My Night with Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac 2009 Unleashed Tour
They may be getting older, but Fleetwood Mac put on a great show. If you can, catch the Fleetwood Mac Unleashed tour, it's amazing.
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MICK FLEETWOOD Two New Behind The Scenes Videos

These are hysterical!

Episode #2 of MyMickTV.com This is a brilliant idea to film behind the scenes footage of Mick on the Fleetwood Mac tour!!

The first video is courtesy of 429Records channel on Youtube. The second video is from Micks MyMickTV channel on Youtube

FLEETWOOD MAC Un hommage au passé

FLEETWOOD MAC

au Centre Bell: Un hommage au passé

MARC-ANDRÉ LEMIEUX,

MÉTRO MONTREAL

Fleetwood Mac s’est rendu un magnifique hommage, hier soir, au Centre Bell. Sans nouvel album à promouvoir, le quatuor a revisité ses vieux classiques, au grand plaisir des 11 139 spectateurs, qui n’en demandaient pas tant.

Pendant un peu plus de deux heures, la formation a joué ses indémodables tubes, pour la plupart issus de la décennie 1970, plus particulièrement des opus Rumours et Tusk.

Stevie Nicks et Lindsey Buckingham sont montés sur scène main dans la main, histoire de faire taire les rumeurs de friction au sein de la formation. C’est avec Monday Morning qu’ils ont ouvert les célébrations.

Les membres du groupe ont peut-être vieilli, mais ils n’ont pas changé d’un poil. À l’aube de la soixantaine, Stevie Nicks porte encore la même crinière (une longue chevelure blonde) et chante de façon aussi charmante qu’à ses tout débuts : une désinvolture typiquement hippie qui se reflète non seulement dans sa voix, mais également dans sa gestuelle, qui consiste en de grands mouvements de bras dans les airs, comme on a pu l’observer pendant son interprétation de Gypsy.

Lindsey Buckingham fait quant à lui honneur à sa réputation de petit voyou. Vêtu d’un blouson de cuir noir et d’une paire de skinny jeans, le guitariste montre une fougue à faire rougir d’envie les musiciens qui n’ont pas la moitié de son âge. Sa prestation en solo de Big Love a sans contredit été l’un des meilleurs moments de la soirée. De leur côté, le batteur Mick Fleetwood et le bassiste John McVie demeurent beaucoup plus à l’aise en retrait.

Voilà sans doute pourquoi le concert d’hier présentait ce sympathique air familier, celui qu’on trouve dans les soupers avec de vieux amis.

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Loose Translation:

FLEETWOOD MAC at the Bell Centre: A homage to the past

Fleetwood Mac paid a splendid homage, yesterday evening, at the Centre Bell. Without new album to be promoted, the quartet revisited its traditional old men, with the great pleasure of the 11.139 spectators, who did not ask such an amount of of it.

During a little more than two hours, the formation played its indémodables tubes, for the majority resulting from the decade 1970, more particularly of the opus Rumours and Tusk. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are assembled on scene hand in the hand, history to make conceal the rumours of friction within the formation. It is with Monday Morning that they opened the celebrations.

The members of the group perhaps aged, but they did not change a hair. At the dawn of about sixty, Stevie Nicks still carries the same mane (a long blond hair) and sings in a way as charming as with its whole beginnings: an ease typically hippie which is reflected not only in its voice, but also in its gestural, which consists of great movements of arm in the airs, as one could observe it during its interpretation of Gypsy.

Lindsey Buckingham made as for him honor with its reputation of little scoundrel. Vêtu of a black leather jacket and a pair of skinny jean, the guitarist shows an ardour to be made redden of desire the musicians who do not have half of his age. Its service in solo of Big Love indisputably was one of the best moments of the evening. On their side, the beater Mick Fleetwood and the bass player John McVie remain much more at ease in withdrawal. Here undoubtedly why the concert of yesterday presented this sympathetic nerve familiar air, that which one finds in the suppers with old friends.

STEVIE NICKS - LANDSLIDE (orchestra version)

STEVIE NICKS - Landslide (Orchestra Version)

Rock superstar Stevie Nicks performing one of her signature songs "Landslide (Orchestra Version)" recorded at her October 2007 "Soundstage" performance. Available on itunes and amazon.

