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July 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Peter Green
Peter Green has died. He was 73. The creator of Fleetwood Mac. One of the fathers of the British blues boom – and sound – a tormented soul, a talented player, by default a brilliant bandleader, it wasn’t an easy road at all for Green and he was one of the first prominent “casualties” of […]Archive
June 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 104
Fleetwood Mac, Need Your Love So Bad [Single] (1969) A Facebook chum messages. Says he’s found a double-up in his collection and would I like to have it. It’s only Need Your Love So Bad by Fleetwood Mac. Of course I’d fucking love it! It arrives – and it plays just fine. Any tiny little […]Archive
March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Keith Olsen
Reports are coming in just now that record producer and sound engineer Keith Olsen has died. There’s a chance that you have several records he had a hand in as part of your record collection. Put another way, there’s almost no chance his fingerprints aren’t all over the albums you know and love. He’s perhaps […]Archive
February 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 245 – Fleetwood Mac, Auckland, 2019
I wasn’t sold on seeing Fleetwood Mac again straight away – which is to say I was real happy for anyone that was planning to go, but I’d seen them and even if it wasn’t with Christine it was with Lindsey! (And I’m Team Lindsey all the way). But I’m also a Neil Finn fan […]Archive
December 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 199
Fleetwood Mac, The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1969) I’ve been after this compilation for a while – one of the last Fleetwood Mac albums I need for my collection – nearly have them all, all eras, all styles. But I particularly have a soft spot for the original group and here you get to […]Archive
September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 250
Stevie Nicks, The Wild Heart (1983) I came back from last week’s Fleetwood Mac concert newly enthralled by Stevie Nicks – she’s great, and I’ve obviously always thought so, but just lately I’ve been talking about the band and reducing her role somewhat, baffled, I guess, by her super-fans’ devotion. But, man, get her deep […]Archive
September 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Fleetwood Mac (September 12, Akld)
Fleetwood Mac Spark Arena, Auckland Thursday, September 12 I was so into this – and very nervous. I’m a mega Fleetwood Mac fan, I love all periods of the band, all versions. But it’s ten years since I last saw them (back when Lindsey Buckingham was still front and centre) and I just had to […]Archive
September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Fleetwood Mac
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]Archive
August 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Jeremy Spencer: Latina Nights
Jeremy Spencer Latina Nights Sibylline Media Into the pantheon of completely non-essential albums enter…Latina Nights, the latest from Jeremy Spencer. He was once a member of Fleetwood Mac. He was third fiddle (guitar) to Peter Green and Danny Kirwan and he was sometimes the star of the show; rock’n’roll parodies – Elvis impersonations, slide-guitar routines, […]Archive
August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #3 – Fleetwood Mac, “Behind The Mask”
Fleetwood Mac, Behind The Mask, 1990 People either do not know this album – or they’ll tell you they wished that it never existed. But I reckon it’s, maybe ironically, the closest Fleetwood Mac came to ever sounding like an updated Rumours – ironic because, for a start, Lindsey Buckingham had left the band at this point. And in […]Archive
August 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman