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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Concert Review: Fleetwood Mac at St. Pete Times Forum
Posted by Eric Snider on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:23 PM
A little more than halfway through their set at the St. Pete Times Forum last night, Fleetwood Mac played “Say You Love Me.” A Christine McVie song. She is the only member of the re-assembled (yet again) Fleetwood Mac who opted out — she departed, apparently for good, in 1998 — and to these ears her presence was sorely missed.
“Say You Love Me” was also a reminder of all the McVie songs Fleetwood Mac did not play last night. And seeing as Chrissie was always my favorite of the combative quintet, to me the concert was left lacking.
Fleetwood Mac — which also included drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, two sidemen and three female backup singers — ran through a compendium of their mostly impressive songbook, touching on some obscure stuff (“I Know I’m Not Wrong”) but mostly sticking to such recognizable tunes and monster hits as “Dreams,” “The Chain,” “Monday Morning,” “Gypsy,” “Sara,” et al.
Overall, the band delivered a competent performance. It featured some rousing spots: "Tusk," "Second Hand News," a Buckingham/Nicks duet of "Never Going Back Again"). It dragged in spots: “Sara,” the dreary “Storms,” a rote “Rhiannon.” Notice the latter are all Stevie Nicks showcases. Rarely has a pop singer gleaned more success from a set of pipes that are as texturally unpleasant as Nicks’. During the Forum show, she avoided high notes as if they were poison ivy, choosing instead to rephrase lines downward.
Buckingham is walking proof that you can still be very much a SoCal dude at 59. Trim, sharply dressed in painted-on black jeans and a short leather jacket — and still sporting cheekbones that could cut glass — he preened and made a few lofty pronouncements to the crowd. Pretty precious.
But give him this: The fellow can play guitar. During a mid-set, acoustic segment, he killed on “Big Love,” raining arpeggios over the crowd. At the mic, he reached for the tough notes, although sometimes he ended up yelping more than singing. That’s nothing new, actually.
One last observation: Big acts really seem to be perfecting the art of arena concert production. Last night, the sound was crisp and at an ideal volume (loud enough to deliver rock punch; not so loud you had to plug your ears). Two big screens, high-definition big screens, hung from the rafters about a quarter of the way into the crowd. So each time Buckingham played a guitar solo, I could simply turn my head to the left and watch his fingers go at it — in hi-def. Nice.
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Thanks for the review. I usually see every F Mac show but had read so many reviews of early shows saying the same,i.e. Stevie seemed bored, never hit a high note. It's sad because in her earlier days her voice - and efforts - were great. Thanks again.
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I find this review disturbing in many ways. To review a band and admit that you that one of the lead singer's voices you have always felt has "a set of pipes that are texturally unpleasant" shows the eaders your bias against the artist. Perhaps your newspaper should have sent a reviewer who found the artist more appealing to begin with. And I have seen three of the surrent Fleetwood Mac tour shows and Stevie Nicks sounded great. She is, after all about to turn 61 and has spent the last 33 years touring the world singing for her fans, while Lindsey Buckingham was in LA sitting on his ass having one nervous breakdown after another. So it is no surprise to their fans that his voice has held up a bit better than Stevie's. But it is Stevie's fans that are filling the seats in the arenas they play.
Michelle, By your logic, we're not allowed to find any fault with a band we're reviewing because we have to like them? Calling someone's voice "texturally unpleasant" isn't necessarily bias - it's criticism. That's what critics do. And it didn't seem like Nicks' voice kept Eric from an otherwise positive review of the show. Now, were I to say "Stevie Nicks sucks!" or perhaps, call your comment 'stupid,' that would indicate bias.
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