

I'm an idiot, it wasn't a keychain she wanted, she wanted a magnet. I remember us looking and we were surprised they didn't have one. I double checked the site and they didn't either.

[carol7lynn]

LOL! Michele. Lindsey's nips were hard though we did notice that. Anyway, I agree muscular it's not.

Carol-Lynn
SoCalGal

[michelej1]

My goodness Alex, it looks like Lindsey and Stevie are looking directly at you. Stevie is giving a big grin into the camera and Lindsey is making one of his patented silly faces. Those are great photos.

Michele

[ChristyL17]

Love these pics! I'm so glad I get to live vicariously through everyone. The concert I went to in Fort Lauderdale already seems like eons ago.