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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Fleetwood Mac |
| Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:04:34 -0400 |
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Josh,
I like it a good bit, but truth to tell it makes those "difficult" Lindsey
discs sound accessible. I'm impressed that a band of dinosaurs would put out
such product. Stevie's tunes are pretty much badly written drivel, but they
they sure are well recorded and played. Nothing here comes close to Sara,
I'm afraid. Lindsey as usual is great and is a master at everything he does.
Out of the Cradle was brilliant!! I love that pic of the band in the studio
included in the sleeve. I've been using Mick on all my recent recordings
(thanks to Sonic Foundry's drum loop series) and he is one awesome drummer.
They're playing here in Columbus but I doubt I make it. Perhaps if they got
Peter Green to sit in I'd show up.
Bobby Sutliff
NP - Velvet Crush - Soft Sounds - Friggin' Brilliant
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:33:29 -0400
> From: "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Fleetwood Mac
> Message-ID: <01ec01c30845$45adf5a0$cd348a0a@vnuusa.org>
>
> Anyone else enjoying the new Fleetwood Mac album?
>
> I'm an unabashed Lindsey Buckingham fan; for me he's up there in whatever
pantheon includes Todd Rundgren, Brian Wilson, Andy Partridge. And his
output is SO sporadic-- the Buckingham/Nicks album, 5 studio F-Mac (the last
in '87), 2 live with them, 3 solo albums, and tithe odd b-side, sound track
contribution, etc. Outside of the live album they put out, The Dance, this
is his first major release since 1992's Out of the Cradle, and second since
1987's Tango In the Night. So around here its a cause for celebration.
>
> Anyway, Christine McVie has departed the band, and she's missed I think--
some of the best songs of theirs were really Lindsey/Christine
collaborations (e.g., "Hold Me", "Love In Store.") But here you get 9
Lindsey songs(!), 9 Stevie songs. And Lindsey's production, engineering,
and playing are all over the record; it all has "his" sound. Even the most
insipid Stevie Nicks lyric is rendered listenable by tinkling toy piano or
speaker-bouncing backing vocals or some other brilliant arrangement and
production touch.
>
> Probably the thing I like best about this album is that there appears,
with the possible exception of the title track/single "Say You Will", to be
no concessions at all to comerciality. Its all just how they sound, with
the great rhythm section and Lindsey's ear candy all over the thing. It has
way more in common with Out of the Cradle-- or even Tango In the Night--
than with, say, Rumors. And I liked Rumors (eventually). But this is good
news.
>
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