chapo in the night (1987)
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
I'm cool with Fleetwood Mac doing something different, but the odds of this Fleetwood Mac being significantly different from the big machine Fleetwood Mac of the last 40 years is unlikely. Their idea of shaking things up would probably be limited to playing one song from Bare Trees and Stop Draggin my Heart Around. The rest will be the usual war horses, minus an essential linchpin. You cant fill arenas for top dollar playing Rattlesnake Shake.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
I do love the players involved though. It would be awesome if it was some sort of Fleetwood Mac Presents, with the band backing up a host of like-minded singers.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
This really no different than The Who, AC/DC or the Eagles...the show must go on as there is just too damn much money to be made.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
Its not like this line-up is going to record. They're just a tribute band going out and playing the Lindsey era hits. The Buckingham/McVie album would have been a Fleetwood Mac album is Stevie had any interest in new music.
― DavidLeeRoth, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
I'm with Josh. Those are two of my very favorite musicians. I wish them well, but I'm unlikely to buy concert tickets to go see them do "Second Hand News" or whatever.
Yeah and, it's not like I'm eagerly anticipating a new Fleetwood Mac album anyways, so why do I care who's in or out? The records still exist and I can listen to them whenever I want.
It is a historical curiosity that there is still such a thing as a touring Journey or Queen or Who or Stones or whatever. Again, lots of beloved and skilled people are involved, and I generally wish them well. But it's not going to tempt me out to an arena any time soon.
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
The/a bummer is that Neil Finn rarely tours the US anymore.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Truthbomb. I guess he doesn't need to, as he appears happy and comfortable with dogs and children and whatnot. He appears to be richer than Colin Hay and that is as it should be.
(I am basing these impressions purely on what I see from documentaries and concert films. I watch them ALL.)
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
Though MacMembership may come with a paycheck that tempts him into the Northern Hemisphere with greater regularity. If so, I would be unquietly thrilled if he snuck away for an acoustic club date here and there. Probably a pure fantasy, but it is a pleasant one.
― like hell, but with more ketchup (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
We need to come up with a plan to rescue Neil from FM
― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Pay him millions of dollars I guess
Boo hoo ya babies
DANNY KIRWIN FOREVER!!!
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLiQBV6A7c
TIL Lindsey wrote and sang the National Lampoon song so here's the video
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
the worthless lazy shit has played multiple shows or full tours in the US in 2002 (twice, once including Chicago), 2003 (including Chicago), 2007 (including Chicago), 2008 (including Chicago), 2009, 2010 (twice, once including Chicago), 2011 (twice, once including Chicago), 2013, 2014, 2015 (twice), 2016 (twice, once including Chicago) and 2018*.
Imagine any US artist going to the antipodes as many times in forty years as Finn has done in the fourth decade of his career alone (13 times!). Let alone locals bemoaning that infrequency.
*only one so far, but seems likely he'll be back somehow?
― ҉ (sic), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
Crowded House, sure, but how many of those were solo gigs? That's what I was talking about. Even the 2016 show here, for example, was opening up for Guster (of all bands) in a distant outdoor outpost, and before that I don't know the last time it was just Neil as solo headliner. Some of my favorite shows have been Neil solo.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
(I make the distinction because I love his solo albums, but that material doesn't get played with Crowded House.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Last time I saw FM just last tour I guess, Lindsey was talking about releasing some demos and b sides that have never seen the light of day and then him and Stevie performed one and it was awesome and I guess that aint happening no mo
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
I assume it has to do with money, it's always about money. Money and their managers. each manager no doubt wants to maximize the amount of money their client gets, but to paraphrase DJ Shadow, you can only split something in half and share it once.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Crowded House, sure, but how many of those were solo gigs? That's what I was talking about.Two of those seventeen were Crowded House.
― ҉ (sic), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
Well then he just doesn't play Chicago. Besides the Guster one in 2006 (maybe Neil headlined?), the last solo Chicago show of his I see on setlist was in 2003. I guess the rest were CH, Pajama Club ... Finn Brothers?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Whoops, Guster was 2016 I meant.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
oh, I forgot about [The] Finn [Brothers]. Add "2004 (including Chicago)" to the list, making 17 proper times in 13 years that this artist who never tours the US travelled to the US to play shows.
(2011 in Chicago was Pajama Club, and oops, three were Crowded House - they went back in consecutive years on the first "new" album.)
― ҉ (sic), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
additional!
Fleetwood Mac guys clearly know Mike Campbell, but I wonder where the Neil Finn connection came from?― Josh Oh, wait, Mitchell Froom produced the Buckingham/McVie album, there's the one degree.― Josh Froom & Finn haven't worked together since three tracks for a best-of 23 years ago. It's not impossible that a bunch of still-working musicians from the '70s know another still-working musician from the '70s by reputation or in passing.Also, Mick Fleetwood played with Liam Finn in NZ two years ago yesterday.― me
― Josh
Oh, wait, Mitchell Froom produced the Buckingham/McVie album, there's the one degree.
