You Make Polling Fun: FLEETWOOD MAC POLL RESULTS, ILM Artist Poll #22

And here's Bucky, before the focus of the band is brought to bear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avoOcZZWigo&feature=relmfu

sounds fine to me, though maybe i'm hearing the full arrangement in my head.

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Buckingham Nicks first public performance of "Rhiannon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4EGaNrAp4

Much better lyrics on the released version!

I'd love to find that Feb. '75 newspaper article "Buckingham Nicks reveal future plans"

http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/articles/archive/BNart001.html

Ha, they totally reversed the picture for that article; his Tele is backwards.

I am now going to admit that I read through most of this thread wondering who 'Buck' was.

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1162

1977 Nashville show online....

shit, i should have dl'd before posting it here....just slowed down ALOT (you're welcome btw!)

thx Mr. Snrub

Buckingham Nicks all feel they have been overlooked by their recording label, Polydor. "Hopefully we can get our name known, instead of being buried within the name Fleetwood Mac. People will hear the difference in the music and take notice," hopes Lindsey. "It would take us years to build up the reputation they have. And Warner Brothers is really into Fleetwood Mac. They're not a monster or a giant act, but they consistently sell more albums than they did the last time.

Anyone notice any difference in the music after Buckingham and Nicks joined? :-) Even if they're "not a monster or a giant act" - guess they weren't expecting Rumours alone would sell over 40 million....

In the liner notes to the s/t album, it's mentioned that Warners felt the album would do 300,000 sales, which was 50 thou more than any previous Mac lp.

What other mysterious folky rock should i check if i love "Woman on 1000 Years", "Future Games" and "Sands of Time"?

"Sands of Time" feels very Fairport to me.

Haha I always knew my consistent failure to properly investigate Fairport Convention ultimately would prove my undoing.

Yeah totes! Sands of Time, Woman, Morning Rain all feel like they have serious debts to Unhalfbricking

ian matthews/plainsong also on a similar vibe

I third the Fairport Convention recommendation... Although FC feels more arch and less fluid.

I fourth it. Particularly the first three albums (s/t, Holidays, and Unhalfbricking) and the Heyday comp collected from that era which IMO may be better than any of their "real" albums. A sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzsreQdc2GE

Also, the first two Jefferson Airplane albums (Takes Off and Surealistic Pillow - note: the two Grace Slick-sung hits from the latter are not representative of their early sound). Try "Come Up The Years", "Comin' Back To Me", "Today", "Blues From an Airplane".

For fun, a BREAKDOWN BY SONGWRITER of the Top 60:

Christine McVie: 18 songs
Lindsey Buckingham: 16 songs
Stevie Nicks: 13 songs
Peter Green: 6 songs
Bob Welch: 4 songs
Danny Kirwan: 3 songs
(other): 2 songs

This was one of my picks that had absolutely no shot, but I love this faithful cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuVPhIj6Wg

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1641869-1245575981.jpeg

Christine was dating Dennis Wilson when that was recorded btw. He often wore Fleetwood Mac t-shirts at concerts around that time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/trackaghost/DennisChristineboat.jpg

I think Christine was to provide backing vocals on Dennis's unfinished 2nd solo album, not sure if any of them made it on the eventually-released material.

There is at least one tune out there with the songwriting credit Lindsey Buckingham/Brian Wilson

she sings background on "Love Surrounds Me"

“Well we’d split up before all that but yes, obviously, I’ve had to ask myself the same question. Why do people stay with people? ‘Cos they love them, I guess. And I loved him for a while. he was very charismatic, great looking, very charming, very cute -- if you can call a guy with a beard and voice like Satan’cute’. He used to draw people into his life, strangers off planes and off the streets, and they’d become his best friends. I think I mothered him, to be honest. He used to go off and I wouldn’t see him for days, and days, and then he’d come back and I’d mother him and get him all nice and sober and then he’d go off and go crazy again. It’s one of those things. Opposites attract.”

> He used to draw people into his life, strangers off planes and off the streets, and they’d become his best friends.

i won't name names or anything....

heard "Silver Springs" on the radio several times even way back in '77. The first time I heard it the DJ announced it beforehand and I thought Fleetwood Mac couldn't about Silver Spring and assumed it was a coincidence, and the opening lyric convinced me I was right. I only later learned the name did indeed come from Silver Spring, the city.

Stevie Nicks usually says in interviews that she saw a road sign for Silver Spring when she was in Virginia. Silver Spring is in Maryland, a state which borders Virginia although Silver Spring itself is a few miles inward and doesn't itself border Virginia. I keep trying to guess where in Virginia she'd come across a sign giving mileage or directions to Silver Spring - probably traveling eastward on the DC Beltway, or perhaps northward on interstate 95 from Richmond or Alexandria.

― Lee626, Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:29 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We're lucky she was on the DC beltway instead of the Baltimore beltway when inspiration struck or else we might have gotten "Sulphur Springs"

Stevie's hair on the cover of Little Lies makes me sad.

yet Christine's broach cheers me up.

*brooch

Klonopin does such horrible things to hair.

It's unreal how she pissed away a decade on that stuff, all of it with the blessings of an MD, I presume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGKk0rPq4Q

this song is credited as a lindsey buckingham / brian wilson co-write. it's... not very good. D:

We're lucky she was on the DC beltway instead of the Baltimore beltway when inspiration struck or else we might have gotten "Sulphur Springs"

you could be my dundalk

Timonium casts a spell on you, but you won't forget me

Never have I been a blue, calm sea
I have always been downy ocean

and the lanslide brought me lansdowne

don't go back to rockville

ok maybe not that

would you stay if she promised you hampden?
will you ever win?

Rock on, Arbutus woman

bellona donna

all alone on the edge of... seton hall

lol *hill darn

"Hackensack! Hackensack!/In the middle of my room..."

Hahaha that's so bad.

Linthicum rings like a bell through the night...

Somebody mentioned upthread that "Station Man" and "Hypnotized" carried over into 1975-76, and "Oh Well" is on the 1980 live album. Did any pre-75 material hang around in their live set after 1980?

I recall a dj on the local classic rock station claiming "Hypnotized" popped up in the setlist for a recent reunion tour.

I think some of this stuff sneaked back into their set in '87, once Burnette & Vito replaced LB. Rattlesnake Shake became a staple on that tour, and Black Magic Woman got played as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZVIEaKV4cI