On Maui for the holidays, Alice just rang in the New Year at Mala Wailea at a benefit show which also featured an incendiary performance by the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, joined by British blues legend John Mayall, and members of Nickelback.
"It's become a tradition to do that show, and it's always great to turn something like that into a charity event," he notes. "These people are here already, so why not put them to work."
Backed by Mick Fleetwood on drums, Rick Vito on guitar and vocals, bassist Lenny Castellanos, keyboardist Mark Johnstone, and Eric Gilliom and Gretchen Rhodes of Island Rumours on vocals, Alice belted out his classic hits "Schools Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy."
"Mick Fleetwood is such a great drummer," he continues. "You forget Fleetwood Mac was a real rock band and he was one of the best drummers out there, and Rick's a great blues guitar player. And then you have John Mayall come up, how great is that?"
Asked to comment on the buzz, the quick-witted queen of press agents quipped,
"I don't make comments about myself, and I can't imagine where you heard that. I know that there are also rumors that I've been sleeping with George Cloo ney, but I'm not commenting on that, either."
THE WAREHOUSE: THE FILLMORE SOUTH
01 January 2010 — by Randy Savoie OFFBEAT.com
The Warehouse opened 40 years ago on January 30, 1970 in New Orleans. The Grateful Dead played its opening night with Fleetwood Mac and a band from Chicago named the Flock, and it didn’t take long before rock history was made there.
The Warehouse down on the banks of the Mississippi River—1820 Tchoupitoulas St. to be exact. It was the epicenter of rock in New Orleans, the Fillmore South if you will, and you could see the Who or Elton John or David Bowie or the Eagles for five bucks, $5.50 if you waited until show time.
[excerpt] “But the most elegantly apt visual of the night was Mick Fleetwood, all six feet nine inches of him, flying higher than anyone! He’d found an out of order sign in a broken soda machine and hung it around his neck as he looned around the stage.” The Warehouse owners let the Dead keep all the proceeds from that night. It was the least they could do.
A Tribute Movie is being made about the venue, a lot of archival info can be found here: (Warehousemovie)
A Tribute to the venue is being held at the end of January, 2010... Info here: (The Warehouse New Orleans)
Wolfgangs Vault has the full concert from a couple of days after the official opening of the Warehouse on their site to listen to or to purchase by download - along with the set from The Greatful Dead and The Flock.
FLEETWOOD MAC CONCERT WAREHOUSE - NEW ORLEANS FEBRUARY 1, 1970
Mick Fleetwood - drums, percussion
Peter Green - vocals, guitar, six-string bass
Danny Kirwan - vocals, guitar
John McVie - bass
Jeremy Spencer - vocals, slide guitar, congas, percussion
This previously unheard Fleetwood Mac recording captures the band during this final year of the classic lineup. This run of shows, featuring the Flock, Fleetwood Mac and their friends, the Grateful Dead, has been forever immortalized in the Dead's classic song "Truckin'," as this was the New Orleans' engagement where members of the Dead and crew were arrested on drug charges. Originally the run was scheduled for the previous two nights, but Fleetwood Mac agreed to hang out for another day and a last minute third show was added on the afternoon of February 1, 1970 to help defray the legal costs involved in the Dead's bust.
This Fleetwood Mac set is unique among shows from this era as it not only contains some of the incendiary jamming they had been developing over the course of the past year, but also features the group digging back into their catalogue, performing several older gems as well.
Check out Dodgy Scribble for 70's Fleetwood Mac shows to download.
Everyone wants the comeback. Everyone wants to believe they have one more shot at the top of the charts. Most bands who reunite dispense with a new studio album. They're the smart ones. The stage — and 10,000 drunken nostalgic fans — are more forgiving than a recording studio. Ask Fleetwood Mac. They were smart enough to reunite in '97 with a live album, "The Dance." It was an album of oldies, but a #1 album nonetheless.
FLEETWOOD MAC, BOWL OF BROOKLANDS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19th
Part of the magic of Fleetwood Mac is knowing the soap-opera that informs and influences not only the songs but the performances. Lindsey Buckingham sings Go Your Own Way at Stevie Nicks as much as he is singing it with her. Nicks needs Buckingham to accompany her version of Landslide; a song that has added prescience 35 years on from its first performances. And of course in live performance there are nods to the blues band that Fleetwood Mac started out as (under the tutelage of Peter Green). There is something about the music of Fleetwood Mac, it spans generations - something that seems to be happening less and less with music. And this was the perfect show to end the year: full of nostalgia, full of hits, delivered by a band still aware of the magic behind its songs.
This weekend Fleetwood Mac OFF THE RECORD with J.B., Mick Fleetwood & producer Ken Caillat
Sunday January 10th: OFF THE RECORD with Joe Benson will feature the music of Fleetwood Mac as well as more of Joe's conversations with Mick Fleetwood and producer Ken Caillat.
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