{"id":213,"date":"2004-05-24T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=213"},"modified":"2004-05-24T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T13:09:56","slug":"108541855880260327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"108541855880260327"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mac<\/b><\/p>\n

The wife and I saw Fleetwood Mac Saturday night. She's been a big fan forever, so not even the $75 ticket price (for uncovered reserved seats; covered seats were $100 and lawn seats were $35) could keep us away. Still, we did grumble a little about it - and the $8 beers.<\/p>\n

The song selection was as good as you could hope for - a few newish ones; a lot from Rumors and their self-titled record<\/a>; a couple from Tusk, including a tremendous Sara<\/i> (where my sister got her name); and a surprisingly great version of a mid 80's song that I previously hated: Big Love<\/i>, done solo-acoustic by Lindsey. They mostly kept away from Christine McVie songs, since she isn't with them on this tour (or on their last album).<\/p>\n

Lindsey Buckingham is a madman. Besides being a great guitar player, he loves <\/em> to do extended, loud, sloppy, primal Rawk!<\/i> solos - getting so into them so much that he occasionally abandons the song entirely and just beats on his guitar with both hands. Since doesn't play with a pick, this is somewhat easier. Entertaining, but definitely not what I was expecting. His voice isn't as good as it was thirty years ago, but it can still pull off the songs.<\/p>\n

Mick Fleetwood is also a madman. He did a too-long drum duet<\/i> with a percussionist during which he walked around wearing a vest covered with pressure-sensitive triggers that played various drum samples when he slapped them - all the while shouting into a headset mic things that were nearly incomprehensible because of his accent and because they just didn't make much sense when you could<\/i> understand the words. Looking like a blend of Marty Feldman and Hulk Hogan certainly helps the madman image.<\/p>\n

Stevie Nicks. She can't get to those high notes these days, and she flubbed the words on Don't Stop<\/i> (which isn't a song she sang originally anyway so I forgive her), but she's still entertaining.<\/p>\n

There were 8 other people on stage, too. But they were content to let those three take the spotlight (and the jumbotron close-ups).<\/p>\n

Worth the money? Yup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mac The wife and I saw Fleetwood Mac Saturday night. She's been a big fan forever, so not even the $75 ticket price (for uncovered reserved seats; covered seats were $100 and lawn seats were $35) could keep us away. Still, we did grumble a little about it - and the $8 beers. The song […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}