2014 Reunion Articles

[SadAngel86]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

He doesn't need tips. He could teach Derek a tip or two, to be frank...



He's a moody goddamn genius, okay? STRIKE A POSE! No need for smiling.

(love the new photo, btw, especially how SnL and John/Chris are VERY matchy matchy on their respective sides of the photo)

I love this photo and pose!

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainme...joins-the-band


After 15 years, Christine McVie is to rejoin Fleetwood Mac 'where she belongs'
By: Mick Fleetwood
Published: Sun, April 6, 2014

FIFTEEN years ago I was on a flight, going to a gig somewhere, when my dear friend and virtual sister, Christine McVie, presented me with a very special silver key. A memento, given as a token of our long friendship, that key doubled as a sentimental talisman, meant to keep me safe on all my travels.

The other day, I found the key, tucked away in the fold of my passport case. Remarkably, it had been there for the entire duration of Christine’s hiatus from Fleetwood Mac. Now that she is joining us again, the symbolism is not lost on me. Once again we will be on tour, flying all over the world together. How perfect that this magic key should choose now to make its reappearance.

Christine admitted to me that when she and I first met, she was quivering in her boots, completely intimidated by me when I walked into her dressing room all those years ago at the Marquee Club. The irony being, of course, that my outward appearance, that of a bombastic madman, trapped in a 6ft 7ins frame, in no way mirrored my inner self. There is a reason why kids start crying when they see my giant body and long beard!

How was I to know at that first meeting that Christine would play a major role in my life, both as one of the integral members of Fleetwood Mac and as one of my greatest friends? At the time we met, it was our music that attracted Christine; she would come and see our shows and her band, Chicken Shack, would often be billed on the same night. As the story goes, she had a crush on Peter Green at first but then she got to know John McVie, with whom she fell in love, and married. Christine joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970, when Peter left the band.

Fifteen years ago, Christine sacrificed her touring life with Fleetwood Mac because of her fear of flying. She retired to her home in England.

I myself am all too familiar with the crippling effects of fear. Some time ago, I had a profound battle with stage fright, an issue which was obviously hugely problematic for me. I’ve learned to deal with it although, to some extent, I still have a certain amount of fear each time I step on stage which I must conquer.

The pay-off, because whenever a person prevails over fear there is always a tremendous pay-off, is when I land in the “Zone”. Then I can really enjoy the show and forget about the fear. Similarly, it transpired that in Christine’s life she’s managed to wrangle that fear. She can now get on a plane and be OK; she can play music again and travel.

In fact, she’s just come back from an African safari, travelling around in single engine planes no less! There is a perfect example of being scared and doing it anyway.

Christine is back, writing new songs, experimenting in the studio. It started with her playing Don’t Stop at the O2 in London last autumn. The song bird has found her way home where she belongs, and the amazing story of Fleetwood Mac continues...

Tell me that's a typo

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Tell me that's a typo

I've always read that Mick is 6'6". Since he wrote this article himself, it's no surprise he added an extra inch. Typical man!

[michelej1]

[No album until after the tour wraps up]

Rolling Stone, April 9, 2014 By Andy Greene April 9, 2014 9:57 AM ET

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-mick-20140409

Mick Fleetwood is just five months away from hitting the road with a fully reunited Fleetwood Mac, but he's still found the time to take on a new job: The drummer will host a series of television specials called 24 Hours with Mick. "The Fleetwood Mac drummer/founder will spend a day with each guest probing their thoughts, interests and ideas," says a report in the Hollywood Reporter. "The series will showcase an eclectic lineup of interview subjects from a variety of fields, including music and entertainment to technology and politics, art, architecture and more."

Fleetwood Mac Announce Reunion Tour Dates With Christine McVie

So far, no network or premiere date has been announced. Fleetwood will film the show at his Hawaiian home and on the road with Fleetwood Mac. The drummer is personally selecting the guest.

