(REVIEW) FLEETWOOD MAC BERLIN - KONZERTKRITIK

Fleetwood Mac at the O2 World

Always twisting your breaks again, but now they're back: Fleetwood Mac played in Berlin's O2 World - and feed on the successes of the past.

BERLIN --
H.P. Daniels
Der Tagesspiegel

At half past eight, it is in the duster vollbestuhlten, packed O2 World. Metallic crickets is washed over by a roaring surf rejoicing, for on the stage a couple of shadows: Fleetwood Mac scurry, perhaps with the Eagles, the largest American Main stream pop band for over thirty years. Even the wild jubilation, as can be seen in the darkness, the silhouettes of a couple: Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, hand in hand. Once the two were a married couple, long time ago, before everything started to go under it and over it, both privately and in the band. As has been internal squabbles and excessive use of drugs for a long time for more exciting topic of the gossip press as the music of Fleetwood Mac, their fine, pleasing melodic pop songs, theme of those very difficult interpersonal relationships.

The couple splits to pieces, light goes on: "One-Two-Three-Four" roars Buckingham - jeans, pink T-shirt, leather jacket - and he sings the first of those old pop songs: "Monday Morning" from the year 1975. Lindsay stakelt on his spindly legs like a wounded stork, while Stevie beside him in schwarzgerüschten designer dress scarves and Schellenkranz vibrates and rotates on high platform boots like a mixture of blond and Rauschgoldengel bleiente on a music box. "Bööhlinn," she cries, and that could now start the party. Even more cheering, and two songs from "Rumors", one of the most commercially successful pop albums of all time. Fans jump out of their seats to run, before the stage, stretching his arms and camera phones, while the music so hinplätschert before him, with a sound that sounds like a tiled swimming pool. On the front edge of the stage, the American couple stands behind the two Englishmen, after which the group was originally named: the long 67-year-old Mick Fleetwood on drums, the drives properly. And John McVie, who backed a solid bass. Both had played in the '60s with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, along with the gifted guitarist Peter Green, with whom she eventually founded the excellent blues band Fleetwood Mac.

Few other bands would have taken a blatant stylistic direction as Fleetwood Mac after leaving her severely injured LSD front man Peter Green in their history. The rhythm section with the former singer and keyboardist Christine McVie, wife of the bassist, moved 1974 of regengrauen England to sunny California, teamed up with Nicks and Buckingham, and was a rasping blues band to the lovely mainstream pop group. With the enormous worldwide success of which they consume today. Yes, they have brought in between and over again a couple of long pauses, says Buckingham, and now they are back again, without a new album, but with all the old songs. And only the old fans who want to be heard. " So they get what they want: Most of the pieces of the two best albums: "Fleetwood Mac" (1975) and Rumors (1977), the old hits, "Rhiannon," "Dreams," "Sara," "Go Your Own Way, "" Do not Stop "and so on. Since then, it does not matter that everything is a bit bumpy and reverberant sounds like Stevie Nicks' husky voice is still beautiful and more blecheimerig. Where it does well to not to try to meet the very high notes from the past, but holding it in a deeper interval, and let the rest of the three leather mice in the background doing, to act where even a keyboardist and an additional guitarist.

Buckingham's solo on his Rick Turner Model One Guitar contribute a bit unimaginative and klischeebeladen and his guitar player, poses a little too narcissistic. But no doubt he is the chief role of the evening. Nostalgically recalls one voice and guitar of the good old Peter Green, as attempts to Buckingham with heavily mannered in his hit song "Oh Well Pt. 1". The most beautiful are even the more delicate-Buckingham Nicks duets with economical acoustic guitar accompaniment. But for the fans today is the party as an event with sausage and beer more important than any musical nuances, dynamics and artistic expression. And so is the boundless joy long after two and a half hours and several encores, with drum solo and a lot Gegröle.

Original review

(PHOTOS) FLEETWOOD MAC - SPORTPALEIS, ANTWERPEN

FLEETWOOD MAC Concert @ Sportpaleis Antwerpen 14-10-2009

Photos By: Rick and Bart (link to gallery)

(REVIEW) FLEETWOOD MAC (BERLIN) spielen sich in die 70er zurück

(Translated Review - Not entirely clear if it's positive or negative)

Fleetwood Mac to play back in the 70s
By Harald Peters
Berliner Morgenpost

It was as if you just wanted to stop. Fleetwood Mac played on Monday evening in Berlin about three hours before the spectators in the sold-out 02 World could go home. News, however, there was not. Pleasant - but also a bit of yesterday.

They played and played and played. On Monday evening, the Anglo American band Fleetwood Mac in the sold-out O2 World is a nearly three-hour concert, which once moved across her career led. Because it was necessary to apply a new album, there was a pleasant way and no new songs.

The focus was on pieces from the mid to late 70s, because at that time Fleetwood Mac with the albums "Fleetwood Mac", "Rumors" and "Tusk" had its best time. It was also the time of the band other with great devotion made life difficult, after all, was the then quintet made up of two couples who split up just hated and reconciled. Musically, the have been led to wonderful results, it must be the true horror of interpersonally, as guitarist Lindsay Buckingham repeatedly stressed at the O2 World.

But time heals some wounds, but does not always lead to the correct path. Why it was sometimes difficult to see how Buckingham presented himself as the guitar god and a Bühnengebahren the day presented, which may have been appropriate, perhaps sometime in the seventies. Singer Stevie Nicks, is evident in the decades of cocaine did not go entirely without a trace over, looked downright pathetic, as declared in its Feenkleider, scarves and gloves draped tinsel titles such as "Landslide," "Rhiannon" and "Sara" has brought to hearing.

