FLEETWOOD MAC LIGHTING DESIGNER

Martin LC Series for Fleetwood Mac “Unleashed” Tour

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Seminal rock band and fan favorite Fleetwood Mac is touring North America with high flying Martin Professional LC Series™ LED panels incorporated as dynamically dominate set pieces. 

Production Designer is Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc. of Minneapolis who handled lighting, set, video and content for the tour. “I decided early on that I wanted a clean, simple look that complemented the band,” he says, “and I wanted to use technology in a way that enabled us to create modern versions of retro themes. We wound up using a lot of high tech equipment to try and make it look low tech.”

He commented on the decision to use the Martin LC panels in the design: “I spoke very early on to Brad Haynes at Martin US about incorporating EvenLED (LED panels) into six large scale curved light boxes that are the centerpiece to the design but ran into some logistical obstacles on our end that made us move in a different direction. 

“On advice from our crew chief Ronald Beal at rehearsals, we realized the LC panels would fit into our set pieces and accomplish what we wanted to from the beginning, and from the second they powered up they looked fantastic.”

Guthrie has 42 of the 1 x 2 m LC Series LED panels installed to internally light the light boxes as well as run graphical content for effects. Visual content was created by Guthrie himself who also programmed the show. 

Martin’s bright, modular, lightweight LED panels (40 mm pixel pitch) are often praised for their ease of set up. They use standard Prolyte CCS6 conical truss connectors, so linking the panels together is simple, and with no external power supplies or drivers, each unit comes with everything it needs built in.

Fleetwood Mac’s “Unleashed” tour launched in early March and is playing large arenas in the U.S. and Canada through the summer. The tour is being run by lighting director Axis DeBruyn and reports have the LC panels operating just fine.

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With his critically acclaimed 2008 record, Gift of Screws, Lindsey Buckingham proves that his songwriting resonates as much today as it did during the very height of his years with Fleetwood Mac. The album originated with sessions recorded in the ‘90s, with some of the tracks finding a home on Fleetwood Mac’s Say You Will, while other tracks were newly written for the release. The result is a fresh and triumphant new sound which sees Buckingham take his characteristic layered vocals and hook-laden choruses into new and exciting sonic territory.

Now is your chance to win a copy of Gift of Screws, signed by Lindsey Buckingham. One lucky grand prize winner will also get to perfect their own songwriting skills with a Rick Turner guitar, also signed by Lindsey! Don’t pass up this once-in-a-lifetime prize pack—enter now.

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FLEETWOOD MAC TICKET GIVE AWAY - ST. LOUIS

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ST. LOUIS show

Metromix is bringing you a great deal on all lower level tickets to see Fleetwood Mac and we're sharing the discount with you! Follow the directions below and get lower level tickets for the show (regurlarly priced at $79.50) for $49.50.

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FLEETWOOD MAC IN ATLANTIC CITY JUNE 13th

LIVE NATION is confirming that Fleetwood Mac will be at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on June 13th.

Public On-Sale Date: 5/2/09

FLEETWOOD MAC IN SASKATOON JUNE 5th

LIVENATION is confirming that Fleetwood Mac will be in Saskatoon at the Credit Union Centre on June 5th.

On Sale Friday: 4/24/09

Radio Presales: 4/22/09

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FLEETWOOD MAC IN NYC - MSG JUNE 11TH

Ticketmaster nis confirming that Fleetwood Mac will be back in New York City at MSG on June 11th.  

Presale begins: Mon, 04/27/09 10am for AMEX, ends Thursday 4/30/09

Onsale to General Public Start: Fri, 05/01/09 10:00 AM EDT

FLEETWOOD MAC IN WINNIPEG, CANADA JUNE 6th

LIVE NATION is confirming that Fleetwood Mac will be in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on June 6th at the MTS Centre.

Tickets onsale this Friday: 4/24/09

Radio Presales: 4/23/09

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PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Orlando, FL

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REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac - Orlando, Florida

Fleetwood Mac turns back the clock at Amway Arena

by JimAbbott

Orlando Sentinel

When it comes to nostalgia, Fleetwood Mac’s "Unleashed" tour occupies the same neighborhood as the Eagles latest reunion trek.  Like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac reliably delivered a boatload of vintage hits in a generous 2 hours and 20 minutes on Monday at Amway Arena.

Unleashed, however, implies a sense of abandon and risk that Fleetwood Mac doesn’t reach that often. Instead, band members Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and John McVie offer a combination of precision and pacing. 

It’s a decent trade. 

With keyboardist Christine McVie now retired from the band, it was pretty much the Buckingham-Nicks show. Although the duo harmonizes as well as ever on the signature songs, it was hard for longtime fans not to miss the sweetness of McVie’s voice in the mix. A trio of backing vocalists and two additional musicians added texture to the hits.

And there wasn’t any shortage of them: "The Chain," "Dreams" "Gypsy," "Rhiannon," "Second Hand News," "Say You Love Me," "Go Your Own Way." Hearing them again, for those of a certain age, is as much a reminder of a bygone radio era as the band’s formidable catalog.

At age 60 (!), Nicks is still a mystical presence, even if she mostly stands in silhouette with her beaded capes instead of doing those spins.

Buckingham, at the same age, remains an under-appreciated guitarist capable of intricate acoustic picking and fiery rock-star heroics.

His creative abuse of an electric guitar in "I’m So Afraid" and other solos offered the best justification for that "unleashed" title.

Nicks and Buckingham were pretty chatty, too. She introduced "Gypsy" by explaining that "there are many meanings to a song, not just one." He aptly described "Second Hand News" as a song that dealt with the band’s fractious personal relationships "with a lot of humor, a lot of optimism and certainly a lot of aggression."

In a rare departure from the familiar arrangements, the band offered slight twist on "Never Going Back Again," slowing it down into a moodier ballad.

The Nicks-Buckingham chemistry ignited sparks in that song, a lovely version of "Landslide" and in "Sara," when she gently rested her head on his shoulder.

At such moments, when it was evident how much of the band’s history was tied up in the music, nostalgia just wasn’t enough to cover it.

A few back-of-the-notebook observations out of Monday's Fleetwood Mac concert at Amway Arena.

1.) The band did an admirable job of filling the place. Except for a few pockets of empty seats in the back of the lower bowl, it was pretty much packed. Don't want to shatter anyone's illusions, but this was an older crowd. Some people on the floor looked to be in the Engelbert demographic. Was that '70s really that long ago?

2.) This crowd still knows how to party. Reason? Occasional scent of marijuana floating in the air in my lower-bowl section. You don't catch a whiff of that too often at arena concerts anymore.