MICK FLEETWOOD GUEST DRUMMER ON SCOTT WEST BAND ALBUM

San Diego Reader | Keep It Clean: "A new album by the Scott West Band, Austin (featuring guest drummer Mick Fleetwood), will drop in June."

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MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND TOUR IN JEOPARDY

Kansas State Fair loses another big act
Victoria Advocate

ZZ TOP have cancelled another one of their formerly committed to dates with The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band as their show opener.

Officials of the Kansas State Fair are scrambling to fill not one but two slots in their music lineup after the second cancellation by a top grandstand act.

Fair officials said Tuesday that ZZ Top scratched its Sept. 19 performance. The venerable Texas blues-rock trio has accepted an invitation instead to tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - a tour with no Midwestern dates.

Fair director Denny Stoecklein said ZZ Top and its opening act, the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, had already sold 1,599 tickets in the week since tickets went on sale. Fleetwood's band also canceled.

"We are very disappointed in this action," said Stoecklein. "ZZ Top and its management authorized us to announce the concert, authorized us to go on sale with tickets, and had issued a contract."

Stoecklein said he has contacted Kansas Attorney General Steve Six's office to explore possible recourse and recover damages associated with the cancellation.

FLEETWOOD MAC UK CHART UPDATE... RUMOURS AND TVBO

UK
TOP 100 UK ALBUMS CHART AND CATALOGUE - May 17, 2010

Rumours is sitting at #27 on the Top 40 Catalogue Charts in the UK. Rumours has been bouncing around on the chart since late last year... It's placed on the Catalogue Charts on the following dates.

#28 - Dec 5, 2009
#40 - Dec 19, 2009
#15 - Feb 27, 2010
#31 - Mar 3, 2010
#39 - Mar 27, 2010
#36 - Apr 3, 2010
#33 - Apr 17, 2010
#37 - Apr 24, 2010
#40 - May 1, 2010
#40 - May 8, 2010
#27 - May 15, 2010

Fleetwood Mac's 4x platinum "The Very Best Of" continues it's downward trend - dropping an additional 10 spots to #85 this week. This could be it's last week on the Top 100 UK Charts. After 30 weeks that's not a bad run considering it's a reissue of a 2002 set albeit in double disc form. Total weeks combined for the 2002 and 2009 releases is 209 weeks on the UK Top 100.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763 units sold
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541 units sold
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895 units sold
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010
Week 22 #37 - Mar 22, 2010
Week 23 #41 - Mar 29, 2010
Week 24 #42 - Apr 05, 2010
Week 25 #48 - Apr 12, 2010
Week 26 #53 - Apr 19, 2010
Week 27 #57 - Apr 26, 2010
Week 28 #63 - May 03, 2010
Week 29 #75 - May 10, 2010
Week 30 #85 - May 17, 2010

FLEETWOOD MAC / STEVIE NICKS AUSTRALIAN ALBUM CHARTS UPDATE (MAY 17, 2010)

AUSTRALIA

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - May 17, 2010

Week 13 for Fleetwood Mac's 12x Platinum "Rumours" places it at #10 down from #5 last week.

Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum "The Very Best Of" (350,000 copies shipped) holds on to the #49 spot again this week on the Top 50 Catalogue chart. Total weeks on the Chart for the two disc reissue = 27.

Stevie Nicks 2007 release "Crystal Visions The Very Best of Stevie Nicks" in it's second week on the catalogue chart drops to #40 this week from #32 last week.

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM SURFACES ALIVE AND INTACT AT HIS HOME

It appears Lindsey Buckingham is alive and well!  Picking this up via Facebook: Amy Kimball Events

"Attended a fabulous charity luncheon at the home of Lindsey Buckingham in L.A. last week to benefit PS Arts--a great organization:

Way to go Lindsey for supporting the Arts programs in California schools!!

The seventh annual P.S. Arts Bag Lunch, where, yes, both lunch and bags were offered—within a safe distance of one another was held at Lindsey and Kristen Buckingham’s Brentwood estate, the fundraiser included a picnic, a DJ, and dozens of designer handbags sold to benefit the L.A.-based arts nonprofit.

STEVIE NICKS LAKE TAHOE OUTDOOR ARENA - TICKETMASTER INFO

STEVIE NICKS

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THE RULES

PHOTOS: STEVIE NICKS & LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM W/ FLEETWOOD MAC SEATTLE, WA RUMOURS TOUR '77

A couple more photos of Fleetwood Mac from

Seattle, WA September 3, 1977

by Bill Hansen

STEVIE NICKS ADDS INITIAL SUMMER DATES

KSHE 95 = REAL ROCK RADIO: "STEVIE NICKS ADDS INITIAL SUMMER DATES

5/13/2010

Stevie Nicks has announced three East Coast summer dates for late August -- August 25th in Verona, New York at the Event Center At Turning Stone Resort Casino; August 27th in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Mark G. Etess Arena; and August 28th in Mashantucket, Connecticut at MGM Grand At Foxwoods. Although no other dates have been posted, more shows are expected to be announced.

After six years of massive hits with Fleetwood Mac, 1981's Bella Donna solidified her position as a major mover in '80s rock. Nicks says that she hopes that her decades of singing, writing and performing have helped inspire future generations of women to do the same: 'I hope that I'm a part of the reason why they make music, you know? I always wanted to be inspirational to other singers, and I wanted to be a success story for women where they could say, 'Well, she made it. I could make it, too.' It seems that somehow I've managed to do that. I never really tried to do that, but it seems that that has happened.'

Nicks has been recording a joint project with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. Little is known about the joint set except for the fact that violinist Ann Marie Calhoun has contributed to some tracks. There's been no word as to when new album will be released."

Friday: STEVIE NICKS: Night of 1,000 Stevie's NBC New York

Friday: Night of 1,000 Stevies |
NBC New York: "Whose tambourine will reign supreme at the 20th annual Nicks-a-Thon?"

It's one thing to buy someone's music and declare yourself a fan. It's quite another to worship a musician so wholly and completely, you organize a massive costumed tribute-fest to her and then keep it going for 20 straight years.

Full Story - NBC New York

CATCH STEVIE NICKS ON BBC 4 MAY 14th AND MAY 17th

TOM PETTY - RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM - BBC 4
May 14th: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream - BBC 4. 9.00pm - 1.00am repeating again on May 17th 12.40am - 4.40am

Feature-length profile of one of America's best-known rock 'n' roll bands, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The documentary includes extended interviews with the musicians and their friends, including Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and Rick Rubin, to chart the performers' independent-minded approach to their music and careers through more than 30 years on the road.

This documentary was commercially released back in the fall of 2008.  It's really extensive and well done.  You can read more about the documentary from my post back in October, 2008 - HERE 

MICK FLEETWOOD DURING FILMING OF "GET A JOB"

MICK FLEETWOOD YESTERDAY - ON THE SET OF THE MOVIE "GET A JOB" 

ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI
Photos and Video by: augieradioshow