just done a GIS and it does look p cool. maybe for watching sport rather than fleetwood mac for 85 quid tho?
― So: The Answers (or something), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
just watched the VH1 Classic Albums on Rumors...man, felt bad for John McVie, he still seemed haunted by what happened, like some Vietnam vet with PTSD
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I would say just catch Lindsey solo
and, um, stevie solo. the dave grohl sound city live shindig was totally worth sitting thru for stevie's headlining set (and a few other wonderful moments).
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah mcvie seems like a dude with regrets on that doc. oh well, he can probably drown his sorrows on his bed made out of diamonds.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
he and Mick live on neighbouring Hawaiian islands, he can probably console himself somehow.
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Pumped that this rare hard to find record is finally back in print! Can't wait to hear what the hype is about, is it streaming anywhere?
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
oh i'm sure he's fine, it was just kinda weird in that doc how sad he seemed, but i think that was the first classic albums or close to it, so the stuff was a lot more recent i guess
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
he was really glum in the rock family trees episode on fleetwood mac, too. still really angry about the guy they had to kick out because he was fucking mick's wife. still really bummed that bob welch left when he did. still really miffed about lindsey leaving after tango.
― SOYLENT GREEN IS SHEEPLE (stevie), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
still destroyed that Christine left him.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
I loved Nick's explanation: "Chris and John aren't together because John drinks."
liked jessica hopper's review of this on pitchfork but this was OUT OF LINE:
Two years prior to recording Rumours, though, Fleetwood Mac was approximately nowhere. In order to re-establish the group's flagging stateside reputation, in early 1974 Fleetwood Mac's drummer and band patriarch, Mick Fleetwood, keyboardist/singer Christine McVie, and her husband, bassist John McVie, moved from England to Los Angeles. The quartet was then helmed by their fifth and least-dazzling guitarist, the American Bob Welch.
not cool
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
give it a couple years, pfork will be giving future games a 10.0 too.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
future games is so tight, as is bare trees
"homeward bound" is my fav christine mcvie jam
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
not to derail but if you guys haven't heard this one, damnnnhttp://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/disk1/464559.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
no, but that cover is fucking awesome even if the font reminds me of ten years after for some reason
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's great, super-psyched out hendrix-y/fusion instrumental jams.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
If that ever gets a boxset reissue they should use modern photoshop techniques to remove that slice of bright sky above the leopard's neck
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDUdM7K9SVk
― tylerw, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Future Games is the bomb, as is End of the Game
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
I have no problems with Future Games, but I'd take Bare Trees over it in a heartbeat.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
nah
Dust is a really great song, and there are a couple of others, but there are just some amazing epic melancholia on FG. I need to listen to those records again tho.
― everyday i'm shovelin (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
The quartet was then helmed by their fifth and least-dazzling guitarist, the American Bob Welch.
God, even when she's writing on a subject I'd normally agree with her on, SHE DOES IT WRONG.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
no sentimental lady this jessica hopper
― buzza, Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
least-dazzling = did not become homeless or was not mentally ill
― everyday i'm shovelin (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Um, Welch had his own problems, obviously.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
less dazzling than Billy Burnette and Rick Vito?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
They wore bolos. How could they not be dazzling?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
You know, I love the Bob Welch era, but it's entirely possible that he *was* the least dazzling guitarist. In context, though, I don't know that that's a horrible criticism. My favorite FM album is, for the record, Mystery To Me closely followed by Bare Trees.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
he wasn't hired for his guitar heroics tho, he was there for songwriting/front man duties to compliment kirwan
i would certainly rate his contributions way above jeremy spencer's at the very least
― buzza, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
complement
― buzza, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm thinking Green-->Buckingham-->Kirwan and then I really don't know enough to decide between Welch and Weston and Spencer in terms of guitar playing. But it seems entirely possible that Welch comes in fifth. (My impression is that Weston was pretty hot shit, though I'd have to go back and listen some more...)
