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Top 10 Fleetwood Mac moments of 2014
Stevie Nicks hangs out with Lady Gaga at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.
From storming Rockefeller Plaza to officiating a rock star wedding, the members of Fleetwood Mac made big headlines all throughout 2014.
Stevie Nicks was the most ongoing of the five members, making several high profile, A-List appearances, such as the Vanity Fair Oscar Party this past March.
Here’s how Fleetwood Mac’s biggest moments from the past year stacked up:
10. Stevie mentors for Team Adam on The Voice.
In October, Stevie appeared on the hit reality singing competition The Voice to mentor for Team Adam. Mentoring for “The Battle Premiere,” she encouraged the aspiring singers to “walk out there with a big attitude [and] big voice. Work the mic, spend a little eye time with the people who are watching, [and] you gotta break some hearts at the same time.”
Stevie also had a guest stint on American Idol, mentoring season 11 contestants.
Stevie Nicks mentors for Team Adam on The Voice. (Photo: NBC)
9. Fleetwood Mac works on a new album.
Over the summer, Fleetwood Mac began recording tracks for a new album. The band (sans Nicks, who was working on an album of her own in Nashville) worked on new material brought in by returning member Christine McVie. Though no release date has been issued for the album, Lindsey Buckingham was confident that their studio work would come to fruition. “There’s no danger that [the album] will slip between the tracks. It’s too profound to,” he told the Wall Street Journal in October. So Mac fans everywhere lie in wait!
8. Stevie officiates Vanessa Carlton’s wedding.
As if recording a brand new solo album and touring with Fleetwood Mac weren’t enough, Stevie somehow found time to officiate Vanessa Carlton’s marriage to Deer Tick musician John McCauley. Technically, the wedding occurred at the end of 2013 on December 27, but the rock star spectacle managed to set the Internet ablaze well into 2014 and missed every Top 10 list that year, so it’s worth including here. By the power vested in her as an ordained minister, Stevie declared the happy couple husband and wife at an intimate hilltop ceremony in Los Angeles. Carlton shared the exciting news on Twitter, tweeting pictures of Stevie officiating the wedding. The “Thousand Miles” singer-songwriter has formed a close relationship with Stevie and her family over the past few years – even spending the Christmas holidays with the Nickses!
(Photo: Vanessa Carlton)
7. Mick Fleetwood releases second autobiography Play On.
In October, Mick Fleetwood released his second autobiography Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac. This time around, Mick tread lightly on the band’s most intimate secrets to prevent another band implosion. (His last exposé, 1991′ s Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac, strained relationships with band members Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, whose volatile blowup in 1987 was well documented.) All for the better, Fleetwood’s latest work reflects someone who has matured and grown over time. One regret that Fleetwood revealed was the fact that he never wrote any songs for Fleetwood Mac in the band’s 47-year history, creative expression which he is exploring now in an exhibition of his photography.
6. Stevie performs with Lady Antebellum on ACM Awards.
On April 6, Stevie Nicks teamed up with Lady Antebellum to perform the country trio’s hit single “Golden” on the ACM Awards. Nicks loved the song so much that she added her vocals to a special version of “Golden,” which was released on April 1 – no joke! Stevie and Lady also performed Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Rhiannon” on the show, which, as shown in the video, drove the crowd wild!
(Photo: CBS)
5. Stevie joins all-female tribute to 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Linda Ronstadt.
Some of biggest names in music took to the stage for a tour-de-force tribute to 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Linda Ronstadt. Joined by Sheryl Crow, Glen Frey (the lone male), Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Carrie Underwood, Stevie took the lead on Ronstadt’s 1977 hit single “It’s So Easy,” a Buddy Holly cover. Stevie made it all look so easy.
4. Stevie Nicks receives BMI Icon Award for Songwriting
On May 13, Stevie received the highest industry honor for songwriting at the BMI Icon Awards. The prestigious event included an all-star musical tribute to her. While giving her acceptance speech, Stevie shared an old poem by Lord Byron titled “When We Two Parted” and brought the Goya guitar that her late parents presented to her for her 16th birthday. Stevie explained how these personal items inspired her to write songs.
(Photo: Lester Cohen / WireImage)
3. Fleetwood Mac takes over Rockefeller Plaza.
On October 9, Fleetwood Mac rocked NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza for the Toyota Fall Concert Series on Today. Despite the cold weather, the band was red hot as it played abbreviated versions of “The Chain,” “Gypsy,” “Little Lies,” and “Go Your Own Way.” Fleetwood Mac fans who arrived early were treated to the sound check, where the band practiced the same songs.
2. Stevie Nicks releases 24 Karat Gold – Songs from the Vault.
No one believed it would ever happen, but hell frozen over in October when Stevie finally recorded many of the old demos that she had amassed over the years. Titled 24 Karat Gold, a reference to one of those precious demos dating back to the 1980s, the album features several new recordings of demos that Stevie found circulating on YouTube. Rather than crying foul with litigation, Stevie used the social media tool to her advantage and selected the most popular ones to record. Created in a Nashville recording studio in just three months, the album featured the classic sound and production — recalling producer Jimmy Iovine’s production work on Bella Donna (1981) and The Wild Heart (1983) — that many fans were pining to hear once again. For the most part, their wish was granted as Nicks and producer Dave Stewart stayed to true her original demos and classic solo artist sound that fans had grown to treasure and associate with her all these years.
Nicks also included photos in an oversized booklet that accompanied the deluxe edition of 24 Karat Gold – Songs from the Vault. Long before there were “selfies” on Instagram and Facebook, Stevie perfected the art of taking self-portraits with her trusty old Polaroid camera. She captured herself at home and in hotel rooms while on tour. In October, Stevie unveiled her extensive collection of self-portraits at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York.
1. Christine McVie reunites with Fleetwood Mac for first tour in 16 years.
As she had done in 2013, Christine McVie once again topped the list of the year’s biggest Fleetwood Mac moments when she hit the stage for her first full Fleetwood Mac concert performance since 1998 at the Target Center in Minneapolis on September 30.
Christine McVie returned to the megaband whose legacy she helped to create with her cozy pop songs, such as “Say You Love Me,” “Don’t Stop,” and “Little Lies.” Overcoming a fear of flying, McVie returned to the stage with a renewed confidence. Throughout the tour, she has been grateful to the band for granting her a “second chance” to perform with one of the most enduring bands in rock history.
Once McVie started to sing the opening lines of her 1977 Rumours hit single “You Make Loving Fun,” fans rejoiced and showed their appreciation by giving her warm ovations. Though face-value ticket prices swelled in upwards of $300 a pop at some venues, for many, seeing McVie’s unexpected return to the band was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All was good in the universe once again.
The band was equally as delighted to see McVie return to the stage. “Our songbird has returned,” Mick Fleetwood gushed at each show of the first leg of the tour, which ended on December 20. The outing was a tremendous success, with sold-out arenas throughout the U.S. and Canada, and earned unanimous praise from critics. With fans on board for the nostalgic ride, 2014 easily became the biggest year for Fleetwood Mac since releasing the reunion album The Dance in 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3OxwEDRS5g

