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by Christian Bos
KSTA.de
(google translation)
KSTA.de
(google translation)
The relationship boxes with Fleetwood Mac are one of the biggest soap operas in rock history. Now the aging blues band played in the sold-out Lanxess Arena and showed that the blended family still works well.
Cologne - Never stop on, to think about the future, warns the hit of Fleetwood Mac. Bill Clinton is drawn to the forward march sounds of "Do not Stop" to the White House. At his inauguration ceremony he was Stevie Nicks' hit with silks behangenes tambourine. However, the future often hides behind more bends than they could be as simple and easy as the politicians promise before the election. How could the members of Fleetwood Mac have guessed that they sold out to the Cologne Lanxessarena and numerous other buildings of similar size would blow the private storms of 1976?
At that time the songwriting pair Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks separated loud and ugly after eight years together, was the marriage of bassist John and pianist Christine McVie on the rocks, experienced drummer and band founder Mick Fleetwood that his wife cheated on him with his best friend . Soon after, he began a secret affair with Stevie Nicks. There were no debates, instead consoled themselves with the fragmented band members cocaine in Tony Montana amounts and wrote you-can-me-by-messages to the exes: "You Can Go Your Own Way". Amazingly enough, that it was an album, and not just any, but "Rumours", one of the biggest selling albums of all time and, as an American critic noted, "the biggest soap opera in rock history".
Cologne - Never stop on, to think about the future, warns the hit of Fleetwood Mac. Bill Clinton is drawn to the forward march sounds of "Do not Stop" to the White House. At his inauguration ceremony he was Stevie Nicks' hit with silks behangenes tambourine. However, the future often hides behind more bends than they could be as simple and easy as the politicians promise before the election. How could the members of Fleetwood Mac have guessed that they sold out to the Cologne Lanxessarena and numerous other buildings of similar size would blow the private storms of 1976?
At that time the songwriting pair Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks separated loud and ugly after eight years together, was the marriage of bassist John and pianist Christine McVie on the rocks, experienced drummer and band founder Mick Fleetwood that his wife cheated on him with his best friend . Soon after, he began a secret affair with Stevie Nicks. There were no debates, instead consoled themselves with the fragmented band members cocaine in Tony Montana amounts and wrote you-can-me-by-messages to the exes: "You Can Go Your Own Way". Amazingly enough, that it was an album, and not just any, but "Rumours", one of the biggest selling albums of all time and, as an American critic noted, "the biggest soap opera in rock history".
And so are the victims and perpetrators of that love affairs almost 40 years later, still on stage, alone,Christine McVie has long been tired, and open up on time at 19.15 clock with "Second Hand News." For much thousandth time Lindsay Buckingham Stevie Nicks sings a contemptuous "I will not miss you when you're gone" - and dancing shortly after a small clip blues with his long exes. Age grief connects.
And drives. Well, Mick Fleetwood (66) now requires a second guitar amplifiers hidden behind the drummer, who now and then helps him keep rhythm. And Stevie Nicks (65) rotates only in slow motion on their platform soles. But Lindsay Buckingham, only a year younger, titscht still as a man driven over the stage and the whole band sounds so punchy and alive, as if they had just awakened from a California Kryokonservierungsklinik. Maybe it's the long pauses that have individual members indulged repeatedly from one another. In any case, you can feel it yet, but the explosive animated family dynamics constitutes the Seventies With this version of Fleetwood Mac.
Stevie Nicks bewusstseinstromernde songs - "Dreams," "Rhiannon," "Sara," "Gypsy" - contrast well with Buckingham's edgy, edgy pieces, "Not That Funny" and "Tusk" from the same, highly experimental triple album to Fleetwood Mac of her sudden superstar status to "Rumours" recovered. "Big Love," the last real hit of the band from 1987, Buckingham plays solo on acoustic guitar, aggressive and virtuosic. Also this song, says Buckingham, had once written as a rejection of love. Today the cynicism is gone, the love is still there, even if it is exhausting. After he shakes the aching fingers for plucking.
Anyone up to the stoic John McVie turns out that evening the family circle of colleagues and tens of thousands of fans. Stevie nicks once told how she had Buckingham funneled to the band, although she was still only been a "hippie cleaning lady." After two to three quarters of an hour they thank and Mick Fleetwood once more wordy the audience, Buckingham writes on stage autographs. "Dreamcatcher" are, praises the woman who "Dreams" has written her audience. And the tall Fleetwood bows with a bright red cylinder waving as if he could still not believe it, what has become of the little blue band he co-founded in 1967, how much unexpected, happy future Fleetwood Mac now already behind them, and how well they blended family still works.
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