Froom & Finn haven't worked together since three tracks for a best-of 23 years ago. It's not impossible that a bunch of still-working musicians from the '70s know another still-working musician from the '70s by reputation or in passing.
Also, Mick Fleetwood played with Liam Finn in NZ two years ago yesterday.
― me
seems Split Enz toured the US and Canada with Stevie Nicks and the Heartbreakers in 1981. and at the same 2016 gig, long-time CH fan Mick also backed Neil on Better Be Home Soon, then returned to NZ a few months later & recorded three albums' worth of material with him.
(presumably stoned jams that were fine not seeing the light of day once the haze lifted. or great songs that couldn't make it past Fleetwood's labels and managers.)
― ҉ (sic), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
sic *knows* the things he knows
i wasn't exactly expecting that to include the historical record of kiwis' tours of north america, but nor am i surprised
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
I only *knew* Josh was talking nonsense, even I was surprised when I looked it up
― ҉ (sic), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
I did correct myself to say that I meant solo tours, where he plays his solo material. Not Pajama Club, not Crowded House, not Finn Brothers. Stuff from his solo albums.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
Only fixating because of all the Finn shows I've seen - CH, Brothers - his solo shows have been my fave. Especially when Lisa Germano was in the band.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
"I'm unlikely to buy concert tickets to go see them do "Second Hand News""
I have to assume they won't be playing any primarily Lindsey written material on this tour. Maybe they will but that seems like it would be weird.
― akm, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
also, buckingham has been long rumored (ha) to have an abusive past. I wonder if they cut ties with him this time out out of fear that those claims were going to rear their head again; or maybe Stevie said "no"
― akm, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
They should get Tim Finn to replace Stevie and knuckle down and make a record.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
Would totally love Finn Brothers with the FM rhythm section.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
Who did he hit this time?
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
I read her book and it's graphic – even the part where Harris describes applying makeup to Buck before an Elvis Costello show.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Dare I ask what that entails?
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
eyeliner!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
yeah I went back and googled and some of this stuff is in Gold Dust Woman (the Stevie bio that was published in November). So I wouldn't be surprised if the band thought it best to head that off before a tour brouht it up again; or, like I said, maybe Stevie just said 'him or me' and they made the sound financial choice.
― akm, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Hopefully the Eagles organization will follow the Mac's lead and fire Don He...I couldn't even complete that sentence.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
Someone is not taking it lying down.
Real posters in my screenwriting teacher’s neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/nsjyPaVYKF— Mindy Furano (@MindyFurano) May 4, 2018
Hollywood Walk of SHAME pic.twitter.com/UIz9Lyu0oD— Mindy Furano (@MindyFurano) May 4, 2018
As sourced from:
https://www.instagram.com/istandwithlindsey/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Buckingham mcvie album is alright but if I wasn’t a Mac fan not sure I would care much for it
― Ross, Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Occurred to me that this all could be a(nother) passive aggressive battle between Buckingham and Nicks. Buckingham/McVie album was supposed to be a Fleetwood Mac album, but Nicks said she was too busy with her own projects to participate. So along comes another Mac tour, and I can totally imagine Buckingham saying, you know what? I'm busy now, too. Try back later. And they called him on his bluff (by calling in ringers).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Oooo
― Ross, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
I seriously wonder how many Fleetwood Mac fans have no idea any of this is happening. There are millions of them, and many of them are probably not internet savvy. So quite a lot, I bet. Some of them might even think Mike Campbell and/or Neil Finn are Lindsey Buckingham!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Oh josh it’s a lot. I bring up the Mac tour to randos and they’re like “what happened”
― Ross, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Some of them might even think Mike Campbell and/or Neil Finn are Lindsey Buckingham!
My sister was excited at having tickets to see them three years ago because "it's the original line-up!"
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Danny Kirwan died today, apparently.
― akm, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
from his FB fan page:
DANNY KIRWAN OUR SWEET ANGEL HAS DIED With a heavy heart broken in pieces it appears that i am the only administrator up or available at this hour in America and so i had to confirm the saddest news that some of you have been asking about: yes the news is true. I HAVE NO WORDS: DANNY WAS & IS THE VERY HEART of the success that became Fleetwood Mac everything is owed to Danny but for now i'd like to focus on the human being , the man, the heart and the soul that was/ is our Danny: please wait for my post i'm falling apart a little here
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 June 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uh8B5utIuE
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 June 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link
RIP, oft overlooked Fleetwood Mac linchpin.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Have any of the obits stated how or where he had been living? Wasn't he missing for a while, and/or homeless? I remember reading about Mick tracking him down and quietly helping to pay for his care/rehabilitation, a la Syd Barrett.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 June 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link