December 22, 2014
REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac better than ever
Fleetwood Mac was better than ever at BB&T Center on December 19, 2014
Fleetwood Mac
BB&T Center, Sunrise
Friday, December 19, 2014
Better than: Anyone had the right to expect.
(Photo: Sayre Berman)
All those who packed into the BB&T Center at the penultimate show of the much-heralded Fleetwood Mac reunion tour truly felt they were attending a landmark event.
After some 48 years of slinging hugely successful albums and holding down a reputation as rock’s most notorious traveling soap opera, the sold out performance was testimony to Fleetwood’s longevity and durability. But the fact that the band still sounds remarkable — some might say better than ever — ensured its three hour, awe-inspiring show was one for the ages.
And much was made of the fact that Christine McVie’s return to the fold after an absence of 15 years was a remarkable feat in itself.
“She’s back!” Stevie Nicks noted at the outset. It was a feeling of euphoria that Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood echoed at various points throughout the 24-song set, packed with hits, fan favorites, and even the occasional rarity. Indeed, it was well worth noting that at age 71, McVie looks at least twenty years younger, and her rich, riveting vocals showed no sign of diminishing whatsoever.
(Photo: Sayre Berman)
In truth, the same could be said of each member of this tireless ensemble. Nicks retained her trademark quiver, her top hat, granny dresses, and a mystic fairy queen sensibility — not to mention the ability to literally spin in circles whenever the occasion called.
Buckingham, at age 65, showed the dexterity of someone half his age, whether he was goose-stepping across the stage, adopting a reliable rock star posture, or proving, yet again, that despite the competition from predecessors like Peter Green or Jeremy Spencer, he remains one of the most nimble guitarists Mac has ever fronted.
Fleetwood himself is far from a figure head, a remarkable time keeper whose tasteful flourishes, commanding rhythms and role as the band’s eternal cheerleader often puts him center stage. He offered a semi-unplugged interlude, a breathless drum solo, and heartfelt and humbling remarks as the concert came to a close.
As for that other individual name-checked in the band’s handle, suffice it to say he played the role of the stoic bass player to a tee, yet his apparent lack of an onstage persona and reticence to join the others in sharing the kudos and commentary offered the impression he was basically along for the ride.
It’s a remarkable thing that even now, the group’s voices and harmonies are as vibrant as they were back in the beginning.
(Photo: Sayre Berman)
While many veteran bands need an army of support players to effectively convey their classic melodies, the Mac brings along a relatively sparse support team consisting of two extra musicians on guitar, occasional keyboards, and three subtle backing singers to, at times, flesh out the vocals. That leaves the main players to do the heavy lifting, a task they accomplish exceedingly well.
Buckingham’s fretwork, as previously mentioned, is nothing short of astonishing, and on songs such as “World Turning,” “Never Going Back,” and the lovely “Landslide” — one of the concert’s most fragile interludes and one of its best — he demonstrated a remarkable dexterity that deserves all the kudos the critics have given. As Fleetwood noted during the band introductions, Buckingham is the one member of the group who literally never leaves the stage.
As for the songs themselves, it’s the big band numbers that elicit the most enthusiastic response, and rightfully so. Opening number “The Chain,” perhaps an unintended homage to the group’s continuing trajectory, was greeted with a rapturous response, as was the well-heeled, more familiar fare like “Second Hand News,” “Rhiannon,” “Say You Love Me,” and natch, the irrepressible “Go Your Own Way.”
It’s obvious that those who refer to them as the quintessential soft rock band are way off the mark. This group rocks hard, with a drive and determination that rivals any of its venerable contemporaries.
Add to that already impressive presentation an amazing array of back projected images — ranging from magnified views of the band to scenes that look as if they were lifted from The Hobbit, to spectacular hallucinatory light displays — and the show was a total sensory experience.
Still, it was another element that made it so special. There was the fact that the individual members — bassist McVie excluded — took time to expound on the band’s contentious history and complicated interpersonal relationships. Likewise, the band’s affection for the audience was clear.
Noting a sign that said its holder had just had a stroke and that being at the concert was on his bucket list, Nicks not only dedicated a song to him but repeatedly assured him that he would be just fine. It was a kind gesture indeed. So too, Nicks’ and Fleetwood’s concluding homage to the fans and expressions of appreciation for their devotion throughout the years made that final send-off especially touching. While the song “Don’t Stop” implores its listeners, “Don’t you look back,” it’s all but impossible not to feel the love that makes that exhortation all but impossible to abide by.
Critic’s Notebook
Personal Bias: It was the first time I’d ever seen the Mac, and it was as fulfilling as it might have been back in the day. One of the best concerts this critic has ever seen.
The Crowd: Totally enthused, wholly adoring, frequently standing, and smitten entirely.
By the Way: With a band now well into its 60s and in Christine McVie’s case her 70s, there is definitive proof that age is all but meaningless as far as making music is concerned.
Set List
The Chain
You Make Loving Fun
Dreams
Second Hand News
Rhiannon
Everywhere
I Know I’m Not Wrong
Tusk
Sisters of the Moon
Say You Love Me
Seven Wonders
Big Love
Landslide
Never Going Back Again
Over My Head
Gypsy
Little Lies
Gold Dust Woman
I’m So Afraid
Go Your Own Way
Encore:
World Turning
Don’t Stop
Silver Springs
Encore 2:
Songbird
Lee Zimmerman / Broward Palm Beach New Times / Monday, December 22, 2014
December 22, 2014

VIDEOS 12/20: Amalie Arena, Tampa FL (End of Leg 1)

Fleetwood Mac wrapped up Leg 1 of the “On with the Show” Tour on Saturday night, performing at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. The band logged 40 shows on the first leg of the massively successful tour, which saw sold-out arenas throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Stevie dedicated “Landslide” to the Fleetwood Mac stage and production crew.

