Review Stevie Nicks Live in Asbury Park NJ Sept 19, 2022

Stevie Nicks unleashes ‘fairytale’ rock dominance

Matt Smith | For NJ Advance Media

NJ.com

As the ocean breeze fluttered the scarves and chains dangling from her microphone stand, Stevie Nicks gazed out over the immense crowd — some 30,000 strong stretched a quarter-mile down the beach, a vision of late-summer Jersey Shore serenity — and described the scene as only she might: “a fairytale.”

“Is this the world of Bruce Springsteen?” Nicks asked early in her 90-minute performance, egging on the crowd. While The Boss did not appear, no shine was lost from Nicks’ emphatic set, which echoed effortlessly over the waterfront expanse and beyond the waves painted green, pink and blue by filtered lights. Attend enough festivals and you’ll learn some artists’ voices just don’t carry well in such monstrous settings. But Nicks, 74, was in full command, unloading a mix of solo classics and Fleetwood Mac staples, twirling in place and traipsing around the stage as her eight-piece band played on.

The night’s single-most affecting moment came, perhaps unsurprisingly, during “Landslide,” which Nicks tearfully dedicated to Tessa Fleetwood, Mick Fleetwood’s granddaughter and her goddaughter, who was in attendance. The crowd belted along, many eyes similarly dampened.

More explosive were the crashing renditions of “Gold Dust Woman” (with flecks of golden dust swirling on the big screen), and her synth-laden solo cut “Stand Back.” And of course, “Edge of Seventeen” ignited the audience once more. Nicks sang “Free Fallin’” as a tribute to her close friend Tom Petty, who died in 2017, with happy images of Petty and Nicks on the screen.

She also unloaded a sharp cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” preceded by a funny quip: “I hope you all like it, whatever, I love it.” I’ll take Stevie’s attitude eight days a week.

And the set finished with a rousing take on Led Zeppelin’s “Rock N’ Roll,” sending the audience off on a high. It was a propulsive performance, noticeably more high-octane than her solo tour I covered a few years back, and surely the most memorable headlining set in Sea Hear Now’s young history. Pure joy and power.

Sea Hear Now Festival in NJ Brings Stevie Nicks, Green Day and a Packed Lineup to the Land of Bruce

By Michele Amabile Angermiller

Variety

Photo credit Charles Reagan for Sea Hear Now

Not long into her headlining set on the first day of the fourth annual Sea Hear Now festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Stevie Nicks had a question for the thousands stretched across the beach.

“Is this the world of Bruce Springsteen?” she asked to enthusiastic cheers. “OK, we’re driving through, and there’s a street sign and I asked that same question and nobody really answered, at least like you guys just did.”

Springsteen is certainly a part of the tapestry of the town, and was well-represented in photographer/festival organizer Danny Clinch’s art tent. But the city has an ever-evolving musical scene, and the beachside setting was its own draw on a weekend of warm, beautiful days and picturesque nights, with an ocean breeze enveloping Nicks and her flowing scarves, creating an ambience — or as she described it, a “fairytale” — only Mother Nature can provide. A red crescent moon peeking through the overhead clouds added to the mystique on the final weekend of summer and beginning of the fall season, or as Nicks — in a nod to her fans donning witch hats and Stevie-attire on the sand — framed it: “it’s almost Halloween.”

“I would like to thank Danny Clinch for putting on this amazing festival,” Nicks said. “To have a festival right on the ocean is pretty spectacular. I live on the ocean so for me I feel like I’m right at home.”

Sea.Hear.Now electrifies the beach with Green Day, Stevie Nicks, and more

Photo credit Charles Reagan for Sea Hear Now

Time to run to the Surf Stage to see the legendary Stevie Nicks, for what we can only describe as magical and spiritual experience, seeing Stevie perform to a crowd of over 30,000 people at one of our favorite beaches was a bucket list item for us.

The icon took the stage and you could hear the roaring crowd for miles. The Sea.Hear.Now audience gave her the warmest welcome with the utmost energy and excitement, with people waiting at her stage dripping in Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks merch since the doors opened at noon.

'Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?'

Stevie performed Fleetwood Mac and her own classics during the hour and half set including, “Edge of Seventeen,” “Dreams,” “Landslide” and a cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin.”

You could feel the energy in the air as she pulled out hit after hit, leaving the massive crowd stunned. Not to be predictable, but our favorite moment of the show was during “Landslide,” which she dedicated to Tessa Fleetwood, Mick Fleetwood’s granddaughter and her goddaughter, who was there to watch her performance. As soon as the first few notes played, the entire beach went silent and took in what was about to happen. All of the conversations and screams came to a halt as everyone softly sang together to a song that means so much to so many people. We’ll remember this performance for the rest of our lives.

