Presumably because of the release of Stevie's DVD and CD Live in Chicago - Stand Back is the beneficiary of a sales spike on the Top 100 Physical Commercial Sales Chart. The single "Stand Back" over the last two weeks has been on the chart re-entering the Top 100 near the bottom with 24 copies sold - then leaping up to #53 on the chart (billboard issue date 4/18/09) with 146% sales increase for a total of 59 copies sold for the week. This is for the physical commercially available single only – not digital downloads. Who knew there was still such a chart!
TOP COMMERCIAL SINGLE SALES:
#53 NICKS*STEVIE - STAND BACK 59 24 +146% (total sales 8,602)
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Two Interviews with Lindsey Buckingham on Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour.
The first interview was with Lindsey in late February a week or so before leaving for Pittsburgh and the beginning of the tour. Interviewed on Atlanta station WSRV 97.1 The River.
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
ATLANTA WSRV 97.1fm The River
This second interview on March 4th is just prior to the Auburn Hills, Michigan show:
Six weeks into Fleetwood Mac's "Unleashed" tour, its first in five years, singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie appear to have reined in their combustible personalities and have confined the fireworks to the concert stage.
At least until the last week, when Stevie Nicks questioned Britney Spears' rock-star credentials during an interview on the tabloid TV show "Extra."
The 60-year-old vocalist also created a stir when she told People magazine she whittled almost 60 pounds off her her 5-foot-1 frame using an exercise device called the Power Plate.
But those flare-ups aside, all seems to be harmonious among the members of one of rock's longest-lived bands as Fleetwood Mac prepares to visit the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
"Lindsey's been in incredibly good humor since we started rehearsing on the fifth of January," Nicks, the band's only female since keyboardist Christine McVie retired from the road in 1997, reported during a teleconference. "When Lindsey's in a good humor, everybody's happy."
Added Buckingham: "Knowing that we did not succeed as well as we could have last time we did an album and tour together ... we have something to shoot for that is a little higher. ...
"We are a group of contradictions ... [with] the whole being greater than the sum of its parts."
For this tour, Mac has no new record to promote, so its concerts are two-hour-and-20-minute hit parades, relying heavily on material from the '70s and '80s heyday of the band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Nicks, Buckingham, Fleetwood and McVie, supplemented by two musicians and three female backing singers, have been opening with 1975's "Monday Morning" and ending with "Silver Springs," an outtake from 1977's "Rumours" LP.
In between, they've beenplaying trademark tunes such as "Go Your Own Way" and "Don't Stop," as well as Nicks' "Gypsy," Buckingham's "Go Insane," "The Chain," "Tusk," "I Know I'm Not Wrong" "Sara" and "Landslide." The Peter Green-era is represented by the blues track "Oh Well."
Said Buckingham of playing the classic Fleetwood Mac material.
"It frees you up to enjoy each other as people," said Buckingham. "Let's have a good time and value the friendships and history ... It takes the pressure off ... and allows more fun than we would normally be able to have."
"WE wanted to make music again," announces Lindsey Buckingham. "We have no album to promote so we're just going to have fun."
It isn't an idle boast. In a gobsmacking two-and- a-half-hour set, the guitarist leads the Mac - and a team of five backing musicians - through dazzling versions of classics like The Chain, Rhiannon, Big Love and a breathtaking Go Your Own Way.
While Stevie Nicks smiles, sways, twirls and sings like an angel, the rhythm section of John McVie and Mick Fleetwood drive everything along at cracking pace.
Buckingham himself, meanwhile, is on stunning form, letting fly with a silvered solo here, a chunky chord sequence there
One of the highpoints is a rare performance of the Peter Green classic Oh Well but, to be honest, it's hard to pick a standout in a show absolutely packed with them.
They finish with dazzling romps through Don't Stop and Silver Springs. Afterwards, Mick tells A-Listed he hopes to bring this greatest hits tour to Britain later in the year. Make sure you beg, steal or borrow to be there.
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Lab club jocks Roctakon and DJ Eli split sides on the people's champ Money Lotion, now on its seventh release. Roc reveals two of his highly sweated Material Girl remixes (1,2) on the A-side, while Eli gently places a Stevie Nicks rework(3) on the b-side altar, complete with drumapella for mix tricks(4). Super-limited pressing of 500 with silkscreened covers. Recommended.
FULL "STAND BACK REMIX" AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT: OUTSIDE BROADCAST
It's one of rock's most enduring love stories, one that's played out in the media, "Behind the Music" and the imaginations of millions of fans for decades: Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
Nicks and Buckingham first met in high school, when Buckingham was singing at a party and Nicks walked up and joined him.