Leg 2 of the tour begins on Friday, January 16, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Videos

Special thanks to Celia Berru, Mark Bursik, Johnny Unicorn, LadyBonnieHeather Gibson, Kevin, Greehey, Susan Powers Hoffman, Kacey Mingus, Pamela B, Eileen Sallee, 27flyers27, and vankristlabs for sharing these videos!

COMPILATION: The Chain / You Make Loving Fun / Dreams / Second Hand News / Rhiannon / Landslide / Gold Dust Woman / I’m So Afraid / Go Your Own Way / Don’t Stop / World Turning / Songbird / Closing remarks (courtesy of vankristlabs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XTRyewk3JQ

The Chain (courtesy of Celia Berru)

The Chain (courtesy of Kacey Mingus)

The Chain (courtesy of Kevin Greehey)

You Make Loving Fun (courtesy of Eileen Sallee)

Dreams (courtesy of Kevin Greehey)

Dreams (courtesy of Johnny Unicorn)

Second Hand News (courtesy of 27flyers27)

Rhiannon (courtesy of LadyBonnieHeather Gibson)

Everywhere (courtesy of Kevin Greehey)

I Know I’m Not Wrong (courtesy of Eileen Sallee)

Tusk (courtesy of Kacey Mingus)

Sisters of the Moon (courtesy LadyBonnieHeather Gibson)

Say You Love Me (courtesy of Kevin Greehey)

Seven Wonders (courtesy of 27flyers27)

Big Love (courtesy of Kacey Mingus)

Landslide with dedication (courtesy of Kacey Mingus)

Landslide – sepia effect (courtesy of 27flyers27)

Landslide (courtesy of Johnny Unicorn)

Gypsy story (courtesy of Susan Powers Hoffman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzr6W4fZcY

Gypsy – front row video (courtesy of Celia Berru)

Gypsy (courtesy of Pamela B)

Go Your Own Way (courtesy of Pamela B)

Don’t Stop (courtesy of Mark Bursik)

Silver Springs (courtesy of Mark Bursik)

Songbird (courtesy of 27flyers27)

Review

Refreshed, revitalized Fleetwood Mac at Tampa show (Tampa Bay Times)
Fleetwood Mac lands at Amalie Arena in Tampa (Creative Loafing Tampa Bay)

Set List

1. The Chain	13. Landslide
2. You Make Loving Fun	14. Never Going Back Again
3. Dreams	15. Over My Head
4. Second Hand News	16. Gypsy
5. Rhiannon	17. Little Lies
6. Everywhere	18. Gold Dust Woman
7. I Know I’m Not Wrong	19. I’m So Afraid
8. Tusk	20. Go Your Own Way
9. Sisters of the Moon	21. World Turning (encore 1)
10. Say You Love Me	22. Don’t Stop
11. Seven Wonders	23. Silver Springs
12. Big Love	24. Songbird (encore 2)