Fleetwood Mac recently put tickets on sale for their first tour with Christine McVie since she left the band in 1998. Some markets have already added second dates and tickets are moving rather quickly. "It won't be too hard to figure out a setlist," Lindsey Buckingham told Rolling Stone. "Stevie and I both have songs we pretty much have to play. When you add in Christine's hits, you pretty much have a set, though that's not to say there won't be a few little surprises around the edges."

The group recorded a few demos earlier this year and there's talk of a new album, but any such project wouldn't surface until after the tour wraps up. "My demos are rough,"McVie told Rolling Stone. "We’re just trying to construct some proper tracks from them and the chemistry is magic."


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz2ySdXB3Os
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[Tango]

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No surprise. The tour is called "On With The Show." They have to get Christine up and runnning after a loooong vacation! Thank you for the article.

[jbrownsjr]

Anyone know if that Rolling Stone is on the shelves yet?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Anyone know if that Rolling Stone is on the shelves yet?

It's not. When do the new magazines come out? Is it Thursday? I used to know that.

Michele

[Johnny Stew]

From The Huffington Post....



Fleetwood Mac's New Music Will Override 40 Years Of Gossip

The most interesting narrative of Fleetwood Mac -- one every music writer hopes to chronicle and every fan dreams about when reading between the lines of "Rumours" -- involves romance and adultery. The stories behind lyrics of heartbreak and betrayal and love and acceptance are well-documented, but in recent interviews with Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, the bandmates assert that the past is just that.

Fleetwood Mac released its best-selling album "Rumours" 40 years ago; Christine McVie left the band 16 years ago. Now, the original five members have reunited for an album and an international tour, "On With The Show."

"It’s been the most profound experience of my entire life," Christine McVie said of returning to the group in an interview with HuffPost Entertainment. "The chemistry between the band is stronger than it ever was." In March of this year, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie joined Buckingham and Christine McVie at Studio D in the Village Recorder in Los Angeles, where they made 1979's "Tusk." (Nicks was unable to be there due to prior scheduling conflicts, Buckingham and McVie said.) They laid the groundwork for eight tracks, mostly written by Christine McVie and began to reestablish the legacy and future of Fleetwood Mac.

"She felt a need to pare down her life," Buckingham said when asked about McVie's 1998 departure, which she attributes to a horrible fear of flying. "I think she felt a need to burn a lot of bridges. None of us ever thought she would come back. I think somehow that became something she needed to do in order to re-emerge as a creative force with that much more strength."

McVie said she spent most of her off time hanging out with her dogs and her Range Rover, making solo, non-commercial music in the English countryside. But last year, something snapped and she decided to go through therapeutic treatment to get over her fear. She reached out to Fleetwood, and said she was ready to get on a plane again. She wanted to meet him in Hawaii, where both he and John McVie live, so they flew from England together and performed with his small blues band in Maui. The concert made international news when Fleetwood told the audience McVie would rejoin the group. “There’s something magical about Fleetwood Mac, about Lindsey, about Stevie, about Mick and John, that compelled me to think, ‘Well is there any possible chance that they would want me to ever rejoin the band?’" she said.

McVie started trading notes with Buckingham over the phone before she came to Los Angeles to record in March. There, she and Fleetwood rented a house in Santa Monica Canyon-- "it was a magical place" -- and went on a health kick to get in shape for the tour. She, Fleetwood and Buckingham are what McVie calls the "studio junkies" of the band. "We accomplished more than I thought possible in eight weeks," Buckingham said. According to McVie, "It's all grown up."

"Because of Stevie's absence, there's been a very strong link musically between Lindsey and I, where we've actually been able to concentrate and co-write," McVie said, before assuring HuffPost Entertainment that Nicks will eventually have a large part in the album. "Some of the results of those fresh ideas were sort of unusual for me and Lindsey to co-write, anyway. We’ve done it together in the studio this time and have got some fantastic, quite profound, quite surprising emotions out of it. It knocked my socks off completely." They hope to have the record out before summer 2015.