"We were at some get-together and he was there, sitting, playing his guitar — [the Mamas and the Papas' hit] 'California Dreamin' ' — and I walked up and brazenly burst into harmony with him. It was cool, and I said 'I'm Stevie Nicks' and he said 'I'm Lindsey Buckingham.' I never saw him again for two years, until he was in a band and he remembered that night and he called and asked me to join their band."
That second meeting resulted in the formation of their romantic relationship as well as their musical career. They released an album entitled Buckingham Nicks in 1973 (the cover of which is a photograph of the two of them topless). Two years later, they joined — and revitalized — Fleetwood Mac, which was formed as a blues band by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie in 1967, but became one of the biggest pop acts of all time after Buckingham and Nicks joined. Their eponymous 1975 album and 1977's Rumours were among the biggest sellers of the era.
Yet with success came discord: Nicks and Buckingham's always-tumultuous romance unraveled in 1976; McVie and keyboardist Christine McVie filed for divorce, and drummer Mick Fleetwood divorced his wife as well. The result of such romantic turmoil was famously reflected in the songs on Rumours.
The group split in the 1980'sand, with the exception of their 1993 performance of "Don't Stop" at President Bill Clinton's inaugural ball, did not reunite until 1996 for The Dance. The album includes "Silver Springs," a song that that did not make the final cut of Rumours, much to Nicks' dismay, but it remains a striking representation of the Nicks and Buckingham's relationship ("Time casts a spell on you, but you wont forget me/ I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me").
On Fleetwood Mac's recent tour, which Buckingham has described as "fun" and "drama-free," and Nicks' agreed that the two are in a better spot than in the past.
"I don't feel like screaming at Lindsey right now. ... I'm not in a violent state of mind," Nicks, 60, said. "I want people to leave feeling the emotion of 'Silver Springs,' but without seeing Lindsey and I clawing at each other."
However, she concedes that "fun" might not be the most suitable word for their relationship on or off the stage "When he goes onstage and does his little speech where he says, 'You know, everything is great and we're just all grown up now and we're having fun,' I'm just standing on the other side of the stage and going [rolls her eyes], 'Whatever!' Right now, we're trying to be a little more on the high road, but let us go in and do another album, and bang! Back down to the bad, low road go we."
Still, fans find it hard to let go of the vision of Stevie and Lindsey together. "That electric crazy attraction between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks never dies, never will die, never will go away," she said. "He's married, he's happy, he has three beautiful children that I love. You know, he's found a good, happy, calm, safe place — but who Lindsey and I are to each other will never change."
Still, she said, "It's over. It doesn't mean the great feeling isn't there, it must mean that ... you know, we're beauty and the beast. It means that the love is always there but we'll never be together, so that's even more romantic."
Asked when she knew the romance was really over, Nicks said, "The day his first child was born. I knew that was it ... that was the definitive thing."
Whether or not that was really it, the romance of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham clearly lives on for fans, and perhaps in their own hearts as well.
The Top 10 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.
More than any other female vocalist, when I was in my teenage and university years, Stevie Nicks impacted my life, so imagine the tremendous adrenaline rush which I experienced when Nicks’ new CD The Soundstage Sessions arrived in the mail. Stevie Nicks’ familiar vibrato is still omni present, on this lush, beautifully orchestrated project, on which she penned all, but two of the ten tunes, the exceptions being the second track, Dave Matthews’, “Crash Into Me,” and the seventh track, Bonnie Raitt’s, “Circle Dance.” Some of the songs are older and more familiar, others less so.
The album opens with the hard hitting rock tune, “Stand Back,” before moving into a mellow, acoustic cover of, “Crash Into Me,” featuring the splendid guitar work of Waddy Wachtel, who also acted as the Musical Director for The Soundstage Sessions.
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Presumably because of the release of Stevie's DVD and CD Live in Chicago - Stand Back is the beneficiary of a sales spike on the Top 100 Physical Commercial Sales Chart. The single "Stand Back" over the last two weeks has been on the chart re-entering the Top 100 near the bottom with 24 copies sold - then leaping up to #53 on the chart (billboard issue date 4/18/09) with 146% sales increase for a total of 59 copies sold for the week. This is for the physical commercially available single only – not digital downloads. Who knew there was still such a chart!
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ADDITIONAL CHART PLACINGS AND SALES FOR "THE SOUNDSTAGE SESSIONS"
#22 Fleetwood Mac's "Greatest Hits"