December 21, 2014

REVIEW: Refreshed, revitalized Fleetwood Mac at Tampa show
With Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac sound refreshed, revitalized at Tampa’s Amalie Arena.
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What does one member mean to a band?
Depends on the band and the member, but if we’re talking Fleetwood Mac and Christine McVie, it’s worth breaking out some stats.
A sold-out crowd of 17,620 packed Tampa’s Amalie Arena Saturday night to catch the Mac on their first tour with the songwriter, pianist and occasional lead singer since 1998. That’s up from 14,071 who came to see them last summer, up from 10,008 in 2009.
Why does McVie hold that kind of sway over the Fleetwood Mac faithful, when the band is better known for its other singers, perpetually linked ex-lovers Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who sing their most massive hits?
Just as there are folks who call George their favorite Beatle, many say McVie is Fleetwood Mac’s strongest songsmith, and any version of the band that doesn’t include her just isn’t the same. A reunion with McVie was Fleetwood Mac’s ultimate trump card in their quest for continued relevance in this, their 47th year – a regrouping of their classic Rumours-era lineup, and a reopening of their songbook to classic tracks they haven’t played in years.
On Saturday, Tampa got ‘em all – Say You Love Me, You Make Loving Fun, Little Lies, Everywhere, plus a McVie-led Don’t Stop and Songbird as parting gifts. It was the band’s 40th and final North American concert of 2014, and they must be hitting their stride, because they haven’t sounded this vital and copacetic in years.
“They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” said Buckingham. “On this particular tour, and this particular moment now, with the return of the beautiful Christine, with her return, I believe that we begin a profound, a poetic and a prolific new chapter in the history of this band.”
Indeed, with McVie back in the fold, Saturday’s show felt more inspired than either of Fleetwood Mac’s previous two trips to Tampa. There was a little less focus on the occasionally melodramatic interplay between Nicks and Buckingham, and a little more focus on the lively, mood-lightening material the pianist penned for the band.
It wasn’t just McVie’s long-dormant ‘70s sing-alongs – 1987’s Tango in the Night, the band’s poppy and peppy final classic-lineup album, also got a welcome workout, with McVie handling lead vocals on the slick confections Everywhere and Little Lies; and Nicks propelling the equally upbeat Seven Wonders.
The lightness and sweetness that McVie brought to the table counterbalanced – perhaps even enhanced – the rest of Fleetwood Mac’s hit-loaded set. Her presence brings out the best in all-world guitarist Buckingham, who got his six-string rocks off on the frenetically fingerpicked Big Love, punkish rave-up I Know I’m Not Wrong and epically barn-burning I’m So Afraid. And as is her wont, Nicks wailed and convulsed like a banshee during the cauldron-boiling Gold Dust Woman and drifted into her inimitable twirl on Gypsy.
Buckingham and Nicks would pair off here and there for stripped-down numbers – Landslide, Never Going Back Again – but the night felt more complete, more celebratory, when all five members were out there together, rocking along like the last 16 years never happened.
Take Tusk: You had Mick Fleetwood rumbling away on his drum kit; Nicks crooning backup and sashaying across the stage; McVie pumping an accordion and coercing her ex-husband, stoic bassist John McVie, into a little soft-shoe shuffle; and Buckingham snarling into a mic, “Don’t say that you love me! Just tell me that you want me!”
As Buckingham kicked and shredded his way back and forth across the stage on Go Your Own Way, lingering for an extra half-measure by the grinning, bobbing McVie, it was clear that her return meant more to Fleetwood Mac than just a few thousand extra tickets sold. In a way, it meant new life.
Jay Cridlin / Tampa Bay Times / Saturday, December 20, 2014
December 20, 2014
REVIEW: Rocking Rumours at Sunrise concert
With Christine McVie’s return, Fleetwood Mac’s musical chain is together, as good as ever at Sunrise concert
Finally, 16 years after playing her last gig with Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie is back in the band.
Hard to tell who seemed happier for her return, the fans or the band members. Drummer Mick Fleetwood said in a pre-concert interview with the Miami Herald that this enduring band’s autobiographical music has served as a soundtrack for its audience’s own similar experiences. Love, loss, joy, heartache.
“It’s astoundingly powerful that for the vast majority of that audience their lives are unfolding in their own world and we’re triggering that.”
These fans have made the superstar group’s On With the Show Tour one of the year’s top touring attractions. At Sunrise’s sold-out BB&T Center Friday night, a crowd of 16,000 or so lustily cheered reinvigorated classics like Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way and Landslide.
Immediately after the standard Fleetwood Mac opener, The Chain, fans got their first taste of McVie’s burgundy warm, bluesy alto, which, reassuringly, sounds much as it did on Rumours 38 years ago. “Sweet, wonderful you/You make me happy with the things you do,” she sang in the opening line of You Make Loving Fun, the fourth Top 10 single from the landmark Rumours album. Back then, the song was about her lover, the band’s former lighting director, whom she briefly turned to as her marriage to bass player John McVie ended. Now, the lyric seems directed at her fellow musicians, including her ex, as well as the fans.
“Usually I’d say, ‘Welcome back, Christine,’” a genuinely friendly, chatty Stevie Nicks said, referring to her previous stage patter early in the tour’s run. “But since this is the 39th show, we can safely say, ‘She’s back!’’’
Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, Nicks’ ex and the subject of many of her songs like Dreams and Silver Springs — much as she is the subject of his biting numbers, Go Your Own Way, Never Going Back Again and Second Hand News — has always had a particularly symbiotic musical relationship with McVie. The chemistry in the way their voices intertwine — McVie’s out of British blues, Buckingham’s inspired by ’50s folk — on the blues-rock stomp of World Turning and the rock shuffle, Don’t Stop, proved intact.
A couple hours earlier, just after McVie’s power pop charmer, Everywhere, and his own edgy rocker, I Know I’m Not Wrong, Buckingham delivered Fleetwood Mac’s State of the Union. He singled out McVie for providing a reason to think about tomorrow.
“With her return I believe we begin a profound, poetic and prolific new chapter in the life of this band,” Buckingham said. Encouraging, and inspiring, given he’s 65, McVie’s 71, Nicks is 66 and the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie are 67 and 69, respectively. Given how well these men and women performed, for nearly three hours, you fully believe Buckingham.
Indeed, McVie’s contribution is the necessary sunlight amid Nicks’ and Buckingham’s darker ruminations. This additional voice made the harmonies on her Say You Love Me, Over My Head and Little Lies, the latter done with considerably more edge and kick than its stuck-in-the-’80s studio version, as well as Nicks’ Dreams and Rhiannon, ring with clarity. She also seemed to have inspired the others to deliver the best vocal performances we’ve heard from anyone in this outfit since the Reagan administration.
Sure, Nicks has lost her top range on Dreams and Sisters of the Moon. Buckingham’s voice is deeper.
But Nicks sang full-bodied and in-tune throughout, including on her showcase Gold Dust Woman and Seven Wonders, reintroduced thanks to its prominent use last season for Nicks’ witch character on FX’s American Horror Story: Coven. She dedicated Landslide to a fan who held a sign that said she’d had a stroke and that her bucket list wish was to see a Fleetwood Mac concert. Nicks responded, “I feel it in my heart. You’re going to be just fine.”
Buckingham had a regained suppleness and adventure in his phrasing that gave fresh nuance to Never Going Back Again, Big Love and the anguished I’m So Afraid. His inventive lead guitar playing, Flamenco style on Big Love; blues on I’m So Afraid; or classic rock soloing on Go Your Own Way, all played without a pick, elevates him among the greatest to play the instrument.
After an expertly paced 150-minute set, closed by McVie’s trademark promise of undying love, Songbird, a clearly grateful Fleetwood roared, “And remember, the Mac is most definitely back.”
No doubt, at 100 percent.
Fleetwood Mac returns March 21 at AmericanAirlines Arena in downtown Miami. Follow @HowardCohen on Twitter.
FLEETWOOD MAC SET LIST
The Chain
You Make Loving Fun
Dreams
Second Hand News
Rhiannon
Everywhere
I Know I’m Not Wrong
Tusk
Sisters of the Moon
Say You Love Me
Seven Wonders
Big Love
Landslide
Never Going Back Again
Over My Head
Gypsy
Little Lies
Gold Dust Woman
I’m So Afraid
Go Your Own Way
Encores:
World Turning
Don’t Stop
Silver Springs
Songbird
Closing farewells from Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood.
Howard Cohen / Miami Herald / Saturday, December 20, 2014
December 20, 2014

VIDEOS 12/19: BB&T Center, Sunrise FL

Fleetwood Mac performed at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida (near Fort Lauderdale), on Friday night, the 39th show of the tour. The band has one final show tonight at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa Bay before taking a one-month break for the holidays.

