FANS SHOULD EXPECT TO HEAR FAVE SONGS

Fleetwood Mac unleashes tour

Fans should expect to hear favorite songs when group hits road without new material

By Malcolm X Abram
Beacon Journal music writer

Baby boomers are a fantastic market for nostalgia.  With their salad days behind them, many boomers are willing to spend large amounts of discretionary income to temporarily relive the days when their hair was long, their responsibilities few and the future spread out before them like a road waiting to be traveled.

A few decades later, their proverbial road has grown considerably shorter and well trod. But given the chance, boomers (and just about anyone else who has survived their 20s and 30s) will gladly take a trip back in time, and music is one of the quickest ways to relive past glories.

Enter Fleetwood Mac. For the bulk of its four-decade career, the band has worked quite hard at not becoming simply a nostalgia act. Since its reunion with guitarist/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham in 1997, the legendary pop group has only toured when it has a new album of material to promote.

But for its current tour, dubbed Fleetwood Mac Unleashed and timed to coincide with a deluxe CD/DVD combo of its classic 1977 album Rumors, the band is hitting the road with no new songs to plug, taking some pressure off the musicians and their audience. Consequently, concertgoers should take their bathroom breaks and concession trips early because the band's set will be filled with hits and deep album cuts, allowing few opportunities for fans not to miss one of their favorite songs.

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MYMICK TV UPDATE

New video footage of Mick Fleetwood Backstage at the Fleetwood Mac show at the Meadowlands in New Jersey on his MyMickTV website 

STEVIE NICKS THE SOUNDSTAGE SESSIONS REVIEW...

Nicks offers Landslide of emotion
by Tim Cole
WKTimes.co.uk

Stevie Nicks latest release is remarkable for one particular track.

How many times have Fleetwood Mac put out an album including the beautifully crafted song Landslide? How many ways can it be recorded?

It was originally penned by Nicks for the bands eponymous album, the first on which she and then partner Lindsay Buckingham appeared, back in 1975.

After the personal ructions of Rumours and the studio trials of Tusk, when the band recorded their next album, Fleetwood Mac Live, on their 1980 world tour, there was a version which carried little of the weight and charm of the original.

The haunting feel of the studio version had not been translated to the stage.

As the band moved on through its many incarnations from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, without the presence of Buckingham, the track was a live staple.

But it was with the reunion of the Fleetwood/McVie/McVie/ Buckingham/Nicks line-up in 1997 for the intimate live album The Dance that the song found new life.

With an emotional performance of the song followed by the words 'Thank you Lindsay,' and 'Thank you Stevie' all the rifts in the act's most successful line-up seemed to have been publicly healed.

For their 2004 tour the feeling was even stronger and the presence of the track on the Live in Boston DVD and CD is a true highlight.

Now the band are touring stateside and performing the track again.

But just when you thought it couldn't get any better... out comes Nicks' new album, The Soundstage Sessions, with a remarkable studio recording.

The difference in the vocal are clear and the tone of the guitar is miles away from Buckingham's original or his recent live performances.

But the genius lies in Nicks' decision to bring an orchestra in half way through the song - and have the guitar break played by a violin. Very brave and very clever.

There is much more to enjoy on the album including excellent new versions of Stand Back and Sara, the Bonnie Raitt track Circle Dance and Dave Matthews' Crash Into Me.

The accompanying DVD also contains a reworking of Rhiannon, the other best-loved track from the Fleetwood Mac album, and her other signature tunes, Dreams and Gold Dust Woman.

But this is a disc that is genuinely worth buying for one song - a track that tells the story of Nicks' life and times in Fleetwood Mac.

The Soundstage Sessions album and Live In Chicago DVD are out now on Reprise Records.

FLEETWOOD MAC WILL PROBABLY TOUR EUROPE AND AUSTALIA

FLEETWOOD MAC WILL BE IN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA

Stevie Nicks was interviewed today on Philadelphia Classic Rock station WMGK.  When asked about the band going back in to do another album she said they have A LOT of shows to get through first saying the band was touring until June 20th - then taking a break and will probably be touring Europe and Australia after that - then probably back to the US to do more shows - so after all that is done, she hopes they can go in to do another album.

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SALES SPIKE FOR STEVIE'S "STAND BACK"

Presumably because of the release of Stevie's DVD and CD Live in Chicago - Stand Back is the beneficiary of a sales spike on the Top 100 Physical Commercial Sales Chart.  The single "Stand Back" over the last two weeks has been on the chart re-entering the Top 100 near the bottom with 24 copies sold - then leaping up to #53 on the chart (billboard issue date 4/18/09) with 146% sales increase for a total of 59 copies sold for the week. This is for the physical commercially available single only – not digital downloads.  Who knew there was still such a chart!

TOP COMMERCIAL SINGLE SALES:

#53 NICKS*STEVIE - STAND BACK 59 24 +146% (total sales 8,602)

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TWO LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM RADIO INTERVIEWS

Two Interviews with Lindsey Buckingham on Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour.

The first interview was with Lindsey in late February a week or so before leaving for Pittsburgh and the beginning of the tour.  Interviewed on Atlanta station WSRV 97.1 The River.

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

ATLANTA WSRV 97.1fm The River

This second interview on March 4th is just prior to the Auburn Hills, Michigan show:

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

WJR 760am DETROIT

SIX WEEKS INTO FLEETWOOD MAC'S "UNLEASHED" TOUR

The MAC is BACK

In their first tour in five years, Fleetwood Mac unleashes a greatest hits parade

By Len Righi | Of The Morning Call

Six weeks into Fleetwood Mac's "Unleashed" tour, its first in five years, singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie appear to have reined in their combustible personalities and have confined the fireworks to the concert stage.

At least until the last week, when Stevie Nicks questioned Britney Spears' rock-star credentials during an interview on the tabloid TV show "Extra."

The 60-year-old vocalist also created a stir when she told People magazine she whittled almost 60 pounds off her her 5-foot-1 frame using an exercise device called the Power Plate.

But those flare-ups aside, all seems to be harmonious among the members of one of rock's longest-lived bands as Fleetwood Mac prepares to visit the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday.

"Lindsey's been in incredibly good humor since we started rehearsing on the fifth of January," Nicks, the band's only female since keyboardist Christine McVie retired from the road in 1997, reported during a teleconference. "When Lindsey's in a good humor, everybody's happy."

Added Buckingham: "Knowing that we did not succeed as well as we could have last time we did an album and tour together ... we have something to shoot for that is a little higher. ...

"We are a group of contradictions ... [with] the whole being greater than the sum of its parts."

For this tour, Mac has no new record to promote, so its concerts are two-hour-and-20-minute hit parades, relying heavily on material from the '70s and '80s heyday of the band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Nicks, Buckingham, Fleetwood and McVie, supplemented by two musicians and three female backing singers, have been opening with 1975's "Monday Morning" and ending with "Silver Springs," an outtake from 1977's "Rumours" LP.

In between, they've beenplaying trademark tunes such as "Go Your Own Way" and "Don't Stop," as well as Nicks' "Gypsy," Buckingham's "Go Insane," "The Chain," "Tusk," "I Know I'm Not Wrong" "Sara" and "Landslide." The Peter Green-era is represented by the blues track "Oh Well."

Said Buckingham of playing the classic Fleetwood Mac material.

"It frees you up to enjoy each other as people," said Buckingham. "Let's have a good time and value the friendships and history ... It takes the pressure off ... and allows more fun than we would normally be able to have."

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