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Top 20 Concert Tours
4/22/2009
The Associated Press
(AP) — The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
TOP 20 CONCERT TOURS
1. (1) Britney Spears; $2,287,230; $100.69.
2. (2) Elton John / Billy Joel; $2,185,634; $115.84.
3. (3) Celine Dion; $2,029,095;$108.17.
4. (4) Eagles; $1,691,056; $130.12.
5. (5) AC/DC; $1,409,211; $85.12.
6. (6) Fleetwood Mac; $1,169,580; $99.27.
7. (7) Nickelback; $787,420; $58.38.
8. (8) Rascal Flatts; $656,209; $61.08.
9. (9) Lil' Wayne; $582,663; $66.26.
10. (10) Brad Paisley; $454,374; $48.30.
11. (11) Motley Crue; $382,436; $54.11.
12. (12) Jeff Dunham; $272,548; $44.17.
13. (13) The Killers; $265,429; $42.01.
14. (14) Slipknot; $249,015; $37.83.
15. (15) New Kids On The Block; $231,931; $54.03.
16. (16) Avenged Sevenfold / Buckcherry; $186,182; $36.94.
17. (17) John Legend; $173,355; $55.28.
18. (18) Larry The Cable Guy; $172,301; $32.82.
19. (20) Rain ? A Tribute To The Beatles; $168,160; $47.40.
20. (21) Bill Gaither & Friends Homecoming; $143,407; $34.84.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
FLEETWOOD MAC - POTENTIALLY LUCRATIVE VICTORY LAP
Fleetwood Mac finds there is great fun in revisiting classic tunesBy PRESTON JONES
DFW.COM
The cycle for rock legends is numbingly familiar: Achieve stratospheric success, release a so-so album, fall off the top of the world, disappear for a bit and gradually — if luck holds — inch back into the spotlight for a potentially lucrative victory lap.
It has become a cliché that superstars like Fleetwood Mac know all too well. Fortunately, the star-crossed pair of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have carved out respectable solo careers, which not only allows the band to take much-needed breathers but also makes endeavors like the "Unleashed: Hits Tour 2009" an opportunity for, surprisingly, creative rejuvenation.
"[Having] solo work and Fleetwood Mac is a really great thing to be able to go back and forth," Nicks said in a recent conference call with the four remaining band members. "It really is kind of a blessing in many ways. . . . It’s like it’s you never get bored. . . . It really makes for staying in a much more excited and uplifted humor for everything that you do when you’re not just doing one thing year after year after year after year after year."
Fleetwood Mac, sans keyboardist Christine McVie, who bid the band adieu in 1998 (although she did contribute a bit to 2003’s reunion record, Say You Will), will play Dallas’ American Airlines Center on Thursday.
Back to basics
The multiplatinum rockers haven’t released any new material since Say You Will, nor have they toured extensively (this stop marks the band’s first Dallas performance in five years), and they are hitting the road without anything in stores or even on the horizon, aside from a possible re-release of the 1977 masterpiece Rumours. Freed from promotional obligations, the band is able to get back to basics, Mick Fleetwood said.
"This is the first time that we’ve gone on the road without an album," said Fleetwood. "It is, truly, believe it or not, a refreshing thing to do in terms of selecting a whole lot of really emotively connected songs to the audience that we’ve enjoyed having through the years."
Buckingham echoed Fleetwood’s sentiments, saying that the absence of commercial expectations makes the band’s famously volatile relationships less susceptible to explosion.
"What it does is it kind of frees you up to kind of enjoy each other a little bit more as people — the mantra is really more, 'Let’s just have a good time’ and value the friendships and the history that really underpins this whole experience that we’ve had over these years," he said.
"It takes a little pressure off not having to kind of reinvent anything this particular time. Because of that we are actually able to just look at the body of work and choose. And then just have a little bit more fun with it than we would normally be able to have," Buckingham said.
Still, pounding out the same hits every night — The Chain, Go Your Own Way, Don’t Stop or any of the band’s considerable string of smash singles — can be a precarious proposition. Become too comfortable and it looks as though you’re going through the motions. Change it up too much and you’re messing with what people plunked down hefty chunks of change to see.
"It stays fresh because we never stop playing," Nicks said. "Basically, what we are is entertainers. Even if this band had never made it big, we’d be playing all the clubs, we’d be still doing that. So when we go onstage, we’re performers. It isn’t a question of keeping it fresh because it’s what we love — we don’t have anything else, basically, to do."
A new album?
Inevitably, the question was raised about whether Fleetwood Mac would head into the studio and cut a new album once this tour wraps?
And, just as expected, the band tried to artfully evade answering.