GRIFFIN LOTZ FOR ROLLING STONE

RSD 2022 FLEETWOOD MAC THE ALTERNATE COLLECTIONS - VINYL AND CD

FLEETWOOD MAC

The Alternate Collection

Vinyl and CD Box Sets

Available for Record Store Day on November 25, 2022

Fleetwood Mac – The Alternate Collection

Limited Edition of 13,000 copies 

8-LP boxed set crystal clear vinyl

Fleetwood Mac – The Alternate Collection

Limited Edition of 16,500 copies 

on 6-CD boxed set

This collection features rare alternate Fleetwood Mac tracks from 1975 – 1987. Previously released individually for Record Store Day and RSD Black Friday events on vinyl, they will now be together in one boxed set on clear vinyl or a CD boxed set.  

Tracklisting below.

FLEETWOOD MAC Alternate 

Originally Released April 13, 2019

Side A:

1. Monday Morning (Early Take)

2. Warm Ways (Early Take)

3. Blue Letter (Early Take)

4. Rhiannon (Early Take)

5. Over My Head (Early Take)

6. Crystal (Early Version)

Side B:

7. Say You Love Me (Early Version)

8. Landslide (Early Version)

9. World Turning (Early Version)

10. Sugar Daddy (Early Take)

11. I'm So Afraid (Early Version)

FLEETWOOD MAC The Alternate Rumours 

Originally Released September 26, 2020

Side A

1. Second Hand News (Alternate)

2. Dreams (Alternate)

3. Never Going Back Again (Acoustic Duet)

4. Don't Stop (Alternate)

5. Go Your Own Way (Alternate)

6. Songbird (Alternate)

Side B

1. The Chain (Demo)

2. You Make Loving Fun (Alternate)

3. I Don't Want To Know (Early Take)

4. Oh Daddy (Early Take)

5. Gold Dust Woman (Early Take)

FLEETWOOD MAC The Alternate Tusk 

Originally Released April 16, 2016

Side 1

1. Over and Over

2. The Ledge

3. Think About Me

4. Save Me a Place

5. Sara

Side 2

1. What Makes You Think You're the One

2. Storms

3. That's All for Everyone

4. Not That Funny

5. Sisters of the Moon

Side 3

1. Angel

2. That's Enough For Me

3. Brown Eyes

4. Never Make Me Cry

5. I Know I'm Not Wrong

Side 4

1. Honey Hi

2. Beautiful Child

3. Walk a Thin Line

4. Tusk

5. Never Forget

FLEETWOOD MAC Alternate Live 

Originally Release November 26, 2021

SIDE A

1. SECOND HAND NEWS

2. THE CHAIN

3. THINK ABOUT ME

4. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE THE ONE

SIDE B

1. GOLD DUST WOMAN

2. BROWN EYES

3. THE GREEN MANALISHI (WITH THE TWO-PRONGED CROWN)

SIDE C

1. ANGEL

2. HOLD ME

3. TUSK

4. YOU MAKE LOVING FUN

SIDE D

1. SISTERS OF THE MOON

2. SONGBIRD

3. BLUE LETTER

FLEETWOOD MAC Alternate Mirage 

Originally Released April 22, 2017

Side A

1. Love In Store (Early Version)

2. Suma’s Walk aka Can’t Go Back (Outtake)

3. That’s Alright (Alternate Take)

4. Book of Love (Early Version)

5. Gypsy (Early Version)

6. Only Over You (Alternate Version)

Side B

1. Empire State (Early Version)

2. Straight Back (Original Vinyl Version)

3. Hold Me (Early Version)

4. Oh Diane (Early Version)

5. Eyes of the World (Alternate Early Version)

6. Wish You Were Here (Alternate Version)

FLEETWOOD MAC The Alternate Tango In The Night 

Originally Released April 21, 2018

Side A:

1. Down Endless Street

2. Special Kind Of Love (Demo)

3. Seven Wonders (Early Version)

4. Tango In The Night (Demo)

5. Mystified (Alternate Version)

Side B:

1. Where We Belong (Demo)

2. Juliet (Run-Through)

3. Isn’t It Midnight (Alternate Mix)

4. Ooh My Love (Demo)

5. You And I, Part I & II (Full Version)

REVIEW Stevie Nicks Live in Detroit Sept 13, 2022

Natalia Holtzman

September 14, 2022

CONSEQUENCE SOUND

We’re in Clarkston, MI, at Pine Knob, where Stevie Nicks is kicking off her first tour in a handful of years. It’s Tuesday, September 13th, and the air smells like roadkill.

