Fleetwood Mac Announce Reunion Tour Dates With Christine McVie

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Over the weekend, I watched a terrific documentary called “Sound City” which was the story of a small sound studio in Van Nuys CA started around 1969. The place was dumpy and in a nondescript industry park area, but produced some of the greatest LPs ever, including ones from Neil Young, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and Foreigner. Nirvana recorded “NeverMind” there in 1991 and the documentary was produced by Dave Grohl as a dedication to the studio. I highly recommend it if you love music history.

Anyway, regarding Fleetwood Mac, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded their first record “Buckingham-Nicks” there in 1973, but the record did not do well and they were later dropped from their label. So about a year later, Mick Fleetwood, who was in the very blues-based British band Fleetwood Mac, was in Sound City and listening to that record, and loved it. So shortly thereafter they met at the studio and Stevie and Lindsay agreed to join Fleetwood Mac. They recorded their first record there, “Fleetwood Mac”, in 1975 featuring the songs “Rhiannon”, “Say You Love Me”, “Landslide”, and “Monday Morning”. And the rest is history.

By the way, in those early days, the youthful and beautiful Stevie Nicks really did have quite a resemblance to Haley. Hopefully, luck or whatever smiles on Haley too and we get to enjoy her career in much the same way as Stevie.