"There have been discussions, for sure, that we would love to make some more music," Fleetwood said. "I think it’s really down to the whole sort of biorhythms of how everyone is feeling and what’s appropriate. We have careers and families and whole different sort of perspectives from what it would have been, you know, 20, 30 years ago, and going onwards from there."
Buckingham, while waxing rhapsodic about the opportunities he’s had as a solo artist, took a bit more expansive view of the future.
"We’ve been down this road — a long, long road together," he said. "In some ways we know each other better than we know anybody else. I think that we all want to dignify the road we’ve been down . . . and I just think we all want to get to a place where we all feel that unity is waiting in the wings.
"It’s not that we’re not unified, but it is still a work in progress. I think that’s one of the main meanings of what we’re doing right now. So I actually feel quite excited to be able to go out and just relax into playing a body of work you know."
Fleetwood Mac
8 p.m. Thursday
American Airlines Center, Dallas
$49.50-$149.50
800-745-3000; www.ticketmaster.com
Preston Jones is the Star-Telegram pop music critic, 817-390-7713
FLEETWOOD MAC HEADED BACK TO ATLANTIC CITY
Mac Attack in AyCee
Philly.com
Don't know why this should matter to anybody, but Fleetwood Mac is headed back to Atlantic City.
Tickets go on sale next Saturday (May 2) at 10 a.m. for the Caesars Atlantic City-sponsored, June 13 Boardwalk Hall gig by the pop-rock outfit that dominated the musical world in the latter part of the 1970s.
The Boardwalk Hall stop is part of the group’s “Unleashed” tour on which they’re serving up a program of “greatest hits.” In case your wondering, Stevie Nicks (vocals), Lindsey Buckingham (guitar) Mick Fleetwood (drums) and John McVie (bass) remain in the band, but singer-keyboardist Christine McVie is no longer performing.
Show time is 8 p.m. Admission is $149.50, $79.50 and $49.50. For tickets, call (800) 736-1420, www.ticketmaster.com.
WIN YOUR MOM TICKETS TO FLEETWOOD MAC
Live Nation and Metromix wants to give your mom two tickets to Fleetwood Mac
This is the perfect opportunity to show your mom just how much you appreciate what she's done for you. And we're pretty sure, if your mom is exactly like ours, she is a huge Fleetwood Mac fan.
Fleetwood Mac is coming to the Pepsi Center IN DENVER on Mother's Day. She's sure to dub you "Mr. Wonderful." Featuring a line-up of John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckinham and Stevie Nicks, the current "Unleashed Tour" promises to be a show not to miss. The tour is in conjunction with the re-release of the band's classic 1977 album "Rumors."
All you have to do to win your mom tickets is answer the question below.
Why is your mom the best mom in the world?
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This is the perfect opportunity to show your mom just how much you appreciate what she's done for you. And we're pretty sure, if your mom is exactly like ours, she is a huge Fleetwood Mac fan.
Fleetwood Mac is coming to the Pepsi Center IN DENVER on Mother's Day. She's sure to dub you "Mr. Wonderful." Featuring a line-up of John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckinham and Stevie Nicks, the current "Unleashed Tour" promises to be a show not to miss. The tour is in conjunction with the re-release of the band's classic 1977 album "Rumors."
All you have to do to win your mom tickets is answer the question below.
Why is your mom the best mom in the world?
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FLEETWOOD MAC IN BALTIMORE, MD - JUNE 10th
New date added to the June list of dates added a few days ago. Ticketmaster is confirming:
Baltimore, MD
June 10, 2009
First Mariner Arena
Tickets onsale:
Pre-sale
American Express
Start: Fri, 04/24/09 10:00 AM EDT
End: Fri, 05/01/09 10:00 PM EDT
Onsale to General Public
Start: Mon, 05/04/09 10:00 AM EDT
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CHRIS ISAAK HOUR with STEVIE NICKS (Re-Broadcast)
RE-BROADCAST
The Chris Isaak Hour
with Stevie Nicks
- Thursday, April 23 10:00pm
- Friday, April 24 2:00am
- Saturday, May 2 8:00am
- Sunday, May 3 7:00am
- Friday, April 24 2:00am
- Saturday, May 2 8:00am
- Sunday, May 3 7:00am
FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 ARIZONA STADIUM
Back in the day with Fleetwood MacAZStarnet.com
The last concert held at Arizona Stadium was headlined by Fleetwood Mac, which was touring behind the release of a little-known gem called "Rumours."
Described as the hottest band in the country at the time, Fleetwood Mac shared the stage with superstar artists Kenny Loggins and the Marshall Tucker Band, along with local band Arizona.
