Christine Mcvie

There are live takes of "Why", "Spare Me A Little of Your Love" and "Station Man" (among other early tracks) on the deluxe S/T album box, but I think the Christine stuff from that era didn't last much longer as concert material once Rumours came along.

Hadn't seen this before. Paul Bartel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuKxTff55s

Even for 1984 that's a lot of makeup.

I love when Fleetwood Mac (as a band and solo) goes country.

I saw that in 1984 on my local video show! Obviously someone thought that it could be of interest to an audience of 12-year olds. That was before the advent of "mature" rock videos for older artists and audiences.

If you can believe it, "Got a Hold On Me" was in heavy rotation in early 1984.

Even for 1984 that's a lot of makeup shoulder pads.

It was either make that video, or do a six episode arc as Lady Christine Thistlewick on Dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjH84W_-V1c

Bob Welch w/Christine & Mick in '81

Brown Eyes is the best FMac song

I recoil from that breathy tone Welch uses.

Yeah, Soto otm re: Mick's gifts. And John, he's pretty great, too, of course; iirc Mike Mills had a "what would John McVie do?" maxim. I think in their case as a rhythm section, it could be the result of all those formative years woodshedding, which helps them swing and shuffle through stuff like "Over My Head."

I missed this good bit from the L.A. Times obit:

Her grounding presence was a welcome contrast to Nicks’ nymph-like persona, not because it positioned the two against each other, but because it offered two very powerful frameworks for womanhood and female friendship within the same chart-topping band. The idea that women must choose — that one is either a Christine or a Stevie — is an outmoded and reductive binary in the year 2022. Instead, the fruitful pairing of McVie and Nicks, how their writing and personalities elegantly commingle and reflect back on one another, offers an antidote to the notion that women can be only one thing.

Nice

And yet, they sure didn’t seem to work together much the last 25 years.

And where were all these Nicks/McVie partisans when Behind the Mask came out?

Blasting "Save Me."

Or, like Rolling Stone, saying "the addition of Rick Vito and Billy Burnette is the best thing to ever happen to Fleetwood Mac".

This is my favorite song from the 1988-1990 era. Nicks, McVie, and the ringers harmonize well, and the woozy synths complement them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtAFOlNSDP8

I feel like I said this somewhere else but man, “Prove Your Love” is a terrific song. The wordless refrain with the sawing violins is just magic. Anyone who thinks she needed Lindsey never heard this.