― dlp9001, Saturday, 9 February 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Ticket in First 5 RowsVIP Entry to VenueVIP Host for the EveningMeet & Greet with Mick FleetwoodVIP Q&A with Mick Fleetwood onstage at his Drum KitPersonal Photo with Mick FleetwoodMick Fleetwood VIP Laminate- $425Ticket in the First 20 RowsVIP Entry to VenueVIP Host for the EveningMeet & Greet with Mick FleetwoodVIP Q&A with Mick Fleetwood onstage at his Drum KitPersonal Photo with Mick FleetwoodMick Fleetwood VIP Laminate- $375
Ticket in the First 20 RowsVIP Entry to VenueVIP Host for the EveningMeet & Greet with Mick FleetwoodVIP Q&A with Mick Fleetwood onstage at his Drum KitPersonal Photo with Mick FleetwoodMick Fleetwood VIP Laminate- $375
Maybe Lindsay could do one and I could accost him during his guitar Q&A about the domestic violence stuff.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
i would certainly rate his contributions way above jeremy spencer's at the very least.
I dunno if I'd agree with this. He's an ok songwriter but guitar-playing-wise Spencer shreds all over his ass.
Spencer's album from last year is pretty great, incidentally.
― brimstead, Sunday, 10 February 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still p terribly lacking in non Buckingham-Nicks FM knowledge, but listening to Bare Trees for the first time now it's rly good, if not at all vibing with my ideas of it based on the cover. 'Sunny Side of Heaven' is super gorgeous (and most aligned with what I was imagining).
(Also just listened to Peter Green's The End of the Game, amazing Hendrix-beyond-Hendrix jazz-funk-psych blues.)
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
jamming out to End of the Game right now, and man I am liking it even more than I remembered the last time I gave it a listen. Something about Peter Green's style hits so deep, even in a sort of free form loose jammy context
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to do the meet Mick thing if it becomes available in my town.
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
It's all about the laminate, baby. But seriously, I will.
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
mick seems like he would be the most fun
never gotten the sense that i would ever want to be in the same room as lindsay buckingham
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently, they're letting fans design the tour poster: http://www.facebook.com/FleetwoodMac/app_288858114510005
Competition seems weak so far. Designy type ilxors should hop on this.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah dude might be a total musical genius but there is no question in my mind that he is also a humourless psycho
― electricsound, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
christine mcvie would probably be very polite
― 'glown' with the king (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man the box set in INCREDIBLE! I don't know much about mastering and all that jazz, but the CD doesn't sound optimal. I got it for the rest of the stuff, and those demos don't disappoint! (Admittedly I've never explored their bootlegs so maybe they are old hat by now). I can't wait to see the DVD, hope it's more of that great behind-the-scenes stuff floating around you tube.
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
Christine would be polite, offer you a glass of good red wine, listen to you prattle about "Warm Ways," and say, "Alright, love, time for you to get the fuck out."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
stevie would offer you a glass of wine, listen to you prattle about the buckingham nicks album, then prattle back to you for two or three hours or until you said, "alright, love, time for me to get the fuck out. and you've got a show to do, don't you?"
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently, they're letting fans design the tour poster: Competition seems weak so far
lol go through their fb page's photos for all of the "reimaginings" or w/e of the rumors cover
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
The band went through so many incarnations they really should be evaluated as three different bands.
I do believe, however, that Peter Green was one of the most expressive blues guitarists and far more emotive than Clapton could ever hope to be.
― suspecterrain, Friday, 15 February 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
That's certainly true for the British blues crew. Though Clapton's pre-Cream stuff, what little there is, is worth a listen for sake of comparison.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 February 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
he was aight in yardbirds, but beck really made that band great imo
― 'glown' with the king (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
God bless The Onion...
Man Who Bought 34th Anniversary Reissue Of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' Feeling Like Real Idiot After Passing Display For 35th Anniversary Edition
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ENID, OK—Longtime Fleetwood Mac fan Michael Gastin reportedly felt like a complete moron this week after walking by a retail display for the 35th anniversary remastered CD box set of the band’s celebrated 1977 album Rumours, released less than a year after he purchased the Rumours 34th anniversary edition. “Goddamn it, I can’t believe I wasted my money on the 34th anniversary reissue when I could have just waited a little longer and gotten an awesome 35th anniversary re-release,” the embarrassed fan said after observing that the deluxe 35th anniversary edition of the album features an expanded booklet with photographs, essays, and interviews about the making of Rumours not included in the commemorative booklet packaged with the 34th anniversary deluxe box set. “And look at this thing—it’s huge! It’s like twice as big as the 32nd and 33rd anniversary editions combined.” At press time, Gastin had reportedly opted to purchase the album due to its inclusion of an early jam session that reportedly sheds light on the little-documented tensions between band members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 22 February 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Such a lost gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErUFrogXxE
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link