In the parking lot and the ticket lines, and the bathroom lines and the beer lines, you can practically taste the hairspray. The man behind me bellows, “Does anyone have any mushrooms?” The women in front of me are quite literally cawing at each other, and when one of the ticket lines ends up leading nowhere — a machine has died; long live the machines — a brunette says, “It’s ‘cause men are running it,” and then her friend says, “I need a coloring book and a safe space right now!”

At last, there’s activity on stage. Vanessa Carlton opens with a few bright, pop-y tunes, though it’s hard to hear her over the noise of the crowd. Everyone’s eyeliner is already running. Every inch of the lawn has been pasted over with sleeping bags and blankets, corners peeling back like damp postage stamps. A woman clutches a tiny dog in her hands. The breeze stinks with cigarettes and weed.

Then the lights go down and the band starts appearing on stage while Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” pounds out of the speakers. There’s someone on organ and someone on piano; others on bass and drums; a few guitars; background singers. Then, all of a sudden, there’s Stevie, center-stage, spot-lit; there she is with her mane of crimped, silver-gold curls, in heeled boots, a black velvet jacket and a tiered skirt.

Stevie opens with “Outside the Rain,” the background singers pacing out their coordinated sways and hand gestures. Her voice is as gravelly and combustible as a coal mine. She’s leaning hard into her lower registers — she always has, but her range has tightened. The background singers carry the high notes.

When the band moves into “Dreams,” the crowd loses its collective mind. “I keep my visions to myself,” Stevie sings, and I want to say something about the irony of this line performed for however many people are here, hundreds or thousands, I don’t know how to make those kinds of calculations — thousands, probably — but the thought won’t formulate, or it will but it’s too on the nose.

“I’m so glad to be here,” Stevie says. “It’s been a long time coming.” My date leans over to whisper, “She’s doing a retrospective!” And that seems accurate. Projected onto the screen behind her, old polaroids start to appear. Stevie in her youth: wide-eyed, big-haired, lips parted. She’s alternating the hits with some lesser-known tunes (“Enchanted,” “Wild Heart”) and a perfectly fine version of “For What It’s Worth,” which she introduces by saying, “If you’re a woman covering someone else’s song, better do it well or don’t do it.” Cheers.

There are moments when she fidgets nervously with the parti-colored scarves tied to the mic stand, or the streamers tied to her tambourine, and when she talks, there’s a kind of coyness, almost a shyness, that clings to her like fabric.

And while the audience skews more towards my parents’ age than my own, there’s a girl on my right who can’t be any older than 22 or 23 and who knows each and every lyric to each and every song and mouths along, one song after the next, her hands clasped over her heart.

Whatever Stevie gives them, they eat up. She pinches the corner of her skirt to twirl and bow and they go nuts. She acquires a shawl — she acquires a new shawl every few songs, because she is Stevie Nicks and she can have as many shawls as she wants — and she spreads it out like a pair of wings, and they go even nuttier.

The lead guitar is churning through some slow, creamy tones — creamy but jagged-edged, like chains dragged through butter — but he’s sticking close to the source; they all are. It’s not a night for pushing boundaries or trying crazy shit. They play the hits and they play them well; they play the hits the way the crowd knows them, the way they were recorded.

But the best thing happening on-stage is the harmonies Stevie’s stacking up with her background singers. They only do it once or twice, just possibly thrice. Each time, Stevie turns her back on the crowd to do it.

They play “Gypsy,” “Landslide,” “Edge of Seventeen.” Stevie introduces “Landslide” with a not-terribly-coherent dedication to Vanessa Carlton’s daughter? Who is maybe Stevie’s goddaughter? For whose birth Stevie was maybe present? Anyway, everyone’s singing along and weeping and I hear someone behind me sob, “This one’s for you, Mom!” and when I look back, she’s holding her phone up, taking a video, swaying tenuously back and forth. “I’m getting older, too,” Stevie sings, opening her arms.

They exit after “Seventeen,” but it doesn’t take much to get them back. Everyone hoists their beer in the air for “Free Fallin’” — Stevie’s been tipping her hat to Tom Petty all night, and to Prince, too — then it’s time for “Rhiannon,” and a nice gritty cover of Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll.”

That’s the end, but before anyone can argue, the lights come up, and everyone goes home happy.

