Videos: Interesting | Intense | Up Close - Fleetwood Mac Las Vegas, Hollywood Bowl, San Jose, Tacoma, Vancouver

Some interesting videos from the last few shows... Vancouver, Tacoma, San Jose, Hollywood and Las Vegas.

HAPPY UN-BIRTHDAY - LAS VEGAS, NV 5/26/13 (Stevie says she's not celebrating her 65th birthday, so your only allowed to wish her a very Happy Un-Birthday)
LANDSLIDE - LAS VEGAS, NV 5/26/13
GYPSY - Las Vegas, NV 5/26/13 (Back to the full twirl at the end of the song... She was avoiding this during this song and Stand Back for awhile during the period her knee was healing).
SISTERS OF THE MOON - LAS VEGAS, NV 5/26/13
RHIANNON (CLIP) - LAS VEGAS, NV 5/26/13 (Black shawl is back after being absent for awhile... except it's not the same one she started out the tour with)

"It smells like you're having a good time out there!" - Lindsey Buckingham Hollywood Bowl

Photo By thebirdie

Fleetwood Mac
Hollywood Bowl
By Daniel Kohn - LA Weekly

Fleetwood Mac does their best work in dramatic circumstances. They put out their finest album in the midst of personal turmoil and needed Bill Clinton to broker a reunion in 1993. As recently as last year, Mick Fleetwood proclaimed that the band wouldn't tour again because of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks' commitments to their solo careers. Yet after nearly four years of inactivity, Fleetwood Mac was back playing in the city where its formative lineup came together.

"It smells like you're having a good time out there!" Buckingham joked midway through the band's marathon 23-song, two-and-a-half hour set. And it appeared that he and his bandmates were as well. There were smiles, hugs and handholding, something that seemed hard to imagine back in the day.

In February, Buckingham hinted that the band had completed their first batch of new material since 2003's Say You Will. Late last month, Fleetwood Mac quietly released a four-song EP called Extended Play, and last night performed "Sad Angel" and "Without You." While the songs had their trademark intimate soft rock sound (with a bit of bite), it's hard to call them classics.

They played with intensity; Buckingham's solos were fiery and mystical, reaffirming his status as one of the more overlooked guitar players in rock history. Mick Fleetwood's drum solos were gutbusting, while bassist John McVie's steady proved why he remains their steady foundation.

But in the end, the band's biggest attraction is still the spellbinding Nicks, still a siren at 64. Her wardrobe these days is, of course, boho chic, although it's unlikely that a younger Nicks would have thrown on a warm coat mid-set and complained to the crowd about the chilly weather. Still, despite years of cocaine abuse and going under the knife to remove nodules on her vocal chords, her raspy, vulnerable voice sounded like it did when the band was in peak form. She twisted and twirled around the stage

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The group shared personal stories about Los Angeles. Prior to a tender "Landslide," Nicks confessed that she never expected the song to be so beloved when she first penned it in 1973. Buckingham repeated his anecdote from Dave Grohl's Sound City documentary: He'd told Fleetwood if he were to join the band, his then-girlfriend to the mix as well.

Nicks and Buckingham may have initially written the songs of Rumours out of spite and anger, but last night they glanced and shot smiles at one another while trading verses. Having beaten the long odds to survive, it would be understandable if Fleetwood Mac treated these shows as a nostalgia tour. Instead, they're reinvigorated and ready to release more material.

The Crowd: There were some fans under 55. But not many.

Overheard in the Crowd: "Rush sucks," said someone. He was talking about the talk show host, not the band.

Random Notebook Dump: If a band is going to use projected images as a backdrop, they should look better than Windows 95 screensavers.

More Reviews and photos from The Hollywood Bowl HERE

Set list:

Fleetwood Mac had the wild energy of musical attack paired with the warm glow of together-again

TIME TRAVELING AND STEVIE NICKS HATS: FLEETWOOD MAC AT HP PAVILION, SAN JOSE (BY CLAIRE)

Stevie Nicks is spinning.

Stevie Nicks is twirling stage left, spinning and grinning, the billowy sleeves of her black velvet and chiffon dress flapping wildly (this dress is a dream come true, by the way. This dress is time travel and perfection and making me want to set my wardrobe on fire). Lindsey Buckingham is lean and frenetic, all black leather and shredding solos, and Mick Fleetwood’s got a Muppet grin and he’s banging on a gong, and if Stevie Nicks sings “Landslide”—at this point I’m practically shaking my friend Andrea—if Stevie Nicks sings “Landslide,” I am going to split in two.

