Monday Evening You Looked So Fine

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Fleetwood Mac was excellent last night! We had great seats.

We were almost under the Jumbotron.

We could see them walking into the arena which was cool - there was a ton of people walking with them - like 30 or something. I would have thought it would be the 4 of them, plus flashlight holders - shows what I know. They hit the stage, lights up and Monday Morning was their first song. It was perfection. I knew all but about 3-4 songs, I think. They really seemed like they were having fun. They played for almost 2-1/2 hours which is about 30 minutes longer than I expected. They did 2 encores.

They had 2 additional musicians and 3 back-up singers. They really need to upgrade their background singers, in my humble opinion. They stood almost motionless the entire time. I've been to concerts where the back-up singers are as much fun to watch as the main performers - like when I saw John Mellencamp, Stevie Wonder, to name a couple. (Steve pointed out, unobtrusive back-up singers may have been by design.)

Not from our concert, but definitely taken on this tour. Or recently anyway. She had bangs last night. Cute as a button. She only changed outfits 3 times, I think, all in her dark flowy gypsy style, with boots. (I say only 3 times because one of the (young) guys on the radio this morning said she changed 7 times, which he obviously said for comedic effect but I found myself feeling a little defensive, oddly.)

And may I say, Stevie Nicks looked really good! Her very straight hair is down to her waist! (She could use a quick trim to tidy up the ends.) I single her out because I expected her to look a little rough around the edges but she - they all - have aged gracefully. I told Steve, I've never been a big Stevie Nicks fan, I don't think her voice is very good and all that twirly gypsy stuff doesn't do much for me but I must say, I came away a fan.

I had seen Lindsey Buckingham interviewed on Private Sessions last year. To be honest, I expected him to have a huge ego but he was very humble and likable. So based on that, I really liked him last night. Had I not seen that interview, I would have thought he did a lot of fake rock star posturing last night but I think he truly feels the music that way. He was cool.

Our only complaints were I really, really wanted to tell the girl in the couple to my left to shut the eff up. She yammered the entire concert, even when the band was talking. It seemed to mostly be about the band, so I thought, "If you know so much about them and apparently like them, shut up and listen, you flaming moron!" Steve's only complaint was the screaming from the girls behind him was more piercing to his eardrums than Lindsey's guitar solos.

I really wanted to Twitter live during the concert but I'm way too much of an In the Moment person to do that - didn't want to miss a moment of the concert. I did send my first public Tweet from my iTouch before the concert though. Gosh, I love technology.

This must be an out-take because Stevie is smiling. Try finding a photo of the band smiling, I dare ya. Before they loosened up last night I thought they were going to perhaps not let their (stage) personalities show. I remember thinking, "Well, if they showed up just for the paycheck, I'm okay with that because I get to hear the music so they've done their job."

Much was said about the stormy interpersonal relationships within the band, back in the day. I bet never in their wildest dreams could they have fast-forwarded in their minds to see themselves back together, touring 30 years later.

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