Saturday, December 03, 2011

Review & Photos: Stevie Nicks with Dave Stewart | Brian McFadden - Perth, AU

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Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart and Brian McFadden
Perth Australia - November 26, 2011
Photos & Review by Mark Diggins
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Stevie Nicks on PBS Tonight. "The Ultimate Buddy Party" begins airing

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"Buddy Holly The Ultimate Buddy Party" Premieres Tonight on PBS in both the US and Canada.  

PBS will premiere “Buddy Holly: Listen To Me/The Ultimate Buddy Party” tonight with performances of his songs by Stevie Nicks, Chris Isaak, Lyle Lovett, Graham Nash, Raul Malo, Paul Anka, Boz Scaggs and several others at a 75th birthday concert that was filmed in Hollywood in September.


Stevie Nicks and some of her band members, Waddy Wachtel, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks perform "Not Fade Away" plus she also performed "It's So Easy" this night although I'm not sure if "It's So Easy" is included on the show.. I hope it is.

SHOW TIMES:
The Listen To Me: Buddy Holly website have compiled a list of ALL PBS stations that will be airing the show and when... There are a lot of opportunities during the month of December to catch the show... Click through to the Listen To Me: Buddy Holly site and up top is the link to the schedule.  It's a pdf file.

THE DVD:
The DVD of this program should also be made available during the broadcast.  It looks like it's an exclusive with PBS and not sold in stores yet.

[Update]

Okay... Saw this last night (Dec 3rd) What a great show and Stevie was really great!!  She sang both "Not Fade Away" plus the Linda Ronstadt tune "It's So Easy". She sounded so good on both! She should do "Not Fade Away" in concert, it's a fun song!

If you are planning on catching this on PBS be warned that Stevie sings "Not Fade Away" right at the beginning of the program, so you won't want to miss the beginning.  It's pledge drive month at PBS so the show was interrupted by PBS announcers asking for contributions.  Part of the deal is with a large enough contribution, the DVD can be yours. Stevie's "It's So Easy" came on about 35 minutes into the program that I saw - but this may vary depending on the market.  In any case.. both songs were great, Stevie looked great, Waddy, Sharon and Lori were with her on Stage... Lori, Sharon and Waddy were on stage practically all night playing.  And I saw her Neice Jessica in the audience when the camera was panning around.

Friday, December 02, 2011

Lindsey Buckingham.. Fleetwood Mac and me

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LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Fleetwood Mac’s visionary guitarist reaps the solo seeds he’s sown 

By Russell Hall

The story of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours is well-worn: Fueled by the angst of the various romantic collisions among the members—singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, singer Stevie Nicks, singer and keyboardist Christine McVie, bass player John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood—the album became one of the best-selling in rock history. But one less-told story is of the way its success set Buckingham’s uniquely dual-natured career in motion. When he pointedly pushed the group in adventurous new musical directions on the 1979 follow-up, Tusk, sales were relatively disappointing. “It forced my hand,” he recalls. “The band insisted we revert back to a more conventional way of making music. Since any sort of experimentation was disallowed, the only way I could do that was to make solo albums.”

And so Buckingham established a two-sided musical life—at once steering the classic-rock behemoth and unleashing a more restless creative spirit in his solo work. “The success of Rumours helped define the big machine of Fleetwood Mac and the small machine of my solo work,” he observes. “I’ve tried to find a balance between the two, a way to have them nurture one another.”

For most of the last decade Buckingham has focused on solo work while embarking on the occasional Mac tour (most recently in 2009). For his new Seeds We Sow, he embraced a true do-it-yourself approach, recording in his home studio and playing nearly every instrument himself. The result reflects the peace Buckingham has found with his wife of 10 years and the couple’s three children. “The whole experience of what I’ve done for all these years has had an element of strangeness,” he admits. “That was true onstage and off, until I was lucky enough to meet my wife. My personal life has never been more solid and grounded.” Buckingham spoke to us from his home in Los Angeles.

Did the Mac tour affect the album?
What was most noteworthy about the Fleetwood Mac tour was that we didn’t have an album to push. It was the first time we had been out there solely to do the body of work we had. That was freeing, and the solo projects I had done prior to that tour allowed me to bring something new to that endeavor. The experience was great, in terms of revisiting a group of songs without feeling as if you’re just resting on your laurels. I came off that tour with a grounded sense of myself. Perhaps that did translate into the approach I took on Seeds We Sow.

How did you start work?
I wasn’t even planning on making an album. There had been talk about additional Fleetwood Mac dates, and I was open to that. But that never happened and suddenly some time opened up. I went into the studio with no preconceptions about what I was going to do or the kind of album it would be. In the end, the album took me in the direction it wanted to go.

Tell us about your home studio.
It’s very basic. I have Pro Tools but I don’t use it a lot. I still do a lot of work using an old reel-to-reel 48-track digital machine. I use a Neotek console that I’ve had since the late ’80s. I was very proactive about this album. I play more on everything than ever before. I’ve always likened the solo work to painting. This was really a pure painting process, where you have a one-on-one with the canvas. It’s a sort of meditative thing you go through. Eventually a point comes, more so than what happens with Fleetwood Mac, where the work starts to lead me places I never expected to go. That makes it exciting.

What’s your writing process?

Full Article at M Music & Musicians

Photos by: Andreas Heuer... Rip It Up with Stevie Nicks & Dave Stewart - Adelaide

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IN YOUR DREAMS TOUR 
Adelaide, Australia - November 23, 2011
Photos by Andreas Heuer


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November 23, 2011 Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Photos by: A & K Photography



Thursday, December 01, 2011

107 Photos Combined: Stevie Nicks | Dave Stewart | Brian McFadden Live in Sydney

STEVIE NICKS - DAVE STEWART - BRIAN MCFADDEN 
IN YOUR DREAMS TOUR 
Sydney Entertainment Centre, November 29, 2011 
Sydney, Australia
Photos by MystifyMe Photography & Sydney Entertainment Centre

31 Photos: GALLERY | SLIDESHOW

































DAVE STEWART
47 Photos: GALLERY | SLIDESHOW
BRIAN MCFADDEN
22 Photos: GALLERY | SLIDESHOW




STEVIE NICKS AND DAVE STEWART
7 Photos: GALLERY | SLIDESHOW








Lindsey Buckingham... One Week Away!

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ONE WEEK away from Opening Night! 
Lindsey Buckingham Seeds We Sow Tour UK/Ireland 
The Seeds We Sow tour kicks off in Birmingham on December 8th at the Symphony Hall.  All Meet and Greet with Sound and Sound Check Premium Packages are SOLD OUT!  There are still tickets left for the show itself via Livenation.... Don't miss the show!  It's Lindsey's FIRST UK & IRELAND Solo Tour!  Gonna be a blast for the fans in the UK & IRELAND who have been waiting years to see a Lindsey show.

Dec. 08: Birmingham (Symphony Hall)
Dec. 09: Salford (The Lowry)
Dec. 11: Leeds (02 Academy)
Dec. 12: Edinburgh (Usher Hall)
Dec. 13: Gateshead (The Sage Gateshead)
Dec. 15: Dublin, Ireland (Olympia Theatre)
Dec. 16: Belfast, Ireland (Waterfront Hall Auditorium)
Dec. 18: Southampton (Southampton Guildhall)
Dec. 19: London (Palladium)