A long sheath descends from the ceiling, Buckingham gives a primal rock god performance of “Big Love” (“Watch this,” the guy next to me says, pointing insistently at the screen showcasing an HD Buckingham. “Watch this, you’ll never forget it.”) And when it ends I think my surprised heart might leap out of my chest, but it freezes in mid air because the room gets quiet and Stevie Nicks sings that she’s been afraid of changing cause she built her life around the guy to her right, grinning and strumming.

Great recap of the San Jose show... Check out the rest at Charmcityjukebox.com

Review | Video | Photos: Fleetwood Mac Live at the Hollywood Bowl 5/25

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE

MAY 25, 2013 - HOLLYWOOD BOWL

HOLLYWOOD, CA

Videos, reviews and photos from the show below.. Some really cool shots of the stage - they really transformed the arc projecting the background visuals right onto the bowl...Looks beautiful!

Review: Fleetwood Mac lights a fire at Hollywood Bowl

LA Times

By Mikael Wood

Lawrence K. Ho

Only a band as famously twisted as Fleetwood Mac would follow an exhortation to “get this party started”

LA Times May 27, 2013

with a song as bleakly imagined as “Dreams.” That’s the indelible 1977 smash in which Stevie Nicks warns a capricious lover about hearing “the sound of your loneliness like a heartbeat,” and Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl, Fleetwood Mac performed it near the beginning of a sold-out concert that Nicks said represented the group’s happy homecoming after several weeks spent on the road.

The long-running pop-rock outfit, which formed as a London blues band in 1967 but didn’t attain superstardom until it later relocated to L.A. and hired Nicks and singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, is halfway through a three-month North American tour; it’s to play Anaheim’s Honda Center on Tuesday, then circle back to Staples Center on July 3.

Yet if Saturday’s show was intended to start a party, as Nicks declared, Fleetwood Mac hardly had good times on its mind. Rounded out by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie (along with five auxiliary musicians), the group sounded sharper and more aggressive -- simply louder too -- than it had in years as it tore through old songs such as “Gold Dust Woman” and “The Chain,” in which Buckingham growled, “Damn your love / Damn your lies,” over grinding electric guitar.

As with “Dreams,” both tunes came from the band’s blockbuster album “Rumours,” which famously caught the romantic turmoil then raging among various members of the group (including McVie’s ex-wife Christine, who quit in 1998). At the Bowl, though, Fleetwood Mac stripped the songs of the soft-rock sheen that helped drive “Rumours” to sales of nearly 20 million copies; it was exposing the desperation that simmers beneath the catchy choruses.

Happy Birthday Stevie

It's official... Stevie Nicks Turns 65 Years Young Today... 
Wishing you nothing but the best Stevie!

Fleetwood Mac Album Chart Update: U.S.A. and Canada + Boxscore Totals

U.S.A. BILLBOARD Charts / Soundscan Sales
Sales week ending May 19th - Chart Date June 1, 2013
(Previous week in parenthesis)

No albums in the U.S. are on the main Top 200 Albums Chart, but there are still a few places you can find Fleetwood Mac making an impact sales wise in the U.S.

Top 200 Physical Album Sales:
Coming in at #170 The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac sold 1,673 units in the U.S. for the week ending May 19th down 21% over the previous week where it sold 2,113 units and was at #158.  Total U.S. sales since it's release in November, 2002 = 1,564,356.

# 170 (158) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 200 Indie Albums:
At #143 (down from #63) The new EP "Extended Play" extended it's stay on the top 200 indie chart selling a further 672 units for the sales week down 53% vs the previous week where it sold 1,435 units.  Total U.S. sales since it's release April 30th is an abysmal 10,709.

# 143 (63) Fleetwood Mac - Extended Play

Top 200 Catalogue Albums:
4 albums make the list.  First up is "Rumours" at #51 with 2,066 units sold for the week ending May 19th, down 14% from the previous week where it sold 2,404 units - but it hangs on to it's #51 spot.  Total U.S. sales since November, 1991 = 3,186,976.

"The Very Best of" Fleetwood Mac lands at #73 with 1,841 total units sold (digital and physical) for the week down 21% vs the previous week where it sold 2,333 units. Total overall units sold in the U.S. since November, 2002 = 1,570,324.

"Fleetwood Mac" this week is at #107 down from #88 the previous week.  Total sales for the week were 1,622 vs 1,966 the previous week. Total U.S. sales since November, 1991 = 924,297.

"Greatest Hits" is sitting at #150 with 1,360 units sold vs 1,695 the previous week, a drop of 20%.  Total U.S. sales since November, 1991 = 4,659,588.

#   51 (51)   Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
#   73 (54)   Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 107 (88)   Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
# 150 (131) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits