Fleetwood Mac performed in concert at the KFC YUM! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday night, the fifth show of the North American tour. Stevie opened the evening by acknowledging Louisville’s victorious college basketball team the Cardinals, who won the NCAA National Championships on Monday night. She dedicated “Landslide” to the team.
Fleetwood Mac has clearly settled into a comfortable rhythm, standing firmly behind its set list of 23 songs — a diverse mix of singles, album tracks, and new material. The band has yet to drop a song from the set in four consecutive shows.
Fans in Louisville tweeted their thoughts immediately after the concert:
Ten thousand drunk women agree: They still love Stevie Nicks.
That was the news from my seat Tuesday night in the 400-level of the Verizon Center, where Fleetwood Mac returned to the stage for the first time in three years.
The calls rained down from the crowd: “I love you, Steeeeeevie!”
The man sitting to my left at the Verizon Center appeared to be in his early 60s. He and his wife were accompanied by another couple, the four slightly tipsy on domestic macrobrews and bad wine. They were most likely well off, able to drop hundreds to see one of the most popular soft rock bands in history. My armrestmate was wearing a sport coat that has probably always been too big for his size. He was balding with prominent liver spots. His hands, leathered by time, smelled like ointment and pears. His teeth were the color of a No 2 pencil.
Fleetwood Mac
Verizon Center
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
By Diane Lyn 101.9 Lite FM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:24 PM
What an amazing show at the Verizon Center in Washington DC Tuesday night. Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie showed us why, the album, Rumours was one of the biggest albums of all time.
Singer Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac performs at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 9. (Peter Hutchins)
By Lexie Mountain Midnight Sun
Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 10:48 a.m. EDT
I have to admit that even though “Second Hand News” is a great way to kick off a night of what was clearly going to be hit after hit of A+, No. 1, solid-gold Fleetwood Mac tunes, hearing Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks sing the first few measures put a little stone in my throat. Lindsey sounded ragged and rough: Did he give too much to Madison Square Garden the night before? Perhaps over-carousing? Does Lindsey deign to carouse? And Stevie, oh Stevie, the top range of her uniquely fluid yet meaty voice clipped. It was almost too hoarse and monotonic.
John McVie and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac perform at the Verizon Center on Tuesday night. (Kyle Gustafson for the Washington Post)
By Dave McKenna Washington Post
Wednesday, April 10, 7:22 AM
Fleetwood Mac survived affairs between band members; affairs between band members and crew members, and affairs between band members and really hard drugs — all during the making of one record, 1977’s Rumours.
Special thanks to Sharon Bos, Denny Henson, Lapi Lee, Deanna Lindquist, and Michael Manolagas for making these clips available, and especially to FunkHouse9Videos and Stevie Mac for posting the majority of them.
John McVie and Stevie Nicks perform with Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden. (Charles Wenzelberg)
The Bottom Line
Fleetwood Mac displays their familiar chemistry and musical virtuosity in this standout 2-1/2 hour concert.
Venue
Madison Square Garden, New York City (April 8)
The venerable band rocks Madison Square Garden with classic hits and enough relative obscurities to please die-hard fans.
By Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:17 AM PDT
Any longtime fan of Fleetwood Mac must have relished a particular exchange between Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks during the band’s Madison Square Garden concert, the third stop in a 50-date tour. Introducing the song “Without You,” a previously unreleased track from their Buckingham Nicks days, Nicks explained that she and Buckingham differed on when exactly the vintage song was written. It’s somehow comforting that after all these years these longtime collaborators can still disagree.
On Tuesday, Fleetwood Mac performed in concert at the Verizon Center, located in the heart of downtown Washington, D.C. For the third consecutive show, the band dazzled the audience with an unblemished 23-song concert set list. The growing confidence in new songs “Sad Angel” and “Without You” bodes well for their performance in future set lists. Lindsey Buckingham once again announced the upcoming, eagerly-anticipated release of an EP containing new material, slightly modifying its status from “in a few days” to “any day now.”
From left, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac performing at Madison Square Garden on Monday night as part of its North American tour. (Chad Batka for The New York Times)
The kid gloves were off when Fleetwood Mac performed its old songs at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. “Damn your love! Damn your lies!” Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks sang, bitter and enraged, in “The Chain,” from Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album, Rumours, which has sold 19 million copies in the United States and was reissued in an expanded version this year.