Stevie dedicated “Landslide” to Eve, a woman from Key West, who showed Stevie the area when she visited in 2013. Stevie also acknowledged a fan in the audience holding a sign that read “I had a stroke. This is on my bucket list.” In response, Stevie said, “I want you to know that we totally appreciate the fact that coming to see Fleetwood Mac is on your bucket list. I feel in my heart that you are going to be fine and that you’re just going to have another 20-30 fantastic years. So not to worry, you’re going to be fine!”

Leg 2 of the “On with the Show” Tour kicks off at the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul, Minneapolis, on Friday, January 16.

Read the interesting pre-show writeup of the show, at the bottom of the page, that goes over Fleetwood Mac’s rich 47-year history.

Videos

Special thanks to datflys, donutcookiepie, edu figueroa, Ken Hartfield, Eduardo Miguel, Hawkeye75, David S Kessler, Patrizia Rojaz, Christine Rollo, and skip2eight for sharing these videos!

The Chain (courtesy of Hawkeye75)

Dreams (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5sxFLqCSNg

Rhiannon (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kt_oTwSFo

Everywhere (courtesy of Patrizia Rojaz)

Tusk (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUK8W14uMyk

Sisters of the Moon (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSBc0aGu6u0

Seven Wonders (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRMjMzaLZoA

Big Love (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvuOeRUHA4E

Landslide with dedication (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1LlVS1oqFI

Landslide (courtesy of datflys)

Never Going Back Again (courtesy Hawkeye75)

Over My Head (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W40A55eCgMY

Gypsy (courtesy of skip2eight)

Little Lies (courtesy of edu figueroa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI3OV92n6ZU

Gold Dust Woman (courtesy of datflys)

I’m So Afraid – partial (courtesy of donutcookiepie)

Go Your Own Way (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUK8W14uMyk

Go Your Own Way (courtesy of Christine Rollo)

Go Your Own Way (courtesy David S Kessler)

Don’t Stop (courtesy of edu figueroa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c28dLPh9fMs

Don’t Stop (courtesy of Eduardo Miguel)

Silver Springs (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvzHlzH0Bpg

Songbird / Closing remarks (courtesy of Ken Hartsfield)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmVY2xSIR14

Set List

1. The Chain	13. Landslide
2. You Make Loving Fun	14. Never Going Back Again
3. Dreams	15. Over My Head
4. Second Hand News	16. Gypsy
5. Rhiannon	17. Little Lies
6. Everywhere	18. Gold Dust Woman
7. I Know I’m Not Wrong	19. I’m So Afraid
8. Tusk	20. Go Your Own Way
9. Sisters of the Moon	21. World Turning (encore 1)
10. Say You Love Me	22. Don’t Stop
11. Seven Wonders	23. Silver Springs
12. Big Love	24. Songbird (encore 2)

Review

Rocking Rumours at Sunrise concert (Miami Herald)

Preshow Write-up

The return of Fleetwood Mac

I can still hear you saying/You would never break the chain.

The Chain, Fleetwood Mac (1977)

Just two years ago, Stevie Nicks told Rolling Stone that the chance of Christine McVie returning to Fleetwood Mac — a band she was a member of for 28 years —was as likely as “an asteroid hitting the earth.”

LATE ’70s: For ‘Tusk’ in 1979, which drew some musical inspiration from New Wave bands like the Clash and the Talking Heads, but sounded like no one else, not only the music changed. The band, pictured on the inner sleeve of the cutting-edge LP, seem to be admiring a newly-shorn Lindsey Buckingham (right). Pictured (l-r): John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
LATE ’70s: For ‘Tusk’ in 1979, which drew some musical inspiration from New Wave bands like the Clash and the Talking Heads, but sounded like no one else, not only the music changed. The band, pictured on the inner sleeve of the cutting-edge LP, seem to be admiring a newly-shorn Lindsey Buckingham (right). Pictured (l-r): John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. | Warner Bros.

Nicks’ image as the group’s resident mystic poet behind gauzy, hypnotizing tunes like Rhiannon, Sisters of the Moon and Gypsy, took a hit with that prediction.

Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood can only laugh when you suggest he would be well suited to a diplomatic position within the U.S. government. If anyone could bring the combatant political parties together it would this 6-foot-6-inch drummer from Cornwall, England.

After all, he is largely responsible for McVie’s unexpected return to Fleetwood Mac after her 16-year retirement. She left after the close of a reunion tour in 1998 and the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Fleetwood held McVie’s hand on a flight from England to his home in Maui to soothe her nerves and get her on the plane. One of the reasons McVie left the group was her intense dislike of travel, which she’d revealed as far back as 1972 on her pleading track, Homeward Bound, from the group’s Bare Trees album. She’d sold her house in Los Angeles and returned to England and lived a mostly reclusive, rural life near Canterbury.

The Maui trip led to McVie’s participation on a couple of songs with Fleetwood’s side project blues group. In September 2013, McVie performed her Rumours single and President Clinton inauguration tune, Don’t Stop, with Fleetwood Mac at a London concert. After a hiatus for her ex-husband John McVie to seek treatment for cancer, the band announced its official reunion earlier this year.

McVie’s return reunites the classic Rumours-era lineup as she once again folds her bluesy, warm English alto with Nicks’ and Lindsey Buckingham’s Southern California harmonies. Her comeback also allows the band to reintroduce her buoyant, hit songs like Little Lies, You Make Loving Fun and Over My Head into the set list.

Between McVie’s welcome return, and Nicks’ acting debut on FX’s popular American Horror Story: Coven earlier this year in which she played a version of her witchy woman persona, the resulting On With the Show Tour is a smash. The band plays Sunrise’s BB&T Center Friday and a new leg of dates have been added for 2015. The group will also play Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena on March 21.

“It is beyond amazing,” Fleetwood said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles earlier this month. “Looking at this stage that used to be empty, and now all of her keyboards and stuff are there, it’s magnified. The whole story of this band is that we carried on and we did fine without Chris and, sadly, it was without Chris, but we got a separation and you get used to it when you lose somebody. So having it come back … full circle is huge musically for me and John. It’s major, major, major having the rhythm section truly complete.”

To have this musical chain gang intact is major for fans, too.

“The most astounding thing is what it does with the relationship within this band and with the audience — it literally is performance art at this point,” Fleetwood said as fans relive the soundtrack of their lives through featured songs like Dreams, I’m So Afraid and The Chain.

“It’s astoundingly powerful that for the vast majority of that audience their lives are unfolding in their own world and we’re triggering that. The fact a Neil Young or any of us who have managed to last and have been blessed and retained an audience for this amount of time, you get this performance art happening and emotionally it’s at a peak. The celebration of Chris being thrown in there, as well, it pretty much can’t get any better than this.”

During Fleetwood’s near 48-year career with the band, he has been the musical timekeeper, the constant, the cheerleader, the father figure. (Christine McVie’s affectionate Oh Daddy is for him; and he’s the protective “great dark wing” in Nicks’ Sara.)

Fleetwood even served as band manager when its previous one created a fake version of Fleetwood Mac in 1973, sent it on the road, and claimed ownership of the name. He weathered the defections of band mates to mental illness, religious cults, affairs, solo careers, and fear of flying and exhaustion in McVie’s case. All along, he has kept a version of Fleetwood Mac intact, for better or worse, since its formation in 1967.

Today, Fleetwood is also a photographer. Reflections, his images of Hawaiian landscapes, nature and vintage vehicles, will be on exhibit through Sunday at Fort Lauderdale’s Wentworth Galleries.

In the late ’70s, amid the record-setting sales, excesses — chemical and otherwise — and romantic uncoupling that saw the McVies divorce and the Buckingham-Nicks relationship split there were songs documenting the turmoil.

You can go your own way, Buckingham brayed at Nicks.

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman who loved you, responded Nicks.

There were couplings within the band, too. Nicks had an affair with Fleetwood, he writes in his new memoir, Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac (Little Brown; $30). “What unfolded was a therapeutic session,” he said of reliving the memories of a lifetime with co-author Anthony Bozza.

There were dreams to be sold/(Chain of chains)/You’re like my 24 karat gold, Nicks wrote of the ill-fated romance with Fleetwood on her illuminating new album, 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault, which features recordings cut earlier this year in Nashville of songs she wrote from 1969 to 1995.

They’ll sing about it all over again Friday night, while the more optimistic McVie closes the 150-minute concert with Songbird’s tender, And I love you … like never before.

More than 45 million copies of the aural soap opera document Rumours that contained these songs in 1977 have been sold worldwide. A 2011 Glee episode that paid tribute to the album led to Rumours’ return to the Billboard and iTunes sales charts that extends to the current day, along with greatest hits compilations. A whole new generation of pop, rock and country acts like Little Big Town, One Direction and Haim revere and emulate the Mac’s sound.

Fleetwood credits his father, late Royal Air Force wing commander John Joseph Kells Fleetwood, with giving him the fortitude to keep the band an ongoing concern even after key members like founding guitarist Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, the late Bob Welch, Buckingham, Nicks and McVie had all departed.

“I truly believe, and I’m trying not to sound all humble and stuff, but I have a sense of humor and it’s about my dad,” Fleetwood said. “By the nature of his position in the Royal Air Force he was a people organizer and a successful one. Dad, from time to time, would say, ‘Mick, remember this, as long as whatever it is gets done, you don’t need to take the credit. If, for the good of the whole thing, if it involves you and you put in a good stead, if it gets done, hey, it’s done, you got it done, move on.’ And that’s what I try to remember.”

But as the echoes of an old song, one that has opened Fleetwood Mac concerts for decades, come to mind —Chain, keep us together/Running in the shadows — Fleetwood reveals one last link in the chain.

“I’m allowing myself to say I am not responsible for writing all these fantastic songs but I’ve been a major part of the process. I don’t mind owning that in good humor.”

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IF YOU GO
What: Fleetwood Mac in concert

Where: BB&T Center, 1 Panther Pkwy., Sunrise

When: 8 p.m. Friday (a second show has been added for March 21 at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena)

Tickets: At press time the show was nearly sold out

Information: Ticketmaster or 800-745-3000

Photo exhibit: ‘Reflections: The Mick Fleetwood Collection’ runs through Sunday at Wentworth Galleries, 819 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 954-468-0685.

FLEETWOOD MAC TIMELINE
Fleetwood Mac has had 14 different lineups since its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967 as a traditional blues band. Green, uncomfortable as a band leader, named the group after its rhythm section, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. His decision was sound: the rhythm section has been this band’s only constant.

Here’s a timeline of various incarnations of Fleetwood Mac, along with the albums these lineups recorded. The essential album is listed in bold.

1967: Band forms with Peter Green, guitar; Jeremy Spencer, guitar; Mick Fleetwood, drums; Bob Brunning, bass. (John McVie briefly resisted joining the band that carried his name.)

1967-68: Green, Spencer, Fleetwood, McVie.

Albums: ‘Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac,’ ‘Mr. Wonderful.’

1968-70: Green; Spencer; Fleetwood; McVie; Danny Kirwan, guitar.

Albums: ‘English Rose,’ ‘The Pious Bird of Good Omen,’ ‘Then Play On,’ ‘Fleetwood Mac in Chicago.’ The group’s 1968 single, ‘Black Magic Woman,’ would become famous in the States thanks to a 1970 cover by Santana.

In his new memoir, ‘Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac’ (Little Brown; $30) Fleetwood cites ‘Then Play On’ as his favorite Fleetwood Mac album, followed by 1979’s ‘Tusk.’ “On the surface, ‘Then Play On’ and ‘Tusk’ have little in common sonically, but listen deeper and you’ll hear a band with its back against the creative wall, recording music at the brink of its existence.”

1970: Fleetwood, McVie, Spencer, Kirwan. Christine McVie joined as a touring member, sang background vocals on ‘Kiln House’ and drew its album cover.

Album: ‘Kiln House.’

1971-72: Fleetwood; John and Christine McVie; Kirwan, Bob Welch, guitar.

Albums: ‘Future Games,’ ‘Bare Trees.’ The latter features the original version of Welch’s ‘Sentimental Lady,’ a song he would re-record and have a hit single with in 1977 as a solo artist (with assistance from Fleetwood, Christine McVie and his replacement in the band, Lindsey Buckingham.)

