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Friday, October 16, 2009
REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Energetic Adolescents Sell Out Sportpaleis
(Translated Review)
Fleetwood Mac sold out Sportpaleis: Energetic adolescents with 42 years experience
Live in Antwerpen, Belgium October 14, 2009
De Morgan.be
Almost 30 years ago that it was Fleetwood Mac in Belgium once had stood on a podium. Or at least, the central creative figure version with Lindsey Buckingham. But Wednesday was the day, and was one of the most successful pop groups ever stop at a sold out Sportpaleis. It was worth the wait.
Live in Antwerpen, Belgium October 14, 2009
De Morgan.be
Almost 30 years ago that it was Fleetwood Mac in Belgium once had stood on a podium. Or at least, the central creative figure version with Lindsey Buckingham. But Wednesday was the day, and was one of the most successful pop groups ever stop at a sold out Sportpaleis. It was worth the wait.
The life of Fleetwood Mac begs to be filmed. Quarrels, adultery, divorce, love triangles, drugs, splits, flops, successful comebacks, using egos clash, and reconciliations in between thirty hits world ... all form part of the DNA from which the group has raised. In 1992 there was a need for U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton as the ¿¿to the classic lineup of Fleetwood Mac to get back together.
Christine McVie did not much later retired for good, but the four others ¿bassist Jon McVie, drummer Mick Fleetwood star, singer Stevie Nicks and, yes, Lindsey Buckingham working together since then, and the group currently touring for the first time in Europe. A new CD is not ( "yet", stressed Buckingham), so the foursome strolled - complemented by three background singers and two musicians - freely by that unbreakable repertoire. Rumors, with 40 million copies still one of the best selling CDs ever, was the focus.
Indeed striking how those numbers succeed time and again to speak to new generations. The start was also the bad sound mix that the first hours or more lateral lying, a little difficult, but with "The Chain" and "Dreams" said the company immediately organized. Stevie Nicks - now 61 and even that is difficult to leg, but still head to toe Gold Dust Woman ¿sang with irresistible, torn from her voice to a lump in your throat is settled, but live you immediately understood why Fleetwood Mac the biggest successes in Buckingham at the helm.
That man ¿sixties, but with the energy of a teenager ¿has it all: excellent songwriter, producer, visionary, and charismatic frontman - yet most of all - an amazing guitarist. The latter was, although no news, yet the most striking of all in Antwerp, where his solos in "I" m So Afraid "and the acoustic" Big Love "of such nature that they were prompt with a standing ovation were invented.
The interaction between Nicks and Buckingham made the set despite supply ¿the group was a small three hours on stage was varied and interesting ¿. Highlights listing is hopeless, but alongside hits such as "Don" t Stop "and" Go Your Own Way "must do" Landslide "are given: acoustic and serene played by Lindsey Buckingham and Nicks in such heart-rending grace sung that way you got tears in his eyes.
Brilliant is a word often used lightly as it is about pop music, but this time was chosen with the greatest caution. Fleetwood Mac plays - 42 years after the group was founded ¿still in first division.
(Bart Steenhaut)
Foto Alex Vanhee
Thursday, October 15, 2009
(REVIEW) FLEETWOOD MAC - ROTTERDAM
Muziek.nl
FLEETWOOD MAC - ROTTERDAM, NL
FLEETWOOD MAC - ROTTERDAM, NL
Concertverslag: Fleetwood Mac
Af en toe houden ze pauze en knijpen ze d'r even tussenuit. Maar iedere paar jaar gaat het toch weer kriebelen en dan komen ze weer samen. Om te touren, en simpelweg om lol te maken. Aldus Lindsey Buckingham, zanger/gitarist van Fleetwood Mac. De laatste tour stamt al weer uit 2004 en het is zelfs nog tien jaar langer geleden dat de band Nederland bezocht, maar donderdagavond waren ze present in de Rotterdamse tennishal Ahoy.
STEVIE NICKS TELLS HOW THEIR WILD PAST STILL INSPIRES (FLEETWOOD MAC)
By ADRIAN THRILLS
Dailymail.co.uk
When they open their Unleashed tour in Glasgow next Thursday, Fleetwood Mac will be putting the emphasis on a set of superb tunes that have truly stood the test of time.
Drawing heavily on 1977's Rumours, a record that has sold more than 40 million copies around the world, the Anglo-American rockers will surely delight thousands as they breathe fresh life into standards like Go Your Own Way and Dreams.
But that will be only part of the story.
With a career riddled by cocaine-addled excess and the pitfalls of superstardom, Fleetwood Mac have often resembled a celebrity soap opera. Their biggest hits pulled few punches in laying bare their tangled love lives.
Even now, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham regularly peppers the group's stage show with wry asides about their 'fairly convoluted emotional history' - a contender for understatement of the century.
And singer Stevie Nicks, Buckingham's former lover, agrees that their turbulent past can only add to the intrigue as Mac get ready to roll back the years once more.