Both "The Soundstage Sessions" CD and the "Live in Chicago" DVD are available on March 31, 2009 (March 30, 2009 in the UK).

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac - Montreal Nicks, Buckingham balance and complement each other

Fleetwood Mac's golden oldies are aging just fine

Bell Centre gig. Nicks, Buckingham balance and complement each other

Montreal Gazette
BY BERNARD PERUSSE

When Mick Fleetwood and John McVie formed Fleetwood Mac as a British blues band in 1967, they probably never envisioned that they'd be playing to adoring arena audiences, paying up to $150 per ticket, 42 years later.

And they certainly could not have foreseen, during that long-gone summer of love, that all the adulation would be directed at two Yanks they had yet to meet.

As any of the 11,000 fans at the group's Bell Centre concert last night will tell you, drummer Fleetwood is a muscular timekeeper and bassist McVie provides an unobtrusive, solid anchor of his own. But it's also clear that, at all times, virtually all the energy in the room emanates from - and comes back to - singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, the group's songwriters and its heart and soul.

If there was a defining moment in last night's hit-heavy show, it was when Buckingham completely took over Oh Well, a snarling 1969 rocker by original guitarist Peter Green that predates his and Nicks's presence in the band by more than five years. While Buckingham, undeniably the group's frontman, soloed away furiously, Fleetwood played the crazy-old-grandpa part for the benefit of the giant video screens.

Buckingham's prowess on his instrument simply isn't talked about often enough. Whether he's playing tasteful, economical phrases, as he did during ex-member Christine McVie's Say You Love Me, hammering out manic rock-flamenco note clusters in Big Love or fingerpicking the tasty folk-blues licks of Never Going Back Again, he's one of rock's most interesting players.

During his five-minute solo in I'm So Afraid, he made the instrument rumble, shriek and gasp, sending out shards of high-pitched squeals and hammering out repeated patterns. Unlike your average guitar god, Buckingham made no attempt to show how many different notes he could squeeze in per minute.

What makes a Fleetwood Mac show so satisfying, however, is the way Buckingham and Nicks complement and balance each other, in both their vocal blend and their approach to songwriting. For every Buckingham power-pop stomper like I Know I'm Not Wrong or Second Hand News came one of Nicks's earthier, more linear crowd-pleasers, like Gypsy or the sweetly nostalgic Landslide, which she sang in her long-familiar husky, lower register. (And, incidentally, how fantastic did she look?)

Buckingham spoke on stage of the emotional challenges that have defined the group's internal relationships over the years. But during Sara, Nicks crossed over to his side of the stage and he put his head on her shoulder.

Staged? Probably - but really, who cares? That affectionate gesture spoke of a hard-won victory that pretty much ensures that - to paraphrase the group - the chain will never be broken.

PHOTOS: FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE IN MONTREAL

FLEETWOOD MAC BELL CENTRE
MONTREAL, QUEBEC CANADA
MARCH 25, 2009
Photos: John Kenney

SOUNDSTAGE SESSIONS - ALBUM OF THE WEEK

KEN BRUCE

BBC - RADIO 2

Stevie Nicks's forthcoming CD "The Soundstage Sessions" is featured as the Album of the week this week on Ken Bruce BBC Radio 2 in the UK.  So far this week, they've played Stand Back on Monday, Landslide on Tuesday and Sara on Wednesday.

You can listen to rebroadcasts of his show on his blog.  You'll need realplayer installed to stream the radio show. 

FLEETWOOD TO SHOWCASE BLUES BAND IN HAWAII & KAUAI

MICK FLEETWOOD BACK WITH BLUES BAND DURING

FLEETWOOD MAC APRIL BREAK

Honolulu Adviser

Mick Fleetwood, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, is coming to Hawai'i to perform in Waikiki and on Kauai with The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, concert promoter Tom Moffatt announced today.

Performances will be at 8 p.m. April 2 at Level 4 in the Royal Hawaiian Center and 7:30 p.m. on Apirl 3 at the Kaua'i Marriott in the Kauai Ballroom.

The band features a tribute to the original Fleetwood Mac, the all-male blues band that started in 1967. Fleetwood's hand-picked blues quartet includes Rick Vito, former Fleetwood Mac vocalist and lead guitarist; Bass playerLenny Castellanos, and Mark Johnstone, who ties the band together with back-up vocals and keys.