1972-73: Fleetwood; John and Christine McVie; Welch; Dave Walker, vocals; Bob Weston, guitar.

Album: ‘Penguin.’

1973: Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, Welch, Weston.

Album: ‘Mystery to Me,’ the finest album of the post-Green, pre-Buckingham Nicks eras and the soft rock bridge to what was to come. Includes the FM radio hit, ‘Hypnotized.’

1974: Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, Welch.

Album: ‘Heroes Are Hard to Find.’ The band’s first Top 40 album in the United States.

1975-1987; 1997-98; 2014: Fleetwood; John and Christine McVie; Lindsey Buckingham, guitar; Stevie Nicks, vocals.

Albums: ‘Fleetwood Mac,’ ‘Rumours,’ ‘Tusk,’ ‘Live,’ ‘Mirage,’ ‘Tango in the Night,’ ‘The Dance.’ ‘Tusk’ was the most daring, four sides of Buckingham’s wack New Wave and punk-influenced experiments paired with McVie and Nicks’ more traditional pop/rock tunes. But the passionate ‘Rumours’ remains the soundtrack of a generation. This lineup has recorded new music for a possible 2015 release.

1987-1991: Fleetwood; John and Christine McVie; Nicks; Rick Vito, guitar, Billy Burnette, guitar.

Album: ‘Behind the Mask.’

1994-95: Fleetwood; John and Christine McVie; Burnette; Dave Mason, guitar; Bekka Bramlett, vocals. Christine McVie did not tour with this lineup.

Album: ‘Time.’ The 1995 album was a commercial failure, but two overlooked Christine McVie songs, “Sooner or Later’ and ‘Nights in Estoril,’ are obscure gems worth a download.

1998-2014: Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks.

Albums: ‘Say You Will,’ ‘Live in Boston’ (CD/DVD), ‘Extended Play.’

Howard Cohen / Miami Herald / Friday, December 19, 2014

December 20, 2014

VIDEOS 12/17: Philips Arena, Atlanta

Fleetwood Mac continued its tour of the Deep South on Wednesday night, performing at Philips Arena in Atlanta, the band’s 38th show of the tour. The band has two more shows remaining on Leg 1 of the “On with the Show” Tour, first a stop in Sunrise on Friday and the closing show in Tampa Bay on Saturday.

Stevie dedicated “Landslide” “for my father to all the beautiful women in Atlanta.”

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Videos

Special thanks to R Albert, cadon35, David Eckoff, LynnBerry, marykristalin, Jim Miller, and oldnitebaker for sharing these videos!

You Make Loving Fun (courtesy of R Albert)

Dreams (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnWbkEj1Yk

Everywhere – short clip (courtesy of marykristalin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yneGABi8eAs

I Know I’m Not Wrong (courtesy of Jim Miller)

Tusk (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moRoGI7yj1Q

Sisters of the Moon (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP3VMcWkxVE

Say You Love Me (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IleS6I6_pz4

Say You Love Me (courtesy of Jim Miller)

Seven Wonders (courtesy of Jim Miller)

Big Love – partial (courtesy of LynnBerry)

Landslide (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc8U8j0a2v8

Never Going Back Again – partial (courtesy of oldnitebaker)

Over My Head (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUfmN98wOEM

Gypsy – intro (Jim Miller)

Gypsy (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jM9VaEWkWQ

Little Lies – partial (courtesy of oldnitebaker)

Gold Dust Woman (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7v5nohwgR4

Go Your Own Way (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IleS6I6_pz4

World Turning (courtesy of cadon35)

World Turning – partial (courtesy of LynnBerry)

Don’t Stop (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UGn5WWQ7ho

Don’t Stop (courtesy of David Eckoff)

Silver Springs (courtesy of R Albert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNcu91enqo

Songbird (courtesy of David Eckoff)

Mick’s closing remarks (courtesy of David Eckoff

Reviews

A fresh, fun Fleetwood Mac dazzles Atlanta (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Set List

1. The Chain	13. Landslide
2. You Make Loving Fun	14. Never Going Back Again
3. Dreams	15. Over My Head
4. Second Hand News	16. Gypsy
5. Rhiannon	17. Little Lies
6. Everywhere	18. Gold Dust Woman
7. I Know I’m Not Wrong	19. I’m So Afraid
8. Tusk	20. Go Your Own Way
9. Sisters of the Moon	21. World Turning (encore 1)
10. Say You Love Me	22. Don’t Stop
11. Seven Wonders	23. Silver Springs
12. Big Love