'If you think you know the truth about this band, you can think again,' says Nicks, 61. 'Other than the people involved, nobody knows what really went on.
'One day, when I'm an old lady, I'm going to tell the whole tale and people will be amazed. The truth will blow your mind.
'The story is deep, dark and heavy. But it's also beautiful, sexy and more romantic than you could ever imagine. Now's not the time, though. You'll have to wait ten years for that one.'
Despite her reticence to reveal all, Nicks is refreshingly chatty and candid as she looks forward to the iconic band's latest get together. She is keen, too, to dispel a few of the myths that have built up around Rumours, an LP that topped the U.S. chart for seven months.
As the year-long album sessions got underway in 1976, she and Buckingham were breaking up, while the marriage of keyboardist Christine and bassist John McVie was also on the rocks.
Meanwhile, drummer Mick Fleetwood (who went on to have a twoyear affair with Nicks) was in the throes of a divorce from his first wife, Jenny Boyd. Are you keeping up at the back?
For all the turmoil and paranoia, though, the band were not constantly at each other's throats in the studio. 'The reality of Rumours was different to the mythology,' says Stevie.
'Of course, there were days when none of us were speaking to each other. There were angry moments and sarcastic ones, too, but it wasn't always like that. If we came up with a great piece of music, we'd all be friends.'
Rather than fight openly, the warring band washed their dirty linen in song. Buckingham's Go Your Own Way was a bitter parting shot at Nicks, who responded with the more philosophical Dreams.
Christine McVie then took aim at erstwhile hubby John with Don't Stop, prompting the aggrieved bassist to suggest that the album they were making should be called Rumours because they were all writing songs about one another without actually admitting it.
Stevie continues: 'I remember the night I wrote Dreams. I walked in and handed a cassette of the song to Lindsey. It was a rough take, just me singing solo and playing piano. Even though he was mad with me at the time, Lindsey played it and then looked up at me and smiled.
'What was going on between us was sad. We were couples who couldn't make it through. But, as musicians, we still respected each other - and we got some brilliant songs out of it.'
The current incarnation of Fleetwood Mac - which features Nicks, Buckingham, Fleetwood and John McVie - is, according to Stevie, 'very different' from the band of the late Seventies.
With drugs no longer part of the equation, the group are considerably more stable off stage, though Christine McVie, who announced her sudden departure after the group had played at the Grammy Awards in 1998, is sorely missed.
'Christine had been having panic attacks before gigs and was developing a fear of flying, but she kept everything bottled up inside,' Stevie says. 'Then, on the night of the Grammys, she told me she simply couldn't go on any more.
'When you love someone as much as I love Christine, you know instantly when they are serious. Her big green eyes filled with tears as she spoke, and I started welling up, too.
'I told her she needed to go home immediately, and she did. She flew home to England and she hasn't been back to the States since.
'Without Christine, the band is more of a boys' club. When there were two women, we had a certain feminine power. Christine was brilliant at standing up to the boys - she'd march across the floor and tell them when she was unhappy with their playing.
'I'm more of a mediator. I'll sometimes go along with things to keep the peace. But I still think we're a great group. I'm proud to walk out every night and sing those songs.'Having moved to LA from Arizona as a schoolgirl, Nicks joined the band with Buckingham at the start of 1975.
The couple had been bit-part players on the vibrant West Coast rock scene, and their inspired songwriting added a radio-friendly Californian sheen to an outfit whose roots lay in the British blues boom.
Stevie's mystical image - billowing skirts, riding jackets, suede platform boots and a Victorian top hat - gave the band an exciting visual dimension. This 'uniform', she explains, was inspired by her teenage years as a Californian hippy chick.
'Before we joined Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey and I played gigs all along the West Coast,' she says.
'On our first tour, I wore my street clothes and it was a nightmare. Then, one day in Santa Monica, I saw this beautiful girl in a flowing pink outfit and high suede boots. Apart from the pink, I knew I wanted to look exactly like her. So I turned myself into this little Dickensian wharf rat in a raggedy skirt.
'I later found a top hat in an antiques store in Buffalo. And that was my uniform - the jacket, skirt, boots and hat. The hat changed everything.'
That trademark costume will, of course, be dusted down before next week's first night in Scotland.
But beyond the current tour, Nicks is uncertain as to what the future holds for the band. She also has a thriving solo career and a recent DVD, Live In Chicago, featured an elaborately staged gig from her last U.S. tour.
Despite her solo plans, though, she refuses to rule out the prospect of another Mac studio album.
'When we're on the road, we barely have time to go and have a meal, let alone write new material,' she says. 'But in January we'll have a meeting and decide what to do.
'Fleetwood Mac still presents some amazing opportunities. Thirty years ago, we were all so self-absorbed that we couldn't see out of our own corner. Things are a lot more fun now.'
• The Unleashed Tour opens at the SECC in Glasgow on Thursday. The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac is out on Rhino on Monday.
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