As Fleetwood Mac prepares for the upcoming tour (rehearsals start in August), Buckngham said that the real novelty is that McVie is back in the fold. Most of the sets will cover the band's greatest hits, saving new material for another international tour the guitarist is already starting to think about.

The dirty laundry -- and there has to be something sordid left to tell -- is tucked out of sight for now, probably hidden a layer or so deep within Buckingham and McVie's new tracks. "My relationship with Stevie is one of respect," Buckingham said. "One of sort of caring for her at a distance, perhaps, is a good way to put it." Their shared history is longer than the band's, alive in old gossip columns and in lyrics. McVie spoke of her ex-husband and bassist John McVie similarly. "John and I have no baggage whatsoever," she said. "We dropped that several years ago." She spoke of his battle with cancer and how he's winning it, how they are both so pleased with his treatments. "I'm sorry to be so boring ... but they're my musical family."

Asked what her new music is about, McVie said, "What I always write about: sex and love. I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That’s what I aspire to do. That’s what I do best. I don’t sing about politics or anything like that. I sing about love. That’s what I know about."

After working in the studio with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham spent a day in downtown Los Angeles, hanging out with Empire of the Sun, an electronic-indie duo from Australia, known for its neon, feather-coated costumes and warrior-like face paint. They asked Buckingham to write with them, just out of the blue. "I went down there and it was two guys and these other people part of their support system," Buckingham said. "It just blew my mind, the level of trust and community in the room. I said to them, 'Geez, why couldn’t I have been in this band?'"

Watching another group come together in a studio with such ease was a contrast to the bizarre and powerful way in which Fleetwood Mac made its most popular music. "We always went to our separate corners and did what we did," he said. "I guess you could say dysfunction of a sort has been the norm."

[Deeshere]

I'm glad Chris says Stevie will be a large part of the new CD. Hopefully, she's in the studio with them working on it now.

[michelej1]

Nice article. Thanks.

So, what does Lindsey do these days? Just hang around the studio waiting for some one to ask him to play with them.

Why couldn't I have been in this band?

Reminds me of him saying why couldn't he have been in Creem.

Michele

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Nice article. Thanks.

So, what does Lindsey do these days? Just hang around the studio waiting for some one to ask him to play with them.

Why couldn't I have been in this band?

Reminds me of him saying why couldn't he have been in Creem.

Michele

He says that all the time. And we got the, "best music ever" quote from Christine this time. I'm sure Lindsey will say it too at some point.

And..

"One of sort of caring for her at a distance, perhaps, is a good way to put it."

No kidding Lindsey, don't we all care for Stevie from a distance.

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by Deeshere

I'm glad Chris says Stevie will be a large part of the new CD. Hopefully, she's in the studio with them working on it now.

Well they said they were done working on the album for now. Christine said she was going back to England until tour rehearsals commence. Plus, Lindsey said Stevie had agreed to join them following the tour.

But this article, while not giving a quote, said they want the album out by Summer 2015. That's new information and I'm not sure how they could say that without one of them saying so. But if they did say so why wasn't it quoted?

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

Well they said they were done working on the album for now. Christine said she was going back to England until tour rehearsals commence. Plus, Lindsey said Stevie had agreed to join them following the tour.

But this article, while not giving a quote, said they want the album out by Summer 2015. That's new information and I'm not sure how they could say that without one of them saying so. But if they did say so why wasn't it quoted?

It's possible they asked not to be quoted on that information, but that they could put it in the article.

[jbrownsjr]

"It’s been the most profound experience of my entire life," Christine McVie said of returning to the group in an interview with HuffPost Entertainment. "The chemistry between the band is stronger than it ever was." McVie

Funny she says that without Stevie being present.

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Most of the sets will cover the band's greatest hits, saving new material for another international tour the guitarist is already starting to think about.

I said to them, 'Geez, why couldn’t I have been in this band?'"

So, I should skip this tour and wait for the one with new material. Check. LOL

Oh Lindsey, good grief. You want to be in EVERY band, but your own. Goob.