Does Just Lindsey Buckingham Play Never Going Back Again?
Nosotros're simply a few months abroad from the 50th anniversary of the very outset Fleetwood Mac album, February 1968. And then let's get started every bit nosotros have a look at the past, nowadays and time to come right at present, and see what some of the members are doing – right now !
Buckingham / McVie – in concert Fri August eleven, 2017
(Bout Resumed October 2017)
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
By Scott Gudell
Information technology's the very last night of the offset part of the 2017 bout. The ii mega-stars casually stroll onto the vast stage, take their places and modestly first the concert with several acoustic songs. Only Lindsey Buckingham on guitar and Christine McVie on keyboard. They smoothly glide into several songs from the brand new, cocky-titled duet album which almost people still hadn't heard withal. And then, as the show picks up momentum and the touring band has joined the duo, they collectively unleash a few classic Fleetwood Mac songs for the patient true-blue. A warm, approval cheer of recognition is heard from the crowd of 3000. At present this is what the faithful were waiting for. But when executed by two pros, with the aid of an amazingly tight band, the results were dramatic and effective right from the beginning. The musicians followed the intimate, articulate finger work of guitarist Buckingham, the familiar keyboard sounds of McVie and the harmonies we've heard so many times earlier. If only for a few songs, Fleetwood Mac was 'in the firm,' even if you only officially got two thirds of the classic line-upward that night.
Buckingham'due south, whose curly hair has been a dapper 'Cary Grant' gray for several years now, took the stage dressed in a smart blazer and V- neck tee and was all in black. McVie, with her sassy folio boy blonde hair styled but right, balanced Buckingham's expect with, what else, black. Short Eisenhower jacket, pencil thin jeans and snazzy sneakers with a few sequins hither and there. Buckingham's opener, Trouble," was his starting time single from 1981s Law and Order, his very outset solo album. That was followed by McVie as she took the atomic number 82 on "Wish You Were Hither" (from the Mac'south Mirage LP) and "Never Going Back Once more" (from the Rumours disc.)
When the duo summoned the touring backup ring of 2 guitarists, bass and drums, bassist Federico Pol supplied a reliable, steady back crush while drummer Jimmy Paxson brought the thunder. Songs from the new self-titled duet album such as "Sleeping Around the Corner" and "Feel About You" filled the room with a crystal clear wall of audio. The boondocks of Bethlehem had been forging steel for ships and skyscrapers for over a century and many of the rusty and now silent castle-similar blast furnaces were situated just a few hundred yards from the concert hall. The massive steel stacks were bathed in red night lights, with a cymbal shaped moon hovering deceptively close to the top of the stacks. Paxson's drum set up eerily echoed the stacks with the scarlet spotlights of the indoor room bathing his towering stainless steel stands, pedals, drums and cymbals while his cotton candy hair looked like bursts of fume rising from his own drum fueled furnace. Rumbling thunder, billowing smoke and sticks flying all over the place.
Subsequently, McVie, who had conceded much of the early spotlight fourth dimension to Buckingham, abandoned the safety of her keyboards and took control of the edge of stage correct and came live on "Too Far Gone." In announcing the next song, McVie dryly informed the crowd that "this one is quite one-time, from the 2nd century" and the band slid seamlessly into three Fleetwood Mac songs – "Hold Me," "Little Lies" and a potent "Tusk" (bold as always, even without a college marching band in sight.) With "Tusk," McVie was dorsum at the border of the stage, this time with an accordion in manus, and became a perky princess happily dancing and prancing to the vanquish while playfully sparing with Buckingham. Every bit the ring prepared to present the last third of the show, they returned to a trio of Fleetwood Mac standards – "You lot Make Loving Fun," "I'k Then Afraid" (with Paxson's long, dramatic drum intro giving an absent Mr. Fleetwood a challenge) and "Go Your Own Way." As the audience supportively beckoned them back for an encore, Buckingham and McVie connected to display their professional confidence by wrapping upwardly the dark with three more songs from the new duet disc (instead of 'play it safe' Fleetwood Mac songs) before gratefully bidding the crowd a warm cheerio.
This was officially the end of the first part of the Buckingham / McVie tour equally they moved into a scheduled break for a few months and and so resumed in late Oct. They never mentioned it from the stage the night of August 11th but 2018 may see the mighty HMS Fleetwood Mac launch for one final g tour of the earth…and maybe even points beyond – depending on how much territory they wish to conquer.
Source: https://fleetwoodmac50.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/first-blog-post/
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