Fleetwood Mac: Classic or Dud

oh never mind i guess tickets are still available and still prohibitively expensive

my god she sounds great

wow that's one hell of a setlist

She sounds great and I'm not even a huge fan of her stuff (I really like Buckingham and don't care that much about the rest of the stuff)

went to this in boston over the weekend, they're super good and fun right now. my take is that mick and lindsey give too much of a fuck for them to ever be bad onstage. christine being back makes a world of difference tho, her songs are so rad.

nice.

Christine's voice sounds wobbly and often slightly off-key to my ears on almost all the live footage I've seen :/

Recent live footage, I should say.

I got misty eyed during landslide when Stevie sang 'I'm getting older too' and gestured to herself. Lindsay absolutely stole the show numerous times and he obv has this band on his back. All in all wonderful I thought.

speaking of world turning, do they perform "World Turning"?

yes world turning + mick was insane on it. really only song they were missing imo was sara wtf what an omission :/

yeah the lack of sara was uncool

they played it last year in Denver. I saw the show w/ my real estate agent.

Yeah, I thought the performances were generally really good, although I got bored during the drum solo and during the monologues. I was a little disappointed that LB slowed "Never Going Back Again" down so much and played it so loosely. The song needs to be tight and quick for it to click imo. I knew there was basically zero chance of it but I think it would be amazing if they pulled out some Peter Green-era songs, at least just "Black Magic Woman". Generally, a really nice show, though.

They did Oh Well on the 1980 Fleetwood Mac Live LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHhaDofLJg

and during the '87-88 world tour

I saw the show w/ my real estate agent.

feel like there should be a good story behind this

haha, that's pretty much the whole story unfortunately -- i won tix and the person i was going w/ backed out at the last minute. i asked on facebook if anyone wanted to go and to my surprise this guy (who i hadn't seen in 4-5 years) took me up on it. hoped we would be doing lines in the bathroom or something, but i think he's actually pretty religious.

I knew there was basically zero chance of it but I think it would be amazing if they pulled out some Peter Green-era songs, at least just "Black Magic Woman"

a Bob Welch song would be a nice touch, too

love the real estate agent story
you haven't seen him in five years but now you have seen him cry while pumping his fist to don't stop

XP During the Say You Will era, I heard a DJ preface an airing of "Hypnotized" by saying the band had revived it for the tour. Can anybody confirm?

DON: It's a pleasure to see our old friend Christine McVie rejoin Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac was, of course, the only band whose sales matched ours. We saw them as the competition. The friendly competition.

GLENN: Christine! Say you love ME!

DON: Well, yeah.

Trying to think who'd be the worse boyfriend (circa '79): Glenn or Dennis Wilson?

Glenn is a shitheel but he ain't never drowning, not even in a tub full o' Budweiser.

therefore, dennis wilson is probably a better boyfriend.

Coming to Europe!

went and saw them last night and they played 'think about me'! also sara <3 (but thats more common)

whoa! didnt even know they were on tour. thats awesome

Even though the saga of this band is well-documented, it still bowls me over just how much shit Fleetwood Mac survived through. It's always tempting, whenever news comes through of a band splitting up due to personal differences, to imagine Mick Fleetwood sitting there, scratching his head, and wondering what the fuss is about. "Oh, they split up because of that, did they? Lightweights!"

A friend of mine was rooting about in old hard drives and has dug out the original unedited version of the Classic Albums Rumours documentary, apparently they went back and took out a lot of the band kvetching about each other.

Here 'tis

https://vimeo.com/191221519

I'd never seen this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIQrfFu5uTg

buckingham mcvie

!!!!!

Now that is something I did not predict.

omfg YES

i sorta predicted this bc the most recent updates in the "new fleetwood mac album" section of their wikipedia page suggest stevie's total indifference lol

I see no reason why this shouldn't come out under the name of Fleetwood Mac, tbh.

a whole album of "Isn't It Midnight" and "World Turning," please

turrican otm

Man some days I think nobody harmonizes together better than Lindsey and Christine. Mirage is comfortably my favourite these days

some days i'm not entirely sure which voice is lindsey's and which is christine's.

^ exactly

JEEZE WHAT A DAY

lmao wtf

Who did he hit this time?

Lindsay is out - Neil Finn and Mike Campbell are in! Tour upcoming.

It's amazing these geriatric musicians still have such fragile egos

What--is that true about Finn & Campbell?

Time for these 70 year old children to pack it in

this is a terrible idea, wtf. glad I saw them a few years ago.