Sunday, June 10, 2012

Fleetwood Mac Make Chart History in Australia This Week


The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac
The album, which has vaulted to #29 this week on Australia's Top 100 Albums Chart, has now accumulated a very impressive 300 weeks in the Top 100. This is the longest running album in Australian chart history!! Even though it never went higher than #16 on the chart, it has always had strong catalogue sales. Proof is that the album has managed to make the weekly Top 50 every year since its release in 2002. The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac has now sold half a million units in Australia.

On-Sale at JB Hi-Fi:
Single Disc Australian Version: (not available in the US) $9.99
Two-Disc Australian Re-issue Version: $12.99

STEVIE NICKS gold certified "Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of" re-enters the Top 50 Catalogue Chart this week at #49.

RUMOURS after re-entering the chart last week at #34 drops off this weeks chart.

AUSTRALIA - JUNE 11, 2012
Top 100 Albums Chart
# 29 (49) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 50 Catalogue Albums chart 
#  5 (6)   Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 49 (R/E) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of

UK - JUNE 9, 2012
Top 100 Singles Chart
(Missed this on last week's chart round-up post)
#88 - (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

Video Wrap-up: Lindsey Buckingham: Ithaca, NY, Tarrytown, NY

First off... There are only 6 shows left on this leg of Lindsey's tour... Tonights show June 10th in Bethleham, PA at the Artsquest Center and his Wilmington, DE show tomorrow June 11th at World Cafe are both SOLD OUT!

Dates Remaining:
June 10 Bethleham, PA at Artsquest Center
June 11 Wilmington, DE at World Cafe
June 12 Washington, DC at Howard Theatre Tickets
June 14 Baltimore, MD at Baltimore Soundstage Tickets
June 15 Munhall, PA at Carnegie Library Music Hall Tickets
June 16 Columbus, OH at Southern Theatre Tickets

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE
Tarrytown Music Hall - Saturday, June 9th
Last night Lindsey played in Tarrytown, NY to a pretty enthusiastic crowd evidenced by the videos below:



"Go Your Own Way"



Also: "Seeds We Sow"

Plus check out captures by capedogger:
 "Trouble" | "Seeds We Sow"

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE The State Theatre - Friday, June 8th
A "small but mighty" group in Ithaca, NY on Thursday June 8th.

Video enthusiasts were out in full force Thursday night... tons of footage captured during this show... Check out the following videos from ThisDogAteMyVlogs, the visual is a distant one, so not much to look at, but the audio and the atmosphere really come through and sounds great!
Go Your Own Way | So Afraid | Big Love | 
Seeds We Sow | Never Going Back Again | Come 

ALSO.... 8 Videos by voltgod from Ithaca are located here  Lindsey wishes Lisa a Happy Birthday and sings a line from the song to her just prior to singing Seeds We Sow

"Seeds We Sow"



Ithaca State Theatre Photos by Jack O Bocchino
Facebook Gallery (20 photos)

Saturday, June 09, 2012

Lindsey Buckingham Live in Baltimore June 14th. UPGRADE Your Tickets to Meet & Greet

Meet and Greet Upgrade Option 
Added to Baltimore Show

**For current ticket holders only.** Meet and Greet with Lindsey Buckingham after the show. He will give autographs and take photos with you.

Current ticket holders to Lindsey's show in Baltimore on June 14th now have the option to upgrade their General Admission tickets to General Admission + Meet and Greet tickets for an additional $93.00 ($57.00 + $93.00 = $150.00). OR if you haven't bought tickets to the show YET, select the option at the bottom of the page General Admission - Meet and Greet.

Apparently an email was sent to current ticket holders giving them the option to upgrade using Promo Code EBLAST. On Ticketfly key in Promo Code EBLAST then click "Apply Code" and the option to upgrade your tickets will appear.

If you have any problems, call the venue at:  410-244-0057.




Friday, June 08, 2012

Photos: Lindsey Buckingham Live in Ridgefield, CT June 6th

Lindsey Buckingham Live in Ridgefield, CT 
June 6, 2012 - Ridgefield Playhouse 
Beautiful shots taken by Photographer Jeff Butchen 


Fleetwood Mac guitarist, singer ushered in new era

Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band’s multiplatinum success later in the decade has died at the age of 66.

As a singer and guitarist for the group, Mr. Welch was lesser known than the pair who replaced him — Mr. Welch left the band in 1974, and his departure set the stage for Fleetwood Mac’s hit-making lineup when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were hired to take his place.

That would become the group’s most successful lineup, releasing the 1975 album “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours,” the band’s acclaimed 1977 hit album.

“My era was the bridge era,” 
Mr. Welch told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1998, after he was excluded from the Fleetwood Mac lineup inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “It was a transition. But it was an important period in the history of the band. Mick Fleetwood dedicated a whole chapter of his biography to my era of the band and credited me with ‘saving Fleetwood Mac.’ Now they want to write me out of the history of the group.”

Mr. Welch went solo and scored a top 20 hit in 1977 with “Ebony Eyes.” The album from which it was culled, “French Kiss,” featured a number of former Fleetwood Mac members, as well as a rendition of “Sentimental Lady,” a song originally recorded with Fleetwood Mac but reworked by Mr. Welch.  Over the next six years Mr. Welch released five more studio albums, but none was as successful as his debut.

He continued to record music for the next two decades; his final album was “His Fleetwood Mac Years and Beyond, Vol. 2.”

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Mick Fleetwood tells Reuters Bob Welch's suicide "incredibly out of character"

Mick Fleetwood, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac and Welch's manager during his solo career, had remained in close contact with his former band mate over the years and told Reuters that Welch's suicide was "incredibly out of character."
Bob Welch and Mick Fleetwood - 1978 (Photo by Neal Preston)
"He was a very, very profoundly intelligent human being and always in good humor, which is why this is so unbelievably shocking," he said.

"He was a huge part of our history which sometimes gets forgotten ... mostly his legacy would be his songwriting abilities that he brought to Fleetwood Mac, which will survive all of us," Fleetwood said.

"If you look into our musical history, you'll see a huge period that was completely ensconced in Bob's work."

Reuters