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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Fleetwood Mac |
| Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:45:57 -0400 |
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Agree on all fronts.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Fleetwood Mac
> 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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