The band released a live recording "Blue Again" in March. The album pays tribute to the Mac's early days, when it drew heavily on American blues music and produced hits such as "Albatross," "Oh Well" and "Black Magic Woman" (which was covered by Santana).

The album also includes fresh new blues tracks like "Looking for Somebody" and "Love that Burns."

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster outlets, 800-745-3000 and www.ticketmaster.com. Reserved seating for the Level 4 show are $45 and $35. For Kauai, advanced ticket prices are $35 and available at Big Kmart, Kauai Music, Progressive Expressions.Jack Wada Electronics & Hanalei Surf.

FLEETWOOD MAC IN THE UK IN AUGUST?

Mick Fleetwood - speaking to fans that purchased the I Love All Access 5 Star Package at last nights show in Ottawa Canada said that if logistics are worked out they will be touring in the UK and Australia beginning in August.

TODAY SHOW FOR STEVIE NICKS

Apparently Stevie is booked on The Today Show April 2nd.  There's no additional information on this appearance.  We do know that Stevie's going to be in New York City after the last show of this leg of the Unleashed Tour (which is Toronto on March 26th) to promote her Soundstage Sessions CD and Live in Chicago DVD.  She's appearing at Barnes and Noble, Union Square on March 31st for a CD/DVD signing at 7pm - then it's off to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on April 1st.

As to whether these TV appearances are performance and interviews - we just don't know yet.

PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Ottawa at Scotiabank Place March, 2009

FLEETWOOD MAC SCOTIABANK PLACE

OTTAWA, ONTARIO CANADA

MARCH 23, 2009

Wonderful collection of shots from last nights show.

GALLERY

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Finally Landed in Ottawa Last Night

BY LYNN SAXBERG, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

OTTAWA — Fleetwood Mac finally landed in Ottawa last night, a couple of decades past their heyday, but didn’t take long to remind an audience of 14,000 why they were everyone’s favourite band way back when.

So what if the configuration of the group wasn’t exactly the same as it was in the late 70s. The concert was still an unabashed nostalgia fest, consisting largely of songs from the band’s golden days. “There’s no new album to promote … yet,” Lindsey Buckingham teased the crowd early in the evening. “This time we said ‘Let’s just go out and have fun.’ Let’s do the songs we all love and hopefully that’s the thing that you love as well,” he added.

Sure enough, the veteran musicians looked like they were having almost as much fun as the fans who packed Scotiabank Place. A rock-solid version of Monday Morning immediately established a groove that was heavier than expected from the soft-rock superstars. Bass and drums blazing, it was a potent reminder of the awesome power of the rhythm section that provides the band’s name, that of drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie.

However, as the concert unfolded, over the next two-plus hours, it became clear that Fleetwood Mac is, at its heart, a Buckingham-Nicks project. Singer-guitarist Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks traded lead vocals, and shared the duty of chatting with the audience. There were small signs of warmth between them but few actual sparks. Even when Nicks put her head on Buckingham’s shoulder, no one was fooled.

To fill in a bit of Mac history here, singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Buckingham were lovers when they first joined the band in the mid-70s, and many of the songs on the classic 1977 LP, Rumours, were inspired by their break-up (as well as the divorce of McVie and his wife, singer Christine, who chose not to take part in this reunion tour). As Buckingham said last night, those were “complex and convoluted times.”

Rumours was a landmark album, ample proof that complicated emotional situations make for the best songs. Although relationships can go sour, the best songs stand the test of time. With every selection from Rumours, including The Chain, Dreams, Second Hand News, Go Your Own Way and Don’t Stop, the band dug in, rocked out and had no problem reclaiming the original passion of the times, to the delight of the audience.

Both Buckingham and Nicks were in fine form, ageless in appearance, their voices as strong as ever. Nicks wore her blond hair long and sleek, had scarves hanging from her microphone stand and twirled her shawl on stage, her voice haunting. Buckingham dazzled on guitar, exploring the softer side during an acoustic version of Never Going Back Again but then working up to some full-out electric soloing for Go Your Own Way.

Backing the core quartet on stage were a couple of extra instrumentalists and a trio of female backing singers.