See, there always is a silver lining! One thing that was lacking was Christine McVie’s Songbird to end the night, but we did get a song never played live before this tour to end the night – a duet between McVie and Nicks on All Over Again. Those 3 songs were really the only time I didn’t feel Buckingham’s absence as he was not responsible for their creation or recording.
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The good about the setlist was that we did get to revisit some really old classic Mac blues songs – Oh Well, Tell Me All The Things You Do and Black Magic Woman. While the setlist consisted of the 70’s heyday staples from the Rumours album ( Don’t Stop, Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Gold Dust Woman, Second Hand News, The Chain, You Make Loving Fun), and from the Fleetwood Mac album ( Landslide, Monday Morning, Rhiannon, Say You Love Me, World Turning) there was nothing from the Buckingham driven Tusk. What was also very obvious is that there are 11 musicians on stage including a backup drummer to Fleetwood and a back up keyboardist to Christine McVie. The video screen above the band had six boxes instead of five showing the various musicians. Money makes the world go round and that was the only thought in my head at this point.
This is not Fleetwood Mac playing for their fans or even their love of music. Once the initial notes began I would usually be cheering the band appearance but instead I felt someone had punched me in the gut. The show kicks off as usual with The Chain and there are two dudes to Nicks’ left instead of the iconic Buckingham. Clearly the Kitchener show is a much better choice and yet it is not even sold out yet – the power of the band name proven once again.Įnough preamble… I am sure you know where we are going with this article. where you so high up and so far back that feel you are watching people watching a concert) was selling for $211.25. On the other hand, tickets were still available for Fleetwood Mac at the Scotiabank Arena on the night of the show, and a lovely seat in the back of the 300 sections (i.e. As at the time of this writing a 20th row ticket in the small theater setting will cost about $80 to see the solo Buckingham show. The really good news is that Buckingham is doing his own local show on Friday November 16th in a much more intimate setting in Kitchener’s Centre In The Square. Mike Campbell with Fleetwood Mac Toronto 2018 However Fleewood Mac without Buckingham is a much larger shock than anything above because he is also the main guitarist and the creative genius of everything the band made when they ruled the airwaves.
For whatever reason (9 times out of 10 it is because of $$$), the lead singer (and usually main songwriter), is not there. There is a trend in that most classic era rock bands tour these days without the golden era vocalists ( some quick example of bands we have seen recently – Yes without Anderson, Journey without Perry, Styx without DeYoung, Foreigner without Gramm, and even AC/DC without Johnson). It seems that many people had no idea that Buckingham would not be there and thus jumped in eagerly and it also seems that the band name is much bigger than the individual artists. While logic would dictate that this tour would not sell many tickets or that perhaps they would be discounted to something reasonable like $100, neither assumption proved to be true. News broke that Lindsey Buckingham is no longer part of Fleetwood Mac earlier this year, and this tour was announced right after that.
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In fact I think all music reviews should state if the ticket was bought or given for free from the promoter or the band. Please click on one of the links above to understand the type of coverage we provide.Īlso please note that we paid for the ticket for tonight’s show (and every single other Fleetwood Mac show we ever wrote about, except for the invite only show mentioned above) – no free reviewer tickets here to sway our observations. We flew to London’s O2 arena to see them front row again, we saw them at an invite only party at CES in Las Vegas, and the list goes on. We flew out to New Jersey to see the show from front row center and do a VIP meet and greet with Mick Fleetwood. Let us begin by saying we are huge Fleetwood Mac fans.
The musical soap opera known as Fleetwood Mac rolled into Toronto yet again for another tour but this time without its most important member Lindsey Buckingham whom they fired earlier this year. Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie – Toronto 2018
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