Neil Finn joins Fleetwood Mac

[GubGub (Al)]

Just been listening to the new Liam & Neil Finn album on which Mick Fleetwood plays drums on a couple of tracks. It is a two way street.

Those clips are actually kind of fascinating. Mike Campbell's solo on The Chain sounds entirely like Mike Campbell and nothing like Lindsay Buckingham. It is a sort of Fleetwood Mac & The Heartbreakers hybrid. It must feel like a strange gig for Mike who has effectively only played with one band for the last 45 years.

Neil seems to fit in perfectly easily though I'm betting he won't stay with them beyond this tour (however long that turns out to be). I'd go see 'em but not for the money they will probably charge if and when they get here.

[Jim]

Pretty good!

but still very very wrong

[Dan O.]

"New" Mac are on the road, and here's the current setlist...very interesting.

Well, I'd go and see this show (if it's not stupid money) :

1. "The Chain"
2. "Little Lies"
3. "Dreams"
4. "Second Hand News" (Neil Finn on vocals)
5. "Say You Love Me"
6. "Black Magic Woman" (1968 single, Stevie Nicks on vocals)
7. "Everywhere"
8. "I Got You" (Split Enz cover, Finn on vocals)
9. "Rhiannon"
10. "Tell Me All the Things You Do" (from Kiln House, 1970)
11. "Storms"
12. "World Turning" (featuring drum / percussion duel)
13. "Hypnotized" (from Mystery to Me, 1973, Finn on vocals)
14. "Oh Well" (Mike Campbell on vocals)
15. "Don't Dream It's Over" (Crowded House cover, Finn and Nicks duet)
16. "Landslide"
17. "Isn't It Midnight" (from Tango in the Night, 1987)
18. "Monday Morning"
19. "You Make Loving Fun"
20. "Gold Dust Woman"
21. "Go Your Own Way"
encore
22. "Free Fallin'" (Tom Petty cover, Nicks on vocals)
23. "Don't Stop"
24. "All Over Again" (From Time, 1995 - Nicks and Christine McVie on vocals)

Stevie sings Black Magic Woman !
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JaS5Y_SbyeY

Stevie sings Free Fallin' !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy7dS57LXmM&list=RDJaS5Y_SbyeY

Don't Dream It's Over :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNiMpaxPOI

Oh Well :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgnl_NGHzNk

[mightyglydd]

Surprised they don't do The Boys Of Summer, Mike co-wrote it.

[Jim]

Mr Buckingham isn't a happy bunny about the current situation

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/lindsey-buckingham-sues-former-fleetwood-mac-bandmates-for-dropping-him-from-tour

[davidmjs]

Mr Buckingham isn't a happy bunny about the current situation
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/lindsey-buckingham-sues-former-fleetwood-mac-bandmates-for-dropping-him-from-tour

How vile the whole industry is.  What utterly f*cked up characters they all must be... Yuk.

[GubGub (Al)]

Mr Buckingham isn't a happy bunny about the current situation
*
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/lindsey-buckingham-sues-former-fleetwood-mac-bandmates-for-dropping-him-from-tour

What utterly f*cked up characters they all must be... Yuk.

You are just discovering this now? The entire last 40+ years of their career has been all about this particular soap opera.

It is very telling that Mike Campbell is now in the band (and possibly unwise of him to have taken the gig) as Stevie Nicks has repeatedly tried to leave Fleetwood Mac to join the Heartbreakers since the early 80s but Tom Petty, very sensibly, would not let her. She nevertheless gatecrashed their gigs at every opportunity.

[blagden]

Mr Buckingham isn't a happy bunny about the current situation
*
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/lindsey-buckingham-sues-former-fleetwood-mac-bandmates-for-dropping-him-from-tour

What utterly f*cked up characters they all must be... Yuk.

You are just discovering this now? The entire last 40+ years of their career has been all about this particular soap opera.



It is very telling that Mike Campbell is now in the band (and possibly unwise of him to have taken the gig) as Stevie Nicks has repeatedly tried to leave Fleetwood Mac to join the Heartbreakers since the early 80s but Tom Petty, very sensibly, would not let her. She nevertheless gatecrashed their gigs at every opportunity.

Maybe it's our fault for fueling all this bullocks?

[Barry]

The Rolling Stone interview:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-firing-733460/

[Jules Gray]

The Rolling Stone interview:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-firing-733460/

Buckingham seems reasonable.  Nicks sounds, as ever, like a pain in the arse.  Fleetwood's attitude is lamentable.

Jules

[Gouty (Gary)]

Mr Buckingham isn't a happy bunny about the current situation
*
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/lindsey-buckingham-sues-former-fleetwood-mac-bandmates-for-dropping-him-from-tour

What utterly f*cked up characters they all must be... Yuk.

You are just discovering this now? The entire last 40+ years of their career has been all about this particular soap opera.



It is very telling that Mike Campbell is now in the band (and possibly unwise of him to have taken the gig) as Stevie Nicks has repeatedly tried to leave Fleetwood Mac to join the Heartbreakers since the early 80s but Tom Petty, very sensibly, would not let her. She nevertheless gatecrashed their gigs at every opportunity.

Maybe it's our fault for fueling all this bullocks?

As James J. Kilpatrick might have said: 'They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say let 'em crash...'