By Andy Battaglia
Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Fleetwood Mac
Madison Square Garden
4 Penn Pl., (212) 465-6741
April 8
If there’s a new way to hear Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours, a looming monument whose sense of presence and scale in the history of American rock suggests nothing so much as the Egyptian pyramids, it lurks within a new “expanded edition” splayed out over three CDs. The set includes unreleased studio-session takes and recordings from the group’s 1977 world tour, when drug-addled energy and general anomie were very much in fashion. It’s been a few spotty decades since then, but Fleetwood Mac has been a more or less functional entity for several recent years, with a tour in 2009 and a lineup that features all of the classic cast with the exception of keyboardist Christine McVie. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks continue to put out notable solo records and, for what it’s worth, Mick Fleetwood recently opened a restaurant, Fleetwood’s on Front Street, in Maui.
