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Topic: Sheryl Crow singing with Fleetwood Mac, |
David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 17 Mar 2008 5:42 am |
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Sheryl Crow says she'll soon be singing with Fleetwood Mac.
Go figure.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/17/people.crow.ap/index.html
She is friends with Stevie Nicks,
and I guess it's a nice fit.
I bet then can sing son fine harmonys together.
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2008 11:17 am
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The obstacle of getting along well with Nicks for the long run is probably side stepped, and it'll be interesting to see what they can pull off after such a long and interesting career starting in the 60s.
There is some great live stuff from over the years on www.wolfgangsvault.com by the Mac, and the show from the mid 70s with Bob Welch is very cool. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 22 Mar 2008 1:34 pm
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Maybe she can teach the band about the benefits of conserving toilet paper .....  |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 26 Mar 2008 5:55 am
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Here's the latest on the Fleetwood Mac/Crow collaboration ....
"Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham has hit back at reports Sheryl Crow will become a member of the supergroup when it tours in 2009, insisting her announcement is a little premature. Buckingham has confirmed speculation the group is planning to record and tour next year, but adds the idea of adding bandmate Stevie Nicks' pal Crow to the line-up in nothing but a talking point at the moment. That's why he was a little shocked when singer/songwriter Crow went public with news she would be joining the band as a replacement for Christine McVie. He tells Billboard.com, "I don't think anything is written in stone yet. I think we were all a little surprised she was announcing that to the world with such certainty. We have talked about the possibility of bringing another woman into the scene to kind of give Stevie Nicks a sort of foil and shake it up a little bit (and) she was certainly a name that has come up. We'll have to see." McVie retired from the band a decade ago." |
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Steve Hitsman
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Waterloo, IL
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Posted 26 Mar 2008 6:33 am
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So, will Sheryl inhale helium so she sounds more like
Stevie? |
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Glenn Suchan
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Posted 26 Mar 2008 9:33 am
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Regarding the women vocalists in the band, I always preferred Christine McVie's vocals over Stevie Nicks'. Her vocals always had a mature sophisticated quality compaired to Stevie's.
As some formites may know, before she married John McVie and joined Fleetwood Mac, she was Christine Perfect and was vocalist/pianist with the legendary British blues band, Chicken Shack. Here is a YouTube of that era with her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAcbkeLQ7o&feature=related
Shades of her Chicken Shack days. Even the pop-era Fleetwood mac couldn't diminish her talent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzXYpm18lG8&feature=related
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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Michael Johnstone
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Posted 27 Mar 2008 12:00 pm
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| To me,Fleetwood Mac will always be Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer,Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. I saw them live at the Miami Pop Festival in 1969 and they were the real deal. They had some grit and funk. They're the ones who wrote and cut Black Magic Woman,not Santana - that was just a 2nd rate cover. The remnants of that band and those other L.A. people just co-opted the name to a whole nuther band years later - and a rather lightweight one at that. It's a pity more people don't realize that. |
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Glenn Suchan
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Posted 27 Mar 2008 12:36 pm
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| To me,Fleetwood Mac will always be Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer,Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. I saw them live at the Miami Pop Festival in 1969 and they were the real deal. They had some grit and funk. They're the ones who wrote and cut Black Magic Woman,not Santana |
I hear ya', brother! Although, the band at the very beginning was the 4-man line-up you've listed, Danny Kirwin joined shortly thereafter. He provided the essential twin lead guitar sound that the original band was known for. Good examples of this twin lead work are the songs "Fast Talking Woman" and "Like It This Way". Jeremy Spencer specialized in slide guitar, ala Elmore James. Danny's characteristic sound was a slightly warmer tone than Peter's, and it had a more pronounced vibrato.
Regarding "Black Magic Woman", that was written by Peter Green. Peter penned a similar instrumental song on the earlier Mayall album A Hard Road, called "The Supernatural". It has the same kind of latin feel, and IMHO is superior to Black Magic Woman in guitar technique. At any rate, I agree, Fleetwood Mac's version is definitive and better than Santana's. If for no other reasons than "Greenies" stunning guitar work, and the great 4/4 blues shuffle at the end.
Chicken Shack, Ansley Dunbar's Retaliation, and the original Savoy Brown Blues Band (not the later rock band called Savoy Brown), Stone's Masonry, and the original T.S. McPhee and the Groundhogs (not the later rock band called The Groundhogs) were all great British blues bands in the same vein as the original Fleetwood Mac (aka) Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 27 Mar 2008 6:56 pm
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Kim Simmons of Savoy Brown and Peter Green were early influences for me.
'Looking In' was a great S.B. album.
Later as S.B. it was really Foghat without the name change yet.
Though if you ignore tha transition from one to another
it is good too in a very different way.
Rod Price was a fine slide player.
Lonesome Dave had a fine, discernable voice.
As well as the great Wishbone Ash.
Double leads and those great harmonies they did, etc.
1st two albums in particular.
I recently got CD complilations of S.B. and Wb.A.
I guess it's time to add 3 guitar Fw. M. to that collection.
While I liked much of the later Fw. M. stuff,
and always like Christine's singing,
I always thought of the early pre Bob Welch stuff
as the real band.
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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Glenn Suchan
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Posted 28 Mar 2008 5:36 am
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A little aside regarding the original Fleetwood Mac:
The demise of the original band was due to the losses of the three guitarists while touring in the US. Peter Green left because of mental illness (some say it was induced by LSD usage) [Enter Christine McVie]. Not long thereafter, Jeremy Spencer left to join a radical religious sect in L.A. [Enter Bob Welch and all his crap about superstitious mysteries on the desert and in the sky....]. About a year or so later, after the band relocated to the US, Danny Kirwin had a nervous breakdown and left Fleetwood Mac in mid-tour.
After that point, the guitar position became a revolving door, so to speak, and the band languished. Meanwhile, back in England, through legal manuvering, the band's original manager put together a faux "Fleetwood Mac" band with the intention of touring Europe with it. Had it not been for this threat, the original band may well have faded away, altogether. News of the forming of a fake band prompted the three remaining members of the "real" band (Christine and John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood) to get the band up and running, FAST. They auditioned extensively and came up with Buckingham and Nicks, a duo that had been playing around L.A. This effectively prempted any attempts to tour a faux band, and launched the "real" band into strataspheric popularity. The rest is, as they say, history.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2008 3:26 am
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| I guess Fleetwood Mac is destined to become a franchise like the Platters and the Temptations. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2008 6:06 am
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| I remember seeing Fleetwood Mac in Milwaukee. They opened for The Mother's! I guess they must have just re-formed or something, because I was astonished that such an incredibly horrible band could be opening for Zappa. They were TERRIBLE! At least half the audience split to the lobby. Truly unlistenable. I enjoy their early efforts, and their later efforts, but I still thing Stevie is annoying. Monotone singing! |
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