Wednesday, May 15, 2013

REVIEW | PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Saskatoon "Buckingham was the straw that stirred the drink"

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE
MAY 14, 2013 - CREDIT UNION CENTRE
SASKATOON, SK

Fleetwood Mac dispel bad rumours
By Cam Fuller
There have been more than a few rumours of its demise since it formed more than 45 years ago, but Fleetwood Mac has survived it all: a foggy pre-history in British blues, unmanageable success, divorce, breakups, reunions, flops, side projects and rehab.

They're touring the world again, just like they did 35 years ago when the Rumours album made history with all of its No. 1 singles and sales of some 50 million.

Home to about 16 musicians at one time or another, the band's current lineup (but for the absence of the retired and missed Christine McVie) is the one everybody cares about the most: Mick Fleetwood on drums, John McVie on Bass,
Lindsey Buckingham on guitars and Stevie Nicks playing tambourine (and, yes, doing some singing!)

To remind us of its greatness, the band - with backing players and singers - started Tuesday's show at Credit Union Centre with indelible Rumours monster hits like Second Hand News, The Chain and Dreams. They could have played the whole album, in order, without a complaint.

Buckingham was the straw that stirred the drink throughout the concert. He pogoed and did guitar faces during the new song Sad Angel, he asserted his guitar mastery on Big Love, playing expansively, flawlessly and fast. For Never Going Back Again, also on acoustic, he looked like a classical guitarist who moonlights as a rocker. He was lathered up in his leather by then. "Make note that he's sexy," said an advice-giver in the crowd. Uh, no.

Nicks, in her velvet, layered skirt and platformed booties, moved with difficulty when she walked. She seemed so fragile, like a Victorian porcelain doll. The line in Landslide, "I'm getting older too," was extra poignant. But she's still Stevie Nicks, dammit, and despite the fact her high end is gone, she makes you remember her as the cool, aloof girl that's too too.

After reportedly just showing up the last time they were here, the band worked like mad to impress, and they did. It is kind of mind blowing that the same band that did the simple, sad Landslide also turned out the coolest weird song ever in Tusk. This was an early show stopper, done real savage-like with images of teeth and totems on the screen and faded old video of the UCLA marching band.

At well over two hours, fans got most of the best, relived more than a few youthful memories and got to see part of what rock history is made of.


FAN PHOTOS
Above 2 photos by Shleemaan


 6 Photos above by: Adrien Begrand
Above photo by Karin Yeske
Above Photos by Dakota Miller

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

were u guys on drugs last night? pretty terrible performance

Anonymous said...

What's wrong with Stevie? She's limping and not doing her Gypsy twirls!!!

Anonymous said...

Well just got through watching a couple youtube videos from the show and there were tons of cheering fans, maybe their hearing and vision etc. just isn't as keen as yours!!!Or perhaps you are just another one of the fans that like to get on here and post negativity for the sake of being negative.Of course you like everyone is entitled to their opinions.Either way I am still very much looking forward to the upcoming concert in my area, and I really hope that I don't end up seeing and hearing things the way you claim you did last night.

Anonymous said...

You don't get music like this anymore..stop being critical of a "WALK" or a "TWIRL" Really??? After the show they put on? About the best I've seen.

Wayne said...

"everyone is entitled to their opinions"

Really? No, that's not what you're saying at all. If you really felt that way, you wouldn't have just accused the poster of having some form of agenda regarding his reason for commenting.

Anonymous said...

Wayne just because I question a person's motives etc. does not mean I don't think they are entitled to their opinions or to even have motives. All I was trying to say is that some people seem to want to be negative about almost everything and that was my opinion.I still feel that people can have an opinion even if I don't agree with it. Or I might happen have an opinion that their opinion or statements are agenda driven. Its kind of like the old saying that opinions are like a**holes everyone has one and they all stink.Or (all intended in good humor) the saying you are entitled to your opinion no matter how wrong it is. I guess the overall point I am making is that everyone tends to think they have the correct opinion,otherwise why waste time by putting it on here in the first place. Finally this still doesn't mean I don't think someone has the right to post their opinion,nor does it mean that I ever have to agree with it or can't question its foundation!!!

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