Fleetwood Mac Wall Street Journal Mention - TPG Capital Private Show

How Private Equity Got Its Groove Back - Private Equity Beat - WSJ: 

Last month, TPG Capital wowed investors at its annual meeting with more than portfolio company data. The firm, which manages some $48 billion in assets across various fund families, brought in superstar band Fleetwood Mac as part of the extracurricular entertainment, according to two of the firm’s backers.

It’s not uncommon for private equity firms to roll out some form of evening or afternoon entertainment to break up what is often a long day of presentations at annual meetings. One of the firm’s founding partners, David Bonderman is an avid rock and roll fan and made headlines back in 2002, when he hired the Rolling Stones and John Mellencamp to play at his 60th birthday party. The firm has also brought in other well known musicians, including former members of The Eagles, at prior annual meetings, according to one of TPG’s backers. A third person familiar with TPG said that the cost of hiring Fleetwood Mac was borne by the firm itself and not its investors.

Full Article: Wall Street Journal Blog
Photos by: Richseow

DAVE AND STEVIE... STUDIO SHOT

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High Resolution artwork for "The Blackbird Diaries" has been released and includes spectacular photo of Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks in the studio... You may recall this photo was used in the David Wild piece that appeared in Rollingstone Magazine a couple of months ago reporting on the recording of Stevie's new album that Dave is producing [here].  Great shot, nice to see that it made the inside of the album cover.

The artwork for Dave's Double Gatefold Double Vinyl Album of "The Blackbird Diaries" can be downloaded at Dave Stewarts Martini Moment website.   To check out the album sampler go here. And when you're done with that... check out the video for Dave and Colbie Caillat's "Bullet Proof Vest".  The track appears on the album... They sound great together.

NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN...

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM PERFORMING LIVE

FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 2010

826LA Benefit at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills

MICK FLEETWOOD BOOKS DECEMBER CONCERT DATE IN MAUI

The Maui Celebrity Series

Mick Fleetwood

featuring Rick Vito 
with special guests Tom Arnold, Cheech Marin, Brian Evans, Nermin Zajic & more!

Thursday, December 30, 2010

8:00 PM HST (7:00 PM Doors)

The Maui Theatre, Lahaina, HI

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General Admission

$85.00

Premium

$150.00

VIP

$225.00

Press Release

Mick Fleetwood to perform rare concert on Maui

The Maui Celebrity Series to host a massive Lahaina New Years celebration

It is going to be a jam packed night of entertainment on Maui! Mick Fleetwood along with former Fleetwood Mac member Rick Vito perform together. Due to popular demand Tom Arnold will be returning as well as Brian Evans who will be singing some of his favorite tunes for guests & Cheech Marin of "Cheech & Chong" fame will be making a special appearance. Come join the fun!

CHART UPDATE: FLEETWOOD MAC ON UK, IRELAND, AUSTRALIA ALBUMS CHARTS

Top 100 Albums Chart - UK

Week of 6th November, 2010

Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" moves down one spot on the Top 100 chart to #70 this week.

Top 40 Catalogue Chart - UK
Week of 6th November, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" moves down to #30 on the Cataloge Top 40.

Top 100 Albums Chart - Ireland

Week Ending 4th November, 2010

Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" moves down this week to #51 from #39 last week.

Top 50 Albums Chart - Australia

Week of 8th November, 2010

• Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" Re-enters the The Top 50 Albums Chart at #43.  
• On the Top 50 Catalogue Chart the 2cd set moves up to #4 from last weeks #7.  
• On the Top 50 Physical Albums Chart, the disc moves up to #33 from #42 last week.

The set was recently certified 6x Platinum in Australia = 420,000 units shipped in Australia.

Fleetwood Mac's 2004 DVD "Destiny Rules" which is the documentary on the making of 2003's "Say You Will" album was recently certified gold in Australia representing 7,500 units shipped.

STEVIE NICKS PROFILE: THE MUSIC MACHINE WITH BRIAN HARTGEN

Mushroom FM Internet Radio

The Music Machine Profile on Stevie Nicks

Nicely put together up to date Profile on Stevie Nicks stretching from her

musical beginnings in the late 60's through to today where her new

album produced by Dave Stewart is in post production.

The profile covers a lot of ground with a lot of music featured plus interview

snippets from through the years.  I particularly love the acoustic version of 

Rhiannon that ends the profile. 

Download the full commercial free 1 hour and 15 minute documentary 

profile on Stevie at The Music Machine with Brian Hartgen on Mushroom FM

Link to Download Profile

Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks: Audio Shout Out....... From The Last Day In The Studio

Dave and Stevie... give us an audio update...
Very cool of them to do this!
Hit the image to be taken to the site for the audio:

So cool!

CONFIRMATION THAT LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM WORKING ON SOLO ALBUM

His website Lindseybuckingham.com  posted today that he is in fact in the process... No exact release date announced... No title announced.

"Lindsey has been working on a new solo album, which is currently scheduled for an early 2011 release. The album is currently untitled. Check back soon for details!"

Source: Lindsey Buckingham

2011 will be a big year!  This along with Stevie's album... It doesn't get much better then this!

CHRIS LORD-ALGE....

BACK IN THE MIX WITH STEVIE NICKS....

It was announced today (November 1st) that Dave Stewart was meeting up with Chris Lord-Alge for the first day of mixing Stevie's new album. Chris has a long history with Stevie stretching back to 1991's "Timespace". She seems to prefer him over other mixers... which was well documented in the "Destiny Rules" documentary during the recording of Fleetwood Mac's 2003 "Say You Will" album. Chris mixed Stevie's last album "Trouble in Shangri-La in 2001 and did some work on "Say You Will".

It appears things are moving along quite nicely on this album... Won't be long now!

"Chris Lord-Alge has an uncanny knack for making rock tracks both hard-hitting and hit-parade-friendly. The triple Grammy-winning mixer has become a genuine legend of the studio industry, to the extent that Allmusic.com needs eight pages to list his 750-plus credits. The first are from his early days as an assistant engineer at H&L Studios in New Jersey. This was followed by a stint as staff engineer at Unique Recording in New York. Lord-Alge moved to Los Angeles in 1988, and in subsequent years he added names such as Prince, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Joe Cocker and Peter Frampton to his résumé.

In Lord-Alge's early days his activities also included engineering, keyboards, programming and producing. But since the late 1990s he's focused exclusively on mixing. The list of those who have benefited from the Chris Lord-Alge mix treatment is inordinately long, but to name just a few: U2, Snow Patrol, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Band, Savage Garden, Green Day, Placebo, Alanis Morissette, Bon Jovi, Faith Hill, Melissa Etheridge, the Futureheads, Fleetwood Mac, Pink, Foo Fighters, Black Eyed Peas, Courtney Love, Heather Nova and Santana."

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