Setlist:

• Outside the Rain
• Dreams
• If Anyone Falls
• Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
• Enchanted
• For What It’s Worth
• Wild Heart
• Bella Donna
• Gypsy
• Landslide
• Soldier’s Angel
• Stand Back
• Gold Dust Woman
• Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
• Edge of Seventeen

Encore:

• Free Fallin’
• Rhiannon
• Rock and Roll

Stevie Nicks Live in Aspen, CO - Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day

Rock icon Stevie Nicks closes out 2022 JAS Labor Day Experience in Snowmass

Photos by Lynn Goldsmith
AspenTimes

This year’s version of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience music festival concluded Sunday night with rock icon Stevie Nicks, of Fleetwood Mac fame, taking the stage at Snowmass Town Park.

Still sprightly at 74, Nicks talked about how she wrote one of the band’s most popular songs, “Landslide,” while in Aspen in 1974. Marc Broussard and Little Big Town also helped close out the experience on Sunday.

New addition to the setlist was Buffalo Springfields "For What It's Worth". 

25 YEARS OF FLEETWOOD MAC'S "THE DANCE" - NEW HD VIDEOS

2022 marks the 25th Anniversary of the release of Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance". The live TV event and subsequent album and DVD release brought the famous 5 Fleetwood Mac members back together and back to life frankly in 1997 after struggling as a band in the 1990s. This was again sidelined by the departure or retirement of Christine McVie in early 1998 after their last commitment.

To celebrate, Fleetwood Mac and Rhino Records have been releasing HD versions of the videos from the live event. So far they've dropped on the Fleetwood Mac Youtube page "Landslide", Silver Springs and The Chain.

Can't help but think they are gearing up for a re-issue remaster of the album, hopefully, expanded with all the tracks performed and a Blu-ray or better version of the original DVD release. That would be pretty amazing. 

The Chain

Landslide

Silver Springs

Fleetwood Mac Co-Founder Mick Fleetwood Launches Mick Fleetwood Coffee

Mick Fleetwood, the co-founder of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, along with Gerard Marti, owner of the Robert Kidd Gallery in downtown Birmingham, and three other local investors, has launched Mick Fleetwood Coffee Co.

The enterprise offers direct-to-consumer coffee and merchandise, and membership is available in the MFCC VIP program. Plans are to begin offering the coffee in select retail stores in metro Detroit in the near future, as well as nationally and internationally.

The company’s first market test was launched with a series of digital ads in Grand Rapids touting MickFleetwoodCoffee.com.

Fleetwood, a British songwriter and musician who is the front man for Fleetwood Mac, founded in 1967, has been living in Maui, Hawaii, near coffee bean farms for several years. Mick Fleetwood Coffee Co. uses beans grown in Hawaii, Central America, and Kenya.

The beans are shipped to Roastery in Flushing (northwest of Flint), where they are ground, roasted, and bagged for distribution worldwide. The company offers one-time purchases and a coffee club membership that allows members to choose the frequency of their coffee purchases.

“Coffee is more than a beverage, it’s a daily ritual,” says Fleetwood. “For those who count themselves among these aficionados, Mick Fleetwood Coffee’s thoughtful selection of beans and artful approach to roasting creates a superior coffee that will be a welcome addition to their daily routine.”

Mick Fleetwood Coffee Co. blends include:

• The Hawaiian Blend, an aromatic blend of fruits, nuts, and cocoa, delivers a medium-bodied taste, low acidity, and a breezy sense of the tropics.
• Its Signature Blend, a uniquely earthy and full-bodied blend of chocolate and toffee with just enough sweetness to bring it all home; and,
• The Kenyan Blend, featuring almond, caramel, and a slight hint of cocoa inspires a mellow acidity (think fresh garden tomato) is medium-bodied.
• A Restaurant Blend will be coming soon.
• The website also features branded coffee mugs and hats. Branded t-shirts, hoodies, and other merchandise featuring the Mick Fleetwood Coffee Co. logo will be added in the coming months.

“If coffee could go platinum, this is the stuff,” Fleetwood says. “I take my coffee as seriously as I do my music. I’ve always said any coffee with my name on it has to be the finest, most savory coffee on the planet.”

Marti, a painter, songwriter, and former record producer and video director at EMI Records, has known Fleetwood for 28 years, having first met in Maui. He also is the godfather to two of Fleetwood’s daughters.

“I used to live in Maui, and when the pandemic hit, Fleetwood Mac had to cancel their world tour,” says Marti. “With the band stuck in their homes, I suggested to Mick that we start up a business and we came up with a coffee company because we both love coffee. Now I’m in the process of visiting with local stores to have our coffee available to consumers.”

Fleetwood Mac has sold more than 120 million albums and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in 1998. Some of the band’s most popular songs include “Dreams,” “Little Lies,” “The Chain,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Gypsy,” and “Rhiannon.”

Check out their website: MickFleetwoodCoffee.com

And look for them on Instagram @mickfleetwoodcoffee

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