JOHN MCVIE MAKES APPEARANCE WITH JOHN MAYALL - HONOLULU NOV 18TH

Photo by: The Stoddard's Hale

A nearly full house turned out for a concert by Shemekia Copeland and John Mayall Thursday night at Pipeline Cafe in Honolulu, for a lively revival show that paid appropriate homage to the blues masters who created American roots music and rock and roll.

Full Review - Honolulu Pulse

Photo by: Torilife

If all that wasn’t enough: Oldsters who remembered the first wave of British blues were treated to a special treat when John McVie of Fleetwood Mac, who played bass with Mayall way back when as part of the Bluesbreakers and now spends a good bit of his time in Maui, stepped up on stage for a couple of songs with the band. McVie was extremely gracious, taking time after his appearance to speak with everyone who wanted a word.

UNEARTHED 1997 FLEETWOOD MAC INTERVIEW AND PERFORMANCE

Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham. All the players are here. In the following clips, the band is interviewed in North Hollywood, California, during their rehearsals for the CD and live TV Concert "The Dance". The interview took place on April 18 1997.

Enjoy these rare, behind the scenes interviews and performances from Fleetwood Mac!

Thank you to JeffreyChristIsAlive for posting these 4 parts.

Possible Australian Tour With Mick Fleetwood Band and ZZ Top

TimeOffMag (@TimeOffMag) 10-11-15 9:51 PM Whispers are circulating about ZZ Top, Mick Fleetwood Blues Band and The Dingoes touring Australia around Easter with no Brisbane date...

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A COUPLE OF NOTABLE BLU-RAY RELEASES - BOTH INCLUDE STEVIE NICKS

Runnin’ Down A Dream

Peter Bogdanovich’s Grammy-Award winning film about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers is now available on Blu-ray for the first time. The Blu-ray version of Runnin’ Down A Dream can be purchased exclusively at Amazon.com until December 21st. At that time it will be released via all other outlets.

[Really great documentary if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.]

In one segment, Tom describes how it came to be that Stevie recorded "Stop Draggin My Heart Around".  This doc also includes Tom and Stevie in the recording studio putting the vocals on the track & Jimmy Iovine talking about how he knew the song was going to be a winner with Stevie singing a song from a guys perspective... and of course Stevie's in here herself commenting on the song.

Source: TomPetty.com

Heavy Metal

With The Walking Dead, Dead Rising, and Call of Duty: Black Ops, zombies are riding quite the wave of success right now. The inclusion of a zombie sequence in producer Ivan Reitman's 1981 animated Heavy Metal may be why Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has revealed plans to bring the edgy and very R-rated film to Blu-ray Disc on January 25.

Heavy Metal's collection of short stories are linked by a glowing green alien orb that spread destruction in its wake. John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus and Harold Ramis all lend their voices to characters that fight the orb's powers behind a great 80s soundtrack powered by Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Devo, Donald Fagen, Don Felder, Grand Funk Railroad, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Nazareth, Stevie Nicks (Blue Lamp), Riggs, and Trust.

Stevie Nicks "BLUE LAMP"

Heavy Metal on Blu-ray will be presented in 1.85:11080p video and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. The 'Imagining Heavy Metal' documentary and deleted scenes are the only known bonus features at this time.

Source: TheHDRoom

CHART UPDATES: FLEETWOOD MAC, IRELAND, UK, AUSTRALIA ALBUMS CHARTS

Top 100 Albums Chart - UK

Week of 20th November, 2010

Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" moves down six spots on the Top 100 chart to #76 this week.

Top 100 Albums Chart - Ireland

Week Ending 11th November, 2010

Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" moves down this week to #65 from #51.

Top 50 Albums Chart - Australia

Week of 15th November, 2010

• On the Top 50 Album Chart, Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" moves up to #32 after re-entering last week at #43.
• On the Top 50 Catalogue Chart the 2cd set moves up to #2 from last weeks #4.  
• On the Top 50 Physical Albums Chart, the disc moves up to #27 from #33 last week.

The set was recently certified 6x Platinum in Australia = 420,000 units shipped in Australia.

Fleetwood Mac Wall Street Journal Mention - TPG Capital Private Show

How Private Equity Got Its Groove Back - Private Equity Beat - WSJ: 

Last month, TPG Capital wowed investors at its annual meeting with more than portfolio company data. The firm, which manages some $48 billion in assets across various fund families, brought in superstar band Fleetwood Mac as part of the extracurricular entertainment, according to two of the firm’s backers.

It’s not uncommon for private equity firms to roll out some form of evening or afternoon entertainment to break up what is often a long day of presentations at annual meetings. One of the firm’s founding partners, David Bonderman is an avid rock and roll fan and made headlines back in 2002, when he hired the Rolling Stones and John Mellencamp to play at his 60th birthday party. The firm has also brought in other well known musicians, including former members of The Eagles, at prior annual meetings, according to one of TPG’s backers. A third person familiar with TPG said that the cost of hiring Fleetwood Mac was borne by the firm itself and not its investors.

Full Article: Wall Street Journal Blog
Photos by: Richseow

DAVE AND STEVIE... STUDIO SHOT

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High Resolution artwork for "The Blackbird Diaries" has been released and includes spectacular photo of Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks in the studio... You may recall this photo was used in the David Wild piece that appeared in Rollingstone Magazine a couple of months ago reporting on the recording of Stevie's new album that Dave is producing [here].  Great shot, nice to see that it made the inside of the album cover.

The artwork for Dave's Double Gatefold Double Vinyl Album of "The Blackbird Diaries" can be downloaded at Dave Stewarts Martini Moment website.   To check out the album sampler go here. And when you're done with that... check out the video for Dave and Colbie Caillat's "Bullet Proof Vest".  The track appears on the album... They sound great together.