An estimated 67,000 people jammed the football field and nearly filled the stands that hot Saturday night on Aug. 27, 1977, to make for the largest crowd of rock fans Arizona had ever seen.
Tickets were $8 to $10, and the show grossed some $430,000. The Arizona division of the American Heart Association was the major beneficiary.
Still, authorities estimated hundreds of people got in free in the crush that ensued once the gates opened. The surging crowd knocked a deputy down a flight of stairs, and a 16-year-old girl was trampled and suffered an injured elbow.
Fans had started camping outside the stadium at 6 p.m. the night before, 23 hours before the music was scheduled to begin.
The concert ended about 11:30 p.m. after more than six hours of music. Fleetwood Mac played for more than two hours, and an Arizona Daily Star reviewer said Stevie Nicks' vocals and the guitar of Lindsey Buckingham stole the show.
Large clouds of marijuana smoke hovered above the crowd, along with sporadic flares and firecrackers.
Overall, authorities called the concert a peaceful event and nowhere near the mayhem they had prepared for.
Afterward, Chuck Raetzman, UA's superintendent of grounds, labor, maintenance and transportation at the time, was quoted as saying the field suffered no severe damage.
He added that if any part of the field was still faded by the time the Wildcats' televised home-opener rolled around, it would be painted green for television. The center of the field reportedly suffered the most damage from "compaction."
Concern over Arizona Stadium's field was one of the main reasons ASUA moved the stage to the sidelines, off the playing field, for Wednesday's performance.
FLEETWOOD MAC HIGH PRIESTESS STEVIE NICKS
April 23rd, 2009
Stevie Nicks - (Reprise/Warner)
The Soundstage Sessions
by: Bugs Burnett
Fleetwood Mac high priestess Stevie Nicks always brought a folk and country sensibility to her rock'n'roll, and this 10-track selection of some of her best and biggest, recorded live in Chicago for her 2007 PBS Soundstage performance, includes Sara, Landslide, Rhiannon and a speedy hard-rocking version of Stand Back. Her vocals are quite good - Stevie still hits all the high notes - especially on the sweeping ballad Beauty and the Beast, complete with string section.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
(REVIEW) FLEETWOOD MAC - TAMPA, FLORIDA
TAMPA –- When Christine McVie ditched Fleetwood Mac in 1998, the piano-playing songbird took with her any semblance of levity that existed in the bed-hopping, turmoil-tossing band. She made loving fun; the rest of ’em made loving sound like a knife fight.
The remaining quartet, which played the St. Pete Times Forum on Wednesday, is now built solely on headstrong, prickly pieces: the steady apathy of bassist John McVie, the googly-eyed madness of warlockian drummer Mick Fleetwood, the beautifully broken mysticism of singer Stevie Nicks (left), the winning petulance of guitar virtuoso Lindsey.
"As many of you know, Fleetwood Mac has had a complex and convoluted emotional history," Buckingham told the tidy, intense crowd of 10,008 fans. But for this tour, he added, they "just wanted to go out and have fun."
Fun is a relative term when most of your shattered-sunset songs are about how much you once despised the person next to you. For a good part of five decades, the Mac has been dysfunctionally functional. Even though all but one member is now in their 60s, those crazy kids are still working out their junk onstage. That said, they're also really good at their jobs. FULL REVIEW
Video of: Monday Morning, The Chain & Dreams
NO BAND DOES DYSFUNCTION LIKE FLEETWOOD MAC
By Lisa O'Donnell | Journal Columnist and Reporter
No band does dysfunction like Fleetwood Mac.
Tales of cults and cocaine, breakups and bankruptcies, affairs and addictions are as much a part of the band's story as the California brand of rock that made it one of the superstar acts of the '70s.
Some 40 years after forming in the heyday of the British blues revival, Fleetwood Mac appears finally to have put behind it the bad chemicals and chemistry that nearly turned it into an oldies act. (Remember the Fleetwood Mac/Reo Speedwagon/Pat Benatar tour of 1996? We are trying to forget it as well.)
During a recent teleconference, the four remaining members of this famously fractured band -- co-founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, along with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks -- sounded as if they have to come terms with each other and are ready to move into an era of good feeling.
"We are a group of great contradictions," Buckingham said. "The members don't necessarily have any business being in a band together because the range of sensibilities is so disparate."
On Saturday, this shiny, happy version of the band will play Charlotte (the Greensboro concert was canceled because of "scheduling conflicts") as part of the "Unleashed Tour." It marks the first time that the band is touring without a new album. Instead of pushing new songs, the set list will be heavy with hits from the Fleetwood Mac and Rumours albums with a few seldom-played deep cuts sprinkled in for good measure.
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