So Janis and I finally got to see Fleetwood Mac in concert on our third try. It was last November when we scored tickets the morning of the show. So later that night we made our way to Rogers Place only to get all the way to the entrance to find out the show had been cancelled with a make up date for April. Well, come April and the show got cancelled yet again a few days before the show this time. So we weren't holding our breath for this one. But lo and behold we got to the venue and the show was still on. I had seen Fleetwood Mac once before back in 1990 but Janis had never seen them before, so this was a band to see on her bucket list.
This time around Fleetwood Mac are touring without guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, filling in for him are Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers fame and Neil Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House. Ya it took two guys to fill the shoes of Lindsey. Stevie Nicks (vocals), Mick Fleetwood (drums), Christie McVie (keyboards), John McVie (bass), plus a few other musicians in the background. It was nice to see Mike Campbell back out on the road touring after the death of Tom Petty.
They opened the show with "The Chain" from their biggest selling album Rumours, actually three of the first four songs were from that album "Dreams" and "Second Hand News". The two hour sold out show was full of hits you would expect and hope to hear like "Rhiannon", "Gypsy", "Landslide", "You Make Loving Fun". What I really liked was that they pulled out a couple of older songs that were originally done by Peter Green who was the first guitar player for the band between 1968-1970. The two old songs they did were "Black Magic Woman" and "Oh Well" and holy fuck did Campbell ever rip it up on them two songs. Also in the set list were a couple of songs that Neil Finn made popular with his band Split Enz a song called "I Got You", and in all honesty I had no idea he even played in that band. He also did a Crowded House song "Don't Dream It's Over".
Stevie Nicks and Christie McVie both sounded pretty good. I could have done without Mick's drum solo which seemed to go on for quite sometime. But hey he deserves the spotlight too, after all he is a founding member.
The last song before the encore was "Go Your Own Way" from Rumours as well. This really had the crowd on their feet. For the encore they did Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'", which was a real nice tribute. On the screen behind the band they showed lots of pictures of Petty, and pics of Petty and Nicks singing together and of course pictures of Mike Campbell and Tom Petty together. You could see a few people in the audience tearing up to this song. A real nice tribute to Tom Petty. To end the show they did "Don't Stop", which I thought was a great song to end the night with. A pretty damn good show, I do think they are missing Buckingham though, but that's nit picking. Good times!!!
Fleetwood Mac at Rogers Place.
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