Agree on all fronts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Sutliff" To: 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" > > To: > > 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. > > > >