Fleetwood Mac spielen sich in die 70er zurück

Von Harald Peters

Berliner Morgenpost

Es war, als wollten Sie einfach nicht mehr aufhören. Fleetwood Mac spielten am Montagabend in Berlin gut drei Stunden lang, bevor sie die Zuschauer aus der ausverkauften 02 World nach Hause gehen ließen. Neuigkeiten gab es allerdings nicht. Angenehm – aber auch ein bisschen von gestern.

Sie spielten, spielten und spielten. Am Montagabend gab die britisch amerikanische Band Fleetwood Mac in der ausverkauften O2-World ein knapp dreistündiges Konzert, das einmal quer durch ihre bewegte Karriere führte. Weil es kein neues Album zu bewerben galt, gab es angenehmer Weise auch keine neuen Songs.

Der Schwerpunkt lag auf Stücken aus den mittleren bis späten 70er-Jahren, denn damals hatten Fleetwood Mac mit den Alben „Fleetwood Mac“, „Rumours“ und „Tusk“ ihre beste Zeit. Es war auch die Zeit, der sich die Band mit großer Hingabe gegenseitig das Leben schwer machte, immerhin bestand das damalige Quintett aus zwei Paaren, die sich gerade trennten, hassten und wieder versöhnten. Musikalisch führte das zu wunderbaren Ergebnissen, zwischenmenschlich muss es der wahre Horror gewesen sein, wie Gitarrist Lindsay Buckingham mehrfach in der O2-World betonte.

Doch die Zeit heilt manche Wunde, führt aber nicht immer auf die richtige Bahn. Weshalb es mitunter schwer mit anzusehen war, wie Buckingham sich als Gitarrengott gerierte und ein Bühnengebahren an den Tag legte, das vielleicht irgendwann in den Siebzigern angemessen gewesen sein mag. Sängerin Stevie Nicks, an der offensichtlich der jahrzehntelange Kokainkonsum nicht ganz spurlos vorbei gegangen ist, wirkte geradezu rührend, wie sie in ihren Feenkleider, Tüchern und Lametta behangenen Handschuhen Titel wie „Landslide“, „Rhiannon“ und „Sara“ zu Gehör brachte.

(PHOTO) FLEETWOOD MAC IN BERLIN LIVE (Nice, Organized Crowd)

Photo by Spex

REVIEW: FLEETWOOD MAC - ROTTERDAM AHOY (PODIUM INFO)

(Translated Review)

Fleetwood Mac - 15/10 - Ahoy

by: Pierre Oitmann

Podium Info (link to original review)

The revolving door mechanics of pop music there are many parts that require almost constant maintenance. Creativity and relationships are identified as the key. If there is a band who know all about it off, it is Fleetwood Mac. Peaks and valleys in the life of the band members were changing as it disproportionately associated with artistic highs and lows. The only permanent band member during the existence of over forty Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood was named. Although the band disintegrated so often that you really can not speak of forty years standing.

The best known and most popular lineup of Fleetwood Mac drummer Fleetwood contains vocalist / guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie singers and bassist John McVie. Minus Ms McVie tonight they are all present. This occupation is not fully complete the star is a shame. Second, Fleetwood Mac was already manned by lesser quantities, so in that regard certainly no reason to complain. Crazy is that McVie, Nicks and Buckingham relatively anonymous and do their own very modest stage opstiefelen. Only Fleetwood takes the applause received with visible enthusiasm.

The almost three hours going over tour de force that starts, has a difficult start. The public seems to look a oldies band that just wants to cash in and have another skin full of cursing rather than singing beautiful songs. Does the Fleetwood Mac called revolving door that age still wear? No, only the action is what rusty and needs time to get started. The confidence of the - very varied - public early in the show playing 'Dreams', which Stevie Nicks her beautiful vocals to the subjects ears pricked. Soft Velvet, but uncoated. Especially with the background vocals Sharon Celani, Jana Anderson and sister Lori Nicks sounds wonderful.

Buckingham is also in top form. After a cowardly start, gradually increasing devotion he shows through his excellent guitar playing. With some inspired guitar solos come Buckingham increasingly in the mood. Once that passion really comes back to the surface, that sounds in the voice of the singer. He allows himself to emotional depth to be heard in his vocals, just like Stevie Nicks. A beautiful moment is when both singers also embrace each other warmly. From there the show gets a turn. These are not entirely of elderly musicians are hard kinks, here is a group of people with an enormous and complicated history, their songs from that same evening and wrote history with the heart in the right place increase.

Where bassist McVie a little remains in the shadow of Nicks and Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood accelerate especially in the last hour of the concert. A long drum solo can obviously not forthcoming. During those three hours are popklassiekers of the upper order past, 'Rhiannon', 'Sara', 'Go Your Own Way', 'Gipsy', 'Do not Stop' and 'Say You Love Me ". This focuses mainly on the Fleetwood Mac hitperiode from the 70s, with the albums "Fleetwood Mac", "Rumors" and "Tusk." The early period is only 'Oh Well' and pass the hit album "Tango In The Night" from 1987 is almost entirely ignored. So no 'Everywhere' and 'Little Lies', though Lindsey Buckingham plays alone is a stunning acoustic performance of "Big Love" (similar to the version on the live album 'The Dance').

Not that Fleetwood Mac hits just playing. Also parts of the aforementioned album plates found a spot in the setlist, especially for the devoted fan. For the less dedicated the concert to fan the very long side and at times even a bit tedious. With half the time the band had after all only play the hits. It shows great character as to show such a band to put down, with the trap that much of the public will get bored.

Mick Fleetwood after the concert takes time for the public to speak and to thank. He is emotional in tone and shows the same integrity that we noted earlier this evening at Buckingham and Nicks. It seems that this revolving door can never break ...

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