December 18, 2014

REVIEW: Fresh, fun Fleetwood Mac dazzles Atlanta
Fleetwood Mac has never been considered a “fun” band.
Between the tempestuous relationships among its members and the differing opinions about musical direction over the decades, the collective of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham was never the cheeriest bunch.
Christine McVie (Photo: Robb Cohen)
But wow, did that drama make for some amazing music.
The band returned to the road in October after taking some off late last year for John McVie to combat cancer, and this time they had a secret weapon that has elevated Fleetwood Mac to a new level of vitality – Christine McVie.
Back with the gang after a 16-year gap, McVie, an unbelievable-looking 71, injected a palpable energy into the band, both by allowing them to further open their songbook and by providing Nicks with her perfect female vocal foil.
Lindsey Buckingham (Photo: Robb Cohen)
When was the last time you heard Nicks girlishly squeal, as she did when welcoming McVie with an enthusiastic, “She’s baaaaaack!”? For that matter, when was the last time Mac fans heard “You Make Loving Fun” and “Everywhere” played live (OK, it was 1997’s “The Dance” tour, but you get the point)?
From the moment part-time artist Fleetwood ushered in the band’s standard opener “The Chain” with his heartbeat bass drum, to more than 2 ½-hours later when McVie closed the show with her tingly “Songbird,” the show felt fresh and alive and yes…fun.
The sold-out crowd at Philips Arena Wednesday night erupted into cheers for McVie before the complete opening phrase of “You Make Loving Fun” – “Sweet wonderful you” – exited her mouth, setting the appreciative tone of the night.
John McVie (Photo: Robb Cohen)
Of course, the other major benefit of McVie’s return is her contributions as a vocalist. She added another layer of harmony to the silky “Dreams,” steered the sunshiny “Everywhere” and helped “Rihannon” breathe as Nicks donned a black shawl to drape over her jagged-edge black dress as she sang an invigorated version of the song.
While the female energy on stage resounded mightily, that isn’t to diminish the continued awesomeness of the band’s tortured musical genius, Buckingham.
Whether bouncing on the balls of his feet during “Second Hand News” or unleashing primal yells during “Tusk” – the band’s most polarizing song that was balanced by Fleetwood’s unrelenting beat and Christine McVie on accordion – the Twizzler-thin Buckingham was a riveting presence who sounded robust after shaking off some initial hoarseness.
Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham (Photo: Robb Cohen)
And what a hoot that at 65, he still has groupies who basked in his aura at the front of the stage and even requested a couple of his onstage towels.
By giving fans a well-paced, 24-song set, Fleetwood Mac was able to liberate its extensive catalog and demonstrate the differing tones each member brings to the forefront.
McVie’s sweet pop tendencies soared on “Say You Love Me,” Buckingham tore off a finger-blistering solo during “Big Love” that almost sounded symphonic and Nicks twirled and grinned during her ethereal “Gypsy,” after sharing a lengthy – yet interesting – story about its origin.
For a certain generation of Fleetwood Mac fans, the moments between Buckingham and Nicks prompt the greatest pangs of wistfulness. The twosome didn’t disappoint as they stood alone on stage for “Landslide,” with Nicks’ warble sounding poetically perfect and Buckingham’s gentle guitar strains lovely as always; the pair then stayed together for a hushed duet on “Never Going Back Again.”
Stevie Nicks (Photo: Robb Cohen)
With the full band back onstage (not that Buckingham ever leaves it), the easy-going, hip-shaking “Little Lies” led to Nicks’ defining moment of the show. She absolutely smoldered with sensuality as she snaked through “Gold Dust Woman,” saturating the song with an intensity not heard from her in years (the band’s 2013 appearance at Philips featured some fantastic moments, but none compared to this).
Eternal fan favorites “Go Your Own Way” – featuring Nicks in her traditional black top hat – and “Don’t Stop,” their anthem of cheerful optimism, provided the show with a final jolt, as did Fleetwood’s fluid drum solo in the middle of “World Turning.”
It’s almost a relief to know that Fleetwood Mac will be back at Philips Arena in March, because who wouldn’t want to see one of – if not the – best concert of the year one more time?
Yep, yesterday’s gone indeed and a new Mac has been born.
Melissa Ruggieri / Atlanta Journal Constitution / Thursday, December 18, 2014

December 18, 2014
VIDEO: Lindsey Buckingham talks to Tavis Smiley
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lindsey Buckingham talks about reuniting with the iconic band, Fleetwood Mac.
December 17, 2014
Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie talks lighting design
Lighting/production designer Paul “Arlo” Guthrie talks about lighting design, as Clay Paky Fixtures hit the road with Fleetwood Mac’s On With The Show Tour.
The iconic rock band Fleetwood Mac never stops thinking about tomorrow – and planning their next tour to delight fans. For their current “On With the Show” tour a complement of Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights and Sharpy Wash lights have been specified by lighting designer/production designer Paul “Arlo” Guthrie.
The band launched the 40-city North American tour September 30 and, after playing to packed houses, added at least 28 more dates in a second leg, which will begin in January 2015. “On With the Show” marks the first full-member tour for Fleetwood Mac since 1997.
“Designing for Fleetwood Mac is always a challenge since you’re dealing with five different personalities,” says Guthrie. He began by giving them “the biggest, cleanest, most open stage set up I could, so every single seat in the house gets a clear view of the stage. I made sure to remove clutter so everyone can see the band members.”
Guthrie added a big upstage videowall, three above-the-head ribbon videowalls and 12 lighting pods.
A dozen B-EYE K20s are on the audience side of the pods to light the fans. “They do pixel effects and perform very quick, easy and huge washes from 12 watts – they can light the entire audience,” Guthrie says. “We don’t use smoke or haze so we don’t really use beam effects. But we do use a lot of pixel animation. For some songs the fixtures replicate what’s happening on the videowall.”
Guthrie was introduced to B-EYE K20s at LDI last year. “This is the first time I’m using them. The colors, dimming and patterns are great. The idea that we have 12 lights we can switch on and then light up the entire arena is great!”
“Designing for Fleetwood Mac is always a challenge since you’re dealing with five different personalities.”
Lighting Director Chris Lose adds, “The things that impressed me the most about the B-EYEs was their ability to act like an LED fixture and then with a simple flip of a channel behave just like an incandescent fixture. Most LED fixtures on the market are missing that warmth and glow.
Three Sharpy Washes are mounted on each pod for a total of 36 fixtures. “They serve as the workhorse overhead wash light,” Guthrie explains. “Because of their brightness we get a little bit of a beam effect even with no smoke. That’s a real bonus.”
Guthrie first used Sharpy Washes for Fleetwood Mac last year then subsequently deployed them for Nine Inch Nails. “I like the fact that they don’t dim like an LED: Their mechanical dimmer is fantastic. I like the size, speed and colors – it’s a great little workhorse light. There’s still room in my shows for lights that actually light stuff, and with Fleetwood Mac, we have to see the band and the stage, not just millions of pixels in your eyes.”
George Masek, A.C.T Lighting Vice President – Automated Lighting, commented “We really enjoy working with Arlo on his projects, and I’m very proud that he has chosen Clay Paky products to support his visions.”
Francesco Romagnoli, Clay Paky Area Manager for North and Latin America, added, “It’s great to see our newer lights employed for such an iconic band. Arlo and Chris are great talents and have truly put the fixtures to great use.”
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive North American distributor for Clay Paky.
About Clay Paky
Headquartered in Seriate (Bergamo), Italy, Clay Paky SPA has a history of designing and manufacturing innovative professional show lighting. The company was founded in 1976 by entrepreneur Pasquale Quadri who anticipated the enormous impact the evolution of technology would have on the show and entertainment worlds.
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Live Design Online / Wednesday, December 17, 2014
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