People forget that the Mighty Mac started as a British blues band, mining the roots and creating an electric homage a la Led Zeppelin or the Yardbirds.
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For Fleetwood Mac, the other side of Southern California’s “peaceful easy feeling,” this was the Bohemian manifesto of sparkle, sunshine, chiffon and wanderlust on a cloud of creamy synthesizers from Christine McVie-with a confectionary video that was every hippie girl’s dazzling fantasy embodied by Stevie Nicks in full regalia. In some ways, it felt a little like “Stevie does Stevie,” but it’s hard to argue with the free-spirited declaration of self. Here are the 20 best songs from Fleetwood Mac: 20. When Bill Clinton made his ran at the White House, it was “Don’t Stop” that fired up his team for his Inauguration, the band reunited to play. They followed with the progressive, challenging two-record set Tusk, the more conventional Tango in the Night and Mirage.
Aggressive playing, pop-inflected melodies and sexual frisson ignited rock that was palatable in the malls as well as back rooms, yet some of pre-Buckingham/Nicks songs remain pivotal in the catalogue.Īnd what a catalogue! The self-titled “white album” lead to the 45-million selling Rumours-inescapable for a period of almost three years. Ironically, it was the merger of two Northern California dreamers-Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks-that provided the solid rhythm section of Britain’s ferocious Mick Fleetwood on drums, velvety vocalist/B-3/pianist Christine McVie and melody-driven bassist John McVie the catalyst for superstardom. Post-disco, it was the illusion of earthy, mystical post-hippie magic, the return of electric guitars and rhythm sections that echoed. Equal parts British blues rockers, folkie bohemians and thick South California soft-pop harmonies, they crafted a songbook rife with strife, long on eroticism and charged by the cocaine-fueled reality of the era. With songs being dedicated to Tom Petty, Jimmy Iovine and Harry Styles, and an audience comprised of millenials with their grandparents, Fleetwood Mac’s performance tonight showcased their timelessness in a fashion that only the likes of The Rolling Stones can match.Fleetwood Mac embodied the high gloss, tube-topped reality of the late ’70s like few others. It's a moment that drives home Fleetwood Mac’s sheer energetic agelessness - they are a band that do not grow old. The sound issues that plagued Sunday's show are mercifully absent throughout.
Fleetwood jumps up from his impressive percussion set and starts banging on a handheld drum, inciting Taku and the crowd even further, and just when the drumming is beginning to sound like thunder, the band take us back to “World Turning”. “World Turning” is welcomely interrupted by the elected showman for the night - “don’t be shy” screams Mick Fleetwood during a close-to-ten-minute solo and drum battle with Taku Hirano. “Second Hand News” transforms Nick’s famous tasselled sleeves into air drumming drum sticks as she bangs them through the air, encouraging Mick Fleetwood’s relentless energy on percussion.įrom hereon in, the show was set. Before any of the audience members can even formulate this thought into a lasting opinion, Stevie Nicks unleashes her wild on-stage persona, shaming 90,000 people for even toying with the idea that this would not be worth the ticket price. The band start off steadily, despite the racing tune “The Chain” opening the night - after sixty-one shows this year already, weariness could be rearing its ugly head. Their clever use of these two replacements to do something different worked tonight in a way that left the audience both surprised, heartwarmed and elated. Tonight’s show was a careful balance of nostalgia and restoration, as the two newest members, Neil Finn from Crowded House and Mark Campbell from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, showed their worth. It was difficult not to feel a fleeting twinge of sadness at the erstwhile frontman his distinctive voice and masterful guitar-playing undeniable his tension and on-stage chemistry with Stevie Nicks achingly romantic.ĭespite this undercurrent of loss, tonight Fleetwood Mac demonstrated that the band is bigger than the sum of its parts - an idea already developed through their shifting line-ups through the ages. A tour set against the backdrop of Buckingham's looming absence did not derail this battle-scarred band.
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